fredricketts

Huguenot The only way they could meet that commitment was to spend from the piggy bank. There is rarely anything more offensive than geriatrics who have benefitted from running up a credit card that their children will have to pay off, until they get self righteous about it. Your generation asset stripped the nation leaving a debt time bomb that your grandchildren will have to pay off through poverty. You spent everything you earned in 70 years, and then your generation spent everything that was going to be earned by your children in the next 70 years. The 20th century generation will be famous in history for one thing - their greed. And that, mate, means you. Exactly right MATE. The only way they could meet that commitment was to spend from the piggy bank. The commitments being, bigger pensions and wages for MPs and civil servants. My generation, I take offence to my generation being called geriatrics. I think you need a permantly toilet roll around your neck, for the amount of crap that?s coming out of it, and if you want to take offence to that, Great get on with it. It?s not the people that are to blame, for the mismanagement of this Country over the years, its people like you that go along with the crap that Governments and Councils give out. The Governments have been asset stripping for years to cover up their costly mistakes. That?s why the Country is in a mess, people like you, who put the blame on the people, and not the Governments, where it belongs.

???? er, the old people have contributed to their state pension fallacy hey fredRicckets...no they ain't, it (the state pension) is funded by current tax payers/or govt borrowing. NI is a myth it just goes into govt coffers to spend on what they want, it's not held in an individuals seperate pension/health insurance pot, it's just tax. Which is why many say it should be scrapped and just added to tax, ie increase the tax rate and scrap the whole NI facade. ER, I happen to have paid NIC and TAX for the last 50 years and that is no fallacy. Yes it is funded by today?s tax payers, because the Government dipped there greedy little fingers into it, and emptied it and now we have the consequences of their actions. And the Gov have now changed the Goal posts again, your right it?s not even state pension anymore, its state BENIFITS, For those of us who have worked hard all our lives, it?s an insult to say that we are now receiving state benefits, just so when the Gov feels like it, they can cut it, or even do away with it. Cyberia "i.e.: being 1 minute late for their appointments, for not attending one interview, for which they had no chance of getting the job, or the job had already gone" Are you serious? Yes I am serious, they are just some examples of what is going on all over the Country, and it appears that you are not very sympathetic to the plight of others less fortunate than yourself. Some of these people have been sent after a least 20 jobs a week, thats without trawling the internet every day, they are sent after jobs without any money in their pockets for fares, and London transport is not that reliable. The Government has told Jobseekers to kick them off for the slightest of reasons, just to save money that they have spent and wasted.

Hi James Could you please tell me the last time Ashbourne Grove was resurfaced? According to some of the shop owners around the Grove Vale area, there seems to be more car accidents since the whole layout has been changed, is this true?

I think the employment figures have been manipulated by the Government, by the number of Jobseekers that have been kicked off, or as the Government would like to call it SANCTIONED, and those that have been taken of disability benefits for the minis cal of reasons i.e.: being 1 minute late for their appointments, for not attending one interview, for which they had no chance of getting the job, or the job had already gone. Just waiting for a freedom of information request from the Government, that is if they answer, as to how many of the 50,000 drop in unemployment figures are, people who have been sanctioned, and are not allowed any money whatsoever, and taken of the jobseekers figures, as I know of quite a few unfortunate people. How can you trust a Government that never thinks of the consequence of their actions, and wants to tax Cornish pasties? Changes the rules on old age pensioners, i.e. : it?s not a pension any more, that millions have paid into for the last 50-60 years, it?s now a benefit, they can now manipulate when and if they like.There are only 400,000 jobs available at any one time, yet there is more than 2.5 million unemployed, I think it speaks for its self.

For the people who live close to icelands, its not who has the shop or who takes it over, its the development of doing away With a car park, and having some where for the tenants of the new flats to park their cars, and deliveries.The councils policy on flats and houses being built with nowhere to park their cars, because they are supposed to notneed cars, because we have such a good transport system in place, will never work and is just causing more problems for local residents, and is such rubbish, they need their heads examining.

Reply to Louisa. Well and truly satisfied, don?t need more parking and traffic in ED, it was a lovely quite suburban area, Until it started to get overcrowded, and Houses and flats allowed to take the place of pubs and businesses, with no where to park their cars. VERY PLEASED NOW. East Dulwich is not a Town "YET" Will keep on objecting to things that affect, Residents and my way of Life.

Hi Renata Hamvas I am not in your ward, and I don?t live in Scutari Road, But what I do know, is how Southwark Council waste our Public money on projects, that are a waste of time i.e.: Melbourne Grove. A very narrow road for a main road, two way traffic, people having there wing mirrors broken and cars scratched, because the Council have stopped them parking on the pavement verge, when the buses ran down there, they allowed off street parking on the pavement verge, and removed all traffic calming measures (HUMPS) so buses could be diverted down Melbourne grove whilst repairs took place somewhere else. After a couple of weeks, when the buses stopped and went back to their normal route, they relayed the humps and stopped parking on the concrete verge. But there was still the same volume of traffic using the road. And then they started giving tickets out for parking on the concrete pavement verge, ?130-00, and ?65 if you pay within fourteen days. This is extortion, seeing as a pensioner is only allowed ?116 per week to live on. Traffic calming humps have eventually been put in Ashbourne Grove and Chesterfield Grove at considerable expense, and have not made one bit of difference. Upland Road, Thousands wasted on humps that cars are parked on, and one out three humps are actually being used. And you can go on and on.

Brian Tee We only raise the flags and voice of complaint when we feel individually affected in a negative way. Fare one.

Thank you James, for all the information, that you have provided this site with, in regards to MS. And I hope you will continue to do so. Thank You Fred Ricketts

Hi Get on to James Barber, through Councilor can I help. Put some stick where it belongs with our stupid Councils. Fred Ricketts

Hi James Could you please find out for me, Southwark Councils camera cars, are they, licensed for all types of PCNs contraventions, including footway contraventions, or just specific ones.??? And what licences do they need to operate. Thanks in anticipation Fred Ricketts

The whole Housing dept of Southwark is iffy. They sell off houses and flats cheap, and the owner then leases them back to the Council, who then let them to tennants, HOW CRAZY IS THAT. And how much does that cost the rate payers.?

SHOULD HAVE IT CLOSER TO HOME.

4.2.10 This area includes Dulwich and is dominated > by houses with gardens rather than flats, with > development between 200 and 350 habitable rooms > per hectare. There are some bus routes and railway > stations, however the level of public transport is > lower than in the rest of Southwark. Less > development is going to happen in the Suburban > Zone and we allow more car parking to a maximum > between 1.5 or 2 spaces per flat or house. How can this apply, if they are doing away with a car park? It?s not the whole communities, which this affects, it?s the local residents.

pipsky2008 A message to me says 'TGE have been clever and asked for all complaints to be made to the pub management, thus avoiding formal recording of such complaints'. Adventure bar did exactly the same, Its Not Mr Barber you have to watch out for, it?s the people sitting on the committee. The Adventure bar had several objections but the committee at Tooley Street took no notice of the whatsoever. It?s a very good idea to have the meeting local, as more people will turn up, as I think its part of the Councils strategy to put it where most people cannot be bothered to travel to. Government want to kerb binge drinking, yet they have changed the licensing laws to encourage it.

I sent mine back with a note in the corner where the stamp goes, saying to be paid by Capita or Southwark Council.

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Cllr Hamvas, > Your proposals, decided at February budget setting > Council assembly, make the hurdle for residents to > object to a planning application much higher. > Planning applications will more often be decided > by unelected council officials even when people > have objected. please can you say what the hurdles will be in future? Until this change 3 objections were needed to prevent decision by officers. What will it be in future? It appears idiots are now allowed to decide what is best for Residents in there communities.No consideration for our way life.Big brothers telling us whats good for us, when they have not got clue.just tow the party line.

These question are sent to all households regarding council tax at some point, i agree a lot of people want things For nothing.i have had plenty of experiences with companies like CSL,Liberata and capita thet cock up and Just change there names, and still get the contracts,there cock ups Cause a lot of pepple a lot of stress but no one is accountable. These companies are in it for profit,and that profit comes from our pockets. Only because Governments and Councils are to incompetent to run them.

Its not the stamp, its the priciple of being ripped off, by Companies, contracted by the Councils and Government, its well known that these private sector companies cost twice as much and never give a good service, its why the Country is in such a stste. To many rich people creaming it off, and we are paying for it.

the-e-dealer Get a toilet roll and rap it around you neck to collect the amount of crap that comes out of your mouth.

penguin68 Thats right Capita have chatged the Council for the stamps and envelopes and we have all paid for them, so why should pensioners pay for them, and poor people, its mainly pensioners that live on there own. Capita have the contracts for Housing and Council tax, which in turn costs us twice as much as if the Councils was running them.

the-e-dealer Stuff you, we should not have to. The price of stamps for pensioners is enough. Especially when Capita are earning millions of pounds from rip offs from Government contracts, which in the end are paid by all of us.

I have a problem with the letter I've just received fom Southwark about the Council Tax single person discount review which requires me to sign and return a declaration that I am still entitled to the discount, does not enclose an envelope to return it in and threatens that my discount may be cancelled if I do not return the form within 14 days. Is this genuine or a wind-up of some kind??? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I have received the same letter, and I think that if Capita, which is the company, that is asking for the information, for the Council, seeing as they want to check the information every year, that they already have, they should be supplying the stamped addressed envelopes?. Capita is earning millions of pounds from our taxes, housing benefits? and Council taxes, it seem like they are doing what the Government is doing, cutting back on everything, to save the government money whilst having the lion?s share of the cut backs. How the rich get richer down to the poor.

No, sainsburys used to be kings college sports ground

I'm afraid that the reason Mr. Ricketts gets so apoplectic is that there have been a number of flat conversions in the streets close to Iceland/M&S in the last 10-15 years and the level of car ownership has increased dramatically because of it This is not the only reason Mr. Ricketts gets so apoplectic, I get apoplectic, mainly because of the over population of East Dulwich, and the stupid planning laws which seem to change every five minutes in favor of what the Government , Councils and developers want, not what the people who live here want. It seems any bit of open space now is free game to build on, why? I have lived here for 49 years and seen the changes to East Dulwich and they are not for the good of East Dulwich. Urbanization of East Dulwich has now become realality. As one person on here said ? I would like to see more big shops in our town? East Dulwich is not a town and never was, it used to be rural area, its going the same way a Peckham where I was born and no longer wish to visit. Sainsbury?s used to be open fields, where cricket and football was played, now they are trying to build more flats there. If I want to go for my weekly shop I go to Sainsbury?s where they have a big car park, and I don?t interfere with anybody. As Another person said on here? do we want to maintain the feel of ED as small scale and residential with most shops being of a proportionate size, or do we throw all that out and welcome in any amount of chains and start building up and out everywhere?.That?s how East Dulwich used to be small scale and residential with most shops proportionate size. And that?s how I would like to keep it. I have seen the Councils give longer drinking hours to the wine bars and clubs in Lordship lane without any consideration as to what the local resident rate payers want, I have seen their consultations, with bits of paper put on lamp posts where no one see them, and they only consult two people in a road, I have been to Tooley street on behalf of residents and found that it was a waste of time because their minds where already made up. I hope allot of these people on this site who are not concerned about the changes around this area actually live around this area. Cars will be here until the oil runs out and you will not change that, nearly every household in the Country has a car, and to expect people not use them, is stupid, I once believed that the companies that built big shopping centers with big car parks, did so for the reason to elevate the pressure s of car parking in residential areas, it?s obviously not the case anymore.