It's hard to know where to start with the many assaults local people are facing from Southwark Council as hey attempt to cover their plans and deeds. Perhaps by saying why, if it elicited any groans, it needs to be from Tweets - as will be shown, and if you didn't know already, Southwark councillors themselves have taken to Twitter to among other things troll locals who highlight the at least highly questionable behaviour of the council. It is a good place to start - many self-congratulatory, back-scratching tweets fade away as the platform allows for refutation of the claims, more immediately and directly than a puff-piece on a paper, or in a ridiculous Channel4 PR campaign. Michael Scorer was recorded walking around on one estate no doubt wanting to show how local communities should be engaged with and how Southwark's regeneration plans were so delightful; him being told that the council had run the estate down and were to blame for the problems now being faced by tenants and residents made only the cutting room floor, along with the rest of that particular segment. So here we have more direct rebuttals, ready for the inevitable propaganda campaigns as they attempt another Heygate while pretending it isn't going to happen and they've learnt all the lessons from that debacle, shifting blame shamefully and shamelessly onto their victims - or, trying to...
Thanks to the many campaigns who are linked to in the tweets. Hopefully this will help bring together the answers in a helpful way - that is the intention. This will focus mainly on the Southwark cesspit but also show how it is an even wider, seemingly deliberate, attack on homes. A land grab. Something that will ultimately affect us all.
Headings will help, but there will of course be crossovers - should the behaviour of Peter John be under 'Dodgy' or 'Numbers' - as it is he gets his own as he merits. I'll start with what is for many innocent leaseholders, blamed on top of everything else when they've done nothing, a particularly painful situation:
R.T.B. - not the problem
The rest will be more to the point but I have to say something about this, mainly for the many lives I'm seeing sadly ruined by people believing the council lives and thinking this is to blame. Again, as we shall see, the council likes to blame the victims of its actions for the those actions and the distressing outcomes. Nowhere is this more apparent and has it been so evident over many years than with right-to-buy. RTB is not to blame - the council's planning and behaviour is. Nobody has suffered more from this than leaseholders. Labour, the current Mayor, like to go on marches and call out the catastrophic consequences on people's lives when millionaire leaseholders are landed with bankrupting bills for cladding, but the way local Labour councils - especially Southwark - have treated less well-off locals just trying to buy a home as others not from the working class neighbourhoods have the opportunity to do, they are not only never defended but actively demonised. A convenient red-herring and scapegoat for the council's actions. The council, through managed decline and lack of proper consultation and scrutiny of how they arrive at their figures, treat these non-millionaire leaseholders as (in the words of Harriet Harman many years ago) 'cash machines'.
Not RTB – a handy thread. Refutes seemingly quite effectively (given the way the arguments change course) that RTB is to blame and lays out why many leaseholders now are simply trying to make a home, and maybe this was always the case, rather than being some cruel landlord investor (and though not my concern or focus here, of those that are buy-to-let, many of their tenants seem to have better conditions than if they were, um, 'cared for' by the council's management, as they cannot get away with what council landlords do). Many people who don't 'get' RTB perhaps need to realise many leaseholders were not even born when their apparently still unrequited fixation with Maggie bloody Thatcher started. If Labour provided truly affordable homes - a phrase that we will come back to - in the area, rather than the unaffordable they claimed for a while to have built, perhaps the gap between haves and have-nots would not be increased with the attacks on RTB, which is the only outcome of the council's cruel behaviour towards those sacrificing and saving to try and make a home:
Not RTB and leaseholders to blame – a thread
https://twitter.com/NasCostomano/status/1418966970897256451?s=20
London Tenants – again, not RTB
https://twitter.com/LondonTenants/status/1423592587072528384?s=20
Help To Buy okay, RTB (and live in) not The real, only difference? About £300k
https://twitter.com/ShouT_Southwark/status/1432268551323373568?s=20
A lot RTB, as is affordable to them, being blamed
https://twitter.com/ExplorerDale/status/1428293724375748614?s=20
RTB figure claims refuted and not answered by RL
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1435556445802618881?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1431298328558510083?s=20
not RTB – again
https://twitter.com/Sparkyxxx/status/1437489762336747525?s=20
Service Charges are very high and need outside scrutiny. Where's the money going?
https://twitter.com/SaveBells/status/1437513433902092290?s=20
where should leaseholders go? Somewhere that doesn't stop councillors grabbing land? Figures massaged again?
https://twitter.com/Swtra5/status/1445207014410530818?s=20
no reply to LHs
https://twitter.com/Hamburgerluette/status/1448675864728715269?s=20
leases should be different – for all
https://twitter.com/leasehold_abuse/status/1438937180915834891?s=20
shared ownership worse (but still offered on regenerated estates)
https://twitter.com/STimea3/status/1439274537082834946?s=20
sale okay, especially now?
https://twitter.com/ana_captures/status/1451843241444352010?s=20
RBKC LH cash machines (?)
https://twitter.com/RBKCLF/status/1453108782146461702?s=20
Cladding
https://twitter.com/suejbright/status/1439520346730860553?s=20
LHs lumbered
https://twitter.com/suejbright/status/1430444480415641600?s=20
LH cash machines
https://twitter.com/ShouT_Southwark/status/1442079378901405705?s=20
truly affordable
https://twitter.com/DemolitionsLdn/status/1449507880726667267?s=20
PETER JOHN
Deserving of his own group, and probably of more investigating.
PJ signing Heygate to LendLease, now works for lobbying firm with LL as long term client
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1425493702269706248?s=20
As above - Terrapin
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1425761943843913736?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/SouthwarkNotes/status/1425895359923068932?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1425781767575851014?s=20
&
4 Sitting Labour cllrs as lobbyists
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1426185588470947840?s=20
PJ celebratng
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1431904683879194624?s=20
PJ confirming his priority
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1428114301697527821?s=20
PJ unclear again
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1441327006457548803?s=20
bloody cheek. I believe this is gaslighting
https://twitter.com/peterjohn6/status/1436388262155857923?s=20
PJ investigated
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1451473901159075842?s=20
NUMBERS
Prices
https://twitter.com/DemolitionsLdn/status/1430411569901486081?s=20
How many houses really?
https://twitter.com/peckham_green/status/1431571348007043079?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/peckham_green/status/1431741968250511363?s=20
How many losing?
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1450024597819166723?s=20
Fewer homes
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1431149694110011392?s=20
More lost homes
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1439514757158117381?s=20
Do they do what they say?
https://twitter.com/sarahklymkiw/status/1446088717702156288?s=20
Could go with 'rubbish planning'?
https://twitter.com/DemolitionsLdn/status/1449286873550045185?s=20
Could go below...?
https://twitter.com/ffssouthwark/status/1442769105258487816?s=20
DODGY
IMPORTANT! OKR land sales
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1438455241582723073?s=20
& cont'd
https://twitter.com/london_pacific/status/1438501147610738689?s=20
OKR Skyscrapers promised – but now (+ value) land for sale
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1416381403281960962?s=20
Heygate
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1446400654432428036?s=20
Council hiding original plans
https://twitter.com/peckham_green/status/1426160850612666369?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/peckham_green/status/1425936778649821186?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/peckham_green/status/1427243107767230465?s=20
RBKC CONsultation even post Grenfell
https://twitter.com/gillkernick/status/1426818488887283714?s=20
Deletes Twitter account
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1426636978854969346?s=20
Rigged, re-run ballots
https://twitter.com/DemolitionsLdn/status/1427376024497569796?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/SayNoSlippers/status/1428493622039785473?s=20
Pollak basically excused
https://twitter.com/CourtCampaign/status/1428668429033254916?s=20
Maybe because -
https://twitter.com/CourtCampaign/status/1436282181857521665?s=20
Broken promises
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1429005577204682752?s=20
A say
https://twitter.com/PhinHarper/status/1450216428922195968?s=20
UK local government corruption
https://twitter.com/TransparencyUK/status/1429348865443078146?s=20
Pretty sure JMB were involved in the leaseholder centre which was going to be so wonderful. What happened to that?
JMB CBS
https://twitter.com/BallcourtGarden/status/1452964784702468106?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/BallcourtGarden/status/1453667552907907072?s=20
Vids. No consultation.
https://twitter.com/AmigoDodson/status/1453864625875869702?s=20
Investigate Southwark Council
https://twitter.com/AlbionSalter/status/1451543643278483463?s=20
Delancey
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1451835903056482310?s=20
Guardian - Aylesbury sold at a loss
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1429730399027146755?s=20
Councillor meeting developers?
https://twitter.com/DanicaPriest/status/1451863798420283396?s=20
Anything to ease through their plans?
https://twitter.com/CourtCampaign/status/1452672317037977611?s=20
More Pandora Papers
https://twitter.com/ShouT_Southwark/status/1434205336223748098?s=20
Seaton
https://twitter.com/AmigoDodson/status/1449642776921059330?s=20
Kim Humphreys
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1450558221337440261?s=20
Right
https://twitter.com/leaftoleaf/status/1435898157532172289?s=20
Managed Decline
https://twitter.com/nehagohil24/status/1448725029911474178?s=20
&
Aylesbury
https://twitter.com/nehagohil24/status/1448725024316313605?s=20
Ah. Pandora Papers
https://twitter.com/daviduw92/status/1445395103019847690?s=20
Will they say – draw – and promise anything?
https://twitter.com/Sparkyxxx/status/1445599570633773058?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/Sparkyxxx/status/1445724796277465088?s=20
Ballots
https://twitter.com/soul_bouy/status/1432996059945525252?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/daviduw92/status/1445771934206074893?s=20
No large meetings / tenants friend
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1431536616976306180?s=20
Monitoring Officer report
https://twitter.com/AlbionSalter/status/1431961915970961417?s=20
Contracts?
https://twitter.com/AmigoDodson/status/1447136370078756865?s=20
No mice
https://twitter.com/AmigoDodson/status/1446188769737121793?s=20
Heygate - broken promises
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1443501398843396096?s=20
chasing repairs
https://twitter.com/LedburyAction/status/1444363739571105793?s=20
appear corrupt
https://twitter.com/savecentralhill/status/1441214695839436801?s=20
we have to chase up repairs too
https://twitter.com/ConcernedResie/status/1441118473153703936?s=20
where is money going (underground)?
https://twitter.com/AydinDikerdem/status/1439869611906895872?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/TsiresyDomingos/status/1439894914804895747?s=20
Oops...
https://twitter.com/AmigoDodson/status/1446782819787812865?s=20
EMPTIES
Maydew House promise...
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1423950491587862529?s=20
Empty Homes on Aylesbury
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1424327507797581824?s=20
Aylesbury empties – to demolish, for...?
https://twitter.com/Jason_S_deSouza/status/1438553715519234054?s=20
Empty flats
https://twitter.com/mossysue/status/1430805629086715909?s=20
Still empty
https://twitter.com/mossysue/status/1448547637855141893?s=20
Empty Maydew again
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1441720321090936832?s=20
More empty
https://twitter.com/StaffordshireST/status/1440749369519525891?s=20
BLAMING VICTIMS
See also RTB, above.
Council not building as they could and should, are to blame
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1440964636472397829?s=20
Council dont replace, blame others
https://twitter.com/ffssouthwark/status/1445512624418947091?s=20
Council to blame for loss of green
https://twitter.com/Walworth_Greens/status/1440620990040457222?s=20
Our problem too!
https://twitter.com/SaveBells/status/1433120702572466180?s=20
Shifting blame, again
https://twitter.com/ellenrgibson/status/1450115663528435714?s=20
shift blame, guilt – more time on better plans less on this
https://twitter.com/CourtCampaign/status/1447171771891920907?s=20
Response to claims of misinfo
https://twitter.com/peckham_green/status/1444956657692336132?s=20
Nobody said don't develop – just do it fairly. Setting up a strawman.
https://twitter.com/SaveBells/status/1438161873703165957?s=20
Council mistakes, now we pay by losing green
https://twitter.com/DemolitionsLdn/status/1432438919212290048?s=20
Regen prices out
https://twitter.com/RyeHillTRA/status/1432654164773978115?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/NasCostomano/status/1432716928196435974?s=20 – to London Pacific (was Victorious Sponge)
Wanting to get away with it
https://twitter.com/LeahJon44810904/status/1448587452994699270?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/AmigoDodson/status/1448587952095907847?s=20
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https://twitter.com/BenRymer/status/1448604925571784708?s=20
yimbys don't won''t get it
https://twitter.com/mossysue/status/1432417728397205515?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/mossysue/status/1432421110893760517?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/georgiehodgess/status/1432757072374943744?s=20
Jack
https://twitter.com/Sparkyxxx/status/1448345306609881099?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/AlbionSalter/status/1448538316727595011?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/Jonifty/status/1448667356339781633?s=20
Sanctimonious Labour. Liking to convince themselves they're helping poorer people but just doing what their ego demands, despite all evidence that they're harming those same communities and storing up problems for them, just to benefit developers (and themselves). Do they really believe what they say, choose to convince themselves or know it's nonsense? Hypocritical, patronising, self-serving, ego-massaging dishonest sanctimonious rubbish.
https://twitter.com/slooshbag5/status/1437327155764027393?s=20
Not really good enough
https://twitter.com/CourtCampaign/status/1437457347723636739?s=20
Cult
https://twitter.com/AlbionSalter/status/1448540673922240513?s=20
managed decline
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1438952893076344835?s=20
Why parks are gardens now (for some)?
https://twitter.com/CourtCampaign/status/1446065055510958080?s=20
They care about people apparently – these are the same, does same await those being 'helped' now?
https://twitter.com/CourtCampaign/status/1434507153927249925?s=20
Who suffers?
https://twitter.com/Swtra5/status/1436076389720109070?s=20
BAD PLANNING
Livingstone, everybody's mate – until, as we've seen, he's called out and stops replying. Doesn't even take the magic word ('audit') for him.
https://twitter.com/LeahJon44810904/status/1447460743994085377?s=20
Fire Safety
https://twitter.com/LeahJon44810904/status/1447460743994085377?s=20
LendLease offices
https://twitter.com/SaveKingstonEst/status/1440310831183327232?s=20
New build Aylesbury less energy efficient
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1425743965572186112?s=20
Council lying about just wanting homes – they demolished then sold land cheap to LendLease
https://twitter.com/peckham_green/status/1426536429035864072?s=20
Lambeth sold off co-ops to developers
https://twitter.com/PeoplesAudit/status/1427340831183282179?s=20
Council build on parks
https://twitter.com/peckham_green/status/1426163709316108300?s=20
Subsidence, RTD's
https://twitter.com/ShouT_Southwark/status/1431298831774330892?s=20
Gardens are for the rich only. Disruptors – but again only rich ones?
https://twitter.com/leaftoleaf/status/1433003260126900224?s=20
Private green spaces, anyway
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1434079023274020870?s=20
Building is posh – plan application you thought people wouldn't have
https://twitter.com/peckham_green/status/1433765405114392577?s=20
&
a vid
https://twitter.com/peckham_green/status/1433817286335401990?s=20
Flammable
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1431651616550232066?s=20
NRP is green, being built on
https://twitter.com/FriendsofNRPark/status/1432044769912496137?s=20
Just build doesn't work
https://twitter.com/mossysue/status/1432595442060169222?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/OfKentish/status/1432363542901104649?s=20
just build – no, listen – yes
https://twitter.com/SaveBells/status/1437397539419000835?s=20
flood risks, yes - still happening
https://twitter.com/berglund_oscar/status/1443658982820810754?s=20
more muck ups
https://twitter.com/CourtCampaign/status/1443918492277870594?s=20
roof gardens are less
https://twitter.com/hughpearman/status/1438892705531244545?s=20
OKR High Density
https://twitter.com/CourtCampaign/status/1439490407713239047?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1438965698559102977?s=20
Just build no good 2
https://twitter.com/SaveBells/status/1440068729736335363?s=20
RTD's
https://twitter.com/CourtCampaign/status/1436664232204980227?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/CourtCampaign/status/1436833143089156096?s=20
unsafe
https://twitter.com/Swtra5/status/1441155836756181001?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/Southwark_News/status/1441096309901979656?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/Sparkyxxx/status/1441653271513509889?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/CourtCampaign/status/1441712573758443520?s=20
& good
https://twitter.com/UpTheElephant_/status/1441457820147195904?s=20
FT
https://twitter.com/35percent_EAN/status/1434121165791023112?s=20
Sad
https://twitter.com/Sparkyxxx/status/1438426535069896706?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/peckham_green/status/1433036249581998084?s=20
Conclusions
Social cleaning
https://twitter.com/LorettaCLees/status/1430447281191460869?s=20
Fencing up
https://twitter.com/peckham_green/status/1430819765212360708?s=20
Will Southwark go Green?
Inquiry
https://twitter.com/Sparkyxxx/status/1443623644660436993?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/Sparkyxxx/status/1444252805141876737?s=20
Labour cllrs should go through it
https://twitter.com/WhyDemolish/status/1443247955813732354?s=20
tories
https://twitter.com/rubbishfriend/status/1446181725533519875?s=20
cons...
https://twitter.com/RBKCLF/status/1447263301356957696?s=20
not for us
https://twitter.com/Swtra5/status/1454400392746475524?s=20
pretty much
https://twitter.com/MGrimnasty/status/1444248727745703936?s=20
success!
https://twitter.com/court_sw16/status/1447305262453477379?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/PeoplesAudit/status/1447528472650424327?s=20
&
https://twitter.com/EstatesofMemory/status/1450889332353536007?s=20
audits – the magic silence spell
https://twitter.com/Sparkyxxx/status/1437512763551723520?s=20
audits are a right
https://twitter.com/ShouT_Southwark/status/1438029331452899337?s=20
AUDIT!
https://twitter.com/partridgebirdie/status/1450524109385965570?s=20
Obviously much more, basically every argument of a deluded self-regarding councillor refuted in the many campaigning Twitter accounts. Please take a look for more. If the council and suspiciously enthusastic yimbys spent as much time in meetings really caring and listening to what locals are saying as they seem to on coming up with vicious bullying tactics for on and offline harassment, and dodgy rule bending to favour developer mates, we might get somewhere. Southwark Council needs intervention. Don't say we didn't tell you so. Hope this helps.
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