Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Any burning questions for your local council candidates?
At the most recent HOL group meeting (more from Hugh about this here) we debated the idea of carrying out short interviews, probably video, with local council candidates, to give local people more information about the people who will be wanting our votes come May 6th. One option would be to have five key questions that we ask all the candidates.
So if you have any ideas about the sorts of questions you'd like to put to prospective councillors, please post them here!
Some random first thoughts ... Partly inspired by some of the discussion on this post (though apologies in advance for some of the less appealing party political chuff that appears on it).
Where do you live? What's your connection to Harringay/St Ann's/Seven Sisters?
What do you see as the most important problems facing this ward? Tell us something about how you think they should be solved?
What are the good things about this area?
How will your past experience help you be an effective local councillor?
That's my list so far - so over to you. Any thoughts on what you'd like to ask?
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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3 and 4 perhaps invite the obvious answers.
Better might be 3) - What do you think we can learn from other neighbourhoods? and 4) How would you facilitate effective residents' participation in community affairs ?
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Sorry a bit of hasty cut and paste job so not well expressed, and your questions are good but I actually want to get to something more fundamental with prospective cllrs about setting out why they want to represent us and what kind of person they are.
For 3 of course, they will say yes they are prepared, but in what ways will they go about it? Would they be prepared to learn from people who may not share their politics for example?
For number 4, I am really after a concrete definition of what is understood by residents participation in shaping an area. We all think we know what that means but it may be that we have entirely different views on what effective participation is. How will they engage with people and will they be prepared to explore new ways of working?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Whatever I think of the original 4 I think your idea of comparison with other neighbourhoods/cities is a fantastic idea.
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Permalink Reply by Omotn on
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The structured approach to a job interview is
1) produce a job description - what is that for a local councillor?
2) identify the necessary skills to do the job
3) devise questions to establish which candidates have those skills
Do we have a job description?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Have added a better skills framework in Section 3 here.
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