See my post after yours 
No - you could drive in, or see my postā¦.
Yes, Iām sure the roads in central London will be quiet, and cabs easy to come by. After all, the current mayor has gone to some lengths to make it more conducive to car use within the M25.
I take it youāve never lived in Central London
I was at Great Ormond Street Hospital last Friday, it took me 3 hours to get back to the M25, about 10 miles. The North Circular has roadworks, going through Central London would have been a big no no.
Yes there are other methods of transport but if the Underground isnāt working every fucker is going to be using itā¦
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Put it this way. Iāve already long ago booked our usual, which is the Fox and Goose in Ealing for a couple of nights. Thatās so we can walk across the road to Hanger Lane, without driving one of my ancient cars into central London and then trying to park. Weāll occasionally get a taxi back after the show if it finishes late, but would I be correct in my prior assumption that given a tube strike those are likely to be at a premium?
Taxis are like rocking horse shit during tube strikes.
But, the strikes are not every day in November. Just enough to be sodding annoying
If it was that easy for Londoners to switch modes of transport and get around then the the tube Unions wouldnāt have been been able to drive up their members salaries so effectively over the years.
They know that they screw up the city when they go on strike, which is why they do it.
This was always going to happen - Labour have been handing out inflation busting pay rises to all manner of public sector workers - the tube worker unions see an opportunity.
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Are labour actually sending 100 activists to the US to campaign for Harris in the swing states? Iāve found references to it in the usual right leaning rags and some US newspapers.
If it is true, it doesnāt strike me as a particularly bright idea - just opens the govt up to accusations of interference in a foreign election. You can imagine the rage over here if, say, the republicans decided to give the tories a huge boost a few months back.
There is also the issue that Harris winning is not a foregone conclusion and our govt could be faced with the prospect of having campaigned against a massive twat of a president who is known for not taking slights (perceived or otherwise) particularly well
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I does look like the Labour Head of Operations Sofia Patel did do this - not clear if this was Labour policy or she went rogue
She has shut down all of her socials
I would love to understand how these situations come about, from that initial thought, working up the plan etc, the launch and anticipated plaudits and then the dawning realisation that it was a spectacularly stupid idea which requires the withdrawal of your public profile and potentially costs you your job - one day there will be books written about this
Itās not unusual. Our MP for Soton Test, Ms Kaur, worked with the Democrats on the Clinton campaign in 2016, when a local party activist.
After the naivety of banging on about the dreadful Tory driven financial black hole and parlous state of the public purse, without realising there would be endless speculation and column inches written about how the Govnt will raid our hard earned, Labour seem to be drip feeding the media about what Nanny Plum will actually do at the end of the month. Firstly, the NI increases for employers seems nailed on as does adjustments to IHT. I wonder what else they will let out before the budget?
Reckon they might go for the 50% on income tax - it would probably be worth the flak because it wont affect the majority of the electorate and those who pay it are invariably Tories anyway
Capital gains on house price rises
Fine if you upsize because you can roll over your gain but when you realize the gain (sell up or down size) I reckon they could come for the tax on the difference of purchase and sale price
Indeed, Iāve just spotted that our concert shouldnāt be affected. 
Up the workers, Comrades! One out, all out and power to the people!! 
So the private school Vat grab is getting more ridiculous
Turns out that when they are forced to register they will be able to claim back VAT on historic capital projects like new buildings
Eton will be claiming back up to Ā£4.8m
Winchester recently built a new sports centre which will probably qualify
Of course. Is anyone really surprised at this? Starmer was parachuted in to the Labour Party by the establishment for one reason only, to stop Jeremy Corbyn. He openly and cynically lied his way into the leadership. Everything he did during his first two years in the Party had this aim. Remember he didnāt even become an MP until 2015, he came from nowhere, the idea that he was some kind of socialist is laughable. Corbynās big weakness was being persuaded to put Starmer into his Shadow Cabinet., especially as Shadow Brexit Minister, where he immediately sabotaged the 2017 election campaign by calling for a new referendum, which he, Mandelson, Blair and co knew would kybosh Labourās chances. Although it nearly didnāt work, remember Corbyn shocked them all by nearly pulling off a win despite their best efforts. I remember the shocked reaction of the Labour grandees on election night when they realised that, despite their best efforts at sabotaging their own Partyās chances, Corbyn came within a whisker of winning. For the next two years they spent every day briefing against Corbyn, Mandelson even publicly boasted that he spent every day trying to undermine the Labour Leader. The result is that now we have a āLabourā Prime Minister who just about everyone you speak to canāt abide, he stands for nothing, completely devoid of principles, greedy, dishonest, highly suspect in his private life, most people have him down as a wrong-un. But he can be relied upon to look after and protect the likes of Eton, the wealthy 1% with their billions stashed offshore, all at the expense of the rest of us. This is a man whose personal wealth is estimated to be between Ā£12 and Ā£15 million, yet within a few months of becoming Prime Minister it emerges that ādonorsā pay for his designer glasses, designer suits, boxes at Arsenal, designer clothes for his wife, luxury penthouses for his family, free tickets for sought after concerts etc etc, the greed and entitlement goes on and on. But heās completely relaxed about taking heating allowance from pensioners. The country thought they were voting for a change from the disaster of the last ten years of the Tories robbing us blind, filling the pockets of their wealthy mates, but it hasnāt taken long for people to realise that theyāve swapped the Devil for Old Nick.
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Exactly what Iāve been saying. Iāve never understood how anyone who supported Corbyn could possibly vote for Starmer, heās the snake that kept JC out of office. And the first thing he did on taking the helm was to smear him as antisemitic and oust him on that ridiculous pretext. The manās a cunt.
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