Loz

Good luck, James. You've been a credit to East Dulwich. Ridiculous that such a hard-working councillor gets voted out. But, as they say, the great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

I think what we have learnt from the council elections is that Leavers are very focussed on voting to get the Brexit they want and us Remainers are all over the shop.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, it's a pain for people like us (The Goose Is > Out!) with an existing mailing list of people all > of whom have already chosen to be on it. > > We've got to ask them all to opt in again, even > though they already have. Not entirely true, Sue. If you use something like Mailchimp and you can show that they have all previously opted in (as they would have accepted the 'please confirm' email), you'd be OK. If you don't have that evidence, you will need to get them to opt in. We use Mailchimp, but we migrated a list over, so I have to get everyone who was on that list to re-opt-in, but anyone since the upload is OK.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So we have three votes.. Goose Green Ward ??? > > Well One of my Votes will go to The Womens > Equality Party. > > They deserve a voice. Because you think the 27 (of 63) female current councillors are completely unable to represent their own gender? Much better to vote for a candidate with no chance whatsoever.

flocker spotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The social contract WRT our mutant strain of > democracy is a convenient myth to justify systemic inequality It's like Rik The People's Poet had never gone away.

JoeLeg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > JohnL Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > > The Express is so desperate for readership that it will print practically anything. The Express is a truly awful newspaper where everyone is FUMING and in SHOCK about a BACKLASH to some HORROR. It makes the Mail look intelligent and the Guardian look like it has a sense of humour.

You deemed the upcoming royal wedding 'offensive', so I suspect you've set the bar particularly low.

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siousxiesue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > flocker spotter Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > anywhere in the 'hood showing or commemorating this offensive event will be added to the > > household blacklist > > > M&S are selling tins of biscuits with Harry and Meghan wedding details on it, presumably > commemorative? I bet they're not as good as this...

flocker spotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > anywhere in the 'hood showing or commemorating this offensive event will be added to the > household blacklist I have little interest in the event, but 'offensive'? Really? Bit of a hypersensitive reaction to a wedding.

bodsier Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Might I add that Jeremy Corbyn was 1 of 6 not to > agree to the change in the law. Seems he is not so > short sighted.. He pretty much disagreed with everything back then. As they say, even a stopped clock...

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Unfortunately those continentals send us their pollution. I mean we've done the right thing and > moved all that nasty heavy industry to central Europe and those naughty Frenchies waft the > emissions over here like a scene from the Holy Grail. You mean they fart in our general direction?

Captain Marvel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I certainly never use the point of my kitchen > knives. What's the point? Cutting onions properly needs a pointy knife. Cutting squishy tomatoes. Cutting pastry. Stabbing the top of those film covered trays for microwaves. Opening a bag of frozen peas. Loads of things. What tiny, weeny percentage of knives are used in a bad way?? And if we did ban them, how quickly before they found something else to attack each other with, making the whole exercise entirely - and rather ironically - pointless.

IlonaM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > > But, over to you. With your experience, you'll be > > able to tell us what you think is a sensible > > immigration policy. > > I have never suggested that the UK had 'sensible' > or fair immigration policies. I never said you did. I merely asked you to tell describe what you thought the UK's immigration policy should be.

DulwichGlobetrotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Arrogant man has bad experience involving a dog. > > Arrogant man assumes his bad experience is a > universal truth - the world is wrong and he has > the answer. > > Arrogant man issues edict that all dogs must be on > leads or kept out of his and his family?s way. > > Arrogant man is trolled on the internet for being > so arrogant. Wow, you seem a pretty unpleasant sort of person. And not a little sexist for assuming the OP was male.

flocker spotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > "Libtard" > > c. Liberal retard > > How apt that in a thread about effective > discrimintion, this nugget of workdplay pops up. > > a touch of class And doubly stupid, since UG is following the erroneous American usage that confuses 'liberal' with 'left wing'. They are very different.

Alpbach is very pretty, but unless you are a very slow skier or easily amused, you won't get much more than a couple of days out of it. St Anton would be my recommendation - you can get the train straight there in just over an hour from memory. Accommodation can be a bit pricey, though.

IlonaM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you had worked in the field or followed the news you would know the direct impact of the > 'hostile environment' on migrants and asylum seekers - not just in respect of the Windrush > scandal, but going back years and affecting people from many countries and backgrounds. I suggest Loz > that you do a little more research before thinking that this report has arisen from 'jumping on the > bandwagon'. Would being an immigrant myself count as 'doing some research'? So, yes, I do know what amazing value immigrants bring to this country. :) And I also know that it would be damn near impossible for me to find four pieces of documentation for each of the years I have been here. And that's coming from a bit of a document magpie. But, over to you. With your experience, you'll be able to tell us what you think is a sensible immigration policy.

Most of my 'crap' jobs have been bearable - cleaner, parking attendant (with a couple of days valet parking, which was fun), parcel delivery, sporting venue hamburger cook, painter, forklift driver, barman. The worst was a (fortunately) two-day temp job as 'builders assistant'. The job was to move about 20 tonnes (from memory) of breeze blocks/cinder blocks from the pavement down some stairs to the basement of a shop in Knightsbridge that was being renovated. (It was becoming a branch of Jigsaw). Down stairs meant no wheelbarrows or anything - I carried the lot. I did two eight hour days and slept for about 14 hours each night. Knackered. Can't remember what I got paid, but it was cash-in-hand and not very much.

IlonaM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Human rights groups publish ?how-to? guide to > resist the ?Hostile Environment?: The current Windrush ridiculousness is what happens when policy gets ramped up to ever increasingly stupid levels. Someone who has been living in the UK for 20, 30, 40 years must have a paper trail that should be easy to establish to an reasonable level that someone has been in the country for most of their lives. But the home office has been asking for - I think - four pieces of evidence per year someone has been in the UK. Utterly ridiculous. But... I don't think that documents like this help at all. This seems like a case of bandwagon-jumping - leveraging the Windrush fiasco with a document that pretty much opposes every check for legality of status. Personally, I think part of reason the 'hostile environment' was established was was to try and disrupt the tactic that some support groups were using to slow down and flood the system by employing each and every single legal line for each and every case, dragging the process out for years. So, on one side we have the "No Immigration" camp and on the other the "Let Everyone In" camp. Neither is correct. We are at this point because the two extremes clashed. Somewhere in the middle there is a sensible policy but, right now, we are nowhere near that because none of the players in the debate seem to actually want a sensible policy.

The elections are May 3rd. The deadline for registering is midnight tonight. All sorts of utter dross this year. May's Tories and the Brainless Brexit Bunch? - Nope. Corbyn's Labour and the Mad Momentum Misfits? - Nope. Greens? - Ha ha... What? You're serious? Nope. [insert name of pointless single issue party here]? - Nope. Nope. Nope. So, it's Lib Dems by sheer process of elimination. And frankly, they aren't exactly worth it at the moment, either. Oh, how I hark for the time not too long ago when the parties all fought over the centre. Now they just take a steaming dump over it.

Jules-and-Boo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Windows is automatically upgrading to Windows 10 > whether you like it or not. Then things don'the > work. Windows 10 automatically upgrades. But earlier versions of Windows are not being upgraded. They used to try that, but it finished a couple of years ago.

Oh, the other Goldcar trick is to have you sign on a electronic pad to 'approve your credit card transaction', then print that signature all over the agreement wherever they want. I'd be interested to know what the legal validity of a printed signature is. PS Car companies don't like debit cards, as it is harder to just chuck on extra charges after the event if there is no money in the account.

Yep, avoid Goldcar like the plague: a complete bunch of fraudsters - and I do not use the term lightly. Refused to accept my third-party excess insurance and made me pay out a huge amount at the airport for what should be optional insurance anyway. No insurance, no car. Great heap of people at the airport that day going through exactly the same as me. They are nearly always the 'cheapest' on comparison sites, but turn out to be wildly expensive. Apparently Firefly aren't much better. either. I now always use Avis via BA exec club - cheap, plus you get an extra driver thrown in for free. And no hassles at the airport. They once even very nicely changed my fuel option from 'return full' to 'return empty' when I couldn't find anywhere open on a Sunday. They could have charged me a quite hefty refuelling bill.