Dogkennelhillbilly

If you can pack yourself, take an inventory and/or pictures, and if you can trawl through Gumtree, there are some very reasonable prices out there.

Being principled isn't a plus if your principles are rubbish. But Corbyn isn't principled, he's just loopy: he worked for the Iranian government propaganda channel Press TV for years.

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you can't see the derogatory and inflammatory > elements in his comments Plough Man then you are > as bad as he is. It's also complete cobblers. Corbyn has been saying the same thing about Israeli and Jewish issues since the 1970s, way before Muslims were ever a material electoral bloc in the UK. Corbyn's whole problem is that he hasn't changed his mins about anything in 40 years and retains the same smug, sanctimonious simplistic views he always has.

Let me know if this works and you can see the attachments now.

legalalien Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don?t like the sound of it. Can you post a pic? I took a couple on my phone but I can't work out how to make the image size small enough to post! I'll try to do it later on my big computer.

I suspect it's probably technically legal because of the tiny text at the back. It's a bit sneaky though.

A leaflet titled "Transport for London bailout facts - Important message for Londoners - Why TfL needs a second bailout and how it will affect you". The fonts, colours and layout are lookalikes to TfL's own corporate style (although not exactly the same). The leaflet (in brief) describes how Khan is doing a terrible job and how TfL's woes are mostly due to Khan's mismanagement and not Covid. It suggests you visit the website www.tflbailoutfacts.com But the leaflet isn't published by TfL. In fact, it doesn't say which organisation is responsible for it at all. In an epic fail, the website doesn't work (not just for me - I checked on IsItDown). Only if you look at the tiny print at the bottom of the back cover will you see the message that the leaflet is "promoted by Kerry Halfpenny on behalf of Shaun Bailey". And only if you Google their names to find out who they are, you discover they're an election agent for the Tories and a candidate for Mayor. All in all, pretty embarrassing. It sets a sad tone for the beginning of the campaign. It just makes it look like: - the Tory brand is so toxic not even their candidate wants to use it - the Tory team is happy to mislead voters and suggest their election material is published by TfL when it's not - the Tory candidate is so inept he can't even sort out a website before he starts promoting https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/tflbailoutfacts.com.html

Ronnijade Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I just don?t understand what would warrant a > police helicopter to be circling for an hour. > Surely an on-ground team would be better at this > time of night.....but what would I know.... > > I just want sleep! :?( My default position on the cops is skepticism, but helicopters are so few and so rare even I doubt they'd keep it flying around for something pointless. It's probably cold comfort when you're knackered, but the imposition on you would have been for a good reason. Hope you can make it through the day okay!

The Wood House has little open-faced sheds/cabanas and a big garden. I think you can pre book the sheds. I don't know how they're doing drinks service.

60-70 cars at about 10am this morning.

Apparently at the time cash payments were abolished, only 1% of people were paying with cash anyway. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/06/london-buses-cashless

Well done, Mirash. :)

Thames Water website says it is aware there is low pressure in your area...but no other details...

90% full again today (after the rain).

All the parking in Dulwich Park was taken yesterday.

Incidentally, the Crossrail disaster is half the fault of TfL and half the fault of Dept of Transport, as they are the joint sponsors. The project was launched under Blair/Livingstone, passed under Brown/Livingstone, structured and begun under Cameron/Brown, woefully mismanaged under May/Johnson, before exploding under May/Khan. No-one comes out of this looking great. The worst mismanagement and reality distortion was at the latest stage - but the seeds of failure were seen much earlier.

Yikes.

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mayors are not powerful enough to make any real > impact. They?re another layer of administration. > Why not get rid of devolved government/larger > councils and give local power to local people > across the UK? Powerful city/conurbation mayors > could effect better change if given the powers in > the right context. Khan isn?t impressive but > neither was Johnson. What have the mayors ever done for us?

That's true. A good thing no-one has said that.

"If someone is in charge of a monopoly and still manages to lose a fortune you have to wonder if he is capable." This is a rather silly thing to say. COVID and COVID laws have decimated demand. "I've always wondered how a human rights solicitor would have the experience and knowledge to run what is in essence a very very large company without any hands on business experience." Government isn't a business any more than business is just government. Khan has 26 years' experience of government management in progressively more senior roles. He hasn't been a lawyer for 15 years. "They are both as useless each other." Khan hasn't been very inspiring and has made some mistakes (the Amy Lame appointment has been a disaster), but what you say is not right. Khan is a technocrat who has chugged along making modest wins. Johnson is a sociopath who corruptly obtained benefits for his lover and who set fire to many millions of pounds pursuing a totally futile "garden bridge" because his friend Joanna Lumley thought it was a jolly idea. The two mayors are not "equally useless".

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > northernmonkey Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Haha- I think you?re onto something there. > > > > Alternatively maybe they just read all the > > documents published by Southwark.. > > > > It?s definitely one of those things though, > just > > hard to work out which! > > > > > > Dogkennelhillbilly Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > Rockets Wrote: > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > ----- > > > > Wow.....that's a well organised lobby > group. > > > > Difficult for residents to work out what's > > > going > > > > on but Southwark Cyclists have all the > > > > answers.....I wonder how they get such > > detailed > > > > info.....hmmmmmmm.....????? > > > > > > > > Has anyone dug a little deeper looking at > how > > > > intertwined these lobby groups are with the > > > > council? We know they are being consulted > on > > > every > > > > closure but does it go further than that? > > > > > > I heard Southwark Cyclists hosted the last > > > Bilderberg Group meeting at which COVID was > > > planned. > > > Ha ha...if they have managed to find and read all > the documents by themselves they deserve a medal > as Southwark doesn't make it easy to find the > information.....;-) > > > Perhaps during one of their regular "Are you happy > with these road closures/how would you like us to > amend our road closures our great and magnificent > cycling group" consultation meetings they slipped > them a brown envelope, winked and said...that's > where we have hidden the documents we don't want > the constituents to find!!! ;-) ...and then went and published it on the internet so that anyone could access it, for free? It is genuinely weird to see people (who are presumably otherwise sensible, average human beings) making up conspiracy theories about a local traffic scheme in suburban London.

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wow.....that's a well organised lobby group. > Difficult for residents to work out what's going > on but Southwark Cyclists have all the > answers.....I wonder how they get such detailed > info.....hmmmmmmm.....????? > > Has anyone dug a little deeper looking at how > intertwined these lobby groups are with the > council? We know they are being consulted on every > closure but does it go further than that? I heard Southwark Cyclists hosted the last Bilderberg Group meeting at which COVID was planned.

The logic there is absurdly convoluted. It requires one to believe that these traffic measures are part of a Labour class war against its core voters, and in favour of residents of Melbourne Grove and Court Lane. It also requires you to ignore the fact that the schemes originate with Southwark employees, not councillors, and to ignore the fact it benefits two state schools arguably at the expense of three private schools.

" someone, somewhere, who has no actual involvement or personal investment in this area gives a toss or actually is interested in the community..." This is a weird, xenophobic conspiracy theory. There is not a consensus among locals in favour of the changes to date. There is also not a universal opposition to them. There is also not a shadowy cabal of outsiders trying to impose anything on the stout yeomen of Dulwich. Southwark council employees and councillors are generally well-intentioned people who believe they are applying their skills to make residents' lives better. You may believe they are failing or missing the target. You may be right. But let's at least start from the proposition that people are acting in good faith instead of presuming they're alien wreckers and saboteurs.

The supermarket delivery drivers will often take them back. I don't know if there are still in-store bins...