Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Anyone seen All Haringey Party Manifestos?

Apologies for my initial problems when downloading Haringey Labour's MANIFESTO.

Many Thanks to Michael Anderson for locating reliable web addresses for the Green, Labour and LibDem documents. Please see Michael's post below.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on Friday

Haringey Labour Manifesto. https://indd.adobe.com/view/c32c3f96-1afa-4e16-bfea-3739b12630b6

Haringey LibDems Manifesto. https://www.haringeylibdems.org.uk/fileadmin/groups/114/Documents/H...

Haringey Green Manifesto https://haringey.greenparty.org.uk/manifesto/

Couldn’t find ones from the Conservatives or Reform.

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on Saturday

ALAN, this Manifesto cannot be downloaded as such.

For a period only, it may be viewed on the website of Adobe Inc.
The "Manifesto" is not a downloadable file and much less a permanent pdf: Portable Document Format
The web-address includes "indd" which suggests that Labour's webpages were originally generated in Adobe's powerful DTP application, Indesign (document)
Indesign is completely capable of producing permanent pdfs
Local Labour have IMO, produced beautiful imagery to a high standard
Which are hardly worth the paper they are unlikely to be printed on

The object seems to be to generate a warm, but transitory buzz. It appears as a deliberate decision of local Labour to produce web-pages of wish-lists that will expire. Is this not consonant with and consistent with, a continuing need to adapt to Mr Starmer's fluctuating principles?

The Party of the majority group pulled the same trick four years ago. Who remembers their 2022 Manifesto?

Where is it now?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on Saturday

Here it is

https://indd.adobe.com/embed/d384bb1b-cfbc-4ddd-9796-4292cd8740a4?s...

When you search for the LibDems 2022 manifesto you get this

When you click on this you get this

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on Saturday

Nor is there a summary of the 2022 manifesto in their 'News' section (though the 2018 manifesto summary is in there).

The Enfield Independent has an article about it:

https://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/20077780.lib-dem-policies...

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter 10 hours ago

GREENER or CLEANER?

Cleaning the green:

Local labour no longer maintain any link from their website to their 2022 Manifesto.

Like their current Manifesto, it is hosted on the website of Adobe Inc.

However at the time I did create a compact pdf assembled from separate screenshots which can be downloaded (attached).

Their published Manifesto slogan was building a Borough fairer and greener.

However someone at the top was not happy with the green reference. On their Manifesto webpage, this was changed to the similar-sounding cleaner.

I can think of two Cabinet Members who may have been responsible for adding this subtle sleight of hand.

Few will have noticed the "airbrushing" of their offensive word and like any link to their 2022 Manifesto, it has long evaporated.

Here's the screenshot: