Reclaim Brixton movement - meetings and April 25th protest planned

[Diamond]

i'd rather you didn't whine on about it

Pathetic

 

[Diamond]

bono cunt.

So eloquent!

 

[butchersapron]

So eloquent!

You've decided to do this on here - everywhere. Crack on. I had you right 10 years ago. Didn't i?

 

[Pickman's model]

Pathetic

after the eponymous scandal john profumo spent most of the redt of his life quietly doing charity work in whitechapel. he didn't do what you do and brag about it. you're worse than a disgraced tory.

 

[butchersapron]

I wonder what use diamond and his pro bono sell is?

Dangerous.

 

[butchersapron]

Looking to make work/bono i get it.

 

[Diamond]

Truly you are demonstrating your idiocy chaps.

Writ large.

 

[Limerick Red]

 

[superfly101]

Without people giving their free time pro-bono do you think would ever happen?

http://nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/2015/05/vulnerability-a-fresh-start/

This has been going on for years! Now that people have no access to funded legal help do you think it's more or less likely to happen?

 

[Diamond]

The interesting point for us is that the pressure seems to be coming from the "up" rather than being pushed "down".

There is a lot of chat about legal aid but, to be frank, most punters would never have qualified under the previous regime anyway.

 

[Diamond]

But those eejits who want to discourage me from giving up my free time to help people in Lambeth who need legal aid pro bono - you people can get fucked.

 

[Diamond]

Of all the free legal advice I've had in the last 20 years, I've been fortunate in that those that gave me free advice never boasted about doing so on the internet.

I have not boasted about my pro bono clinic at all. To suggest otherwise is mealy-mouthed nonsense.

I could go into details but that would raise issues around client-advisor confidence as you no doubt are aware.

 

[Diamond]

Anyways, what we can take away from this is that (i) there are some people who don't like getting old, (ii) they and their associates confuse themselves to the extent that this becomes political and (iii) it's the beards and cheese that fucked it.

 

[killer b]

I'm not sure whether it would be worse for diamond to use a real or imagined case of domestic violence to try and win an argument on the internet.

 

[butchersapron]

Anyways, what we can take away from this is that (i) there are some people who don't like getting old, (ii) they and their associates confuse themselves to the extent that this becomes political and (iii) it's the beards and cheese that fucked it.

uh huh


Pro bono, every single word you posted.

I would kill myself to find CV bloating

 

[butchersapron]

Anyways, what we can take away from this is that (i) there are some people who don't like getting old, (ii) they and their associates confuse themselves to the extent that this becomes political and (iii) it's the beards and cheese that fucked it.[/QUOTE} look at you. Why

 

[Nanker Phelge]

This thread is the type of stuff that really turns my stomach btw.

Lots of folk masturbating each other about their favorite High Street and then acting all high and mighty and doing, nothing.

It's not about gentrification. It's about people. Maybe youse will wake up some day and see that.

Lots of people here are doing something. We just don't have a flag as big as yours.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Calling people 'punters' is not helping them either. It's what the gambling and prostitution business use as a term for those less esteemed than the less esteemed.

 

[Pickman's model]

This thread is the type of stuff that really turns my stomach btw.

Lots of folk masturbating each other about their favorite High Street and then acting all high and mighty and doing, nothing.

It's not about gentrification. It's about people. Maybe youse will wake up some day and see that.

d'you not recall your froth about the mosque on kingsland road where you claimed to be concerned about equality issues but although happy to post about it here you refused - despite your vaunted legal knowledge - to raise it with anyone including the mosque or local authority. you've a record of wanking on about high streets but refusing to do anything about it.

 

[butchersapron]

Do it through me or don't exist.

 

[pesh]

I have not boasted about my pro bono clinic at all.

you hardly do anything else.

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[editor]

Any chance of this getting back on topic about the Reclaim Brixton movement? it's kind of important to some people.

 

[ViolentPanda]

FFS or course we do!!!!

But funded services now do not exist!!!!

Since funded services no longer exits but some nice people are still carrying on..... do we go.... or do we go.......

We do what we can, and that includes harassing the council. For example, they really don't like being constantly reminded that the "cabinet allowances" (not even their normal "expenses" allowances,mind!) for councillors that they collect, would have kept full-time advice workers at three or four different locations, and still had enough left over to fund court actions.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I work hard.

Much of that is in aid of those who cannot afford it - in the


Jog on.

I work pro bono.

You may not like it; it may not wash so easily with your prejudices but quite frankly you can get gone.

Thing is, plenty of people work pro bono. Most don't mention it every chance they get. That's nothing to do with my disliking what you post, or being "prejudiced", it's about the fact that you throw your "good works" and your education in peoples' faces. Most of us grew out of that by our early 20s, and just get on with doing what we can.

 

[ViolentPanda]

This thread is the type of stuff that really turns my stomach btw.

Lots of folk masturbating each other about their favorite High Street and then acting all high and mighty and doing, nothing.

The "doing nothing" is an assumption on your part. Just because people don't blow their own trumpets in the way you do, doesn't mean they do nothing.
And unlike you, what they do is unlikely to be included on their CV as a brag point.

It's not about gentrification. It's about people. Maybe youse will wake up some day and see that.

"Youse"? Going for a bit of cred with some argot?
Gentrification is about people. People are implicated in and harmed by gentrification.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Bloat that CV. Helper.

Yup.

 

[ViolentPanda]

But those eejits who want to discourage me from giving up my free time to help people in Lambeth who need legal aid pro bono - you people can get fucked.

People don't want to discourage you from "giving up your free time", they'd like you to stop going on about your good works.
Interesting how absolutely you missed that.

 

[friendofdorothy]

'Reclaim' is so general a word - it is hard to pin down what 'Reclaim Brixton' means. So far I can understand that it is inclusive of many ralated causes to save the market traders and oppose Lambeth council on various issues arround planning and housing.

I'd like to 'reclaim' or perhaps just 'save' London from becoming an even more divided city - with only rich people living within zone 2 and cleansed of the poor. I'm not sure we all want to 'reclaim' the same things and I'm reading this thread to find out exactly what others want to reclaim. It is a valid question to ask - what do we want 'reclaim' and for whom? There is no go-back-in-time-a-tron.

I don't want to hear an argument of who is allowed to live or work here in Brixton - that is the kind of small town/ village mentality, petty mindedness, xenophobia that I moved to the big city to avoid. I'm fed up of the the 'I'm more Brixton than you' and 'you are all gentifiers' attitude' I keep hearing (IRL as well as here) The kind of personal abuse that I've read on this thread is not helpful to anyone.

 

[Pickman's model]

'Reclaim' is so general a word - it is hard to pin down what 'Reclaim Brixton' means. So far I can understand that it is inclusive of many ralated causes to save the market traders and oppose Lambeth council on various issues arround planning and housing.

I'd like to 'reclaim' or perhaps just 'save' London from becoming an even more divided city - with only rich people living within zone 2 and cleansed of the poor. I'm not sure we all want to 'reclaim' the same things and I'm reading this thread to find out exactly what others want to reclaim. It is a valid question to ask - what do we want 'reclaim' and for whom? There is no go-back-in-time-a-tron.

I don't want to hear an argument of who is allowed to live or work here in Brixton - that is the kind of small town/ village mentality, petty mindedness, xenophobia that I moved to the big city to avoid. I'm fed up of the the 'I'm more Brixton than you' and 'you are all gentifiers' attitude' I keep hearing (IRL as well as here) The kind of personal abuse that I've read on this thread is not helpful to anyone.

i thought it meant reclaiming brixton from people only seeking to make a quick buck out of the area and those who wanted nothing better than to change the area to suit their own agendas: people seeking to impose development plans and so on. the thing i think people object to is the notion that regeneration or improvement of the area necessarily means the loss of community amenities, the current population, and conversely the necessity of gentrification.