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A PCSO knocking on people's doors giving residents leaflets about how to combat crime in the area......they said that the road closures had lead to increases in crime - for example there is a real problem with moped scams at the moment where mopeds deliberately drive into cars to make insurance claims - they circle around Court Lane through to Townley looking for women in cars and drive into them - to make false insurance claims. It is happening daily and they hate it when people go to the aid of the driver.

@exdulwicher......you can only use the exclusive moniker if you know you're the only person getting it. Peter Walker will be being "given" these on the basis of "exclusivity". Here is how it works. The research house, or their PR company, will call Peter and tell him, we have a new report, would you like it as an "exclusive"? He then knows he gets first dibs at the report before anyone else and the PR company/research house will be confident they will get their message delivered in a favourable light from a "friendly" journalist. The Guardian editor will be happy because the story will get clicks on the basis that it is exclusive - they will also be happy because it will get clicks because people like me will click on it to see how it is being spun. And so the game continues.....

PCSOs have been door-knocking on streets around the Square due to problems with crime in the area and are telling people that the road closures have led to an increase in crime, in particular phone thefts, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and crash scams and for residents to be alert and to buy cameras, crook-looks and what to do if someone tries to crash-scam them.

Bleedingly obvious because if you eliminate a vast majority of vehicles from sections of road does it come as any surprise that accidents involving, and reported via STATS19, diminish..hardly a big surprise is it....? Interesting that in 2021 Peter Walker was lauding a 50% decrease proclaimed and now a third - can anyone explain that? It's a bit like when the council proclaimed what a success the LTNs were because traffic had dropped on the roads closed to through traffic......errr....all a bit self-serving and for propaganda purposes hoping to blind people with headline stats. BTW do you think having Anna Goodman involved in the report adds to it's credibility? Do you think it is any surprise people question how impartial these reports are when she co-authored them after the lack of impartiality she displayed when she tore down the anti-LTN poster in her local shop? I know that the report flags the potential conflict of interest AG has and from what I hear from other residents her, and her family's involvement, in the local lobby group extends to far more than a "from time to time, AG volunteers in a personal capacity" which I suspect has had to have been added due to the shop incident which I am sure some justify as been being done "in a personal capacity". That one incident shows she is anything but impartial and, in any other business, she would not be allowed anywhere near reports that are trying to claim the same.

Interesting disclaimers on the notes: AG clearly refers to Anna Goodman - they seem to have omitted the part where they mention she was caught pulling down pro-LTN posters in her local shop...;-) Competing interests AG lives in a former LTN in South London. It is not one of the LTNs studied in this paper, having been introduced more recently than the end date of this study. From time to time, AG volunteers in a personal capacity with local healthy streets and safe routes to school groups. Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed. Supplemental material This content has been supplied by the author(s). It has not been vetted by BMJ Publishing Group Limited (BMJ) and may not have been peer-reviewed. Any opinions or recommendations discussed are solely those of the author(s) and are not endorsed by BMJ. BMJ disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on the content. Where the content includes any translated material, BMJ does not warrant the accuracy and reliability of the translations (including but not limited to local regulations, clinical guidelines, terminology, drug names and drug dosages), and is not responsible for any error and/or omissions arising from translation and adaptation or otherwise.

What's happening though because exactly the same article Peter Walker penned in 2021 claimed accidents in LTNs were being halved...? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/23/low-traffic-schemes-halve-number-of-road-injuries-study-shows It must be frustrating that Peter Walker is the only journalist who now covers these "news" stories...clearly him always getting the "exclusive" is killing the newsworthiness of the stories for everyone else...;-)

Alternatively, LTN propaganda derived from statistical jiggery pokery (interesting the link takes you to a summary of the report and the actual report is not available) given as an "exclusive " to an active travel activist journalist who will give the story the nice ride the report authors want. A report co-authored by someone caught tearing down anti-LTN posters in her local shop. Yup, and I am the one in a dark rabbit hole....;-)

Peter Walker "exclusive" Bleedingly obvious conclusion Rachel Aldred and Anna Goodman authored File accordingly... P.S. is anyone else kind of surprised to still see Anna Goodman being quoted as a co-author of these, ahem, impartial, reports 😉

Yes I wasn't taking issue with what Chris Whitty said just laughing at the irony of Peter Walker writing about those stoking "culture wars"!

Dulwich is encircled again by road'works! It's got so bad even Margy is irate:

And outside JAGS tonight as well.

I do also laugh when I see a "culture-war" article penned by Peter Walker......he's never done anything to stoke the culture war....;-)

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/cyclists-fines-jumping-red-lights-city-of-london-b1236074.html I am not sure this can come as a surprise to anyone who witnesses cycle behaviour in London. Of course some claim there isn't a problem but these stats from the police and Lime would suggest otherwise. 52% of respondents admitted to jumping red lights with 16% say they do it regularly. Interesting that Lime feel compelled to launch a campaign called "Respect the Red". Clearly a big issue.

No, he was utterly un-electable. Any sensible, non-Momentum, Labour member knew this. Corbyn likes to blame the press but that is the far-left modus operandi - find someone else to blame when the problem lies at your doorstep. I know someone who was on his team and they convinced themselves that they had won on the basis of social media. He was a disaster for the party and only Covid and the incompetence of the Tories allowed Labour to recover. Corbyn was on Newsnight last night clearly putting himself back on the circuit in the hope of a Starmer downfall. This is why Labour HQ does not want McAsh leading the council - they are trying to purge the party of the far-left due to the damage they have done to it and I believe any swing to a more far-left leadership in Labour HQ would be an unmitigated disaster and just be rolling out the red-carpet for Farage. But the far-left won't care they see another opportunity to take over after they fumbled the ball massively in 2019.

Agree but Labour made a far worse start and the wheels seem to be falling off spectacularly quickly. Whatever the reason for Reeves' tears it made the markets very jittery and now there is real doubt about how much longer she will last but Starmer cannot afford to lose her - I think they are both toast and the likes of Rayner and Streeting will be licking their chops. A bit like what is happening with Cllr McAsh locally the internal politics of the Labour party always are the real driver of policy, direction and execution and for a government with such a huge majority to be struggling so much so early is really worrying. We should all be very scared because this is paving the way for Reform and a leadership challenge or swing to the farther-left within Labour would be an unmitigated disaster - we had another term of Boris because the country hated Corbyn and his far-left ideology and the far-left Labour may see a leadership challenge as their only feasible way to take the reigns - a bit like Cllr McAsh and his Momentum buddies.