You should know that the Bendy Buses are only a small proportion of the new buses on Londons streets. Of course I support the building of the East London Line. Are you seriously telling me that you are opposing it? Are Hackney Independent going to tell the people of Haggerston in 2010 that they are opposed to it. Like fuck you will. As for who runs the ELL im opposed to it being run on TFLs behalf by a private company (such as how the Docklands Light Railway is). It should be directly run by TFL.
As for my Councillor colleagues flat. Ive been into it, you havent. I can tell you that if you think it is a yuppy development then you have no idea what you are talking about.
You ask where is the employment in Hackney/Haggerston. True that vthere are no longer the large factories such as Lesneys. And those large factories wont be coming back. Instead jobs are in smaller industrial units, the shops, the transport network, hospitals, the council. Which is not to say that there isnt an unemployment problem. But to say that the only new jobs and homes are for yuppies is just plain wrong. Many of the new housing developments do house working class people. And the same with jobs.
The trouble with you is that you think all is doom and gloom. Well it isnt.
BarryB
what hackney do you live in?? LOL talk of rose ( new labour tinted ) glassses!! So you do not think the Johnny McShann you fought so hard to get elected is is a New Labour Millbank yuppy??? LOL that is how BAD it in the NLP that you a trotskyist defend the new labour yuppies ( i am sorry to hear his gated canalsaide development is not as posh as i thought it might be .. when he is an MP no doubt he will move somewhere nicer .. leaving you far behind )
to repeat .. KL has done NOTHING for w/c people in haggerston or hackney or any other part of london .. he has had 8 years to try to help w/c people in london .. i can see, and you show me, NO evidence he has done anything
- and the ELL .. did i say i was against? no but i and the vast majority of local people am TOTALLY against the way it is being done by Livingstone .. it is purely being built as a massive speculative development and to shift people more quickly into the city .. i can barely believe you do not understand this ..
- and you ask of the people of haggerston in 2010? in my experiance it is the yuppies who are the most in favour of this ..
you ever heard anyone say ' my daughter can't get a job and her and her sister are doing our heads in because they can't get anywhere to live and the council isn't doing the repairs properly and now they are saying we have to go to a Housig association cos they haven'ty got the money to do put lifts in and we'll have to pay more rent and the kids are frightening the old people in the stair wells cos the youth club got shut down BUT HEY isn't it great they are building the ELL!" LOL .. doom and gloom barry? no reality
as you well know the ELL has not and was never a demand for w/c people in dalston or anywhere else .. improvements in housing and jobs were ..
the point that you have spectacularly missed is that spending millions ( no billions ) on transport entirely misses the point i was making ( and related to the OP) that it is decentralising employment that is the ONLY socially and environmental correct thing .. KL has failed spectacularly indeed has made things far worse
as i said again KL has chosen one route only ..
to throw his all in with the City of London as the sole dynamo of Londons economy .. it is illustrative of the almost utter degeneracy of the Trotskyist movement that you support this ..
what would a future editor of Revolutionary History have to write about this period of your brand of Trotskyism I wonder
and maybe you are in the dark re your colleague and his company Luther Pendragon?
