RUMBLES OF DISCONTENT AT LANCASTER WEST I Grenfell Action Group Grenfell Action Group Working to defend and serve the Lancaster West commwzity +-- Hornton Street Calls Again! Save Earl's Court. GRENFELL TOWER- Propaganda, Lies and Fact--+ Blogroll • Architects For Social Housing RUMBLES OF DISCONTENT AT LANCASTER WEST • Brent Housing Action • Clean Air In London Posted on June 24 2015 • Dear Kitty. Some blog • Defend Council Housing • Emma Dent Coad's Blog • Eviction Resistance • Fight For the Aylesbury • Focus E15 • Fuel Poverty Action • Grenfell Community Response and Support • Guinness Occupation • Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth • Justice4Grenfell • Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group • Lambeth Housing Activists • ListenNHH/Genesis • North Kensington Histories • People Before Profit • Pre-Pentimento • Radical Housing Network • RAP23 • Save Earls Court Following a recent attempted break-in at one of the homes in Grenfell Tower the 'official' • Save the Cremorne Blogspot notice below was posted by staff acting on the orders of the TM 0 Neighbourhood Manager • Save The Sutton Estate Siobhan Rumble: • Silchester Resident · • Squash Campaign Follow • The Kensington Creatives • The Source Mag • THis Is North Kensington • Westway23 Recent Posts • 'West London Citizens' And KCTMO • 21st Century Slum • 21st Century Slum- Part 2 • 38 Degrees Petition • A Ballardian Interlude • A Call-In Or NotA Call-In? • A Complete Waste Of Space https://grenfellactiongroup. wordpress. com/20 15/06/24/rumbles-of-discontent-at-lancaster-west/[01 /05/2020 I 0:33 :0 I] IWS00002176/1 IVVS00002176_0001 RUMBLES OF DISCONTENT AT LANCASTER WEST I Grenfell Action Group on 1 u • A Flying Mallet • A Funny Thing Happened ... The KALC Planning Application • A Hard Rain - GAG joins the Radical Housing Network • A Mock Eviction • A Night At The Opera • A Small Victory • A Special Invitation • A Sports Pitch Epilogue • Academies To Hire Unqualified Teachers • Air Pollution - Greening The Westway • Aldridge Foundation To Pay London Living Wage • All Animals Are Equal.... • An Act Of Pure Vandalism • An Alien Landscape • An Olympic Legacy It is unfortunate that Ms Rumble's warning not to 'buzz-in' unknown people ignores the • An Open Letter - Chesterton fact, of which she should have been fully aware, that the secure door entry system has been Square & Broadwood Terrace out of commission for several weeks. • An Open Letter To Nick Paget­ Brown • An open Letter to Nick Paget­ By way of riposte to this clumsy and incompetent attempt by Ms Rumble's staff to warn Brown residents of this recent incident the notice below was found posted in the lift at Grenfell • An Open Letter to RBKC Legal Tower the following day. We have no idea who the author- Ninja Boy- might be, but we Services • Another Fine Mess ... think his words, clearly indicating deep frustration and cynicism, fully deserve to be • Another Fire Safety Scandal reproduced on this blog, and we have no hesitation in doing so. We are not responsible for • APOLOGIES TO OUR READERS the content, but we certainly sympathise and believe a great many Lancaster West • Asbestos Scare At KALC • AUDITOR SlAMS FIRE SAFETY residents will identify and empathise with the sentiments expressed. AT EAST KENT HOUSING • AXE THE ACT DEMO • Aylesbury Estate Occupied By Housing Activists • Aylesbury Estate Versus Police State • 'Mystery Shoppers' At North Kensington Library • "Oh! What A Tangled Web ... " • "The Grenfell Pathway"- Will lessons be learned? • Bad Air Days • Bad Air Days - A Deepining Crisis • Biting The Hand.... • Blakeman And Coleridge - The War Drags On • Blakeman And Coleridge And The Gulf Of Mistrust • Blakeman Bows Out - One Less Problem for Lancaster West? • Blakeman Scores Some Points https://grenfellactiongroup. wordpress. com/20 15/06/24/rumbles-of-discontent-at-lancaster-west/[01 /05/2020 I 0:33 :0 I] IWS00002176/2 IVVS00002176_0002 RUMBLES OF DISCONTENT AT LANCASTER WEST I Grenfell Action Group Z015 NO ICE L I G L has come to our ntlon thlt. • Block Boris - Demonstrate Against MIPIM • Boris- Block The Budget • Brickley's Travels N Boy • CAMPAIGN FOR SAFE W s Too Short to liSten to 1'he Nonsense CLADDING AND INSUlATION • Campaign To Save Elliott School Playing Fields • CCHP - When Is A Policy Not A For the benefit of Ninja Boy, and any other of our readers who may be unaware of these Policy? details, we reproduce below extracts from the CV of Siobhan Rumble, published by her on • Combustible Cladding - Early the Linkedin website: Warnings Ignored! • Comments On The Planning Application Her last job before joining Kensington & Chelsea TMO as Neighbourhood Manager for • Complaint to RBKC - North Lancaster West and Income Manager for all TMO properties, was with The Hyde Kensington Library • CONDEM Government Vandalises Group, one of the biggest housing providers in the UK, where her job title was Head of School Sports Income for London and Kent. • Considerate Constructors • Court Victory For 'Our House' • Crisis - Kensington and Chelsea At the Hyde Group she was responsible for a team of 26 staff including income assistants, College Under Threat income recovery officers, and a project manager for service charges & leasehold properties. • Cry Havoc And Let Slip The Dogs Of war Her priority in leading this team was to maximise the income for the London & Kent area • Dale Youth - A Nugget Of Boxing which covered 14,000 properties and she was responsible for managing budgets, setting Gold and monitoring service charges, effective performance management and development of • Dale Youth - A Source Of Pride staff. • Day Of Housing Activism -A Call To Arms • Dead Man Walking - Merrick We would suggest, based on this CV, that Ms Rumble is clearly overqualified for her Cockell position as Neighbourhood Manager at Lancaster West. We further suggest that this • Dent Coad Parachutes Into N otting Dale Air Quality Debate appointment was a mere pretext, and she was really brought in by the TMO, not to deliver • DEREGUlATION AND THE essential services at Lancaster West, but for her expertise as a boroughwide income GRENFELL TOWER FIRE manager, who could be counted on for her ruthlessness in recovering rent arrears from • Direct Action - We Salute The Guiness Trust Occupation In TMO tenants throughout the rotten borough. Brixton • DISPATCHES- GRENFELL Ms Rumble recently added the passage below to her Linkedin profile: ACTION GROUP REPLY • Divide And Rule • Doing us down! "LOOKING FOR A NEW CHALLENGE. Having just super exceeded my • Don't Mention The Slum Word targets in income recovery bringing KCTMO arrears to below a million • Doors Wide Open • EAST 4 WEST- A BEAUTIFUL (984k) the first time ever, I am looking for a new challenge, do bear me in MESSAGE! mind if you have any vacancies." • East London March For Homes led by Focus E15 https://grenfellactiongroup. wordpress. com/20 15/06/24/rumbles-of-discontent-at-lancaster -west/[01 /05/2020 I 0:33 :0 I] IWS00002176/3 IVVS00002176_0003 RUMBLES OF DISCONTENT AT LANCASTER WEST I Grenfell Action Group • Edward George And The Great https: I /www.linkedin.com /pub /sjobhan-rumble /2a /941 /666 RBKC Planning Dept Fob Off • Enough Is enough - Testerton Clearly she takes an immense, and we would say unhealthy, pride in her ability to squeeze Walk • FEU - Foam Insulation Banned In money from those who are most likely in arrears because they are already suffering Furniture Since 1988 financial hardship, due to wage stagnation, unemployment, benefit cuts or whatever. • FEU Responds to upcoming Channel4 Grenfell Dispatches programme We say good riddance to Rumble. We hope she will up anchor sooner rather • Feilding-Mellen - RBKC's Social than later. The only question that will then remain is whether the TMO will Cleansing Hitman replace her with a proper manager whose primary concern will be the welfare • Feilding-Mellen Bang To Rights? - NoWay! of Lancaster West residents and the delivery of quality services to them. We • Feilding-Mellen Versus think this highly unlikely as we are strongly of the opinion that the TMO, in Longniddry collusion with RBKC, is deliberately running down Lancaster West for a • Fightin' Talk • Film released ahead of Fire Door variety of nefarious reasons, chief among them plans for a scorched earth Safety Week 'regeneration' of the social housing estates of The Rotten Borough. • FIRE DOOR SAFETY WEEK • Fire Safety Scandal At Lancaster West • Firefighters Anger At 40% Rise In Share this: London Fire Deaths • FlAMMABLE ClADDING- NO I D Twitter D Facebook UNIVERSAL BAN • Flies To Wanton Boys • Flogging A Dead Horse • Flood at the New Pools • Focus E 15 Mothers- Liberating The Carpenters Estate • Focus E15 -March Against 'Related Evictions • FPA- New Campaign for Safe Grenfell Tower Still A Fire KCTMO- Playing with fire! GRENFELL TOWER FIRE Cladding and Insulation Now! Risk In "Adair Tower" In "fire catastrphe" • FREE TRIP - Chessington World In "fire risk" of Adventure • FREE TRIP- Chessington World of Adventure This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Grenfell Tower, KCTMO, Lancaster West Estate, rvdons, Siobhan • Freedom of Information And The Rumble. Bookmark the permalink. Arrogance of Power • FUEL POVERTY ACTION AGM +-- Hornton Street Calls Again! Save Earl's Court. GRENFELL TOWER- Propaganda, Lies and Fact--+ • Fuel Poverty Action - An Open Letter to the Secretary of State • FUEL POVERTY ACTION - BILL OF RIGHTS • Fuel Poverty Action - Letter To The Secretary of State • Further Thoughts On The Grenfell Inquiry Panel • GAG AND KILBURN UNEMPLOYED GROUP JOINT ACTION AT NORTH KEN JOBCENTRE. • GAG And W estway23 Visit the Hornton Street Circus • GAG Petitions RBKC for New KCTMO Investigation • GAG Salutes Victory of West Hendon Estate's Direct Action • GENESIS FOUNDER CONDEMNS MERGER • GizAJob • Good Morning WormYour Honour • Gave Ignored Advice • Grasart At Lancaster West • GREEN FOR GRENFELL DAY https://grenfellactiongroup. wordpress. com/20 15/06/24/rumbles-of-discontent-at-lancaster -west/[01 /05/2020 I 0:33 :0 I] IWS00002176/4 IVVS00002176_0004 .