Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
What Mrs E might have been doing in 1968
While Mrs E might have been a stalwart of the Beautiful Harringay Society in 1908, by 1968 she would no doubt have been interested in this...
A Tory landslide in the local elections saw Haringey council completely controlled by the Conservative Party 53 seats to 7.
In an strange echo of today's Big Society intiative, the Conservatives proposed a self help scheme for residents in Hornsey, Wood Green and Tottenham. In a 'blunter' style than perhaps would be used today: "suspicious and withdrawn hard core of ratepayers"; "a planning panel who can give answers, man to man, to residents", The Times Local Government correspondent outlines how Haringey council proposes that residents join the campaign to clean up their environment! Plus ca change, eh?
Of course, by 2008, she was joining the Community Volunteers
A Tory landslide in the local elections saw Haringey council completely controlled by the Conservative Party 53 seats to 7.
In an strange echo of today's Big Society intiative, the Conservatives proposed a self help scheme for residents in Hornsey, Wood Green and Tottenham. In a 'blunter' style than perhaps would be used today: "suspicious and withdrawn hard core of ratepayers"; "a planning panel who can give answers, man to man, to residents", The Times Local Government correspondent outlines how Haringey council proposes that residents join the campaign to clean up their environment! Plus ca change, eh?
Of course, by 2008, she was joining the Community Volunteers
Tags for Forum Posts: 1908, 1968, 2008, local politics
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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I think James and Steve are both right.
The Thatcher/Reagan/Pinochet club of the 1980's had more common friends and go-betweens than Milton Friedman and Alan Walters. No doubt some admirers still fondly recall the good Baronness's comforting visit to the kindly old statesman languishing under house arrest in the unspeakable torture dungeons of Wentworth, Surrey, under the jackboot regime of the murderous tyrant Jack Straw. She brought him English tea, as I recall, praised him for helping us against the Argies, lauded him for bringing democracy and good government to Chile, and thanked him for helping to pacify her own former trouble makers with Tescofuls of affordable ValdeVieso and Casilleras del Diablo. -
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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This discussion has gone so far from its original point about historical precedents for current intiatives that I think its time to give it a rest. I saw the connection of 1988 to 1968 JUST but the way its now veering is too far from the core. Sorry, I'm putting the Gone Fishin' sign up.
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