Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
What day do you clip your toe nails?
Tulse Hill news, chitter chatter and gossip
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Maharani
Just like Heaven
Haha! I love that film...
Maharani
Just like Heaven
I thought it about time to post something positive about our locals.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Open Mic = too crap to get a proper gig night
Earnest acoustic bellyaching bores
Earnest acoustic bellyaching bores
It's good to read someone doing it as they are easily lost.
discobastard
Well-Known Member
I do quite like it in there. Have they fixed the heating then? And yeah, the pizzas are dead good.
Maharani
Just like Heaven
Maharani
Just like Heaven
Yeah, it was still a bit cold mind but it soon heated up after 3 glasses of red and plenty of bodies...
Maharani
Just like Heaven
I repeat: CURMUDGEON
jimbarkanoodle
Well-Known Member
serves them right really, theres only so much piss you take out of people
Maharani
Just like Heaven
That's crazy. What do they think they're playing at? Their food is shite! I had fries in there on Saturday and they were pale and undercooked. I mean, how can you not serve fries right? Tossers.
GypsyWings
Active Member
Ah I loved Strowgers, been there for years never left that shop without what I went in for
discobastard
Well-Known Member
You did send 'em back, right?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
In the Railway?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Welsh rarebit in the Tulse is a winner!
discobastard
Well-Known Member
I asked Helen about Tina while I was in the Co-op just now. Tina is apparently well and has another job somewhere else (I don't know where). But I'm pleased about that.
Maharani
Just like Heaven
Yes, though I can't name her. Although there is now another runner in the Tulse. I think I'm in love (a wee bit).
Fingers
From Tuscany SE22
Not sure how i feel about this or if anyone has already posted about it.
Community Shop opens: ‘it’s light at the end of the tunnel’
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/15/community-shop-opens-west-norwood-london
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...upermarkets-low-income-customers-food-poverty
One of the issues i have with it is the further segregation of the poor and the blaming of the individual. This is the poor house, this is the poor shop, (The West Norwood store is out of sight behind a waste and recycling centre), these are the courses we are going to put you on to change your fucked up life. A social enterprise is a business, a business that trades on poverty and injustice; that's how they make their money.
I'm sure those social enterprise entrepreneurs are very well meaning but it is essentially marketing bullshit when businesses bang on about corporate social responsibility; they have one purpose and that's to make a profit. The emphasis is on "correcting" the behaviour of the poor and not the increasing inequality brought about by unbridled market forces.
It's probably a step up from the Foodbank but the moral nonsense is still there; "You can get heavily discounted sweets and fizzy drinks, (the local public health lobby objected to Community Shop’s arrival in Lambeth for this reason) but not cigarettes, alcohol or lottery tickets."
“The danger is that it [Community Shop] solves hunger but it doesn't solve the underlying causes of poverty, that it frames the problem of poverty at the level of the individual, rather than structure,” says Martin Caraher, professor of health and food policy at City University." My point exactly.
Community Shop opens: ‘it’s light at the end of the tunnel’
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/15/community-shop-opens-west-norwood-london
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...upermarkets-low-income-customers-food-poverty
One of the issues i have with it is the further segregation of the poor and the blaming of the individual. This is the poor house, this is the poor shop, (The West Norwood store is out of sight behind a waste and recycling centre), these are the courses we are going to put you on to change your fucked up life. A social enterprise is a business, a business that trades on poverty and injustice; that's how they make their money.
I'm sure those social enterprise entrepreneurs are very well meaning but it is essentially marketing bullshit when businesses bang on about corporate social responsibility; they have one purpose and that's to make a profit. The emphasis is on "correcting" the behaviour of the poor and not the increasing inequality brought about by unbridled market forces.
It's probably a step up from the Foodbank but the moral nonsense is still there; "You can get heavily discounted sweets and fizzy drinks, (the local public health lobby objected to Community Shop’s arrival in Lambeth for this reason) but not cigarettes, alcohol or lottery tickets."
“The danger is that it [Community Shop] solves hunger but it doesn't solve the underlying causes of poverty, that it frames the problem of poverty at the level of the individual, rather than structure,” says Martin Caraher, professor of health and food policy at City University." My point exactly.
jimbarkanoodle
Well-Known Member
She left us?????
yes what do you mean Tina has another job?! She has left the bright lights of Tulse Hill co-op for better things? surely not
Thanks for highlighting that, I'm all in favour of people being able to get at least some of their food at a more affordable price. Not exactly on the main drag from the main bus routes, is it?
OTOH you can only use that shop (and have membership) for one year, you have to take part in a programme to basically smarten up your ideas, and at the end of a year, you're expected to have pulled yourself up a bit by your bootstraps so that you're no longer quite so poor.
This second component can fuck right off - the only way in which I could financially improve my circumstances enough, in spite of all my transferrable skills etc would be to either kill VP (and get away with it), leave VP, or find an illegal/semi legal way of earning. Things like long term disability and sickness don't miraculously vanish at the end of a year, nor does the Income Support limit.
I don't think that anyone is forced to go in there, you can still choose to spend money in any number of shops if you feel more comfortable.
And I'd imagine the booze, fags and lottery tickets is because nobody will donate these things, or discount them, so they'll only be taking up shelf space but not fulfilling the aim of the shop.
I'd rather see people have enough to not have to rely on such a shop, but if they don't, it's not the fault of the people trying to make it better in the short term for them.
And I'd imagine the booze, fags and lottery tickets is because nobody will donate these things, or discount them, so they'll only be taking up shelf space but not fulfilling the aim of the shop.
I'd rather see people have enough to not have to rely on such a shop, but if they don't, it's not the fault of the people trying to make it better in the short term for them.
Are you now, or have you recently lived on IS or the equivalent for more than a few weeks? IMHO this isn't about comfort. It's about leaving people right at the bottom of the heap with a little bit of dignity. Or not.
Patronising treatment in the form of accepting help in the approved form or you don't get the goodies is not going to boost anyone's self esteem unless they're masochists. IMHO this is on a par with church-run dosshouses in the 1930s expecting you to sing hymns and/or pray before getting your soup etc and a bed for the night.
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
Povo shop round the back of the bins really 
Yes, you're correct, but the issue lies not with the shop, it's the circumstances which necessitate the shop.Are you now, or have you recently lived on IS or the equivalent for more than a few weeks? IMHO this isn't about comfort. It's about leaving people right at the bottom of the heap with a little bit of dignity. Or not.
Patronising treatment in the form of accepting help in the approved form or you don't get the goodies is not going to boost anyone's self esteem unless they're masochists. IMHO this is on a par with church-run dosshouses in the 1930s expecting you to sing hymns and/or pray before getting your soup etc and a bed for the night.
I think that people will be better off for having it, but I wish the conditions which have resulted in it didn't exist.
I haven't recently, but have in the past, lived on benefits for more than a few weeks. My wife and I had just arrived in the country, were being put up by friends, and were jointly assessed as we were married. We got £40 a week between us. £20 each.
Anyway, it's not the fault of the Church, the do gooders, the shop. It's our rotten politicians who give to the top and take from the bottom.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I don't understand the rationale of this: membership club open to members on a means tested basis. Members are required to have credit counselling.
What is the ideology behind this? The Company Shop (for that is what it is really called) seems to be a typical "social firm".
http://www.companyshop.ltd.uk/company-shop/our-people.aspx
Not a charity, been around for yonks and now targeting areas perceived to be of high deprivation (in competition with already established Food Banks).
The premises are rented from Lambeth Council for a peppercorn rent (e.g.£1) is there also a grant for providing this sort of outlet - from Lambeth Council/JP Morgan/European Social Fund? I'm sure with the sort of slick PR these people have if there is they will have found it.
(AND they are working on a plan to pay their staff the living wage)
