The green lung of the historic Lambeth, paradise of natural habitat for all is under threat. Sign the petition: https://xitter.gq/t.co/iGskyctxTO
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I attended this protest to report on it.
The idea that officers were "assaulted" is difficult to believe.
The vast majority of protesters were in their 60s, 70s and 80s - including many with physical disabilities.
By contrast, there were about 50 police officers, most of whom were massive blokes who were shoving people out of the way and showing no respect for elderly people.
The protest has now concluded with a total of 152 people arrested by officers.
The vast majority of arrests - 134 - were for expressing support for a proscribed organisation, under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000. This included two people arrested for attempting to put up a stage at the event.
4 arrests were made on suspicion of encouraging or assisting a crime, under Section 45 of the Serious Crime Act 2007.
A number of officers were assaulted while making arrests, but thankfully none required hospital treatment. Two people were arrested for assaulting emergency workers.
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Half of England is in drought after record-breaking heatwaves, yet most of our media want to talk about the "problem" of refugees whilst giving airtime to absurd & dehumanising policies from Reform UK.
Politicians who scapegoat refugees and migrants have no interest in making your life better.
If they really cared, they would take on corporations holding this country to ransom.
They would end the daylight robbery of privatisation.
And they would tackle the real cause of society's problems: a grotesquely unequal economy that sucks wealth away from the majority to an elite few.
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Really @piersmorgan, you do have a weird obsession witn people's genitalia!
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In Wigan, Reform won 96% of the seats on 46% of the votes.
In Westminster, the Conservatives won a majority on 35%, while @TheGreenParty won 18% of the votes without gaining a single seat.
The time to change the voting system is *now* @MakeVotesMatter
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History repeating itself again and again in Lambeth?? Why do they never learn? Lambeth Councillor Danny Adilypour cosies up to the property lobby brixtonbuzz.com/2024/04/lamb…
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Gabriel’s Wharf - Coin St site for culture, offices, homes, retail… and a nursing home?
110 Stamford Street/ Cornwall Rd - co-op homes above shops?
Royal St - speculative office in 5 tall buildings for 'MedTech'
•St Thomas’ Hospital - more tall buildings for ‘MedTech'
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Councils should identify 'difficult' sites for redevelopment in their Local Plan, and set out the aspirations and potential community benefits. Lambeth are proposing just that on four sites in Waterloo in the Site Allocations DPD, on consultation until 3rd May… 🧵
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Gabriel's Wharf? St Thomas' Hospital? Stamford St?
Lambeth Council proposes more sites for huge buildings in Waterloo...
+ Doing the Lambeth Walk (GP) to Camberwell? Join us at our meeting on 25th April 6.30pm wcdg.org.uk/home/wcdg-public…
Please RT
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Services stripped to the bone or just abandoned with record number of councils going bankrupt - but Lambeth’s councillors agree a 32.8% pay rise for themselves!!
For what? For spending £130m on failed Homes for Lambeth, producing a net gain of just 14 additional social homes??
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Answer from ‘Lambeth Together’ (ha!) “integrated care service” (ha ha) that Lambeth haven’t offered the vacant sites they own!! Scandalous @lambeth_council @LambethTogether @DavidAmosSE11 @Sarina73 @ibrahim_Dogus @FloEshalomi
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Shame on @lambeth_council @clairekholland for destroying the health and well-being of one of your poorest communities. You own a Day Care Centre 100m away vacant for over 5 years but you won’t allow it to be used!! How about fessing up to these poor people?
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Don’t let @michaelgove trash our South Bank or the planet - support the judicial review donate.giveasyoulive.com/cam… … In the political ethics of eyesores, a lumpen London office block trumps clean energy | Architecture | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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25% of all London’s industrial land has been lost in similarly misguided attempts to solve the housing crisis. Result? 300,000 unbuilt permissions banked and developer profits swollen, virtually no new social housing. Why are Labour repeating this mistake? housingtoday.co.uk/news/labo…
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Why is this Labour advert insulting our grey cells? The Green Belt is a policy for controlling urban sprawl, not for protecting “greenness”. London is already Europe’s second largest conurbation: how will further sprawl help our unbalanced economy or reduce car use and CO2?
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Support this the last chance to save the people’s South Bank from corporate takeover - crowdjustice.com/case/save-o… or, with giftaid donate.giveasyoulive.com/cam… Campaigners plan legal challenge to Make’s contentious South Bank towers architectsjournal.co.uk/news…
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“G15” housing associations in London wrote Gove last month demanding £15bn to restart affordable housebuilding, following housing grant cuts of 60%+ since 2010…
Today Gove blames Sadiq, protection of industrial land + demands more from Opportunity Areas! gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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Justifying corporate greed with that old chestnut “affordable housing”, now with the addition of “improved healthcare”. Does anyone really believe this stuff anymore?
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“councils are being incentivised to dispose of assets to fund revenue budgets, which is appalling. They need to be properly funded. It’s a sort of directive to break the rules” Ministers push English councils to sell assets: TheGuardian theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…