Brixton violence and looting (7th Aug 2011)
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quimcunx
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What sort of vote is that, if you're not allowed to choose what you vote?
Anyway I meant to say earlier, fair play to you for coming on here and talking as a counsellor, Steve. I don't know much about you. I'm not a gossip like that frightful shifty one. you should watch her, you know.
I didn't look into the tesco icerink thing in detail but a lot of people seem to think it stinks. I'm not a big fan of Tesco's way of working. I guess it's a case of an imbalance of power. Something else the govt would be tackling if they were on our side rather than Tesco's.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
My particular Tescos thing is about how they promised to have it in Streatham and suddenly it's there where the car park is, Tescos reneging on promises again, and the Market is suffering as a result. If Steve Bradley voted against this then my apology will indeed be grovelling.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Well ultimately the problem with Tescos is the same as with banks. The British business environment favours centralised monopolists.
With regard to the ice rink, it was only a couple of years ago that Lambeth Council were talking about demolishing Brixton Rec. How can councillors be so crass? Lambeth started building that thing in the early 1980s - ran out of money - it was only finished because Maggie abolished the GLC and Ken Livingston kindly took the project over to avoid all the GLC funds being clawed back by the Tory government. How would Lambeth get another Rec then - a PFI perhaps? Talk about mortgaging your children's future!
I'm actually agnostic about ice rinks - never been skating myself. I can imagine that lots of people in Brixton might miss the car park - but even that was so badly maintained they were looking for an excuse to demolish it.
With regard to the ice rink, it was only a couple of years ago that Lambeth Council were talking about demolishing Brixton Rec. How can councillors be so crass? Lambeth started building that thing in the early 1980s - ran out of money - it was only finished because Maggie abolished the GLC and Ken Livingston kindly took the project over to avoid all the GLC funds being clawed back by the Tory government. How would Lambeth get another Rec then - a PFI perhaps? Talk about mortgaging your children's future!
I'm actually agnostic about ice rinks - never been skating myself. I can imagine that lots of people in Brixton might miss the car park - but even that was so badly maintained they were looking for an excuse to demolish it.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Yes, but it's loss (and I'm not very pro-car at all) is killing the market. Not the trendy ice-cream shops and eateries, but people buying bulk groceries for their families. There needs to be a car park in the market.
fractionMan
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What sort of vote is that, if you're not allowed to choose what you vote?
Anyway I meant to say earlier, fair play to you for coming on here and talking as a counsellor, Steve. I don't know much about you. I'm not a gossip like that frightful shifty one. you should watch her, you know.
I think it's fairly common stuff. Pisses all over the 'change it from the inside' suggestions some people have. It's designed so you can't change it from the inside.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
We'll probably never find out now - you've scared him away.
TruXta
tired
If that's all it takes then good riddance.
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
heh
Well, I don't blame him. He always gets stick for contributing. If everybody knew who I was I might take it personally if anybody dared to question my lifestyle or call me names. As it stands, I'm beyond criticism or abuse
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
He's had worse. He'll be back soon, but is a very busy man, unlike loads of the likes of us tapping away on keyboards.
fractionMan
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Good. At least someone brought it up.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Yeah well these guys are on Planet Zog - Sir Peter Tapsell earlier asked the Prime Minister to round up the rioters and confine them to Wembley Stadium - citing as a precedent President Nixon's treatment of anti Vietnam protesters in Washington in 1971! These are the people who are governing us in Parliament - and you lot complain about Steve Bradley!
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
That's true - but back to plan A - We need Kate Bush and a Cloud Burster outside the Ritzy. The Orgone party launch would take them by storm!
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Do
Do the Ritzy take requests? I haven't seen the original version of WR since 1970 at the Academy in Oxford Street. The Channel 4 version had goldfish obscuring the naughty bits.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
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See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.R.:_Mysteries_of_the_Organism
No it was Yugoslav. Dyllis Powell (Sunday Times critic at the time) went nuts over it.
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.R.:_Mysteries_of_the_Organism
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Just killing time while brixton is not being violent.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
She voted it film of the year. One of the things that was appealing at the time was that it infuriated the (communist) authorities. Yugoslav troops massed when it was shown at a film festival in Trieste. Of course the US were equally displeased with it.
