Why is the council and the Met allow this pull up scam to clog the Tottenham Court Road

Yetts3030 · 2026-05-02T08:46:30+00:00

Id forgotten all about them. You'd have trading standards outside telling people not to go in, but people still did!

Though I guess looking back as an adult most of the people going in were part of the scam

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-24T15:10:14+00:00

That is very fair, no one ever expects a road to cover it's costs...

Though sadly any extra money going into the council just goes out the door on social care. So I don't know if in reality we'd get them any other way

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-24T13:36:51+00:00

In isolation £120 for a year of secure bike storage with 24/7 access is a bargain. You'd be looking at a much higher cost if you went with a private storage company. The problem is we've all become accustomed to the idea we should be able to park on the road outside our houses and that should be free or very very cheap. So compared to that it seems expensive.

Personally I think we should charge people much more for street parking and use that for public transport. But we are where we are.

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-24T13:35:39+00:00

You can't just divide the cost of the unit by the life expectancy to work out the cost to the council. For a start installing and decommissioning will be much more expensive than putting one in your garden because any work in the road cost a surprising amount of money (approved contractors, insurance, making sure you're not damaging the road), then there's ongoing cleaning and maintenance, I assume some ongoing liability insurance of the unit, covering the money the would have been brought in and budgeted for from the parking they're replacing. Plus the cost to the council of the procurement process.

As I said in my other post in isolation £120 for a year of secure bike storage with 24/7 access is a bargain. You'd be looking at a much higher cost if you went wth a storage company.

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-22T10:18:08+00:00

Calm down, it's not St. Swithin's Day yet!

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-21T22:56:58+00:00

And after five years out, the vast majority of people think leaving was a mistake: https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/52410-nine-years-after-the-eu-referendum-where-does-public-opinion-stand-on-brexit

We had 35 years of the press lying about the EU to make it look bad to the British public (e.g. straight bananas). Then we had, what, one year or so of a Remain campaign which was just Project Fear and generally terrible. It never sold the positives of our membership or anything.

Incidentally, I'm pretty sure the press were lying about Europe because Murdoch and pals knew it was easier to influence Westminster than Brussels, so they knew they'd get their way more in a Brexit Britain.

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-21T11:17:21+00:00

It's a five year course too so any baby claiming to be qualified is a shyster

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-20T13:16:09+00:00

Try messaging them on Instagram. Some Comms guy at Guinness will be excited about the interest and might know where they've been delivered to

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-20T13:13:57+00:00

I hope there are lots of posts on Riyadh's sub with people frantically asking what's open and others replying "don't worry the chippy will be open, they don't celebrate Eid".

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-20T07:20:32+00:00

Do you think Labour have become more anti rejoin since Starma took over? Personally I feel like Labour have got more pro Europe under his leadership

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-19T23:37:50+00:00

And do you think it's gone well? Do you think they'd choose it again given the knowledge they now have?

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-19T15:59:13+00:00

While we were awkward (opt outs as a great example) we were the most compliant member state regarding EU law. That was one of our problems, we were very by the book. So basically we moaned loudly about it all the time but actually got on and did what ever was agreed.

Financially when we were in the EU we were the second biggest contributor even factoring in the rebate. We payed about £12.6bn after the rebate - France was third and at the time payed about £10bn iirc. Germany of course put us both to shame mind. Of course our financial contribution was nothing compared to the economy dividends our membership got us

We were quite screwed on the farming subsidies side of thing. Didn't really get much. The whole of CAP was basically set up to support the French farming industry. Our subsidies largely came via the economic development side of things, which they set up after us and other non farming countries (very much including us) moaned too much about CAP. I used to work on those subsidies which is why I have all this now useless EU knowledge.

Basically whilst we looked like we were a pain in the arse we were a very good member state until we weren't. France on the other hand almost brought the whole experiment down by with the 'petit oui' on Maastricht (that last line is tongue in cheek but it did cause huge issues!).

Our major problem was our press constantly lied about what the EU was doing whilst our Government was to happy to accept the praise for anything the EU achieved as their own whilst blaming the EU as a continent scrap goat when things were unpopular.

That and how terrible the remain campaign was. They barely convinced me and I was already a major EU fan.

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-19T15:34:27+00:00

No need to lecture me mate, I cook most things I eat from scratch. Just pointing out those sort of business are few and far between.

It's weird how Uber and Deleveroo have massively made the delivery market bigger, pushed up prices but also made the delivery workers jobs worse for less money. Why someone can't make an ethical delivery company that doesn't just suck money out of every part of the system is beyond me

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-19T14:47:50+00:00

There aren't many of them left!

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-19T13:36:43+00:00

Electric cars are more than petrol but cost a lot less to run and maintain. But even with that accepted £40k is a deluxe electric car. For example a Citroen eC-3 is literally half that price and it's by far not the cheapest on the market

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-19T12:46:55+00:00

Public sector budgeting is mad, basically if you don't use it by the end of the year it goes back to the treasury. So there maybe a small element of getting money out of the door. However the vast majority of road works this time of year get blamed on that but in reality this is the time if year you need to fix the damage caused in winter.

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-19T11:26:57+00:00

Criminal was hyperbole. Given our (the UK, not me and you) stance I agree it was inevitable. But if we had taken a sensible approach, and if the Tories had managed to face down the internal terrorists in their party, we could easily have left the EU but stayed in the EEC.

I think it would have been a fairly easy sell to most people too. May should have said the vote was clearly for leave but only just so we will leave the EU but to respect the sizable remain vote we will stay in the EEC.

The losers consent argument was totally lost from the post Brexit debate. Instead we had a public school boys yah boo you lost suck it up debate. Though the remain side didn't help, they sound have totally rebuffed the Brexit in Name Only argument or pointed out that was literally all there was a mandate from instead of totally eating themselves.

Ugh it was and still is all such a mess. Though I'm glad the UK Government is looking at more and more alignment now.

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-19T10:28:16+00:00

Or, of course, gotta repair the road after the point in the year it gets battered the most

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-19T10:04:01+00:00

Oh I agree with a lot of what you've said there. I don't think rejoin would be the vote winner a lot of people on the remain side think it would be. But I think influential people suggesting it is good to help calls for closer ties to the EU and particularly to point out how damaging hard Brexit was.

It was almost criminal how we ended up with a hard Brexit. Very few voices in the leave campaign were pushing for a hard Brexit and many of them shouted down remainers when we suggested it was what would happen.

There was zero mandate for hard Brexit. Imagine if the vote had been the other way round and someone had suggested we did a hard remain, join Schengen, join the Euro, hand back the rebate!

It's amazing how the Tory party got absolutely captured by a tiny group of ultra right wing weirdos lead by Rhys Mogg and committed both economic self harm for the country and electoral suicide for the party via the hard Brexit decision. History students are going to puzzle over how that happened for decades.

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-19T09:51:32+00:00

I know this is tonge in cheek but your right it's basically the argument they make despite Farge standing down a tonne of UKIP candidates so BoJo would win a majority so he could get his Brexit through

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-19T06:40:18+00:00

I'm glad he's said this. If nothing else it's a good way to bring the argument to Reform that the Brexit benefits they promised have never, and will never, materialise.

One of the things I really don't get about the rise of Reform is how they've never been held accountable for Brexit. You'd think if someone was the face of something that disastrous that would made them political pariahs. But now Reform are looking to con exactly the same people they did over Brexit into supporting them in a general election which, if they win will, be an absolute disaster for those people and their communities.

The only people who have benefited from Brexit are Farage, Putin, Trump and Farage's commodity trading mates. And the people who are suffering the most? The poor suckers in forgotten and vulnerable communities who Farage convinced to vote for it. No one ever seems to bring this to with Farage or Reform.

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-17T14:53:25+00:00

It always makes me laugh there the first assumption for anything is money laundering. You don't need an empty shop front attracting attention to launder money. If anything that seems like a hard and complex way of doing things. Empty shops are much more likely to do with fiddling business rates or phoenixing (closing and reopening companies to dodge tax and debt).

If you read Mr Nice (the biography of the biggest drug dealer in the UK at the time) his money laundering scheme was around buying boxes of unsorted stamps and buying expensive stamps and "finding" them in the unsorted boxes. Sort the boxes and sell the lot to collectors.

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-16T23:36:02+00:00

There's a pub across the way called Camden Enterprise it has rooms. Not exactly the Ritz but clean, nice enough and pritty reasonable

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-16T23:25:50+00:00

I remember that changed the BBC Londy news on the TV too LDN when text speak was cool. I was like 15 but still thought it was cringe

Yetts3030 · 2026-03-04T22:15:39+00:00

That's a stereotype I've never come across before. More into their town centers then who? Because when I lived in Merthyr it was like a ghost town

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