We did this once before. I stand by the three posts I wrote then. Even more so, in fact.
http://www.stroudgreen.org/discussion/comment/29741/#Comment_29741
People have been complaining about foreigners ruining "our city" since at least the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
But it's everyone's city. That's why it's brilliant.
Classic - using 'out of area' estate agents to bring a different type of buyer in.
That said, I saw the ads for City North on the tube and wondered if it was being built in an alternate reality.
Possibly a site office
http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2013/07/11/volkerfitzpatrick-wins-thameslink-train-depots/
http://www.volkerfitzpatrick.co.uk/en/news/detail/volkerfitzpatrick-wins-siemens-thameslink-depots-contract
@david barry - some time back there were electoral commission proposals to reshape some of the wards
http://www.stroudgreen.org/discussion/3383/the-boundary-commission-proposals-for-our-ward/p1http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/90872.display/
I hold the fairly unpopular view that most councillors mean well and try their best and have a hard job to do, and the electoral judgement on them is largely to do with a whole bunch of things happening at national rather than local level.
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@misscara - To be very clear, I wasn't talking about you. You've been at this since the beginning, in reasonable and measured terms, and I've always respected that.
I'm not Dion and I don't have any interest in John Jones. It's a shame people can't recognise that people might reasonably disagree and not be part of a massive conspiracy.
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