Jump to content

Recommended Posts

You might consider reading this before pointing the finger at Sadiq Khan


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/19/bailout-london-transport-network-tories-tfl-coronavirus-pandemic


Its the Tories mate, they are the reason your freebie pass is affected.

womanofdulwich Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> If you are working, why is it unfair?



Because I'm a low paid job if you must know-and before you ask I still get paid more than if I worked locally and could walk.

Does that answer your question?

?8 per day because I choose (yes choose..shoot me down if you want)to take the quickest route to work which is Overground and underground-I often finish work late in the evening and want to get home at a decent hour rather than walk from the bus to my house at 11pm at night.

I've worked since I was 13 (it was legal to work saturdays then)as a shop worker paid tax all my adult life and the retirement age for people in jobs like mine goes up and up (people I know in posh jobs have retired at 60) as a tax paying londoner having always paid my council tax and never claimed benefits I was relieved to be saving money by not needing an oyster card when I reached 60-that made a big difference to my monthly outgoings

DulwichFox Wrote:

---------------------------------------------------

>

> I don't Hate Sadiq Khan. I just dislike his

> Polices. I do not Hate anyone.

>



So just to be clear, Foxy, when you said in a post above


"The man is truly a Saboteur. A Destructive person who I find Sinister"


you were referring to his policies and not to Sadiq Khan?

richard tudor Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> Why dont you two just get married and be a real

> old married couple.



Why don't any two posters on here having a dialogue just get married and be a real old married couple?


🙂


Probably because they don't want to!


🙂


Anyway I have a very lovely partner already


❤️



This is a forum. It's for discussion. You don't have to read it if you don't want to 🙂

JohnL Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> Bus fares on routemaster buses to be reinstated on

> May 23.



Only on the 12 locally, the 176 will still be 'free' even if the signs say you have to touch in, because of the mixed-mode use of normal buses on the route.

DulwichFox Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> maxxi Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > 0/10 DF - you sad little arse.

>

> Well.. I have diabetes... High Blood Pressure ...

> Asthma ... Problems with my Pancreas (two

> operations)

> I am waiting for the results of a brain scan,

> Poor eyesight (not able to drive)

> Muscle atrophy..

>

> At times I rely on the Bus.

>

> I do not give shit what you think. What ever you

> currently call yourself on here.

>

> Fox


Your ailments are irrelevant unless you mean they are the cause of your deliberately spreading misinformation, which was what I was alluding to.


As for what I "currently call" myself on here - I call myself exactly the same as I have done since joining the edf over nine years ago. You need to get your conspiracy hat adjusted.

ctovey Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> Just a quick update - London Councils have not yet

> had clarification from TFL and Dept of Transport

> as to what the restrictions will be on use of

> Freedom Passes, so they can still be used as usual


I hope this is true-as I've heard only after 9.30am which scuppers me going into work

Cyclemonkey, I don't think anyone is saying over 60's are "so special".

From memory I think the 60 age threshold was originally because that's the earliest recognised retirement age (or was then) ie. for women. For blokes it's/was 65, but they could apply at 60 like their retiring women counterparts (I believe, Not sure if for blokes it was held at 65 threshold).

But the fact probably is that when you subscribe to the benefit, then have it taken away, it has an impact.

Recognising that impact doesn't translate to anyone saying one group of people is "special".

Cyclemonkey Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> Plenty of people work low paid jobs and do not get

> free travel, what makes working over 60s so

> special?



Most people still working who are over 60 are probably like myself in low paid jobs.

The free travel makes a real difference to my weekly outgoings as I tavel from zone 3 to zone 1.

Chances are people in well paid jobs are more likely to have the option to retire at 60 as I have a few friends my age where once they hit 60 they were able to take their company pension and retire

lots of us in shop work, cleaning,catering etc have to wait until we get our state pension before we can retire.

I think its only public servants in reality that retire at 60. The rest of us will have to wait. As we all know our private pensions have just dropped by a third,so we'll be work ing till we're 68 ( assuming we can find anyone to take us on).

womanofdulwich Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> I think its only public servants in reality that

> retire at 60. The rest of us will have to wait. As

> we all know our private pensions have just

> dropped by a third,so we'll be work ing till we're

> 68 ( assuming we can find anyone to take us on).



I retired at 56. That was after 40 years to the Day. 16 - 56. So got no pension for 4 years.


Done my bit.


Foxy

Cycle monkey, I think you're right there, but I know a lot of civil servants that took early retirement in their mid 50's. They were offered such good terms. They said they could not say no, but then they can still have a parttime job.
I had a Disabled Person Freedom Bus Pass for around 15/20 years which at the age of 60 was converted to the Older Person's card. I worked until I was 66 but was an essential car user, but used Pass if I had to go to visit places where parking was impossible i.e. Walworth Road/Camberwell/Peckham areas. I use the car at least once a week mainly for supermarket shop. If I shop in LL or Rye lane - I use Freedom Pass.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Latest Discussions

    • What was he doing on the stage at Glastonbury? Or on the stage at the other concert in Finsbury Park? Grinning like a Cheshire cat whilst pissed and stoned 20 somethings on the promise of free internet sung-- Oh Jeremy Corbyn---  What were his policies for Northern mining towns with no jobs or infrastructure? Free Internet and university places for youngsters. What were his other manifesto pledges? Why all the ambiguity over Brexit?  I didn't like Thatcher, Blair or May or Tony but I respected them as politicians because they stood by what they believed in. I respect all politicians across the board that stick to their principles. Corbyn didn't and its why he got  annihilated at the polls. A socialist, anti imperialist and anti capitalist that said he voted for an imperialist and pro capitalist cabal. He refused to say how he'd vote over and over again until the last knockings. He did so to appease the Islington elite and middle class students he was courting. The same people that were screaming that Brexit was racist. At the same time the EU were holding black and Asian immigrants in refugee camps overseas but not a word on that! Corbyn created and courted a student union protest movement that screamed at and shouted down anyone not on the left . They claimed Starmer and the centre right of labour were tories. He didn't get elected  because he, his movement and policies were unelectable, twice. He turned out not to have the convictions of his politics and died on his own sword.    Reform won't win an election. All the idiots that voted for them to keep out Labour actually enabled Labour. They'll be back voting tory next time.    Farage wouldn't be able to make his millions if he was in power. He's a very devious shyster but I very much doubt he'd actually want the responsibility that governance requires.
    • The purge of hard left members that were part of Corbyn's, Mcdonnel's and Lansmans momentum that purged the party of right wing and centrist members. That's politics. It's what Blair did to win, its what Starmer had to do to win. This country doesn't vote in extreme left or right governments. That's partly why Corbyn lost  We're pretty much a centrist bunch.  It doesn't make it false either. It's an opinion based on the voting patterns, demography and statistics. Can you explain then why former mining constituencies that despise the tories voted for them or abstained rather than vote for Corbyns Labour?  What is the truth then? But he never got elected!!! Why? He should have been binned off there and then. Why he was allowed to hang about is an outrage. I hold him party responsible for the shit show that we've had to endure since. 
    • Depends on what the Barista says doesnt it? There was no physical confrontation with the driver, OP thinks she is being targetted when she isnt. These guys work min wage under strict schedules so give them a break unless they damage your stuff
    • CPR Dave, attendance records are available on Southwark's website. Maggie Browning has attended 100% of meetings. Jon Hartley has attended 65%.
Home
Events
Sign In

Sign In



Or sign in with one of these services

Search
×
    Search In
×
×
  • Create New...