Plus: Pophams bakery landlord dispute, who drove a Waymo "self-driving" taxi into a crime scene, the repentant anti-LTN Green candidate, and what next for the striking tube drivers?
Of course the Greens don’t care about the environmental views of their candidates. The only thing that matters to them now is what you say about Palestine.
Also good to know that minority rights don’t matter when compared against the “global majority”. Whatever that means. The double standards and hypocrisy are astounding. I can’t believe grown adults are using nonsense terms like this.
I once broke down on Park Lane. The RAC guy said most of his work in central was reviving high-end sports cars when their owners flew in from the Gulf.
OK, shock horror, something weird is going on here in Newham. Forest Gate North residents have now had leaflets through their door *ONLY* mentioning Shofa and not mentioning either her running mate or the mayoral candidate.
I live in a big housing devopment in Wandsworth and we have the same problem with abandoned luxury cars. Recently the management kicked out a load parked and abandoned without a permit, including a blue Rolls Royce with middle eastern plates that ended up on BBC news after being abandoned again in Mayfair shortly after! Plenty of the cars here have clearly not moved for many years.
Lots of similar cars parked here, some classics under covers, Ferraris, Lamborghinis etc. Management really struggle to get them moved for any maintenance. Maybe August last year prior to this story they were towing cars away (or atleast threatening to) that didn't have a permit. I remember a small coupe, maybe a Porche or similar that disappeared roughly on the cutoff date for removal. Who knows what happened with that.
As someone who lived in the same building as Pophams for 6 years, the news of a dispute with the landlord doesn't surprise me in the least! It is a chronically mismanaged building.
The landlord would fire the managing agents like clockwork every two years. Catastrophically they once did so while the managing agents were in the middle of changing gas suppliers for the building - they had got as far as cancelling the contract with the previous supplier bit not as far as starting the contract with the new one when they were let go! This left the building buying gas wholesale at the point when the price spike caused by the Ukraine war happened. Who should pay for the resulting sky-high gas bill became a long running dispute with the residents and presumably also the commercial tenants, would not be surprised if that was part of the issue!
it's so staggeringly short-sighted. Does she honestly not stop to think how her words can be turned against people like her, even if she is part of the 'global majority'?
Editing error by me. Apologies. Council sold the flat at a value of £190,000, not £195,000, as backed by the lease. Now correct in this piece as per earlier statement.
Of course the Greens don’t care about the environmental views of their candidates. The only thing that matters to them now is what you say about Palestine.
Also good to know that minority rights don’t matter when compared against the “global majority”. Whatever that means. The double standards and hypocrisy are astounding. I can’t believe grown adults are using nonsense terms like this.
Thanks Jim!
I once broke down on Park Lane. The RAC guy said most of his work in central was reviving high-end sports cars when their owners flew in from the Gulf.
The latest Green leaflet in Forest Gate North has dropped any mention of Shofa at all!
OK, shock horror, something weird is going on here in Newham. Forest Gate North residents have now had leaflets through their door *ONLY* mentioning Shofa and not mentioning either her running mate or the mayoral candidate.
Camden’s only Green Councillor is also anti LTN 🤦🏼♀️
https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/25020530.dartmouth-park-healthy-neighbourhood-plan-paused/
Something very wrong with the motoring 'ecosytem' if there is no other action than scrapping these cars, what an absolute waste.
Think it just means selling them at auction.
Exactly what I was thinking. I’d happily take one off their hands 😜.
I live in a big housing devopment in Wandsworth and we have the same problem with abandoned luxury cars. Recently the management kicked out a load parked and abandoned without a permit, including a blue Rolls Royce with middle eastern plates that ended up on BBC news after being abandoned again in Mayfair shortly after! Plenty of the cars here have clearly not moved for many years.
Tell me more!
It was almost certainly this one:
BBC News - Rolls Royce towed in supercar parking 'crackdown'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4dq9lvg3yo
Lots of similar cars parked here, some classics under covers, Ferraris, Lamborghinis etc. Management really struggle to get them moved for any maintenance. Maybe August last year prior to this story they were towing cars away (or atleast threatening to) that didn't have a permit. I remember a small coupe, maybe a Porche or similar that disappeared roughly on the cutoff date for removal. Who knows what happened with that.
Let me know if you fancy a look round
As someone who lived in the same building as Pophams for 6 years, the news of a dispute with the landlord doesn't surprise me in the least! It is a chronically mismanaged building.
The landlord would fire the managing agents like clockwork every two years. Catastrophically they once did so while the managing agents were in the middle of changing gas suppliers for the building - they had got as far as cancelling the contract with the previous supplier bit not as far as starting the contract with the new one when they were let go! This left the building buying gas wholesale at the point when the price spike caused by the Ukraine war happened. Who should pay for the resulting sky-high gas bill became a long running dispute with the residents and presumably also the commercial tenants, would not be surprised if that was part of the issue!
So apparently now everyone the Greens don't like is a "settler", even if their crime is moving to... Newham? What??
I know, it's so childish, isn't it.
Curious to find out who gets tarred as settler under her definition? Sure hope it’s not just sparkling racism.
It means moving somewhere new if you’re white
it's so staggeringly short-sighted. Does she honestly not stop to think how her words can be turned against people like her, even if she is part of the 'global majority'?
Forhad Hussain’s own statement, which you published in the week, had the initial valuation of the flat at £190,000 - not £195,000 as you say today.
Editing error by me. Apologies. Council sold the flat at a value of £190,000, not £195,000, as backed by the lease. Now correct in this piece as per earlier statement.