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Okay you lot. Doobs is running the London Marathon in aid of The National Autistic Society. If any of you want to sponsor him [Link]
27th Mar 2024 12:15:14 
[147.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
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Costing just £2 each, current and past issues of The Historical Don will be on sale from outside the club shop before the Harrogate and Salford games. Covering every on-field kick of the 2013-14 campaign when Neal Ardley’s men made a good start before a spring slump and a points deduction led them to flirt with relegation, the current edition of the magazine celebrating all things yellow and blue also recalls several victories in the long battle to turn the greyhound stadium on Plough Lane into a permanent home. Many past issues are also available along with a pictorial history of the Dons - come along and have a browse!
25th Feb 2024 17:52:08 
[82.lo.gg.ed] 
On sale for £2 from outside the club shop at most of the home games in March.
*Euell obvs (bloody geographical autocorrect…) 🤪
28th Mar 2024 15:35:08 
[104.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
I can confirm that there was no chanting of from the river to the sea, nor any waving of Hamas flags at the War Child event last night, and can also confirm that Mickey Haswell is a lovely guy. Quite a few good old Dons there - Bassey, James Shea, LTB, Jason Ewell, Ben Judge, and plenty more too… 👍
28th Mar 2024 15:27:26 
[104.lo.gg.ed] 
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I don’t want to get too into debating that data, as I think that crime figures are inherently inaccurate because of under-reporting, but I would say that the use of the “workday population” is likely to reduce the reported crime rate for London. If you assume that those who commute into London are much less likely to commit crimes while they are there (if only because they are at work and don’t have the time to do so) then the effect of using the “workday population” is to inflate the London population by including a large low-crime population, and so reduce the reported crime rate. If you based this on actual (nighttime) population then the London crime rate would likely be higher. Just sort of shows that the message given largely depends on what statistics you choose
28th Mar 2024 15:18:46 
[205.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Only the gullible would be taken in by graphs, when in reality many ,many crimes go unreported, .
28th Mar 2024 15:11:06 
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Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
We are 4/7 to win and 11/20 to take a two-goal lead tomorrow. Rarely see those sort of odds offered about us.
28th Mar 2024 14:57:11 
[62.lo.gg.ed] 
SkyBet
Any football on this weekend?
28th Mar 2024 14:45:24 
[62.lo.gg.ed] 
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OI thanks I did the 50M first - well spotted and very stupid of me.
28th Mar 2024 14:07:11 
[147.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Lurker: Total crime = 35*60000 (60 million population assumption) =2100000. London contribution = 30*10000 (London 10 million) = 300000. Total for rest of England = 2100000-300000=1800000. Divide by 50000 = 36.0 which is higher than 35.
28th Mar 2024 14:05:20 
[86.lo.gg.ed] 
Off to remedial maths with you. Just thinking about it should convince you taking a lower concentration away fro a total will leave the rest higher
So actually it's an excellent graph if you want to show that the Mayor has presided over a higher violent crime rate than the rest of E&W is seeing and unlike the rest of the area, the London one is still climbing.
28th Mar 2024 13:57:05 
[147.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
population of 60M not 10M for the rest (that 10M is London).
28th Mar 2024 13:54:23 
[147.lo.gg.ed] 
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Actually OI if you do the maths it means the rest would be lower. If you go on total population. So 30/1000 = 300,000 total for London. 35/1000 on a population of 10M for the rest of E&W = 1,750,000. If you subtract the London figures = 1,450,000 violent crimes. Divided by a population of 50M (rest - London) actually gives 29/1000 for the rest of E&W. Which is lower.
28th Mar 2024 13:53:26 
[147.lo.gg.ed] 
So the double counting does make London look better.
And what does workday people mean? For example if this is during working hours Mon-Fri how many people from other areas are in London during that time. Which dilutes some and raises others. The point being this is a classic no context graph that doesn't actually show what people think it does because you can't tell what it shows.
28th Mar 2024 13:49:15 
[147.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Also doesn't take into account non reporting rates. I could argue that people in London are now so used to violent crime or so scared of it that they're less likely to report it than people in more rural and calmer areas.
28th Mar 2024 13:47:14 
[147.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Lurker - double counting hurts London as the figure for the rest of England and Wales is higher if you exclude London.
28th Mar 2024 13:45:43 
[86.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
LD - also knife crimes per 100,000 inhabitants in different mayoral areas. West Midlands (Andy Street - Tory) 13.0, Tees Valley (Ben Houchen - Tory) 12.9, London (Sadiq Khan - Labour) 10.1.
28th Mar 2024 13:44:01 
[86.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
So England & Wales includes greater London - so double counting. But also it looks like rest of the place rose rapidly in lockdown and is tailing off. Greater London has just continued on an inexorable path.
28th Mar 2024 13:42:38 
[147.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Khan will love that graph saying it proves the London crime rate is lower than the national rate.
28th Mar 2024 13:28:39 
[86.lo.gg.ed] 
the doughtmeistergeneral
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Violent crimes in London compared to the rest of England and Wales: [Link]
28th Mar 2024 13:12:42 
[82.lo.gg.ed] 
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I lived below a guy who was (allegedly) involved in one of the earlier phone grabbing from moped gangs and can safely say it was motivated by being a little shit scumbag and not cost of living (he was living with his mum who had a good job and paying the council rent; he was always wearing expensive brands etc)
28th Mar 2024 12:55:35 
[86.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
CW the negativity around the cup competitions is definitely something I feel quite deeply. League Cup is dead now it doesn't matter how much pizazz Sky try and put on the final when it's basically a b-team competition til that fixture. The FA Cup is a shadow of its former self, imo and the allure of a decent away draw at a big club is dampened by the knowledge that you'll be playing against a bunch of hitherto unknown kids with a couple of actual players on the bench. It just doesn't float my boat these days. Not saying everyone should feel like me I wouldn't tell anyone not to reminisce about the West Ham win and if Coventry was a highlight of your season then good for you I''ll not try and convince you otherwise.
28th Mar 2024 12:51:26 
[195.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
Oh if you want a sign of how shite things are I offer you that someone has stolen the defibrillator from the box at the local station. That's potential to cause someone's death level of scumbag that just shouldn't be allowed into society.
28th Mar 2024 12:33:39 
[147.lo.gg.ed] 
Ex www.wup.me.uk - The home of WU
18 months ago when I saw 3 youth with great big knives in Central Rd morden near the chippy,I was out of area as quick as Usain bolt 😂amazing how fast a fatty can run when needs must.
28th Mar 2024 12:28:12 
[10.lo.gg.ed] 
No wonder a few taxis now carry RAPID emergency bandages.
KP is right about London though. I don’t wear a watch in London, I just carry a hammer at all times nowadays.
28th Mar 2024 12:04:38 
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nick
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why are people acting like this is new. The moped scumbags grabbing stuff as they went past and threatening people has been going on round here since before lockdown. This is why I'm never entirely convinced when people say crime now is down to cost of living. It's been going on for years.
28th Mar 2024 12:02:16 
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The other reason I object to that default explanation for crime is because it demonises poor/working class people and assumes everyone in those categories turn to crime when time gets tough. Which is offensive and untrue.
CW I was in the room when a lawyer representing the ECB called Mr Pietersen to inform him that they had managed to recover his deleted text messages from his service provider. Although I didn’t have my ear to the phone, there was a definite change in Kevin’s demeanour after he received the news.
28th Mar 2024 11:57:33 
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nick
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