david_carnell

I remember filling in a consultation on the Southwark Cycle Scheme. And if you read the plan there are no changes proposed to Adys, CP Rd and Landells beyond some traffic calming measures, which given all have speed humps already, would be pretty minimal I'd think. The real stuff happens further north.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does the amount you pay for something somehow > affect the taste these days then? I meant it was a false economy to buy cheap steak. You knew that.... Although most psychological tests show exactly that. Tell someone it's expensive wine and they'll tell you it tastes nicer than the same wine described as ?5 a bottle plonk.

Cheap steak is not going to be enjoyable. Franklins is the best locally I'd suggest.

http://www.swattesfieldcampsite.co.uk/index.html

Massive loss. Anyone know Gavin Henson's number?!

Does anywhere do intensive week-long swimming lessons for young children in October half term? I'll be off work and prior to a family holiday where we have an onsite pool I'd love for mini-DC to learn to swim a bit first. I've heard that some places do school holiday intensive lessons which sounds ace.

A Rod Liddle column - come on Quids, you're not even trying with that wind-up-bait! #fail 3/10

That's twice now I think people are having a pop at me, David C, and they aren't. The irritation of identical initials to the Prime Minister!

If I was fleeing crazy religious fanatics in Syria no way do I head for the caliphate of Saudi Arabia? And "overwhelmed"? Nice inflammatory language there.

And it's not even as if we are doing our fair share of asylum applicants either... http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/38C5/production/_85333541_european_asylum_apps_gra624.png

It is not in the slightest bit curious! Perhaps there is a diaspora of their countrymen here or even family. Perhaps they speak English and not Hungarian or German or French so might stand a chance of getting a job here. Perhaps they've heard that the UK is a tolerant society that doesn't persecute whatever minority group they belong to so they feel may offer sanctuary. And even if they are non-EU economic migrants, all available evidence suggests they are both an economic and cultural benefit to this nation. In other words they put in more than they take out. We colonised half the globe for centuries, pillaged natural resources, enslaved millions. And it this century we've bombed and gone to war with millions more across the middle east. We then have the feckin nerve to suggest that these people are "illegal". Nice.

2 x boys under 5 + grass + British weather = filthy boys (not that much of an issue tbh) and lawn destroyed (so what's the point?). I'd rather not have it either but I'd rather my kids were outside playing than me shooing them off the grass in winter so we have some left by summer. Parks and woods can be substitutes for "real" nature in the meantime. If we had half an acre of land it might be different but the use our postage stamp garden gets means it's just a losing battle.

How does it affect play ball sports? My son is cricket mad and we have ruined our lawn this summer so are thinking of getting artifical lawn but I'm worried it'll make playing cricket impossible with the long fake grass asorbing any bounce of the ball. Sorry....Dad questions!

Tricky. Elland Road is to the south of Leeds so isn't necessary to engage the city centre but traffic on the M1 and A roads nearby can be murder. Train will take you into the city and then a short bus ride to the stadium. Might be more enjoyable and you don't have to worry about having a few pints of Tetleys.

And for all Quids likes to talk about the ludicrous comparisons with Venezuala, this government has managed to double the national debt. Yet apparently this chancellor is a financial genius and austerity is amazing.

I like Stella C v much. She's personable, energetic, has a great social media presence. She's my second choice. For deputy I'm going to vote for Angela Eagle. I like her, her parliamentary performances and her politics. She also has a gravitas that perhaps Creasy is missing. I'm voting Corbyn. For a number of reasons, including but not limited to: None of the other candidates inspire me. I don't believe any could win in 2020 to even have that in their favour and me to hold my nose. I identify with many, though not all, of Corbyn's policies. I've never previously voted FOR and always felt I was voting against. I think he will provide effective opposition. I believe he can drag the political debate to the left and give airtime to many arguments that for too long have been subject to a centre-right consensus. He has reinvigorated the Labour grass roots and brought thousands back to the party - without whom the endless legwork of electioneering does not take place and something Blair and Brown eroded massively.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just reading through profiles again. > > Shame Carotene Flint isn't running for leader. Why? Awful woman and utterly useless in the ministerial briefs she was given under Blair/Brown. I don't know a single civil servant with a good word to say about her.

Anyone drunk in the Hero of Switzerland in Loughborough Jnc? That looks quite special. And that name...

Jeremy - without you actually telling me I wouldn't have know which politician said that or even which party they were from. The old adage of whether you can sensibly say the opposite and it still be feasible also springs to mind. "These ideas focus, for example, on how to tackle the secular stagnation in median wages (I don't actually know what this means!); how to centralise power to cities to narrow economic wealth; how to antiquate the education curriculum for a creative age; how to build a insecure, high-carbon European energy future; how to make the welfare state an ineffective springboard into poverty; how to combat humanitarian catastrophe somewhere it doesn't occurs and after it becomes an immigration crisis on the shores of Europe.

The Jolly Woodman in Beckenham (a little far but not that bad) has a rugby-mad landlord so will no doubt be properly getting into the swing of things.

Nah - he adds nothing. Burrell and Barrit are both lumps who can run it up the middle and we have a mobile pack. Don't see the need for someone who isn't quick and can't pass. Take Slade instead.

Thanks. I've deleted that. No touting allowed on the forum. Scummer.

DaveR Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And Labour lost zero seats to UKIP, even > indirectly. Really? I'd be surprised if you looked at combined UKIP-Labour votes in many constituencies that it wouldn't add up to more than the Cons vote. Now, I'm not suggesting that it's feasible to covert every UKIP voter but not all are Captain Bluster down in Eastbourne retirement villages. Many are northern, working class voters that the "win Surbiton at all costs" Labour Party have forgotten about.

Further analysis here: https://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3575/How-Britain-voted-in-2015.aspx?view=wide I wonder if being 66 (or 71 in 2020) will help Corbyn appeal to that demographic - something Labour have failed to do effectively. Pensions are like Fort Knox under the Tories and it shows in the voter pattern.

Not that many people actually voted Tory - either absolutely or as a share of the vote. Considering how many seats they won, it was actually weird. Their share of the vote increased by just 0.8% from 2010. Labour's went up 1.5% and yet they lost seats. Electoral math is weird. And I'm not suggesting they don't have a mandate just that it's a much more complicated psephological picture than many paint it to be.