snowy_again
Slush
EDF is just this place in 3 years time.
To think that we could keep brixton for what it was - for the reason we all moved here - without others following for what's been made, is frankly naive and stupid. Life changes. To blame individuals, be they gillet wearing twats or independent business owners more than corporate multinationals who control the main shopping sites here is diverting attention away from more prevalent issues beyond that of social exclusion through cost. This forum isn't helping - i've yet to see LVAC use this as a place for consultation or recruitment, and they've been working here for longer than this place existed. Its not yet a proper way of galvanising protest or change, and that's a lost opportunity.
The negative long term health impact of KFC & McD's selling cheap bad food, or the beehive selling alcohol at 25p per unit in an area high on the Index of Multiple Deprivation is fundamentally bigger than a cheese shop, but is less headline grabbing.
What won't happen (unlike EDF) is that local councillors & mps will log on and try to address / consult and engage on local issues that we discuss, despite the usual consequences of online fora. Cos most u75 things descend into a petty 'I've been here since 1827 and therefore holier / more indignant / more disadvantaged than thou, sub socialist worker indignation guff' process with site controllers managing conversations. This site in 12 months has taken debate into conflict. We are all to blame for that. Except Greebo, who likes everything.
Added amusing fish / poultry puns will lighten the mood; and occasional local history will remind us of what we didn't continue/ whats been lost.
Being regularly, or almost constantly online, posters here don't represent the 70% of average members of the coldharbour ward and surrounding areas simply by having internet access and don't represent of the quite large local older and/or disabled population of whom approx 75% dont have internet access. I won't even start with BME digital inclusion stats. Yet we think we're a community, with a voice and opinion. It's frankly a bunch of m/c people - anyone else is probably too busy dealing with the benefits system changes, or working, to be a regular poster on here.
Anecdote will still become perceived fact. Quoted and hyperbolised and then hyperlinked to a syndicate social media platform for more dissemination by more m/c web savvy individuals.
Oh and anyone younger will be HIPSTER SCUM and therefore unwelcome. We will shop. We will be more divided.
Fat White Family will be dropped after their unsuccessful second album. One of them will shaft the others and will spend their royalties on champagne, white, and sex industry workers. Self awareness will never happen to them.
People will continue to eat cheese and drink fizzy wine.
Basically, we're fucked.
- People complaining about the lack of 'social capital'
- People banging on about how long they've lived here
- People not understanding that people lived here before they did
- People not understanding that brixton didn't suddenly have a moment of clarity the second they arrived
- People complaining about the lack of state intervention to address the lack of social capital, but who dont say hello to their neighbours cos they might wear different coloured trousers
- Cheap 2nd hand furniture
- Overpriced ads for a one bed flat near the green
- Overpriced 'vintage shabby chic' furniture
- Complaints that a 1 bed flat near the green costs £1200 pcm
- Second hand home birth pools for sale at knock down prices
- Complaints that the local 24 offie has been closed
- Complaints that you can't get a drink after normal hours
- Complaints that young people now drink in your previous venue of choice
- Complaints that your local old skool venue of choice has seen a market in younger people than you and you're no longer welcome
- Complaints that the local police station's been turned into a trendy youth hostel (my 2018 brixton prediction)
- A realisation that the next neighbourhood takes over in trend precedence - LJ will become the place to live, as Brixton becomes mainstream and less 'vibrant'
- a moderator who doesn't promote local venues and then complain when 'outside' people come to said promoted local venues.
- Mumsnet hyperlocal posts re mooncups except you'll be judged and condemned for not fitting the 90s incomers brixton paradigm
- Desperate threads about primary school catchment zones
- We'll still be here joined by some non local trolls complaining about the same thing we talked about ten or 20 years ago
- Unrecognised hypocrisy
- Should I move to Orpington? posts
- I'll have swallowed pride and moved back south across the crystal palace divide to an area I said I would not do again since 1983
- Editor might eventually spend £50 on a night out, perhaps buying a round, or treating a loved one to something special, albeit cash related.
- Non consensual group think will be passively aggressively unchallenged.
- offline relationships around children and migration south will develop
To think that we could keep brixton for what it was - for the reason we all moved here - without others following for what's been made, is frankly naive and stupid. Life changes. To blame individuals, be they gillet wearing twats or independent business owners more than corporate multinationals who control the main shopping sites here is diverting attention away from more prevalent issues beyond that of social exclusion through cost. This forum isn't helping - i've yet to see LVAC use this as a place for consultation or recruitment, and they've been working here for longer than this place existed. Its not yet a proper way of galvanising protest or change, and that's a lost opportunity.
The negative long term health impact of KFC & McD's selling cheap bad food, or the beehive selling alcohol at 25p per unit in an area high on the Index of Multiple Deprivation is fundamentally bigger than a cheese shop, but is less headline grabbing.
What won't happen (unlike EDF) is that local councillors & mps will log on and try to address / consult and engage on local issues that we discuss, despite the usual consequences of online fora. Cos most u75 things descend into a petty 'I've been here since 1827 and therefore holier / more indignant / more disadvantaged than thou, sub socialist worker indignation guff' process with site controllers managing conversations. This site in 12 months has taken debate into conflict. We are all to blame for that. Except Greebo, who likes everything.
Added amusing fish / poultry puns will lighten the mood; and occasional local history will remind us of what we didn't continue/ whats been lost.
Being regularly, or almost constantly online, posters here don't represent the 70% of average members of the coldharbour ward and surrounding areas simply by having internet access and don't represent of the quite large local older and/or disabled population of whom approx 75% dont have internet access. I won't even start with BME digital inclusion stats. Yet we think we're a community, with a voice and opinion. It's frankly a bunch of m/c people - anyone else is probably too busy dealing with the benefits system changes, or working, to be a regular poster on here.
Anecdote will still become perceived fact. Quoted and hyperbolised and then hyperlinked to a syndicate social media platform for more dissemination by more m/c web savvy individuals.
Oh and anyone younger will be HIPSTER SCUM and therefore unwelcome. We will shop. We will be more divided.
Fat White Family will be dropped after their unsuccessful second album. One of them will shaft the others and will spend their royalties on champagne, white, and sex industry workers. Self awareness will never happen to them.
People will continue to eat cheese and drink fizzy wine.
Basically, we're fucked.
