Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
HDV/Lend Lease Protest March Saturday 23rd
There will be a protest march tomorrow (Saturday 23rd September) against the council's development deal with Lend Lease. It will go from Tottenham Green (assembling at noon) to Finsbury Park via West Green Road and Turnpike Lane. More details here.
If you are at all uncomfortable about an Australian corporation shmoozing its way into possession of our public housing via Cannes and a public relations firm happy to employ local councillors in pursuit of their client's aims then please join it.
If ambivalent about this then may I remind you that it's never too early to protest.
Tags for Forum Posts: haringey development vehicle, hdv, lendlease, protest
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Permalink Reply by Philip on
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I am told that prospective Labour councillors who oppose the HDV are likely to dominate in next years local elections so all is far from lost.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Next month the local Labour Party will begin the process of selection meetings. If you click on one of the links in my post above you can read all about how that panned our four years ago but I’ll summarise: there is a small majority of what I would generously describe as “not socialists” in the Haringey Labour Council and they control the cabinet and therefore decision making. The leader of the council engineered her small majority four years ago from her kitchen (according to a teary confession from one of her minions) ensuring that left leaning Labour council candidates were removed at selection and replaced with people that would do her bidding.
The place to remove councillors you don’t like in Haringey is at the selection meeting. In years gone by these have been poorly attended and all sorts has gone on. This time around there are a lot of members who should be attending. Sadly I don’t think Councillor Kober will be up for selection in Seven Sisters as there is some funny rule that if all three current councillors want to stand again they do not have to go through a selection.
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Sitting Councillors are automatically shortlisted but not automatically reselected. There is first a shortlisting meeting and this is followed at a later date by the selection meeting. At the shortlisting meeting there is a ballot which allows members to automatically reselect sitting Councillors by a simple majority. So there is no right of reselection. The short listing meeting may shortlist as many prospective candidates as they wish. The selection meeting then chooses its candidates from the shortlist. Thus unpopular Councillors cannot be denied from the shortlist but can most definitely be deselected.
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Well Seven Sisters Labour, the ball is in your court.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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It may be a different outcome this time around John. Since the last selections there has been a big increase in Labour Party membership in the borough and they seem to be members who do turn out for selection meetings, evidenced by the one in Haringay ward last year where it was so packed that attendees had to stand or sit on the floor. Really, it all now depends who stands for selection.
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OK, Momentum, the ball is in your court. Put up three left leaning candidates and we should be rid of Ms £50 lunches and Mr Brand-Consultant. No wonder the Labour Doorstep used to be so coy about asking people to become members...
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