See the London Mayor Sadiq Khan is spending £6m rebranding the London Overground lines.
Among them are the Lioness Line named after the England Woman’s team victory in Europe…… at finishing runners up. Oh dear.

The Suffragette Line chasing the ladies vote….or maybe not.

The Windrush Line celebrating diversity no doubt.

What’s wrong with naming them after the area they serve like the ones on the Underground Lines…?

does not bother me much as i never go down there anymore. what bothers me more if i did live down there is the 6 million being spent on it as if its small change in your back pocket.

They should have been named after characters in Viz.

Surely £6 million could be better spent.

Annie Huggett was living in Barking, as she was the longest serving Suffragette.

Windrush is the one that makes me laugh, all the scandal over it and now he names an overground line after the ship.

Khan is a D*ckH**d who as ruined this City.

Only Mayor to win an election with TFL Broke, Stabbing up 30% Shooting up 25% Car Theft up 5% Mugging at Knife point up 60% Police down 80%...... Now ULEZ now in force £12.50 per day to drive within the M25 with a Diesel engine.

who are the biggest dickheads. him or all those who will split the anti khan vote to see him elected again.

Brilliant idea, some of the characters would be perfect London Residents…

The Sid the Sexist Line.
The Terry Fuckwit Line.
The Millie Tant Line
The Student Grant Line
The Cockney Wanker Line
The Buster Gonad Line

MIND THE GAP!

Exactly, they say he has repetetive strain injury from telling the world how humble he is and his father was a bus driver.

therefore he is a cross between mr.micawber and stan off on the buses.

To many stand for Mayor in London and they're not enough voters. I think we are stuck with him for another term.

Odds on he will be elected again due to his ethnicity and at the same time the ULEZ does not affect the majority of the electorate who live in central London.

He ain't getting my vote... Until he makes the Elizabeth line 24hr service

Do these things affect his electorate, I suspect not.

Would an any party consider putting a person of very dark skin in Hartlepool as a prospective MP ?

Hangus needs to stand again for Hartlepool Mayor. Pools could do with the publicity..

Remember when he got elected, Mandelson was fuming and an MP on TV was bouncing off the walls at the Hartlepool voters for being so stupid…..yes, it was glorious….just showed the bus drove itself…and anyone can step in and take over.

Just need to the Tories out. They're heading for total wipeout based on the by elections. Lovely stuff.

Do you actually believe any of them have a clue, because I don’t.
I’ll be looking for the ‘none of the above’ on the ballot paper

They should introduce a law where candidates standing in a G.E. should live within 10 miles of the constituency they are standing for instead of certain politicians being capitulated into what is considered into a safe seat. At least they would have knowledge of the local area.

I'd rather have the best candidate for the job representing me. You'll be saying you want the players representing the Town's football club to have been born within ten miles of the Vic next. No matter how passionate about a constituency an MP is, it is only one voice crying in the wilderness.

Look out how well that has worked out for the club with Dolan.

I'm with you. A lot work in different areas of the country or world and have a home. A voice is a voice in Parliament, Mandy wasn't from Hartlepool, (admittedly lived in the town) only after he won the seat.

England Women won the women’s European Championship in 2022 and were beaten finalists last year in the women’s World Cup. Oh dear indeed.

Look on the bright side - if the men’s team had beaten Italy at Wembley a few year back there might have been a Southgate Line too

100% agree Jamie …also they should have resided there for at least four years, not just own a house.

Er, what did Mandy actually do for the town, especially with his influence. I can recall nothing…a nice little Government Dept with decent jobs would have been nice….never happened.

I was thinking about "Two fat slags" as a tribute to the suffragettes

How much does legal aid cost the UK to deport a repeat offending EU pickpocket?

Him and Tony did do something, took a lot industry out the town and shipped it aboard. Got rid of a lot of apprenticeship in the town too. Gave a lot of families benefit, but my parents got sweet FA because they both earned over £5000 per year.

That’s because everyone wasn’t gonna work in those grubby industrial jobs, let Johnny Foreigner do that and all our kids can go to Uni and get worthless degrees in meeeeja studies and a nice big wedge of debt……never really worked out did it now call me a cynic.

It worked out excellent for them, all those shares in banks and property around university cities. Made them the millions they so hard worked for, ripping off the students and giving them a life time debt.

I find the big question is;

Why do we have these Mayors of London, Birmingham, Manchester etc who have too much singular power?

Why do we have PCC's as well?

Too much power to so few people. Stamp it out and save MILLIONS!

Rant over.

In London’s case the Mayoral role as it is today was introduced in the year 2000 so I assume Tony Blair introduced it.

To be fair, in all those grainy black and white films of the the suffragettes, you never saw a fat one….they were all those hard faced humourless harridans.
Ironic how they got the vote but only for Lady’s over 30 who owned property, I notice they didn’t show any solidarity with their sisters who never got the vote till 10 years later.
Pull the ladder up I’m alright Mabel.

I have noticed Tony Blair gets a few mentions in your posts Snowy, obviously you are not his biggest fan ?

Windrush scandal facts, over 500,000 migrants arrived from the Carribean between 1948 and 1973. Many didn't go through the process of nationalisation (c. 50,000 -10%), subsequently when immigration rules changed these were investigated and a very small number (gov figure is 160 - less than 0.3%) were denied entitlement to benefits and services, some were detained or deported).
So although clearly mistakes made, hardly a national scandal imo.
Strangely, the government have admitted 160 are entitled to compo there have been over 1200 claims.
Another case of history being rewritten to suit an agenda.
Wonder when the Scaninavian countries, or Italians, or African countries will pay reparation for invasion of UK, raping and pillaging, cannibalism of UK nations b also etc? Why does the UK have to apologise and pay compo for everything done throughout history but deemed to be wrong by today's standards or morals?

Was, till after the experience, decided I’d been conned….like an awful lot of people who voted for him….PFI, Iraq etc
What a pity John Smith died young.

We already have the "Trans Pennine route" what's all the fuss about.....

Slave traders made an absolute fortune when slavery was abolished being compensated for the loss of each slave wether in the U.K. or overseas.

On 28 August 1833 Parliament passed legislation that abolished slavery within the British Empire, emancipating more than 800,000 enslaved Africans. As part of the compromise that helped to secure abolition, the British government agreed a generous compensation package of £20 million to slave-owners for the loss of their ‘property’.

The man who received the most money from the state was John Gladstone, the father of Victorian prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. He was paid £106,769 in compensation for the 2,508 slaves he owned across nine plantations, the modern equivalent of about £80m. Given such an investment, it is perhaps not surprising that William Gladstone’s maiden speech in parliament was in defence of slavery.[11]

We’ve had it for years….. they just want it to be faster….god knows why….HS2 ..all that money to get from London to Birmingham half an hour quicker….why ?
Last time I was there was a course with the US firm Northrop, never felt the urge to return.

You appear to be applying modern day morals to events nearly 200 years ago.
We were the first to abolish slavery and in many respects the idea of buying the slaves freedom was ground breaking and averting the violence that could have followed…..mores the pity we couldn’t have averted the the Great War that lead to WW2 with a cash transaction….

Why can't they name stations or road names after truly important historical things - like 70s glam rock ?

Stardust Avenue (Ziggy not Alvin)
Quatro Close (I wish she was)
Sweet Mud Station.

That sort of thing.

Gary Glitter back lane?

Modern day morals, the elite couldn’t define that phrase, my post is about how the elite made millions in todays money from the abolishment of slavery, have a read of this article
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/185 ... k-slavery/

Nothing changes, the elite always make megabucks at the expense of the rest of the population, slavery hasn't been abolished it just masquerades as employment for many years around the world.
The Arab nations still effectively use Asians as slaves, the Indians use the caste system to enslave, the point is that some seem to insist that the UK must be responsible and the only country in the world that should pay up for all the wrongdoing (by todays standards) that has ever occurred. It's history, why should we apologise and pay for the sins of our forebears when no f*cker else does?

The word slave is derived from the word ‘Slav’, the Eastern Europeans who were taken by the Turks,
I suspect that a lot of people think the only slaves that ever existed were in the good old USA

All I would say about this desire to force us into paying for something we are not responsible for is Sorry Guv but we wasn't there. Show me what I personally owe and I'll address the matter or sod off and bother somebody else.
Is one of the descendants of the crew who formed the town's football club going to compensate me for years of heartache???? EH EH EH!!!!

The soon to be reopened platform at Hartlepool railway station is to be named "Platform 3"
Exciting news eh?

We could name it platform 2 3/4 as a sort of Harry Potter type tribute to Harry Kirk, tricky winger par excellence in the very early 70’s…so tricky hr drilled himself into the ground at the Clarence Road Town End corner and discovered North Sea Gas…a little known fact.