Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The Mayor's Grand tour of Green Lanes (5 Aug 15)
Public relations exercise or part of a process to address local issues?
Either way, it was nice to bump into her and she showed interest in what I had to say. However, I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to bow or courtesy, as she was in her golden chains. She was visiting loads of businesses on the high street with various people, including Cllr Emine and a press photographer. I'm posting a picture of us having a chat (not taken by the press).
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I'm quite convinced that you were running a public relations exercise, Pav. Are you running for office soon?
More seriously - the role of the mayor now is purely ceremonial. They're chosen on a buggins' turn basis and wheeled out both to 'reward' people or places with a bit of official attention and to promote the work of the Council.
I think that because of how the role is awarded it has little status within the Council, although they still have a limo and Mayoral suite in the Civic Centre at their disposal.
My sense is that there is some purpose to the role, but I remain to be convinced that we've fond the right formula or get the best bang for our buck.
How did you react to being in the Mayor's presence? How do you think other people did?
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Yes I think that's part of the idea, but I'm not clear if it has any effect. There's clearly a ripple of attention as a mayor arrives/passes by, but to what extent that transcends the moment and the immediate location is not at all clear. I'm sceptical but open-minded.
Right off to start my campaign - PAV FOR MAYOR!
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Permalink Reply by Cllr Emina Ibrahim on
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Hi Pav
Yes it's part of promoting the fabulous offer we have on Green Lanes, in my view the beating heart of the borough :) (but then I would say that). Here are some more pics. We also visited Green Lens on Atterbury Rd which is an amazing sustainability focused local studio. - Attachments:
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And of course here with the legendary Yasar Halim
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Pavlos, I'm glad we have at least one easily impressed HOL member, a necessary counterbalance to some of us old cynics who try to take Labour functionaries and lesser-sighted Ward councillors in our stride. But next time (sometime in the summer or silly season of 2039), please remember to have the courtesy to curtsey to the legendary, nay the iconic, Lady Emine, as you bow and scrape retreating backwards, clutching your cloth cap in suitably abject appreciation of the unexpected vision. She needs good reasons for her vanishingly few appearances in this medium. When she next processes forth, may it be to accompany Her Worship Lady Effingham on one of the latter's quadrennial visitations of her people. Time indeed that Lady E assumes the Mayoralty once more. 'Turn Again, Gina Adamou, thrice Mayor of Haringey!' Be still, my beating heart. I'm sure, Pavlos, you will come to have a deeper understanding of the importance of the mayoral role in this great borough of ours. [I notice, Pavlos, that you do not name the current bechained personage whom you met. I take it that that is because, like most of us, you wouldn't know her from Adam/ou?]
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