tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post627604511521503185..comments2024-03-28T09:45:17.708+00:00Comments on WEMBLEY MATTERS: UPDATED: Recriminations, criminals and Kensal Rise libraryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-1617972486714575292014-02-02T22:42:32.655+00:002014-02-02T22:42:32.655+00:00You have to admire the slickness the eviction was ...You have to admire the slickness the eviction was done, no one say it coming. <br /><br />Interesting to see if plod show and of it on Crimewatch. <br /><br />A knock knock at 5am shame it was not televised. LOL. <br /><br />Did anyone see Tom Seaman and Andrew Gillick there or were they wearing disguises? <br /><br />Did they use the pieces of the pop up to keep the fire going and themselves warm out in Oxford?<br />Now they are the important questions. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-11295633036149259792014-02-02T22:31:55.733+00:002014-02-02T22:31:55.733+00:00Let's storm the building and move the library ...Let's storm the building and move the library indoors. Anyone know if the heating works?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-64983509741188593962014-02-02T19:13:49.202+00:002014-02-02T19:13:49.202+00:00LOL!!!LOL!!!Meg Howarthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17917057407318309710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-47525731826631962952014-02-02T18:52:40.285+00:002014-02-02T18:52:40.285+00:00Ironically
http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/lead...Ironically<br />http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/leader_of_brent_council_shortlisted_for_digital_award_1_3258155claremountieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11392927701817762687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-90271839151569116302014-02-02T14:07:12.545+00:002014-02-02T14:07:12.545+00:00Had Brent Council exercised more ingenuity in how ...Had Brent Council exercised more ingenuity in how to reduce their spending (not to mention stemming where they waste our council tax; £98,000 on an opening ceremony; £15,000 on a Team-of -the-year etc... etc...)and maintain our services in the first instance: there would NEVER have been the need for a Pop-Up Library! Why also don't you reveal who you are 'anonymous'?claremountieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11392927701817762687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-498425530230782552014-02-02T13:05:37.734+00:002014-02-02T13:05:37.734+00:00Mohammed Butt's late-night sneering tweet to M...Mohammed Butt's late-night sneering tweet to Michael Calderbank claiming that Brent Council had 'provided all the evidence and police not pursuing' the fake email business fails to inspire confidence in the council's, let alone the NFIB's, handling of this grubby affair.<br /><br />An official statement from the council on the matter is needed urgently. Brent was contacted by the police on 21 January. Does it take 10 days - and the shameless destruction of the pop-up at the Kensal Rise Library site - before the release even of this snippet of information - and, then, in this personally antagonistic and entirely unsuitable fashion? Bad news burying even worse news? Michael Calderbank was simply asking about progress of the email investigation. <br /><br />Some immediate questions that demand public answers are:<br /><br />- Why have the police decided not to pursue the matter?<br /><br />- Has the council probed this decision? If not, why not?<br /><br />- Was Andrew Gillick interviewed by the NFIB (National Fraud and Investigation Bureau)? If not, why not? <br /><br />- Was the NFIB told of the apparent sub-letting of Mr Gillick's St Mary Mansions Paddington flat at the time a comment using that address was posted on the Barham Library planning application site? Two comments using that address appeared a couple of months earlier on the Kensal Library planning site.<br /><br />- Was any attempt made to try and trace the fake emails, as Margaret Smith asks above? If not, why not? As a computer expert confirms: 'it could be very easy if...no precautions [were taken], and difficult or impossible in other circumstances'. This is surely where the occupancy of Mr Gillick's Mary Mansions flat at the time of the three planning comments could help resolve matters?<br /><br />The computer expert went on to say: 'It's not very clever of Brent to collect comments via a system that is this easy to spoof. They could easily take a few precautions, [otherwise] this kind of thing will only become more frequent'. Fortunately, it seems that the council has now beefed up its system of online comment in the wake of this nasty affair. But<br /><br />'[t]he police decision not to pursue the matter hardly clears it up and any new [planning] application will be heard in an atmosphere of suspicion' (Martin Francis, above). Precisely. <br /><br />It seems that a further planning application from Andrew Gillick is expected to be lodged shortly.<br /><br />The council's lax system enabled the email scam. The very least it must now do is publicise the reasons for the police's decision not to proceed and prosecute. Planning matters around the Kensal Rise Library building can only become even messier without the utmost transparency by the council.<br /><br />Footnote: 'hippy' references, as below, also featured in the online planning comments supporting Mr Gillick's application. It's unclear whether they were found by the council to be amongst the fake emails passed to the police.<br /><br /><br />Meg Howarth<br /><br />Meg Howarthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17917057407318309710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-31892519867789131672014-02-01T23:20:18.045+00:002014-02-01T23:20:18.045+00:00I totally agree with 18.55. Not everyone thought t...I totally agree with 18.55. Not everyone thought this act of squatting and making the area look shabby was noble. Quite the contrary Friday was a great day for Kensal Rise and one i hope we will move on from. This symbol of Hippy revolt has come to an end alleluia! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-50751472429234504222014-02-01T23:06:21.628+00:002014-02-01T23:06:21.628+00:00Daniels will probably be in there selling these fl...Daniels will probably be in there selling these flats in 6 months..... poachers turn gamekeepers for a fist load of dollars...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-7827478124894448342014-02-01T22:25:26.270+00:002014-02-01T22:25:26.270+00:00Hello Jim Davidson at 18.55! Didn't take you l...Hello Jim Davidson at 18.55! Didn't take you long to get back on form and ranting , did it? Relax. Spend your winnings. Enjoy yourself for a change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-56052600243594002202014-02-01T20:38:25.441+00:002014-02-01T20:38:25.441+00:00The voice of the echt Spiv at 18.55 above. Thanks ...The voice of the echt Spiv at 18.55 above. Thanks for reinforcing my point so eloquently and with such bitterness.. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-1690526804382894872014-02-01T19:33:14.845+00:002014-02-01T19:33:14.845+00:00I should remind you other Boroughs allowed innovat...I should remind you other Boroughs allowed innovative social enterprise models.<br /><br />Sadly Brent drove a wedge between the community.<br /><br />It might not look a pretty picture, but you have to give credit to the campaigners.<br /><br />Once a community build is lost it is gone forever.<br /><br />Why should Mr Gillick protentially profit from a community asset and probably sold to foreign buyers not local people ?<br /><br />The pop up library is a symbol of community assets being sacred and should not be sold to the highest bidder no matter what the price!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-26929238133904242072014-02-01T18:55:45.351+00:002014-02-01T18:55:45.351+00:00The Pop up library was and is an illegal structure...The Pop up library was and is an illegal structure. It was illegal, breaks planning laws, is trespass, is squatting and was a total eyesore. NOT EVERYONE in Kensal Rise is sad to see it being torn down. The council and the College turned a blind eye to this for long enough. Frankly it should have been torn down the day it was put up. Anyone that says it was not on private land needs to get their eyes tested. It is time the Hippies take all their junk off the pavement, put it in the back of a converted ambulance and toddle on off. There you have it a Mobile Pop Up Library. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-36330402106903832212014-02-01T17:53:13.588+00:002014-02-01T17:53:13.588+00:00And Celebrity Big Brother is won by Jim Davidson. ...And Celebrity Big Brother is won by Jim Davidson. ( I'm told).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-41649665973006033302014-02-01T16:59:42.487+00:002014-02-01T16:59:42.487+00:00It is possible (quite easily I understand with the...It is possible (quite easily I understand with the right equipment/expertise) to perform an electronic trace, to establish where those fake emails emanated from? I hope that has been done prior to the decision not to prosecute.claremountieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11392927701817762687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-89467004013778518142014-02-01T13:36:19.320+00:002014-02-01T13:36:19.320+00:00Oxford colleges betray the wishes of dead authors;...Oxford colleges betray the wishes of dead authors;estate agents smash up libraries; hedge fund profiteers take over local schools; the Labour party colludes.<br /> Welcome to the Spivocracy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-22083409440376658992014-02-01T12:44:24.731+00:002014-02-01T12:44:24.731+00:00How can any incumbent Councillor involved in this ...How can any incumbent Councillor involved in this fiasco remain in office as after Local Election.<br /><br />They can't be trusted.<br /><br />The problem is who can be trusted ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com