Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
How my Councillor has helped me / disappointed me
Got any tales you'd care to share about how one of your councillors has really impressed you? And to make sure we're not accused of lack of balance we'd also like to get any stories of how a councillor might have disappointed you.
Tags for Forum Posts: 2010 local elections, Wightman Road
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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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I've been advocating core samples of contractors work to Brian Haley, as other councils do,
to keep quality up on surfaces, some councils fine contractors, so poor work is a false economy.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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@Matthew I've been advocating core samples of contractors work to Brian Haley
But Matthew, Brian Haley has not been in post or in Labour Party since January 18.
Shome mishtake here shurely?
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I'm afraid, Liz, what Warham will get is what Wightman (Burgoyne to Pemberton only) has been promised this coming week: carriageway resurfacing only. The Effingham Mayoral effect will not be rolled out to the plebs. Our Wightman footways are being tarmacked from Atterbury to Cavendish only - leaving the vast Cavendish to Effingham steppes untreated after three years of residents' demands. As the late Robert Frost put it:
'Two roads diverged in a Labour Ward
And, sorry I could not shift my house,
I looked down Wightman long and hard
To where it bent near Harringay House.
But I shall be Effing'em all from a height
Down Mattison Road, 47 days hence -
They take us for granted, treat us like shite -
So Vote Lib Dems, or sit on the fence.'
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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How bad were the potholes on Warham Liz. I know on Hewitt the were/are terrible. I was going to take a video of the cars snaking madly down the road to avoid them, but that's related to this atrocious traffic management in the Ladder.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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I'm afraid I'm not a driver so may be less aware of them than people in cars and on bikes. There is a large one at the junction with Green Lanes that is taking out a fair few buggies, and could probably form part of the community planting scheme such is its depth (reported of course) although I may have mistakenly used the luke warm hotline number instead of the sizzling new number which may explain why it is still there.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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sorry but just couldn't resist...
The Hewitt (pot) Hole
delete me if you must :o)
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No Steve, this is actually a picture of the one at the bottom of Warham. The gentlemen are just debating what colour primulas to plant in it.
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If the pothole at the bottom of Warham gets any deeper, the council will be disappearing down it.
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I was disappointed to discover that the tactics that Cllr Brian Haley uses to belittle and try to silence women are not confined to the council chamber nor to his political opponents (and now his political friends) but that he is quite capable of using the same tactics in a small informal meeting and to a woman resident, namely myself, when he feels that she needs a little reminding of who is 'boss'. Unlike Cllr Edge, I did not run out but reminded him in no uncertain terms that these tactics are just the kind of behaviour that get politicians a bad name in the community.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Cllr Haley's patronising 'trifle' remark was not the worst example of this type of appalling behaviour.
Back in December 2009 Haringey's Standards Committee made a finding in respect of a complaint made by Ms Karlene Akindele, a member of the Council's staff. The report of the Standards Committee is on the Haringey website. (Click here.)
Ms Akindele made a formal complaint about Cllr Haley (which was not upheld). However, while the complaint was being dealt with, Cllr Haley instructed his solicitors to write to Ms Akindele in terms which a panel of the Standards Committee found: "was intimidating and that on the balance of probabilities it was written with the intention of dissuading the complainant from pursuing her complaint".
In addition: "The Panel found that Councillor Haley breached the code in that the letter sent on his instruction, as a senior Member of the Council, to an employee of the Council was intimidating in nature and therefore amounted to bullying."
Political Declaration
I am a Labour councillor and prospective candidate for Tottenham Hale ward. In addition, my partner Zena Brabazon is one of the prospective Labour candidates for St Ann's ward - where Cllr Haley is standing for election as a Liberal Democrat candidate on 6 May. However, for the record, my public criticisms of Cllr Haley precede his defection to the unfortunate LibDems by several years.
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Thanks Alan, I had a vague memory that Cllr Haley had form for this kind of behaviour before. As his now political colleague, Cllr Edge remarked in the linked article, his behaviour smacks of the playground bully.
I also think that it might be a useful antidote to Cllr Haley's current messianic note as a born again Lib Dem about getting things fixed like fly tipping, pot holes, grit bins, etc to read your blog posts tagged Haley to remind us that when he was in a position as Cabinet Member for the Environment to tackle these problems in the Borough, he seemed to struggle to get even the most basic things right, like the size of the brooms
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