Sweets Way Resists

Local residents + supporters from Sweets Way Estate, fighting social cleansing by Annington Homes + Barnet Council.

[Desmond House Residents @DesmondHouseEN4]

We’re in an 8 storey block with one small lift which was out of order for most of Nov, & now again.
Those with mobility issues or young children are trapped - missing hospital appointments, deliveries won’t deliver.
The rest of us beyond exhausted by all this from
@MetTVH

[Desmond House Residents @DesmondHouseEN4]

⚠️HEALTH & SAFETY⚠️
⚠️FIRE HAZARD ⚠️
This is how the workers employed by @MetTVH leave our communal areas when they’re finished for the day.

Please help us by tweeting @MetTVH with your views on this, as THEY ARE NOT LISTENING TO US....

[Theresa Musgrove @BrokenBarnet]

Remember the West Hendon feature on the BBC Victoria Derbyshire show, whose children were living with cockroach infestations, & damp? Add rats to the story. Why are @barnettories tenants left to live in such squalor?

[Association of Marsh Drive Residents @Westhendonnw9]

Rodents in your Children’s chest of drawers, on your kitchen sides and coming in through the cracks of an unsafe building? (Lps with gas)

This mother is one of Barnet’s unsecure tenants and still waiting to be rehoused by @BarnetHomes.

[London Renters Union @LDNRentersUnion]

Arrears have tripled during the pandemic. Millions are in rent debt. They're terrified of losing their homes.

The govt promised no one would be homeless due to Covid. So make the eviction ban permanent @BorisJohnson!

Powerful research from @genrentuk

https://t.co/bSXE4t2Mc0

[London Renters Union @LDNRentersUnion]

YMCA tried to illegally evict an LRU member. CEO promised to find alternative housing, but staff are pressuring our member to leave without a suitable offer!

Does @YMCAEng_Wales know how @YMCA_NL are treating tenants?

CEO John Baxter, will you meet with us to fix this mess?

[London Renters Union @LDNRentersUnion]

📣CALLING ALL RENTERS 📣

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⚡️Add your voice to a growing movement

🏠Join a city-wide network of people ready to resist evictions

🥰Get info & support if you’re in rent debt

[London Renters Union @LDNRentersUnion]

.@YMCA_NL & @YMCAEng_Wales plan to evict a LRU member on Monday.

PLEASE RT to tell the YMCA: If you try to evict, you're breaking the law

Our member has a tenancy, YMCA has no possession order & the gov has paused evictions. YMCA know this: we emailed them (they've not replied)

[Sweets Way Resists @SweetsWayN20]

At a time like this! @YMCA_NL

[London Renters Union @LDNRentersUnion]

We're. Not. Paying. Rent.

Because first we need to pay for food - and other essentials.

Cancel debt. Ban evictions. Together we can win. ✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿

#CantPayWontPay

⬇️ JOIN our new campaign here ⬇️
https://t.co/YuPgsXfO9q

[Desmond House Residents @DesmondHouseEN4]

Thank so much to all those who shared our twitter thread so far, & for all the kindness, help & support which has come our way in the last week or so.
We have now managed to secure a meeting with the CEO of Metropolitan Housing.
Will keep you posted....
#EndOurCladdingScandal

[Sweets Way Resists @SweetsWayN20]

How can you leave people in these conditions!!
Shame on @MetTVH
Please ask again your CEO, Geeta Nanda to accept the invitation to meet with residents. Bet she couldn’t live in the conditions that these tenants are enduring.

[Desmond House Residents @DesmondHouseEN4]

THREAD:
Back in 2017, in the wake of the #Grenfell tragedy our block was identified to have flammable #cladding

@MetTVH said at the time: “We plan to install a new quality, modern cladding on the building ....as soon as possible.”

https://t.co/KukLolJDTq

[Our West Hendon @OurWestHendon]

First half hour of today’s #VictoriaLIVE was about @Westhendonnw9
Daniel Thomas, Leader of Barnet Tory Council was on....

Join the residents on Monday 27th Jan 6pm at Hendon Town Hall.

Victoria Derbyshire, 23/01/2020: https://t.co/eWm2kt6pbZ

[BarnetHousingAction @BarnetHaction]

Victoria Derbyshire show today featured a half hour piece about Our West Hendon’s Marsh Drive residents.
Join them on Monday 27th January at 6pm at Hendon Town Hall.
@Westhendonnw9
#VictoriaLIVE

Victoria Derbyshire, 23/01/2020: https://t.co/AaTeJvjWVW

[Chipping Barnet Labour Party @ChippingLabour]

It’s here! The teaser trailer for Chipping Barnet’s Paul Mackney & “(Yes, We’re All Voting Labour) For The Many, Not the Few”. Available 28/11/19 across all music platforms. Full video 28/11/19 on Chipping Barnet’s YouTube. Share WIDELY! #ForTheManyNotTheFew #VoteLabour #GE19

[Chipping Barnet Labour Party @ChippingLabour]

Our members are our most important asset and will win us this election. Come and campaign with us to turn Chipping Barnet red. #TurnBarnetRed #VoteLabour2019 #ForTheManyNotTheFew

[Chipping Barnet Labour Party @ChippingLabour]

“The story of @Westhendonnw9 is not the story of regeneration. It is the story of a war on the poor, the destruction of a community, of public land given away for private profit. Don't be fooled. And please: don't vote for Barnet Tories, as MPs, or councillors, ever again.”

[Association of Marsh Drive Residents @Westhendonnw9]

Watch @VictoriaLIVE from 10am today and support us in our fight with @BarnetCouncil and @BarnetHomes for better living conditions, a safe place to live, clarity over our futures and secure tenancies. No one should have to live like this.

[Chipping Barnet Labour Party @ChippingLabour]

Please catch up if you missed #VictoriaLIVE today:
https://t.co/ONM5s5rzVn
@WestHendonNW9 on from 22 mins.
See the reality - not this airbrushed version of regeneration.
NONE of these smiling Tories were willing to appear on the program to defend the effects of their policies.

[Sweets Way Resists @SweetsWayN20]

Shame on @BarnetCouncil
Shame on @BarnetHomes

PEOPLE DESERVE BETTER

[Chipping Barnet Labour Party @ChippingLabour]

🔺WATCH VICTORIA DERBYSHIRE TODAY🔺
See the real horror & squalor faced by Barnet Councils unsecure tenants.
LEFT TO ROT 😡😓

Things must change, & they can, & they will 🌹 https://t.co/Kr0PyR3Plp