i thoroughly recommend "moda" on green lanes. i went in for my standard grade 4 buzz and the guy got out a massive novelty cigarette lighter and without warning burnt off my ear hair. quite the experience, some of them speak english now too.
..and now it's name calling - fantastic!
it's great that you can repost my comments then flatly misrepresent them in the very next line. i'm not saying one shouldn't pass judgement on things one knows nothing about, i'm saying that if one does so…
let's go back to the start here andy, you said:
"Perhaps, given the shocking state of Haringey Council (is there a worse one in the country),"
i asked you to justify your clear inference that haringey council is the worst in the country and yo…
where does laming's report support your conclusion that Haringey must be the "worst" council in the country? and where is his methodology to support that (your) assertion?
i'm not arguing that laming doesn't have cogent definitions and methodolog…
let me clarify my position here. i'm not trying to be a cheerleader for haringey council, i'm quite prepared to believe they aren't the "best" (whatever that means) borough council in the UK, and like i said just above - (which you seem to have alre…
it *is* armchair punditry because you've failed to demonstrate any ability to actually measure how one council is better/worse (your words) than another.
you're basing all this on two similar, very high profile fuck ups (which i'm incidentally no…
look, it's your website. if you want to defend ill informed armchair punditry with smug asides and a resolute unwillingness to examine actual facts then there's not much i can do about it. so i guess i'll leave it alone before david sends me a lette…
"Nearly a decade of a systemic failure to look after the most vulnerable of its community."
how do you know that? how do you know that for every baby p there weren't 100 success stories? you don't, because the council can't shout about them! all …
are you weighting these observations by the demographics of the area? are you weighting these observations by funding? i think in the spirit of avoiding ill thought out contempt we can contextualise a little?
so: contempt for politics = bad, on what exactly are you basing your obvious contempt for haringey council? you ask if there's a worse council? what would you measure to determine this? number of newsworthy screw-ups per decade?
anyway, does anyone else know the guy i mean? always in a bad mood, would always make you wait for some reason or other, scowling, mini-dreds, looked a bit like seal's scrotey cousin?