Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Bounds Green: Councillor re-selections and housing demolitions
In Bounds Green Ward in Haringey, the three sitting Labour Councillors, Ali Demirci, Joanna Christophides and Clare Bull, all support Council leader Claire Kober, and support the proposed Haringey Development Vehicle (HDV) deal with the property developer Lendlease.
Sadly, disgracefully, these Councillors support Lendlease and Haringey Council's plan to build 7,700 mainly private market homes in Wood Green, demolishing 205 housing association dwellings at Sky City, and 92 more at Page High; with Council estates to be knocked down at Page Grove, Durnsford Road and Tredegar Road, with partial demolition at Jack Barnett Way.
The Council has agreed that Lendlease does not need to prioritise a Right of Return for those whose homes are to be demolished.
The Lendlease and HDV Business Plans "do not allow for rehousing of housing association tenants".
The 1,281 new homes to be built in Wood Green in category 1 of the HDV do not include any social rent homes at all. Rising house prices and rents would drive local people out of the area.
This is in a borough where where many people have low and inconsistent earnings, and where 48% of all households have no savings at all, or are in debt.
Thankfully, there is a reselection taking place for all the Labour Party's candidates for the Council elections next year.
Next May, I look forward to voting for Labour candidates in Bounds Green Ward who support Jeremy Corbyn and who support socialist policies:
James Chiriyankandath, Yvonne Say and Pat Berryman.
These candidates, if elected, will refuse to sign any deal with Lendlease.
They will make excellent Councillors for Bounds Green.
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Permalink Reply by maggie on
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"OP: I look forward to voting for Labour candidates [...] who support socialist policies.
Breathtaking statement to me - even in America the Democrats from Obama on down will never openly admit they are socialists."
Some Americans must live a sheltered life.
"never openly admit that they are socialists" you say that as if it is a dirty word whereas I and many others are proud to be lifelong socialists, immensly proud of the NHS, proud of the welfare state, proud that we understand that the resources of this world should be shared, and proud of all those socialists who fought against facism. I don't expect you to understand any of this however.
You could start with reading about the diference between Socialism and the evil that was National Socialism i.e. Nazism/ Fascism. Many good socialists died in their hundreds of thousands fighting Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Franco etc, etc, they organised and fought for years against facism and totalitarianism and it is silly and insulting to the socialists who were hung, starved, imprisoned and gassed in concentration camps and executed by these regimes to state otherwise.
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...and Stalin!
I did say etc, etc, so as not to go on with Idi Amin, Papa Doc, Salazar, Chian Kai-Shek, Pinochet, G. Papadopoulos, Than Swe etc, etc, and every other dictator in world history. Socialists fought most of these dictators too and lost their lives.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Totalitarianism...
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