CROYDON'S ON THE MOVE !

The drive to get the public to surrender their power will pick up momentum soon as we descend into the ritual self-mugging season known as Christmas and then the General Election gets into full swing.

In the meantime the people of Croydon were given a pre-christmas pick-me-up recently as the Zone4Croydon campaign was launched by Labour candidates Steve 'OBE' Reed and Sarah 'hard working mum of four' Jones.

As the catchy name suggests, this is a campaign to get Croydon 're-zoned' from travel-zone 5 to 4.

It may look like a hell-hole at the moment, but when the vision 2020 development masterplan programme is completed it will truly be a business/commerce hell-hole to be proud of. And one that surely deserves a new travel zone rating to match its lofty ambitions?

It's about money of course. Money for all. Sarah Jones fresh from the success of her 'passionate' party political broadcast has been busy holding up posters and giving out flyers declaring in big letters £336. Yes, that's right, people. It'll be free money for everyone. Labour are literally giving it away. You know, in the same way that ATM's give us free cash?

It's a vote winner alright.


But wait.....

....in a leafy part of Non-Croydon there's a rustling in the straw ...a wet nose pops out...has a sniff at the electoral mood ...a pair of expectant eyes peer out .....a tongue flicks, tasting the very atmosphere of local media interest.....and .. with a final rustle... 

...out pops the head and body of Croydon Central Tory MP Gavin 'the gerbil' Barwell.

He springs into action and immediately trumps Labour by... offering the campaign his 'full support'

Such sneakiness from little hamster-cheeked Gavin.

This will almost certainly take some of the wind out of Labour's sails.

Barwell is no slouch. The little vole is Cambridge educated, and with an early career built on years of hard spadding and boot-licking at Tory HQ he presumably knows how to filch and leech like the best of them.

But wait....

Maybe this routine surfing of the waves of populist campaigns might back-fire on him?

Political opponents cant be seen to be merely crow-barring themselves into the middle of Labour initiatives.

The 're-zone' campaign with its cheaper travel premise is one of those no brainer issues that even a dim witted Tory would be ill-advised to oppose. But the Gerbil has keenly anticipated the pitfalls of cross-party consensus and its tendency to merge all agents and messages into one. 

And Labour have got a head-start.

This needs a spin.

Barwell needs to apply all his hamsterish little skills to flip it in a unique way...and make it has own.

So, Barwell slams the proposal as not enough.

he proposes to work closer with Boris....

....and the Greater London Authority

The Gerbil has all the business and governmental contacts. The silver-fork-grease-my-palm-old-boy network

further more, he suggests that Sutton, Cheam and West Wickham should be re-zoned too.....!!!


what ?

NOOOOOOOOOOOO !

Barwell, what are you doing?

Now every one is going to want one.

where will it end?

zone 4 might end up being the new squeezed middle zone...with literally everyone trying to get in.


Epsom, Redhill? Reigate. A veritable Pandora's box. 


Ok, so the Gerbil has outfoxed Labour by playing the big society 'we're all in this together' game. But the long term ramifications of an exodus out of zone 5 could be disastrous for all of us ? North London places like Dagenham, Tolworth and Hounslow will almost certainly try to swamp as well.  

Surely the lesson here is: you cant treat the oyster zone like that old boardgame Risk? 

We might end up with all the posh towns in the southeast of England building up a huge stock-pile fortress in Kensington?

What happens if Romford gets to Richmond before us? 

NOT FAIR  !!!!!



i'm bored now.

Here's an idea....

 Lets keep Croydon where it is. 

Scrap ALL the Zones ?

And Nationalise the railway !

HOW TO SELL A TOWN .....down the river

Greetings from the 'regeneration' that is Croydon. 

We are the model city. The russian investors dream. 

The developers and speculators 'hub' or 'tech-town'. 

The darling of everyone from Boris Johnson to Sarkozy. 

The capitalists 'tabula rasa' town. 

The cranes go up...and the dust comes down as every spare inch of Croydon centre is being invaded by construction work. 

We are the 'open for business' town.

The one-trick pony for getting the Tory government out of recession, town.

If you can manage to stay out of receivership for long enough...the streets are paved with gold.

Prospective gold.

CGI gold

The best investment is Croydon.  

Get in ...before the bubble bursts.

We are the construction 'green light' town.

Regulations and residents be damned.

By-laws are bye-laws in this part of London/Surrey (estate agents delete as applicable).

The word is out.....  

Croydon bends for dividends.

these last few images of croydon last week need the old 'foxtons airbrushing' !!!!!

monday.......

''we are not poor
we are a society apart''

''When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done...

That very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust''

POOR DOORS

Most people with an ear to the ground should be aware of 'poor doors' by now.

Ian Bone and the anarchists of Class War have made a very public return to the frontline.

Wednesday is fast becoming the best day of the week.

The address One Commercial Street in London's east end is starting to become a hotbed of political protest. 

Swing a right outside Aldgate East tube station on any given Wednesday at 6.00 pm and you are likely to become part of a very interesting, very persistent, and very fun street level demonstration against the monstrous policy of communal segregation in London.

Boris Johnson's continuing ideological war against the weak, voiceless, and poor of London has surfaced again recently in the very ugly form of what has been termed 'poor doors'.

Social housing being incorporated into multi-million pound developments but with the added investor-friendly proviso that the poor and less well-off are given separate entrances.

In Commercial street politically or socially inquisitive visitors

 are greeted with an example of Cameron's big society...red 

in tooth and claw. The utterly intentional attempt by the 

property developer Redrow to remove any evidence of its 

less-well off social housing tenants from sight and mind.


No grand entrance-way on the main street for these 

unfortunates....no chandeliers lighting up the marbled lobby 


.... no concierges. 


You have to carry on down the road take another right and 

then down an alley you'll find the poor doors....next to the 

bins.


Now you're getting the idea? One door for the rich....one door  
for the poor. 


The relentless gentrification and consumerisation of London's

east end (grey sky-scrapers are gold to the capitalists) does 

however get stalled in its 'Total Plan' to rid the city of all less

well-off human beings. This is because the government has 


a petty bare minimum legislation on social housing.

Just to provide a slim, revolution-quelling reminder 

that there are 'other' people who live in London as well as 

the rich. But, oh how that must stick in the corporate throat?


Poor Doors.

The term conjures up images of slimy Dickensian-era social 

Darwinism and the work house.

So, as the law currently stands miserable property 

developers, (worst offenders are naturally the faceless 

culture-less sanitized and robotic behemoths like Redrow 

and A2dominion) are obliged to build a few homes for poor 

people too. 

                                                                                     


But you can be sure Redrow and the rest will seek any and 

every opportunity to do this in a way that marginalizes and 

reduces the presence of undesirables who might put off the 

all important rich foreign speculators and yuppies. The type 

who are currently being allowed to turn places like Croydon 

into a fully automated hell on earth. 

Didn't the attempts by disaffected Croydon youth in 2011 to 

tear the place apart offer any clue as to why the big society 

is nothing more than a living nightmare? A lie?


Poor doors as a invention isn't a new thing... but it's certainly 

something we can do without in the 21st century.


Cameron's big society is all about evicting east end 

mums...allowing churches to set up food banks... spreading 

fear of terrorism....promoting race hatred....attacking the

disabled and unemployed whilst at the same time promoting 

Westminster thievery, idolising celebrity idiocy and giving 

multinational corporations a state of permanent grace where 

tax is concerned.

Boris Johnson and those cretinous Eton boys in government 

no doubt intend to remove all riff-raff from London's 

fashionable centre...maybe just keeping Tesco and Costa 

staffed by ill-advantaged people on £2 an hour? 


But while we have some sense of common decency about 

us, we must all unite to fight this menace.


Creepy pre-election politicians, councillors, liberals and 

fascist experts on 'social cohesion' may attempt to explain 

away 'poor doors'. Many have distanced themselves from 

the accusations and implications. 


Maybe it's a one-off? 


Maybe it's something that slipped through the design-stage net? 


Maybe it's a cause that Tory and Labour MP's are passionate

about?




yeah, maybe...?



Or just maybe the corporation Redrow in partnership with the

Mayor of London has been caught out attempting 

something ideological that has serious ramifications for all of 

us???

You can decide for yourself !

   
Get down to One Commercial Street EC1 and have a look. 


The demo which started just a few months ago has quickly 

become a party. And last Saturday's extra special gathering 

after the Anarchist Bookfair was a good old fashioned 

carnival joined by Green activists, communists, and even 

Durham Miners. 


Hopefully this signals the emergence of solidarity in this 

class war cause. The good old fashioned class war. The 

state versus the people. The rich versus the poor.



The atmosphere at 'poor doors' is electric, great music, 

protest songs...traffic jams and gormless police. 


And the sight of the Women's Death Brigade conga stopping 

the traffic with their voluminous and infamous 'we must 

devastate the avenues of the rich' banner is a sight not 

to be missed.


The cry is getting louder......




''one door for all  !!!!'

http://tradeonion.wordpress.com/2014/10/19/class-war-takes-to-the-streets-against-social-cleansing-at-poor-doors-demo/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48_nGcSrdbw#t=289