CPR Dave

Has it been more of an absolute shambles ever since the council took back management?

You miss the point entirely. The motivations of the the BBC's victims are irrelevant. You are advocating that their failure to be impartial is justified because you disagree politically with the people they are inaccurate about. This is the whole problem. They don't make these "mistakes" with Starmer / the Greens / Davey because they agree with everything those people say.

So the standards you hold the BBC to are the "several people" are also incompetent. Great. Half a million people last year stopped paying the licence fee because of those standards. The Trump story came out of an internal BBC memo. But it's not just Trump and Lowe and other politicians you don't happen to agree with where their standards have fallen way below what licence payers are entitled to. There are a litany of failures covered by that memo, covering such broad ranging subjects as Israel/Hams, Transgender issues, Racism, Immigration, and oversimplified or distorted narratives on historical content. It's a deep rooted problem that needs solving immediately and yesterday's follow on blunder instills no confidence.

It happened again yesterday.

That's what the Labour manifesto might have led people to believe but I don't think we will see that in practice this month. For a start income tax rates are definitely going up, and a number of other taxes are too (NICs for self employed partners in LLPs etc). And at the same time, spending is not coming down. In fact it seems it will be going up with the end of the two child cap on child benefits, no adjustment to the triple lock, endless public sector payrises and so on.

You asked for this and when you got it you ignored it. You should have said thanks. You'd probably already found that article yourself though. I can see you are just a sealioning troll not interested in debate on the woeful state of affairs that is the Labour government's economy.

what is that route Malumbu? Barry Road? and then Forest Hill Road and East Dulwich Road? I hope you're not otherwise thinking that traffic from these main roads should be diverted down residential side streets.

There's a school street opposite the end of my road and the council must be making a bucketload of cash from it every day, with the number of drivers I see go through there by accident.

Cyclists and shoppers in Dulwich Village, having to put up with another bus trundling through, people who use the bus for its existing route, people who use the South Circular, the bus company who has to pay for extra buses drivers and extra fuel, the drivers themselves who would have to drive a longer route, and the drivers of buses on the other routes who would have to pick up extra passengers, putting pressure on their ability to stick to arduous bus timetabling requirements.

You could have just said thank you and possibly admitted you were wrong.

Calling the BBC to account for broadcasting this absolute trash is they very opposite of hating Britain. Wanting Britain to have the most reliable trustworthy and impartial news broadcaster that sets the standard for the rest of the world is patriotic. Trying to brush this under the carpet is deeply damaging to our country. https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2025/nov/10/side-by-side-comparison-of-bbc-edited-trump-speech-from-day-of-capitol-attack-with-original-video

These were the figures for the economy that Labour inherited. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6p2r9xzde4o The figures released today show growth of one tenth of a per cent. That's shocking. It's also been announced today that UK exports to the US have now hit their lowest levels since the Covid lockdown. More appalling mismanagement of teh economy.

Its no good harking back to 15 years ago. The current administration was gifted the fastest growing economy in the G7 and within 15 months they have destroyed it. Dismal figures released today on economic growth. Dismal figures released yesterday on unemployment. Inflation has doubled since Labour took office and will likely stay at such grossly high rates when the next figures are announced next week. And things are only going to get worse this winter. Higher tax, higher unemployment, and higher emigration of wealth generators to Milan and Dubai have put the economy into a terrible doom loop.

I have used them to get to places around Dulwich where there are no buses and you are no longer allowed to drive your own car. However, I have found them very expensive compared to other modes of transport.

Really? They've had millions of pounds spent on them already installing cycling facilities. If it's too hard for them to use their cars now, let them ride their bikes from West Dulwich to Dulwich Village. It's what they wanted (and campaigned) for, after all. If they physically can't cycle then it's very easy for them to use the hopper fare that the tax payers all subsidise to take two buses for the price of one and make that journey. Why everyone else should be inconvenienced and asked to subsidise people living in one of the wealthiest and leafiest areas of London because the transport changes they demanded are now proving undesirable, is beyond me.

Starring in an ad for Lime bikes! https://x.com/limebike/status/1986481659349512472?t=GLBQHUUqp9j55uBoAmaCVA He's come along way from being a Marxist to being the celebrity face of an ad for the $4.5 billion dollar wall street listed capitalist enterprise running lime bikes!

Are they finding it hard to get around in their two tonne metal boxes now then?

Didn't there used to be a phone box here too?

Labour have changed a number of things overnight. 1. VAT on school fees - this has resulted in 25,000 moving until state education. 2. Increasing NICs adding billions to the cost of going to work. 3. Introducing the Employment Rights Bill causing employers to stop hiring. This and item 2 have added 100,000 people to the unemployment scrapheap. These are also causing businesses to relocate further harming the economy. 4. Scrapping all the small boats deterrents meaning 60,000 illegal migrants have arrived in small boats since they were elected. 5. Dishing out huge public sector payroses with no conditions so we have a massively increased payroll and doctors etc arestill going out on strike. 6.changed IHT and non domicile tax rules causing 16,500 millionaires to leave the UK and stop paying any tax here at all forever. 7. Alongside 6, leaving the budget up until an historically late period after the last budget has caused a house price crash, killing the market and decimating government stamp duty receipts. 8. Their profligate borrowing (£100bn extra in just one year) to fund all their lavish promises means the government can now only borrow at the highest ever yields on records. They are more beholden to the bond markets than Liz Truss was. 9. The rate of inflation has doubled under this government. It was a healthy 2% when they came in. For most of the last year, as a result of all of the above it is now nearly 4%. These are all decisions the Labour government took that have immediate cause and effect. Its no good harking back to 15 years ago. The current administration was gifted the fastest growing economy in the G7 and within 15 months they have destroyed it. And things are only going to get worse this winter.

They are a third of the way through their term Earl. It's no good blaming other people anymore. They only have three years left to fix what is now their own mess. And its not just lies in the manifesto. There were lies at the last budget too, when they said that was it, they weren't coming back for more tax and more borrowing. They'd already blamed the increase in NIC taxes on what they claimed was a thorough investigation. They either knew everything then or they lied about that too . They need to stop lying and start behaving. If they don't the next government won't be theirs, it will be led by Nigel Farage. They have to turn it round rapidly. Blaming other people, telling lies and breaking promises isn't going to cut it any more.

Yep. And Pitstop.

They're good lads, and actually I had a repair they don't do and they recommended Pitstop Repairs as their go to for that issue.

Agreed. completely unprofessional and it makes them look more incompetent than they are. No one blames Lammy for the state of the prisons. He's only been in this demoted role for a few weeks following the Angela Rayner sacking. But they do blame him for behaving so terribly badly. It makes it look like he has actually done something wrong and is covering up with angry bluster and needless secrecy. Not fit for purpose.

Do you believe this is actually going to happen?! Demolition was supposed to start in the summer but the Labour government have pulled the plug. Even Labour councillors have had to begin petitioning the government to keep the project alive. https://www.southwarklabour.com/2025/10/03/labour-councillors-launch-petition-for-peckham-rye-station-upgrade/ It's dead in the water surely?

He should be. His behaviour has been appalling. Refusing to comply with a Speaker's request to come back to the HoC and explain himself shows utter contempt to parliament and the electorate. If he had any any integrity he would resign. Nothing to do with the prisoner, but all to do with his arrogance and contempt. This Labour party don't have any integrity at all though. We are two weeks away from the Chancellor of the Exchequer breaking a fundamental manifesto commitment. Breaking promises like demeans the entire contract between voters and MPs. If she doesn't resign for breaking those promises (she won't) then all manifesto promises going forward have to also be treated as lies, not worth the paper they are written on. She should have already resigned herself for the breaking the law over her failure to register as a landlord. They are an absolute disgrace. And whilst all this farce plays out in Downing St where the fuck is the Prime Minister? Nowhere to be seen, unanswerable to the public about this disgraceful shambles.