Fashionable Manchester-based property developers Urban Splash have recently pitched up in Bristol where they’re trying to bring their marketing-heavy gentrification plans for loft living yuppies to Hartcliffe, a working class area to south of the city.
Their first project is the conversion of a deserted 1970s Imperial Tobacco factory on the fringes of the city into [...]
There is a huge amount of talk about Gordon Brown calling a snap general election.
If he does, this blog will be approaching each of the major parties, to ask how many of their candidates went to Eton, how many went to public schools, and how many now send their children to such schools.
All [...]
It is not just in London that the working class has become an unwanted obstruction to the housing developers.
This article, from a black newspaper in San Francisco, the San Francisco Bay View, raises some of the issues peope are fighting over on the west coast of America.
Fight the Power!
John Cruddas MP is a darling of what remains of the old Labour left.
With his Dagenham constituency under threat from the BNP, he loves to stress traditional Labour values, and talk of the need to deliver for the working class. The only person Cruddas has delivered for so far though, is himself. Being based [...]
Memo to Tory MP’s:
If you are going to split up with your wife and get yourself arrested following a “domestic incident”, try to make sure you have not given her enough political ammunition to sink your career. Amongst a series of classic quotes, Lucy Pelling says of her husband:
“He slagged off Cameron and shadow [...]
How do you know if the yuppies are coming?
According to the Daily Telegraph’s London property Guide (and they should know) one of the first indicators is not a Starbucks replacing your old style caff, but the arrival of the ‘organic food shop’. Evidence for this comes from Property Design consultant Alex Michelin “they certainly want [...]
Here’s another video from Dave’s ‘Stand up, Speak up’ campaign. This one features the rather well-heeled Tories of Calder Valley.
To see how well Dave’s modernised his party, see the response of this thoroughly modernised group of Tory memebers – about 20 seconds in – to a question about their thoughts on [...]
More bad news for “Ordinary” Dave yesterday over on his Webcameron site after a Tory supporter started a thread on one of the forums entitled “Eton twit throws next election”.
It was actually a tirade about the Tory proposal to slap a green tax on parking at out of town superstores and was eventually changed [...]
From yesterdays on-line interview with Daily Telegraph readers:
Q: “Mr Cameron – 19 Prime Ministers in the history of this country went to one school – Eton. What do you think it will says about Britain that you are the Conservative candidate to be Prime Minister, and Boris Johnson the likely candidate for London mayor?”
DC:”I [...]
One of the Tory party’s own vice-chairman and promising would-be MPs has now accused Snoooty Cameron of being a “modern-day toff”!
Kulveer Ranger says: “The aristocratic tinge to his heritage, the Bullingdon Club photo and even the Notting Hill lifestyle have served to reinforce all the old brand associations of a Conservative toff – albeit a [...]
