Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
HoL's 'Riots Best thing for Tottenham' story picked up by Daily Telegraph.
When Alan Stanton posted a link to the video above in which Haringey Mayor is quoted as saying the following, I'm not sure what he expected to come of it.
"The second riots that we’ve just had was the best thing that’s happened in Tottenham for a while. My reason for saying that is, all of a sudden, the Government is now starting to pump money into Tottenham. Because Tottenham - Haringey is an outer London Borough so we don't get as much money as Islington or Hackney. And we've been struggling for years."
Like it or not, this story has now been picked up by two national newspapers. In the most recent. The Daily Telegraph, picked up the story and has even used quotes from people who have posted on Harringay Online.
Guess you just never know who's reading us, but I suppose with the number of journalists from national newspapers following us on Twitter, I shouldn't be surprised.
Thanks to Nicholas for spotting the article in the DT.
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Permalink Reply by JJ B on
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The Mayoress' apology was mentioned in a small piece in Wednesday's ES - <>.
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I guess the 'uprising' no matter which way you look at it is a testimony to that fact, that government will listen if it pinches their purse. If the aim is to draw finacial investment to this area, they will do their best to make it look like an attractive investment.
Now lets see if any of the real issues that caused the tensions that started those riots can begin to be addressed as well.
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Permalink Reply by Colinloves on
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It was a stupid thing to rant on about page, after page.
Theres much more important things to consume your time with, that a beating someone to death, over a few poory picked words.
Maybe if that time was used trying to highlight the crimes against our community, by greedy Banksy's owners, wanting to line their own pockets at the expense of community culture,
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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on
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The really interesting discussion is how right she was, not how wrong she was - the economic outcome is the best thing that's happened to Tottenham for a long time. It's a very shit way to manage your inner cities to wait until rioting happens before proper stategic investment is made.
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/a_plan_for_tottenham.pdf
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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"Economic Outcome?" ... "Proper Strategic investment"?
What economic outcome? What strategic investment? And even more importantly, for who? Yes, the old old question: Who benefits? (Cui Bono?)
These are not flippant questions, but serious and vital for anyone who wants to begin understanding Tottenham and what choices and changes are possible here - without the "social clearance" of large numbers of existing residents.
Yesterday, by chance I spoke to a local trader I'd never met before about the Spurs' plans. "Big fish eat little fish", he told me. "Then they're hungry again."
So whose strategy? You link to the almost completely vacuous Kober "Plan for Tottenham". Or perhaps you have in mind Stuart Lipton's blueprint for property developers? Or the social clearance plans around North Tottenham? Maybe you mean the obsession with Hale "Village"? Or the misconceived and foolish "Cultural Quarter" around Tottenham Green?
Such schemes are presented as "Kickstarting the regeneration" of Tottenham. Although their real purpose is regenerating the bank balances of developers, large landowners and a small army of consultants. And in the case of the Kober Plan, helping to create an illusion of change so she and her pals can hang on to power next May.
The other thing they have in common is that they involve repeating past "solutions". But with little or no critical analysis of what worked before and what didn't. Nor - crucially - why?
I am half way through Samia Waheed Altaf's book: "So Much Aid, So Little Development". And rereading The Anti-Politics Machine by James Ferguson. It's not hard to draw lessons for Tottenham once you understand it within a colonial and class framework.
But, very frankly, there's another task we haven't even begun properly. To try to understand - in its complexity and without myth - the "whys" of the Tottenham riot. And why it was the spark falling on tinder-dry conditions in other parts of London and other cities.
(Tottenham Hale resident and ward councillor)
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Alan Stanton - You are a voice in the wilderness
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Or perhaps, James, we should listen to Colinloves and both be out campaigning about the loss of our precious Bagsy mural near the Munch Box café. Especially now that Tottenham's acclaimed sacchetti artist, famous for giving away his artwork, is now too elderly and frail to climb buildings.
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Sorry i can't be arsed for all that
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