Peckham and Camberwell: campaigning on the Aylesbury Estate
AWL supporter Jill Mountford is the AWL’s candidate in the general election, standing in Peckham and Camberwell against Labour’s Harriet Harman. Peckham is a deprived area in South East London, with high levels of unemployment and poverty. At the centre of the constituency is the Aylesbury estate, home to 8,500 people. The estate gets a lot of bad press, being described by the Daily Mail as “Hell’s waiting room”. Two weeks ago the AWL held an election meeting on the estate. And we found that the people that live there generally feel very differently to the Mail. The homes on the Aylesbury are...