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BusLanes
Pedestrian
Is there really any chance of this not being the case though? Given the voting record of neighbouring communities even a radically changed Coldharbour would still likely be safe Labour.
Anyway - having looked at Southwark's redistricting, I wonder if we will end up with a lot of two member wards along with the threes. I'm ok with that I think.
Gramsci
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I know what you mean.
Its the state of local democray and national democracy that is getting to me.
Local democracy in Lambeth is enough to put me off voting.
I had big row with one of my Labour Cllrs recently. Years of engaging with the system and being treated as an annoyance finally got to me. Im someone who will turn up read the docs and ask qaestions. Not what they want.
I can understand why those at Cressingham now hate the Labour party.
On national level the destrction of Corbyn and what he represented isn't lost on me. For the first time in decades someone on the left as part of mainstream democratic politics. Whatever one thinks of Corbyn personally the lesson is one can have hard right take over of Tory party ( that is allowable) but want a left alternative? No that is not part of how the democratic system works in this country.
So Im back with Cllrs who wanted Corbyn to do badly. One said so in so many words to me when I told him I was voting for Corbyn/ McDonald government at llast election. It was like he almost didnt want my vote. *I know you like Corbyn" was the negative response.
I , after years of dealing with local democray, think people are poorly served by it.
A Cllr like Rachel who moved from New Labour supporter to learning from her patch- one of the most deprived in country- tried to be campaigning local Cllr.
This is not allowed in the way the system works.
Some people are quite happy with that. See it here. This is a "representative" system. Manifesto is agreed. The public vote for a party. Said party gets elected and that is that. Representive politics.
Embedding oneself in a community , learning and working with it, trying to give leadership and change minds , leading / supporting community. This is what local democracy should be about.
The less well off need active Labour Cllrs. Not New Labour drones. Less well off have less time as spending lot of time working to keep head above water.
Look at the new Mayor. A political airhead. I don't need to vote for these people.
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I see Brixton is now included in full-on tourist 'private 8-hour sightseeing tours' taking in Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace and Covent Garden. Just £226 for two.
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Or you can go for the full Brixton private walking tour option at £205 for two for this exciting itinerary:
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2024 (London) London Day Tour with a Local Guide: Private & Tailored to Your Interests
Or you can go for the full Brixton private walking tour option at £205 for two for this exciting itinerary:
2024 (London) Brixton Private Walking Tour with a Local, Tailored to Your Interests
Gramsci
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I see Brixton is now included in full-on tourist 'private 8-hour sightseeing tours' taking in Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace and Covent Garden. Just £226 for two.
2024 (London) London Day Tour with a Local Guide: Private & Tailored to Your Interests
Or you can go for the full Brixton private walking tour option at £205 for two for this exciting itinerary:
2024 (London) Brixton Private Walking Tour with a Local, Tailored to Your Interests
Or one could have Brixton Society walk for three pounds.
Next one a while away though.
Brixton Market Heritage Walk – The Brixton Society
www.brixtonsociety.org.uk
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Gramsci
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Ive been looking at the Council report on the Cherry Groce memorial in Windrush square.
It more and more irritating. This is a Council that says it has no money but is giving it to this project.
Having read the report it is imo a misuse use of Section 106 / Community Infrastructure Levy.
Take this:
And this:
The Council guidelines state money needs to be spent on facilities for the community.
From my reading the Council are trying to argue as one can sit on this memorial it counts as a community facility.
In that case its a very expensive park bench in an "open space".
Well if that was the issue the Council could have put in a few park benches for a fraction of the money.
This is bollox.
I fail to see how a memorial, even if done with best intentions., contributs to "community resilience".
From reading the report its also clear that the Foundation had no business plan / did not raise promises of money before going for planning permission.
The Foundation has gone to the Council to tell them, after the fact, that the Foundation cannont maintain the monument or fund it. The masses haven't put money up for building it. So hardly community calling for it then.
So now the Council is offering to take the monument as an "asset" to be maintained at Counciil expense for ever. As well as underwrite its building costs.
It can't even maintain the Windrush Square as it is. Now its offering to take on another expense.
This all smacks of politicking to me. Cllr Sonia Winifred loves being in the limelight. Making a name for herself. Its her as Cabinet member that is agreeing to these demands from the Foundation.
Not looking at best interest of the hard pressed community in Coldharbour Ward.
It more and more irritating. This is a Council that says it has no money but is giving it to this project.
Having read the report it is imo a misuse use of Section 106 / Community Infrastructure Levy.
Take this:
.
And this:
The Council guidelines state money needs to be spent on facilities for the community.
From my reading the Council are trying to argue as one can sit on this memorial it counts as a community facility.
In that case its a very expensive park bench in an "open space".
Well if that was the issue the Council could have put in a few park benches for a fraction of the money.
This is bollox.
I fail to see how a memorial, even if done with best intentions., contributs to "community resilience".
From reading the report its also clear that the Foundation had no business plan / did not raise promises of money before going for planning permission.
The Foundation has gone to the Council to tell them, after the fact, that the Foundation cannont maintain the monument or fund it. The masses haven't put money up for building it. So hardly community calling for it then.
So now the Council is offering to take the monument as an "asset" to be maintained at Counciil expense for ever. As well as underwrite its building costs.
It can't even maintain the Windrush Square as it is. Now its offering to take on another expense.
This all smacks of politicking to me. Cllr Sonia Winifred loves being in the limelight. Making a name for herself. Its her as Cabinet member that is agreeing to these demands from the Foundation.
Not looking at best interest of the hard pressed community in Coldharbour Ward.
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urbanspaceman
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All public monuments are political. I was struck between the grim parallels between statues of Confederate Generals in the American South and this monument. In the South, “The vast majority of them were built between the 1890s and 1950s, which matches up exactly with the era of Jim Crow segregation.” According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s research, the biggest spike was between 1900 and the 1920s.""
Similarly the Groce memorial is being built decades after the event, to make a point about the current situation. Cllr Sonia is making a political point (ACAB), just as the segregationists did in their time. There is no community support, and Gramsci's civic-minded concerns about value for money, maintenance, etc. don't matter a hoot to Cllr Sonia. She is making an ideological point, that she wants to hammer home right now, during this BLM period, when she will be able accumulate maximum political capital. Does anyone here really think she gives a damn about how it will look in 10 years' time ?
www.history.com/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confederate-monuments
Similarly the Groce memorial is being built decades after the event, to make a point about the current situation. Cllr Sonia is making a political point (ACAB), just as the segregationists did in their time. There is no community support, and Gramsci's civic-minded concerns about value for money, maintenance, etc. don't matter a hoot to Cllr Sonia. She is making an ideological point, that she wants to hammer home right now, during this BLM period, when she will be able accumulate maximum political capital. Does anyone here really think she gives a damn about how it will look in 10 years' time ?
www.history.com/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confederate-monuments
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CH1
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Didn't the idea originate with the architect of the Hondo SuperMall?
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Does anyone know someone local who can fix computers please? Specifically macs?
i seem to remember there was some guy in Herne Hill called the Mac Doctor but I can’t find him online. Any ideas of someone decent/reputable/local please, preferably someone you’ve used before? Thanks
i seem to remember there was some guy in Herne Hill called the Mac Doctor but I can’t find him online. Any ideas of someone decent/reputable/local please, preferably someone you’ve used before? Thanks
cuppa tee
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cant help but will be following the thread, and will put some feelers out as well.
billythefish
toad licker
It's feast or famine for cyclists at the moment. New segregated lanes are great, but there are just as many streets that have been narrowed for socially distanced pedestrians and now squeezing bikes and vehicles together in much less space. Brixton road is one such example.
ChrisSouth
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Perhaps this should read that cyclists now find it much easier to cycle with more dedicated cycle lanes appearing.
Gramsci
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Central London is another one. I understand need for social distancing but Regent street is fairly empty and I have to negoitate traffic and reduced road space due to extension of pavement. Which is obviously not needed.
At Loughborough Junction pavement has been extended. But no one uses it. I find it more difficult to filter through traffic for no reason.
BusLanes
Pedestrian
Looking at the demographic data, you could almost even do a single councillor ward based around NJA polling district, maybe tweaking it a little around the edges. Given that there is roughly one councillor per 3800 people I'm not convinced a single member ward would improve things too much, but there must be a few neighbourhoods based around a larger estate where having one person solely devoted to them might be advantageous.
There are a loads of single member wards elsewhere but usually in rural District Councils sitting beneath County Councils. So maybe not directly comparable to a London Borough.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I think you should be more adventurous and recommend a proportional top-up list system.
That said I was bewildered this morning watching Mark Reckless- Leader of the Brexit Party in the Welsh Assembly on BBC Parliament (summer repeats). His major contribution to Welsh Parliamentary procedings was to OK the Leader of the Assembly's policy on banning smoking in hospital grounds (if Drakeford had gone any further no doubt Mr Reckless would have denounced the withdrawal of civil liberties for smokers as opressive).
But I don't think Mark Reckless would infiltrate Lambeth using PR.
BusLanes
Pedestrian
I like the idea of STV elected wards but with borough wide top up. By that I mean if say the Blue-Green Alliance won say 40% of the borough wide vote, but only won 35% of the councillors, they would then get another 5% of the councillors to ensure that their voteshare was reflected accurately.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
What???
I've been called a liberal by Scott Ainsly as a put down. And now you say Blue Green alliance.
The whole point of PR is people are supposed to be able to vote for their particular favoured policies without binary distortion.
In a way I like the Ulster Assembly where there is cross party working without loss of party identity.
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Yeah I've been photographing that as it developed but was asked not to Buzz it until I get the press release (tomorrow apparently)!
Gramsci
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I asked the guy what the sticks were and he said it was a crown.
Not sure what it means.
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