Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
LAMMY CAMPAINING IN SLOUGH
Mr Lammy was campaigning in Slough yesterday, how arrogant is that. Does he really think it's all sawn up in Tottenham. This is the third election he has stood in this constituancy and i have never seen or heard he has done any canvassing. Now he does'nt even live here'
Career politician, that's all he is.
Career politician, that's all he is.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Yes Stuart, it is all sewn up in Tottenham. This election, just like the previous ones, is being fought in swing constituencies and policies are being tailored to suit swing voters in those constituencies. Mr Lammy's house is sorted, he's now doing the decent thing and is out helping someone else sort theirs.
You need to get out more, I've see him about a wee bit. Anywhere that sells biscuits and full fat cappuccinos for a start.
He's actually a barrister... career politicians start their working lives as research assistants to MPs usually.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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actually a barrister
A non-practicsing one. Even a barrister who has never practicised could see the hopelessness of his proposed tinkering with the government's Gambling Act. Mr Lammy has now had several opportunities to comment on the Market Demand Test (for betting shops). Why are the proposals – now in his party's manifesto – so weak?
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doing the decent thing
I wonder if it would be more accurate to say, doing the logical thing for his party, given the structure of the unfair voting system that allows 'safe' seats to be taken for granted? What is decent about this?
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Permalink Reply by stuart on
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An election is also about engaging with your constituents as well, finding out their views , their problems etc.
Is it too much to ask that every five years he knocks on a few doors.
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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"He's actually a barrister... career politicians start their working lives as research assistants to MPs usually" me too usually harping on about gambling outlets that his government and he voted on legislation in order to make it easier for such businesses to open.
I can't even read his literature now, it goes with the pizza leaflets in the recycling.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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He has agreed to attend a hustings on 28th April in Tottenham, along with most of the other Tottnm candidates.
It's at Tottenham Chances in the High Rd opposite the nick. 399 High Road London N17 6QN. So you may get at least half an hour then for a glimpse.
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Candidates always think they matter but British voters still vote for parties.
However, while Tottenham has been Labour led at least since Wilson's 1964 victory, Bernie Grant from 1987 appealed to a wider Tottenham, not just because he was Black (though he was of course one of the first three Black members of the Commons) but because he'd been an immigrant worker, trade unionist, Haringey councillor for a decade and Council Leader for a few years. He was not "from Tottenham" in the sense that his successor likes to boast, but there was never any doubt that he was "for Tottenham".
After ten years he'd taken his %age vote from the low 50 mark to 70%. By 2005 his successor had let that slide by about 12%, with several thousand of those votes, along with former Conservative votes, going to the Lib Dems. I'm pretty sure that slide is continuing and there's no reason why the Lib Dem share of the vote shouldn't show the same sort of growth by May 6th as it did between 2001 and 2005. And not all from the west of the constituency. Even in East Tottenham, it takes more than a series of eleventh-hour home videos all making specious and implausible associations between the incumbent and all sorts of 'community aspirations' and good works done by others.
Lammy may go on telling the good people of Newcastle or Slough that they're just like the folks back home. If they're polite they won't ask him where 'home' is. He made his first escape from home because someone heard he could sing. He's been escaping ever since. Let's help him.
An incumbent, of course, has advantages even if the only thing he has in common with Bernie Grant is a lickle trickle of Guyanese blood. Whatever the turnout, Labour probably still has the numbers. But I don't think it's at all sewn up. Maybe Lib Dems have enough in Harringay to make the difference.
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Permalink Reply by Adam on
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Safe seats are not always safe.
You only need to look at the Democrat safe seat of Massachusetts last January.
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I LIKE the fact that he is a lawyer. Where on earth does it say that people don't like him because he's a lawyer?
Yes, he's a great constituency MP but I really think that decisions taken centrally by his government (2005 Gambling Act for instance) which he supported have caused him even more problems back in Tottenham and he's often merely fire fighting.
It is obvious to anyone on here that "stuart" doesn't like David for no discernible reason. Nice response though.
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the way the law does not allow out local council - which would stop them if it could - is powerless to stop them.
Whose government's law? It's no good pretending that the Gambling Act (2005) has been with us forever, or has just popped up out of nowhere. Were the Parliamentarians asleep when they passed this Act? Please remind me, the legislators of which party mandated that Market Demand would be the sole test for the number of betting shops? (i.e. no other consideration). Which government required that licensing authorities "aim to permit" new gambling premises licence applications? Why was this Act promoted, let alone passed?
Whether or not Mr Lammy voted for this Act, he is in a difficult position if he is trying to reform it, even by the inadequate measures he's proposed. He needs to be seen to be doing something, but I don't think Mr Lammy is the person who will fix it. My belief is that if this Act is ever repealed or amended meaningfully, then, because the Act in its present form has so many supporters on the government benches, it will happen by a different administration.
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