Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Council rethinks 5,000% hike in street party price
At a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, January 25, Councillor Nilgun Canver revealed that the current charge of £60 would only be increased to £80 for a licence and not the larger figure that came to light in December 2010.
The Liberal Democrat opposition welcomed the turnaround from the neighbourhoods chief and said it followed lobbying from their benches.
Councillor Gail Engert, Lib Dem communities spokesman, said: "In a year when many more local residents will consider holding a street party for the royal wedding I'm glad that the Labour council has seen sense.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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There aren't any "benches" in the Council Chamber. And it's not where the Council does its business.
Credit to the Libdems if they've succeeded in a sensible argument. But the urge to ape the Houses of Parliament is comic and absurd.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Haringey politicians of either party, you have disgraced yourselves again!
What's the point of (a) having a royal family and (b) encouraging us to celebrate yet another royal mating ritual designed to increase the burden of royal upkeep if you're not intent on making a few quid out of the occasion towards setting your much moaned-over balanced budget?
In Harringay & St Anns alone there must be at least sixty streets whose residents are just dying to contribute to these twin causes of rejoicing that royalty's future may be secured and of setting a balanced budget.
£20 x 150 households x 60 streets (Wightman & Green Lanes = 3 streets each) = £180,000. Peanuts perhaps when compared with our Council's greater extravagances, but just about enough to retain our Neighbourhood Management or to restore our Haringey People to its earlier opulence of ten or twelve issues a year. Councillor Canver, not too late to retract last Tuesday's lily-livered announcement.
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