Where is Brixton's politics?
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Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Irenick said:
What made you think that?
I would have thought standing outside Brixton tube is the worst place to drum up support. Apart from anything else, you'd struggle to make yourself heard or noticed.
As others have already said, that patch is so full of godbotherers, chuggers and beggars that few people are going to stop for you, even if they might be willing to support your cause. I just assume anyone outside the tube wants either my soul or my money - and they're not getting either any time soon.
IMHO a better patch for your campaigning is the bit outside KFC, or in front of the library, or on the corner of the town hall (near the bus stop). These bits are slightly less busy, so people are more willing to stop and give you a chance.
As others have already said, that patch is so full of godbotherers, chuggers and beggars that few people are going to stop for you, even if they might be willing to support your cause. I just assume anyone outside the tube wants either my soul or my money - and they're not getting either any time soon.
IMHO a better patch for your campaigning is the bit outside KFC, or in front of the library, or on the corner of the town hall (near the bus stop). These bits are slightly less busy, so people are more willing to stop and give you a chance.
brixtonvilla
should be Oslovilla, really
Irenick said:
You really are charmless, aren't you? I'd run a fucking mile rather than listen to or engage with you, if this is your attitude...
brixtonvilla
should be Oslovilla, really
Irenick said:
"politically and socially sussed" = "full of people who will agree with me"
Thanks.Greebo said:I would have thought standing outside Brixton tube is the worst place to drum up support. Apart from anything else, you'd struggle to make yourself heard or noticed.
As others have already said, that patch is so full of godbotherers, chuggers and beggars that few people are going to stop for you, even if they might be willing to support your cause. I just assume anyone outside the tube wants either my soul or my money - and they're not getting either any time soon.
IMHO a better patch for your campaigning is the bit outside KFC, or in front of the library, or on the corner of the town hall (near the bus stop). These bits are slightly less busy, so people are more willing to stop and give you a chance.
Hardly, I don't know the people of Brixton; as, they seem in an awful hurry not to get to know people. It is difficult to be contemptuous of people one doesn’t know – though, I’m willing to make an exception for some of you up-your-own-arses on here.Blagsta said:
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Irenick said:
They are if they funnel their travellers directly onto a densely-populated pavement. Even the Swappies occasionally wise up and don't try to sell their arsewipe-material where they'll be causing a public nuisance. I know it must have seemed tempting to do your business there, given the throughput of potentially-interested punters, but outside the town hall or KFC would probably have worked better.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Irenick said:
I've got a little book that you might want to read, it's called "How to win friends and influence people".
I haven't read it myself, like. I just like offering it to people who have even less charm than I do.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
so basically we've had a discussion here.
irenick: why didn't anyone talk to me in brixton whilst leafletting?
brixton: you were in the wrong place.
irenick: no i wasn't you brixtonians are all cunts.
nice.
irenick: why didn't anyone talk to me in brixton whilst leafletting?
brixton: you were in the wrong place.
irenick: no i wasn't you brixtonians are all cunts.
nice.
hendo
Fish finger sandwiches
I've lived here for seven years. I like most of the place but you have to be careful around the tube station. It's got a fair old sprinkling of rum coves, see.
But I'm not sure why we're continuing this discussion - as you're plainly not 'engaging' with any of the points made by either me or the other posters who've taken the time to explain the situation.
Your inability to make rational points and the readiness with which you've resorted to abuse makes me suspect trollery. Tell me it ain't so.
But I'm not sure why we're continuing this discussion - as you're plainly not 'engaging' with any of the points made by either me or the other posters who've taken the time to explain the situation.
Your inability to make rational points and the readiness with which you've resorted to abuse makes me suspect trollery. Tell me it ain't so.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Irenick said:
Ok, but what misguided you to think that?
People leafleting for the Lambeth SOS Campaign have also mentioned a tendency people in Brixton to ‘walk-on-by’. They weren’t leafleting outside the tube station; they chose the Town Hall.
I reiterate; where is Brixton’s politics?
The simple answer, I suppose, is that many people in Brixton have no politics. So be it. Learn to live with it; I have.
I reiterate; where is Brixton’s politics?
The simple answer, I suppose, is that many people in Brixton have no politics. So be it. Learn to live with it; I have.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
Christ it's like Akademia on here.
Irenick said:
Thats not my experience. Brixton, and south london in general, is one of the more politically charged parts of London. There are meetings about this or that pretty much every night of the week, lots of political discussions in pubs and lots of online/offline community groups.
I'm not sure that response to leafleting is much of a measure of peoples engagement these days. People get their politics elsewhere and have come to lean to ignore leaflets / lefleters due to the sheer number of people sticking bits of paper in your face across town.
