Brixton news, rumours and general chat - September 2012
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
You forgot vibrant.
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
So, who received their questionnaire re: "the end of council tax benefit from April 2013" from Lambeth who are running their consultation from July 27th to October 19th?
I got mine on Friday, and it's basically asking who they can stop paying as of that date.
I got mine on Friday, and it's basically asking who they can stop paying as of that date.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Nothing, but we pay the full whack of council tax so I don't know whether we should have had one.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
This is so fcuking depressing (although predictable.) It's happening all over Lambeth - Myatts Fields Estate being another example.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
I noticed that place had closed down, and also the one/two little shops next door (a photo shop I think) - I wondered whether they might form part of a revamped building/unit where Footlocker used to be.
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hiraethified
It sounds VERY similar to what is being suggested for my estate.
This is so fcuking depressing (although predictable.) It's happening all over Lambeth - Myatts Fields Estate being another example.
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
OK I got the letter has it is being sent to all recipients, random other Lambeth residents will be surveyed via phone, post and online (if they hear about it...):
http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/ctsconsultation
^if anyone wants to take part or peek at the questions being asked.
sparkybird
ask the bird...
Thanks for the link. Just took a flick through the questionnaire - very interesting. I didn't realise for example that the you can get council tax benefit of as little as 50p per week (or £26 a year) - surely it costs more to administer those payments!
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
It's very vague. For instance, do many people know how much pensioners get? Do many people know how much carers get? Voting through 3 groups you'd like to see excluded is a bit difficult when you don't know how much each particular group gets
I know the vast majority of people are unaware how much carers get. I, off the top of my head, am not sure what pensioners get
quimcunx
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Had a little look but didn't complete. I guess if what you want to say is none of them should have their benefit stopped you'll need to download the pdf instead. Of course councils are caught between a rock and a hard place on this stuff. Govt cunts.
Also if they have to cut X amount cutting all the people getting 50p/w discounts isn't going to cover it unless there are 100k in lambeth who get 50p/w discount. So either they cut all the people on the lowest discounts until the overall cut is met and that might be 2 people on 50p/w and 10k on £5/w, or they do something else. Cutting the people with least discount anyway seems the least worst on the face of it. But when you're already on the edge and having other benefits cut too £5/w really begins to matter.
The more different benefits you're entitled to the more cuts you're suffering I'm assuming.
Also if they have to cut X amount cutting all the people getting 50p/w discounts isn't going to cover it unless there are 100k in lambeth who get 50p/w discount. So either they cut all the people on the lowest discounts until the overall cut is met and that might be 2 people on 50p/w and 10k on £5/w, or they do something else. Cutting the people with least discount anyway seems the least worst on the face of it. But when you're already on the edge and having other benefits cut too £5/w really begins to matter.
The more different benefits you're entitled to the more cuts you're suffering I'm assuming.
Chilavert
Undermining strikes :-(
The other thing to consider with CTB localisation is that the Government is not allowing councils a free hand in deciding who continues to get benefit (and to what extent), so if you're a pensioner you'll still get the full discount, but councils won't be able to start charging students or cancelling single person discount to try and make up for the cut that is being passed on. On that basis a minority of claimants will have to take most, if not all of the cut. This Government.... 
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I didn't know that another fucking tesco is opening up on Coldharbour Lane, at Loughborough Junction.
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I didn't know that another fucking tesco is opening up on Coldharbour Lane, at Loughborough Junction.
Neither did I till we drove past last night and saw the hoarding up, with the signs on it. Seems to be getting a bit overkill now?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
There is a discussion of the Brixton Pound on R4 just now. Seems a bit pointless to me.
Just had one of those WEWH (Wish Editor Was Here) moments at work 
Am temping in an office in Richmond at the moment and share a kitchen with a 'creative' company downstairs. One girl was chatting to me and telling me how she wished...blah..oh...yah..blah....she could afford to live in Richmond....blah...blah....So nice.....blah......
Then (when she asked) I told her I lived in Brixton and she was SO fascinated Said she keeps being told by friends to go down the new village which is 'like the new East London/Shoreditch vibe' but has always been nervous being a woman alone in a place like Brixton Then asked me if I thought the new village was 'trendy' as she writes a fashion/food blog and is trying to write some new articles for magazines about up and coming areas.
Anyway, she is going to visit with a couple of her male photographer friends on Saturday to have a look round and speak to some of the shops owners about their thoughts on the changes to the area.
Am temping in an office in Richmond at the moment and share a kitchen with a 'creative' company downstairs. One girl was chatting to me and telling me how she wished...blah..oh...yah..blah....she could afford to live in Richmond....blah...blah....So nice.....blah......
Then (when she asked) I told her I lived in Brixton and she was SO fascinated
Said she keeps being told by friends to go down the new village which is 'like the new East London/Shoreditch vibe' but has always been nervous being a woman alone in a place like Brixton Then asked me if I thought the new village was 'trendy' as she writes a fashion/food blog and is trying to write some new articles for magazines about up and coming areas.Anyway, she is going to visit with a couple of her male photographer friends on Saturday to have a look round and speak to some of the shops owners about their thoughts on the changes to the area.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Just had one of those WEWH (Wish Editor Was Here) moments at work
Am temping in an office in Richmond at the moment and share a kitchen with a 'creative' company downstairs. One girl was chatting to me and telling me how she wished...blah..oh...yah..blah....she could afford to live in Richmond....blah...blah....So nice.....blah......
Then (when she asked) I told her I lived in Brixton and she was SO fascinated
Anyone, she is going to visit with a couple of her male photographer friends on Saturday to have a look round and speak to some of the shops owners about their thoughts on the changes to the area.
Did you tell her millions of people have already done blogs on it?I bumped into an old friend on Sunday who has moved out of Brixton. Asked him if he'd been to Granville Arcade recently and he said he had, and that it was so wanky and full of "look at me, look at me" people
I think it would have shattered her fragile little heart
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I think it would have shattered her fragile little heart
Well if you told her, she could look them up online and you'll be doing her a favour. She can use the time she saved doing something else
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hiraethified
Must she?
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Just had one of those WEWH (Wish Editor Was Here) moments at work
Am temping in an office in Richmond at the moment and share a kitchen with a 'creative' company downstairs. One girl was chatting to me and telling me how she wished...blah..oh...yah..blah....she could afford to live in Richmond....blah...blah....So nice.....blah......
Then (when she asked) I told her I lived in Brixton and she was SO fascinated
Anyway, she is going to visit with a couple of her male photographer friends on Saturday to have a look round and speak to some of the shops owners about their thoughts on the changes to the area.
Please keep us updated on her findings.
Are you arranging for her and her male friends to be mugged on the sly?
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
or better still, get her to post her findings on here
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
I propose a new approach to aspiring incoming hipsterlocusts like Badgers' workmate. Look very bored (even yawn a bit), and say "oh, no, you wouldn't want to ... Brixton's so over, so passe, simply everyone's down there now. What you really want to do is try further south, like Streatham High Street getting down to Norbury... that's where the real vibrant edge is nowadays. totes."
that'll learn 'em.
that'll learn 'em.
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