Josephine Avenue

[OpalFruit]

Lots of people want to displace Brixtons dealers, and if they got pushed to the clocktower at Thronton Heath I would not have to travel so far to buy a draw.

I look forward to the customers of prostitutes posting here with the same philosophical outlook

 

[timothysutton1]

Meeting tonight

Since my original message Kate Newham has confirmed that she has organised up to 10 colleagues from the Police, DAAT, Trust and Community safety to attend the JAG meeting:

Date; Weds 8th Feb
Time; 8.00pm to 10.00pm
Place; Raleigh Hall ( Baptist Church ), Arodene Rd. ( Brixton Hill end )

If you have any views on this matter I would suggest you come along and have your say... it will have more effect than ranting away on this bulletin board.

NB. Just in case anyone was thinking of a moan, this message HAS been cleared with the urban75 monitor .

If you are interested meeting is tonight.

 

[danieloval]

Instead of thinking we are all in it together and the dealers and prostitutes are equals - there often seems to be an attitude among residents and on discussion boards that "we must do something about those people over there who are a problem".

I think this is a fundamental snobbery or misunderstanding of life.

It is also sort of separatist and very typical of the more insular type of middle class person.

In a way though, it's no good telling them, because they don't know how to mix and empathise and probably never really will.

Pity them perhaps.

 

[tarannau]

You know what danieloval, I've been as harsh as anyone on timothysutton's simplistic and leading posts, but I 'pity you' more for your moral grandstanding and indecent haste into making this into yet another class based thread.

I have no idea whether Timothy is a dustman, baker on investment banker. I may have my suspicions, but like you I can only really guess. And all this these gross oversimplifications over whether 'they' can empathise or not simply piss me off. It's the inherent hypocrisy involved in stating that 'we are all in it together' before going into the usual divisive and stereotyped 'them' and 'us' class based bollocks that gets my wick.

 

[RaverDrew]

Instead of thinking we are all in it together and the dealers and prostitutes are equals - there often seems to be an attitude among residents and on discussion boards that "we must do something about those people over there who are a problem".

I think this is a fundamental snobbery or misunderstanding of life.

It is also sort of separatist and very typical of the more insular type of middle class person.

In a way though, it's no good telling them, because they don't know how to mix and empathise and probably never really will.

Pity them perhaps.

Nice sentiment but real patronising shit, especially the pitying them.

I'm sure the crackheads muggers & ho's feel like "we're all in it together"

 

[Dan U]

Lots of people want to displace Brixtons dealers, and if they got pushed to the clocktower at Thronton Heath I would not have to travel so far to buy a draw.

you need to open your ears and eyes a bit

 

[timothysutton1]

Last night's JAG meeting

In case you missed last night's meeting and want to know what was said there were two main developements:

i) Following resident's action, Josephine Avenue will now be included in the first stage of Lambeth's scheme to improve all the borough's lighting by 2010. The new lighting will be installed by the end of the year.

ii) Better policing in the Tulse Hill Ward come April when the 'Safer Neighbourhood' scheme is implemented.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

i) Following resident's action, Josephine Avenue will now be included in the first stage of Lambeth's scheme to improve all the borough's lighting by 2010. The new lighting will be installed by the end of the year.

Not before time