@PeterBingle and the HDV have made vice news

The local HDV corruption scandal swirling around Haringey has been covered by Vice news 

Read it here.

I saw with no small amount of personal gratification that one of the villeins from the St Ann's debacle four years ago was deselected as chair of Hornsey & Wood Green recently too.

Bingle's company is called Terrapin Communications. His head pops up often in recent coverage of the Haringey Development Vehicle – the biggest suburban redevelopment in history, a 50:50 partnership between the Labour-led borough of Haringey and the developer Lendlease. This will threaten 4,468 homes (around 3,500 of them on council estates), including sites like Broadwater Farm, Stella House and Northumberland Park Estate. All those homes and lives potentially changed forever, and a £2 billion collected pot to be meted out – a mix of public and private money, as well as the transfer of public assets into a fund.

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Amazingly, Bingle also employed Haringey council's chief whip – the guy who pressures councillors to vote on big issues, i.e. housing – Adam Jogee as a "consultant" for his firm Terrapin Comms. Bingle even calls supposedly neutral Jogee his "baby terrapin" publicly on social media. When Jogee came under scrutiny for this, he wrote a letter to his Labour comrades, chastising them for bringing it up and causing "media scrutiny and a great deal of public attention".