Citydash is coming to Brixton

[Mr Retro]

so you have to pay to run around where you live? and that's ok with some here?

Pretty sure you can run around where you live for free.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

do they have a choice about twits and toffs running around their estate? do you know the organisers?

People running about in a city? Oh noes, whatever next?

 

[brogdale]

Such twigs are fairly easily found...

 

[ddraig]

Pretty sure you can run around where you live for free.

but not with this group of twits unless you pay

 

[Idaho]

but not with this group of twits unless you pay

I'm guessing that you storm onto the playing field when local league football is being played in nearby public parks. Striking a blow against their elitist "subs" that they ask from the players.

 

[brogdale]

I'm guessing that you storm onto the playing field when local league football is being played in nearby public parks. Striking a blow against their elitist "subs" that they ask from the players.

Key difference; not YoPro cunts fucking around on their walkways. Get a grip.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Urban75, ensuring people have the correct type of fun since 1995

 

[ddraig]

I'm guessing that you storm onto the playing field when local league football is being played in nearby public parks. Striking a blow against their elitist "subs" that they ask from the players.

completely and totally different! ffs

 

[Idaho]

This must be the most wrongheaded campaign on the softest of soft fronts in the history of the great struggle of the proletariat. You are hilarious. Keep it up

 

[ddraig]

just imagine if it was the other way round!!
pigs would be called quick sharp and there would be much outrage from residents

 

[Idaho]

That people are playing games of various sorts all over in a large city? Er... Yeah...

 

[ddraig]

clearly you can't fill in the blanks or being deliberately
imagine if the people from these estates went to where the people who play and organise these games live and did same

 

[Idaho]

clearly you can't fill in the blanks or being deliberately
imagine if the people from these estates went to where the people who play and organise these games live and did same

They would probably say "oh look, someone else is organising a city wide game in this area - I'm well into those, let's give it a try"

 

[bimble]

Where does urban stand on the pokemon go craze. Obviously not everyone can be a pokemon hunter becauase smartphones and leisure time are luxuries. So should the pokemons be banned from certain locations?

 

[Mr Retro]

This must be the most wrongheaded campaign on the softest of soft fronts in the history of the great struggle of the proletariat. You are hilarious. Keep it up

About a year ago some posters on here got all excercised and breathless about a company doing fitness classes on Windrush Square. Using about 2% of it for about an hour a week. The whinging petered out when it was realised normal people had real things to worry about and didn't give a fuck. I suspect this will be similar.

 

[Lizzy Mac]

About a year ago some posters on here got all excercised and breathless about a company doing fitness classes on Windrush Square. Using about 2% of it for about an hour a week. The whinging petered out when it was realised normal people had real things to worry about and didn't give a fuck. I suspect this will be similar.

I've told you million times, "do not exaggerate".

 

[salem]

I go to local meetings in my area Loughborough Junction. It has a large Council Estate. There is a high level of youth unemployment. At meetings one of the complaints from the people on estate is that they cannot afford , for example, the Ritzy cinema. They feel improvements are not for them.The Council also agree it's an area of high deprivation. There phrase. This isn't being patronising. It's how it is. Whilst central Brixton may look like it's thriving with new restaurants and bars there is a class divide. It's not just me saying this it's what people on local estates tell me. It's them and us.I get this from people in work. A lot of people just get by. Feeling is that London is becoming just for the rich- as one said to me.

This isn't a fictitious "narrative". It's a fact.

I'm not saying there aren't people suffering or people who don't like some of the new places that have popped up. But there are many people on the estates who are doing OK and many people living privately who are struggling.

You mention the Ritzy, but it's been there for over 100 years and you can still go and see a film there for the price of a couple of pints at the Albert. That people struggle to afford that is a much wider and largely unrelated issue then the 2010s pop-up fashion that venues are taking on.

do they have a choice about twits and toffs running around their estate? do you know the organisers?

You're deciding that they're 'toffs'. This tabloid-style caricature of anyone who goes to a non-urban approved venue/event in Brixton is laughable. The people who go to this will be young people who have disposable income because they don't have kids. The same people who might spend £20 seeing a band in the Brixton Academy or spend £20 at a night in Brixton Jamm or £20 on a few pints in the Albert.

The kind of young people who might have posted on here 10 years ago. No doubt in 10 years they'll be moaning about the next generation of young people who are discovering Brixton and doing new stuff without inviting them.

but not with this group of twits unless you pay

You want to run around, you can do it for free. No one is going to stop you. If you want to be part of their game then you gotta pay.

Do you do walking tours and refuse to pay anything at the end to make a shitty point too?

 

[ddraig]

straws and men made of, stop clutching them

 

[Idaho]

Where does urban stand on the pokemon go craze. Obviously not everyone can be a pokemon hunter becauase smartphones and leisure time are luxuries. So should the pokemons be banned from certain locations?

Thank God hardly anyone takes these citizen Smith types seriously any more.

 

[isvicthere?]

Look Maggot, if you dont play along with the Us and Them narrative, this argument simply won't get going.

Yah! It's the "politics of envy".

 

[sealion]

So should the pokemons be banned from certain locations?

Yes. The big tree outside my house

 

[Maggot]

clearly you can't fill in the blanks or being deliberately
imagine if the people from these estates went to where the people who play and organise these games live and did same

Where do the people who play and organise these games live?

 

[Gramsci]

I'm not saying there aren't people suffering or people who don't like some of the new places that have popped up. But there are many people on the estates who are doing OK and many people living privately who are struggling.

You mention the Ritzy, but it's been there for over 100 years and you can still go and see a film there for the price of a couple of pints at the Albert. That people struggle to afford that is a much wider and largely unrelated issue then the 2010s pop-up fashion that venues are taking on

I was taking issue with your comment,

"I do find the Dickensian 'poor urchins with only a piece of coal to play with' narrative pretty patronising"

Using what local people who don't post up here say to me. That includes people who are working."Normal people" with real things to worry about.

Loughborough Junction hasn't yet had the gentrification treatment of Brixton. As a local said to me it will come.

Ways to rectify this are:

• London Living Wage for all with secure employment.
• Proper free training for secure employment
• Right to a secure job with rights
• Rent controls on Landlords
• Building Council housing. Not the so called regeneration schemes that are planned for estates like Cressingham by this Council
  
• In long term nationalising housing that belongs to developers. Lexadon would be a good start in Brixton
• Rent controls on leases for shops. To stop so called regeneration schemes by the likes of Network Rail

If all that happened or at least people could see a future government do it I don't think the kind of complaints I hear would continue.

This would require a redistribution of wealth and power.

 

[ddraig]

Where do the people who play and organise these games live?

You know sunshine, you know

 

[editor]

As someone who grew up on a council estate (particularly poverty stricken single parent family to boot) I do find the Dickensian 'poor urchins with only a piece of coal to play with' narrative pretty patronising. Also never mind owner-occupiers, but in my experience the majority of tenants on council estates are employed and amongst my friends at least it's the one renting privately that have less disposable income once the landlord has taken a pound of flesh.

For the record:

Eight areas in Lambeth which are among the 10% most deprived in the country

Stockwell Area near Cowley Road including Myatts Fields North Estate is classified as severely deprived16 in income and wider barriers to services .

Brixton Area east of Lyham Road, south to Dumbarton Road, which includes Brixton Prison and the Blenhiem Gardens estate is classified as severely deprived in income, employment, health and crime.

Area east of Brixton Road between Loughborough Road and Villa Road, which includes the Angell Town Estate is classified as severely deprived in income, employment and wider barriers to services .

Area at the junction of Shakespeare Road and Coldharbour Lane is classified as severely deprived in income affecting older people, wider barriers to services and crime.

The Moorlands Estate is classified as severely deprived in income, employment and wider barriers to services.

Area at the junction of Tulse Hill and Christchurch Road, including much of the St Martin’s Estate is classified as severely deprived in income and wider barriers to services domains.

Coldharbour Ward
It has the lowest employment rate. There is a high rate of benefit claimants, the highest proportion of dependent children in out-of-work households and the highest proportion of households with no adults in employment with dependent children.There is a high proportion of lone parents not in 30 employment, and of residents with no qualifications. It has the lowest cars per household of any ward in Lambeth. .

https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/State-of-the-borough-2012.pdf

 

[editor]

£5 if you live on the estate that is a small corner of the play area.

I'm sure they put up loads of posters all around the event advertising this discount. Didn't they?

 

[editor]

For the record, there is no mention whatsoever of a 75% discount for residents on their booking page for the Brixton event. Nothing. It doesn't exist.

Citydash Bonus level Brixton: A High Energy, Clue Solving Adventure Tickets - London - YPlan

 

[editor]

You mention the Ritzy, but it's been there for over 100 years and you can still go and see a film there for the price of a couple of pints at the Albert.

What? Ritzy tickets are 12-13 quid. My pint costs me 3.60.

 

[editor]

About a year ago some posters on here got all excercised and breathless about a company doing fitness classes on Windrush Square. Using about 2% of it for about an hour a week. The whinging petered out when it was realised normal people had real things to worry about and didn't give a fuck. I suspect this will be similar.

I thought it was because they were told they had to pay to use the space that was bedecked with their advertising and swiftly fucked off.

 

[Maggot]

Turns out local residents get a 75% discount, so they would have to pay a whopping £5

Local Residents Discount

For the record, there is no mention whatsoever of a 75% discount for residents on their booking page for the Brixton event. Nothing. It doesn't exist.

Citydash Bonus level Brixton: A High Energy, Clue Solving Adventure Tickets - London - YPlan

editor please look at the link I provided, and tell me the discount doesn't exist.


Also is there any evidence that these games will be on council estates? I can't see any, and after the fuss last time, I think it's unlikely that they will be.