love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

I've got more respect for crack dealers that open up terrible sandwich shops as a laundering operation, that you might just buy a coffee from at a push!

I don't think Cafe Rouge or whoever is really the issue here either. In any case gentrification is at heart about displacement, it's really got very little to do with owners of twee cafés or microbreweries who tend to get all the blame while councils and property developers get off scot free.

I'd hesitate to even blame councils at this stage given that their sources of funding have been deliberately squeezed by central government for a decade now.

An old housemate of mine worked in mental health in South London and they would regularly take patients out for a nice cup of tea and a bun or whatever and there was this one cafe that started being requested more and more. There was a massive blowup when the penny finally dropped that it wasn't just a nice treat for them and they'd been taking patients straight to the crack dealer the whole time.

lol that's a good 'un!

one of my local crack dealers has a tanning parlour, he must have had a bit of a clearout and there is skip outside full of blinds and old household junk. He has put up a sign by the skip that reads: Stop Going Through My Skip, You're on CCTV! I was thinking what a mean spirited git, but he is a crack dealer after all!

I was very annoyed at the lads selling cereal for a fiver but then I also shout at millennials paying a fiver for toast just to be consistent. I am Richard Littlejohn btw

Cereal Killer guys probably did themselves no favours when their place got painted over by anarchists and they called it a "hate crime".

But yeah obviously it's a drop in the ocean and not the motivating force of gentrification, panem et circenses.

Lol a hate crime against the memory of Dennis Nilsen.. sob.. RIP legend

thank god we finally got these pricks cancelled

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whoops

Latest Westminster voting intention (8-9 July)

Con - 46%
Lab - 36%
Lib Dem - 6%
SNP - 5%
Green - 3%
Brexit Party - 2%https://t.co/sY3tMwoKw3 pic.twitter.com/4O8AfbyPGs

— YouGov (@YouGov) July 10, 2020

lol!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EckpIPoXkAIix2B?format=jpg&name=small

That was definitely worth alienating BAME voters and the total despondency of your activist base, well done forenzo

the tories were always going to get a bit of a poll boost this week, but still ten points behind isn't good enough and he should reconsider his position etc..

how many people does boris need to kill to lose that lead?

A: one - keir starmer

imagine how bad the next Labour leader will be

it will be Dominic Grieve wearing a Wes Streeting mask!

I nearly ended up renting the original Cereal Killer after they moved over the road. Have the contract somewhere under the stairs. Also know most Brick Lane business owners and ended up with our shop on Cheshire Street. By all accounts they are dickheads, would treat everyone else like garbage and the contract had a bunch of things specific to their behaviour. The landlord is the guy who lives upstairs and they would regularly fuck him off, throw closed door parties, leave their joint access point open and invite undesirable types in, leading to him getting broken in to a couple times by who he suspected to be their coke dealers.

Can’t say the street will miss them but that’ll also be the 5th post-lockdown shop/restaurant to close, all the curry houses are struggling and I know a few (including ourselves) considering our options. I know I only became a brick lane trader post-gentrification (2014?) but it can’t go back to what it used to be and doesn’t have a positive looking future if a lot of independent traders can’t stay. The past two years has seen Adidas, Subway and Pret move in, I presume it will continue going in that direction, unfortunately, unless the tourists/Sunday visitors who also go to Columbia Road etc. can come back asap.

2025: the reanimated corpse of Oswald Mosley is still 10 points behind the Tories

"The past two years has seen Adidas, Subway and Pret move in, I presume it will continue going in that direction"

Pret announced closure of 30 stores last week, though, that's the scale of the crisis.

I don't know if they're a good representation. Do they even have 30 branches outside of London?

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. So instead Brick Lane will just be a deserted waste land of empty shopfronts that no one is willing to pay £60-100k a year for.

I have noticed some of the more astute lefty commentariat posting that a right-wing coup might be on the way if Starmer's performance doesn't improve. A depressing reminder that there is a big clique in the PLP that thinks Starmer is too moderate, and might start sowing dissent against him soon enough. lol what a shithole party!

might open a fash cereal cafe called oswald muesli

None of those are Brick Lane though - three around Strand/Fleet Street alone.

If the market was doing its job then commercial rents would be going down right now but I assume that's not the case.

might open a fash cereal cafe called oswald muesli

Astonishing work.

Reich Krispies

Brandenburger Flakes

The past two years has seen Adidas, Subway and Pret move in

christ i had no idea. i haven't been in years (because r now an old git)

Washed down with a glass of Tommy Robinson's Barley Water.

Coco cops

Golden Dawn

Wait is that a fascist party or a breakfast cereal? I've lost track.

Qanonflakes

these cereals all being owned by such a few huge corporations is a symptom of Goebbelisation

I think we might need to just ban everyone who's posted in the past 20mins myself included.

I am enjoying those who are blaming Starmer, the only thing that people currently like about the Labour party, for the fact they are behind in the polls. https://t.co/cPsUlsiV76

— Chris Curtis (@chriscurtis94) July 10, 2020

Lol @ this tactic. Pretend Starmer is popular but the 'brand' is tarnished.

I agree re: banning

love it when people need to put "BREAKING" at the start of their tweets like they are Reuters

BREAKING: A senior Labour source says that the PLP are extremely dissatisfied with Keir Starmer as leader. His polling numbers are "shit" & "he should be twenty points ahead after the Dominic Cummings affair".

Moves are afoot to establish a vote of no confidence within weeks...

— FQ Coyle (@francisqcoyle) July 10, 2020

i think that might be bantz tbh

Not a Shreddie of evidence.

'Moves are afoot' is garbage.

He won election as leader by nearly 60%? He's not going anywhere.

The other thing about that poll, though - 6% is awful for the Lib Dems, and even 5% SNP looks low (but maybe the latter is normal given # of MPs in Scotland etc).

I mean it might be true to some extent, but this probably says more about Boris right now.

Preference for Prime Minister:

Keir Starmer: 37% (+3)
Boris Johnson: 35% (-)

via @OpiniumResearch
Chgs. w/ last week

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) June 27, 2020

Sorry for misreading that tweet as serious. Daft of me.

Can’t believe spending the past five years shitting on the Labour Party tarnished the brand.

The other thing about that poll, though - 6% is awful for the Lib Dems, and even 5% SNP looks low (but maybe the latter is normal given # of MPs in Scotland etc).

― the pinefox, Friday, July 10, 2020 9:10 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The SNP won 4.7% of the popular vote in the 2015 election winning 53 out of 56 seats in Scotland

Yes, believe me, the SNP are popular in Scotland at the moment.

Boris has already lost the personal lead. The Tories don't lose theirs until post-Brexit and/or the Covid collapse bites is my guess. Polling suggests opinions rn basically amount to "it's not their fault/they're doing the best they can". Definitely on Brexit, more mixed on CV. But with added "Sunak helps working heroes doesn't give benefits to immigrants like the other lot".

Can’t believe spending the past five years shitting on the Labour Party tarnished the brand.

More like 11 or 12 years at this point.