Is This The Worst Chip Shop In London?

We suddenly started getting Tweets last night about the chip shop on the Old Dover Road. At first we didn't understand the tweets so we asked for clarification. You can see the conversation above.

We've used the chip shop a few times and have to say we've only experienced friendly services and great food. This is not to say that the experiences of others is not as stated above and of course every sympathy to anyone who lives by a chip ship, especially if the owners are acting as alleged in the tweets.

However, the problem with the internet and in particular social media including blogs, Facebook, Twitter et al is that they allow us to turn a personal experience and wrap it up into an apparent fact, even news! Some research has shown that, on the whole, the loudest noise on these platforms is a minority of love and loathing, in other words, a vocal minority, use social media to make a point, about 90% of the population is passive. It's understandable if we feel powerless and frustrated by apparent injustice and bullying.

The Greenwich Phantom, the wisest blogger locally, made an interesting point about the possibility of a Lap Dancing club opening in Greenwich. It went out of business not because of the public outcry but because it ran out of money.

Blogs can easily become polarised with grandstanding, even worse jumping from one cause to the next. If you want traffic then this is a great way to get it, if it didn't work then most of our newspaper's would have been out of business years ago. Blogs, Facebook and Twitter are great for raising public awareness, as the events of the last few months have shown in the right hands they can bring down everything from bad businesses to corrupt regimes.

Is our silence a sign of indifference to local needs? Not at all, exactly the opposite, it's our attempt to bring some balance to what is often opinion dressed up as fact.

Do we think there is a problem? We're not sure, we have no reason to question the account above; but our advice, if there really is a problem, then don't use the place (no pun intended) If you want to vote for or against this chip shop then use your wallet.