Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Jeremy Corbyn - Blue Plaque
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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Permalink Reply by Admiral on
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If you know the address on Lausanne Road I guess he can get a Harringay online Virtual Blue Plaque posted on http://www.communitywalk.com/harringay/london/blue_plaques_for_harr....
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on
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The press has given increased coverage to Jeremy Corbyn in recent months and I have noticed, with increasing discomfort, that some perfectly normal facts about him (for example that he has had a beard for many years and grows vegetables) have been adduced as though they support his reputation as a political eccentric holding radical left wing views. My friends on HoL will know that I too have had a beard for many years and grow vegetables and before the tendency to misread such associations gets out of hand, let me say that I have found nine other things in the press that I have in common with Jeremy Corbyn:
- We both grew up in rural counties
- We both went to grammar school
- We both attended North London Polytechnic rather briefly[1]
- We both had long hair and a beard at age 25
- We both acquired a Lenin cap[2]
- We both had Czech CZ motorbikes
- We both lived in the Harringay ladder
- We both got married at Haringey town hall
- We both divorced amicably
Heaven knows what certain journalists might make of this but I should like to make clear that none of it implies anything at all about his political views or mine.
[1] In my case to study statistics at evening classes.
[2] What is known here as a Lenin cap is merely the normal shape of men’s cap that was popular, especially in Poland, for much of the 20th century. Needless to say, in Poland, it has no association at all with Lenin and, if it had, only eccentrics would have worn them.
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So far as I can discover, he might favour a Government Of All the Talents.
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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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Your measured like Jeremy too.
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Do you mean like this article...?
http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/richard-godwin-jeremy-cor...
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I think Richard only lives in Harringay because he can't afford Muswell HIll.
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Well Dick, with apologies to the late Mercutio, may I say belatedly, "A plaque on both your houses!"
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Ward Councillor during a time when private landlords were allowed to get out of control, planning enforcement was non existent and drugs gangs had the run of the place.
That's 'our Jeremy'
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Lack of positive opposition serves no one, Harringay was considered edge of the borough and was overlooked for a long time, social media means it's difficult to avoid today. There was a lack of money nationally, and things were only 'getting better' leading up to '97 with economic recovery.
I don't know why planning and urban design are not expanded upon, Hackney through their experience with the Olympics have recruited.
Some cases of landlords are now forced to sell HMO's and are monitored, drug dealers don't have the free reign they had, or is less apparent, apart from the smaller transactions you feel your witnessing from time to time. There isn't enough Met officers to enforce zero tolerance, (and with more cuts,) they rely on us to an extent. More can be done through legislation and a considered strategy to resolve these ongoing issues.
Perhaps it's pure politics and lack of professional expertise that councillors still lack to understand the urban environment, and just basic interaction with residents and local community groups.
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