Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
By the way I joined Labour 🚩
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Permalink Reply by Eric Easter on
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Is there any party you haven't joined?
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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
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I have given four years plus in each instance, and yes there are parties that I will never join. I have enjoyed the worthy campaigns and casework I have dedicated my time to and I remain the same person. Perhaps you could say a base is made for others to continue. Labour is more connecting where I live and has been in the 34 years I’ve lived here. Perhaps that’s where I should have been all along, consolidating, but I’ve enjoyed the journey. I know the strengths and frustrated by the weaknesses of each. I have ideas for where I live, I have experiences and incites not dissimilar from other residents. If this was the worst criticism to receive in sixteen years, I’ll accept exploring the band width of local activism, (this is what makes me unique.) I’m proud of the people I have worked with & I have known their kindness. I am pleased I have remained cordiale with colleagues across the board, I’ve always remained sincere. There is your personal philosophy and that of a political party, at least I can genuinely discuss this and understand unique differences, strength's & innovation. You can see my journey’s start here in HoL/ YouTube in 2010.  Let us support Harringay Labour’s candidates, open our doors and have that conversation & become part of the Labour Party we want and need.Â
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Matthew, You probably know this quotation, but just in case:Â
it seems to describe you ..."... the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen."
 - Louis Brandeis, member of the United States Supreme Court 1916-39.
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Louis obviously didn’t settle for being a private attorney or remaining in Louisville post Harvard. He was prepared for establishment and was thoughtful. He co-authored The Right to Privacy, advocated for progressive labour (labor) reform and served on the U.S. Supreme Court for 23 years. He mentored clerks in improving & shaping standards in their professional life.
I know collectively we can achieve great things when we pull together. John will attest it has been a privilege to witness this in Harringay through living here. I’d call on all residents to get involved with friends of groups to continue and consolidate what has been achieved.Â
Brandeis made his statement to emphasize that in a democracy, the duties of a private citizen cannot be neglected & indeed I’d add in local issues, by improving life where we live for everyone’s benefit.Â
I do vaguely recall the quote, it’s invoked regularly in discussions of government accountability.Â
Our civic duty is important as is public participation in government, Â & sometimes referred to as the "office of citizen".Brandeis believed that active participation by private individuals is the key to maintaining a functioning democracy.
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Matthew, what Louis Brandeis believed is. for me, seems like a stepping-off point, down a pathway.  There are many decent and principled people in the Labour Party. But also in others.
It seems to me that one of the most comfortable places I found myself was in the Anti-Haringey Development Campaign where the broad range of participants had enough in common to recognise the evil of planning to destroy people's homes and businesses and socially engineer them from our neighbourhood.
If you took part in that campaign, you'll know the astonishing range of co-operating people who made common cause within it.Of course that social cleansing evil is not the same as a different current example. The allegation that Keir Starmer has been complicit in genocide by allowing U.K, planes based in Cyprus to over-fly Gaza and share data with the Israel War Machine. But I would not now re-join the Labour Party until there has been an expert independent investigation of that issue.
I realise that many people disapprove of Starmer. Querying what principles he has. The Gaza example horrifies me.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan
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I left. They don’t know what a woman is and don’t accept that socialism requires strict border controls.
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I think that's unfair, John. Labour apply the railway border controls quite strictly when determining who benefits from any 'socialism' in the borough. As for the recognition of women, we have to acknowledge their consistency. If they don't exist under the rubble of Gaza or in bombed high schools in Iran, why would we expect Labour to be able to define them here?
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The Danes seem to have learned their lesson and are now cracking down. They realised almost too late that if they didn't their quality of life and indeed their culture would not survive.
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