More despair for Brixton as The Times lists it as one of Britain’s ‘coolest’ neighbourhoods

More despair for Brixton as The Times lists it as one of Britain’s ‘coolest’ neighbourhoods.

You know when things are getting bad for Brixton, and that’s when The Times includes the place in a list of the ‘UK’s coolest neighbourhoods.’

More despair for Brixton as The Times lists it as one of Britain’s ‘coolest’ neighbourhoods

As if the evil that is Foxton’s infesting the main drag wasn’t enough, further harm will no doubt be inflicted on poor old battered Brixton with the ghastly Toryboy rag stamping their seal of ‘cool’ approval on the place.

Listing Brixton at #25 in their shitty list, the vile article predictably gushes on about the Villaaage being a “foodie destination,”  and declares 3-4 bedroom homes priced at £685k to be “relatively affordable.”

Affordable if you’re loaded, that is.

The article adds, “There’s a fine line between gentrification and standardisation.”

I’ve no idea what that means but I sincerely, deeply wish that it meant that there would be more social housing, less fucking Foxtons, less Barratt Homes with their obligation-wriggling “affordable housing,” more protection for traditional traders in the market and Brixton remained the kind of place that readers of Murdoch-owned aspirational lifestyle columns would stay the fuck away from.

*Rant over. I’m going for a lie down.

6 Comments on “More despair for Brixton as The Times lists it as one of Britain’s ‘coolest’ neighbourhoods”

  1. I imagine the people who have lost their squats and their affordable rents thanks to the influence of the Posh Brigade wheeling their single-speed ‘courier’ bikes and their 4×4 Nigella prams around Brixton must feel pretty battered by it all.

    Same for the traditional businesses being priced out by Honest Burgers and their rah-rahing chums. It’s depressing. Money has won, and Brixton’s soul is being battered into blandness.

  2. It’s a pretty random list from what I can make out, with Jesmond in Newcastle rubbing shoulders with Louth in Lincolnshire and Folkestone in Kent. Not that you can read the whole list without subscribing to the online version of Mr Murdoch’s rag.

  3. There was a big feature in The Times property section about Brixton back in Feb 2013. I imagine the PR teams of Barratt Homes and Foxtons are working overtime.

  4. Why why why? What can we do? it seems that money destroys everything, All the posh conventional people reading their time out are coming to Brixton kicking out poverty and communities, taking over with their golden teeth and disgusting fashion, makes me sick!!!!!! Lets do demonstration or express through art…..lets do something!!!!! It’s not about winning, but about having a voice.

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