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Reclaim Brixton movement - meetings and April 25th protest planned
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I bet the Foxtons' manager loves Foxtons
Maybe it was him in the balaclava?
stethoscope
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Well, successive governments aren't looking to do much about it (mostly because they profit from the way things are/continue to go). So local communities stand up (as they have at the weekend) themselves to organise and to try and change things/apply pressure onto both local and national government. What gets me is that instead of celebrating all that is positive about actions at the weekend, some people seem very quick to focus in on a bit of broken glass to steer the narrative away from it being worthwhile. Precisely what government, 'politicians' and the media want.
Orang Utan
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What if they work in McDonald's in Oxford Street and earn just £900 a month?
Then you wouldn't work in McDonald's if you couldn't afford to live on that wage..... But like property, there's always somebody willing to pay a premium or work for £900....., it's a bloody nightmare
editor
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Lots of people work for McDonald's and can barely afford to live.
I live in a housing co-op where I get letters from estate agents wanting to buy my flat (Foxtons is down market in this world) now given there is no possibility of my selling anything or indeed passing the flat off to children you'd think they'd know there very expensive brochures were a waste of time.Oh no they keep sending them off and I keep ripping them up and tossing in the bin.If that's Capitalism at their fineist they are fucked.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
This has been going on for years (before Foxtons) finance the rtb, let the ex-tenant live there until the property can be sold - give the ex-tenant a portion of the profits - which isn't usually enough for them to stay in the area - and sometimes the ex-tenant is worse off as a result, no council flat and renting privately
In further news those on the dole only do so because they can afford to.
it's all about choice.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
And yet that didn't happen, did it?
Are you a journalist by any chance?
It's the liberal litmus test.
Nope. As a lot of people on these boards must be getting mightily tired of hearing, I'm a lawyer.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I think they're proposing that a single broken window inevitably leads to social disorder. The last time I heard this proposed with any seriousness was when Boris's first "deputy mayor for crime" trotted out a set of ideas based on James Q. Wilson's "Broken Windows theory". it was shite back in the day, and it's still shite!
Incidentally, I was cycling through Loughborough Junction yesterday, a place that I lived in from 2010 to 2012 and noticed that it had changed remarkably - there were new build flats sprouting up, the Cambria looked to be a lot more boring of a pub and there was another place on the way down Coldharbour Lane that looked to be thriving on a Sunday afternoon.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Read the innumerable gentrification threads. You'll find detailed answers to your questions there.
Yet. It shouldn't of happend at all. It just gives Foxtons free advertising. It only takes one person to graphitti a blank wall. If this is not repainted then more will appear
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
It is. it's always about choice.
Of course, when you actually get around to discussing what your "choice" comprises of, it often varies with social class and/or with spending power. Odd, that!
Welcome to London or Brixton
To be frank - I can't be arsed. However, I remember soon after I graduated from university, some friends of mine moved to Brixton and I used to spend a lot of time in the area, then I moved to Loughborough Junction three years later and also spent a lot of time in Brixton as a result. Over the course of that period 2007-2012 the area changed quite a bit. I was wondering whether this change is a rolling process that has been going on for some time or whether it is quite a sharp about-turn IYSWIM.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Like I said to editor , you're trotting out a version of "Broken Windows theory", which always sounds very convincing if you're a "law'n'order" type, but which isn't really borne out in non-partisan research in the last 30+ years. You're claiming an inevitability to events, an inevitability that doesn't actually exist.
Ok let me come and graffiti your wall. Let's see what happens. We can call it 'The Reclaim my wall theory' I await your reply.
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