Dogkennelhillbilly

"How will labour buy back all the companies that were privatised?" The rail network is all publicly owned. The private companies operate as concessionaires for a time limited period. As I understand it, Corbyn is just proposing to let the franchises expire and then not re-tender it.

Trinnydad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DKH, > The National Interest restriction is designed to > limit foreign take-overs. Which, if anyy, of the > french utilities are foreign owned? > > Here's an interesting study.. > > https://www.ft.com/content/ff76b7de-8e22-11e6-8df8 > -d3778b55a923 Exactly - you're the one claiming that you're not upset because they're foreign and yet your fix is to place restrictions on foreigners, and the only reason you can give for why France is better than the U.K. is because they don't let foreigners do stuff...

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > basically the 'rigged' society narrative is > exactly the same sort of ignorant populism that > UKIP gave us pre-Brexit and once more largely > given by public school educated, marxist tossers > from Islington. It's impressive that you manage simultaneously to believe: - society is not rigged - it's ex-public schoolboys that set the discourse

angel_lemarchand Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dogkennelhillbilly and Loz > I'm a professional photographer and I have to > carry consent forms and get them signed to release > photographs of members of the public. It's also > expected to ask permission (and also courtesy!). I > am getting tired of people waving cameras and > phones in my/ other people's faces as they please. Good for you - but you don't have to get consent to take photos of people in a public place. This is not a police matter. They have much better things to do than mediate the squabbles of misinformed dog lovers and camera-wielding dog moaners.

Carol Lee Scott buying coffee at Boulangerie Jade.

"They have failed to create a "national interest" restriction." How do you figure this is successful in France? Water utilities are widely (if not universally) privatised there (Suez etc).

" I am contacting the police if he does this again." Did he commit an offence under the Prohibition of Photographing Dogs in Public Places Act?

I think there was a filing station at either end of the plot, actually: a Jet recently at the south end and an older one under the canopy at the north end

You've described exactly what OFWAT does - control the prices charged by Thames Water and other companies. There wouldn't be any debt if water was two quid a litre... http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/regulated-companies/price-review/2019-price-review/

"the noble acquirers of redoubtable UK firms do tend to strip the assets " Thames Water was not a redoubtable company: it was losing 1/3 of all water through leaks. The assets were so borked that ?10 billion of investment was required.

The first rule of robot shopping club is you don't talk about robot shopping club.

"if we are going to protect the NHS and education, The Treasury needs to pull in extra tax from somewhere." Privatisation also meant that the Treasury got a one-off wodge of money that it used to pay for healthcare, education and benefits (and everything else the government does), and avoided investing billions in the failing water infrastructure in London. That ?10 billion of borrowing would have had to come from the government if it didn't come from the private sector.

Gregor Fisher at DPG.

"a fatal attraction to 'strong' women in politics" Yeah, absolutely, I mean, if I think back to all the darkest times in British history, they all coincide with the period during which the two (2) Prime Ministers drawn from the female half of the population were in power. I mean, if there's one thing the Brits can't stop doing, it's handing over power and influence to women. Ffs.

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dogkennelhillbilly Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I don't understand why people are disappointed > > that the suspect was charged with GBH and not > > attempted murder. They both carry a maximum > life > > sentence. What more do you want? > > Assuming its with intent (which it must be) If you couldn't show intent to cause serious bodily harm, youd never be able to make attempted murder stick. But this doesn't strike me as one of those tricky cases...

I don't understand why people are disappointed that the suspect was charged with GBH and not attempted murder. They both carry a maximum life sentence. What more do you want?

Dexter Fletcher in the Half Moon. Lisa I'Anson coming out the velodrome

I bekieve that there's a textile recycling bin at Belair Park. Don't use the one next to The Plough - it's run by a cult.

I'm usually first in line to slag off the police, but it's stupid to blame a high rate of crime on them because a) crime rates depend on far more than policing style and b) they're completely swamped and underwater due to underfunding.

Precisely. Add that to the fact that prisons are hellish, hellishly expensive, and filled with drugs.

Yes.

People don't want to hear informed insight, they want to recycle vague and unsubstantiated things they heard on reality shows while they were finishing off the last of the Vienetta. Lock em all up, it's the only language I understand.

I had 2 eggs this morning. Yesterday I had 1. If this trend keeps up, I'll be eating more than 3 million eggs a day by next May!!! (For the less perceptive: a comment on how to look at numbers).

I was robbed at knifepoint in Dulwich Park 20 years ago. Two kids took my friend's bike and cut my tyre with a Stanley knife to stop me chasing. Things are much better, not much worse, than they used to be. Mandatory sentences do very little to stop weapon carrying because - you'll be surprised to hear - the kind of people who carry weapons don't spend a lot of time reading legislation or the court reports in the local paper. They're a great way of locking up kids at huge expense, though.

I hope the repairer has enough money to cover the loss or a remarkably clear contract that absolves them from liability...