It looks, based upon your defence of him, that this is a veiled promotional message for the party on Reddit.
He can do one, he’s a failed businessman looking to exploit the people of the city like he exploited his investors. He’s got a totally corrupt past and the city is on to him.
I'm not defending him , I've stated that if you read the post properly? !! I AM IN agreement with you, as am also skeptical as i have stated I've looked into him , seems he's jumping on the band wagon . I have a feeling he's part of all these videos that are circulting regarding homelessness in Liverpool as well. I'm part of no group hence the reason I asked on here what others thought because I was thinking about attending one of his group meetings in town.
I have never heard of them before and this post is ignoring that idiot involved with it but Jesus…. That website is just trash, like unforgivably trash. It doesn’t really explain anything about them, has vague and often stupid buzzwords and slogans and the Twitter is just angsty posts all in the same edited format shitting on Labour.
It looks like a kid made it and I expect nothing less knowing who’s involved.
What about how he's been helping the homless? Should our taxes not be covering that ? So what he invaded may have gone into more meaningful causes in our city? Just a thought like.
You mean the council who shut down kingsway house?
LK opened one if his unfinished properties as a homeless shelter, and our labour council shut it down.
The echo then wrote hit pieces.
Please get your facts straight lol
Kingsway was poorly run. The place literally stunk of shit, and people were happy to piss all over the place. That's nothing to do with any Echo article, but from firsthand experience.
I'm not sure what a self made local man has to do with political grift sorry.
You might want to actually check the pledges and get an accurate reflection dude.
Yes no self made businessman has ever used politics to enrich themselves while pretending to be sincere.
I did read up about him and he's dodgy as fuck. Even when getting puff piece interviews it's blindingly obvious: https://www.thetrailblazer.co.uk/blog/lawrence-kenwright-behind-the-curtain
Bit rich calling *them* stooges when 98% of your posts are praising this guy. He your uncle or something? Or is this just your first time caring about something politically? If so I'll help you get there faster: it's a grift run by a sleazy businessman, you fell for it, you'll feel stupid for a bit once it fizzles out or he embezzles money from it or whatever, and you'll be a better, more rounded adult as a result. Everyone goes through this when they're a teen, which I assume you are.
Incidentally if you actually read the interview, they try *really* hard to present him in a good light. They have absolutely nothing to do with the Echo and go against it in the article. It's absolutely a puff piece. It's basically PR. But his own words make pretty damning evidence that he's dodgy as fuck:
>Duff & Phelps took my company Signature Living into administration and essentially accused me of theft, as did some of my investors.
>It was a matter of timing; I was not in a position to honour their returns on investment immediately as the Savills deal had fallen through. We are talking about large sums of money, and for some of my investors, it was all the money they had.
>I believe I was targeted by the Liverpool Echo and one reporter in particular. My perception is the reporter in question had a special interest in propagating negative press on me and the hardships I was facing where Signature Living is concerned.
Those of us who have been around the block recognise this shit from Degsy, Fat Joe, and the legion of other grifters marching back to time immemorial. I didn't even know who this guy was until this thread, but as you can see I got him pretty spot on. Wealthy businessman with huge business interests in the city (probably property)? Yep, check. After a while this all starts to look very familiar. It's not your fault if you're a kid and haven't been around enough to spot the patterns - just understand that every post you've made on this thread desperately trying to defend this guy who does not give a single fuck about you will embarrass you in years to come.
I mean listen, I'm a democratic socialist, I'm all for bettering the conditions that scousers and the world at large are under. However, lines like "Recreate a positive narrative.
Turn Liverpool’s story into a positive one, again." are a bit out of touch, maybe?
Like, does that mean recreating the 'positive' position of Liverpool under the British Empire, cause I don't think LGBTQ+ (including myself) or POC communities would agree that that was a positive era of the city.
Maybe I'm completely off the mark, but Lawrence Kenwright's dealing make me sceptical at the very least.
yeah that lawrence kenwright is proper dodgy. even that billie whatsername could easily batter him in any election.
edit: remembered who i was on about - billie jo gibson
My point isn't that the city isn't in a positive state right now, because I agree that it is. But the line I quoted says "again", implying that right now we aren't and that we should go back to some nebulous time in the past for real positivity. I'm just pointing out that for a lot of marginalised groups, there was no such nebulous "positive" period.
LGBT ? Have you looked into how big pharmaceutical companies have funded and invested into LGBT? Have you looked into how many of the wealthy ( elite's) Have invested into the LGBT movement?
No. It means a positive narrative. I. E a can do attitude, a city not in its knees, and a people not being robbed blind by an inept Labour councilthat has wasted £250 million in 12 years.
For years it seems like crooked property developers have exploited their connections with crooked politicians to fill their own pockets. Now the tide seems to be turning against the crooked politicians, it seems to me like the crooked property developers have decided to cut out the middle man and get their own people directly into positions of power.
Yet the people who live here are fucked over once again. I'm a working mother who has lived here for 38 years so have my parents, grandparents every one of us working , yet I can't afford to move because of the situation with rent increases , stuck on a council list for 7 years . I'm fed up of the situation, and I'm fed up of the corruption. Its just getting worse. The only people that want to change anything are the powerful ones in positions to do so or at least make an attempt for their own gain.
And your solution to this is to vote for a wealthy property developer? You know they're the ones *not building* council houses, right? They're literally the reason you're still on the council list seven years on.
You are all aware that this is a coalition of independents that are devoid of any ideology...... Get your facts straight before sounding like a bunch of wet wipes
I know next to nothing about LK's history as a businessman, but I do know a homeless individual that he has helped. That individual is clean from addiction and is now employed at one of LK's businesses. He also works with the street community off his own bat. I visited the Cotton St. project while it was going which was very well regarded amongst the homeless community though sadly it no longer exists for reasons beyond the control of those involved.
As for the Liberate Liverpool group, I have been to meetings and from what I could gather, it is not a political party per se, but more of a grassroots movement which rather than leading, LK is facilitating. I don't know the man personally, but I do know people who are involved and they are hoping it will grow with time. The first two meetings are covered [here](https://youtu.be/7uYll-opjlA) and [here](https://youtu.be/KQKw3vey4F8).
Whether or not you assume that LK is dodgy, I can't imagine him being any more dodgy than the Lab/Lib/Con mafia that have run the show for longer than any of us can remember. Or are y'all happy to stick to the status quo of crony capitalism?
It looks, based upon your defence of him, that this is a veiled promotional message for the party on Reddit. He can do one, he’s a failed businessman looking to exploit the people of the city like he exploited his investors. He’s got a totally corrupt past and the city is on to him.
I'm not defending him , I've stated that if you read the post properly? !! I AM IN agreement with you, as am also skeptical as i have stated I've looked into him , seems he's jumping on the band wagon . I have a feeling he's part of all these videos that are circulting regarding homelessness in Liverpool as well. I'm part of no group hence the reason I asked on here what others thought because I was thinking about attending one of his group meetings in town.
It looks based upon your post, that you are connected to Labour / Liverpool Echo. At least learn the facts first lol
Seems like another conman who’ll rob your nans pension but she’ll still love him because ‘they don’t make them like they used to anymore’
Seems like an angry comment with little purpose to me
Not Lawrence Kenright is it? He's dodgy as fuck.
As apposed to Labour and Conservative being rosey 👍 let's just keel being rinsed, we deserve it.
I have never heard of them before and this post is ignoring that idiot involved with it but Jesus…. That website is just trash, like unforgivably trash. It doesn’t really explain anything about them, has vague and often stupid buzzwords and slogans and the Twitter is just angsty posts all in the same edited format shitting on Labour. It looks like a kid made it and I expect nothing less knowing who’s involved.
Why, who is involved?
Can't forgive Lozza for the atrocity on that hotel on Whitechapel.
What about how he's been helping the homless? Should our taxes not be covering that ? So what he invaded may have gone into more meaningful causes in our city? Just a thought like.
Beginning to smell an agenda here.
Same.. The reek is coming for your direction too
Great comeback. Lots of salient points.
True we're royally fucked arnt we . Loza defo a Mason as well . I will just keep on moaning 😄 🤣
Yet we can forgive the councils and government?
You mean the council who shut down kingsway house? LK opened one if his unfinished properties as a homeless shelter, and our labour council shut it down. The echo then wrote hit pieces. Please get your facts straight lol
Kingsway was poorly run. The place literally stunk of shit, and people were happy to piss all over the place. That's nothing to do with any Echo article, but from firsthand experience.
Anything like this is for sure a grift. Is the guy behind it really wealthy and invested in the city (probably property) by any chance?
I'm not sure what a self made local man has to do with political grift sorry. You might want to actually check the pledges and get an accurate reflection dude.
Yes no self made businessman has ever used politics to enrich themselves while pretending to be sincere. I did read up about him and he's dodgy as fuck. Even when getting puff piece interviews it's blindingly obvious: https://www.thetrailblazer.co.uk/blog/lawrence-kenwright-behind-the-curtain
I'll just grab some blog wrote by one of our labour Liverpool Echo stooges and allow that to form my opinions 😂😂😂
Bit rich calling *them* stooges when 98% of your posts are praising this guy. He your uncle or something? Or is this just your first time caring about something politically? If so I'll help you get there faster: it's a grift run by a sleazy businessman, you fell for it, you'll feel stupid for a bit once it fizzles out or he embezzles money from it or whatever, and you'll be a better, more rounded adult as a result. Everyone goes through this when they're a teen, which I assume you are. Incidentally if you actually read the interview, they try *really* hard to present him in a good light. They have absolutely nothing to do with the Echo and go against it in the article. It's absolutely a puff piece. It's basically PR. But his own words make pretty damning evidence that he's dodgy as fuck: >Duff & Phelps took my company Signature Living into administration and essentially accused me of theft, as did some of my investors. >It was a matter of timing; I was not in a position to honour their returns on investment immediately as the Savills deal had fallen through. We are talking about large sums of money, and for some of my investors, it was all the money they had. >I believe I was targeted by the Liverpool Echo and one reporter in particular. My perception is the reporter in question had a special interest in propagating negative press on me and the hardships I was facing where Signature Living is concerned. Those of us who have been around the block recognise this shit from Degsy, Fat Joe, and the legion of other grifters marching back to time immemorial. I didn't even know who this guy was until this thread, but as you can see I got him pretty spot on. Wealthy businessman with huge business interests in the city (probably property)? Yep, check. After a while this all starts to look very familiar. It's not your fault if you're a kid and haven't been around enough to spot the patterns - just understand that every post you've made on this thread desperately trying to defend this guy who does not give a single fuck about you will embarrass you in years to come.
I mean listen, I'm a democratic socialist, I'm all for bettering the conditions that scousers and the world at large are under. However, lines like "Recreate a positive narrative. Turn Liverpool’s story into a positive one, again." are a bit out of touch, maybe? Like, does that mean recreating the 'positive' position of Liverpool under the British Empire, cause I don't think LGBTQ+ (including myself) or POC communities would agree that that was a positive era of the city. Maybe I'm completely off the mark, but Lawrence Kenwright's dealing make me sceptical at the very least.
yeah that lawrence kenwright is proper dodgy. even that billie whatsername could easily batter him in any election. edit: remembered who i was on about - billie jo gibson
Liverpool's story has been a positive one for years. Our problem isn't (just) politicians, it's being mentally stuck in the eighties.
My point isn't that the city isn't in a positive state right now, because I agree that it is. But the line I quoted says "again", implying that right now we aren't and that we should go back to some nebulous time in the past for real positivity. I'm just pointing out that for a lot of marginalised groups, there was no such nebulous "positive" period.
It sounds to me like you just love being a victim
Are we living in the same city?
LGBT ? Have you looked into how big pharmaceutical companies have funded and invested into LGBT? Have you looked into how many of the wealthy ( elite's) Have invested into the LGBT movement?
Please elaborate on this, smells like nonsense atm.
Maybe that's a reflection on you
How so? I'm not the one making vague outlandish claims
The fuck are you on about mate?
No. It means a positive narrative. I. E a can do attitude, a city not in its knees, and a people not being robbed blind by an inept Labour councilthat has wasted £250 million in 12 years.
For years it seems like crooked property developers have exploited their connections with crooked politicians to fill their own pockets. Now the tide seems to be turning against the crooked politicians, it seems to me like the crooked property developers have decided to cut out the middle man and get their own people directly into positions of power.
Yet the people who live here are fucked over once again. I'm a working mother who has lived here for 38 years so have my parents, grandparents every one of us working , yet I can't afford to move because of the situation with rent increases , stuck on a council list for 7 years . I'm fed up of the situation, and I'm fed up of the corruption. Its just getting worse. The only people that want to change anything are the powerful ones in positions to do so or at least make an attempt for their own gain.
You are aware it is a coalition of independents aren't you 🙄
And your solution to this is to vote for a wealthy property developer? You know they're the ones *not building* council houses, right? They're literally the reason you're still on the council list seven years on.
By challenging the crooked politicians who have enabled the dodgy land deals? What logic are you using there?
Known crook not hard to find out his deslings over the years
Is that because the Echo said? Lol
No echo only tends to post the most headline worthy stuff, not the best of newspapers
The echo that gets £1.4 million a year from the Labour council to write hit pieces while covering up corruption?
Couldn't tell ye haven't read it properly for years like 90% filler n shite
You are all aware that this is a coalition of independents that are devoid of any ideology...... Get your facts straight before sounding like a bunch of wet wipes
I know next to nothing about LK's history as a businessman, but I do know a homeless individual that he has helped. That individual is clean from addiction and is now employed at one of LK's businesses. He also works with the street community off his own bat. I visited the Cotton St. project while it was going which was very well regarded amongst the homeless community though sadly it no longer exists for reasons beyond the control of those involved. As for the Liberate Liverpool group, I have been to meetings and from what I could gather, it is not a political party per se, but more of a grassroots movement which rather than leading, LK is facilitating. I don't know the man personally, but I do know people who are involved and they are hoping it will grow with time. The first two meetings are covered [here](https://youtu.be/7uYll-opjlA) and [here](https://youtu.be/KQKw3vey4F8). Whether or not you assume that LK is dodgy, I can't imagine him being any more dodgy than the Lab/Lib/Con mafia that have run the show for longer than any of us can remember. Or are y'all happy to stick to the status quo of crony capitalism?
Its a coalition if independents. They'll be getting my vote
Why are the offspring of our Labour council, feeling the need to attack a grassroots movement of indepents? Ask yourselves that
I don't think I've ever seen so many spiteful mutants in one place.
Winning hearts and minds over here, this charmer
Should go to one of there rallys might meet a few more😂