tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post4626950348211331807..comments2024-02-05T06:32:20.199+00:00Comments on entschwindet und vergeht: ThamesmeadMurphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11658628800390775081noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-48320439254944228542010-06-06T22:25:55.773+01:002010-06-06T22:25:55.773+01:00Ahhh bless. I do like people who look on the brig...Ahhh bless. I do like people who look on the brighter side of life.<br />Anyway, you missed out one of the high lights - the gypsy site opposite the pub you went into...juliejjuliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704366086591832622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-19614109471486616072009-03-17T12:31:00.000+00:002009-03-17T12:31:00.000+00:00Sorry, it's been a while since I watched the Wizar...Sorry, it's been a while since I watched the Wizard of Oz, never been one for hip references ; ) <BR/><BR/>Just joking about the Kingsland road stuff, but it is like sitting in on a Fabian Society meeting around here. You know, one of the ones before they stopped talking about who to kill.Fiend's Brave Victimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17899540469822874225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-4435262316120331252009-03-17T12:20:00.000+00:002009-03-17T12:20:00.000+00:00Oh well, I guess some people wouldn't know irony i...Oh well, I guess some people wouldn't know irony if they were hit with a rusty bar made from it... do you really think that if I unproblematically self-identified with hipsterdom I'd have made those bloody Wizard of Oz references?<BR/><BR/>Anyway, it's nice to see people fighting over who is allowed to truly empathise with the genuine desires of the working class; see a more recent post above.<BR/><BR/>Personally, I think that the right-to-buy was a very clever attempt to destroy social housing and get the working class voting Tory. What's done is done, if you want to stick stone lions in front of your house that's up to you; snobbery or not, aesthetics isn't the main issue in this situation.Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658628800390775081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-38722834395435180172009-03-17T09:07:00.001+00:002009-03-17T09:07:00.001+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-3621572061693669312009-03-17T09:07:00.000+00:002009-03-17T09:07:00.000+00:00Back in the Seventies, middle class folk would com...Back in the Seventies, middle class folk would complain that some council tenants could perfectly-well afford to buy their own homes and did not deserve to have council houses. So, when Mrs T got into power, she solved this problem by allowing those very people to buy their houses, thus depriving people in need of state housing.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-37050861138379200402009-03-17T08:59:00.000+00:002009-03-17T08:59:00.000+00:00Nice assumption: that the people who can't afford ...Nice assumption: that the people who can't afford mortgage payments are the same people that desire stone cladding. <BR/><BR/>You're a case study in leftie hatred of the working classes, well done sir. Evidently Kingsland road the is the new Bloomsbury. How's that for an assumption about you.Fiend's Brave Victimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17899540469822874225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-44724481311548838832009-03-17T08:52:00.000+00:002009-03-17T08:52:00.000+00:00I expect they will say that they bought the place ...I expect they will say that they bought the place for a song at a mortgagee sale, and that the stone-cladding was added by the previous owners, who bought the house from the Council but could not keep up the mortgage payments.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-42622563156612694742009-03-17T08:08:00.000+00:002009-03-17T08:08:00.000+00:00Aesthetic impoverishment eh? I've heard some nasty...Aesthetic impoverishment eh? I've heard some nasty ideas on right to buy in my time, but this is a peach. <BR/><BR/>So what's your criteria for this priveliged class of council house tenants? I can see the right to buy application form: <BR/><BR/>-Are you or a member of your family a stone cladder? YES/NO<BR/><BR/>-Do you know who Rodney Gordon is? YES/NO <BR/><BR/>-Do you own Taschen coffee table books on Berlin interiors? YES/NO<BR/><BR/>-Are you likely to put two lion statues outside the front door? YES/NO<BR/><BR/>Go and knock on the door of that house in the photo, ask them what they think of right to buy. I'll bet you an Adam Smith they think it was the best damn thing that ever happened to them. Then tell them that they don't deserve it, and hopefully you'll learn an important lesson.Fiend's Brave Victimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17899540469822874225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-36830995370149154132009-03-17T01:10:00.000+00:002009-03-17T01:10:00.000+00:00Buying social housing is not a right but a privile...Buying social housing is not a right but a privilege. The stone-cladding which buyers add to their properties, like the Georgian-style doors, are merely evidence of aesthetic impoverishment. It is particularly poignant to see one flat of a multi-storey block given a facade to make it appear as if it were in Gloucestershire.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-20368819813475679412009-03-16T22:52:00.000+00:002009-03-16T22:52:00.000+00:00I must say I find the highlighting of right-to-buy...I must say I find the highlighting of right-to-buy modification sneery to say the least. Are you the sort that thinks people shouldn't have had the right-to-buy, as they weren't capable of it?Fiend's Brave Victimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17899540469822874225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-26354622551250529782009-02-25T20:43:00.000+00:002009-02-25T20:43:00.000+00:00Roy: a) No. The Clockwork Orange connection was we...Roy: a) No. The Clockwork Orange connection was well known before.<BR/>b) The incongruous exterior finish is very much a right-to-buy thing, making your ex council home a quasi-castle, and not anything like your neighbours!<BR/><BR/>TFV: I'm not sure I understand you- who's 'we'?<BR/><BR/>I hope you're not aggrieved by the tone of the piece, I struggle to see why you could be.Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658628800390775081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-30685316603936942432009-02-25T18:13:00.000+00:002009-02-25T18:13:00.000+00:00Nice exotic touches, but you forgot to mention the...Nice exotic touches, but you forgot to mention the part about how we're all, without exception, teenage pregnacy offspring, have bare-knuckle fisty cuffs beneath the walkways, listen to bach while dreaming of white supremacy, scream at grannies at bus shelters until their hair flys off, and have generally so perfected the art of scrounging that even Engels wouldn't have felt sorry for us. <BR/>In all, thanks for renewing my chip for another 15 years!<BR/>Former Thamesmead inhabitant.Top floor viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06994530195760824218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-21368664015045822712009-02-24T12:44:00.000+00:002009-02-24T12:44:00.000+00:00The poster seems to be saying: "after half a glas...The poster seems to be saying: "after half a glass of Bordeaux, you will be unable to support the weight of your own head."<BR/><BR/>A marvellous essay. I had forgotten how bleak things can be Out East.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942458087666977269.post-9587413684063266172009-02-24T06:19:00.000+00:002009-02-24T06:19:00.000+00:00Cracking essay, Mr Vergeht! Did you happen upon th...Cracking essay, Mr Vergeht! Did you happen upon the clockwork orange set purely by accident? - must have been a nice surprise if so!<BR/><BR/>Interesting also the 'Right to buy' photo - is the incongruous exterior finish a common effect of the right to buy I wonder?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07899791233099847209noreply@blogger.com