Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Jeremy Corbyn MP on Haringey Cabinet’s Major Events policy in Finsbury Park
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IN THE aftermath of the recent huge concert in Finsbury Park, one local Member of Parliament (David Lammy) compared the most severely trampled part with the Serengeti.
Another MP – Jeremy Corbyn – has also been forthright about Haringey Council Cabinet's Major Events policy (December 2013) for Finsbury Park.
The attached file (below) is Haringey's official notice about the Call-In to Scrutiny of that Cabinet Decision, held in January 2014. I attended that meeting. All the problems were thoroughly aired over three hours.
Despite the experience of, and wide-ranging evidence from members of the public – including Mr. Martin Ball – the sole result was a re-announcement of a new, Council-controlled Finsbury Park Event "Stakeholder" Group (AKA 'Strategy' group, q.v.)
Page eight of the attached document, at #3, quotes Jeremy Corbyn on the Haringey Cabinet policy.
About 12 months later – as guest speaker at the AGM of a certain local community group – the MP for Islington North spoke on The Threats to Finsbury Park.
Having quizzed Mr. Corbyn then about his old Council's policy, I have no reason to believe he has altered his view.
I appreciated the Islington North MP's unambiguous, plain-speaking on this subject. Former MP Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey & Wood Green) was equally clear about Haringey Cabinet's Major Events policy.
Jeremy is Patron of The Friends of Finsbury Park.
Disclosure:
I am a Member of the Council and
– as a local resident – a member
of The Friends of Finsbury Park
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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I HAVE seen the full letter that Jeremy Corbyn wrote to Haringey dated 21 November 2013 (extracts in the attached file above). He wrote as the Member of Parliament for Islington North rather than in his capacity of many years, as Patron of The Friends of Finsbury Park.
He urged the Council to think again about the Cabinet decision for their – then pending – event policy in Finsbury Park. His letter is a model of restraint. It was civil and moderate, almost to a fault.
However, in the current Leadership contest and in respect of the mortal danger of offering support Mr. Corbyn as leader, former PM Tony Blair recently opined,
But please understand the danger we are in. The party is walking eyes shut, arms outstretched over the cliff’s edge to the jagged rocks below. This is not a moment to refrain from disturbing the serenity of the walk on the basis it causes ‘disunity’. It is a moment for a rugby tackle, if that were possible
Mr Corbyn wrote about the Finsbury Park Major Events policy long before the current leadership contest, when he might be thought to be extremist and unguarded.
I am at a loss to reconcile Jeremy's perfectly proper and reasonable letter: with the kind of reaction above from the New Labour camp. If Mr Corbyn faces further criticism that reaches this level of hysteria, he could wind up commanding even more votes.
When Mr. Blair wrote about the jagged rocks below, I could only think of the detritus left behind Wireless, some of which did have jagged edges.
(Jeremy's letter about the Finsbury Park Events Policy was of course, disregarded by Haringey high command).
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