Hackney chitter-chatter &tc

[Pickman's model]

I'd say it'd be in the local news but a couple of weeks ago, there was a massive ambulance/police presence in Amhurst Road (one ambulance, two ambulance response cars, one of those doctor trauma response cars, loads of police cars and a block of flats all taped off with a police guard) and there was no mention in the news at all. (I heard a couple of people who lived in that block say there'd been a stabbing and there was blood everywhere but who knows. )

Also the amount of coverage given to the local news is much diminished even compared to a few years back

 

[Fozzie Bear]

An ode to the Hackney Downs Puddle — east London’s most unlikely celebrity

She’s back for autumn, and she’s looking mighty treacherous!

www.standard.co.uk

 

[marty21]

An ode to the Hackney Downs Puddle — east London’s most unlikely celebrity

She’s back for autumn, and she’s looking mighty treacherous!

www.standard.co.uk

I prefer the one that sometimes appears under the Lea Bridge Road between Walthamstow Marshes & Hackney Marshes .

 

[spitfire]

ALT: A parent from a local hackney school has gone missing. If anyone has seen her could they call 101 with the reference CAD8764/24SEP23

 

[andysays]

Election for new Mayor will be Thursday 9th November

 

[Fozzie Bear]

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ALT: A parent from a local hackney school has gone missing. If anyone has seen her could they call 101 with the reference CAD8764/24SEP23

Unfortunately she was found dead earlier this week.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Election for new Mayor will be Thursday 9th November

Excellent - Sue do you need an election agent? I did this before with Hackney Independent and I promise not to embezzle your campaign funds. Of course you may have this all in hand already with marty21. If, so put me down for a bit of door knocking.

 

[Sue]

Excellent - Sue do you need an election agent? I did this before with Hackney Independent and I promise not to embezzle your campaign funds. Of course you may have this all in hand already with marty21. If, so put me down for a bit of door knocking.

Erm, pretty sure marty21 is already all over it...

 

[marty21]

Erm, pretty sure marty21 is already all over it...

 

[Sue]

‘I call it botanarchy’: The Hackney guerrilla gardener bringing power to the people

For author Ellen Miles, planting in public spaces is a radical act that’s about community ownership and belonging

theguardian.com

 

[toblerone3]

Caroline Woodley is the Labour candidate for Mayor.

Labour picks mayoral candidate after resignation scandal

Labour has selected a senior councillor as its candidate in the Hackney mayoral by-election.

www.hackneygazette.co.uk

https://twitter.com/carowoodley

 

[andysays]

Caroline Woodley is the Labour candidate for Mayor.

Labour picks mayoral candidate after resignation scandal

Labour has selected a senior councillor as its candidate in the Hackney mayoral by-election.

www.hackneygazette.co.uk

https://twitter.com/carowoodley

"The Town Hall has yet to announce the by-election date, but insiders suggest it could be the second week in November"

The date of 9th November was announced to Hackney staff this morning (see post 4625 above)

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Zoë Garbett selected as Green candidate for Mayor of Hackney

www.hackneygreens.org.uk

Here is the Green candidate. People I know speak well of her...

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Boff got kicked out for heckling Braverman's Tory Conference speech.



He was very supportive around the Broadway Market protests and came to a bunch of fundraisers etc. Obviously that was partly to stick it to Hackney Labour but he didn't have to knock about with anarchists and market traders at reggae gigs to do that.

Even the Tories in Hackney are up for sticking it to bigots...

 

[marty21]

Fairly big Hackney news !

The Crooked Billet has been sold ! To Youngs!

 

[spitfire]

Fairly big Hackney news !

The Crooked Billet has been sold ! To Youngs!

Was it a Free House before?

 

[marty21]

Was it a Free House before?

Pretty much , although the owner had some sort of agreement with Truman's , but that seems to have lapsed.

 

[Pickman's model]

Boff got kicked out for heckling Braverman's Tory Conference speech.



He was very supportive around the Broadway Market protests and came to a bunch of fundraisers etc. Obviously that was partly to stick it to Hackney Labour but he didn't have to knock about with anarchists and market traders at reggae gigs to do that.

Even the Tories in Hackney are up for sticking it to bigots...

He used to be leader of hillingdon Council and in 1992 stood for the tories in Hornsey and wood green

 

[pbsmooth]

this seems an incredibly lenient sentence :-(

Boy, 16, raped woman and attacked eight others in Hackney Marshes sex attacks

Zyroam Allen, now 18, carried out the string of attacks in the space of 13 days

www.standard.co.uk

 

[blossie33]

What on earth is wrong with some of these young people - I walk on the Marshes myself and it's scary to think this sort of thing can happen!

 

[blossie33]

The list of candidates for Hackney mayor, I see one of my ward's councillors is standing for the Conservative party

Hackney mayoral by-election candidates announced

The election will happen on 9 November following the resignation of Philip Glanville last month.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[marty21]

What on earth is wrong with some of these young people - I walk on the Marshes myself and it's scary to think this sort of thing can happen!

Yep , I'm out there a lot , most weekends , I was walking there this morning. Obviously as a man my experience is different to a lone woman walking around there.

 

[Cerv]

The list of candidates for Hackney mayor, I see one of my ward's councillors is standing for the Conservative party

Hackney mayoral by-election candidates announced

The election will happen on 9 November following the resignation of Philip Glanville last month.

www.bbc.co.uk

here's hoping the anti low traffic one loses his deposit.

 

[GarveyLives]

(Source: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter, Hackney Citizen)​

Child Q: Special scrutiny meeting looking at what has changed since scandal broke to take place at Hackney Town Hall from 7pm on Tuesday 25 April 2023 – with residents invited

The "Special scrutiny meetings" looking at "what has changed" since the Child Q scandal broke may need to look at this too.

A 13-year-old boy in Hackney was surrounded by armed police after an officer mistook his water pistol for a real gun.

The child was "rammed" off his bike by a police van and handcuffed as he was confronted by marksmen in Hackney, east London, in July, the Alliance for Police Accountability said:

Child X: Mum’s shock after armed cops arrest 13 year old over colourful toy water gun

 

[marty21]

The "Special scrutiny meetings" looking at "what has changed" since the Child Q scandal broke may need to look at this too.

A 13-year-old boy in Hackney was surrounded by armed police after an officer mistook his water pistol for a real gun.

The child was "rammed" off his bike by a police van and handcuffed as he was confronted by marksmen in Hackney, east London, in July, the Alliance for Police Accountability said:

Child X: Mum’s shock after armed cops arrest 13 year old over colourful toy water gun

Fucking hell !

 

[GarveyLives]

The "Special scrutiny meetings" looking at "what has changed" since the Child Q scandal broke may need to look at this too.

A 13-year-old boy in Hackney was surrounded by armed police after an officer mistook his water pistol for a real gun.

The child was "rammed" off his bike by a police van and handcuffed as he was confronted by marksmen in Hackney, east London, in July, the Alliance for Police Accountability said:

Child X: Mum’s shock after armed cops arrest 13 year old over colourful toy water gun

The Metropolitan Police referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, but the Independent Office for Police Conduct told the Metropolitan Police to investigate the Metropolitan Police. The Metropolitan Police cleared the Metropolitan Police of any wrongdoing. A public complaint was made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, alleging racism. The Independent Office for Police Conduct again directed the Metropolitan Police to investigate the Metropolitan Police ... but the Independent Office for Police Conduct, having "reconsidered" its decision, has now taken the complaint back to investigate ... independently:

Mother of water pistol boy, 13, confronted by armed police says she feels 'betrayed'

Independent Office for Police Conduct to investigate Metropolitan Police Hackney racism complaint

This is the type of water pistol that Child X was playing with as he was rammed off his bicycle by the Metropolitan Police and threatened by police officers with real guns.

Courtney Brown, CEO of Father 2 Father, Raju Bhatt of Bhatt Murphy Solicitors, Arlene Small, barrister and member of the board of The IDPAD Centre, Lee Jasper, chairman of the Alliance for Police Accountability and Dr Wanda Wyporska, CEO of the Black Equity Organisation.

(Source: Julia Gregory)

Sorry Hackney borough Commander Detective Chief Superintendent James Conway says he's sorry.

"In the light of the mother’s statement yesterday, and the concerns that have been expressed by the local community in Hackney and more widely, we’ve reconsidered our decision and will now investigate this independently."​

 

[andysays]

Saw my first Mayoral election poster in someone's window today, for Caroline Woodley.

 

[Sue]

Saw my first Mayoral election poster in someone's window today, for Caroline Woodley.

Got my polling card the other day. (In an envelope for some reason.) Apart from that, nowt.

 

[Sue]

Saw my first Mayoral election poster in someone's window today, for Caroline Woodley.

Saw posters for the TUSC candidate on L Clapton Rd earlier. (Stuck on the outside, not the inside.)

 

[marty21]

Got my polling card the other day. (In an envelope for some reason.) Apart from that, nowt.

Got my polling card , plus a leaflet about the candidates , the Tory candidate didn't have any information about him