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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Cllr. Mike Hakata “… to step down from elected office”. Full statement:

Haringey Council Cabinet Member Mike Hakata is to step down from elected office:
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After nearly eight years as an elected ward councillor for both St Ann's and Hermitage and Gardens wards, and four years as Cabinet Member for Environment, Transport and Climate Action at Haringey Council, I've decided to step down from elected office
Source: X/Twitter
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The council's statement (here) is unclear, as it says 
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The announcement will not trigger a by-election and residents in Hermitage and Gardens will be represented by Cllr Anna Lawton.

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Politically, the key clause comes near the end:
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[the sacrifice of elected office] only makes sense when you have the full mandate and conditions to deliver the change you believe in. When those condition shift …
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Does this not suggest a further downgrading of the role of Environment, transport and climate change? And a determination by the leadership to fall further into line with Kier Starmer's New Labour Government and with Farageist sympathisers, i.e:
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  • Back-peddling on Net Zero
  • Shelving of progress on climate
  • On the side of motorists (New Labour's election pledge)
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It appears that the mandate within Cabinet was shrunk and the necessary conditions … shifted. Did a certain party—or parties—make the Cabinet Member's job impossible?
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter 16 hours ago

As Rory wrote, stopping through traffic, AKA, Filtering.

Despite the chronic general lack of competence among the council's Highwaymen, nonetheless some years ago this department came up with a sensible and workable plan at the time of the closure to through-traffic when the rail bridge was re-built.

Their plan continued to enable access to every car parking space on every road in the Ladder.

None of this is rocket science: it progress is the absence of political will.

Assuming that in May, the expiring New-Labour Administration lose a few Ward seats but are returned again, then there is Net-Zero prospect of improvement. The Borough would benefit from the Early Retirement of most of the Highwaymen, but there is no appetite to grasp the nettle.

As Cabinet Member with a wide brief (Environment, Transport & Climate Action), Cllr Hakata had a full understanding of the issues but was able to make little to no progress.

My impression is that Mike's public promises were met with the private refusals to deliver by a small clan of old-school girl friends. i.e. the council Leader and the Cabinet Member of Highways. Supported by another Councillor, not in the Cabinet, but another old school-chum. Therefore from May, Mike's successor will fare no better.

This is how New-Labour governs our Borough.

Many politicians would claim they put potential voters first. Trump & the MAGAs put America First.

Although the Cabinet Member for culture recently claimed that the council puts residents "first", there is no evidence of this in Transport policy. In this area, the Leader Cllr. Ahmet and her cronies put car-owners first, most of whom park, drive and burn fossil-fuel.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson 16 hours ago

I think we can look a bit closer to home on this issue - the influence of the Green Lanes Traders Association.  They have been calling the shots in the area for decades.  A meeting I recall from the late eighties for radical changes to Green Lanes had a lot of residents in attendance and a huge amount of resident support.  The handful of traders who were there were completely opposed to any changes.  Guess who won?

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