Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Dear local election candidates - my bucket list
I've been reading the various posts and leaflets from the parties standing candidates in Harringay ward and have come to conclusion that what I want (my personal preference) is as follows
As it's inevitable that Labour will be in the majority (please don't try to deny that candidates, you know it's the case) an effective opposition that really hold the Cabinet to account for their actions and promises.
Local candidates of any party who make realistic commitments to local people about local issues, not national ones, that they will deliver and if they can't, tell us why and what they are doing about it.
Candidates who don't just materialise at election time and even if they are not elected keep plugging away between elections.
Candidates who respond to questions with answers, not cleverness or rudeness.
Anyone else have a wish list?
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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John, I know nothing at all about the kitchens or the kitchen cabinets of Muswell Hill.
It's many decades since I practised as a lawyer. But even when I did, I wouldn't dream of predicting whether or not some Raskolnikov felt compelled to speak the truth. As Dostoevsky wrote in Crime and Punishment, "Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery."
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There's a little rhyme:
The higher the monkey climbs the tree
The more of the monkey's arse we can see.Naturally I'd be delighted if all three of the "Labour" candidates in St Ann's ward got not a single vote. And if the red-rosetted Tories standing for Labour in many Haringey wards saw their votes draining away. It's not impossible.
But should these candidates win and climb the tree, then for the next four years some of us will have sharp eyes, ears, and tongues.
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)
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My wife Zena Brabazon is one of the St Ann's councillors deselected by vote-rigging at the Labour Party's selection meeting in September 2013. If anyone - especially St Ann's voters - would like more details than set out in John McMullan's thread here please let me have your email address.)
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I'll bet you my legal fees in the St Ann's Harassment Notice case that you don't get a single Conservative candidate elected in Haringey. I can say that.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Seven Sisters, if the opposition gets the rabbis on side, could be vulnerable.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Hinchcliffe on
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Try to focus on policy, not people. You and Mr Stanton are *coming across* as increasingly bitter (which I'm sure you're not?). You might want to take a deep breath, come back in a few days time and see yourselves in the eyes of ordinary HoL members? The 'dirty deed' has been done. Labour's NEC refused to order a fresh re-run of the contest. Local Labour politicians go to the police if anyone dares to question or challenge them. What to do now? Rally round certain candidates to defeat them at the ballot box. What else can you do? II you're not prepared to do that, then a period of silence wouldn't go amiss.
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