Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Councillor Mike Hakata
Thank you to Councillor Hakata for his support with my Rogue Roofer - see my previous post. He was not able to assist me with getting my money back, but was able to help with the subsequent issues, which resulted from this fraudulent experience.
It was good having a Representative listening and understanding my turmoil, despite being extremely busy with his Council duties. It was appreciated.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Mahoney on
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When is your book coming out Alan?
Who are these people you allude to in your posts?
Labour members who aren't really Labour people?
Councillors who are lazy, incompetent or dangerous (not the exact words you used but you know the post I mean)?
A Councillor who has never opened their Council issued laptop?
Someone who pretends to live in the area in order to be a Councillor?
The inner machinations, the factions, the civil wars, the fifth columns, the plots, the temporary alliances, conflicting agendas, the vendettas, the mercenaries..
It would be a best seller. OAE could write the recommendation on the back cover citing the parallels with various internecine political battles from classical or Florentine history.
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I wouldn't recommend you take Mr Maloney's advice.
Epping Forest is a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to be buried there at least not prematurely.
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I'm sure you're joking Ozbawn but Alan is right to be wary of that lot. The hard left Momentum have strong ties to the ironically named antifa and to some of the more assertive members of the local Kurdish community. Some of those openly support the PKK. I'll let you draw your own conclusions about that.
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Hi Alan. I'm not sure we need such obtuse hypotheticals. Let's just lay out the details of Cllr Hakata's re-election campaign.
He put his name forward in his current ward and was defeated. He then put his name forward in Harringay ward and was selected for the shortlist.
While waiting for the final candidate selection in that ward, he campaigned in the Gardens ward and was selected for the shortlist there also.
Only during the vote for the final selection in Harringay did he withdraw his candidacy. One assumes he is still in the running for the Gardens spot.
Why did he do this? Was it the thought of having to slog up and down the hills of the ladder during campaigning? Is his fixed gear bicycle more suited to the fertile levels of the Gardens?
By opting for selection in both wards he essentially blocked a nomination in Harringay. One candidate for the shortlist missed out. Was this a tit-for-tat gaming of the selection process? Once shortlisted, it would be sensible, fair, and principled for a candidate to withdraw from all other campaigns immediately. With the hundreds of pages of rules the Labour party has accumulated over the years, what is still missing is a central spine of integrity and openness. A 'broad church' indeed.
That said, the new candidate for Harringay, Anna Abela, appears to be competent, qualified and keen. This should provide stark contrast to many incumbents if she does make it to Council chambers.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Will
Anna Abela also has the nearly perfect name to capture votes from electors who don't read or listen to information about having more than one vote. Aaron Aadvark would be alphabetically ahead.
Even better would be my old friend Nanov Theabav who had the numbers in nearly every election.
Moving from the ideal to messy reality, to my knowledge you've got at least some facts not quite right. But you've also missed out some basic information.
For example that ward boundaries have been redrawn by the Boundary Commission for England, with several wards after May having two members instead of three.
Then there's the de facto Momentum Party which has organised and is running a campaign badged as Labour but aimed as replacing current Laboir councillors. Especially those with a track record of getting positive things done. (In which I don't include association with dubious property deals.)
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In accordance with Hol rules my former political affiliations are set out on my Member's page. I am not and never have been a member of Progress, Labour First or Momentum.
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A thoroughly unhelpful reply, Alan. Which facts do I have wrong?
And I acknowledged the petty internal squabbles in my post when I suggested that Mike's gaming of the selections may have been tit-for-tat. As for the new boundaries, they are entirely irrelevant to the core point I made.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Yes.
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Yes, can’t see either of the two candidates selected in St Ann’s as replacements for Mike Hakata and Julie Davies bothering about important things affecting daily lives such as scams, rubbish, flytipping or disrepair problems when they’re much more interested in starting the Revolution and overthrowing Capitalism.
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". . . bothering about important things affecting daily lives . . ."
Don, A few years back, someone thinking of applying to be a councillor asked me what they'd need to learn about. They asked because I was a former ward councillor. (1998-2014.)
Perfectly seriously I answered: "Everything".Yes, as you say, rubbish dumping and disrepair problems are on the "essential" list. But now so is Climate Change, Plastics and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. Other topics such as Refugees, Schools, Parks and Crime were always on the urgent list. And even what appear to be smaller problems of our daily lives always connect to wider and sometimes global issues.
For example, there's no simple solution to local rubbish dumping that doesn't keep at least one eye on what Edward Humes calls - with a little poetry - "Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash." Similarly councillors need to take an interest in where our rubbish goes. To take another recent study by Patrick O'Hare, why and not just in Latin America - Rubbish Belongs to the Poor.
I'm saying, in other words that the slogan "all politics is local" should be accepted and also rejected.
Right now I'm a Labour supporter but not a councillor nor a Labour Party member. (My wife Zena Brabazon is both.) Also right now I can't understand why people who claim to be socialists and feminists, trade unionists, Climate activists, and even Corbynists, are organising and campaigning for another separate Party called Momentum. Which they are using to dump others who share very similar principles and values.
Okay, you might think: "He would say that wouldn't he?" (Once elegantly known as "Mandy Rice-Davies applies".)But really, what's going on? Is it just a few entrists who hate the Labour Party and try to spread dissension? Or people passionate about their own pure cause? Or some of the same people who've wasted millions of public cash on dodgy property deals?
Obviously they won't be phoning to ask for my vote. But maybe if they ring your number or doorbell you might like to ask pleasantly and with genuine curiosity what their practical plans and ambition are for the next four years in a country run by Boris Liar and his incompetent pals.
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Hi Alan. Just out of interest, do Councillors record the nature of the queries they receive and is that information standardised, collated and analysed by the Council to identify trends? (ie. a case management system)
If so, it would be a very useful dataset for the Council to monitor its service delivery and focus on issues of highest concern.
Tracking the number of queries received, actioned and closed would also be a great insight into the performance of individual Councillors.
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I dunno, Ozbawn. (It's too long ago)
But personally I have deep scepticism about standardised systems. In my experience learning comes best when you throw out the standardised stuff and question the frameworks. Including talking to the staff at the front end of a service. Not just reading their Excel data which as often as not by the time it's processed by the red-bead-game monitors may have a tenuous connection with what you see and hear.
Ticking boxes has its place. (E.g. Has councillor X opened their Council provided laptop?)But vitally genchi genbutsu.
GO to the place and person and Look and Ask and Listen and THINK.
https://safetyculture.com/topics/genchi-genbutsu/
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