Hackney chitter-chatter &tc

[Treacle Toes]

seems very quiet in Clapton tbf - missed all the riotnessness - I was away for the weekend.

I didn't mean it is actually happening now Marty. It has been 'identified' as a possible target today/tonight. This is why the Hackney One event has been postponed.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I didn't mean it is actually happening now Marty. It has been 'identified' as a possible target today/tonight. This is why the Hackney One event has been postponed.

see i don't get that logic, if only because the Hackney One event was due to occur in Clissold Park, and to finish at 5 or 7pm, I think. Whilst that may have required some manpower, they would have been planning for the event for a while. Separately, the need to police Hackney Central is there anyway, there isn't any obvious reason for it to kick off there at all anyway, if it does, the additional staff have already been being drafted in from home counties and other areas of London.

 

[marty21]

I didn't mean it is actually happening now Marty. It has been 'identified' as a possible target today/tonight. This is why the Hackney One event has been postponed.

I meant the tottenham stuff -

trying to imagine where flashpoints in Hackney would be - it doesn't have a defined centre - like Brixton, or Tottenham High Rd - so people are more spread out - maybe the yummy mummys will get Latte rage in Church St.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I meant the tottenham stuff -

trying to imagine where flashpoints in Hackney would be - it doesn't have a defined centre - like Brixton, or Tottenham High Rd - so people are more spread out - maybe the yummy mummys will get Latte rage in Church St.

yeh barricades of blazing buggies outside the tea shop, lobbing scones at the riot cops....

 

[Utopia]

yeh barricades of blazing buggies outside the tea shop, lobbing scones at the riot cops....

Nice, I was along church st around lunchtime.....it was definately simmering!!

Interesting pics on the Guardian live blog by the way.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Nice, I was along church st around lunchtime.....it was definately simmering!!

Interesting pics on the Guardian live blog by the way.

thanx.

i've had more views in one day, than i've had for all my other pictures in all the time that i've been on flickr!?

 

[Utopia]

"Groups of people outside hackney town hall. Security everywhere!" from twitter, possible trouble on the horizon this afternoon????

 

[Fozzie Bear]

There seems to be lots of hysteria this afternoon - police telling shops to close etc. But no actual trouble.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

http://twitter.com/#!/jessbrammar

ITV bod - looks like it's kicking off by town hall

 

[Daniel]

All kicked off round mare street

 

[marty21]

All kicked off round mare street

looks like it -

 

[lighterthief]

Has this been posted yet?

http://ishackneyriotingyet.com/

 

[marty21]

very quiet in Hackney and london last night, all those police from Manchester seem to have helped....guess they should have been in Manchester though

 

[Pickman's model]

very quiet in Hackney and london last night, all those police from Manchester seem to have helped....guess they should have been in Manchester though

south wales police were bravely defending the town hall.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Hackney recycling campaign....Give or take day:

Saturday 17th September, Leabank Square E5

http://www.hackney.gov.uk/Assets/Documents/give-or-take-leabank.pdf

 

[Treacle Toes]

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[Fozzie Bear]

Is anyone excited or bothered by the proposed Hackney boundary changes?

Hackney North does a land grab on Haringey and gets the Seven Sisters ward, apparently. We also get Chatham, King’s Park and Wick wards.

Hackney South gains Clissold, Stoke Newington Central and Dalston wards.

This is pretty nerdy stuff, even for me.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

how on fucking gods own earth can stoke newington be "hackney south"????? we're bordered on west side by islington, on the north side by haringay, it's a north as you can get in the borough. on the plus side, i can avoid abbott leering through my letter box occassionally i suppose.

 

[marty21]

is the village of Clapton still twinned with Stokie village?

 

[Stash]

is the village of Clapton still twinned with Stokie village?

No, looks like Clapton is staying in Hackney North. More like Hackney East/ West now than North/ South. And I'm going to have Diane Abbott for an MP . FFS, I can't stand her!!

 

[marty21]

No, looks like Clapton is staying in Hackney North. More like Hackney East/ West now than North/ South. And I'm going to have Diane Abbott for an MP . FFS, I can't stand her!!

don't like her much as well tbh - met her once - wasn't very friendly tbh - plus there was the whole sending her kid off to private school thing

 

[blossie33]

I live in Hackney North - we don't want Seven Sisters riff raff in with us!!

 

[Stash]

don't like her much as well tbh - met her once - wasn't very friendly tbh - plus there was the whole sending her kid off to private school thing

A mate lived next door to her ~20 yrs ago, so I met her a couple of times over the garden fence. I found her smug, bossy and overbearing. Nothing I've seen or heard since has changed my opinion. And yeah, the school hypocrisy doesn't help either.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Heh heh, it's funny how much people get worked up about this, I think!

A few points:

Abbott is odious, but Meg Hillier the current Hackney South MP is just as bad (she's been very evasive about faith schools, for example).

The ward of Stoke Newington Central is basically just Church Street and southern surroundings, so it doesn't border with tottenham. Piccie here.

I live in Cazenove Ward (to the east of Stamford Hill/ Stoke Newington High Street) and am about to move to Lordship Ward (to the west of Stamford Hill, north of Stoke Newington Central).

Personally I think getting rid of Church Street and gaining Seven Sisters is ace.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

don't like her much as well tbh - met her once - wasn't very friendly tbh - plus there was the whole sending her kid off to private school thing

she's never liked blokes with beards mate

 

[Treacle Toes]

I live in Hackney North - we don't want Seven Sisters riff raff in with us!!

Why not?

 

[marty21]

she's never liked blokes with beards mate

good reason to keep it

 

[marty21]

A mate lived next door to her ~20 yrs ago, so I met her a couple of times over the garden fence. I found her smug, bossy and overbearing. Nothing I've seen or heard since has changed my opinion. And yeah, the school hypocrisy doesn't help either.

if the changes go through, she will eventually have to move to live in the constituency as she will n longer live in her constituency when the boundaries change - perhaps she will move to Clapton Village..

 

[blossie33]

Why not?

Was joking really.
I don't live in Stokey by the way

 

[Fozzie Bear]

if the changes go through, she will eventually have to move to live in the constituency as she will n longer live in her constituency when the boundaries change - perhaps she will move to Clapton Village..

Maybe she could move in next door to you so you could charm her round to your beardy ways, Marty?