THE FLEETWOOD MAC TRIBUTE BAND

 

These are Emma Dent Coad's 'Inde's': not the Fleetwood Mac tribute band. The one on the left thinks he's in Hamas

One doesn't want to be rude but they look really rather sinister. Is the one right known to readers?

TOP GUY GETS RECOGNISED

 Well done, Ian. 

It is not just the present residents of Sutton who are grateful to you but those who come after. 

Without you, a prime piece of our community would have fallen prey to developers.

 

 

IN PRAISE OF OUR STREET CLEANERS

unceasing commitment  

Here's a public service team out and about on our streets whatever the weather might throw at them.

The Council's street cleaners are an example to all. 

They are dedicated and hardworking.

Their job is made horrible by those who allow their dogs to foul the roads and who dump rubbish everywhere.

Whenever the Dame sees one of our street cleaners she will always stop and thank them. 

We could make their lives easier if we showed them some consideration...

GROW UP POLICE NOT GROW TREES

This was sent to the Hornet's Nest. 

People in the Borough are living fear of being attacked on the streets or their homes broken into.

The continual complaint is that local police are rarely seen on the streets. One reason could be that they are busy learning how to plant trees.....

If crime was at a low level this sort of community relations nonsense could be considered harmless: that is not the case. This sort of publicity gives a very wrong impression...an impression of levity in the performance of duties. 

Chief Constable Watson of Great Manchester Police would come down heavily on this sort police pr: it really is unfunny.

The Met really does have some serious issues not least of which is that serious leadership is lacking.

DARK FORCES CAPTURE KENSINGTON LABOUR: THE LIES OF THE EXTREMIST FACTION

This comment has been escalated due to its pertinence. As usual, THINK has written a forensic piece about the KLP people behind the smearing and lies. It's an important read if you want a deep analysis.

THINK

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Some recent comments about both the planning situation of the Chelsea Sutton Estate and the character of Ian Henderson himself are so off-beam that it is difficult to know where to start :

1. The vast majority of the Sutton Estate was NOT listed before Ian's campaign began. All the rest of Chelsea was already safe with 'Conservation Area' status but the Council had colluded with 'social' landlord Clarion to neglect & then knock down the estate, built originally to house the poor of Chelsea. If you look at the plans submitted & recommended by officers, it was intended to build a nasty new development FOR SALE  (marketed to overseas Eurotrash with no links to the area) 

Clarion would then have been free to spend the millions it received from the development in modernising its estates elsewhere in the country and rewarding its overpaid executives for sacrificing the working-class community of Chelsea for their own gain. What few replacement 'social housing units which were to be provided to give cover for the sell-off of the historic Sutton Estate were all pokey and North facing ( so poor that they could not have been sold on the open market). 

In saving the historic and architecturally significant Sutton Estate , Ian Henderson performed a huge public service for which future generations should thank him ( lt is a crying shame that the only recognition that Ian has received was a third rate BEM gong- when actually a knighthood would not have been more appropriate )
2/ As for the unfounded slurs about Ian's character that have now once again been stirred up by 'the forces of darkness' in North Kensington,these are from the same source that spread rumours that former Cllr Judith Blakeman was an alcoholic,  former Cllr. Atkinson enjoyed cocaine during Council meetings and former Cllr. Healy was not only housebound but senile. There is not, and never has been, an ounce of truth in those colourful allegations but they served to break up the effective Labour Group and local branches of North Kensington Labour Party that served the borough for decades.
Luckily, led by Joe Powell & Monica Press, the Kensington Labour Party had been saved from itself. The 'Forces of Darkness' have been comprehensively defeated and, except for a few pathetic and ineffective Councillors who will cling to office till the next round of Councillor selections, been driven out of the Party and public life.
At the General Election, both Kensington and Chelsea stand poised to elect sane, effective and conscientious Labour Members of Parliament who will at last give the whole of the Borough a political leadership worthy of our magnificent Royal Borough.

ST LUKE'S FOOTBALL PITCHES FOR OUR KIDS: IAN HENDERSON

Ian Henderson is a community activist and local resident. 

Before becoming a councillor Ian spearheaded the campaign to stop Sutton Estate from being destroyed by Affinity Sutton.

Dear Dame 

There has been a gross abuse of the pitches at St Luke’s. 

I notice comments referring to the £250k a year salary paid to Peter Bundey, the CEO of GLL. 

GLL manages our leisure facilities and is a charity. I was very surprised a charity could reward its boss so lavishly!

The assets GLL manages on our behalf are not there to provide high salaries for Mr Bundey and colleagues. 

The cynic might say that tennis and other corporate bookings are favoured by GLL because they provide a lush income stream….something that kids from local social housing like Sutton, Guinness and Lewis, Flood St and Worlds End cannot. 

It is good to see a start has been made by Cllr Will and team to return St Luke’s for free use by local children. 

This is what the Church,who own the land, and the local community want.

I often visit St Luke’s. 

Most times it seems to be booked by corporates. There is nothing sadder than seeing kids with footballs looking sadly through the fences as they wait for a rare space to become available.

Back in 2016 I was very involved with Kings United. This was a team of locals who had been struggling to get some funds and practice pitches. 

Fortunately, Ed Cadogan came along and supported us with a £5,000 donation. Even in those days, the only bookings offered were at 10.00 pm at night! On the one occasion they did get on the St Luke’s pitches one player was spotted by Chelsea and signed for them. To improve his game he moved to the Dutch League, Volendan.

from Sloane Square magazine

What was brilliant was the older players coached the younger players.

Cllr Will and the Parks Team seem to have made a start but with Spring and Summer on the horizon, she needs to lay down the law to GLL about ensuring our kids get priority over money-making corporates abusing our scarce resources. 

Tennis coaching companies should not be allowed to book the pitches at peak times when kids need space to play football: it's very simple...our community assets are for our kids not money grabbing corporates.

Best wishes

Ian Henderson

WHAT A TOE WRAGG!

Toe Wragg

This is William Wragg, a deputy chairman of the all powerful 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers.

William decided to give a Grindr friend the contact details of certain parliamentary colleagues. That friend then sent salacious images to those 'certain' MPs. 

What were Wragg and friend hoping for? 

Some wiser MPs saw the danger: the thicker ones got caught dripping in Wragg's honey.

Why would Wragg do this? He sounds an absolute shit. Now he plays the victim but the Dame suspects his motives were far murkier and devious.

True to form Rishi has decided to let him retain the whip: others think he needs a bloody good whipping.

RUNNING SCARED?

 NOTE: This has been a crude comment about the outstanding Ian Henderson. If the extremists on KLP cannot comment without the use of F***K they cannot expect their rants to be published: the Dame adheres to high standards in political debate and expects others to follow her example.

THis Is North Kensington

 

North Kensington residents campaigning for positive social change – in our community, nearby and beyond

How the Stalinist clique hate From the Hornets Nest and This is North Kensington.

The nasty, personal attacks on THINK come from those who claim nobody reads it yet they seem to be compulsive readers!

How they must be boiling with rage and fury at the return of Monica Press. THINK

We need to forgive them. 

They know that their plot to take over Kensington Labour has been an abject failure: mind you, when you come across the dimwits now running KLP it's no great surprise. 

The extreme Left has been consigned to the dustbin of history and they hate it.

Can you imagine this incompetent lot running/ruining our lives?

The Dame is ever modest. 

THINK does something that separates it from FTHN....it campaigns intelligently and forensically.

When THINK comes under this sort of attack it must know it is being taken very seriously indeed.

LONG LIVE THIS IS NORTH KENSINGTON!