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I once saw a zebra crossing on London Road.

Here's a Guardian article about the tram-train being 5 times over budget and nearly 3 years late. Government ministers have decided to keep throwing money at it rather than cancel it;

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/04/sheffield-rotherham-tram-train-budget-nao

FIFA seem to be leaning towards introducing it at next year's World Cup;

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jul/01/gianni-infantino-vars-2018-world-cup-confederations-cup-fifa

A rule where a minimum of two players from each side must be in the opposing teams half at all times would K.O this problem in one blow.

This would massively increase the number of offsides and put teams at a massive disadvantage when defending a corner or free kick near their own goal.

An attacking team could put all 10 outfield players in the opposition half and get an easy offside if the defending team cleared upfield.

It would have been better as a cultural centre as originally planned until the EDL and local Muslim haters kicked up a fuss.

Enjoy your hopefully Halal KFC and overpriced Costa coffee!

I thought the idea of it becoming a mosque was a fantasy caused by the paranoia of the EDL, like the time they organised an anti-halal demo outside a KFC on Penistone Road that didn't actually serve halal.

What's rattled your sad case.

I mearly pointed out the railway station road was closed when I went to catch a train last Saturday......

My sad case was rattled by your ignorant post. I was replying to a nonsense claim that most parts of Sheffield are being taped off because of crime. You tried to substantiate this nonsense by the fact that the road outside the station was taped off a week earlier. However this was due to the road surface, not any crime. And it's not as if it would have represented most of Sheffield anyway.

You had no evidence to support the claim and just exposed your ignorance by saying something that was factually incorrect.

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So let's stretch the bandit area from West Street to Spital Hill because most stabbings and gun crime happens in that triangle.

I do agree that for us who don't break the law it's a relatively safe area to walk but it's usually drug related and targeted attacks. Nether the less it's still a vile area

Longley: 1882 crimes.

Wicker: 499 crimes.

http://www.thestar.co.uk/revealed-the-crime-figures-for-your-area-of-sheffield-1-8014693

Longley appears to be nearly four times viler.

Guns are like parachutes. You don't need one until you need one and if you don't have one you will never need one again.

You only need a parachute if you're jumping out of a plane. Most people have never had one and most people will never need one. Just like guns after all but not in the way you think.

Off to see Sting.

Maybe not but I think what he means is around that area of the City.

It was closed off on Spital Hill twice lately and some other area's.

I went to catch a train last Saturday and the railway station road was taped off, luckily I was on a bike

Is that what he means then? He said it's most places in Sheffield but what he actually meant was that it's just round the Wicker. I'm grateful you cleared that up, being a mind-reader and all.

As for the station last Saturday, there was a separate thread about it on which I posted to say that I had asked a police officer at the time who said they were testing the road surface, which I actually saw them doing.

So cut the crap.

It's not just the wicker it's most places in Sheffield lately just look on tv,papers

So most places in Sheffield have been taped off by the police, have they?

To avoid defeat on the Queen's speech the government has agreed to fund abortions for Northern Irish women carried out in England.

So the anti-abortionist DUP has got free abortions for Northern Ireland.

Hilarious.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40438390

There's still usually one outside Sainsburys on Ecclesall Road and next to the cash machines outside NatWest.

OK. I don't usually go that far. A black guy used to beg outside Sainsbury's but I've not seen him for a while though that might be because I rarely go there. Someone who knows him says he's not homeless but occasionally his girlfriend kicks him out.

Ecclesall Road is getting pretty ridiculous for this. I go through there and back from work every weekday and it's a rarity that I'm not stopped for money on a daily basis. Not even just from the constant stream of bums outside Tesco, but from them coming up to me in the street asking for money.

Really? My impression of Ecclesall Road is that it's a lot better than it was 6 months ago. The ones that were always outside Boots have moved on and the only ones I see are the bloke with tattoos on his face and someone he's always with. And they never seem to beg, just drink.

The South African bloke who used to sell Big Issue outside Tesco and who was sleeping in the Waitrose roundabout last winter has also been moved on too.

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There are some in West St nearby Tesco.

One good thing about yesterday's rain was that it washed that little corner of the smell of urine. The stench on a hot day when you're waiting for a tram can be nausea-inducing.

..but not large enough to win the general election!

Just like the Tories then.

I am not wallowing in denial...

The Tories on here are in denial that June 8th was a bad result for May. And also that Corbyn did far better for Labour than anyone predicted. Anyone who argues that it was worth May's while to have an unnecessary election and lose her majority is definitely in denial.

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..but not large enough to win the general election!

... but large enough to win Hallam.

Seven MPs died in 2016, so the twelve majority with the DUP could be very slender within 18 months.

I can only count 2 MPs who died in 2016 - Harry Harpham and Jo Cox.

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It's interesting that the same sore losers in the referendum are quite prepared to throw up to a hundred billion quid at the EU in a so called divorce settlement then complain about a billion going to a part of the UK.

Of course the sore losers never wanted a divorce in the first place. The DUP did and so hopefully their £1 billion will be diverted to the divorce bill.

are you saying Jeremy never repeated meaningless slogans over and over ?

The only one I can think of was For The Many Not The Few, which tied in well with Labour's anti-austerity programme.

Tories who would prefer to learn from the failure of their campaign rather than wallow in denial should read this;

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/26/tory-election-machine-fell-apart-negative-tactics

As for having a labour MP, well I never, red rosette on a donkey and all that

Would that be because working class people vote Labour in large enough numbers?

Terrorists will get arms from someone else if you know we're to look. I'm talking about personal protection.

Reminds me of Chris Kyle, the American Sniper, who lived to kill and was shot dead on a Texan gun range where they tend to believe in gun ownership for personal protection;

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/06/real-american-sniper-hate-filled-killer-why-patriots-calling-hero-chris-kyle

We've had 3 terrorist attacks here in recent months. Do you think it should be easier for them to get guns?

In 2014 8,124 people were shot dead in the States. Here it was about 50. The USA's number of gun homicides is 160 times ours for a population that is 6 times larger than ours.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/06/16/gun-violence-united-kingdom-united-states/85994716/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/upshot/compare-these-gun-death-rates-the-us-is-in-a-different-world.html

They don't like his brand of fluffy socialism, I know many working class people both young and old who no longer have much affinity with the Labour party, me included, and I was a union member for over 30 years.

You've always been more of a NF/BNP person as evidenced from the following;

It's a fact of life people can choose, the white kids became the minority at AGS and many white families moved away from the catchment areas of Sharrow, Abbeydale, Nether Edge and Carterknowle. I moved my family away from Sharrow in the mid 80s, best thing I ever did !

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Ha ha I'll bet your a reyt laugh, pop up to Woodseats some time I'll buy the drinks and introduce you to all the working class Corbyn haters, lot of Blades fans too I'm afraid

I don't want to upset you but you have a Labour MP.

As I have said before he appeals to middle class youngsters who go to University not the working class

That must be why Sheffield has so many Tory MPs.

........but still won the election.

That must be why they've had to do a deal with the DUP to get a majority.

PS Congratulations on having a Labour MP thanks to May.

Who says that the Tories have had an "appalling" record over the last 2 years? You?

 

Have you forgot that 42% of the vote share went to her. That's a 5.5% INCREASE of vote share from the 2015 election and around just under 80k more voters than Labour.

Yes. It's not as if Cameron called and lost a referendum and May called a general election and lost her majority.

What are you trying to say, we shouldn't have referendums or elections because they cost too much?

You know full well he was saying that May wasted millions on an unnecessary general election solely to increase her majority and it blew up in her face. She lost 3 years of a majority in order to gain another 2 and all at our expense.