Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
History Made as Haringey Labour Parties adopt April Fool as Official Party Manifesto
On 1 April Harringay Online saw several partly successful spoofs. These included announcement of a gyratory system using Green Lanes and Wightman Road; and that a St Ann's Labour candidate had stepped down. These jokes were quickly spotted. As was my own lacklustre attempt: a document pretending to be the Labour Party Manifesto.
John Mc outed this as an obvious and ridiculous fake. He realised it was a vacuous compilation of vague nonsense, interspersed with incoherent fragments from obscure reports; random newspaper clippings; lines from the film "Shaun of the Dead"; and horoscope predictions from Greyhound Weekly. All linked together by an incoherent, meaningless jumble of inane promises, empty assertions and quotes from my collection of Chinese fortune cookies.
Now the incredible news.
Claire Kober, the Dear Supreme Leader liked it so much that earlier this evening she presented the document - with a few minor tweaks - to Haringey Group of adoring sycophants Labour councillors. They overwhelmingly endorsed it as the real Labour Manifesto for 22 May 2014. This must be the first time ever that such an honour has been bestowed on an April Fool spoof.
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I actually thought it was the real document. I still think that. It's a sign of madness to put that much effort into a spoof ;)
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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I've successfully caught her vapid style, haven't I? Those long meandering meaningless sentences. A ragbag collection of quarter-baked ideas and spurious claims. The fashionable fatuous buzzwords and phrases: "resilience" ; "facilitating others" to do the job we were elected to do etc.
My two best empty cliché gems were of course:
"Mixed, inclusive, aspirational and economically successful communities". And:
"We will stand up for our residents in getting onto the housing ladder." I especially loved writing that twaddle. With a picture in my mind of the Dear Leader giving a leg-up to some slumlord converting a small house into ten little hutches with beds in sheds.
Best of all, I never dreamed La Kober would be taken-in by my absurd spoof claim that: "Our streets are now among the cleanest in London". Which only means that Veolia have been told to pull their finger out at least until 23 May. I've just walked back from the dentist and snapped a couple of dozen examples of litter and dumping.
But there you are. No local satirist could possibly imagine a funnier outcome. To have your comic writing taken seriously and adopted as the Manifesto of a local political party!
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)
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