Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Local Election 2026

Final list of candidates now published (scroll down a bit for the links to each ward)

https://haringey.gov.uk/council-elections/elections-voting/local-el...

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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on April 30, 2026 at 21:50

OUR electoral system is flawed, but it is what it is for the time being. Anyone not participating in this (crude) process should not complain if they don't like the outcome.

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Today, the Guardian's Aditya Chakraborty writes about Labour's prospects and he noted Haringey as one of three Boroughs visited on Andy Burnham's recent itinerary. The three Boroughs he mentions rank,

"among the reddest patches of the UK’s entire electoral map. The country’s last bastion of Labour support, London, is starting to collapse".

Labour is facing wipeout in its final stronghold. Why? It’s housing...

Mr Starmer's government is currently failing on housing, by which I mean council housing. However the real failure in council housing today, surely lies at the door of the Blair era. In that period, there was ample time and opportunity to completely rescind Margaret Thatcher's pernicious policy of Right to Buy. But it didn't happen.

Before the end of the current Parliament, there is still time for national Labour to put in place a leadership that will deliver changes needed that Sir Kier only talks about. Britain needs a principled PM who is less gaffe- and accident-prone.

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on Tuesday

I'm late responding to your post on 14 April 2026. That's because initially I wondered if it was a failed attempt at self deprecating humour by a self-described well educated person with higher levels of interest,awareness and understanding of the democratic process. Plus potential to get things done etc etc.

In addition, this circular and self-confirming process seems to assume that rich areas have a high calibre of candidates.
As this is confirmed by references to Oxbridge. Plus the term - "Whereverstan". Linked to a Spad living in a Tottenham Hale bedsit with his surgeon wife.

Plus a touch of snobbery about Council flats. And anti-Americanism in reference to Marxist classes at community College.

Clive Carter remarked on the high level of alienation and disaffection in many wards. Your own levels seemed to verge on disappointment and sadness.

Can we cheer you up by telling you about some Council candidates whose parents lived in Council flats. Who had fun at Oxford and London and other Universities. Some of whom went on to be barristers, poets, reseachers and schoolteachers and suchlike.

You see it's rarely too late to start/retart your career in wherever-port-out-OR-starboard- home takes you.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on April 22, 2026 at 9:37

I wondered who people have been door knocked by so far? I’ve had Labour, LibDems and Greens and a flyer from TUSC. Nothing yet, either in person or an election flyer, from the Conservatives or Reform.