Jaw-dropping Brixton description in blog

[ViolentPanda]

Maybe it's because she took so long to come and explain herself? She obviously knew she'd pissed people off last night as she pulled the articles, so why didn't she come on here last night to defend herself

and Brixton is full of people like that (your last sentence), but they feel the need to belong in a young, trendy community at all costs. Maybe they think that in time, all the working class will disappear and they'll be able to live a much more comfortable existence without the risk of chavs dirtying their doorsteps/cafes/trendy eateries

Of course, the desire to live in such a community sows the seeds of the death of that community as a viable entity. Remove the "lower orders" and older folk that comprise much of the varied class composition and ethnic mix inherent to a community like Brixton, and you remove everything that makes it different, turning it from a community to an enclave of Hoxton, just like Battersea became an enclave of Chelsea 30 years ago, slowly colonising the rest of SW11 with what is effectively a mono-culture.

Fuck 'em, and the fixies they rode in on.

 

[ViolentPanda]

+5

*leaves thread*

You're still a bit younger than me, Minnie!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

This is about on my doorstep, lighterthief. I'm fierce when me & mine get slagged off.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Well for all those defending her, I think this is a lesson to her that she needs to think a bit more before she writes as her tone reminded me of Liz Jones and we don't want another one of her

Indeed. A journalist should not really have to write a separate article after their article to explain what they meant in their article.
Yeah shes only 20 or something but hasn't she done a degree in Journalism? Three years of doing nothing but study journalism?

Anyway, whist I did not like the tone of the writing it's all just some words on the internet and I don't think she deserves to be pealed and rolled in salt on sight just yet.

 

[Belushi]

I am a little puzzled though Sophie that you live and work in Brixton but the general tone of your writing gives the impression that you don't really like it here very much?!

This. Thinking about it I can't think of many places better than Brixton for an aspiring young writer to live, there's certainly a lot of stories waiting to be told. It's a shame she seems to miss all that and just writes trite reviews of the local bars.

 

[friedaweed]

Ace thread

 

[spring-peeper]

I was offended and I read the blog posts in their entirety before she deleted them, so not out of context. My lodger was offended by them too and he's so mild-mannered and laid-back he makes me look like Ghengis Khan.

On this thread, you seem like Ghengis Khan. No offense, but WOW!!! You make my pride in Canada look minute wrt to your pride in Brixton.

 

[Voley]

You make my pride in Canada look minute wrt to your pride in Brixton.

She really doesn't.

 

[ericjarvis]

The only thing that place has ever oozed is the piss of it's customers, both in this and previous incarnations.

Hence the aristocratic country house smell of tweed.

 

[spring-peeper]

She really doesn't.

I really would not that woman as my enemy.

 

[ericjarvis]

Oh brilliant. I'm 33 this week.

Be warned. They'll tell you it's all downhill after you are 35.

They are lying. It's all uphill, and it gets steeper every bloody year.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I really would not that woman as my enemy.

I'm a pussycat really. My worst is words, not deeds.

 

[spring-peeper]

I'm a pussycat really. My worst is words, not deeds.

I know, I've been here a while.

The one thing I've noticed from reading about Brixton is the sense of community and of pride. Not everywhere can claim that, and it's heart-warming to see.

A young journalist writes something disrespectful, for lack of a better word, and the community stands up in defense...with you (and Editor) leading the charge!!! It's nice to see.

Equally nice to see was that the article was taken down and the journalist actually came on and posted.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

She still never actually said "Sorry"

 

[oryx]

While I have to give Sophie Armour some credit for coming on here and defending/explaining herself, it's not just people in Brixton she's sneering at in referring to 'people poor enough to think Iceland is fantastic'. It's people in general who are not rich.

There is a horrible, despicable tendency in the upper-middle class/public school*/nepotism-dominated media to demonise council tenants and less well-off people in general, as if they were one seething homogenous mass of unimportant humanity. The more often and more strongly this is challenged, the better.

*in case anyone is thinking of pointing out that the journo went to a comp - that's not my point.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I'm still wondering whether her "I live on a council estate" means she's in a sub-let which would really re-kindle my ire as it would mean she's preventing the homeless from being housed.

 

[lighterthief]

I'm still wondering whether her "I live on a council estate" means she's in a sub-let which would really re-kindle my ire as it would mean she's preventing the homeless from being housed.

If it does why not direct your ire at the landlord then, rather than the tenant?

 

[leanderman]

I'm still wondering whether her "I live on a council estate" means she's in a sub-let which would really re-kindle my ire as it would mean she's preventing the homeless from being housed.

More important, how much does Sophie pay her cleaner?

 

[Aquamarine]

I read two of the pieces and did'nt find them jaw droppingly offensive or seemingly attacking the poor or people who drink in the Albert at all...

 

[quimcunx]

Well I missed all this and haven't read it all yet but well done for coming on and commenting, Sophie Armour. Stick around. We could do with some younger people and there are things to learn from people on this forum. We do nice as well as up in arms too, honest. Loads of journos read the boards too *waves*

She's 20 and speaks as a 20 year old. And even Mancunians deserve a second chance.

 

[RaverDrew]

Mental thread, some of the reactions on here are completely ott.

 

[isvicthere?]

Missed your post until it was quoted. What News International did was criminal and craven, but that doesn't mean I can't get angry about stuff on my doorstep too. Recently I've noticed a lot of trendy bright young things attracted to the area being really crass about the rest of us and it makes my blood boil. Coming out of the market on Friday I heard some hipsters loudly complain that "Brixton would be really great if the area had less chavvy proles."

To which I'm sure you swiftly retorted: "fewer chavvy proles!"

 

[spanglechick]

To which I'm sure you swiftly retorted: "fewer chavvy proles!"

not necessarily. Perhaps the speaker liked the number of proles, but wished them to be less chavvy in their manner.

 

[isvicthere?]

not necessarily. Perhaps the speaker liked the number of proles, but wished them to be less chavvy in their manner.

 

[isvicthere?]

Incidentally, on her facebook page she lists herself as an alumna of "Stockport School". A quick wikipedia search reveals no such establishment, but does suggest "Stockport Grammar School", an independent school founded in 1487. Not exactly a "bog standard" comp, if it is, indeed, her alma mater.

 

[London_Calling]

Is it the correct Sophie Armour?

 

[isvicthere?]

Is it the correct Sophie Armour?

Can't be 100% sure, but she does list her journalism studies and job at Brixton Academy.

 

[Belushi]

Lets leave it at that, the poor girl is hardly Johann Hari.

 

[quimcunx]

Lets leave it at that, the poor girl is hardly Johann Hari.

She's more a Rebekah Brooks.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

To which I'm sure you swiftly retorted: "fewer chavvy proles!"

They were walking in the other direction and I had heavy shopping and was utterly knackered after work. It's nip and tuck getting there after work before the stalls close. I did seethe all the way home and instead of a cup of tea I had a large vodka and orange juice. Sainsbury's basics on both counts, nothing aspirational.