Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Vote for Harringay LABOUR Action Team – May 22nd 2014
With your support and confidence behind us on May 22nd you can help build a fairer Harringay, a fairer Borough and send a clear message that the residents of Harringay ward believe in social justice, community cohesion, the opportunity for all to thrive and equality.
Our key priorities for the borough:
- We will freeze Council Tax for four more years
- We will invest £25million improving our pavement and roads making them more pedestrian and cyclist friendly
- Every school and childcare setting will be rated good or outstanding by Ofsted
- We will invest £1million putting more police on our streets
- We will deliver over 1,000 new affordable homes 250 of which will be built by the council
Labour’s Record in Harringay
- Campaigned on parks – making Ducketts Common, Fairland Park and Finsbury Park safer, cleaner and with more equipment. We have also secured money from the GLA for Harringay’s Pocket Park – improving the local environment between Allison Rd and the Salisbury Pub
- Tackled rouge landlords, with tough action like taking bad landlords to court. We have also secured tougher regulations in Harringay ward and new restrictions on converting properties in to smaller flats.
- Campaigned for the investment of record money into roads to improve the local environment for cyclists and pedestrians.
- Expanded the play streets scheme where a local road can be closed for a few hours allowing children and families in Harringay to play and have fun safely outside.
- Funding has been secured for 6 new roaming police officers
- We have secured a much needed pedestrian crossing on Green Lanes
- We have successfully campaigned for a new fixed camera on Wightman Rd to stop large lorries (HGVs) breaking weight restrictions and using the ladder as a rat run
We have also
- Fought for and increased support for the credit union to tackle legal and illegal loans sharks. Every child starts secondary school in Haringey will get a £20 credit union account to teach them about saving and the dangers of debt and ‘legal loan sharks’
- Supported Haringey 40:20 & plans to lower carbon emissions
- Campaigned for protecting and improving our local libraries – we are proud that Labour in Haringey has protected libraries despite unprecedented budget cuts from central government
How the Liberal Democrat record damages Harringay locally
- Backing to cuts to Haringey services 13 times deeper than Tory boroughs like Richmond. This has decimated parts of the voluntary sector.
- Supporting the pernicious ‘Bedroom Tax’, hitting hundreds of disabled people
- Supporting police cuts that have seen 130 officers lost from Haringey’s streets.
- Supporting the privatisation of our NHS and putting local health services at risk
People in Harringay believe in fairness and social justice and the Liberal Democrats have abandoned that all together. They have supported Pickles, Duncan Smith and Osborne all the way.
The Liberal Democrats talk down Harringay but they have no positive vision for improving the ward or the borough and dealing with the big challenges. The Liberal Democrats in Harringay ward offer support for their party’s legacy of broken promises and Harringay Labour offer the opportunity for residents to help us build and support a fairer more inclusive community.
We want to see improvements to the local environment which means tougher action on landlords, betting shops, planning and licensing breaches. We also want to see improved safety for pedestrians and will continue to campaign for a crossing at Alroy Rd, traffic calming measures and improvements to pavements and roads.
Please use all three of your votes on May 22nd for Harringay Labour.
Cllr Gina Adamou
Emine Ibrahim
James Ryan
The Labour Party Candidates for Harringay Ward
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Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Cllr Emina Ibrahim on
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Although again what I see there in your link goes back to my original points about Lib Dems attempting to take personal credit for joint efforts. And that's the difference Alan isn't it ? We are a party who believe in collectivism and working together. We canvass as a team and you give me credit for loyalty to my colleagues - with the utmost respect that's part of the collective principle too. They are a very individualistic party more so in some respects than the Conservatives - they don't even expect their candidates to be party members - just slap a brand on your chest and away you go - you are now the Lib Dem candidate for XYZ Ward
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Then we failed. But now let's have councillors - of whichever party - who work together to insist we "fail forward"; learning from what happened to make this crossing a lot safer.
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Permalink Reply by David Robson on
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Well if everyone’s keen to work together on this, will all councillors (current / prospective) commit to getting a crossing on Alroy Rd and Endymion Rd reviewed and amended (as necessary) again by the end of the year?
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Nobody can or should make a promise they're not certain of keeping, David. Not ever. And certainly not just before an election.
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor - escaped.)
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Ok Alan, will they commit to making it a key priority and working with councillors of whichever party to try and make this happen?
Or however they would like to word it.
The point is that residents want a solution to a very old problem that Labour doesn't seem bothered by (even when brought up on the doorstep).
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Hi David
We have committed to that its in the original post. Every time I try to cross there I feel I am moments away from being struck by a car from different directions. You say the Lib Dems have supported and I am sure they have but perhaps they could have found some room for it in their posting yesterday. I always raise this issue about the petitions the Libs Dems carry out because I think there is something really cynical about using a genuine concern and in this case a dangerous situation to collect peoples personal details and target them for future election. I have constantly raised this and will continue to.
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You make a valid point re their posting yesterday.
However, if everyone agrees it is dangerous, and both Labour and Lib Dem want something to happen, why has Labour done nothing about it? (you can do it with the help of Lib Dems so we can all celebrate this joyous collaborative approach)
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I was on the W5 at the time of the crash on Endymion. I was told by a lady who was clearly in shock at what she had witnessed that the police thought the person had had a heart attack at the wheel and that they had hit another car. It looked like there had been one fatality at the scene.
Still there needs to be a pedestrian crossing there as cars go to fast and pedestrians are trying to look three ways at once.
I didn't take any pictures as itndidn't seem like the time or place for it but it looked very bad.
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Emina,
Can you clarify about the 1000 new homes please? Are they for Harringay Ward or for the wider borough? If for example 30% of these new home have residents with children where will they go to school? 30% with 2 kids per household could equate to 600 children. North Harringay, South Harringay and Chestnuts are full to capacity and there's little scope to extend the buildings at any of these sites.
Also are these stand alone homes or are they part of wider developments to be built by developers with a % set aside as affordable?
Also I was liking your pitch until you slagged off the Lib Dems. I'm just not interested in others perceived failings being pointed out. I just want to hear what you guys will do if elected/re elected.
Thanks
AM
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Can you clarify if it is the Labour party position to remove the bollards in the Gardens & the blockages on Hermitage Road - or not? We know from media coverage that this is the reported position of one of the Labour candidates in St Annes (see this discussion), but the issue is absent from any leaflets I've seen so far & I haven't yet encountered any Labour activists going door to door.
If this is the Labour position they should be open about it with the electorate, so that they can draw their own conclusions.
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Can you please explain how you will ensure every school and childcare setting will be rated good or outstanding if Labour is voted in and what your timescale is for that? And what is your view on Ofsted ratings in general?
I agree with others who have mentioned that some Councillors have a more visible presence than others. I see two councillors on a regular basis on my way to school/local shops etc (and have done for years). Only one of them actually talks to parents and residents regardless of their political persuasion or anything else for that matter.
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If I am correct Items 2, 4 and 7 are being made possible and being driven by the Mayors for London's Office and/or Government initiatives/funding, not specifically the labour party - these will probably be delivered no matter who is elected.
It would be good to hear about priorities relating to areas that are specifically within the Councillors/Council's remit. How about improving services for Carers for instance. How do councillors intend to do this if at all.
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