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hiraethified
So you've got time for smart arse answers and pedantic nitpicking, but no time to answer a simple question or two? Funny, that.
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I’ve had people call me from the North East, and from Dublin to tell me that they have it on good authority that all army leave is cancelled so they can come down here and enforce a lockdown .
The fact that the school closure isn’t universal, key workers’ kids will need to be brought to school, those key workers will go to their jobs, teachers will be moving about etc makes me think that it’s just another disruptive rumour.
GarveyLives
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hiraethified
I've never asked you if you were here in 1995 before. Not once. You're making that up.
But if you've got time to come back with more of your pithy comments, why haven't you got time to answer my questions? They're very much related to the topic of the thread.
Gramsci
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I thought your terminology was "regentrification". Not gentrification.
Gramsci
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I didnt think you had a problem with the as you say the "regentrification" of Brixton as change is good and its only people who are "afraid of change" that would oppose it.
Gramsci
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If that is the case dont start it. You say this but you keep starting an argument with deliberate wind up posts
Then say you dont have time for it. So why start it in the first place?
Gramsci
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Had friend who had to go to a funeral in the Republic last week. He also said the army had been mobilised. Partly due to the trouble during the last economic crisis . Another Irish friend said some looting of food shops happened.
My friend said he had been told that Irish police had been told not to arrest and put people in cells unless absolutely necessary. To let people off with cautions.
Chatting to my local shop keeper His wife works in state education in London. They are going to close schools. A few school buildings may be kept open for children of NHS staff etc. So they are discussing how that will work. Also vulnerable children and those on school meals.
Gramsci
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Your Spam misery under another guise
Gramsci
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It was a death in custody issue. Took out the baked potatoe, the Seven.Eleven, and resulted also in a mild attzck on the Dogstar.
It was not about gentrification but about people dying in the Police Station.
1995 Brixton riot - Wikipedia
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I saw that.
In 81 the Atlantic didnt even get a broken window. Despite the large scale rioting in central Brixton. Why? Because it was Black run pub.
By 95 it was considered part of Council led gentrifaction of Brixton.
I saw it being attacked and looted. It clearly was symbol of resentment that the local Black community decided to trash. This was no accident or case of pure lawlessness.
Gramsci
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As Ive reported on the Coronavirus threads the City of London business having bee moving out nearly all the office staff. Ive been helping with this.
I hope there is not full lockdown as I will be out of a job next week. I might be anyway. We have been all grafting to move computers etc out of peoples offices. When its done we are stuffed. And its been a risk as central London is high risk area. Ive been using sanitiser a lot and being careful but its still been a risk. Know one guy whose girlfriend has been getting really worried about it
I did ten hours today in the City. Which is almost empty now. Me and my workmates have been moving a lot of stuff.
A whole load of people are losing their livelihoods over this. Not everyone can work at home.
For instance the stall I pass every day that sells gifts to tourists closed today. He told me yesterday it was no point opening. The Black Cab drivers are parked up with no fares in central London. The buskers have been banned.
A whole load of people are losing a significant part of their income.
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What is your point?
Start needlessly fighting if you want, but at least have some form of basis to your argument.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
I wish all the panickers out there who are stripping the shops of essentials would just STOP IT. I am disgusted at the thoughtfulness of people queueing with piled up trolleys, filling cars with enough stuff to last months. Or are they just selling it at extortionate prices on ebay? Empty shelves all over the place - which must make it very difficult for those with mobility / health problems.
I hear Iceland are letting in only older/disabled people only in the mornings (til 10 or 11am?) and they are enforcing it too, they were refusing entry to a friend of mind who didn't look old enough - until she showed them her bus pass. Sainsburys are reserving the first hour of trading for the elderly/vulnerable people, so thats 7 - 8am in Brixton Water lane.
Are any other shops around here (not internet shopping) rationing goods / preventing stockpiling / giving priority to disadvantaged groups?
I hear Iceland are letting in only older/disabled people only in the mornings (til 10 or 11am?) and they are enforcing it too, they were refusing entry to a friend of mind who didn't look old enough - until she showed them her bus pass. Sainsburys are reserving the first hour of trading for the elderly/vulnerable people, so thats 7 - 8am in Brixton Water lane.
Are any other shops around here (not internet shopping) rationing goods / preventing stockpiling / giving priority to disadvantaged groups?
People in the Republic are more used to seeing army though. Cash transit vans are often accompanied by army, as are prisoner escorts.
I think that any use of army here will be for special skills they have. Medical, firefighting, engineering. If there is force action to be taken against the population, it will be the police that does it. God knows the Met has enough people, batons and bullets.
I know someone in Crofton Park who told me that a neighbour went out and panic bought kitchen roll. Dozens and dozens of the stuff. He comes home, realises he has overdone it and then offers, over a whatsapp group, to SELL it to his neighbours. My mate is disgusted and went back on the whatsapp group and told him that a neighbouring food bank would be glad of it if he was willing to donate.
Silence.
billythefish
toad licker
I haven't been able to buy fresh fruit and veg for two weeks now. I don't get back to Brixton until gone 7pm, so no chance at any of my local shops (Brixton Hill). Just a question: if I were to take a morning off next week, does the market manage to stock up with fruit, veg, etc?
RoyReed
Must fly!
Rushy
basically a scrotum
OH just left Sainsburys on BWL and said it looks OK for most food stuff including fruit and veg. But not for carbs (pasta, rice, tatoes).
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Went past Iceland earlier, it looked mental with queues , like the apocalypse is coming.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
The weirdest thing about Iceland is people have stripped the vile 1 kg tubs of allegedly buttery margarine.
It is roughly 40 per cent marge and 60 per cent water, which is why it spreads well - and tastes like dish water.
GarveyLives
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They won't be the only ones:
Boris Johnson's father says he will ignore government public health advice and still go to pub
blameless77
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Please stop this. If it was up to me you’d be banned!
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Agree. It's really very boring.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I'm not digging you for not giving back. Offline was /is going for how long? Often or mostly free, some hilarious bands, it was all good.
It's going to be very interesting watching the plethora of start up bar/eateries that infest Brixton all fail and quite soon.
Most of these places have a six months business plan. Customers are rightly elusive now.
I see empty businesss spread all over Brixton within weeks as places get destroyed by their cash flow issues.
The Village is going to get Mullared.
I hope we get that shop with the big snails back...
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Distract with cats. This is my old rescue cat Bobby. 17 I think.
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The being free bit is really important to me because I remember what it was like not being able to afford to see good bands/entertainment. I think I've only ever strictly charged on five occasions since 2004: a Xmas party night at Jamm in 2005 where I had to make a certain amount to cover fees (with a huge line up), four Bowie charity fundraisers since 2004 and some NYEs where the venue has had to charge to keep up the nutters. Even then, I've always provided a guest list to ensure that everyone who wants to can get in free (as I do with the Dogstar now), so that's probably something like 500+ free shows!
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