London Explosions

Nope!  And they still sell greasy pasties and cold beans in the cafe.

[loulou]

yummy

[lemoneye]

Public transport is very poor still, despite our "beloved" mayor (i did NOT vote for him and never would - i remembered the GLC) asking us to not use the car... w**ker he is

Walker?

[smurfboy]

I remember it being like that years ago when I used to regularly travel up to Brum by coach.  Obviously it hasn't improved then.

No, and in their infinite wisdom, instead of updating it Birmingham City Council wanted to build a new one at Ludgate Hill - which is not only even less convenient than Digbeth for the city centre (no mean feat; Bounty will back me up on that!), but also a beautiful area that needs a huge coach station dumping in it like Rik Waller needs 'feeding up'! Luckily too many of us protested and now Digbeth is supposed to be getting a facelift.

It was a bit of a nightmare on Sat with the centre closed off, but luckily I live very close so I didn't have to worry about not being able to get a bus or cab home.

[oldspice]

Ken is a saint.

[lemoneye]

A saint? The patron saint of mismanagement and taxation? Quite possibly.

[oldspice]

Under his leadership, the GLC provided a voice for many previously marginalised groups. These were tax payers like the rest of us, but until Ken provided the means, they had remained unrepresented and un-funded.

I travelled on the transport system throughout the late seventies and early to mid eighties. During that time Ken greatly reduced the cost of travel but dramtically increased the efficiency.

Unlike his contemporary in Westminster, he did not attempt to reduce the housing and public buildings stock by selling them off for a song; nor did he attempt to move vulnerable people out of the borough to derpive them of a vote that would have allowed them to continue to live in decent local authority housing.

he is indeed a saint. God bless him

I don't have any party political views so can't comment.  however I do like Ken Livingstone from what I know of him.  Does he still keep newts?

[lemoneye]

The "improvements" in CENTRAL London were afforded by bleeding the outer lying boroughs dry!

As the song says "Now the world don't move to the beat of just one drum, whay might be right for you, may not be right for some etc" - Oldspice and I will never agree on certain political topics. Personally, I don't like Red Ken, nor most of the current government, but it's what the "masses" wanted, or should i say the hundreds of tiny labour constituencies (same area - ie square metres - as one conservative) and the Sun newspaper.

But... the major issue is the urgent and required implementation and enforcement of a universal religion and racism ban. That would put a stop to a good proportion of this mischief and nonsense.

Vote for me at the next election...

[kevvosa]

Hah would like to see a religion ban work. I say we should follow the
basics of most religions and just treat the Earth better rather than
destroying everything out of selfishness.

[smurfboy]

But... the major issue is the urgent and required implementation and enforcement of a universal religion and racism ban. That would put a stop to a good proportion of this mischief and nonsense.

Vote for me at the next election...

Ban murder and rape too and you'll get my vote Lemoneye...

[kevvosa]

Banning religion would make things worse. 

[oldspice]

Some good points lemoneye. It's true we don't all think alike and no two people will have identical political views. When they do it often leads to the type of carnage we saw in London last week.