CPR Dave

Well, I walk past every morning on my way to work via Peckham Rye station. I reckon I see at least two or three vehicles drive down the school street from the Crystal Palace Road end each day. The signs aren't actually conspicuous and the road itself is very busy at the time with commuters cycling, people dropping off at the school there and other vehicles causing general carnage trying to turn around to avoid the cameras. It's chaos almost every day and so must be quite easy to miss the signs that are positioned high up and very close to the point of no return.

How many people were injured in each of these accidents?

I agree. We should actually just close all these shops down and that would solve all the issues.

Maybe we don't need lots of immigration actually. We have 1.8 million people already living here who are unemployed right now. We could offer them work first before we import cheaper labour that keeps people on the scrap heap. And once they are in work they might feel secure enough to start a family of their own solving some of the so-called population crisis caused by low birth rates, instead of simply importing new people to pay the boomers' pensions.

Fine, I'll rephrase it FFS. 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 in a series of unrelated unfortunate incidents that happen unexpectedly and unintentionally, resulting in damage to each driver's finances.

That footpath looks wider than most others in the area. Works well in practice. Leave it be I'd say. If youv have a problem with the trees you should lobby the council to remove them.

Yes, your name and political views aren't mentioned there, you see. But what the title of the thread does refer to is a report in the Telegraph (and other right wing and, actually, left wing media) on an internal BBC memo that was considered by the BBC board on 17 October 2025 and which was so devastating the Director General himself considered he should resign.

Whatever you think about Trump or Lowe or any other politician is entirely irrelevant to this topic. You don't need to keep bringing up their politics or how much you hate them because it's just not pertinent to this discussion.

Was the white powder any good?

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!