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MrBen

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Only a brave man would start a predictions for 2013 thread (respect to Quidsy last year) because invariably:


- Most predictions are almost sure to be wrong

- On the EDF they tend towards the cynical and gloomy

- Something of magnitude always tends to happen that nobody predicted (Andy Murray, Wiggins...say no more)


So, on an optimistic note, here are three of my local HOPES for the year ahead:


- That the UK economy will finally start to improve by the end of this year and that our best local businesses in ED and surrounds can continue to survive. Some new startups on the food/drink side in Bellenden/Camberwell and some of the fringe streets in SE22 where rents allow would be great.


- That SOMEBODY with a political voice finally realises that we have two large and profitable GP practices that are offering really poor service to the surrounding community. I'd like to see an enterprising GP open up who puts customer service first, actually meets patients face to face and who runs a practice where you can get an appointment without abseiling through an open skylight at 8am. And those GP's who don't meet service levels should be held to account. Dulwich Hospital is an amazing resource that is massively underused, well maintained (surprisingly) and half empty. You've got a new primary school and a GP practice + health services unit in one there with the right local ambition.


- Better weather generally this summer. Some sunshine for example.


Yours?

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Some reasons to be cheerful....nicked shamelessly from the Spectator.


in 1990 the UN announced Millennium Development Goals to halve the number of people in extreme global poverty by 2015....the UN reported at the end of last year that this target was achieved in 2008, that's 'evil' Global Capitalism for you right there, slowly but surely reducing global poverty, slightly at the moaning expense of the obscenly spoilt and indulged in debt west, but a good thing


The rich world's economies grew by 6% over the past 7 years but fossil fuel consumption fell by 4% in the same economies.


The average life expectancy in Africa reached 55 last year still horribly young compared to much of the world but up from just 50 in 2002. Deaths from AIDS have been falling for the past 5 years and from malaria by a fifth in the same period.


The Peace Research Centre in Oslo reports that there have been fewer deaths due to war in the past decade than any decade in the last century.


Happy New Year, bleedin' cheer up :)

LadyDeliah

LadyDeliah

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???? Wrote:

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> ...and here's another 'orrible right wing source

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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/03/aids-d

> rugs-south-african-life

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> Your dog looking scared yet Lady D?


Not yet! Lol


You got Aids figures for the relatively rich Sourh Africa but they don't nexessarily correlate to the rest of your stats.


C'mon quids, where's a link to the source?

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