No Trees = No Labour! Dawn Raids Swung me!

[Hairyloon]

I reckon the tree wouldn't have been damaging the pavement or breaking through the sides of a sewer first off.

 

Pruning it regularly is the best answer all round. Except perhaps for the NIMBY's who move in next to a tree and complain about it dropping leaves.

I have no patience for that type.

[spilldig]

If there were no other engineering solutions available or recommended then, sure, remove the tree.

However we all know that isn't the case. Tree removals are taking place in the name of corporate profit and nothing else.

 

I suppose if the council make money on it then that must be a bonus for all council tax and ratepayers. At least if the system is working as it should.

 

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Pruning it regularly is the best answer all round. Except perhaps for the NIMBY's who move in next to a tree and complain about it dropping leaves.

I have no patience for that type.

 

I think some are a bit beyond pruning now as the damage is done. Around forty or fifty years ago it was never a problem because everything was maintained on a regular basis. Pavements, roads, sewers and trees.

[Cyclone]

The council don't make money on it. Amey make money on it.

 

And this is all getting really off topic, which is that the NHS is frankly more important than the trees, so even though the local labour council aren't acting in the best interests of Sheffield, the conservative central government will be worse for the entire country.

[spilldig]

The council don't make money on it. Amey make money on it.

 

And this is all getting really off topic, which is that the NHS is frankly more important than the trees, so even though the local labour council aren't acting in the best interests of Sheffield, the conservative central government will be worse for the entire country.

 

I do think the conservatives have now gone badly wrong on care and the NHS.

[Cyclone]

Dementia tax, sell your house for care home fees, creeping privatisation of the NHS, didn't they suggest a fee to visit the GP recently as well?

And the contract debacle that Hunt has presided over, causing the first ever strike by NHS doctors!

[Jeffrey Shaw]

If everybody who didn't vote last time voted this time, then anybody could win.

Equally, anybody could win even if everybody who didn't vote last time didn't vote this time.

[focemal]

I won't be voting for Labour in the next Council elections. They really do need some stiff competition and somebody to hold them to account. They take it for granted they will be elected, and that makes them very complacent and stuck in the old ways of doing things.

That's not good.

 

 

That's exactly what I believe about the conservatives at the national level

[tinfoilhat]

Dementia tax, sell your house for care home fees, creeping privatisation of the NHS, didn't they suggest a fee to visit the GP recently as well?

And the contract debacle that Hunt has presided over, causing the first ever strike by NHS doctors!

 

If the tories get in (which they will) and bring in those policies (which they might) labour will reverse none of them as and when (if?) they get in again.

[Cyclone]

Perhaps you're right, they don't have a great record for reversing any of the policies they oppose whilst in opposition.

[Funky_Gibbon]

Perhaps you're right, they don't have a great record for reversing any of the policies they oppose whilst in opposition.

 

Well it'd be a bit embarrassing if they didn't this time since their manifesto is stuffed with policies reversing things they opposed.