Ousted councillor vows to fight back.

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on November 26, 2009 at 16:04

Lib Dems 28 : Labour 29

If Brian and the LDs reach an arrangement soon, and if he finishes all those Wightman Road jobs he's been promising for these past few years, say by April'May next, he and they will have my vote and many of my neighbours'.
I don't think the Lib Dems should be too precious about all this. He will make the perfect third councillor here in the west of the ward. I'm sure Brian would be much more at home here in Harringay Ward (where, of course, we can keep a closer eye on him) and why not let him continue with the Environment post? Meanwhile, if he can just research the possibilities of some Smart Green Buses which hover smoothly over those sinusoidal farthindren on WR we'll be in his debt forever.

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Permalink Reply by matt on November 26, 2009 at 17:56

Maybe Haley is being courted by the Tories, as Alan Dobbie was.

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Permalink Reply by Julie on November 27, 2009 at 0:15

The Liberal Democrats approached Brian Haley, apparently, and I understand he refused to cross the floor. He says he is a committed Labour member, and he's still a member of the panel, up for selection anywhere in the west to fight a Labour ticket. What's wrong with that? There are lots of places to be selected.

All councillors should try to keep their promises or else explain why those promises can't be kept. Whatever their political background.

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Permalink Reply by matt on November 27, 2009 at 7:01

Thanks Julie. That's more info than the Journal could gather. If Haley doesn't get re-selected westside maybe other offers will become more tempting. Otherwise it's back out into the real world of work.

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on November 27, 2009 at 9:34

Oh well, if Brian doesn't want to take my advice . . . .

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on November 26, 2009 at 20:10

Haley’s comet flies out of Labour's orbit (Only the comments after the blog post provide any sense of balance. Not sure how appropriate it is to play this out as a race issue).

Lammy calls for probe into councillor deselections.

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Permalink Reply by matt on November 26, 2009 at 20:44

Oi! OBV have nicked that photo of Thompson playing the saxophone from here! One of the many wonderful Summer Parties we've had over the years at Fairland Park. That party was 2007 when Thompson was mayor.

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Haley seemed happy enough when I saw him this week at North Harringay. He was there for a photo op with the kidz re Operation Clean up, or whatever it was called.

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