Originally posted by @pap
Interesting comments from the meeting’s organiser:-
On Monday, one of the brothers who set up the cafe, Alan Keery, wrote in the Guardian that the protesters had been wrong to target an independent business, calling the action “unacceptable bullying”. He wrote: “Cereal Killer Cafe is not the cause of gentrification, nor can it instigate the solution.”
But Bone rejected this, saying the publicity showed it had been worthwhile: “Everyone keeps saying: ‘Wrong target, you should have done the City, you should have done parliament, you should have done Pret a Manger, Foxtons.’ It doesn’t work. You don’t get any publicity.
“We had a riot virtually every night outside 1 Commercial Street, and it doesn’t get a dicky bird. We wouldn’t have got any publicity if it hadn’t been for the cereal cafe. But I give those two brothers their credit. They’ve milked this brilliantly. They’ve run a masterful campaign. I salute them for that.”
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/29/cereal-killer-cafe-class-war-anti-gentrification-protest-independent-businesses
What a muppet. Let’s target normal people on the street so that we can get publicity. Brilliant.
How in the bollocksinhell can traipsing around at 0200am for a drink be diverse, it shite, London has great boozers at the weekend until 1200 and then its shite unless you go to a few selct locations (for a price of course) and they are still pretty average, no sorry been there and done it, its pretty standard, Camden is good and always will be but London due to residential laws closes at 1200am, for an alpha+ City is well shit.
If the demographic changed it may not have changed how late London stays awake but the nights out would have looked a bit different and I suspect a bit better, Brighton is a better night out than London, shameful really.
I asked earlier what you want from a night out, yet you’re not sharing. Let me know and I can help!
I don’t think we’re going to agree on this, but to be fair out of all the cities I’ve been to, (including New York and Miami from your above list) London is the best city in the world, and I know many others that think the same. But everyone’s entitled to an opinion.
The generalisation i was referring to was the one Ant made in saying that all buy to let purchases and subsequent lets were morally repugnant. For clarification, like.
The types you refer to above will just be landlords and are in the absolute minority. I doubt if they have ever taken out a BTL mortgage in their life. However, a substantial number of buy to let mortgages are taken out by people who find poor returns on their investments in the stock market or at the banks and wish to invest in something that may offer a better return. These people would have earned their cash either the hard way or the easy way, i couldn’t give a monkey’s really, it’s not for me to decide.
If you are worried about the chinese buying property portfolios, then you should be happy with the likes of Mrs Miggins taking out a buy to let mortgage with her redundnacy money and purchasing a property that she intends to rent out to some nice students or single mums. Keeps the property in the UK and gives her a nestegg for future spending (probably in the UK) as well as the substantial amount of inheritance tax on when she dies.
London is a great City one of the best but for a night out on the ale theough to the early hours its shit, for history, culture, music, arts, sport its amazing but its nightlife after 1200am is woeful compared to others.
From a nightout say I want good boozer with good food, later a bar that is open late until say 0400am, that is surprisingly difficult if you don’t want to walk all over or cab it for a fortune. London is 80 towns and there is the issue.
Sorry I havent been following this thread - was the riot aimed at the price of the cornflakes or at the dudes beards?
It only goes to help my case of social apparteid happily engineered by these bastards in power.
This also kind of proves my point.