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Monday 18 March 2024

LEAVE PORTOBELLO MARKET ALONE!: JUST ! DAY'S NOTICE FOR CRITICAL MEEETING

 


Leave the market alone....contact your councillor



Dame,
This tale is long. The Dame’s readers will remember that, despite strong public support for it, RBKC has repeatedly tried to destroy Portobello Market, 

Shortly before COVID-19, an RBKC Culture officer appeared. Efforts were made to advise her on local culture. A draft Culture Report duly appeared. It lacked an explanation of culture. No more was heard of it. The officer remains in post.

Consultants appeared and consulted; discovering that almost everyone loves Portobello Market. It must be supported and otherwise left alone. The consultants disappeared.

Meanwhile; one summer Saturday, a self-professed estate agent emerged from the market Gin Palace to tell a market trader: that he’d soon be gone. There was an agreement with RBKC to put restaurant and pub tables & chairs on the street. The trader said it wouldn’t happen because he was a legally protected, licensed, Street Trader. (See the London Local Authorities Act 1990 etc.). The estate agent fled and the trader advised his colleagues.

No one was surprised. For years, local commercial property owners have met to plot higher rental incomes from ridding Portobello of street trading. A 1.5km long string of restaurants & bars is the answer. Like the Highland Clearances, the poor will be evicted; so the already wealthy will become richer. This appeals to RBKC.

In the summer of 2022, FTHN reported that: under the auspices of Cllr Faulks, a rash of table & chairs licence applications appeared; each on a market pitch. Each met strong objections; each was ultimately rejected. Cllr Faulks disappeared.

Then for a year, Cllr Kemahli trooped around Portobello trying to find ways of improving the Market into oblivion. He gave up.

In late January 2023, a resident spotted notices of 3 Market public meetings in a single day - on RBKC’s website. RBKC had forgotten to inform the public of the meetings. FTHN reported the details. Within days, 300+ people appeared. At the morning meeting an officer declared the ‘improvements were imminent. After lunch, the traders rejected the plan. By the evening, Cllr Rendell rambled. Then Cllr Kemahli rowed back at speed. Nothing would happen without public consultation.

Meanwhile, a few more applications for tables & chairs licences in the market appeared. One was even granted.

Hence a far more extensive & expensive public consultation. Guess what? Residents; business owners and market traders all agree that the Market must stay! Just renew the fabric and support it. A citizens' Oversight Panel was created - worth £200 per attendee. In practice, members were excluded from all but a a couple of hours from each group meeting. Consequently there was no oversight!

Recently, Cllr Kim Taylor Smith -Deputy RBKC Leader and ‘fixer,' took over. He was reminded that RBKC cannot legally, unilaterally double traders’ rent. Having failed to price the traders out, an alternative is being considered. The consultation findings will be ‘reviewed' by RBKC till May. During that period, the so-called Oversight Panel will not see them! So is it possible that the consultation results will be amended to suit RBKC’s agenda? At a traders’ meeting last week, KTS announced RBKC's intention to ‘investigate' one of the primary results of the unpublished consultation. The road design is the issue. Significant change is likely to benefit restaurants & bars. That’s RBKC public consultation. That’s the plan and it won’t work!

This final point will sound familiar. On Friday, the Market Office invited locals to the Market Streets Action Group, on Tues. 19th March. Attendees will have had just 1 working day’s notice of the last RBKC meeting before election ‘purdah’. Purdah will prevent any discussion of the future of the Market till 2nd May; allowing RBKC 6 weeks to manipulate the public consultation results. As ever, the aim is the destruction of the Market for private profit!

Further updates to follow. In the meantime, perhaps the Dame’s many readers will be kind enough to pass on their views on the above to their respective Councillors. 

Yours faithfully
A. Witness


Friday 15 March 2024

AN INSIDER SHARES ON ISSE

 

Colville had 3 excellent Labour councillors: Henderson; Nail and Press. The then EDC wing of the Labour group took exception to the 3 working with Tories to help Grenfell survivors. The councillors were forced out at the last local elections. Their replacements are:
*The rarely seen Bahktiar;
*The speaking only into his moustache: Benton and
*The silent and invisible to most residents: Isse.
This is the THINK GOOD VIEW

Perhaps Cllr Isse was busy advising and assisting Somali residents. 

Now it seems she is "leaving" Labour to join the
Conservatives. This raises several issues; e.g. was she ever a Labour member? 

How will residents know what she thinks since she's neither seen nor heard? 

Does she even exist? Perhaps the true answer is that the Conservatives would welcome any councillor who is simultaneously silent and will vote with them. 

On the other hand, how will her Somali residents know what she is or isn't doing? 

Finally, how does anyone go from EDC to E. Campbell in a single leap? 

Even by N. Kensington standards; this whole thing is weird.....

a further insightful comment...

Somali Dahabo Isse is a careerist who has been trying to make a name for herself in politics since the early 1990s. 

When the free-flowing humanitarian aid cash dried up for her in Mogadishu, she turned her attention to the unassuming voters of Colville (in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, mind you), who have unfortunately now paid a heavy price for voting for her. 

Nabbed herself a taxpayer funded social rented property in Kensington, a seat on the council, and a British passport as the glacé cherry on top of her very large, very sour, freeloading cake.

There seems to be a pattern at RBKC of Somalis trying to make a name for themselves and getting involved in British politics as a way to impress their mates and gain special access to the housing waiting list. 

Cllr Kasim Ali has been doing the same thing for 5 years now. Dahabo Isse has her fingers in many pies at RBKC and sure enough is looking to get her CV as big as possible, as soon as possible.
Dahabo Isse publicly admits on social media that she is “Willing to become an MP in the UK in the near future”
That tells you everything you need to know. 

We had Kasim Ali vs Mete Coban in 2022 which was a real low point for the innocent voters of Kensington but Kasim Ali vs Dahabo Isse at the general election after next will be HILARIOUS!

Someone ought to look into why Somalis see fit to meddle in UK politics - and why the problem is so rife at RBKC. No doubt the local Tory hypocrites will be lapping this up as a victory. Too bad Isse isn’t permitted to drink the FREE champagne they’ll be sharing at the next full council to toast her betrayal to the local, indigenous Colville population. Lord have mercy


CLLR ISSE ON THE MOVE

 


The Dame has poked fun at Cllr Isse's CV  LINK and her jobs in Africa whilst being on the council.

Now Cllr Isse has decided that she is really a deep down Conservative and joined the several other Labour cllrs who have left KLP since Ian Henderson was pushed out.
The odd thing about this defection is that Cllr Isse was a protegee of Corbyn firebrand, Emma Dent Coad.
The Dame hopes that Cllr Issie is not a 'sleeper'....
In her blurb, she says she looks forward to looking after the Somali community and residents. 
No, councillor, your job is to look after ALL residents.
It would be a bit like Ex Cllr Henderson who you stabbed in the back saying he would look after all the Jocks.... and residents.



KHAN, CRIME AND BARE FACED LIES: A MUST WATCH

Khan and his bullet proof Range Rover


Since Khan became Mayor London's reputation as a dangerous city has gone global.
If we thought that Starmer's Labour was going to be honest with us Khan proves politicians are inveterate liars.

Under cross-examination Khan lies through his back teeth. Every Londoner should watch this appalling display of dishonesty. 

Watch the LIAR 

WELL DONE COUNCIL

 


The bane of our lives used to be the scream of high-powered cars tearing through our streets.

The acoustic cameras seem to be doing the job of deterring these selfish people. The Council should be congratulated for installing the cameras. Hopefully, with all the fines collected they have become self financing.

The increase in Council tax just announced is modest: good work.... but the search needs to continue to find savings.

The communications department is one obvious example. It spews out tedious unread rubbish ad nauseum. 


Wednesday 13 March 2024

HESTER NEEDS TO HESITATE BEFORE OPENING HIS BIG MOUTH

a stupid intelligent man!

Dear Dame, 


Diane Abbott MP has reported the Tory Party's biggest donor, Frank Hester, to the police for his loathsome racist comments. I could not believe that Hester said that Diane Abbott made him want to "hate all Black women." He ended his racist rant by saying that Diane "should be shot." Hester clearly has no respect for Diane's feelings or for Black women more generally. Diane has my sympathy. and support and I hope the police prosecute Hester. 

Shortly after Emma Dent Coad was elected to Parliament, the Black Tory politician, Shaun Bailey AM, complained that Emma had drawn a pin man picture of him being hanged and put it up on the internet when the pair of them had a spat. Two Black Tory MP's wrote to Jeremy Corbyn MP, the most highly principled anti-racist ever to have sat in parliament, complaining about Emma Dent Coad's racism. 

Corbyn did not discipline Emma Dent Coad or suspend the whip. 

Vanessa Feltz asked Corbyn on her BBC Radio Programme what he was going to about Emma's racism and he said, 

"Have a word with her about her use of language." 

Emma dodged Corbyn's bullet over language by saying that she was merely repeating what a Black Grandma had said to her. The circle that Corbyn never squared to my satisfaction is that the Black Grandma never drew the picture of Shaun Bailey AM being hanged, Emma Dent Coad did that all on her own.

To my surprise, Diane Abbott MP  and Emma Dent Coad became bosom pals and have, presumably, remained so when most people would shun a racist who wanted something so violent to happen to a Black guy.  

Does racism only matter to Diane if the insult comes from a Tory?   

Sunak should expel Hester and decline to accept the £10 million to show he is better than Corbyn. He will probably want to hang on to Hester's money.

name and address supplied.

Tuesday 12 March 2024

PRIVATE EYE HITS OUT AT BRITISH 'SPECIAL LEGAL OPERATION'

you three should feel great shame

Stop Press
A comment has been made that because Lord Faulks's wife is Cllr Catherine Faulks the Dame was coerced into dropping a blog of a month ago criticising Lord Faulks. This is quite untrue. The Dame is never for turning...
And the Dame had nothing to do with the Eye story; part of an overview of how the British legal establishment was making up the rules as it went along. It is outrageous that any service provider should be working with Putin's friends, especially at a time when Putin is employing the murderous methodology of Joseph Stalin.




Private Eye
 has given a right old bollocking to pompous lawyers acting for nasty Russian oligarchs. 
With eyes cast heavenwards, these bewigged fellows, in hushed tones, insist they are obliged to represent even the most devilish of clients. 
That old saw pertains to British clients but not active enemies of our country.

Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia(Belgravia....the vulgarity, dear!) led the charge on behalf of Putin's friend, Potanin. 
Many of these lawyers reside in our fair Royal Borough: they should feel utter shame and give 80% of their fees to Ukranian charities looking after wounded victims of Putin's barbarism.
Shackleton was supported by Hicks Payne Beach who like to pretend they are purveyors of law to the landed gentry.

By the way, how did Shackleton come by her peerage? 
It cannot just have been operating in divorce courts otherwise every Tom, Dick and Fiona would get one.


Monday 11 March 2024

THE DAME'S SCARY NIGHTMARE

 

Charlatan

The Dame had a terrifying nightmare. Boris Johnson is back... Russia had declared war on us and Shapps is still in charge of our  defence. 


She had to suspend belief...it was just a nightmare.