Whitewash| Thursday 17 November, 2005 |
Spot the difference.
A local community pays respect to a man who was killed by Met Police officers on public transport Vs a local community being silenced by the Local Authority, denied the chance to remember and reflect on a recent tragic event that took place right on their own doorstep.
 Shame on you |
We held the Remembrance Service in the Stockwell Memorial Gardens on Sunday morning. Representation from Lambeth Council observed the two minute silence. And then less than a week later, the mural of Jean Charles de Menezes has been whitewashed (OK - green-washed) by the Council knobbers.
Shame on you.
Lambeth is all for promoting the Borough as an 'edgy' (whatever this means) night time economy. They've even commissioned some knobber marketing fools to come up with the risible slogan of 'Welcome to Lambeth. No, Seriously.' No, seriously they have, etc. Good to see that my Council Tax money is being put to good use.
And then when it comes to a remembering a situation that was genuinely 'edgy,' the LibDeb / Tory Marriage of inconvenience tries to hush it all up. Not round here, oh no. Nothing to see. Move along please.
It now only seems only a matter of time before the makeshift Memorial still standing proud outside Stockwell tube station is taken apart as well.
Lambeth Council isn't the first organisation to try and make political gain out of the murder of an innocent man. Look towards the other end of the mad as a wet hen political spectrum and you find the Respect mongers trying to make some implausible connection between Mr Tony's Iraqi failure and the Met Police cock up in SW8.
I like to take the pragmatic view. If we can remember men who were killed tragically fighting a war, then why can't we remember a man killed tragically whilst trying to catch a tube? It's not the first time the Met Police have been dragged into the dodgy world of politics meets policing. But who's scratching who's back this time?
I've met my local Lambeth Councilor. I wouldn't scratch his back even if he had a female sexual organ surgically attached just below his shoulders.
He is a bit of a cunt though.
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