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Download the TfL Go app. It allows you to search for step free journeys. It also recommends the 345 at 1hr 35mins. You can’t guarantee AI is using up to date sources re closures, diversions etc.

Get Your Brits Out by Kneecap (or is it Elbow?) could be a ready made protest song.

Not if you remember the introduction of the Poll Tax. It galvanised a massive opposition, which eventually persuaded the Tories to bin Thatcher. It could be an anti-Starmer /Reeves focus within the labour movement.

Let’s arm the police. They carry guns everywhere else in Europe. Let’s abolish trial by jury, they don’t bother with juries in France. I’m going to drive on the right, every other European country does.

Yes, I do all of those things as a matter of choice and for my personal convenience. Being compelled to have identity papers, digital or otherwise is another matter entirely. There is no need for a compulsory id system, it is totally unnecessary. It plays into the notion that immigration is the greatest threat facing this country and the root of all problems- it is not.

Incredible. So bring back the Sus Laws, then?

If you and I already have various government id and use them effectively, why do we need another? I need to travel abroad, then I use my passport. I need to drive, I need my licence. I need to check my tax, NI or whatever online, I need a government id. This is all fair enough. However, I should not have to and I will not produce my papers on demand for simply existing in my country. Illegal employers currently exploiting migrants without physical id will continue to do so, knowing the worst consequences they will face is that their limited company might be fined. Can you imagine what misuses a Farage government might put a compulsory id system to? Opposition to what may well become this government’s Poll Tax will be considerable. The petition to parliament is already up to 2.5 million: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

Yeah, who doesn’t pine for their youth? But it doesn’t alter the fact that in that in the post war period, chopping and changing as we were between Labour and Tory governments, there was still a collective consensus that the country and society was going inevitably forward to something better. Until that cow faced bitch and her minions came in to power in ‘79 and we have been living with the consequences ever since. “There is no such thing as society, there is only individuals and families”

I remember when all this was fields. The United Kingdom between 1945 and 1979. For good and ill.

The root of all these problems is that the model of capitalism pursued in this country for the last 45 years has failed utterly. It’s only true beneficiaries inhabit an ever decreasing circle of have-lots in a sea of have-nots, defended by an increasingly squeezed band of born at the right time boomers, which surely cannot hold.

Amazing analysis here. So the fact that this pub has been closed and decaying since 2012 (following a serious fire) is all the fault of the Labour government elected in 2024? You forgot to blame TfL and cyclists.

This is an utterly foolish and alarmist statement, completely at odds with reality.

Are you Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells?

And I replied: Mandelson and Trump have much in common. They are both shallow, vulgar and vain. They both fetishise wealth and power, irrespective of who holds it or how it was accumulated. They were both close friends and associates of the late Jeffrey Epstein and have moved in the same circles, as Ghislaine Maxwell’s address book allegedly confirms. Recognising another who is utterly transactional and lacking in a moral compass, there’s every chance of “Petie” fitting right in Mar-a-Largo. That Starmer couldn’t anticipate that Mandelson’s past behaviour would be problematic just proves how inept this government is.

I’ve never seen you- true statement. Therefore, you don’t exist. As you have such strong opinions, can we presume that you will be taking part in the consultation process, as you have been invited to?

No, it was definitely Bob Champion. Or Joseph Merrick.

Someone said: “don’t bother with housework, after the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse”. It was either Quentin Crisp or Bob Champion.

But not old enough to remember the highest unemployment rate, inflation and interest rates in history in the early eighties under the Tories? A rather selective memory you have. There has never been a four-day week: it was a three-day week imposed by the Conservative government under the Blasted Heath.

Of course. Brain surgeon or rocket scientist?

I’m bemused by the diabetes references.

A quick Google search shows that that image comes from a French book of hours of the 15th century. So, that’s a page of a French book, written in Latin. From 600 years ago. Quite what that has to do with contemporary British discourse, is open to interpretation. What is not open to interpretation is the character of those gathered outside hotels of late. They are of the same character as Mr. Cheeky.

Ooh, Cheeky! Why do they call you Cheeky? Is it your resemblance to an arse?

Not a Scrabble player, then?

Has it been noted on here before that the opening times for the Peckham DO have changed? It’s now only open from 8 until 10 in the morning every weekday: https://www.royalmail.com/services-near-you/delivery-office/peckham-and-east-dulwich-delivery-office-se15-5au

Try this Twitter account run by people who actually live in Epping: https://x.com/epping4everyone?s=21&t=A-MG_WSx4sypqtpbSl-W6g It posts an interview on BBC Radio Essex with a mother of young children who lives in a house directly opposite the Bell Hotel and her experience with these “protesters”. It’s really worth a listen.