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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ChilcoSaint, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    May bribes the ERG to back her deal. We are now in the hands of people with no interest in the people of this country, just the means to squeeze more cash out of them.

    Edit: apologies to Imps for soiling the page with a Guardian tweet.
     
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  2. SaintinSerbia

    SaintinSerbia Annoying Twat

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    In 20 years time Theresa May will be floating in her incontinence pants screaming "I was nearly famous!" and Rees Mogg will have pulled a rabbit out of his ass
     
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  3. VocalMinority

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    Yeah, Henley Homes only built the properties as designed and was faithful to the planning permission,. The separation was created after it was moved on and they were no longer involved.
     
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    Guy Fawkes was born in the wrong century.
     
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    He'll never blow out all the candles on his cake, more likely to stick his foot in it, the other being stuck in his mouth.
     
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  7. ImpSaint

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    He'll go to the wrong place or book it on the wrong day anyway. I wouldn't worry about him failing to the blow the candles out for any other reason.
     
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  8. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    He’ll buy his own candles, but from a dynamite shop.
     
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  9. ImpSaint

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    So Lambeth Council aren't to blame then. I guess these must be right wingers in 2016 then, not understanding "the law" and how Lambeth Council "are helpless."

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    Note the date on Jonathan Meade's comment in the article. The displacement map is quite a visual highlighting of the problem as well:

    As the critic Jonathan Meades wrote in 2006: “Privilege is centripetal. Want is centrifugal … in the future, deprivation, crime and riots will be comfortably confined to outside the ring road.”

    And the date on this one:
    This “**** but real” versus “polished but soulless” dichotomy was borne out in Hackney in London in 2009, when the borough’s mayor, Jules Pipe, condemned opponents of regeneration for wanting to “keep Hackney crap” – prompting a tongue-in-cheek campaign proposing to do exactly that.

    https://www.theguardian.com/cities/...rotest-backlash-urban-generation-displacement

    What a lot of these articles don't show is just how many people have been "shipped out of London" altogether. Like I have said for a while. There are a lot of London accents around on the Northern Estates. Been happening now for a long long time. Nothing to do with Austerity.
     
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  10. VocalMinority

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    More that they were protesting about something that had nothing to do with this development.


    Just so you know it was built over a school, it wasn't a redevelopment of social housing.
     
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  11. ImpSaint

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    State land that the Tories and Blair have sold off in the past 20 years. Does it matter? Blair's government and the Tory government should have made sure their local authorities built council houses on land they owned. Not flogged it off in exchange for some donations (Henley Homes are not the only ones, they all seem to "donate" when it suits to) and then turned a blind eye to the planning regulations being breached (or allowing the loopholes in the first place to render breaches non enforceable.)

    This is not a Tory austerity issue. It has been pushed like Mad since Blair took over. Not just in London but across the western world in their cities there has been a celebration of areas "being improved" and crime "reducing" when the reality is they just shipped the "poor folk" out and replaced them with better behaved people with more money.

    No-one seems to see the irony that if you look at maps of Greater London over time the increase in benefits payments has decreased in the centre and increased on the outer while the Labour vote has increased in these "newly enriched" areas!!! They have most definitely become a fashionable hobby for the more affluent new middle class to support.

    Anyways. I shall be voting green again this May like I did last year.
     
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  12. VocalMinority

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    So you think people should need planning permission to erect fences on the border of their privately owned land?

    Anyway it looks like warwick have bowed to public pressure and is going to allow access to the other block now.
     
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    Confused from Serbia - why would May resigning make the DUP vote for her deal?
     
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    I think if the initial "salespitch" was that this would be people from all aspects of society mixing together, cultural "blending" and that the initial planning permission said that X number of social housing should be built with shared facilities then they should be forced to do what they said they would do............seeing as they most likely made "donations" in order to be given the state owned land in the first place.

    Like everything else it seems there are loopholes intentionally put into everything in order that those who should have been enforcing things end up with a "couldn't do anything about it" excuse.

    This isn't about people. If you want to put up a fence then put one up. It's your land. This was state land sold to a developer on the basis of what they had promised to do with that land.
     
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  15. ImpSaint

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    I doubt it will. She is just trying to push the ERG into voting for her to go. She has said if her deal loses again she is staying. If she can get all her party and then some Labour then she won't need DUP for the deal.
     
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    And of course Warwick were never involved in any of this, so never made any of these promises. Also I severely doubt it was ever written down on the agreement that they wouldn't put down a fence. So while I dont agree with the segregation, the council wouldn't have any legal ability to change it. This isn't a purposely created loop hole, its rules that have good reason to be there that are being exploited and it IS the same planning permission rules as for normal people or anyone else.



    Also we don't ever have to bribe anybody when we redevelop schools into new houses. But I'm sure your imagination will be of more evidence to you than my first had experience of the industry.
     
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    She’ll need a few of them to overcome the deficit of the negative DUP vote. JRM now says he’ll support the deal only if the DUP does. So unless he knows something no one else knows, it’s still all up in the air.
     
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    FFS Royston, at least come up with your own metaphor for your U-Turn.
     
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  19. I Sorry I Ruined The Party

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    Looks like May finally figured out what everyone else already did. Claim victory anyway you can then and GTFO.

    What kind of devil's bargain is this? I would never trust anyone who would change their vote because May is stepping down. What difference does that make? Either her Brexit deal is good or it sucks. Nothing has changed, other than a chance for some greedy bastards to make a grab for power.

    On the other hand, I would never have trusted those who won't change their vote in the first place. They're either crazy unreasonable zealots or they're too craven to stick their necks out on the line and are just picking a stance and sticking to it while hiding their heads in the sand.

    Who is winning the race to the bottom, the US or the UK?
     
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