Brixton news, rumours and general chat

[MaximGJ]

Mad Max style vehicle in Coldharbour Lane!

Curious camera-laden mini-vehicle spotted in Brixton as filming takes place in Coldharbour Lane

This strange looking vehicle was seen in Coldharbour Lane a couple of hours ago, wedged between a black cab and a silver Mercedes, with a police motorbike at each end of the convoy.

www.brixtonbuzz.com

There was a team filming in the market Tuesday evening. Their crew vans were marked "Stellar Vortex", which is the working title for Marvel's new Doctor Strange sequel.

 

[lang rabbie]

Is there any way of verifying this claim?

I am calling bullshit on the "Brixton Town Hall chimed thirteen times on the morn of Bowie's birth" story.

The "great freeze" of the winter of 1947 did not start until the fourth week of January, a fortnight after Bowie's arrival into the world.

At the start of January the conditions were generally very mild and temperatures of up to 14 °C were recorded in places.

Winter 1947 brought a freeze to post-war Britain

If you’re old enough to remember 1947, then you’ll almost certainly have the winter as one of your most vivid memories of the year. For meteorologists and climatologists, the winter of 1947 was a s…

blog.metoffice.gov.uk

 

[Gramsci]

See Brixton has lot of these colourful posters for Valerie Brown. I'm not sure if Burning Pink are official XR candidate. The manifesto does not mention XR. The ideas are XR. Replace present democracy with "peoples Assemblies". Which is Sortition.

Also termed Deliberative Democracy.

 

[Gramsci]

Is Roger Hallam Still Leader of Extinction Rebellion?

Extinction Rebellion says it has grown up – and that means a split with Roger Hallam, who has been throwing paint at the offices of NGOs and charities.

www.vice.com

From what I have read Burning Pink grew out of split in XR. Burning Pink are Hallam/Beyond Politics part.

"Official" XR are more into movement building.

 

[editor]

I've no idea who/what they are past a bunch of slogans. Can't say I was chuffed seeing their Brixton Project styled posters all over a recycling bin near me.

Brixton gets plastered with ‘Vote Valerie Brown’ posters ahead of the 2021 London mayoral election

The 2021 London mayoral election will be held on 6 May 2021 to elect the mayor of London. The only candidate posters we’ve seen around Brixton are these colourful ones for Valerie Brown.

www.brixtonbuzz.com

 

[BusLanes]

Interesting. I actually would be ok with UK mainland resuming (I believe NI still does this) street signs on lamp posts for elections.

Speaking of elections. We've had Rose, two Labour leaflets and one Lib Dem. Not seen Bailey locally but I may be misremembering as we may have got one before campaign started. No sign of Greens or anyone else but we live in a very Labour place.

I've seen Bailey's stuff elsewhere, in Clapham though. As well as some anti LTN stuff which didn't seem to belong to a party.

 

[Gramsci]

I've no idea who/what they are past a bunch of slogans. Can't say I was chuffed seeing their Brixton Project styled posters all over a recycling bin near me.

Brixton gets plastered with ‘Vote Valerie Brown’ posters ahead of the 2021 London mayoral election

The 2021 London mayoral election will be held on 6 May 2021 to elect the mayor of London. The only candidate posters we’ve seen around Brixton are these colourful ones for Valerie Brown.

www.brixtonbuzz.com

I rather liked it. Compared to nothing from Labour party in this ward.

I posted up more info on different kinds of Deliberative Democracy on this thread :

Citizens Assembly

A few info links from the whats app group https://love.lambeth.gov.uk/carbon-neutral-plans/ https://love.lambeth.gov.uk/carbon-neutral-plans/

www.urban75.net

I think its a discussion to be had.

One criticism of Valerie/Pink is that Lambeth Labour Council have agreed with XR to have a Citizens Assembly on Climate change. So its not that mainstream politics is against it.

 

[David Clapson]

This afternoon a very tall man in shorts with a long straggly beard and a very, very loud voice was campaigning outside the tube for Piers Corbyn. No idea what he was shouting, but I'm fairly certain he didn't win any votes. I hope the rest of his life is more productive.

 

[GarveyLives]

Allegedly very bad man allegedly does very bad things to young girls in and around Brixton. For years.

... meanwhile, the net widens?:

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[editor]

Queuing to vote...

 

[Orang Utan]

Queuing to vote...
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No dogs

 

[Gramsci]

No queue to vote in Loughborough junction. I did go at around half five.

Voted in end for Khan as I must say the long list of candidates were disappointing.

I just could not vote Labour for the Assembly. So voted TUSC to give them at least some votes.

 

[editor]

No queue to vote in Loughborough junction. I did go at around half five.

Voted in end for Khan as I must say the long list of candidates were disappointing.

I just could not vote Labour for the Assembly. So voted TUSC to give them at least some votes.

Same as me!

 

[cuppa tee]

No queue to vote in Loughborough junction. I did go at around half five.

Voted in end for Khan as I must say the long list of candidates were disappointing.

I just could not vote Labour for the Assembly. So voted TUSC to give them at least some votes.

Same as me!

me too, but I could not 100% endorse Sadiq so I gave my first vote for mayor to Binface knowing Sadiq would get it in round 2.

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

Someone doing the rounds of Ferndale just now with a loudspeaker urging people to vote for Piers Corbyn. No thanks, Khan and Binface for me.

 

[editor]

Someone doing the rounds of Ferndale just now with a loudspeaker urging people to vote for Piers Corbyn. No thanks, Khan and Binface for me.

I hope Piers gets a really embarrassing low amount of votes. The cunt.

 

[DietCokeGirl]

Binface, Khan and Greens for the rest. Full respect to the Stewards at St Andrews primary school who did a great job managing the queue.

 

[CH1]

Binface, Khan and Greens for the rest. Full respect to the Stewards at St Andrews primary school who did a great job managing the queue.

Count Binface wants to bring back CEEFAX. I might have voted for that if I'd know this morning.
I look forward to the return of Bakelite radios.

 

[DietCokeGirl]

Count Binface wants to bring back CEEFAX. I might have voted for that if I'd know this morning.
I look forward to the return of Bakelite radios.

It's the croissant policy wot won it.

 

[David Clapson]

First choice Binface, second choice Sadiq. Fingers crossed.

 

[Torpid Scorpion]

The folks at minet library managed the queue well. Felt safe at all times.

 

[cuppa tee]

I hope Piers gets a really embarrassing low amount of votes. The cunt.

...what’s depressing is the number of votes the guy off the morse offshoot got.

 

[cuppa tee]

Brixton referenced in this Guardian piece about author Geoff Dyer.....

Geoff Dyer: ‘I am what you might describe as chippy’

The writer, 62, tells James McMahon about his working-class Cheltenham roots, college career and dole-queue days in a Brixton squat where he first began to read

www.theguardian.com

” I moved into a slum in Brixton with a bunch of other people who had been to Oxford. The safety net provided by the welfare state, and that whole culture of dole life, wasn’t just desirable, it was a completely respectable way to live”

....not sure about use of the word ‘slum’ in this context from a man of words.

 

[editor]

Note: posts about the hotel proposed on Dorrell Place have been moved here:

SW9 bar to be closed under plans for five storey hotel for Dorrell Place

Another long term Brixton institution is fighting for survival after it unexpectedly found itself being belatedly incorporated into plans for a new hotel Metropolis planning and heritage statement dated 21 October 201: 11 Dorrell Place sits on the corner of Dorrell Place and Nursery Road and is...

www.urban75.net

 

[editor]

Next month: Lambeth Council to host two-day festival celebrating the achievements of the black community, 12-13 June 2021

 

[editor]

Tomorrow Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Fight to Stop the Poll Tax – online talk by Lambeth Libraries, Fri 14th May

 

[Jimbeau]

Apologies if posted elsewhere - just noticed the installation of the Windrush Square security bollards is in full swing.

Every bit as brutish as the planning application suggested. Looks like the blacktop is a permanent replacement for the paving too.

 

[teuchter]

At least they are not faux decorative victorian style.

 

[editor]

Bollards galore!

What a load of bollards! Windrush Square’s ugly concrete blocks get replaced by an abundance of posts

Mustard-keen bollard fans are in for an absolute treat in Windrush Square soon, as work is going ahead to replace the enormous concrete blocks that suddenly appeared in July last year.

www.brixtonbuzz.com

 

[editor]

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