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I think it will encourage local groups like 'Defend Council Housing' to campaign harder and attract more people. Haringey's neo-Con council might find Labour members slightly less supine over their policies. It's true that people are joining Labour, but like the ' Green Surge' it may prove temporary if the same people are pulling the strings in the local parties.....
Well of more interest to us was the Mayoral Selection. Claire Kober was rumored to have been offered a deputy role in Tessa's administration...
Maybe the Taxi Driver is a local Pav - pay the council chamber a visit - gets his points across :)
Are you saying the council leader is wholly driven by a ideological right of centre agenda (what some call Blairite), rather than budget cut led? The latter needs the Tories out. The former would involve new left of centre councillors being selected & voted in in the next local elections (3 years away) with a new council leader. The CEO from Barnet has been in his position only about a year as well. So think there probably won't be a change any time soon Pav with this regime's direction.
Yes saw that. It just reminded of the rubbish The Guardian has been spouting lately. They clearly are weary of the rise of Corbyn, not quite what they've been used to for some time.
A very brief question, Pavlos. Which I guess needs a longer answer!
Which particular aspects did you have in mind?
A short answer is that probably, Claire Kober and her chums and the senior staff she has hired are hoping it will all go away. A high tide which - as Philip Foxe suggests - will soon ebb. Meanwhile I expect them to bunker down, determined to hang onto their power, positions and allowances. And to continue following instructions from the Dear Leader, as the fount of power and patronage.
My guess is that they will, for example, try to keep control of the Tottenham & Hornsey Wood Green 'Local Campaign Forum' (LCF). This is the joint body of the two Haringey Parties which has the final say on who stands for Council seats and formulates the campaigning plans for local elections.
Local ward Branches and affilates - e.g. the Co-op party and the Socialist Educational Association - can send delegates to the LCF. So I imagine there'll be lots of games played with membership of different bodies, and phonecalls and texts to get various factions along for crucial votes. Little or nothing, you might think, to do with the lives, hopes and problems of residents. And you'd be largely right.
But now it's possible that the two Haringey parties have had a large enough influx of new members who do care about those things. And who won't fade away now they've voted in the leadership and other elections. Or even perhaps, after a few meetings, when they get the measure of the controlling right wingers.
Pavlos, I may be out of date. And perhaps changes have happened since I decided to leave the Council. And especially since new members have been joining in sizeable numbers - which began to happen, by the way, after last May.
(Political declaration. I've been a Labour Party member for 40+ years. 16 years former councillor representing Tottenham Hale/High Cross wards. Former ward branch and Tottenham constituency secretary.)
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