Where is Councillor Tammy Hymas????

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Permalink Reply by Liz on May 27, 2026 at 18:31

Cllr Hymas did indeed take the post of councillor and is now Cabinet Member for Housing

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on May 28, 2026 at 20:24

Hi D.Jones,

My name is Alan which I use. When I work on my computer I'm in a room overlooking the street outside our house.
You may have seen that I posted at least three times that I've answered my phone to hear a female voice saying it's "Emma"; an "Ai assistant", to a voluntary agency that seeks my cash donation.
If you read these posts you're probably bored to irritation by this information.

Of course Emma doesn't get bored. Emma doesn't care.

I do get irritated with the agency that bought the fake "Emma". This is because I'm a human and want, need, and enjoy contact with other humans. I've been lucky all my life to work where I meet people. Even my early job serving ina green grocers. 

Is "Emma" anything more than an advanced  and very sophisticated Auto-reply machine?

I will make you a confession. In the many years I was an elected  as a Haringey local councillor I had email and got letters. But had no auto reply on my home landline.  I've never had my own or a Council mobile.
We councillors had a system of speaking in person with residents who came to  what were called "advice surgeries".
Mine were in a room at Marcus Garvey Library in Tottenham. I often shared these with another councillor; most often with former Cllr Bernice Vanier. Who was a very experienced councillor as well as being a nice person. We covered each other's absences. I enjoyed chatting with her as well as meeting residents. 

I hope the Green Party will operate some face to face; person to person system like this. Sometimes residents joined the library when they came to see us. Some came with their kids. and I gave them some kid's books from the used/withdrawn/ for sale pile, While we spoke to their parent. They cou;d take them home if they wanted.   

But it's still early days, isn't it? I wish the Greens well.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on June 7, 2026 at 12:46

The address that does work (for me) is Tammy.Hymas@haringey.gov.uk .

There is a rogue figure '1' in Haringey's listed email address, it stands out against all the other councillors' address formatting.....

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Permalink Reply by Eric Easter on June 7, 2026 at 16:07

Probably some legacy confusion when it changed from Tommy?

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on June 7, 2026 at 12:55

I have just emailed her about it, now I've worked out the correct address. Job done, Alan!

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on June 7, 2026 at 14:13

Thanks Gordon T for emailing Cllr Hymas.

I have an old fashioned approach to telephone casework. Shaped by my dislike of and decision not to use the original brick-like mobile phones. I was once accused of failing to act on a message left by a client on my mobile. I explained that was very curious since I didn't have one. 

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on June 7, 2026 at 16:59

Thanks, D. Jones

Yes indeed, the Council's website says:"To email Haringey councillors, you can contact your specific ward representatives directly using the format firstname.lastname@haringey.gov.uk. 

This would entirely explain why - not using this format  - would result in Cllr Hymas being unable to read and respond to your email.

It's neither accurate nor fair to say: "She doesn't reply"  if she has not received to your email.
Nor is it accurate or fair to criticise her on a public website for not replying.

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