Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Local Election 2026

Final list of candidates now published (scroll down a bit for the links to each ward)

https://haringey.gov.uk/council-elections/elections-voting/local-el...

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton 18 hours ago

I'm late responding to your post on 14 April 2026. That's because initially I wondered if it was a failed attempt at self deprecating humour by a self-described well educated person with higher levels of interest,awareness and understanding of the democratic process. Plus potential to get things done etc etc.

In addition, this circular and self-confirming process seems to assume that rich areas have a high calibre of candidates.
As this is confirmed by references to Oxbridge. Plus the term - "Whereverstan". Linked to a Spad living in a Tottenham Hale bedsit with his surgeon wife.

Plus a touch of snobbery about Council flats. And anti-Americanism in reference to Marxist classes at community College.

Clive Carter remarked on the high level of alienation and disaffection in many wards. Your own levels seemed to verge on disappointment and sadness.

Can we cheer you up by telling you about some Council candidates whose parents lived in Council flats. Who had fun at Oxford and London and other Universities. Some of whom went on to be barristers, poets, reseachers and schoolteachers and suchlike.

You see it's rarely too late to start/retart your career in wherever-port-out-OR-starboard- home takes you.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on April 22, 2026 at 9:37

I wondered who people have been door knocked by so far? I’ve had Labour, LibDems and Greens and a flyer from TUSC. Nothing yet, either in person or an election flyer, from the Conservatives or Reform.