Brixton news, rumours and general chat - April 2013

[EastEnder]

complete joke. i fear for the way this country is going to look in regards the high street in a few decades time. loan shop. bookie. fast food. TESCO. fast food. loan shop. SAINSBURYS. and so on.

Tesco & Sainsburys as far as the eye can see, and yet not a single Waitrose for miles...

I fear the gentrification of Brixton has really failed to live up to its promise. Where's the sense in importing so many hipsters if they've nowhere to buy groceries?

 

[Effrasurfer]

I don't know, but I doubt many people choose to take out a payday loan on the basis of marketing like this. This kind of marketing probably has more to do with convincing people who have already decided that they need a pay day loan to take a loan out with a particular company.

Problem is, no one else is filling this small value, short term lending gap. If banks would offer small monthly OD facilities at reasonable rates - even credit card level rates - on the condition, for instance, that the borrower only has an overdraft for two weeks of the month, it would kill the payday loan lenders off. I don't imagine it would be all that risky. Of course, those who did not meet the conditions would soon find themselves being charged fees.

When you say small value, short term, do you mean smaller than 100 and shorter than 1 month? Otherwise what about our local credit union http://www.cuok.co.uk/ who have an office opposite the Town Hall and a prominent ad on one of the phone boxes outside the tube. Their stated aim is to provide ethical financial services for residents in Lambeth, Southwark and Westminster. Their branding is remarkably lacking in kangaroos though.

 

[Rushy]

When you say small value, short term, do you mean smaller than 100 and shorter than 1 month? Otherwise what about our local credit union http://www.cuok.co.uk/ who have an office opposite the Town Hall and a prominent ad on one of the phone boxes outside the tube. Their stated aim is to provide ethical financial services for residents in Lambeth, Southwark and Westminster. Their branding is remarkably lacking in kangaroos though.

Looks good. I have never noticed the office opposite the Town Hall or the ad on the phone box and I pass both a couple of times a day. I have seen an ad elsewhere but thought they were just another payday company. Did not clock that they were lending at lower rates. I guess we all tend to sneer at kangaroo / Wonga style marketing but people have heard of those payday companies and hardly anyone knows about the credit unions, or what their stated aims are, or even what those stated aims mean. If CUOKs marketing were as good they'd put the Payday shops out of work locally.

 

[quimcunx]

I keep meaning to open some sort of credit union account.

I wonder if they have lots of leaflets. We could hand them out outside the other payday loan places.

 

[snowy_again]

Brixton was very strange this evening (apart from the crappy new supermarket and crack supermarket).

Lots of traffic, Zoopla Estate Agent drivers on the phone whilst driving with their square toed shoes jumping the lights left right and centre.

Then some bloke walked out of Granville Arcade pissed and then just lay down in the middle of Atlantic Road and refused to move for 15 minutes.

Then some driver in a toy souped up car decided to ignore all the traffic and turn right on to Coldharbour Lane from Atlantic Road almost taking out about 3 people in the process. When they complained he decided that getting out and offering people out was a sensible response.

I was quite happy when I got to the calm of herne hill. Lots of police out in twos tonight as well, but I guess that's the consequence of that lad at the Town Hall.

 

[MillwallShoes]

Brixton was very strange this evening (apart from the crappy new supermarket and crack supermarket).

Lots of traffic, Zoopla Estate Agent drivers on the phone whilst driving with their square toed shoes jumping the lights left right and centre.

Then some bloke walked out of Granville Arcade pissed and then just lay down in the middle of Atlantic Road and refused to move for 15 minutes.

Then some driver in a toy souped up car decided to ignore all the traffic and turn right on to Coldharbour Lane from Atlantic Road almost taking out about 3 people in the process. When they complained he decided that getting out and offering people out was a sensible response.

I was quite happy when I got to the calm of herne hill. Lots of police out in twos tonight as well, but I guess that's the consequence of that lad at the Town Hall.

it reminds me of the west end up there at times. drove through their last night and had same feel.

 

[zenie]

Brixton was very strange this evening (apart from the crappy new supermarket and crack supermarket).

Lots of traffic, Zoopla Estate Agent drivers on the phone whilst driving with their square toed shoes jumping the lights left right and centre.

Then some bloke walked out of Granville Arcade pissed and then just lay down in the middle of Atlantic Road and refused to move for 15 minutes.

Then some driver in a toy souped up car decided to ignore all the traffic and turn right on to Coldharbour Lane from Atlantic Road almost taking out about 3 people in the process. When they complained he decided that getting out and offering people out was a sensible response.

I was quite happy when I got to the calm of herne hill. Lots of police out in twos tonight as well, but I guess that's the consequence of that lad at the Town Hall.

What the fucking fuck?!!!

The heat does send people a bit mad.

 

[editor]

The bloke in the road took up residence outside the Albert for a bit too.

 

[ricbake]

Either I missed the post to say it was all over, or he's still standing there outside the Town Hall threatening to jump.

Just curious what his 'cause' was, that's all, as there were a number of conflicting reports. I did see Brixton Blog twitter quoted on BBC at 16.39 about it though.

Apparently he was trying to nail himself to the town hall as some form of protest about his treatment by the NHS. He had blood covering both hands and was arguing with police. They weren't sure what to do, presumably worried about the blood, the crowd attacked one of the police vehicles at one point. Not sure how it ended, quite a few photos on twitter. Para medics arrived, assume he was arrested or sectioned.

 

[zenie]

The bloke in the road took up residence outside the Albert for a bit too.

Probably blended in rather well

 

[Youns]

Im searching for a weed number tonight please

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

 

[leanderman]

She is completely unidentifiable and I took care to make it that way.

Agreed. Unidentifiable photos are acceptable. It's a journalistic convention.

 

[leanderman]

Tesco & Sainsburys as far as the eye can see, and yet not a single Waitrose for miles...

I fear the gentrification of Brixton has really failed to live up to its promise. Where's the sense in importing so many hipsters if they've nowhere to buy groceries?

When Clapham Junction gets a Whole Foods and Clapham Common a Waitrose, getting a Sainsbury is hardly gentrification.

I want an Aldi.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

When Clapham Junction gets a Whole Foods and Clapham Common a Waitrose, getting a Sainsbury is hardly gentrification.

I want an Aldi.

Streatham hasn't even got an M&S, so it's got a long way to go

 

[TruXta]

Im searching for a weed number tonight please

020 7983 4100

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

020 7983 4100

Shouldn't that be

020 8649 2025

 

[TruXta]

Shouldn't that be

020 8649 2025

I think my guy has the superior connections.

 

[spawnofsatan]

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Im searching for a weed number tonight please

fuck off

 

[pissflaps]

don't say no to drugs. say no thank you.

 

[cuppa tee]

Im searching for a weed number tonight please

Which one are you............. Bill or Ben ?

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

Im searching for a weed number tonight please

101

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

101

That's for lazy people. I gave the full number

 

[Frumious B.]

Im searching for a weed number tonight please

Wrong forum - gardening is in suburban.

 

[quimcunx]

Well today's very Aprilly.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Well today's very Aprilly.

Is it Marchy as well? I can't be arsed to see if trees are blowing

 

[quimcunx]

4 seasons in one day pretty much.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

That's for lazy people. I gave the full number

lazy answer to a lazy question but I appreciate your thorough research into the matter

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

lazy answer to a lazy question but I appreciate your thorough research into the matter

I was going to put up the 101 number originally and thought, no, let the Youns' fingers work for his weed