Anti-Cuts Protest Hackney Council 6pm 2nd March

[AKA pseudonym]

***Tomorrow Hackney Council will be having a meeting to set the council budget and decide what to cut.***

Hackney Alliance to Defend Public Services have called for a demonstation outside the town hall at 6.30 pm.

Hackney Housing Group plan to meet at 6pm outside Hackney Town Hall, on Mare St, near Hackney Central station.

You can read the draft budget here - http://mginternet.hackney.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=112&MId=1237

 

[editor]

Post pics!

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Us Hackney residents have to come good with this if we want to hold our heads up next to the commotion caused at Lewisham, Camden and Barnet town halls recently!

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

i was going along but i have tickets for tonights fa cup final replay so i cannae make it

 

[butchersapron]

You're leeds. Get down there.

 

[revlon]

best thing about hackney town hall is that you can climb up the outside onto the balcony.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

best thing about hackney town hall is that you can climb up the outside onto the balcony.

you just reminded me of the poll tax riots 20 years ago...

 

[past caring]

You could have been there by now......

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

i'm eating my tea and then gwan the football.

 

[Ground Elder]

you just reminded me of the poll tax riots 20 years ago...

Don't remember anyone getting up there then Do remember that they'd boarded up the windows and surrounded the town hall with police in preparation for the inevitable riot. How's it looking tonight?

 

[editor]

So has Hackney risen to the challenge and matched Lambeth with an occupation?

 

[marty21]

Labour Councillor Luke Akehurst going mentalist on twitter

Trots have voted to let us back in to chamber. Very kind of them. Who elected them?

Mare Street shut. Err.. Try shutting Downing St you Trot chumps not protesting vs one of most progressive councils in most deprived borough

In secret replica council chamber with less noisy members of public. SWP haven't managed to stop democracy.

Idiots in balcony chanting nursery rhymes not listening to debate

No hot drinks in council chamber in case thrown at us by rioters

Getting a little over excited heckling back at the balcony - just shouted "Blairite and proud of it

Complaints from public gallery about #hackney councillors using Twitter in #cuts meeting

 

[Streathamite]

Us Hackney residents have to come good with this if we want to hold our heads up next to the commotion caused at Lewisham, Camden and Barnet town halls recently!

*cough*
Haringey
*cough*

 

[killer b]

luke akehurst sounds like a cunt.

 

[killer b]

in fact, labour councillors should stay the hell off twitter. they invariably only use it to humiliate themselves.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Luke "nuke" akehurst is notorious for getting over excited and ranty. Another career new labour boy who hates the left.

It was his birthday today, lol.

I had to leave before the (cringe) symbolic march around the town hall so missed the action.

About 300 people?

Lots of good reporting on twitter. #hackney

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Apologies for leaving Haringey out!

 

[Pickman's model]

luke akehurst sounds like a cunt.

luke akehurst is a cunt who hasn't had a proper job in his life.

 

[Streathamite]

Apologies for leaving Haringey out!

Thank you!

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Some write ups:

http://politicaldynamite.com/2011/03/hackney-votes-for-cuts-a-sketch-from-the-gallery/

https://london.indymedia.org/articles/7693 (with photos)

 

[Fozzie Bear]

It would seem that despite giving it large here about voting against the budget, U75's own BarryB actually ended up voting for it:

http://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2011/03/03/hackney-council-passes-2011-budget-amid-protests/

 

[sihhi]

luke akehurst is a cunt who hasn't had a proper job in his life.

Nevertheless Luke Akehurst was Consultant of the Year according to Public Affairs News, trade magazine for the PR industry.

See here the bottom of this:
http://www.publicaffairsnews.com/panawards/previousawards08

One mentioned clients is GKN the arms/engineering/aerospace firm which sells military aircraft all around the world. It was the company at the heart of the 1999 mini-scandal of sales of "kill 'n gos" to the Indonesian military used to mow down Indonesian opposition and Timorese children alike.

Another mentioned client is Italian company Finmeccanica which has recently been kitting out the Gaddafi regime with helicopters and a border security system.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=5850584&c=AIR&s=TOP

Bizarrely (or not) his co-director (manager) at Weber Shandwick is Tamora Langley, a prominent South London Lib Dem who was Lib Dem MP candidate for Lewisham!

 

[disco_dave_2000]

hi Fozzie - good to read up on what's happening in olde London towne ;-)

 

[marty21]

It would seem that despite giving it large here about voting against the budget, U75's own BarryB actually ended up voting for it:

http://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2011/03/03/hackney-council-passes-2011-budget-amid-protests/

Oh Dear Barry

 

[Louis MacNeice]

It would seem that despite giving it large here about voting against the budget, U75's own BarryB actually ended up voting for it:

http://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2011/03/03/hackney-council-passes-2011-budget-amid-protests/

Indeed; 'if we do not speak out, our silence will be taken for agreement' (BB et al. 2011).

Perhaps he only meant speaking and not voting though?

Louis MacNeice

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Blimey it sounds like some people went to the Town Hall to remonstrate today as well:
http://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2011/03/03/protestors-occupy-hackney-town-hall/

 

[Sue]

http://www.lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/

 

[Louis MacNeice]

http://www.lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/

I particularly liked this bit:

I am pleased to report that a much heralded across the far left press backbench rebellion didn't happen and every Labour councillor showed discipline and solidarity by backing the budget we had collectively agreed at Group.​

Barry must be so proud.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[marty21]

I particularly liked this bit:

I am pleased to report that a much heralded across the far left press backbench rebellion didn't happen and every Labour councillor showed discipline and solidarity by backing the budget we had collectively agreed at Group.​

Barry must be so proud.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

aye - absorbed into the Labour Borg

 

[BarryC]

It would seem that despite giving it large here about voting against the budget, U75's own BarryB actually ended up voting for it:

http://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2011/03/03/hackney-council-passes-2011-budget-amid-protests/

Sorry to disappoint you but I did not vote for the cuts. I wasant there.