Brixton news, rumour and general chat - February 2015
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Black Halo
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DFA1979 are a two piece (drums and bass) who are quite good (if you're into that kind of thing, which I am) and the academy says:
That may explain the barriers?
billythefish
toad licker
That house design exists in Helix and Leander roads - and a few other streets locally.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
There are a few maps on the web showing WW2 bomb sites, but this is the best I've found for WW1 - it's not large enough scale to see exact locations. I can find reference to copies of this existing at London Metropolitan Archives and Westminster archives. Lambeth archives might have a copy
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Is it me, or anyone else notice a lote of road resurfacing at the financial year end?
(Acre Lane was hell a week ago - at least for a geriatric Lidl shopper)
Casaubon
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WWI sites outside Westminster don't seem to be well documented.
This map shows the routes of the Zeppelin raids.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...9863&z=13&hl=en&mid=zrRJwnXeepqg.k9M3pPSRcoI8
Zeppelin L31, commanded by Kapitanleutnant Heinrich Mathy, navigated into London along the A23 (Brixton Hill), bombing Streatham and Brixton on the way, killing 14 and injuring 43.
Twattor
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And have you noticed how cheap it looks. No coloured tarmac for the bus lanes; very thin line marking. Definite cost savings being taken.
They've been working their way up Stockwell Road towards Brixton as well, hence the crowd control barriers. On Acre Lane we only got bits of tape to stop pedestrians ending up under the road planes.
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
There was was a bunch of very excited and pleasant young men in the Canterbury before the gig. Ill-advised-tattoos-on-hands-and-elsewhere was the order of the day.
Pinggoombah
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Neil G
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There was a great team spirit from the volunteers who cooked breakfast this morning for the homeless people who sleep in St Matthew's Church on Wednesday nights. More details here.
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I see that we are to get a 20mph speed limit on Lambeth roads - http://www.lambethcyclists.org.uk/2015/02/20mph-for-all-lambeth-roads-by-august.html :good news for pedestrians and cyclists as long as they actually enforce it, pity it wont be on Brixton Road and the other major roads in the borough which are under Boris' control
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Didn't see any protest outside the library. Good to see the protest outside the townhall, some really good speeches. Reminds me that someone cares. Sorry I missed you at the end, did you get a ticket into the meeting?
Did anyone attend the meeting - I'd like to hear how it went.
It's okay, thanks for turning up, and I hope you enjoyed the rest of your evening. You looked straight at me - your memory for faces must be getting worse.
Yes, I got a ticket, the public gallery was full to bursting, compared with maybe 5 in the press gallery.I could hardly hear a thing as some of the more extreme people among the protestors decided that extremely noisy heckling right from the start was the way to go. No details of the tory alternative budget, and hardly any other details (including the deputations were audible at all. The Mayor threatened to clear the public gallery 3 times and adjourned the chamber's proceedings for 10 minutes to clear it. What a bloody waste.
Edited to add: After the way some of their members seemed to behave last night, I'd hesitate to turn up at another protest which Unity attend, as IMHO they did the rest of us no favours at all. Sorry comrades, not in my name.
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el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
was it just heckling or was there more to it?
Define "heckling". There was more or less continuous shouting over what what said, a slow hand clap before even the petitions and deputations, stamping, booing, shouting back from more than one person who seemed to be from the same group. The odd shouted remark during a brief pause is one thing (as happened in January), but this was louder, done by more people, far more sustained, and extremely disruptive to anyone who'd gone there in the hope of getting some of the details of the budget without having to read the minutes and take them at face value.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
IME the 'stop the meeting from taking place' demo might actually stop the meeting from taking place, but in 100% of cases it takes place later without anyone present to critique it or make objections. that said, simply disrupting things out of disgust is a policy in itself and has a place. in this case, from your perspective obv i agree with you that actually this wasn't it. sorry that people fucked it up for you.
Neither your fault nor your responsibility. *shrug* Next time I won't even stand outside with them, if there's another option.
IMHO even the choice of chant* was calculated ("they say cut back - we say fight back") to raise levels of aggression.
*Unity - is that "left Unity"? They had mostly red banners anyway - had the loudhailers.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
I saw you doing a good job of holding up the banner, I did smile and was coming over to chat at the end but then couldn't find you.It's okay, thanks for turning up, and I hope you enjoyed the rest of your evening. You looked straight at me - your memory for faces must be getting worse.
I could hardly hear a thing as some of the more extreme people among the protestors decided that extremely noisy heckling right from the start was the way to go. No details of the tory alternative budget, and hardly any other details (including the deputations were audible at all. The Mayor threatened to clear the public gallery 3 times and adjourned the chamber's proceedings for 10 minutes to clear it. What a bloody waste.
Edited to add: After the way some of their members seemed to behave last night, I'd hesitate to turn up at another protest which Unity attend, as IMHO they did the rest of us no favours at all. Sorry comrades, not in my name.
I did get to have an interesting chat with someone from the Library service and the great woman who gave the speech from the Lambeth Pensioners.
Sorry you didn't get to hear anything in the meeting, how irritating.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Yep. Just about every council does it.
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
Some of them came in The Trinity afterwards last night and I was chatting to them. They disrupted the meeting on purpose precisely for that reason. One guy was telling me that it seems to them it's as much as they feel they can do because the council does exactly what it likes in the end anyway.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
It's ridiculous that so many people don't cop to the fact that some councillors and officers hope that protesters will become rowdy.
From what Greeos has said, it looks like the barrackers were mostly (Lambeth) Left Unity.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
The problem being that council sessions are one of the places where you can hear/see them putting out the propaganda, which you can later tie them to when they try to "do exactly what they like". Barracking is a good tactic, but it's a pisspoor strategy.
discobastard
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A sweeping generalisation and not at all true. It depends on whether they are run by independent bodies or not. Agreed if you ask people to turn up at open public events then that's (at least in part) what you you'll get, but if you retain an agency to do it they'll go and, typically (if its being run right), find a representative cross section of the local population. They'll also likely give you a fair and balanced report of the findings, though what the client i.e. Council then does with those findings and what they choose to publish is, as was said elsewhere, down to them.
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