I was in the Beehive last week when an anemic shifty looking individual came right in my face saying "Guvnor you look like someone who wants a nice bit of fish"- thrusting a freshly shop-lifted bit of Salmon from Sainsburys right under my nose.
should have gone back last night.
How does one get to Sloane Square for the Monday midday Prom then? Walk to Bedord Road and catch a 137 I suppose.
Lambeth Council demolished the oldest house in Acre Lane (1803) so Tescos could build it's vile retail shed and car-park in 1985. In the name of "regenerating" Brixton they managed to kill off Brixton market at a stroke. Tescos put a restrictive covenant on their old premises in Brixton Martet so it couldn't be used for food retail for 7 years. Old history I know, but just like the riots, the effects can be permanent.
Incisive criticism,you'll do well.
Apparently William Hills in Coldharbour Lane was attacked, so that might be a consolation.
This is a very good point, I'm just working my way through this thread now. At the risk of sounding like some bloody hack I think that Lenin said every uprising would have people with mixed motivations involved (no not the one with McCartney the other one). There was a lot of concern about that shooting which was not addressed, plus a history of disinformation from the police. I did see in early evening one cop give a youth a mighty wallop with his truncheon but did not catch what had gone on before or after, and the policeman just moved on. I spoke to two police when I was trying to get home in the early hours who were professional and as helpful as they could be in the circumstances on the seal-off-the-road thing (still didn't let me through because they said if anything happened to me they'd get in trouble. OK fair enough.) I cut through a wee alley and there were blazing vehicles and a few folk milling but not much else at that time. Taking the day off
It's that kind of thing that doesn't help anyone. All it does is create an atmosphere of fear.
Outside my flat were two fires, now you mention (I thought at first vehicles) may have been just some other stuff in a bonfire. Took pics but have a crappy phone, will send you privately my number.
It's really not as bad as some sections of the media and 99.99% of twitter reports. Most of the smashed windows are some sort of glass, thick plastic sandwich so no access to what was behind them.
LOL. You should be on Twitter, fella.
Nah, turned out it was just a wheelie bin full of misleading tweets.
