Celebrate Thatcher's death party, tonight, Windrush Square

[RubyToogood]

I hope Saturday, if it happens, WILL be more of a demonstration. I don't feel all that celebratory when there's so much horrible shit happening now. It's not just bedroom tax, it's all the other vicious welfare reforms that are coming through the pipeline this year and all the other self serving crap this bunch of millionaires are pulling. I really don't think people have taken on board the scale of it all. I enjoyed the party, but the only point is to remind ourselves and everyone else that the fight goes on. The death of one person is irrelevant in the big scheme of things.

 

[editor]

So Chuka Umunna is doing that really tacky political thing of making up something so he can then be seen to be roundly condemning it.



So where and when did the organisers of the Windrush party claim to be representing anything other than themselves?

Chuka Umunna: tough on made up stories, tough on the causes of made up stories.

 

[editor]

Shocking product placement there

I know those people and I enjoyed some of their drink!

 

[butchersapron]

So Chuka Umunna is doing that really tacky political thing of making up something so he can then be seen to be roundly condemning it.

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So where and when did the organisers of the Windrush party claim to be representing anything other than themselves?

Chuka Umunna: tough on made up stories, tough on the causes of made up stories.

Note his 'our' whilst moaning about people claiming to speak for others.

 

[meurig]

Note his 'our' whilst moaning about people claiming to speak for others.

I thought it was like the royal "we".

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I'm registering huge levels of hate coming through from people talking about the BrixtonBuzz feature. Real seething "you're all scum" stuff. LOL.

Put them all in a thread so we can all have a laugh

 

[Thimble Queen]

Yep there were a few twats there last night. idumea and I did a round up of some of the cans and bottles in the square. A group of lads told me to stop because i was taking a council workers job *facepalm*

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Parties being reported on R4 news as demonstrations

Revellers being reported as protesters in the DM

 

[Crispy]

Yep there were a few twats there last night. idumea and I did a round up of some of the cans and bottles in the square. A group of lads told me to stop because i was taking a council workers job *facepalm*

Should have burned the Ritzy down to keep the firemen in pay.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yep there were a few twats there last night. idumea and I did a round up of some of the cans and bottles in the square. A group of lads told me to stop because i was taking a council workers job *facepalm*

Probably the type who litter as well to give street cleaners a job

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Dishwasher? Well lah de bleeding dah.

I blame Thatcher!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

So Chuka Umunna is doing that really tacky political thing of making up something so he can then be seen to be roundly condemning it.

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So where and when did the organisers of the Windrush party claim to be representing anything other than themselves?

Chuka Umunna: tough on made up stories, tough on the causes of made up stories.

Tell him loads of party-goers came from Hoxton (well, at least 4 of them)

 

[Nanker Phelge]

So Chuka Umunna is doing that really tacky political thing of making up something so he can then be seen to be roundly condemning it.

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So where and when did the organisers of the Windrush party claim to be representing anything other than themselves?

Chuka Umunna: tough on made up stories, tough on the causes of made up stories.

Who gave him the right to determine what represents who and when?

I blame Thatcher!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Who gave him the right to determine what represents who and when?

I blame Thatcher!

You should change your tagline

 

[idumea]

Yep there were a few twats there last night. idumea and I did a round up of some of the cans and bottles in the square. A group of lads told me to stop because i was taking a council workers job *facepalm*

I had forgotten that.

 

[Badgers]

There was one great exchange between a copper and a lively reveller/protester late on. The copper was telling people to go home and actually used the phrase 'we should be out catching real criminals' much to my amusement

 

[editor]

 

[simonSW2]

I would like to wholeheartedly congratulate my Brixton comrades for forcing the Evening Standard to share half their front page with us today.

I was anticipating a full page Thatcher fawn fest, but last nights event has forced the Standard to lead with 'A City Divided' as their angle.

I'm proud to live in a place that still has the ability and energy to dissent. I hope Saturday shows we are ahead of the trend, rather than a lone voice.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Tessa Jowell has called last night's events vandalism

Was The Ritzy damaged then or were the letters just rearranged? It is vandalism if there's no damage?

 

[Rushy]

So Chuka Umunna is doing that really tacky political thing of making up something so he can then be seen to be roundly condemning it.

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So where and when did the organisers of the Windrush party claim to be representing anything other than themselves?

Chuka Umunna: tough on made up stories, tough on the causes of made up stories.

As a community leader he was making the statement that the three hundredish revellers who got a huge amount of publicity for their celebration of the death of Thatcher do not speak for Brixton. That might be stating the bloody obvious but it is not really the same as making things up.

 

[simonSW2]

Tessa, Chuka, and Steve Reed all following Labour whip. They can't step out of line, not that any of them would anyway. They are very much on the New Blue Labour side of things. They don't have to say anything of course, which would be better all round.

I see Labour MP for Blythe Ronnie Campbell (an ex-miner) has said he has better things to do for his constituents than attend Commons to listen to endless platitudes to Maggie.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I would like to wholeheartedly congratulate my Brixton comrades for forcing the Evening Standard to share half their front page with us today.

I was anticipating a full page Thatcher fawn fest, but last nights event has forced the Standard to lead with 'A City Divided' as their angle.

I'm proud to live in a place that still has the ability and energy to dissent. I hope Saturday shows we are ahead of the trend, rather than a lone voice.

I was down Brixton earlier looking for a Standard and there were none

 

[TruXta]

As a community leader he was making the statement that the three hundredish revellers who got a huge amount of publicity for their celebration of the death of Thatcher do not speak for Brixton. That might be stating the bloody obvious but it is not really the same as making things up.

A community leader - for Streatham.

 

[butchersapron]

As a community leader he was making the statement that the three hundredish revellers who got a huge amount of publicity for their celebration of the death of Thatcher do not speak for Brixton. That might be stating the bloody obvious but it is not really the same as making things up.

He most certainly is making up that the party-goers/organisers claimed to speak for the whole of brixton.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Chuka's probably just trying to redeem himself after his comments about trash and c-list celebrities came to light courtesy of a couple of shit newspapers

 

[Rushy]

A community leader - for Streatham.

I'm not exactly sure where the exact boundary lies but I'm in his constituency and I live less than 100yds from Windrush Square.

 

[DrRingDing]

I'm still hungover. Left work at 11.30am today as I couldn't be arsed.

 

[editor]

As a community leader he was making the statement that the three hundredish revellers who got a huge amount of publicity for their celebration of the death of Thatcher do not speak for Brixton. That might be stating the bloody obvious but it is not really the same as making things up.

Who does 'speak for Brixton'? Not him for starters.
And did the event claim to represent Brixton in any way at all? No, it did not.

 

[TruXta]

I'm not exactly sure where the exact boundary lies but I'm in his constituency and I live less than 100yds from Windrush Square.

Parts of Brixton are in his constituency, but even so most of it is Streatham, Tulse Hill, Clapham and Balham. Besides he got ~20000 votes from an electorate of nearly 80000. So no, he doesn't speak for Brixton.

 

[Kanda]

Lots of Police in Brixton this evening. Also they were doing ANPR by St Matthews for a fair while this afternoon.