Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
She sets the strategy - make your mind up about council leader Peray Ahmet
We elect local councillors, but in practice much depends on the leader. If they back an idea, it tends to move forward; if they don’t, it can quietly stall.
Alongside getting to know your local candidates, it’s worth listening to this podcast interview with . It offers an interesting perspective on how decisions are made and what that means in practice.
Have a listen and see what you make of it.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6DaoEQmmCzovXeEGivgkVD?si=8VqNwOOi...
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Permalink Reply by Jamie Harper
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This is an example of why the 'interests' question remains such a useful shortcut when interviewing prospective employees.
'Reading and watching TV (traitors)' could justifiably disqualify a teen for a job at a fast food outlet.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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I listened to the first three minutes of an advert, followed by compere-gushing and decided the rest was unlikely to be worth my time.
Yes, under the current governance structure, much does depend on the leader. IMO this arrangement invests too much power in one person. In Haringey the arrangement has not worked well. The current council leader is nowhere near as incompetent as her predecessor, someone who was unfit to be leader and I told him so. He took it gracefully.
Indeed Cllr Ahmet deserves the thanks of the Borough to have had the guts to stand against the previous leader, under whose tenure our council lost huge sums of public money in irregular property deals, some of which had the whiff of corruption.
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