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If Jeremy Corbyn is elected leader of the Labour Party, will Harringay get its first Blue Plaque? He was a ward councillor for Harringay and lived in Lausanne Rd.

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Corbyn is a left wing firebrand with many dodgy actions in his past and these are well remembered in the national press.

Blue Plaques go up to celebrate people with a record of success, no failure, as in Corbyn's case. 

Well his 'dodgy' record includes not supporting the war against Iraq which has lead to the disaster those of us opposed to it said it would. Not sure what 'firebrand' means except that it's a word used by rightwingers to imply something negative without being specific. He is a modest and unassuming man, and, indeed, had to be persuaded to stand by colleagues. His constituency record is second to none, and he has earned the support of his constituents by being a hard working MP. His record stands in marked contrast to our own David Lammy, who is an unprincipled jobsworth...

Really? Dodgy actions? I think you'll find that if anybody has had their actions justified by the passage of time, it would be young Mr Corbyn, wherever you happen to be on the political spectrum.

I would also be interested in what you term 'dodgy actions'

Are you referring to his track-record of working hard to fight for individual constituents to redress callous treatment by vested political and business interests? Or perhaps you meant his career-long support for political exiles fleeing murderously unpleasant regimes such as Pinochean Chile?

I guess that politicians who are prepared to walk-the-talk, to the extent that Mr Corbyn has, are  decidedly dodgy in the modern Labour party.

God forbid that a Blue Plaque should celebrate those whose lives have been dedicated to  speaking up and acting to support the disadvantaged and oppressed both at home and abroad. 

Mark, Mike...just in case you did not know: Neil O'Shea isn't declaring that he is a Thatcherite who was a Councillor and has a record of vitriol against all things that are the best in Haringey. He was soundly defeated in the loical election of 2014 and has not got over it!

Ah - that explains a lot

Bitterness truly is a terrible thing to witness.

13th out of 14 candidates in Noel Park, fewer votes than UKIP and his two Conservative colleagues - just 163 votes. Doorstep charm, perhaps.....

During the last forty plus years Jeremy Corbin has campaigned against apartheid in SA, for the release of the Guilford Four and Birmingham six, against the war in Afghanistan, against the war in Iraq 2003, against weapons of mass destruction including Trident, for LGBT rights, for Pinochet to be put on trial, for the rights of Palestinian people, opening a dialogue with Sinn Fein, campaigns against racism and fascism, opposed tuition fees, opposed PFI, campaigned against UK selling arms to Iraq and against mass killing of Iraqi Kurds in 70s/ 80s, campaigned for public ownership of railways, argues against austerity etc etc etc, time and again he has been on the right side of history.

And he once gave me 20p when I was short of change when we were both standing in a queue to get a take away coffee in a cafe in Bethnal Green about 10 years ago. Random acts of kindness to a stranger work for me.

Redistributive policy in action!

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