LGBT crossing

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on February 12, 2020 at 17:46

It's Haringey Council Mr D. One of the poorest in the country with huge financial problems. Every penny counts and this just looks like waste to most.

Permalink Reply by Gordon T on February 12, 2020 at 21:11

So it looks like waste to most. If so, say so and leave it at that, I say.

Rather than going off on a barely-related whataboutery riff on a very specific issue. You're usually, in your many posts, a lot better than that.

Permalink Reply by Spiderman on February 12, 2020 at 21:26

I find that people that can't recognise the need for nuance on that sort of issue aren't smart/well-informed enough to bother engaging with. Unfortunately they also tend to be the people who shout the loudest on the internet, giving the misleading impression that their view is more mainstrean than it really is. 

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on February 14, 2020 at 8:16

Have they won the highways maintenance contract?  Must have missed the announcement 

Permalink Reply by Hugh D on February 12, 2020 at 17:48

And rather than get annoyed at the government who've been systematiclaly slahsing Labour councils' funding for years now, you choose to go off on one about trans people. Classy.

Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside) on February 12, 2020 at 21:15

If they waste TAXPAYERS' money on vanity projects like this they deserve to have their funding 'slashed', why don't they spend it on road safety features instead, or is that down to the DoT or TFL?.

 

Permalink Reply by Hugh D on February 12, 2020 at 21:18

Except that's not why they have their funding slashed.

The funding cuts are an ideological imposition by a government hellbent on depriving local areas so they can continue offering tax cuts to billionaires. That's why we all end up paying more council tax and that's why services are run into the groun.

Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside) on February 12, 2020 at 21:37

Don't forget to give Jeremy his script back, albeit well-thumbed, yawn.

Permalink Reply by John D on February 12, 2020 at 21:19

John didn't " go off " on trans people. As I read it, he was objecting to individuals and organisations that promote and facilitate irreversible surgery on young people.

Permalink Reply by Hugh D on February 12, 2020 at 21:24

Funny how keen you are to defend smears, accusations and inflammatory language like 'mutilate', buit take offence at 'going off on'. And what has his opinions about a support group for young trans kids got to do with anything else here? It's just indicative of how much bias and prejudice still surrounds LGBT issues and how quickly people jump from 'there's a rainbow crossing' to 'I hate organisations helping trans people'. Scary, really.

Permalink Reply by John D on February 12, 2020 at 21:31

Unlike you, I don't take offence at anything in this thread.

. I was merely correcting your mistaken reading of John's post.

Permalink Reply by Hugh D on February 12, 2020 at 21:33

By 'correcting' you mean telling me your own reading of it.

That's not actually a correctiuon, but anyway . . .

You're clearly quite happy with the way things have gone on this thread.

Good luck to you.

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