Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Hustings! Harringay Ladder Healthy Streets (HLHS) Recording
A big thank you again to the candidates for taking part and to everyone who submitted questions and attended. If you missed it, please take a watch here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMcz3S0neMM
As my pet topic, there are lots of references to the air pollution coming from the restaurants (as well as active transport)
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Permalink Reply by Neil Ford
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Don't let up on the pollution issue. You are doing an amazing job lobbying for improvements.
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Another well-run and informative hustings. Congratulations.
My impressions for what they are worth:
David from the Lib Dems is a sensible and experienced local candidate. He knows first hand of the inertia often present in council officers, and the need to prod and poke in order to find solutions that are sometimes not initially obvious. He touched on this in both the traffic and restaurant pollution discussions. The idea that restaurants and the Council are compliant with the law (as Anna suggested) is absurd. A law, possibly, but not all law. David noted that obvious distinction. A safe and hardworking option for the ballot.Marc for the Greens is living and navigating the hardships the older generations have presented. He might not have the same first hand knowledge of Council bureaucracy the other two candidates do, but he's in the trenches. He also has a grasp of what local residents actually want and need. A tick for the Greens will inject actually energy into the borough... not just for the 6 weeks prior to elections.
Anna spoke like a campaigning politician. I found her talk of Labour's honesty and integrity as personally off-putting as the lack of video call etiquette (sit back from the camera). For 20+ years Haringey and Harringay Labour have deceived and delayed over traffic on the ladder. Since Hermitage they have made piecemeal changes to the road network, each time trying to patch an error made previously. Despite the obvious effects of this meddling, Harringay ward has kept voting in the very people who have cased the problems. Two of the current councillors have been around throughout all of these changes. They, the council, and their cabinet colleagues have told, often, barefaced falsehoods to the ladder residents regarding traffic.
So, more 'modelling', far-fetched suggestions of mitigations (a one way Wightman), and boasting about funding. TfL and central London are having to fund changes to GL so that bus times improve and there are fewer accidents.... because of what Labour has done. No more chances. No more deception and false promise. Get these people out.
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Thank you. This is such a brilliant summary of the hustings that I hope everyone who glosses over the video takes the time to read it before going to vote tomorrow. "Campaigning politician" was very much the vibe we got on the doorstep with Anna, along with very unsatisfactory answers about the traffic on the Ladder and Labour's plans to do nothing about it. David has always been a brilliant local councillor and it sounds like Marc has the makings of one too. It's time Labour was held in account in Harringay and across Haringey.
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Agree, good hustings. Definitely worth watching if you couldn't make it. The differences between the candidates and their parties came through well.
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