Linnet Woods

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I was singularly unimpressed by the @GMB attempted hatchet job on @Nigel_Farage just after 8.30 this morning. The presenters weren't asking him intelligent questions, just trying to bully and belittle him. They reminded me somewhat of hyenas. Shame on them.

Questions for Nigel Farage... I sent an email and got sent here... Does Nigel have a social housing policy? Will he rescind the no-fault eviction policy? Will he cap private rents? Will he tackle chaotic benefits bureaucracy? He'll get my vote anyway...

citizengo.org/en-gb I'm trying to get as many people as possible to joun CitizenGO - we're getting towards enough numbers to have real influence but if two and a half million people is good, five million will be better...

Can anyone put me in touch with James Bennie Vincent Duncan? I last saw him in 1974/5 and I need to ask him a question about that epoch. TIA for help in contacting him.

Does anybody know of a two-bedroom property within a five mile radius of London N1 available to rent for 2000 per calendar month or less? I've only got 4 weeks to find one! Please no scammers!

Sadiq Khan certainly doesn't seem to give a hoot about public opinion. If true democracy has ever existed during my lifetime, I must have blinked and missed it. ~ Linnet Woods

Many are saying that if Sadiq Khan is London's best hope then London has no hope at all. I wonder whether those who are supposed to represent the views of their constituents have reached the point in their decadence where they no longer feel the need to even appear virtuous.

Some businesses are moving out of London, putting one set of people out of work but employing another. Many more, though, are simply closing down most of their operations and farming out tasks previously performed by their own employees to other companies.

Fares are getting harder to come by as Sadiq swamps the city with private hire vehicles which are unfettered by the endless rules and restrictions placed upon traditional cabs. Sadiq seems determined to bring London to a total standstill and it looks as though he may succeed.

Cabbies who have been obliged to sell off their vehicles because of age restrictions are now listening with mounting fury as Sadiq considers reversing those restrictions. A new black cab costs upwards of £100,000 these days. Renting a black cab costs around £12,500 per year.

I don't care what the virtually defunct 20th century media would have one believe - the facts are plainly visible to anyone who cares to look. Night workers living outside London must pay £12.50 to get in to work in the evenings and another £12.50 to get home in the mornings!

Ulez isn't helping now and won't do so at any point according to people whose expertise is being carefully ignored. This has everything to do with extracting funds from the public in the form of fines.

Sadiq himself is, of course, permitted to flout all London's traffic rules, with his security motorcade & thus either has no idea of the misery his actions are causing or perhaps simply doesn't care. All this has absolutely nothing to do with alleviating pollution - far from it!

The speed limits change back and forth over distances of a few yards, a ploy to catch people doing 23 miles per hour in a 20 mph zone which is sandwiched in a tiny space between two 30mph zones and don't even start me off on the subject of parking!

The London Underground train system is less smelly than it used to be but is no less crowded much of the time. Buses get to move marginally faster than most other traffic but some are still crowded while others could be replaced by minibuses with seats to spare.

Cyclists, including food deliverers and now roller skaters too, cut across lanes of traffic at night, wearing dark clothing and entirely devoid of any lights or even reflective gilets and nobody says or does anything about it.

Delivery trucks sit idling and spewing out pollution at traffic lights which must have been programmed by amoebae or lackeys instructed to prevent jams from being dispersed.

It must be well-nigh impossible now to devise the Knowledge exams, with changes being made all the time and lanes coned off for weeks at a time without any sign of works being carried out...

Every licensed London Hackney Carriage cabbie has spent years, at their own expense, learning the shortest routes between everywhere and everywhere else and passing the exams which has always been extremely difficult. 85% of would-be cabbies fail to stay the course.