Brixton news, rumour and general chat - April 2015
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CH1
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If you read the planning documentation is says that 418 is Plan B, 418A is a former William Hill betting shop and 418B was Jeans corner.
They have got permission to amalgamate 418A and 418B - which were originally one unit anyway. And use it for A3 or A4.
At east that is the way I read it.
Plan B is unaffected, and not part of the application.
Gramsci
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Its due to limit on size of upload for photos.
I get around this by uploading photos to my Facebook ( if I want I can do them for only me to see and then delete them) I then copy them from FB and paste them into message directly here. It works better than trying to upload on U75.
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
That's not funny to be fair
aussw9
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It had about 2 slightly amusing moments. Brief ones.
They* were busy at 11am and they were still busy when i just went past.
ETA - *First Choice Bakers not Tickety Boo
ETA - *First Choice Bakers not Tickety Boo
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Getting things done today.
Just got off the phone after giving The Labour party at Rosendale Road an ear bashing over Iraq, Tessa Jowell, war crimes, austerity, workfare, housing, Cressingham Gardens, ("not in this constituency sir", he said, "Labour in the town hall", i said), Rushcroft Road and housing generally, the living wage and £90 breakfasts for the peckish posh. Forgot to have a pop at Pop Brixton.
It was almost a conversation, he fell back on "the Tories are worse", i told him that's called a democratic deficit and shows our political system is bankrupt. Managed to keep him occupied for 15 minutes, might as well use my spare minutes allowance, I could have carried on talking for another 20 minutes.
I told him i wanted some quantitative easing, that we could have wiped out everyone's personal debt including mortgages and it would have been cheaper and more effective than bailing out the banks and financial institutions. Surprisingly, he agreed with me but said my out of the box thinking was too radical for Labour.
That'll teach 'em! How dare they put their election filth through my letter box.
Just got off the phone after giving The Labour party at Rosendale Road an ear bashing over Iraq, Tessa Jowell, war crimes, austerity, workfare, housing, Cressingham Gardens, ("not in this constituency sir", he said, "Labour in the town hall", i said), Rushcroft Road and housing generally, the living wage and £90 breakfasts for the peckish posh. Forgot to have a pop at Pop Brixton.
It was almost a conversation, he fell back on "the Tories are worse", i told him that's called a democratic deficit and shows our political system is bankrupt. Managed to keep him occupied for 15 minutes, might as well use my spare minutes allowance, I could have carried on talking for another 20 minutes.
I told him i wanted some quantitative easing, that we could have wiped out everyone's personal debt including mortgages and it would have been cheaper and more effective than bailing out the banks and financial institutions. Surprisingly, he agreed with me but said my out of the box thinking was too radical for Labour.
That'll teach 'em! How dare they put their election filth through my letter box.
brixtonblade
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"election filth".... going to remember that phrase
superfly101
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That's staged! I'm old, fat, bald, have zero dress sense, male and straight! Even I know no GAY man would be seen dead in a coat that's ill fitting as that!
FFS if he put his arms straight he'd look like
Gramsci
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I cycled through Whitechapel last night. It looks so different with these new tall blocks of private flats. They do not even look that nice. More like two fingers stuck up at the remaining old Whitechapel area.
I am not surprised its mentioned first in the video.
The Anarchist bookshop is still there down a narrow alleyway. Complete contrast.
Tricky Skills
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Not the most ROCK 'N' ROLL of Easter stories, but an update on the break up of Lambeth Living. Lambeth Council takes control of all housing stock in the borough on 25th June.
Dulwich and West Norwood (UK Parliament constituency).
You are spoilt for choice;
Rashid Nix (Green)
Steve Nally (TUSC)
Helen Hayes (Tory Lite)
Resham Kotecha (Genuine Tory)
Rathy Alagaratnam (Extreme Tory)
James Barber (Tory Quisling)
You are spoilt for choice;
Rashid Nix (Green)
Steve Nally (TUSC)
Helen Hayes (Tory Lite)
Resham Kotecha (Genuine Tory)
Rathy Alagaratnam (Extreme Tory)
James Barber (Tory Quisling)
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The fact that Steve Nally is standing makes me feel at home somehow.
Those who remember the old radical Lambeth will know what I meam.
Whatever happened to Anne Hollyfield? Now there was a Tulse Hill councillor!
She would have been defending Cressingham Gardens I'm quite sure.
Peanut Monkey
Flea-Bit of CHL.
I grew up in Earlsfield and my parents still live there. Can honestly say I've never encountered a hipster there. These days it's all toffs in pearl earrings and body warmers.
DietCokeGirl
Fishing in the rivers of life
Giving serious thought to attempting to get out of bed. Offline last night ruined me.
Gramsci
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Good article. Put this up on the housing thread after reading it:
When the ALMO was brought in the Nu Labour Council were saying it would be resident led. Instead it became yet another organisation led by officers.
Basically the Nu Labour idea of getting away from old Labour top down provision of services was a failure.
Defenders of Council Housing saw ALMOs as an ideological attack by New Labour on Council Housing. A step to privatisation.
Whilst Lambeth Living is going the future of Council Housing in Lambeth is in doubt. The estate regeneration programme is imo a further threat to Council Housing. As Cressingham Gardens residents say the "regenerated" estate will not be let on Council tenancies.
Whilst New Labour mark2 in power in Lambeth has realised that lack of support for its core voters was a mistake the long term future of Council housing- secure housing at truly affordable rents accountable through the Cllrs- is long term going to be gradually chipped away at by Nu Labour.
CH1
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Anne Hollyfield was a councillor for Tulse Hill ward 1990 - 1994. Seems she was in Militant. She was one of the councillors suspended from the Labour group at the town hall.Tell us more.
Who was Anne?
Steve Nally Ive seen at meetings was he a Cllr?
Anne was a very rousing speaker. I imagine if she's still around she would be around 60-65. She would have got on very well with Leanne Wood I should think.
Not sure about Steve being a councillor. I will check up. I do remember him standing in the Bishops ward by-election as an Anti-Poll Tax Coalition candidate with a purple banner and logo - colours since stolen by UKIP!
This and the Oval Ward result in 1993 suggests Steve Nally cannot have been a councillor:
Crichton Stuart, Marietta F. LD 1,506
O'Connell, Peter G. LAB 858
Nally, Steven P. MILLAB 246
Selous, Andrew E.A. CON 229
Evers, Jason H. GRE 56
Wikipedia comments: "1991 saw Joan Twelves's regime both failed to collect the poll tax and openly opposed the war in the Persian Gulf. Joan Twelves, and 12 other councillors were subsequently suspended from the Labour Party's local group by regional officials for advocating non-payment of the poll tax and other radical ideas in 1992. Twelves's equally militant deputy leader in this era was John Harrison."
I remember much council business was done by "Urgency Committees" usually of 4 councillors. There were several suspended Labour councillors - and they were a group of their own. So when committees and urgency committees were constituted they had to have an appropriate number of Labour, suspended Labour, Tory, Lib Dem councillors as required. Towards 1994 with the rise of the Lib Dems the official Labour group was often dependent on the suspended members to get business through.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
we need to get to page three quickly. every time i open this thread the words 'jamie' and 'oliver' stand out at the top of page two and make me immediately Very Angry Indeed.
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