Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey Mayor Sheila Peacock guilty of abusing position ‘for personal advantage’
Mayor of Haringey and veteran Labour councillor Sheila Peacock has been found guilty of trying use her powers of office to exert undue influence for personal advantage, writes the Broadway Ham and High
Haringey Council’s Standards Committee this week took the rare step of censuring her for trying “to secure an improper advantage for herself” by sending two letters on Mayoral headed paper “about a personal matter”.
Although further details were not published, the letters are understood to relate to a family member and were sent last autumn by email from her council laptop.
In a decision that will be an embarassment to the Haringey Labour group, the committee ruled that Cllr Peacock had “attempted to secure an improper advantage for herself” and had “failed to use the resources of the council in accordance with its reasonable requirements”, and thereby “also brought her office as Mayor into disrepute”.
It found that while “the contents of the letter were essentially those a member of the public could have raised”, Cllr Peacock tried to “get attention given to her concerns by using her Mayoral title, letterhead and e-mail address”. The opposition Liberal Democrat leader Cllr Richard Wilson has called for her to resign as Mayor “for the sake of the borough”.
Story by Stephen Moore
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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"... which appeared to have been leaked by Ms Peacock's own comrades."
Well, well, so you're getting right inside the Haringey "political loop" . By which you mean listening to and passing on unattributed "snippets of gossip about this matter" . And then having "deduced that there was a bit of an internal tussle with" one faction trying [to] oust members of another faction."
So now please show us that you are different. After all, only recently you were complaining on HoL about being subject to a campaign of "vicious gossip and a lot of half-truths and outright lies being slung about". (A few years back?)
So please demonstrate that you are a candidate who doesn't 'do' innuendo based on "unattributed snippets of gossip". Please tell us honestly and openly, exactly what was said by whom and when, in these snippets of gossip. Who told you? What did they say? And whose words were they repeating? In which little chats did one "faction" tell you about this "in-fighting and discord" with another?
If you aren't prepared to give facts and name names, aren't you simply perpetuating what you say you despise? In which case, why shouldn't we see you as part and parcel of the same culture and mode of behaviour? Especially because when you are the target you complain bitterly. But seem happy to keep the gossip ball rolling merrily along when it's aimed at other people.
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)
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Permalink Reply by Lydia R on
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We are all talking about the Peacock affair, so I don't see how you can accuse me of innuendo. As for keeping a gossip-ball going, how can you possibly accuse me of that, when conversation about this matter is in the newspapers as well as all over this website?
What I *am* doing, though, is skirting around the matter of naming names. I do have a couple of names but I have no intention of bringing them into the pubic domain.
Lydia Rivlin: Conservative Party candidate for Harringay Ward.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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I have no intention of bringing them into the pubic domain
Thank goodness for that
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Let's please be clear.
Lydia, you didn't write a post which told us you'd been reading some facts in the local newspapers and this website. Facts which led you raise political issues important to the residents of Harringay ward where you are standing as a candidate.
You actually wrote that you'd: "started hearing snippets of gossip" which "appeared to have been leaked by Ms Peacock's own comrades." This led you to "speculate" that "a bit of an internal tussle [was] going on within the [Labour] group". Which deduction then "inclined" you to "agree with those of us speculating" etc etc.
So, Lydia, as you'll see, I'm not "accusing" you of gossip and innuendo. I simply observe that your own published comments are gossip (= idle talk; rumour; tittle-tattle). And innuendo ( = oblique hint, indirect suggestion; an allusive remark concerning a person or thing, esp. one of a depreciatory kind.)
Now you assure us there are a couple of sources for your speculation. But - hang on - seems we're not allowed to know these secret names.
Not really a promising start to a new job as a councillor, is it?
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