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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Keep an eye out for this from Southern:
"A signalling problem at London Bridge is causing delays of up to 30 minutes to Southern and Thameslink services to and from the station. There is no firm esti... |
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Thread: South Circular closed
Post: RE: South Circular closed
| Been away for two weeks, returned on Saturday 21st, must say, the silence of hardly any traffic is deafening, it is bliss
yes we could all moan, yet it if a sever decides to collapse, who are we to... |
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23-08-2010, 02:26 PM |
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Thread: South Circular closed
Post: RE: South Circular closed
| Roz - the bit where I said it was bliss was tongue in cheek as there was very little trafic in London Road, I thought it was Christmas day, must be hell in the side roads where all the traffic has gon... |
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24-08-2010, 09:44 AM |
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Thread: Austerity
Post: RE: Austerity
| We appear to have slipped from topic here somewhat
Anyway - great weekend everyone and come on the CHELS |
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29-01-2016, 03:49 PM |
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Thread: Austerity
Post: RE: Austerity
| And in the meantime - the lazy idle farkers sit at hone coining in it while I work and pay my way - magic |
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26-01-2016, 02:41 PM |
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Thread: Austerity
Post: RE: Austerity
| Well said - yes there should be a welfare system for those who have fallen on hard times - yet dont make a career out of it, however what do you do, stop paying them benefits ? would they then not res... |
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27-01-2016, 10:17 AM |
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Thread: Austerity
Post: RE: Austerity
| Problem is that people with loads of dosh are damned if they do and damned if they dont |
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28-01-2016, 09:47 AM |
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Thread: Austerity
Post: RE: Austerity
| On a lighter note - 50k in tax, omg have you any jobs going as im in CW also, Churchill Place - so not that far away from you - lol |
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28-01-2016, 10:43 AM |
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Thread: Austerity
Post: RE: Austerity
| Yes Roz I was on the council waiting list as I previously stated and was told it would be years and years before I got offered anything - yet we see people having loads of kids and not bothering to wo... |
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28-01-2016, 09:05 AM |
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Thread: Austerity
Post: RE: Austerity
| Sorry - I only work for a company in CW |
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28-01-2016, 10:55 AM |
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Thread: Austerity
Post: RE: Austerity
| I dond think you should ever end a life just because if finances - yes thats why the welfare system was put in place, to help people who have fallen on hard times - i will hold my hand up as ive compl... |
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29-01-2016, 09:08 AM |
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Thread: Austerity
Post: RE: Fairlawn nursery to close
| Now we all know that your a pretty intelligent guy, however think you cheap jibes at Roz are a bit out of order |
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29-01-2016, 12:00 PM |
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Thread: Austerity
Post: RE: Fairlawn nursery to close
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29-01-2016, 12:33 PM |
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Thread: Austerity
Post: RE: Austerity
| Same here P1971 - like I said Im eagerly awaiting my youngest sons arrival home from Norfolk, he has been there since Sunday - yet seems like donkeys. I will be off from the Wharf at 1530 and he shoul... |
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29-01-2016, 02:51 PM |
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Thread: Austerity
Post: RE: Austerity
| Well I own a home, and one of children is 15 on Saturday - so I tale it that im in the bracket of being well off and the budget is good for me.
Yes im quite comfortable at presenet - yet this was d... |
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17-03-2016, 09:17 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Photos
Post: RE: Forest Hill Photos
| great pictures poppet2 = oh those were the days |
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12-06-2015, 09:37 AM |
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Thread: Gentrification
Post: RE: Gentrification
| Now I was in my younger days a staunch trade unionist and a member of the communist party - yet as ive grown older and learnt and read more - I now realise that they only to get on, is to study/learn ... |
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13-01-2016, 03:15 PM |
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Thread: Gentrification
Post: RE: Gentrification
| So how do you find CW - i dont like it that much - yet have only been here 5 months - im in Churchill Place |
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14-01-2016, 09:42 AM |
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Thread: Gentrification
Post: RE: Gentrification
| Yep I know Bank Street - I have found that some of the people who work here are quite rude as they just walk straight across your path with no sorry or apologies when you have to pull up and stop
W... |
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14-01-2016, 10:38 AM |
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Thread: Gentrification
Post: RE: Gentrification
| I will say there are loads of shops/bars etc and the security boys do make you feel a bit safer and it has looked amazing over the chrimbo period with all the chrimbo trees and lights on all other tre... |
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14-01-2016, 11:08 AM |
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Thread: Gentrification
Post: RE: Gentrification
| Well I count myself as normal [ well sort of ] |
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14-01-2016, 12:09 PM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| Seeformiles, so what part of Union Road/SE1 do you work as I know this area very well, im in Southwark Road, the Blue Fin Building |
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14-06-2011, 10:58 AM |
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Thread: Granny spinners
Post: RE: Granny spinners
| Have a good day off
Yes I know where you mean, I walk down Union Road every Weds/Thurs lunchtime
I know this area so well - better than most of FH as Ive worked here so long, agree about some pe... |
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14-06-2011, 11:30 AM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| Very true
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Where-Do-Gypsies-Come-From-72231.shtml
Well when ever I have passed by this lady, she offers me the mag, if I say no, then she wallks away, so not sure w... |
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26-01-2011, 10:10 AM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| I do 100% agree however in a benefit ceiling being put on serial baby machines on benefit.
Totally agree with you on above Brian |
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08-10-2010, 11:08 AM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| I doubt very much that they will even notice anything with the cuts that are being made across the board, its not as if they send their children to state schools, its not likely they will use the NHS,... |
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08-10-2010, 02:43 PM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: Family Allowance Cuts
| So what do we all think of the proposed cuts from 2013
I think its a bit stupid that in one household where there is one wage earner and they earn £44k before deductions per annum will lose the ben... |
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08-10-2010, 10:30 AM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| rshdunlop - time will tell, yet I think you may well be right
hope im wrong, yet I can see lots of civil unrest and lots more anti social behaviour and gang culture as how will the police cope with... |
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08-10-2010, 02:53 PM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| Willy - yes I can see where your coming from yet as we - well most all pay taxes, then why should we not see some of it back from the so-called welfare state, I think maybe they should put a block on ... |
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08-10-2010, 03:42 PM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| Maybe not yet when I first started to get FA, my salary was nowhere near that mark, plus my wife stays at home, so that is our total family income
I can see the point where people who choose not to... |
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08-10-2010, 03:53 PM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| Well they certainly look like they are enjoying it when they announce it
So Child tax credit goes in April 2012 for all on over 25k per annum
Family allowance goes if you have on person earning mo... |
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11-10-2010, 10:52 AM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| All very good points Brian - would the joe public taxpayer not pay for our schools ?? |
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12-10-2010, 01:09 PM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| I know, lets cancel all the cuts and then abolish income tax, give out all the benefits like we have been doing and then to pay for it all, increase VAT to 40% and make it payable on everything we pur... |
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12-10-2010, 01:51 PM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| Being reading the Daily Mail again have we Willy
So how many people do you know who sit at home and cant be bothered to work, yet get thousands in handouts, its minimal, unlike the rich tories who ... |
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12-10-2010, 02:52 PM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| So where do the people on benefits go to get work ??
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11530811 |
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13-10-2010, 09:56 AM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| Roz - agree with the racist element of some of Brians posts, yet when I made a joke on the Uni thread about the scots, he wanted me hanged, yes I work with a scots guy and we wind each other up, its g... |
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14-10-2010, 08:32 AM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| So Mljay - what do you do for a living ??
Where are all these jobs as it has been reported that the Con/Dems cuts will put another 1million on the dole
Try watching " The Boys From The Blackstu... |
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14-10-2010, 10:54 AM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| I would blame our forefathers for taking over all these countries in the 1st place |
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14-10-2010, 11:48 AM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| Sp Mljay - what is your occupation ?? |
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14-10-2010, 01:12 PM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| Not at all Mljay - was just curious
My occupation is that I work for a major media publishing company - not far for London Bridge |
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15-10-2010, 09:50 AM |
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Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
| Very odd as if you goggle the name, you find it is East Dulwich, Forest Hill and Honor Oak, wow - choice of three, have a change every week or so - lol |
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05-07-2010, 02:25 PM |
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Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
| All totally confusing, wish someone would come up with the answers, this is almost as bad as what come first, the chicken or the egg |
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06-07-2010, 08:00 AM |
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Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
| Stockwell
I used to live on Lansdowne Green Estate which strangley is near Lansdowne Way & Hartington Road, it is probally nearer Vauxhall, yet when people asked, I always said I lived in Stockwell... |
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07-07-2010, 10:02 AM |
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Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
| Just gets more and more weird
So Lordship Lane is classed as Dulwich, yet Dulwich village is quite a way from there and then West Dulwich is right up where the college is near Belair park, whichis ... |
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07-07-2010, 02:05 PM |
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Thread: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
Post: RE: boundary between honor oak and forest hill?
| Very true Steve B
I also recall Lordship Lane in the 80,s when I used to walk up and down it going to the Magdala from near Hornimans where I live |
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08-07-2010, 01:10 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| You can always have one parent stay at home like we did and no my salary per annum is not massive, it is £35k, so we get by with one income and have 2 children, aged 16 & 9, wife has not worked since... |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| £1k a month per child is incredible, things must have changed since my children were that age as nursery was free, so apologies if my earlier email offended anyone in anyway |
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13-01-2011, 02:34 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| So Roz, you get £400 per month in tax credits ?
Very nice as I get £41, and that will stop in March 2012
My wife stayed at home to look after how 2 children, we survied, so dont see how others c... |
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23-03-2011, 09:39 AM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| I wed in 1986 and received married allowance, not sure when it ended, however dont think it was 1973
We then got and still do get, the family allowance for our 2 who are 16 & 10
The child tax cr... |
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23-03-2011, 10:38 AM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| Only £200 left per month, well I dont fair much better as I oly have about £350
Housing was cheaper in 1972, well thats pretty obvious, yet the wages peopel earnt in them days were nowhere like the... |
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