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are we something he hates

"God I love publicity. I could eat it, drink it, snort it and shag it. Publicity drives me in the morning, during the day and in the evening. I even dream about publicity when I'm asleep and sometimes when I nod off during boring client presentations at Weber Shandwick. And of all the types of publicity - the best is self-publicity!

However, even I draw the line when it comes to the very un-funny people behind the spoof internet weblog http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/. Judging from the turgid, rambling style and content of the website, I reckon it's the lot behind this other website http://clissoldpark.ground-level.org/. These are a bunch of subversives who think that half of Hackney should be used as open spaces for lazy unemployed people to lie around in on sunny days and for kids on ASBOs to terrorise senior citizens in at night.

Judge for yourself what kind of people these are from their website, which describes hard-working Hackney councillors like Linda and myself as 'social misfits, pragmatic nest-featherers, dogmatic lickspittles, political adventurers, opinionated gits and well-meaning fools.'
These people wanted Hackney to slide back into hung council chaos in the 4 May elections to stop us implementing plans for paving over 'parks'. They want to live in some nostalgic bygone age when councillors debated amongst themselves at meetings and 'parks' were full of grass and trees.
Old-fashioned Hackney park

Look dummies - are you stupid, or what? The work is 'park'. That should ring a bell or two, even in your pathetic little pea-brains. These 'parks' should be areas for people to park! That's why our Labour Council will start paving over Hackney Marshes soon to turn it into the world's largest car park in time for the Olympic Games.
We need to promote everything that's best about Hackney and its friends across the pond and that's why I've invited Northrop Grumman to install a recruitment centre with an exhibition of tanks and helicopters adjacent to the new car park entrance. This will give some of Hackney's unemployed people and ASBO kids a fantastic opportunity to change their lives and become useful members of society.

In the meantime, I must make sure that I keep up with the latest trends in publicity. I hear this morning that Becks has been stealing the show again, this time with a display of vomiting during the Ecuador match. Linda - where's Augustus? Can you just get him to throw up a bit while I adjust the camera...."

(Via Luke Akehurst's Blog Was It Something I Ate?: .)

BLIMEY WE'RE BOLSHY!

So Jessica Crowe lets the cat out of the bag about why local people in Hackney aren't allowed to have much say in the running of our parks and why everything that is planned for them is kept secret. That'll be why we should shut up while 73 trees are being felled in St John's Churchyard as only Trotskyists care anyway. Trots didn't get us here Ms Crowe, Jesuits did.

'His views were endorsed by Hackney LBC councillor Jessica Crowe, who said: "I've been to a northern met where there are lovely people who help in the running of their park. In Hackney it's only rent-a-Trot kind of people who get involved."'[FULL TEXT]
Where you perhaps showing off a little Jessica and forgot that people take notes at meetings? Do us a favour and move north woman.

From The Local Government Chronicle, "MILIBAND PLOUGHS ON"

"Before giving up outside employment to concentrate full time on her duties as a councillor, she was a local government policy officer and training consultant.

She is a council-appointed director of Groundwork East London, the environmental regeneration charity,"[LINK]
Aren't Groundwork in on the scheme to cut down 73 trees in St John's Churchyard to help the CCTV cameras record the colour of hooded tops?

lifted fromnot the clissold leisure centre website

a line runs though it - best Clissold pic we've seen for yonks

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(Via clissold - Everyone's Tagged Photos A line runs through it: .)

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(Via clissold - Everyone's Tagged Photos P1010748: .)

Drinking Fountain

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markhsal posted a photo:
A drinking fountain in memory of 3 little girls who died in childhood in Clissold Park
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(Via clissold - Everyone's Tagged Photos Drinking Fountain: .)

Vambo - coming to the rescue!

If you have strong views on what activities and groups of users need to be consulted about the future of the park, then please contact: ken.burlton@btinternet.com (Clissold Users' Group newsletter)

He was director in charge of Hackney's parks in the days when most people agree some of the errh 'least' was done to them and if we got the story right he was also the director who had reported to him the fact that individuals were not 'serving local people' but were in fact loading monuments into white vans (from Kent) in Abney Park. This was the 1990s and they were turning up in auction rooms nearby and he was told how to do something about stopping it. Ever been in the Dolphin on Mare Street?

He often seems to be open-space consultant of choice for Hackney but the reports do seem to be a while coming - we never did hang around long enough to get the one on the marshes on the bedside table. We wonder if anyone who worked for him is still at Maurice Bishop and still involved with open-space.

Hey do you remember when George and 'Tiger' put 75-tons of goose-shit out of the oxbow on the roots of the horse chestnuts in the deer enclosure - they died, we laughed (as he poured us another one)!

not all bad news though: A sports brief has been agreed including a new sports hall and improved swimming pools following advice from consultant Ken Burlton.

Autumn in Clissold Park

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Clissold park is a nice green space up the road from my house.
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(Via clissold - Everyone's Tagged Photos Autumn in Clissold Park: .)

rain dear?

uber trick posted a photo:

I went for a walk in the park and I saw this baby reindeer! How bizarre. A lady told me that when she came up to them some kids were feeding it chips and tomato ketchup. I think she felt guilty because her daughter was feeding it a leaf under a sign that said please do not feed the reindeer. Apparently there have been deer in Clissold Park for years. I never knew that!

(Via clissold - Everyone's Tagged Photos rain dear?: .)