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bimble said:
Agreed. Apparently on the grounds of being nasty to people in general (which there is some truth to, they were in a right bitchy mood today and I regret stopping to attempt a conversation). But also there was apparently an incident related to the piano at Herne Hill station, which Percy does not allow children to play, or something like that.
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I saw her having a barney with a community support officer outside HH station yesterday. It was getting quite animated.
 
organicpanda said:
lack of resources doesn't seem to stop them periodically setting up stop and check on cars (still yet to see a white person stopped at one) on Coldharbour Lane and Brixton Road, there always seems to be about 15 - 20 police then
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Sounds like an L Division ANPR operation. Are you saying the Met ignore ANPR hits on white drivers?
 
organicpanda said:
you may think it a coincidence that it just happens to be non-whites every time I see them checking on Coldharbour I couldn't possibly say
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I've seen quite a few stings on white vans in the mornings on Brixton Hill. I think its mostly checking for red diesel though.
 
Looks like end of the Brixton Pillars, pulled all the signage off again. Wonder what crap they will stick up next.
 
T & P said:
I thought the Tories had scrapped ASBOs a while ago?
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Yes they did but wanted to replace them with IPNAs ( Injunctions to Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance). Which in practice more wide ranging.

Lord Macdonald, formerly the director of public prosecutions, points out that "it is difficult to imagine a broader concept than causing 'nuisance' or 'annoyance'". The phrase is apt to catch a vast range of everyday behaviours to an extent that may have serious implications for the rule of law". Protesters, buskers, preachers: all, he argues, could end up with ipnas.
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It's as Monbiot points out policing out anyone who might be different. Proved his fears are correct.

She has been around Brixton for years. Living in her squat. An eccentric who locals knew and tolerated. I know her. She is hardly a threat to law and order. Totally ridiculous to do this to her. If this is what happened.

She's harmless. She might give the police some lip. But who cares about that.


The new injunctions and the new dispersal orders create a system in which the authorities can prevent anyone from doing more or less anything. But they won't be deployed against anyone. Advertisers, who cause plenty of nuisance and annoyance, have nothing to fear; nor do opera lovers hogging the pavements of Covent Garden. Annoyance and nuisance are what young people cause; they are inflicted by oddballs, the underclass, those who dispute the claims of power.
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At last, a law to stop almost anyone from doing almost anything | George Monbiot

Further look and ASBOs were replaced by CBO. Criminal Behaviour Order.

The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 received Royal Assent in March 2014. This streamlined the tools available to tackle anti-social behaviour and replaced the ASBO with an Injunction (a civil offence) and a Criminal Behaviour Order.[5]

The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 received Royal Assent in March 2014. This streamlined the tools available to tackle anti-social behaviour and replaced the ASBO with an Injunction (a civil offence) and a Criminal Behaviour Order.[5]
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Anti-social behaviour order - Wikipedia
 
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Rehouse Clavia - Protest Monday


Please come and support Clavia on Monday morning to demand that she be rehoused immediately:

Protest from 8am Monday 14th August
Lambeth Council Housing Office
Olive Morris House
18 Brixton Hill, London, SW2 1RD

Clavia is a 33 year old mother of two young children, aged 2 & 8. Lambeth Council evicted them from their home in Brixton last Wednesday.

Lambeth has a duty of care to this family and they are in denial of this fact, through claiming that she has made herself intentionally homeless due to rent arrears. An intentionally non-transparent system of incredible complexity exists in Lambeth Housing. Chaos and confusion is created resulting in so called shortfalls of rent occurring, hence the 'arrears'.

Clavia and her two children are now sleeping on the floor (yes, the hard, cold floor - no bed) in the living room of a relative, whilst the flat Lambeth evicted the family from stands empty (although still full of their belongings).

We demand that Lambeth re-house Clavia & her children back into their home immediately. We demand that Lambeth set up a meeting for Clavia and her representatives to sort out the so called rent 'arrears' that Lambeth refuse to provide full details of.

As a lone parent with 2 young children she occasionally took part-time low-paid work to try to improve their lives - and every time she did this her benefits were thrown into chaos and she was told her rent was in arrears. Millions of low paid workers in our 'gig-economy' face these problems every day - Clavia needs to be rehoused but we also need Lambeth to urgently overhaul their systems for how they support people moving in and out of low paid work so that they always get the full benefits they are entitled to and do not end up homeless.
 
editor said:
Four hour queue for a one day festival? Fuck that.
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I did wonder why the path up the side of the tennis court was covered in cigarette buts this morning. Queues must have been moving very slowly. Couple of friends went, said the music was good but it was really disorganised and they wouldn't go again
 
Gramsci said:
Rehouse Clavia - Protest Monday


Please come and support Clavia on Monday morning to demand that she be rehoused immediately:

Protest from 8am Monday 14th August
Lambeth Council Housing Office
Olive Morris House
18 Brixton Hill, London, SW2 1RD

Clavia is a 33 year old mother of two young children, aged 2 & 8. Lambeth Council evicted them from their home in Brixton last Wednesday.

Lambeth has a duty of care to this family and they are in denial of this fact, through claiming that she has made herself intentionally homeless due to rent arrears. An intentionally non-transparent system of incredible complexity exists in Lambeth Housing. Chaos and confusion is created resulting in so called shortfalls of rent occurring, hence the 'arrears'.

Clavia and her two children are now sleeping on the floor (yes, the hard, cold floor - no bed) in the living room of a relative, whilst the flat Lambeth evicted the family from stands empty (although still full of their belongings).

We demand that Lambeth re-house Clavia & her children back into their home immediately. We demand that Lambeth set up a meeting for Clavia and her representatives to sort out the so called rent 'arrears' that Lambeth refuse to provide full details of.

As a lone parent with 2 young children she occasionally took part-time low-paid work to try to improve their lives - and every time she did this her benefits were thrown into chaos and she was told her rent was in arrears. Millions of low paid workers in our 'gig-economy' face these problems every day - Clavia needs to be rehoused but we also need Lambeth to urgently overhaul their systems for how they support people moving in and out of low paid work so that they always get the full benefits they are entitled to and do not end up homeless.
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Posted here: Lambeth evict woman and her two young children: petition launched
 
Gramsci said:
Rehouse Clavia - Protest Monday


Please come and support Clavia on Monday morning to demand that she be rehoused immediately:

Protest from 8am Monday 14th August
Lambeth Council Housing Office
Olive Morris House
18 Brixton Hill, London, SW2 1RD

Clavia is a 33 year old mother of two young children, aged 2 & 8. Lambeth Council evicted them from their home in Brixton last Wednesday.

Lambeth has a duty of care to this family and they are in denial of this fact, through claiming that she has made herself intentionally homeless due to rent arrears. An intentionally non-transparent system of incredible complexity exists in Lambeth Housing. Chaos and confusion is created resulting in so called shortfalls of rent occurring, hence the 'arrears'.

Clavia and her two children are now sleeping on the floor (yes, the hard, cold floor - no bed) in the living room of a relative, whilst the flat Lambeth evicted the family from stands empty (although still full of their belongings).

We demand that Lambeth re-house Clavia & her children back into their home immediately. We demand that Lambeth set up a meeting for Clavia and her representatives to sort out the so called rent 'arrears' that Lambeth refuse to provide full details of.

As a lone parent with 2 young children she occasionally took part-time low-paid work to try to improve their lives - and every time she did this her benefits were thrown into chaos and she was told her rent was in arrears. Millions of low paid workers in our 'gig-economy' face these problems every day - Clavia needs to be rehoused but we also need Lambeth to urgently overhaul their systems for how they support people moving in and out of low paid work so that they always get the full benefits they are entitled to and do not end up homeless.
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So she's punished for working because the council can't process changes to her circumstances quickly enough? That is so fucked up. But it's been normal for how long...ten years? Is this partly why coffee shops and sandwich bars say that nobody British applies for their jobs?
 
David Clapson said:
So she's punished for working because the council can't process changes to her circumstances quickly enough? That is so fucked up. But it's been normal for how long...ten years? Is this partly why coffee shops and sandwich bars say that nobody British applies for their jobs?
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People on zero hours contracts, part time casual working find the benefits system is not set up for that. I agree this should have been sorted out years ago.

What's worse had a chat with friend of mine. She told her "employment advisor" she was applying for part time Jobs in supermarkets. This is normal for supermarkets. She was then "sanctioned" by her "employment advisor" at the Job Centre for not applying for full time (40 hours regular work) jobs. Like the modern job market is full of old school regular jobs now. So my friend was punished for the way the job market works now.

None of this surprises me. The poor get hounded for not trying hard enough when the system is set up for employers benefit.

As for British workers not doing these jobs. They do. As friend said they ( employers) say we don't do these jobs. Well we are.

I've heard whining from employers in Evening Standard about Brexit. It's totally self interested. They want access to cheap labour force.

I'm not Brexit but I can understand why sections of working class voted Brexit.

The working class in this country get treated like shit. Referendum gave them opportunity to stick two fingers up at establishment.

One way to deal with this is to bring in Basic Income. It's being tried in other countries. But imo the problems above are not an accident. It's about policing the poor. Keeping them in there place.
 
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Thought I would put in a thumbs up for Plumb base in Stockwell Green.

Plumbase, 2-7 Stockwell Green, London - Plumbers Merchants near Stockwell Tube Station

Now Black Diamond have gone I've used them a few times. Proper plumbers merchants. I had plumbing disaster on Sunday. Went down there today at half seven this morning. They knew exactly what I needed to sort it out. Plus advice from friendly plumber who happened to be there. And didn't cost me an arm and a leg.

Really hope they stay. Now surrounded by new flats. So expect there land value has gone up big time. Like at Diamonds. London needs places like this.
 
teuchter said:
I'm making assumptions about what "proper" means to you - but they are a big chain and part of a huge multinational operation. Selco and various other building supply chains are part of the same company.

If you want to support local merchants there is James Dean in Herne Hill

James Dean Plumbers Merchants, 119 Dulwich Road, London - Plumbers Merchants near Herne Hill Rail Station
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I meant proper in sense that they have people there who know what they are talking about. It mainly caters for professional plumbers.So its not somewhere DIY people like me might know about. Found them helpful for DIY person like me. They give me advice.Screwfix is ok but you really need to know what you want. Will check out the one you mention.

Plus Stockwell one is short cycle ride from me.

Brixton is now lacking DIY shops etc. I'm finding I'm going to Stockwell now. There is a good DIY shop near Stockwell tube station I use as it's open Sundays.

I try to use the one in LJ opposite Tescos. But he isn't open Sundays. And often doesn't have stuff in stock.
 
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I've used that plumbase in Stockwell too, and also found it to be quite good.

Have same issues with the one in LJ although sometimes he comes through.

In Brixton I think there's still the DIY place in the railway arches running towards LJ from where pop brixton is. And at least one place on Acre Lane.

Howard Bros in Camberwell is OK for general DIY if a bit pricey. There's also the one just a couple of doors down from the station in Herne Hill. I end up at Screwfix for most stuff though, because you can check before you go there whether they have what you want. While I'd like to support the smaller shops, it's too often the case that you waste an hour going there to find they don't have what you're after. Even when they claim on the phone that they do, but actually they weren't listening to what you were trying to explain (hello Howard Bros)
 
I'm looking for a flat to rent. Dealing with estate agents is like being investigated by the fucking Stasi. They say the law compels them to check everyone's immigration status. And everyone has to provide 6 months bank statements "because of money laundering." Where the fuck do we live? Some dystopian prison-state?
 
David Clapson said:
I'm looking for a flat to rent. Dealing with estate agents is like being investigated by the fucking Stasi. They say the law compels them to check everyone's immigration status. And everyone has to provide 6 months bank statements "because of money laundering." Where the fuck do we live? Some dystopian prison-state?
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So they get to get a good nosey around on what you've been spending your money on and where you've been? The fuckers.
 
Foxtons said "we need to know whether you have any bad habits which might affect your ability to pay the rent. Like a gambling addiction. Or you might buy a Ferrari."
 
It's not really that different from taking out a £500k loan from the bank. You'd expect them to check for tell tale signs you're a crack head.
 
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