Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

The Banner

Just seen the banner and my opinion is that its pretty damn crap.

Why?

You still see much of the shoddy paintwork on the bridge.

The banner is all wrinkled.

The overall design is so crap.

I could go on but I'll give everyone else chance instead.

Oh well.

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on June 20, 2011 at 19:16

Better than what, exactly?

Precisely.

Better Haringey or better communities are PR slogans, but dumbed down PR. They're no better than any other unqualified superlatives. IMO, the puerile slogans "My Haringey" and "Better Haringey" are aimed at the same target audience as Haringey People magazine: i.e. those with a reading age of about 10. But I suspect that many 10 year olds would find these things an insult to their intelligence.

This is the reason why the inclusion of the childish "Building Better Communities" is more akin to an insult to the community.

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Permalink Reply by Abi on June 20, 2011 at 21:04

Indeed so. Plus it always reminds me of that rather dismissive "that's better" that some people give on seeing a friend's new haircut.

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Permalink Reply by pamish on June 20, 2011 at 21:20

A reading age of ten should mean fluent. They might be a bit lacking in vocabulary, but a ten-year old is surely able to deconstruct words sufficiently well to read anything?

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Permalink Reply by Ruth on June 20, 2011 at 21:46

might be a good idea to build a community in the first place. forget the bridge. Sack the PR consultants (dumbed down or other) and get rid of puerile cliches. I don't want to be treated like I have very few brain cells. Let's start afresh and get real.

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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on June 21, 2011 at 0:22

Ruth.. there's no 'like' button for comments.. but I just would have clicked it, if I could have..

My take on it from afar is.. the Council... let alone Government, just don't trust you silly old voters/general public to make 'the right decisions' ..

And you've come up with a great slogan for slogan for the bridge.

Harringay - Let's start afresh and get real.

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Permalink Reply by Ruth on June 21, 2011 at 6:23

Cheers for the support there. Yep- not a bad slogan really off the top of my head.... Let's see what happens next to the iconic Harringay bridge.

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on June 22, 2011 at 18:53

A FURTHER inference from the municipal slogan, is that it is Haringey Council which is building better communities.

Communities, in so far they are consciously "built" at all, are built by individuals in those communities, by families and factors like proximity to jobs, trade, raw materials, rivers, and coasts. Less by local council policies and still less by banners.

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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on June 20, 2011 at 21:16

Rumour has it metro bet is offering the the best odds on when it will be cleaned off?

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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on July 3, 2011 at 22:04

The banners are still covered in Flem. I thought the whole point about the banners was that they were easy to clean? Perhaps it's just not cost effective to clean them. which begs the question .........

I wonder if the some of the profit from the ads goes into cleaning them?

Anyway 14 days gone and still covered in Flem.

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Permalink Reply by Ruth on July 3, 2011 at 22:29

Probably more cost effective to wait till there is more flem, on both sides, so can be cleaned in one go. which begs the question..... as you say. Most cost effective will be not to clean it at all. Keep the Flem, treat it as local art and part of building a better community.