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Welcome to Lambeth - Seriously

Ah yes, here we go

It looks like they do a lot of worthy, socially responsible stuff and they're probably only doing what lambeth have told them to do. But nonethelsess, what a crock.

Couldn't they see how insulting Lambeth residents would find this?
 
Monkeygrinder's Organ said:
Good to see my council tax being put to good use. :rolleyes:

(I haven't see one of these. Are they seriously real? It's hard to believe anyone couldn't see how shit that is.)


All over the tube station and by the escalators :mad:
 
IntoStella said:
Couldn't they see how insulting Lambeth residents would find this?


Well Lambeth officials must of approved, before it all went ahead (presumably)
and I keep saying this but Lambeth doesn't seem to care what its' residents think about them, witness the way they've recently proclaimed they give the best housing services in the country, as I mentioned in this thread.
 
rehabaliseSM.jpg
 
lambeth housing department are on a big propaganda drive, they're spamming me with press releases and inane ideas for articles. needless to say we have no intention of writing about them, especially after the recent £3million fraud debacle.
i'm not going to post press releases up here but if anyone's interested i have an entertaining example which i can forward :D
edit: it has a spelling mistake in the title, as well :rolleyes:
 
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:D

Yes those posters are truly awful aren't they! An insult!
I bet none of the designers live here.

It's like the BP logo - a nice green, bright flower, showing everyone how nice and caring we are. NOT. It looks like a bloody tampon advert!

(oops, bloody, tee hee! :rolleyes: )
 
IntoStella said:
If someone would like to write a letter to the SLP, I will happily add my name to it. The more the merrier.

Shall I send this to the SLP letters page:

"In a local authority that has so recently been found to have lost vast quantities of money due to poor auditing controls, I find it amazing that money has been found for Lambeth council's current Revitalise advertising campaign.

This campaign (featuring such witty quotes as 'Welcome to Lambeth. No Seriously'), is both patronising and a waste of tax-payers money. I cannot see why the council feels the need to stick these posters up everywhere.

I am sure local residents and visitors alike would feel much more positive about Lambeth (which I assume is the point of the campaign), if they were to actually take action on some of the urgent problems in the Borough such as poor street lighting, inadequate social housing and the under-resourcing of treatment for drug users in the Borough.

Yours sincerely"


Thought I might as well get some extra points in as well ;)
 
han said:
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:D

Yes those posters are truly awful aren't they! An insult!
I bet none of the designers live here.

It's like the BP logo - a nice green, bright flower, showing everyone how nice and caring we are. NOT. It looks like a bloody tampon advert!

(oops, bloody, tee hee! :rolleyes: )
Post reported. :p




:D
 
I am left practically speechless by the utter crapness of this so-called advertising campaign. There are so many better things to spend our money on.

Jesus.
 
nipsla said:
I was going to do it from me as a Lambeth resident, so if anyone else wants to join me pm me with your name and I'll email it this evening when I get home :)


pm sent.


LOL at IntoStellas' latest photoshop! :D
 
I believe that a certain former Brixton Town Centre Manager is the officer with lead responsibility for Revitalise.

Lambeth website news story said:
Have you heard about Revitalise?
26 October 2005

By now you will probably have heard about the council’s exciting proposals to revitalise Lambeth, making it a better place for citizens to live, work and visit.

But have you seen the bold new advertising to promote the scheme to residents and stakeholders?

The bright, colourful posters being featured in Brixton, Stockwell and Clapham tube stations as well as on buses, go live from 24 October. Later in the year the back of a double-decker 159 bus will carry the message about Revitalise for hundreds of miles through the borough every week. Along with the tube advertising, this will give many thousands of people the opportunity to see the message about Revitalise.

During the time that they are up we expect over five and a half million tube passengers to pass our adverts!

The proposals behind Revitalise are far-reaching and, by 2015, will deliver significant investment in Lambeth education and leisure; large-scale development of our town centres and more accessible, high-quality council service provision.

The council wants to know what residents think of the proposals and to keep you informed of progress. So visit the Revitalise web page regularly to keep up to date about these exciting developments and to find out more about how to have your say.

There is something strangely synergistic about this hideous lime green advertising campaign being the first livery for the atrociously designed new buses that will replace the Routemasters on Route 159.
 
Revitalise website said:
What is Revitalise?
Revitalise is the name given to one of the biggest and most ambitious regeneration programmes ever seen in Lambeth.

Really, what could be better than
access to more jobs, better housing, improved shopping, more modern leisure services, new schools, more quality schools, better access to council services and better arts and cultural facilities.

Regeneration will help to improve the health, education and well being of residents for generations to come. In effect, it will mean a better quality of life for every Lambeth resident

:confused:
 
citydreams said:
Really, what could be better than

:confused:
Funny that Lambeth should be promising to miraculously right all the wrongs in the borough -- which, let's face it, it has created -- with an election coming up. How much of that lot do people think the council really can and will deliver?

I'll go for 0%. Or is that too optimistic?

They're just like my stupid 'arty' neighbours. It's all advertising/PR/spin/guff/hot air/bullshit. They are too busy with the spin to actually ever get down to delivering any of the things they promise. It's criminally cynical.
 
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