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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - August 2017

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David Clapson said:
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."
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I couldn't bring myself to ever walk into that fucking awful office. It looked at its best with the windows caved in, IMO.
 
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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I have friend who rents out her old flat. Now landlords are required to check immigration status of prospective tenants. She resents it. As far as she is concerned it's the governments job to deal with immigration. Not hers. As a landlord you can be fined if you have rented out your flat to someone whose immigration status is not ok.

I totally sympathise. Government is making people into snitches. It's shit.

And the money laundering bollox is another one I didn't know about.

So the government is "outsourcing" policing money laundering and "illegal" immigrants to landlords.

I'm no great supporter of landlords. But this is shit. Our wonderful state can get off it's arse and do this. Not require it's "subjects" to do this. ( We live in constitutional monarchy. Part of the problem. Doesn't work in USA like this).
 
I think it's the mysterious people who sent me that one cryptic email ages ago - i am still none the wiser (no further emails have appeared since & no idea what mailing list i'm on) :confused: :)Screen Shot 2017-08-15 at 21.59.37.png
 
bimble said:
I think it's the mysterious people who sent me that one cryptic email ages ago - i am still none the wiser (no further emails have appeared since & no idea what mailing list i'm on) :confused: :)View attachment 113575
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A closer look reveals that it must be the Brixton Come Together lot (who I have a lot of time for) based on the fact that the video on their site features me in action DJing Windrush Square last year!

Dancing in Windrush Square – Brixton Come Together as seen from the DJ booth
 
Gramsci said:
And the money laundering bollox is another one I didn't know about.

So the government is "outsourcing" policing money laundering and "illegal" immigrants to landlords.
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The Government outsources money laundering checks generally. To financial services and legal services professions amongst others. The checks can be onerous and I doubt that they catch the real villains - just create bureaucratic hoops for ordinary businesses. However it's difficult to see how a regime which is trying to identify money launders can exist without a large element of outsourcing - after all the money is being moved around via private entities not the Government.
 
Winot said:
The Government outsources money laundering checks generally. To financial services and legal services professions amongst others. The checks can be onerous and I doubt that they catch the real villains - just create bureaucratic hoops for ordinary businesses. However it's difficult to see how a regime which is trying to identify money launders can exist without a large element of outsourcing - after all the money is being moved around via private entities not the Government.
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I imagine this is Experian and Equifax - the very ones who allowed someone in the Brandon Estate to run up £1,700 worth of BT mobile/fixed/data bills in my name.

Try ringing BT accounts and complaining about fraud - you get put straight through to the Equifax switchboard in Manilla.

The days of social security snoopers parked outside at 6 am seem to be well gone.
 
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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yes
 
brixtonblade said:
I was away at the weekend but had a load of texts from sky apologising for an outage
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I had one and it an apology. Badtards. What makes the cables suddenly so tasty to rodents or did one of BT's workers leave the door to the cable area open...it smells fishy to me.
 
Winot said:
The Government outsources money laundering checks generally. To financial services and legal services professions amongst others. The checks can be onerous and I doubt that they catch the real villains - just create bureaucratic hoops for ordinary businesses. However it's difficult to see how a regime which is trying to identify money launders can exist without a large element of outsourcing - after all the money is being moved around via private entities not the Government.
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What I'm saying it's as you imply going after low hanging fruit. A business programme on radio had good programme on this. Was going around talking, off the record, to business people in city. Pre the crash money laundering was not taken seriously. One said they had to do courses on it. But they got the interns to do it for them. He said he never took it seriously. Why would Oligarchs come here? Because this country took hard line on how one made ones money?

Impression I got was that temporarily the City has cleaned up it's act. But only temporarily.

None of this requirement to prove ones financial probity applies to the super rich.

Anyway I tend to think capitalism is one big scam.

I got chatting in the City with a corporate lawyer a few weeks ago in Costas. Actually quite interesting chat about how capitalism works. Not stupid these people.Her expertise was compliance and fraud. Quite genuine. Said to her I bet that makes you popular.
 
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Saturday in Windrush Square. No app or sponsorship deals with Network Rail needed.

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Saturday in Windrush Square: Free live music, food and drink with Congregate Brixton, 19th Aug 2017
 
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