Comments on: Can you see the Forest for the sleaze? http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/ Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:06:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Technomist http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/comment-page-1/#comment-294387 Technomist Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:28:31 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/#comment-294387 He was acquitted. http://archipelago-of-truth.blog.co.uk/2009/01/27/councillor-acquitted-of-fraud-5460738/ He was acquitted.

http://archipelago-of-truth.blog.co.uk/2009/01/27/councillor-acquitted-of-fraud-5460738/

]]> By: North Londoner http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/comment-page-1/#comment-178527 North Londoner Fri, 23 May 2008 13:38:33 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/#comment-178527 the cinema went out of business because no-one used it - and no one wanted their Council tax to prop it up. A group of middle class arties want it reopened - but have no real way of making it pay. Its very simple really. the cinema went out of business because no-one used it – and no one wanted their Council tax to prop it up. A group of middle class arties want it reopened – but have no real way of making it pay.

Its very simple really.

]]> By: NT http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/comment-page-1/#comment-177610 NT Tue, 20 May 2008 08:49:11 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/#comment-177610 If you want to see some of the things that routinely go on in Waltham Forest, check http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/walthamforestnews/walthamforestnews/display.var.2194839.0.waltham_forest_antifraud_rules_broken_over_flawed_contract.php If you want to see some of the things that routinely go on in Waltham Forest, check
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/walthamforestnews/walthamforestnews/display.var.2194839.0.waltham_forest_antifraud_rules_broken_over_flawed_contract.php

]]> By: AsifB http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/comment-page-1/#comment-177497 AsifB Mon, 19 May 2008 16:43:29 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/#comment-177497 No question waltham forest council (basically lab-lib with several changes of Council leader/cabinet the last decade) has been singularly useless and incompetent. (though I suspect its fellow Olympic boroughs and more traditioal one-partry states Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets have dodgier stories to tell) It is only the local popularity of its two old 1980s left wing MPs, Neil Gerrard and Harry Cohen, that has kept the local Labour party in functioning order - bizzarely, given the millions of pounds of regeneration cash wasted on consultants in the area, the Walthamstow councill leadership has singularly failed to support a local campaign to re-open a Grade II listed 1930s art deco cinema (where teh Beatles and Frank Sinatra played - see mcGuffins site- http://www.mcguffin.info/) despite a hugely successful local campaign and public inquriry victory five years ago against the deeply unpopular and somewhat dubious owners the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. The petty bureaucratic excuses for inaction by the current Council cabinet (which also kept another prime site empty after a cock up with developers) have left the borough without a cinema - despite and this is the bizzare bit the huge local popularity (cf; Lambeth or Islington) historic local cinema buildings attract. No question waltham forest council (basically lab-lib with several changes of Council leader/cabinet the last decade) has been singularly useless and incompetent. (though I suspect its fellow Olympic boroughs and more traditioal one-partry states Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets have dodgier stories to tell)

It is only the local popularity of its two old 1980s left wing MPs, Neil Gerrard and Harry Cohen, that has kept the local Labour party in functioning order – bizzarely, given the millions of pounds of regeneration cash wasted on consultants in the area, the Walthamstow councill leadership has singularly failed to support a local campaign to re-open a Grade II listed 1930s art deco cinema (where teh Beatles and Frank Sinatra played – see mcGuffins site- http://www.mcguffin.info/) despite a hugely successful local campaign and public inquriry victory five years ago against the deeply unpopular and somewhat dubious owners the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God.

The petty bureaucratic excuses for inaction by the current Council cabinet (which also kept another prime site empty after a cock up with developers) have left the borough without a cinema – despite and this is the bizzare bit the huge local popularity (cf; Lambeth or Islington) historic local cinema buildings attract.

]]> By: cjcjc http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/comment-page-1/#comment-177369 cjcjc Mon, 19 May 2008 07:19:18 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/#comment-177369 On the Graham mayoral elction logic shouldn't Waltham Forest be expelled from London anyway on grounds of distance? On the Graham mayoral elction logic shouldn’t Waltham Forest be expelled from London anyway on grounds of distance?

]]> By: Zin http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/comment-page-1/#comment-177295 Zin Sun, 18 May 2008 20:03:48 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/#comment-177295 ...just to be on the safe side …just to be on the safe side

]]> By: tim http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/comment-page-1/#comment-177290 tim Sun, 18 May 2008 19:28:45 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/#comment-177290 21? 21?

]]> By: Zin http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/comment-page-1/#comment-177273 Zin Sun, 18 May 2008 15:39:55 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/#comment-177273 Sorry Brett, it's too complicated to follow. Anyway, I hope that the wife-beater learns his lesson, they all stop libelling each other, and no one messes around with underage girls or boys. Given the allegations flying around, they might all be well advised to stick to partners over the age of 21 for the time being. Glad I don't live in Waltham Forest. Sorry Brett, it’s too complicated to follow. Anyway, I hope that the wife-beater learns his lesson, they all stop libelling each other, and no one messes around with underage girls or boys. Given the allegations flying around, they might all be well advised to stick to partners over the age of 21 for the time being. Glad I don’t live in Waltham Forest.

]]> By: Alec Macpherson http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/comment-page-1/#comment-177270 Alec Macpherson Sun, 18 May 2008 15:32:29 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/#comment-177270 Zin, I have enough experience of bureaucracies [1] and being apparently trusted to preform the relevant duties for extended periods and interact with colleagues only to be denied the benefit of permanency or higher pay solely on the basis on a half hour interview. I have witnessed individuals who are *known* to be less suitable being advanced solely on the basis of such interviews. I have even witnessed individuals who, on paper, are clearly less suitable, but still receive advancement because of said interview. And Jeyne appears to have concurred with me. As for age of consent. I would disagree with lowering it to 14, and even have my doubts about 16 (of both stripes). Brett posts enough about gay affairs to discuss it then. This story, however, related to the separate issue of, as I said, physical assaults on teenage girls. [1] And of ChrisC's support of the party system to know that if it contested the moon were made of cheese, he'd agree. Zin, I have enough experience of bureaucracies [1] and being apparently trusted to preform the relevant duties for extended periods and interact with colleagues only to be denied the benefit of permanency or higher pay solely on the basis on a half hour interview. I have witnessed individuals who are *known* to be less suitable being advanced solely on the basis of such interviews. I have even witnessed individuals who, on paper, are clearly less suitable, but still receive advancement because of said interview.

And Jeyne appears to have concurred with me.

As for age of consent. I would disagree with lowering it to 14, and even have my doubts about 16 (of both stripes). Brett posts enough about gay affairs to discuss it then. This story, however, related to the separate issue of, as I said, physical assaults on teenage girls.

[1] And of ChrisC’s support of the party system to know that if it contested the moon were made of cheese, he’d agree.

]]> By: Zin http://hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/comment-page-1/#comment-177268 Zin Sun, 18 May 2008 15:27:43 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/17/can-you-see-the-forest-for-the-sleeze/#comment-177268 Complain away Jeyne, just don't do it here unless you are prepared to provide full disclosure. Otherwise it just looks like like sour grapes and comes across as a bit wierd. If you have a valid case, I wish you good luck and hope you receive adequate compensation and an apology. Complain away Jeyne, just don’t do it here unless you are prepared to provide full disclosure. Otherwise it just looks like like sour grapes and comes across as a bit wierd. If you have a valid case, I wish you good luck and hope you receive adequate compensation and an apology.

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