Comments on: Tony Benn comes to Stoke Newington in London

By: Leah Borromeo

Leah Borromeo — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:20:57 +0000

You reposted a map which helps contextualise arguments you hear out of the New Left. You boast of what the erudite of N16 get up to on a Friday night. You wipe your hands. You zip your fly. You open the door of your Victorian semi, replay Channel 4 News, skim thru the Guardian, make a note of a demo at the weekend.
You've changed nothing. You've challenged no one. In the words of Jarvis Cocker "cunts are still running the world".
What is this? Social masturbation disguised as political anger?

By: Monstris

Monstris — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:23:50 +0000

Darling, we'll have you yoghurt weavers for tea here in Sarf London. And you know it.
We are the scum you purport to support x

By: Tom Fry

Tom Fry — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:43:19 +0000

'Hey mate fancy a pint on the Stokey Strip?'. Kennels that is banter. The Stokey Strip indeed, I'll be dining out on that one for a while (no pun intended). In all seriousness do you really reckon something is brewing in Stoke Newington? What exactly? Is it not the same old middle-class objectioning over a frothy latte, and the last residues of its activist history (as you point out)? I've never seen much different to be honest, apart from the Turkish political presence (PKK etc.). Also, if we're talking Stokey leftist history you have to mention The Angry Brigade!

By: Muntasir

Muntasir — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:18:44 +0000

Thanks for putting up the map.