2010 Local Election Candidates

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Permalink Reply by Justin Hinchcliffe on March 1, 2010 at 13:16

Mr Ford appears to hail from St. Ann's Ward, but no doubt he's a "local campaigner" (-D

I gather that Mr Ford's new colleague, Cllr. Hayley, is standing in West Green. He must be gutted that, despite his high-profile defection, they didn't offer him anything better.

Justin Hinchcliffe
(Conservative candidate for Seven Sisters)

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Permalink Reply by John D on March 1, 2010 at 14:30

That's a few Conservative votes from West Green down the toilet.
Labour and Lib Dems must love you, Justin :-)

Permalink Reply by Chris Ford on March 4, 2010 at 21:22

Mr. Hinchcliffe, am I to understand from your slightly archaic use of the English language that you think I live in St. Ann's?

Unfortunately your sarcasm is somewhat misplaced. I have lived on the Harringay Ladder for three years. I did live on St. Ann's road for about 6 months before that, and before then I lived in my family home in Stroud Green. I was born and brought up in Haringey.

I don't think you get much more 'local' than that...

Forgive me for correcting you, but I'd rather people were not misinformed.

Regards,
Chris ;-)

Permalink Reply by Justin Hinchcliffe on March 1, 2010 at 13:08

"When she's eleceted" ? What arrogance! It proves Labour takes the people of St Ann's for ganted - something I don't think any party should do.

Justin Hinchcliffe
(Conservative candidate for Seven Sisters)

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Permalink Reply by Liz on March 1, 2010 at 13:53

Justin, do we know the names of the rest of the Conservative candidates for St Ann's and Harringay yet, so we can add them to the list above?

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on March 1, 2010 at 17:25

Well, we know one Conservative candidate for Wightman/Harringay - but tell us, Tim, why is gleaning information about why you're standing for our ward more painful than pulling our own teeth.

You promised us your 'Blue Blog' nearly two months ago - but it petered out after a week on January 16. Even that was just a rehash of a 'profile' you'd written for another audience. It told us nothing of relevance about you - nothing about you and Harringay or you and Harringay Ladder, and certainly nothing about you and Wightman Road. The highlight of your political career to date seems to have been "meeting David Cameron personally". Pray, how else does one meet anyone? And do you reckon that will wow the electors of Harringay, the Ladder or Wightman Road?

You twit Gordon Brown and Labour for claiming to be a 'party of aspiration' and you mildly abuse Harringay's or Haringey's voters for constantly complaining about local Labour but doing nothing about removing them. So what are your aspirations for the ward you're standing for?
Please don't tell us about Tottenham Constituency (That's Sean Sullivan's bailiwick - he thinks), nor about Gordon B's shortcomings (That's for that guy you once met personally).
Just tell us about you and HARRINGAY. You could start with Wightman Road - where at least two of us live - and where there may be 1,000 potential voters, at least 74% of whom didn't make it to the polling booth in May 2006.

Of course, that all applies equally to all the other Unknown Knowns and Unknown Unknowns who are daring, or who may dare, to take us for granted over the next nine weeks.

(OAE: Unknown Voter - undecided, floating and fancy free - Harringay Ward)

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Permalink Reply by Liz on March 1, 2010 at 20:18

I agree OAE, finding information is impossible.

The Tottenham Tories site is bad enough but the LibDems requires you to register and log in even to find out basic info about 'Your local Focus Team'!

Don't they care about the local elections enough to even get around to telling us the name of their candidates? Ultimately many of the things that matter to us in our daily lives get decided by the people elected to the local council and yet despite telling us that there are only two horses in this race, they neglect to tell us the names of the ones we are supposed to back (forgive the racing metaphor, must be all the betting shops at the end of our road).

I think they just expect us to turn up like sheep and blindly vote along party lines so it wouldn't matter if they fielded Joe Bloggs, John Smith and Jane Doe; we don't need to know their names, what they stand for, what they care about because you just vote Tory/Lab/Lib don't you? You pick your team and you don't care who plays on it...(more sporting metaphor, damn you Metrobet)

However, I'm not sure that anyone I've spoken to thinks like that outside of the Party faithfuls. They are very much undecided and a good candidate with a clear message and committment to Harringay, no matter what his/her party, could do well.

In the local elections, I'm not voting for Brown/Cameron/Clegg etc, I'm voting for who will make my area a good place for my family and me to live in and have a clear idea how to steer it to an even brighter future.

The way things are at the moment, I might just be writing 'none of the above' across my ballot paper.

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on March 1, 2010 at 21:46

I've offered before. And I'd really like to help you, Liz.
But I'm already booked.

(Labour councillor & prospective candidate Tottenham Hale)

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Permalink Reply by Julie on March 2, 2010 at 0:13

Sheep, horses, Does...

It's not a race run over a few weeks, it's a full time commitment to Harringay. Have you held the existing councillors properly to account? How will you make new councillors listen to your needs?

Sure a lot of it's about finding and choosing the right people. The first bit has taken place within local political party branches, who have the machinery to choose and the people to attend meetings and vote. There are no residents' associations or independents round here. Maybe this will happen next time round. In the meantime maybe HoL people should consider whether the current councillors are delivering and look at picking three to endorse in May.

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Permalink Reply by Liz on March 2, 2010 at 0:53

The Horse reference comes from both Lib Dem and Conservative literature so clearly they see it as an apt metaphor even it the Labour party do not. I also admit that in the past I was rather Sheep like in my adherence to party voting without knowing the candidates and what they stood for...and bigger fool me.

As I have a responsibility, I believe, to vote I also have a responsibility to know who and what I am voting for. I can only do that effectively through information. My frustration here is that there is none and I am actively seeking it. What hope for those who do not have the time I do to pursue it.

We try time and time again to hold councillors to account through the Area Assembly but as you may have picked up from previous conversations this is not always satisfactory. Even a committment by a current councillor to review the processes has not been followed up almost two weeks later.

We can ask the same question: "How will you parties make new councillors listen to our needs?" since the current methods of communicating with them can be extremely unsatisfactory (some do not answer emails no matter how many you send and no I'm not referring to B Haley for a change)

Trust me, many of us are looking at whether the current councillors are delivering, but as so many of them have been deselected or have stood down, we now have a bigger than average set of unknowns to find out about before we can possibly endorse any of them.

I'm not clear what you mean by no RAs around here. On the contrary there are a few and they have input into what goes on although they are not run on political lines.

The Labour Party has at least bothered to provide us with 9 names - its a start. Some can be judged on past records but 4 of them are newcomers. We want to know why they want to represent us the people of Harringay. We will give them the opportunity to present their case, I trust you as an active member of the party will encourage them to take us up on our offers. (This offer open to all candidates from all the political parties above naturally)

Permalink Reply by John McMullan on March 2, 2010 at 8:18

I really would not like to see HoL used to endorse any political candidates. #canofworms

Permalink Reply by Justin Hinchcliffe on March 4, 2010 at 10:51

All in good time, repeat again...

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