Topic: In the lap of the council

[John Gimber: Webmaster]

Hi All

I found this at the BBC website:

  By Dhruti Shah
BBC News

In large parts of Britain it's now as easy to open a lap dancing club as it is a coffee shop. But now campaigners are directing their fury at Parliament and demanding a change in the law.

With its terraces of imposing, white stuccoed Georgian houses, the inner-London enclave of West Kensington has a grandeur not typical of most residential areas. But the expressions of outrage being voiced by this group of denizens are no different to those resounding in town halls across the country.

"My main concern is what it's going to do to the area," says one. "How can they stop drug users and prostitutes from coming here?" asks another. "Of course the industry's linked to human trafficking," declares a further voice.

Hmm, strong feelings there.  Or strong feeling, one of the two! 

The full story can be found here.

John.

[jivedave]

what a coincidence - i'm checking the important news and i find something to put one off pole dancincicicicing which is like lap dancing but with a very rigid pole  - i'm informed:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/article1886972.ece

....and by a deVICE known as the LAPlass transform (apologies to mathematicians everywhere ), here is a lap more gripping than that of the lasses' hands, writhing round their poles  :


- rounded off with a nice Zep 4 track

[philsmove]

Pure nostalgia
Last time I was in 1959 to watch Geoff Duke’s last race 

[jivedave]

Ok, it’s not dancing but at least Phil seems to have a nostalgic interest and one might assume that if one (when young and of sound limb) can handle 500 lbs of cycle then most lady dancers shouldn’t be a problem  - though 'big girls you are beautiful' 

Here’s an entertaining phoenix like success story, if only it could be replicated but people seem obsessed with spending wealth rather than creating it. I still have a Motor Cycle News from 1975 (you may not be surprised to learn) reporting Triumph’s ‘Slippery Sam’ winning the Isle of Man Production TT race which was a source of great pride as my bike looked fairly similar - though i could have been tempted by an MG Midget and pretty girl friend - but none came along  . I sold it in ’81 to help finance house purchase. :'(



Bloor set to work assembling the new Triumph, hiring several of the group's former designers to begin work on new models. The team visited Japan on a tour of its competitors' facilities and became determined to adopt Japanese manufacturing techniques and especially new-generation computer controlled machinery. In 1985, Triumph purchased a first set of equipment to begin working, in secret, on its new prototype models. By 1987, the company had completed its first engine. In 1988 Bloor funded the building of a new factory at a 10 acre site in Hinkley Leicestershire Bloor put between £70million and £100million into the company between purchase of the brand and broke even in 2000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Motorcycles_Ltd

As (I believe) it’s a privately owned company (like the much larger BMW) it won’t be subject to the whims of our wonderful ‘city’ investors and hopefully won’t be sold to finance some self serving deal making barsteward’s ‘jet set’ lifestyle. It's possible the new US democratic president (Trumpets were big sellers in the US) may erect import tariff barriers although consumer ‘belt’ tightening may have the same effect.