Forum topic: Lakes Estate residents take to the street

Hang on, please tell me this is an Onion/Daily Mash ironic take on matters and those people were actually enjoying a street party thanks to the temporary closure.....??

Sorry to disappoint David but residents were actually waiting for the mystical appearance of ex Conservative MP David Burrowes who has developed an advanced skill of appearing into groups completely out of thin air before disappearing away again. A sort of cross between Dr Who and The Terminator. The webmaster may be able to provide some evidence.

You don’t see him and then you do;
or perhaps it occurred the other way around, see him then you don’t.


This scandalous PR seeking to attack the Quieter Neighbourhood programme was removed from the local press.

In honesty terms it’s right up there with Ertan Hurer’s analysis of the cycle lanes (see recent postings), the red bus weekly £350m the NHS, and no Windrush linked immigration targets. What have we come to?

And I have to declare an interest, for having read pretty much all of the thousands of pages of supporting analysis behind Mayor Johnsons Transport Strategy and something similar for its development under Mayor Khan, the path Enfield has started on with active travel is the only realistic future, as cities worldwide have also concluded.

I never believed the deliberate scare that hundreds of business would close as a consequence of the cycle lanes (nor the present line that small businesses have closed any more than I would claim the openings we have been seeing are as a consequent), the palpable nonsense that cycling produces worse air quality than motorised transport, that Quieter Neighbourhoods are nonsensical and the much more long touted.

Rather we have a relatively small change to a small part of the borough making it that little bit easier for some to travel safely in a way they choose, without stopping others in their chosen or necessary means. Always remembering the minority, including basically all schoolchildren, do not drive.

And making up photos for the press is where we end up after 4 years of this line. On the bright side I like the sunshine in the front row versus the rain to the far left. What a shower you might say.

Haha yes, I've been watching this fun unfold on Twitter. Absolutely scandalous. It's such an abvious photoshop!

Rumour is the majority of those folk aren't even genuine residents, it's a small group heavily padded out with Tory prospective councillors. And then some photoshop on top (umbrella guy looks fake too).

Cllr Andrerson has been calling them out on it and Jasmine Storry (Tory candidate for Southgate Ward) still has the article on her timeline and isn't responding to questions about it.

Can't decide what's worse, this, or Haringay Cons copy & pasting Labour tweets and forgetting to swap 'Labour values' for 'Tory values'.