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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - March 2017

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On our street it's changed to Tuesdays. This week is when the change first takes place, and it looks as if everyone is aware and have put their bins out. So here at least Lambeth has leafleted thoroughly.
 
I got an email on Friday, not sure how they got my email address.
Obviously none of my neighbours got one as bins were out on the usual day...
 
gaijingirl said:
We also got a letter (SW2) saying ours was changing from Tuesday - to Tuesday. :confused:
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Snap! We got a letter (SE27) changing our collection from Wednesday to Wednesday :D However I know an urbanite who lives about 75m from me in the next road has had no such letter. It's all rather baffling.
 
We didn't get a letter. And when my neighbour emailed them they were told that there was no record of our road. But they did agree to investigate further...
 
We received a letter and our day has changed to Monday. |forgot until I saw all the other bins out so put out the recycling. Left the non-recycling bin in as it was almost empty. When I returned in the evening that bin had been emptied as well and returned to outside my property.
 
Does anyone know if the Council Tax has been set - and if so how much it is?

Google seems devoid of any mention of Lambeth Council tax setting for 2017/18 although I did manage to get up a council budget paper promising a 3.99% increase, but that was last November and referred to a three year strategy which one might have thought could be now obsolete in the days of Brexit Hammond and May.
 
And this is interesting too:

Cllr Matthew Bennett has been selected to stand as a Labour candidates for Gipsy Hill in the Lambeth Council elections in May 2018. Bennett is the current Cabinet member for Housing. He has been leading the controversial estate regeneration policy.

The endorsement of Bennett by his local ward branch is significant. It shows that there is local party support for the policy of estate regeneration. This is despite attempts by Momentum to offer an alternative candidate and policy
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Cllr Matthew Bennett selected to stand for Labour in Gipsy Hill ward for 2018 Lambeth Council elections
 
There's a songwriter's night on at the Hoot tomorrow. Somehow, I'm not convinced by the DJ: "The magical sounds of CAROLINE’S IPOD"

:)
 
My friend DJ Feelgood is DJing at Three Little Birds tonight with the Sisters of Reggae...International Women's Day special. Come and celebrate wonderful women!
 
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Bit of local news: Lambeth Council set for £175,000 deal with South London Press to carry ads
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I didn't know about Lambeth Communications. The Inside Croydon link has a lot to say on this. Another name that crops up is No Negrini. Who some here may remember was the Brixton Town Centre manager. Her abrasive getting things done manner went down well with the Council leadership.

Council CEO Negrini’s self-promotion is based on half-truths

Negrini heads council team to MIPIM’s ‘booze and hooker fest’

What concerns me is that people like Ellerby and Negrini have made there careers as local government officers as loyal supporters of the right of the party- New Labour. Helping them have control over the local Labour by being loyal bureaucrats. In Lambeth and Croydon (ex Lambeth leader Steve Reed area now as MP). It's this entrenchment of power that is what Corbyn and those who don't want any more of the "Third Way” are up against.
 
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For a bit of lite relief and to cheer people up (except Rushy and Winot perhaps) here is a scan of part of page 39 of tonight's Standard
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The odd thing is if you go to the Standard's website the picture shown is not our very own Brixton but a larger more salubrious branch. Clapham junction perhaps?
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I think we should be told.

PS The reason I cut it out of the paper is that the other side (page 40) has a fascinating resumé of Philip Hammond's history in property and energy. Including Kazakhstan.

Amazing how these swashbuckling MPs rise to the top. Even if they are quiet about it.
 
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She's a top DJ too. I'll try and pop in - hopefully it'll be busier than last week.
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It was really busy which is great.m, although I only stayed until about 10... The Sisters of Reggae are playing again on 25th at the Queens Head. Lovely bunch of ladies and great music!
 
CH1 said:
For a bit of lite relief and to cheer people up (except Rushy and Winot perhaps) here is a scan of part of page 39 of tonight's Standard
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The odd thing is if you go to the Standard's website the picture shown is not our very own Brixton but a larger more salubrious branch. Clapham junction perhaps?
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I think we should be told.
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Just more of the same crusty old beef titillating the same crusty old beefeaters.

Please don't tag me again CH1.
 
CH1 said:
No beef this - just Market Forces.
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Public speculation about how my own views on the content of a random article about Foxtons which I have never read might differ from everyone else's adds nothing to your insightful exploration of market forces. It is just personal beef.

I'd really appreciate it if you didn't tag in one of your posts again. Thanks.
 
Good to see that Lexadon has finally tidied up the scruffy and unkempt ground floor facade and outside area of the Viaduct housing developement and are putting the space to use. Disgracefully, it was kept empty for nearly a decade while they dithered about and no doubt waited for the most profitable use of the space to be offered. Developers that show such blatant disregard for the local area and the community should be fined IMO, or forced to give the space to someone who would be happy to use it.

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anyone know what the billboard ad under the railway bridge on Atlantic road is supposed to mean
it shows a wheelchair with a city of Westminster wheel clamp and a logo saying Klamp it.....a bit like this

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at first glance I thought it might be KLF related frolics but apparently not.
 
Rushy said:
Public speculation about how my own views on the content of a random article about Foxtons which I have never read might differ from everyone else's adds nothing to your insightful exploration of market forces. It is just personal beef.

I'd really appreciate it if you didn't tag in one of your posts again. Thanks.
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what's up rushy, I think CH 1 was just having a giggle at well known divisions on the board, your sense of fun when it comes to sly digs at other posters is quite evident when it's you doing it....
 
cuppa tee said:
what's up rushy, I think CH 1 was just having a giggle at well known divisions on the board, your sense of fun when it comes to sly digs at other posters is quite evident when it's you doing it....
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You will of course help me out here by identifying a post in which I quite randomly name check individuals in a conversation in which they were not involved, and wildly speculate on what their personal opinions may be about something which they have not commented on.

In the meantime, do keep that beef coming. It has official Chief of Beef backing, afterall.
 
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