Today in Whatthefuckville, the Daily Wail needed several cardboard boxes to deliver an online petition to Downing Street Yes, you did read that correctly. please log in to view this image Then again, this probably went over their readers' heads - sort of like the concept of irony went so far over the head of this MailOnline user that it went shooting past the stratosphere and is headed deep into the Milky Way please log in to view this image
Let's see if I've got this straight: the Tories bring in Sugar Tax, yet somehow it's the fault of "PC snowflake nutjobs gone mad" I think I see a glaring flaw in the argument...
I wonder whether this story in the Eye this week will be picked up by mainstream media outlets..... . No? I thought not!
Isn't it funny how in the space of a week we have heard both Home Secretary Amber Rudd and Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (and murderer of Brazilian electricians) Cressida Dick both claim that the rise in knife crime is entirely the fault of social media and not in any way connected to there being up to 30,000 less police officers due to government spending cuts?
They want it to happen. There needs to be more demand for private policing, so that they can make some more cash later.
Is this true? They (politicians) are threatening "London Russians" with a good kicking for bringing their ill gotten gains to London to spend on.....? This includes money laundering apparently. Why do I start thinking of someone at Chelsea?
On Sunday, Amber Rudd, Home Secretary, publicly states that lower Police numbers have no effect on the rise in serious violent crime. On Monday, the Home Office report that the decrease in Police numbers has had a direct impact on........ the rise in serious violent crime!
Harriet Harman accepts Tory MP Kemi Badenoch's hacking apology - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43694295 Another shining example of the standard of conduct expected from our elected Representatives.......
Elements of truth certainly, although from a (self-admittedly in the article) biased stand point. Unfortunately, in my experience of development projects around the world, there will always be some conflict of ideals - even when undertaken with the best of motivations. I've only lived just off the North Circular in N13, not that close to WHL, but my ex was born and brought up in Park Lane. She would be at the head of the queue supporting the leveling of the immediate area - regardless of the new stadium development. You just hope that the local changes are administered honestly and minimising impact on the local residents and businesses. Guess time will tell if that is the case here.
I did my usual regular circuit of new WHL, but this is the first time since the ticket prices were announced. Doing my usual route from my homeland (N18) starting at Angel Rd to WHL, I was in more pensive mood about who is reponsible / to blame for what, and how that parish is changing for the better/worse and for who.
A throwaway reference to Claire Kober is made in the article, and based on how despised she was by Haringey residents for her gentrification mania (which she attempted to spin into some anti-Momentum propaganda, because of course she did) there's a good chance she's involved somewhere.
The question is whether the club have directly been complicit in any gentrification due to the NDP, or whether as suggested gentrification will now come via the back door of new WHL needing to be built.
Based on this Grauniad article from late 2013, it appears that the council were using WHL2 as a trojan horse https://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/30/tottenham-new-stadium-fury-regeneration Here's the most relevant segment of the article Levy also urged that wider regeneration of Tottenham was needed to encourage bank and investor confidence in the Spurs project and earlier this year Haringey council dramatically unveiled three sets of controversial development proposals for a large area across Tottenham High Road from the new stadium site. All three of the options are bitterly opposed by local business people who have found their premises suddenly earmarked for demolition after decades of work. Two rows of shops, with homes above, opposite the entrance to the planned new stadium, are to be demolished, as is the Love Lane housing estate, partly to make space for a wide walkway to steward fans from an improved White Hart Lane train station to the new stadium. The council says that on non-match days that walkway will function as a new mini-town centre, with cafes, restaurants and public space. To the north of the new walkway, the council's plans envisage 1,650 new homes, retail units, employment workspaces, a promised cinema, a new sports and community centre, and a library, just along from the current library, for which a row of six shops, including a doctor's surgery, are to be demolished. The Peacock industrial estate, currently fully occupied with garages and other businesses, is to be knocked down in two of the options, and become Peacock Mews. All the businesses on the industrial estate have been told they must move if the plans are approved, but not how they will be compensated or relocated, because, the council says, the scheme is as yet only for consultation. The council tenants on the Love Lane estate have been promised new homes in the proposed development, which has led to them approving the plans, but traders are furious.
Living in Tottenham for the first 24 years of my life was,as I look back such a long time ago,wasn't exactly paradise but we enjoyed the ups and downs (as working class!). I liked everything about Tottenham,except Topham Square,hard nuts on that estate!.....and would have been living there today,but stepfather caught T.B. and we got a council house in "the fresh air" of Cheshunt in Hertfordshire to help him out (he'd been a chain smoker of Boars Head!). This developed to cancer later. I took a trip to Russia as a tourist and the Russians put the Brits in the plane with the Yanks and I met the wife,who was in the US Navy stationed in London working computers.......so my ties with Tottenham went out the window,apart from Spurs and my mates of yonks. I visited a few years ago and the first things I noticed was most of the British shops I knew were now taken over by people from around the world. But basically,the map of Tottenham hasn't really changed a lot except for the people. The politics and crime? I haven't a clue. My favourite place in Tottenham,apart from the Spurs ground? Lordship Rec.Man,I spent a lot of time there as a kid and later as a football player on those slopes,not forgetting the traffic area where I became Vic Duggan(an Australian speedway star of the Harringay Racers) racing around the little roads like a lunatic! My favourite vision as a kid in Tottenham......was seeing that little brown City Coach taking people to that most wonderful place on earth......our dear old Southend-On-Sea! Maybe there was a paradise after all.........!
Not having the best of days, our lovely Home Secretary, is she? It’s the ‘oh Feck it - I’m shafted!’ realisation moment before the thank you that makes it so funny!! http://news.sky.com/video/share-11324122Rudd dodges question on violent crime funding
