Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Labour Party selection results so far
See list here of first nine wards' Labour Party selection meetings, just updated.
http://www.harringayonline.com/forum/topics/running-total-3
More shortlisting tomorrow and next week.
Tags for Forum Posts: 2017, Labour, selections
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Oh how very droll. Can't we just congratulate John and Pam for shining a bright light into the Labour Party's selection process over the past 5 years?
The fact that so many people are going along to the selection meetings makes me very optimistic this time around. The candidates selected, well all but Claire Kober, won't owe their position to a narrow group of selectors.
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OK, my issues with the HDV:
- The boozing and shmoozing
- The promises made on the radio by Councillor Kober that are not in writing
- The stuff like secret shadow HDV boards and the fact that Lendlease were always going to win this. The tender process was a sham with the other two "bidders" also represented by Peter Bingle's Terrapin. There was an FoI put in to the council regarding this and they of course interpreted it so narrowly that you can't really accuse them of lying BUT.
I fully support additional, good quality housing in the borough and some of our estates could certainly do with some rejuvenation and densification. I'd be happy to see the developers appointed to do this regard 5% profit margins as pretty good considering the client but they want MOAR! They could easily replace all the social housing, sell off the new private flats to investors and not have to move people out of Tottenham to do it. The fact that they're not doing this tells you the rest of the story.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Forgive me OssiesDream for saying that's absurd. To my knowledge nobody: "is screaming blue murder about any eeeeeevil capitalist involvement and putting everything on hold for presumably decades."
Now maybe you've been hearing that sort of tripe from the Kobertories and their allies. Or maybe you're are involved in development, yourself.
Or maybe you're nothing to do with any of these people and have simply been reading the Haringey paid-for-by-taxpayers Pravda and believe the endless lies it pumps out.
Maybe if you'd like to say who you are and something about your own position you and I and others can try to have a dialogue based on truth.
If I'm blunt it's because I'm rather tired of the Kartoon Kober Strickland version of the "facts". At the very minimum hope that when she finally clears her desk and gets the bus to Muswell Hill, that we'll also be seeing the end of the Haringey Pravda magazine. And return to following the Guidance for Local Council publicity set out helpfully when Eric Pickles was in charge of it.
My political statement has long been on my personal page on HoL.
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Stop trying to flush people out Alan, it's unseemly.
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John, I've given up on "seemly" as you may have noticed.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Hinchcliffe on
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Every council/politically-related thread is hijacked by Alone Stanton--often "clarifying" or "correcting" others' posts to suit his own outlook. Some unkind souls might even suggest his style is arrogant, condescending, partisan, pompous, predicable, rude and just too much. Who am I to judge?
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DFT
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What, dear boy, did you do when on the Council to oppose wasteful spending - eg Haringey People? Any speeches, motions or rebellions? No, thought not. You were a loyal councillor in those days, weren't you?
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Permalink Reply by kotkas on
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Agreed completely. Using private finance can help the supply side enormously. Alas the substance of the discussion in every thread about housing has centered squarely on the politics/personal traits of individuals in power, and irrational, belligerent opposition to the current local authority administration. I would welcome a thread where the discussion centres on actually what can be done to increase the housing supply within the existing constraints...
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Example:
Start a new estate on Lordship Rec. Begin with just a couple of buildings. Decant tenants from Broadwater Farm into there once complete and sell some off to investors then start demolishing and rebuilding there. Provide an equivalently sized park from the land lost building on Lordship Rec.
Repeat.
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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There's a spot in Crouch End by Highgate Wood school that is perfect for a tower block or two.
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Sadly the council don't own that land.
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