Re: Nimbies
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2025 11:57 pm
I could have posted this in the Greens or Your Party thread.
https://labourlist.org/2025/11/london-h ... een-nimby/
https://labourlist.org/2025/11/london-h ... een-nimby/
Which is why it matters who steps up and who stands in the way.
Too often, the Green Party and those affiliated with what is currently known as ‘Your Party’ act as a coordinated force of obstruction. They arrive at the end of long consultations, disrupt community engagement, amplify anxiety and then vanish before responsibility lands. They claim to speak for neighbourhoods they barely know. Their tactics, messages and outcomes are identical. Lewisham is simply their latest stop.
Their answer to the housing crisis is always the same – stop building and hope no one notices the consequences.
After years of engagement with residents about replacing a car park with social and affordable homes, Jeremy Corbyn arrived at the eleventh hour to oppose the Lewisham Shopping Centre redevelopment. And this week Zara Sultana fronts Your Party’s Question Time debut, talking about poverty while her party campaigns against the homes that lift families out of it. You cannot defend an empty car park and call it social justice.