Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Council dimisses views of Blackboy Lane residents
Next week the corporate committee of Haringey Council will make a decision on the Blackboy Lane issue.
According to the report prepared for the committee, the majority of Blackboy Lane residents would prefer no change, However, the report states that this option has been dismissed.
It also says that the option to consider another name is dismissed - not because it's the right thing to do but simply because that wasn't what they said last time!
Below are the results of the second consultation along with the report's somewhat tortuous justification for dismissing the wishes of Blackboy Lane residents.
Of course, those of you who have been following this issue will have little faith in these consultation results. You will have leaned that the Council may have sought to swing the result the way it wanted by approaching select groups through the local Labour Party apparatus and asking them to reply to the consultation to support the name change.
So, there you go, no surprises here: that's how politics is done in Haringey these days.
For the record the author of this post has no objection to street renaming where the existing name clearly causes offence and where widespread support for the change can be proved.
Full text of the Blackboy Lane item in the Council report available here.
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Permalink Reply by Classical Contrarian on
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In May I recall that there are elections.
I expect everyone to vote with their concerns in mind.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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There aren’t local elections in London this year
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There are Mayoral elections. The local elections in London (local government) aren’t until 2022
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...and the London Assembly
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Permalink Reply by Anna on
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The election is within the party. I believe it will affect council leaders, and Joe Ejiofor has lost a lot of political cred over the handling of the street renaming, suspicious (not my words) real estate deals and the way he has dealt with fellow councillors and residents. He will not be Lead council anymore, which is why he is pushing the renaming of Black Boy Lane as his legacy before he is ousted.
I think it’s unfair to tar the whole of labour with the same brush (or Lib Dem or conservatives) because a lot of different councillors have been in touch ‘discreetly’ and allowed me ‘glimpses’ of what has been happening within the council - a lot of unrest, basically.
https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Roadmap-to-Electio...
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This is Haringey Council's version of democracy. Consult and disregard the opinions of those most concerned by what you are consulting on because you've already made the decision.
Wards Corner.....
High Street West
Black Boy Lane....
But residents keep putting these blinkered people back into power!
And that is democracy too!
Sigh!
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Who is standing for the other parties in St Annes ward?
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Doesn't matter Labour is a shoe in....Tories are cynically rotten and have nothing to offer us. Lib Dems are tainted by their collaboration with that enemy resulting in years of "austerity" for poor peolpe - not Tory friends who have reaped the benefits of Covid contracts. Greens just an;t inspire confidence..
What a quandry.
Sigh!
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Permalink Reply by Adrian Hackney on
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The report dismisses the opinion of the residents of Black Boy Lane because it was only a 26% vote against.
Not sure what percentage would have been enough for the vote to matter but whatever it is maybe it's a standard we should apply more widely.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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As I said, tortuous justification. I get the sense that they could have presented almost any result to equate with the result they want.
N.B. The 26% to which Adrian refers is in para 6.13 of the report, excerpted in my original post.
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