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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Thank you Harringay Labour Party...

For making me feel so welcome! I have been on the electoral roll in Harringay for years, but they have finally got around to sending me a welcome letter. But not, alas, to putting a stamp on the envelope (see attached). Mistakes happen, but surely Royal Mail could at least show you the envelope and give you the opportunity to decide if you want to pay £1.36 for the privilege of receiving a piece of spam.

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Permalink Reply by matt on October 15, 2011 at 18:53
No wonder I've never known where the Labour Party offices are. The Hornsey & Wood Green Labour Party office is in Crouch End. Silly me.
Permalink Reply by John McMullan on October 15, 2011 at 19:31

We're Tottenham...

Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on October 15, 2011 at 22:47

Malcolm, the clue is in Gina's second paragraph:

'Our priorities as a Labour council are to keep residents safe by anti-social behaviour . . . .'

 

If she had come round your way, kicking in your front door, singing raucous Greek songs at 2.00am, you'd have something to complain about. Anyway, I've been on the electoral roll in Harringay since 1977 and I'm still waiting for my letter of Labour welcome, or to see the undersigned Gina walking our streets in her bling outside Election or Food Festival occasions. Besides, haven't you heard about the cuts? Surely you don't begrudge 36p to our Labour Party and a quid pro quo to our Royal Mail?  Try not to be such a scrounging ingrate.

Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on October 16, 2011 at 9:05

Well spotted OAE. I'm not entirely convinced by the argument that residents are kept safe by anti-social behaviour. I suppose its conceivable that some anti-social behaviour promotes residents' safety but I confess the logic of this isn't immediately apparent to my untrained eyes.

However, in a spirit of openness I do think that its only fair the Councillor should be allowed to expand on her reasoning, particularly as this is one of the council's priorities.

There could well something here that I and others have overlooked.

Permalink Reply by Gina Adamou on October 23, 2011 at 12:17

I had send an email to Malcolm, please see below a copy.

Hi, I am very sorry, I had posted 66 letters with stamps to new people that have moved in the area, I must have missed one and posted with out a stamp.Please accept my apology.Kind regards

Cllr. Gina AdamouHarringay Ward

Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on October 23, 2011 at 14:10
So we may still take it that "Our priorities as a Labour Council are to keep residents safe by anti-social behaviour . . . . etc" ?
Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on October 23, 2011 at 15:31
OAE this matter was dealt with comprehensively in the email the Councillor sent to Malcolm, a copy of which you should have seen.
Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on October 23, 2011 at 15:37
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." Oscar Wilde
Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on October 23, 2011 at 17:06
And indeed Oscar's finished poem may have been all the better for the decommification/recommification process. Pity he wasn't so punctilious about some of his letters to Bosie. But then he'd never have seen the inside of Reading Gaol or that little patch of blue we prisoners call the sky - and we wouldn't have had the gift of his Ballad of Reading Gaol. Here's hoping for a Ballad of Effingham Road, a copy of which we may soon see below.
Permalink Reply by John D on October 23, 2011 at 17:07

Alan

You remember the mistake perpetrated by the US Customs when their notice regarding import restrictions said " importation of fruit trees ..... "

when it should have read " importation of fruit, trees.... "

 

 

 

Permalink Reply by pamish on October 23, 2011 at 17:53
Oxford commas rool.
Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on October 23, 2011 at 17:53

On my first visit to the U.S. I told them I had nothing to declare except my apple. (I'd been saving it for the shuttle flight.) The man from customs called out: Agriculture! And another official came over and - apologetically - impounded it. I apologised to him for the nuisance.

Of course, it wasn't as heinous a crime as not putting a stamp on a letter, so I wasn't sent back.

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