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| Brent Council leader Muhammed Butt in Willesden Green |
Willesden Green has been on the receiving end of this initiative where local people are particularly sore at losing the Willesden Bookshop, the open space outside Willesden Green Library (which has just been demolished); the threatened loss to developers of the popular community hub pub, the Queensbury; luxury flats being constructed on council land that has been given to developers being marketed in Singapore with the guarantee that there are no affordable homes or key worker homes on the site; and the failure of Brent Council to mount a campaign against the forced academisation of Gladstone Park Primary School.
The Week of Action does not of course have anything to do with all this and neither is it a reaction to the recent launch of the Make Willesden Green election platform LINK where independent candidate for the 2014 council election, Alex Colas, has high-lighted the 'democratic deficit' in the area.
The Queensbury Campaign invites your caption for the above photograph. Post your entries for the caption competition as comments below or tweet to .@QueensburySOS
Wit appreciated and there is a meal for two as a prize.
Library, open space bookshop and now pub stolen from Willesden Green. Think Burglar indeed.
ReplyDelete"It's behind you" (for now)
ReplyDelete"I really fancy a pint but I don't know where to go. Let's ask Google. Ah! The Spotted Dog is just around the corner"
ReplyDelete" Right, that's the 'Green' bit deleted. Now for 'Willesden' "
ReplyDelete'Oh, bloody hell. It's Trevor....'
ReplyDelete'Political life is just decisions, decisions, decisions innit? Do I take this selfie now or do I wait until Movember's over and I 've shaved this bloody beard off?'
ReplyDelete'Note to self: ensure untidy trees and bikes are removed before next visit in 2015. Spoiling view of attractive new signage.'
ReplyDelete'I wonder if that screen gets Sky. Would look great on my lounge wall and just in time for Ashes coverage'
ReplyDelete'"Right, Google....... Now, what was that word again?......... Ah yes: 'principles'..........."
ReplyDelete'Hello, UKBA. I'm a foreign-looking gent and I'm not wearing a poppy. I'd like to hand myself in..........'
ReplyDeleteNew government initiative "burglar detectors" maybe over sensitive and could prove unreliable.
ReplyDeleteHero councillor saves Queensbury!
ReplyDelete'Hello Dominic (and regards to Mrs Grieve). Now as I was saying about broadening your attack. There's this guy called I.P.Patel........................................... '
ReplyDelete'I'm was just passing the Queensbury, Sir Alan, and something reminded me that I hadn't texted you back. Lol. Anyway, I appreciate the offer, but at 500 quid a month it's going to take you til 2094 to pay even a quarter of it back.....................'
ReplyDelete"Damn, blocking @PukkahPunjabi only works on Twitter, not in real life"
ReplyDelete“I know it’s very sudden, my petal, but Paddy Power is offering me 5-4 on that the winner of my caption competition will be ‘Anonymous’ and if I put just a few million from the Education budget on it I’ll be able to buy the bloody Queensbury, get a few of I.P’s cheap builders in and turn it into the first Free School-cum-Shisha Lounge in North West London.”
ReplyDeleteDamn you foursquare, how am I supposed to be incognito with this bloody sign and your GPS!
ReplyDeleteThink Burglar. Think Gove taking teacher's pay and pension money and breaking of contract made with teachers. Think Burglar. Think massive cuts to the publicly funded Police and Fire service. Think Burglar. Think public paying taxes year after year into Education and NHS now being privatised on a massive scale.Think Burglar. Think soldiers in the second world war fighting for a world that they believed would be free and deserving to have their memory honoured by what followed. Think Burglar. Think business world hand in hand with Government forcing publicly funded schools to become City Academies. Think Burglar. Think Brent councillors sitting on their backsides fobbing people off month after month after month ignoring sheaves and sheaves of petition covered pages from literally thousands of people begging them not to take away their wonderful local bookshop, their local library and study area for the youngsters and their beloved local pub. Think Burglar and don't stop thinking burglar. P.S. Could we have that sign back please? I think we need reminding about a few things.
ReplyDeleteWhat’s this? ‘STOP GOVE’S PRIVATISATION OF SCHOOLS FOR PROFIT Come to a public meeting for staff, parents, pupils and the community 28th November 7.00 pm. Holiday Inn, Empire Way, Wembley(previously The Wembley Plaza by the Stadium)’ Hah! No one will hear about it and no one will turn up and then Mikey and I can claim that they’re an unrepresentative minority resisting Michael Gove’s very sensible reforms. Fools!
ReplyDeletewish that effin burglar would pinch this community asset and let me build a 10 storey monstrosity in it's place.
ReplyDeleteDaylight robbery in Willesden. Scene of crime Queensbury Pub. Man seen texting is prime suspect.
ReplyDeleteDear Brent Streetcare Department,
ReplyDeletePlease can you tell me where I am to place my plethora of wheelie bins in my front garden with all these bikes in the way? I am unable to find this particular example in that very helpful leaflet that you put through my door recently.
"Yikes! I've been rumbled....I'm a Councillor, get me out of here...!"
ReplyDeleteMessage to F Homes from Cllr Butt: Crimewatch alert! Suggest quiet meet at pub opposite. Great food, friendly people, best in Willesden. Lunch?
ReplyDeleteTo Delia@ ArkAcademy. So sorry to hear you're rapidly losing interest in buying up Copland. Yeah,tell me about it, Alan had exactly the same problem.They just don't appreciate enterprise, do they?However, I might have just the thing for you. It's on the ground floor of the new Queensbury development. It's called an A4 drinking facility. My vision is a Free House...yeah, it's like a Free School but smaller and without the educational bit. I've spoken to Dame Sally and she's cool with it so Ofsted won't be a problem. Copland? I hear Punch Taverns might be interested. Yeah, a theme pub. Thinking of calling it 'The False Accountant'. Text me back...............................
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