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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Darrell Osborne

Haringey Labour scandal revealed in Private Eye

See p14 for a run down on the apparent attempt to gag John McMullen.

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Permalink Reply by Alison P on February 19, 2014 at 9:58
Predict sudden spike in Private Eye sales in Haringey!
Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on February 19, 2014 at 12:09

Our subscription copy of Private Eye just arrived. About time we had some national media blowing fresh air through this.

Apparently all politicians are now under central Party instruction to tell us how burningly "passionate" they are about issue X, Y or Z.  So maybe we'll soon get news of a rekindled passion in our local Labour councillors, candidates, "Leaders", "Cabinet" members, branch secretaries and Party apparatchiks. (Not forgetting their various sycophants and hangers-on.)

No, not anti-Apartheid or Free Chile. Nor passionate opposition to pay-day loans. Nor even detestation of the evils of potholes.

I'm hoping to hear about their longstanding, unequivocal, passionate commitment to Party democracy. And  opposition to rule-breaking and vote-rigging. And not only in Freedonia and Ruritania - but in their own small and smelly Haringey backyard.

(Tottenham Hale ward councillor. My wife Zena Brabazon is one of the deselected St Ann's councillors.)

Permalink Reply by Mark Pack on February 19, 2014 at 13:41

The story from Private Eye is on Twitter to read here: https://twitter.com/PaulHead83/status/436127387248775168

Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on February 19, 2014 at 16:53

Please ignore Twitter. When our Rotten Borough's Police State led by Inspector Knacker and PC Klaire Knicker comes after Hislop and McMullan, bloody Twitter won't pay their bills. Your local friendly Newsagent at 7 Wightman Road has an unusually large stack of Private Eye this week. If you're afraid of the resident Alsatian, how will you face our Rotten Borough's Attack Dogs?  So man up and call in with your £1.50. Stop reading Private Eye's filth on the cheap.

Afterthought: I take it that the Eye's 'David' Blake is not to be confused with John or John David of that ilk, any more than we should start referring to William Tyger Blake as Tyger.

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on February 19, 2014 at 17:16
Just had a read. Seems a fair summary of a very tortuous tale in three paragraphs.
Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on February 19, 2014 at 17:28

Finally some media coverage!

Permalink Reply by matt on February 19, 2014 at 19:12

First, the Harringay UFO drops into the Beano.

Now, the red mullet cooks up something fishy for the Private Eye.

Must be something laced into that pure Green Lanes air.

Permalink Reply by Neville Collins on February 20, 2014 at 17:46

While most of the attention has rightly been focused on Labour's selection of its candidates, a far bigger one in the council's regeneration plans with the waste of £1billion of taxpayers money being misused to destroy what is left of Tottenham. That should been given more attention in Private Eye.

Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on February 21, 2014 at 3:10

Neville, as a local councillor, I'm frankly, ashamed that this £1billion figure was put out. It's yet more Kober/Strickland regeneration bullshit.  It further corrodes public confidence and trust in the Council and councillors. The Council's professional  staff should not be colluding with this pre-election propaganda.

Martin Ball got a breakdown of the figures - which I'm too tired to hunt for right now. But if you want me to look them up, I will.  Please let me know.

Alan

Permalink Reply by pamish on February 21, 2014 at 3:19

Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act enquiry by Martin Ball, we find this:

Please can you provide detail on the £1billion of funding that the Tottenham’s future survey claims is coming to Tottenham?

My response is as follows:

The figure of £1bn investment sets the context and scale of potential  incoming investment into the regeneration programme for Tottenham. It is referenced in A Plan for Tottenham (published in 2012) and in the materials to publicise the Tottenham’s Future events. The £1bn is not a single grant, loan or guarantee, but is in fact an aggregation of the current best estimated value of all proposed infrastructure investments, grants and anticipated private sector leverage. The specific figure of £1bn been derived from the key announcements below (including details of the sources of funding), but in real terms £1bn is an estimate and actual investment may exceed that.

•         £75m investment in the West Anglia Main Line (Funding is grant from the Department for Transport, TFL and Network Rail)

•         £90m investment to electrify the Barking – Gospel Oak London Overground Line (funding is grant from the Department for Transport, TFL and Network Rail)

•           £40m investment in Tottenham Hale Gyratory (funding is grant from TFL and match funding from the Council)

•           £41m Tottenham Regeneration Programme investment including Growth on the High Road projects in Bruce Grove and Tottenham Green (Funding is grant from the GLA and match funding from the Council and other sources, full details of which can be found in the Cabinet report of 7th February 2012)

•             £20m for Tottenham Hale station (funding is grant from TFL)

•             The £700m or so in private sector development value (this an estimated based on assumed development values of THFC, Hale Village, Lawrence Road, Wards Corner, Brook House and others)

The £500m of borrowing guarantees announced in the government spending review earlier this year will be used to underwrite borrowing for infrastructure, housing and commercial projects on terms that are yet to be agreed.

If you have any further queries, or are unhappy with how we have dealt with your request and wish to make a complaint, please contact the Feedback and Information Team as below. (Please note you should do this within two months of receiving this response.)

Feedback and Information Team

River Park House
225 High Road
N22 8HQ
Telephone: 020 8489 2550

Email: FoI@haringey.gov.uk

Yours sincerely,

Patrick Jones

Interim Area Regeneration Manager

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[Note the absence of estimated Section 106 monies from the proposed developers - Spurs, Grainger etc. ]

Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on February 22, 2014 at 19:03

Many thanks, for posting that Pam. And thanks again to Martin Ball.

I thought I remembered posting something on this.  And I did. On 11 January here.

So Neville, despite what you’ve heard about the huge sum of One Billion pounds coming to Tottenham it’s actually almost all a huge untruth. And a key piece of evidence in the prosecution case against  the Kober/Goldberg/Strickland "Leadership".  Because as soon as someone asks a simple question, out tumble a few modest facts and a mountain of estimates, fantasies and fantabulations.

And debts. Because half the estimated figure is the right to borrow. Yes we are now in the London Borough of Wonga

As you know, the fantabulators have control of the PR machine and their salespeople have been out along the High Road to “consult” about how people want to spend this enormous new pot of money. Except there is no such pot. And most big decisions about who spends what are not new - and have been or will be made by someone else.

What I suggest, Pam, is that we use our own networks to tell others the cold hard facts about all this.

(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)

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