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The Artworks project was originally intended for the old petrol station next to the Cuming museum. In fact, that's where the containers are currently stacked. But the fire at the museum meant that they wouldn't be able to set up at the same time as the museum rebuilding works.

We were considering using one as a bootstrap location for Makerspace, but the cost was a bit high, and then the fire scuppered the timetable. The guy we talked to was very keen on renting the units out to local businesses and craftspeople. I'm guessing that was not a successful plan, so straightforward retail it is :-/
 
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Yupptsers, it's a new word i have just invented.

We should all dress up as Yuppsters and head down to the Village. "Yar, yar, yar, yar" we sing when someone makes a good point.

"You can't live here anymore it's million quid, basic level and that's just deposit daddio."
"Well, I'm Itchy and this is Scratchy and we have always lived here."
"We don't normally talk to your sort but we've just had an alcohol burger. I'm Edgy and this is Vibrant."
"Well, it's nice to meet you. We get our burgers in Iceland."
"Don't you just love Ryanair darling. I wish we could say the same, are you working?"
"Not at the moment that's why we have come down to protest."
"Love it! Darling. What we are seeing here Jeremy is ephemeral."
"It's what dear?"
"Itchy and Scratch here. Instagram them darling."
"Do i really have to honeybunch?"
"You have no sense of the moment Jeremy, that's one of your many problems, my mother always said as much but did i listen?"
"You never listen dear."
"What did you say?"
"I said i've just ordered the breast milk cocktail darling, it's half price."
"You're not drinking that unless it's organic."
"It says on the menu it's responsibly sourced."
"Then i'll have one as well, chin chin darling. Now where did those poor people go?"
 
Dexter Deadwood said:
"I said i've just ordered the breast milk cocktail darling, it's half price."
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:D

but also :(.

I read a letter/comment today in Metro :oops: (I know) that said London is becoming like places like Wales - where rich people buy second homes and ordinary people who live(lived?) there are forced out.
 
oryx said:
:D

but also :(.

I read a letter/comment today in Metro :oops: (I know) that said London is becoming like places like Wales - where rich people buy second homes and ordinary people who live(lived?) there are forced out.
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Brixton and it environs are impossible now for working class people to rent let alone purchase. It's social cleansing and there will be no fightback because the battle is lost. It was lost a generation ago. There is not really any sense of solidarity among the working class who have for the most part been turned on each other yet again. John Pilger invented the word "unpeople", there are a lot of unpeople in Brixton.

Again today, i had to step off the pavement into a busy street to avoid bumping into a couple of posh, engaged in excited food conversation, exiting the village, who didn't see me. They don't think i'm trash, they don't see me at all. I'm being kind, they see me alright. They see only what they want to .
 
Dexter Deadwood said:
Brixton and it environs are impossible now for working class people to rent let alone purchase. It's social cleansing and there will be no fightback because the battle is lost. It was lost a generation ago. There is not really any sense of solidarity among the working class who have for the most part been turned on each other yet again. John Pilger invented the word "unpeople", there are a lot of unpeople in Brixton.

Again today, i had to step off the pavement into a busy street to avoid bumping into a couple of posh, engaged in excited food conversation, exiting the village, who didn't see me. They don't think i'm trash, they don't see me at all. I'm being kind, they see me alright. They see only what they want to .
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Don't be too pessimistic

Brixton's gentrification is capped by the fact many homes are socially rented. And largely protected.

However, on present trends, Brixton will - soon enough - be occupied by millionaires or those in social housing.
 
cuppa tee said:
unless you are an Inuit or something there is no good reason for wearing fur.
shops who create a commercial demand for it should suffer the consequences....being "pelted" with eggs could be appropriate....
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Some poor fucking chicken had to sit in a battery cage to lay that egg and all you can do is throw it at a window.

I am going to tell Morrissey on you unless you throw a Creme Egg instead.
 
leanderman said:
Don't be too pessimistic

Brixton's gentrification is capped by the fact many homes are socially rented. And largely protected.

However, on present trends, Brixton will - soon enough - be occupied by millionaires or those in social housing.
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It's over for the working class in Brixton. Right To Buy was the slow ticking bomb. I live in "socially rented" council housing, i have a secure tenancy; i'm one of the lucky ones and it does not feel safe to me. Attacks on the welfare system are coordinated, triangulated to force the poor, the malcontents and the dissidents out. It's over for the working class nationally.

It's not the millionaires or those in social housing that are the problem. It's the middle class.
 
Some of us struggle to put food on the table whilst others get excited about property prices.
The unheard have no broadband. At least i have had my say.
 
someone posted this website on another thread - old pics of Britain from the air. Some great shots of Brixton and around…you can still see the old terraced housing where Moorlands is now

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http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk
 
Some good posts Dexter Deadwood - property speculation is vile and it's screwing communities all over the country. I'm an assured shorthold tenant - which is not 'assured' at all - there's fuck all protection. Shitting it about the likely massive rent rise I'm gonna get in May...
 
Yeah. People just need places to live, but our accomodation is now a fucking investment fund for rich Chinese and Brits who want to make even more money by doing fuck all.

Ban overseas buyers, massive taxes on second homes (and third, fourth….), rent controls, long-term secure tenancies...
 
And build more social housing managed directly by local councils. Repairs and services to be carried out by directly employed council staff, not contractors and subcontractors.

The Right to Buy can remain as long as new builds each year are directly linked to the numbers sold. RTB discount to be abolished.
 
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