Lambeth Tory councillor Tim Briggs and his 'eviction specialist' firm

[editor]

Tories being tories...

A Tory councillor is being investigated after it emerged he runs an 'eviction specialist' firm in a borough where 1,800 families are homeless.

A statement on its website boasts of having "an impressive near 100% record in getting possession for landlords at the first hearing."

Another page with a list of legal costs is entitled: "Evicting tenants - as Easy as A, B, C"

The company did not appear on Mr Briggs' declaration of interests in information published in 2014 or 2015.

Revealed: Tory runs 'eviction specialist' firm in borough with 1,800 homeless

 

[editor]

Priceless hypocrisy from his Tory party statement from 2013

Tim is now a housing solicitor fighting unscrupulous landlords and antisocial neighbours. He volunteers as a legal adviser at a local advice service. Tim decided to stand for election having helped numerous local residents deal with problems that could so easily have been avoided with better support from the Council.

 

[cybershot]

Prick

 

[ViolentPanda]

Very old news. The Daily Mirror have latched onto this two years after the Brixton Blog did, and I'm fairly sure that Brixton Buzz ran a short article on it, too!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Priceless hypocrisy from his Tory party statement from 2013

To be fair, he's apparently a very good ward councillor who gets stuck in regarding resident problems. The same sadly can't be said for many of his Labour peers.

 

[lang rabbie]

BTW The Mirror story is date-stamped 28 January 2016

 

[ViolentPanda]

BTW The Mirror story is date-stamped 28 January 2016

Yes dear, that's why I said that it's "old news".

 

[The Fornicator]

Unless the title is changed to the past tense this is just pathetic click bait.

 

[Rushy]

Unless the title is changed to the past tense this is just pathetic click bait.

The thread title is misleading in more than just tense. The title states that Cllr Briggs failed to declare his firm. Yet the Mirror article linked to says that an investigation by the Council found that the councillor had in fact submitted the correct documents declaring his interest but that a Lambeth admin error led to the details not being published.

Asked why the business is not on his register of interests, Mr Briggs said: "I genuinely don't know that.

"There's absolutely no reason why it shouldn't be. I provided documents when I became a councillor."

A Lambeth council spokesman said: “The matter was referred to the Council’s Monitoring Officer to investigate following the receipt of a formal complaint on Wednesday.

"On first inspection, it seems that Cllr Briggs had indeed submitted paperwork relating to his involvement with the company Legalmentor Uk Ltd in September 2015 and, due to administrative error, this was not declared online.

"This error will be rectified immediately.

 

[editor]

Yes dear, that's why I said that it's "old news".

Yeah, it came up in my FB feed but I didn't note the date. I've changed the title.

 

[ViolentPanda]

The thread title is misleading in more than just tense. The title states that Cllr Briggs failed to declare his firm. Yet the Mirror article linked to says that an investigation by the Council found that the councillor had in fact submitted the correct documents declaring his interest but that a Lambeth admin error led to the details not being published.

Given how rife favouritism towards Labour is among Lambeth's officers and executives, I suspect that the "admin error" was a deliberate admin failure. Also, if one goes through the online log of member interests, many of them are inaccurate or out-of-date. It's fishy that someone complains about Briggs like this, not too long after Cllr Matthew Bennett claimed in cabinet that Briggs wasn't a qualified solicitor. Bennett has form for getting his poodles to put the knife in. I wonder if the original complaint came from Cllr Luke Murphy (known as "Lying Luke" to many people in his ward, as of March this year)? Oh well, we'll never know.

 

[The Fornicator]

Yeah, it came up in my FB feed but I didn't note the date. I've changed the title.

Funny that.

 

[editor]

Funny that.

Just make whatever snidey point you've got in mind and fuck off please.

 

[editor]

So just to clear this up, does/did Cllr Briggs run an eviction firm?

 

[editor]

I see Mr Briggs likes to attack Corbyn with gusto. This rant against the "extremists, bullies, sycophants and psychopaths are the far-Left in Venezuela or the far-Left Labour party under Corbyn in the UK or in Lambeth" is coming up at the next Lambeth meeting.

Cllr Tim Briggs, Opposition Leader on Lambeth Council, who has tabled the motion says:

'.... Jeremy Corbyn’s position on Venezuela is unsustainable. By condemning violence ‘from all sides’ without any criticism of the Maduro regime, he has intentionally created a moral equivalence between the violence of the Maduro regime, and the violent response from people whose rights have been violated, whose livelihoods have been destroyed, and who are now starving. There is no moral equivalence, even though the same word ‘violence’ is used in both instances. Corbyn talking about ‘condemning violence from all sides’ is actually the answer to a completely different question about whether violence is a preferable way for parties to express their differences.

Labour councillors are now saying that they 'condemn violence on all sides, including the Maduro regime'. But the fact remains that Labour activists and councillors in Lambeth have organised events and fundraisers in support of the Maduro dictatorship.

So the condemnation now by Labour councillors of violence 'on all sides' cannot be sincere. It is the worst kind of moral fudge – an attempt by Labour councillors to sound sincere, in the hope of hiding the fact that they are still backing the wrong side.

People who for many years wrote off Corbyn and the far-Left as idealists with the best intentions, need to understand this fundamental lesson: that governments anywhere in the world that espouse weak arguments and ideas, moral fudges and poor governance, create a vacuum which is both intellectual and real. If that moral space is not filled properly, it ends up being filled by extremists, bullies, sycophants and psychopaths, who quickly take power, and prey upon the weak.

Whether those extremists, bullies, sycophants and psychopaths are the far-Left in Venezuela or the far-Left Labour party under Corbyn in the UK or in Lambeth, it is only good people armed with thoughtful, evidence-based arguments that can stop them.'

 

[Gramsci]

I see Mr Briggs likes to attack Corbyn with gusto. This rant against the "extremists, bullies, sycophants and psychopaths are the far-Left in Venezuela or the far-Left Labour party under Corbyn in the UK or in Lambeth" is coming up at the next Lambeth meeting.

Ive seen him in action at planning committee meetings a few times. He is really the worst sort of Tory. Presents himself like a man of the world pulled himself up by his bootstrap type of man. Right little Thatcherite.

What surprised me about him was his position at the planning meeting on Network Rails application for the arches. I thought he would be vociferously supporting the little man against big business. But the opposite was the case.

He is an obnoxious right winger who presents himself as being a man of the people.

 

[ViolentPanda]

So just to clear this up, does/did Cllr Briggs run an eviction firm?

Yes.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I see Mr Briggs likes to attack Corbyn with gusto. This rant against the "extremists, bullies, sycophants and psychopaths are the far-Left in Venezuela or the far-Left Labour party under Corbyn in the UK or in Lambeth" is coming up at the next Lambeth meeting.

I generally give him a slap-down for this sort of shite when I bump into him. Last time I told him it must be embarrassing for his friends and family, knowing someone who channels Paul Dacre.
He's actually very hot on individual rights, hence his taking Lambeth's cabinet to a scrutiny committee hearing earlier this year. He doesn't believe that secure tenants on regeneration estates should have their secure tenancies taken away from them.
Otherwise though, he's pretty much a standard one nationish-Tory with a bit of Thatcher-worship thrown in.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Ive seen him in action at planning committee meetings a few times. He is really the worst sort of Tory. Presents himself like a man of the world pulled himself up by his bootstrap type of man. Right little Thatcherite.

What surprised me about him was his position at the planning meeting on Network Rails application for the arches. I thought he would be vociferously supporting the little man against big business. But the opposite was the case.

He is an obnoxious right winger who presents himself as being a man of the people.

His ward isn't over-affected by Lambeth's development shenanigans, so he's no sympathy or empathy for what "the little man" is going through, sadly.

 

[The Fornicator]

Presented as a current 'thing', this piece from January 2016 has appeared on my Facebook timeline in the past hour via Battersea Momentum.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Presented as a current 'thing', this piece from January 2016 has appeared on my Facebook timeline in the past hour via Battersea Momentum.

Have you told Battersea Momentum?