ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Yet again an example of Lambeth's Labour group thinking they're being clever, but instead showing what a bunch of total and utter weasel's rimjobs they are.
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Yet again an example of Lambeth's Labour group thinking they're being clever, but instead showing what a bunch of total and utter weasel's rimjobs they are.
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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Actually compared to the world of business bonuses councillors special responsibility allowances have been fairly static.
In the hung council of 1994-98 each of the three group leaders (Labour, Lib Dem, Tory) got just over £10,000 pa on top of their basic allowance. Added to this they also got paid £20 per meeting attended - which I don't think applies any more.
I don't feel able to comment on the Green party group leader's allowances right now, before he had drawn them. "By their fruits ye shall know them!".
As for the Stalinist New Labour group - snouts in the trough come to my mind.
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Sloppy spelling on the Lambeth Life website. Actually I only noticed because I follow Lib Peck (in order to see what I'm supposed to be thinking).
Here is a paragraph from article Diverse, passionate, reforming: new faces on the council that Cllr Peck re-tweeted:
"His young ward colleague Mahamed Hashi from Somali, who sits on a dozen policing and crime committees and is co-founder of Brixton Soup Kitchen, agrees. ‘If you’re a community that votes, people take you a lot more se- riously’, he says. While May’s election may have tipped the balance of power only very slightly, it has brought some passionate new blood and a different dynamic to the Town Hall."
I'm sure Mahamed Hashi is a nice guy and all that - though evidently not as charismatic as the new Green Somali Lord Mayor Of Sheffield
My dispute is with Lambeth Life (or maybe with Microsoft spellcheck) over their proof reading. A person cannot come from Somali as far as I am aware. They might come from Somalia, or maybe from Somaliland, depending on their political situation in the Horn of Africa.
A person of Somali heritage is surely a Somali. Do they need a new editor at Lambeth Life? I've got two spare years before my new Tory imposed retirement age of 66!
Here is a paragraph from article Diverse, passionate, reforming: new faces on the council that Cllr Peck re-tweeted:
"His young ward colleague Mahamed Hashi from Somali, who sits on a dozen policing and crime committees and is co-founder of Brixton Soup Kitchen, agrees. ‘If you’re a community that votes, people take you a lot more se- riously’, he says. While May’s election may have tipped the balance of power only very slightly, it has brought some passionate new blood and a different dynamic to the Town Hall."
I'm sure Mahamed Hashi is a nice guy and all that - though evidently not as charismatic as the new Green Somali Lord Mayor Of Sheffield
My dispute is with Lambeth Life (or maybe with Microsoft spellcheck) over their proof reading. A person cannot come from Somali as far as I am aware. They might come from Somalia, or maybe from Somaliland, depending on their political situation in the Horn of Africa.
A person of Somali heritage is surely a Somali. Do they need a new editor at Lambeth Life? I've got two spare years before my new Tory imposed retirement age of 66!
Gramsci
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The relevant article. Looks very badly written. I don't know why.
Diverse, passionate, reforming: new faces on the council - LambethLife
The relevant article. Looks very badly written. I don't know why.
Diverse, passionate, reforming: new faces on the council - LambethLife
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
What happened to the 'co-op' experiment ? I was working for another council when it started and went to visit Lambeth . The ideas seemed honourable at the time but the whole concept now seems to be way past its sell by date .
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Gramsci
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It never really happened.
Take the Grove Adventure Playground in Loughborough Junction. Been closed for years due to cuts.
Small group of volunteers have been working on it to get in in working order and grant from charity been obtained to reopen it.
Ticks all the boxes for Cooperative Council idea.
You would have thought Council officers / Labour Cllrs would be pulling out all the stops to help local community get this off the ground.
No. It's taken months of persuasion. Up against officer resistance from the start.
My personal experience of Co-op Council has been that it's been anything but cooperative.
The New Labour Coop Council is like Cameron's Big Society. Meaningless and shallow.
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It sounds like the sort of thing they have in Ambridge quite honestly.
Tricky Skills
Well-Known Member
My dispute with the 'independent' Lambeth Life is that the Publisher is Ibrahim Dogus - the Labour Cllr for Bishop's ward. At least you knew with the original Lambeth Life that it was a load of hairy old bollocks, published by Lambeth.
No byline appears online for that ridiculous puff piece. My RSS reader however pulled in the author as... Cllr Ibrahim Dogus. This might just be an RSS quirk.
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Tricky Skills
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This shoddy piece of journalism was published on the eve of purdah. It basically asked Nu Labour stooge Ed Davie to explain why he is so bloody brilliant to the electorate.
His personal vote went down btw in 2018.
His personal vote went down btw in 2018.
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This is an excellent piece. Labour's dirty tricks campaign against the Greens has backfired rather wonderfully.
Green party calls for 56% cut in Lambeth Council ‘allowances’ as Labour spin backfires
Green party calls for 56% cut in Lambeth Council ‘allowances’ as Labour spin backfires
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Does Ibrahim Dogus merit a Wikipedia page?
İbrahim Doğuş - Wikipedia
I remember going to a talk on Wikipedia which covered editing and accountability. I asked about something that had happened regarding Lambeth 10 or 15 years ago. There was a Wikipedia entry for Keith Fitchett (former Lib Dem housing spokesman in the 2002-2006 administration). This was clearly intended as Labour propaganda and the facts were in dispute, so I flagged it and changed it (assuming it had been written by Labour propaganda chief Torren Smith).
More recently the article has in fact disappeared (although it could still be retrieve through the the Wayback Machine at the time of my question). The Wikipedia spokesman said that it is not normally the case that councillors are important enough to warrant a Wikipedia page - which is probably why it was removed.
So my question is this - do people feel that Councillor Dogus might fail the Wikipedia "notability guideline"?
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
İbrahim Doğuş - Wikipedia
I remember going to a talk on Wikipedia which covered editing and accountability. I asked about something that had happened regarding Lambeth 10 or 15 years ago. There was a Wikipedia entry for Keith Fitchett (former Lib Dem housing spokesman in the 2002-2006 administration). This was clearly intended as Labour propaganda and the facts were in dispute, so I flagged it and changed it (assuming it had been written by Labour propaganda chief Torren Smith).
More recently the article has in fact disappeared (although it could still be retrieve through the the Wayback Machine at the time of my question). The Wikipedia spokesman said that it is not normally the case that councillors are important enough to warrant a Wikipedia page - which is probably why it was removed.
So my question is this - do people feel that Councillor Dogus might fail the Wikipedia "notability guideline"?
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
Gramsci
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Im not against Cllrs getting paid properly.
What I am against is Labour Cllrs getting paid and behaving like Blairite anti working class Progress supporters.
Take Cllr Edbrooke. I had the delight of dealing with her face to face when she was a Cabinet member in last administration. She is straight out of Planet Third Way Blairism. No exaggeration. Some of these Lambeth Labour party members are so right wing they are to the right of the Liberals.
Unless you have the misfortune of dealing with them you might think I'm exaggerating.
Now Cllr Edbrooke is:
A post that suits her better than dealing with libraries, parks and leisure centres.Her last Cabinet post.
She doesn't exactly have people skills. Though she will make a good
whip as she is hard nosed Blaire true believer.
Why bullying other Cllrs deserves this remuneration is beyond me.
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I imagine all that flies right over the heads of most of her constituents.
Tricky Skills
Well-Known Member
Really?
I've found Cllr Craig and Cllr Mosley to be very decent. They put up a bloody good fight for residents over the Garden Bridge, despite the Progress mob trying to push it though.
Ditto with the shit Abba thingy.
I've found Cllr Craig and Cllr Mosley to be very decent. They put up a bloody good fight for residents over the Garden Bridge, despite the Progress mob trying to push it though.
Ditto with the shit Abba thingy.
BusLanes
Pedestrian
Saw them at their hustings up Waterloo way. Whatever good they may do as councillors, they really didn't come across very well, nice, there compared to all of the other candidates. Although of course politeness is not everything in politics
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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I know I'm paranoid, but this Lambeth municipal scene seems to have echoes of the ultimate municipal distopia (c. 1927)Solidarity with Grenfell but this must have been an expensive bit of lighting, did anyone actually notice it last night? This picture from their twitter feed.
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A real keeeerching! of a wage packet:
Andrew Travers set to land £185,000 role as new Chief Executive of Lambeth Council
Andrew Travers set to land £185,000 role as new Chief Executive of Lambeth Council
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hiraethified
The car is still there. Someone on FB said it's now been given a parking ticket too!
Coldharbour Lane car crash: five days on and the vehicle is still there, Brixton, June 2018
Coldharbour Lane car crash: five days on and the vehicle is still there, Brixton, June 2018
organicpanda
cat herder extraodinaire
It hasn’t, while there is police tape around it’s their responsibilityThe car is still there. Someone on FB said it's now been given a parking ticket too!
Coldharbour Lane car crash: five days on and the vehicle is still there, Brixton, June 2018
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hiraethified
Sounded a bit unlikely, I have to say.
Gramsci
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Solidarity with Grenfell but this must have been an expensive bit of lighting, did anyone actually notice it last night? This picture from their twitter feed.
This annoys me.
Im rather afraid Grenfell is being made into one of those issues where the ruling establishment suddenly realised that the less well off should be treated well.
Ive found treatment of this in media like Evening Standard mawkish. The ES over the years has done nothing to support affordable housing. Its been a cheerleader for property developers and the buy to let private landlords. Yet it cynically jumps on the bandwagon for Grenfell anniversary. I await double page spread spread in ES property pages extolling the virtues of Council housing and berating landlords/ property developers.
So is Lambeth Labour Council going to call a halt to its regeneration schemes for estates? Is it going to listen to its tenants? One of the lessons of Grenfell was that tenants weren't listened to.
As ViolentPanda knows.
