Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Full list of candidates for May 22nd council elections now published
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Yes Alison I'm sorry I started this. All from a misreading of Lydia's address.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Good God, I very much hope that our local candidates can raise the level of debate a bit above this.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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As of 2:39pm today 28 April, that link to the list of candidates doesn't work.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Got this fantastic error message when I clicked on the links
"404 — Fancy meeting you here!
Don't panic, we'll get through this together. Let's explore our options here."
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Permalink Reply by LondonN4 on
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I'm new to St Ann's ward. How can I find out more about the candidates to inform my voting decision?
Without any information, I will vote by party but would prefer more information to go on.
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That's a great question. For Harringay Ward, we've organised a hustings, but we're not going to have time to give the same coverage as we did in 2010, so I'm all ears.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Hinchcliffe on
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Details of our candidates: http://www.tottenhamconservatives.org.uk/conservative-candidates-yo...
Best.
Justin--Conservative Agent
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GirlonBike I'm happy to send you a summary of information about the vote-rigging and rule breaking at the Labour Party's candidate selection meeting in September 2013; and the subsequent cover-up by the Party.
Based on this information - the basic facts of which have never been challenged - you may wish to avoid voting for Barbara Blake, Peter Morton and Ali Gul Ozbek, the three people whose names will appear on the ballot paper as the Labour Party candidates.
As far as I know, none of these three people have ever asked to see or shown any curiosity about this factual evidence. Nor have they expressed disapproval of the vote-rigging and cover-up.
Nor did they call for the candidate selection meeting to be re-run allowing only Labour Party members resident in St Ann's ward to take part. (Such re-runs have taken place in wards in other London Boroughs.) Had there been such a re-run carried out properly according to all the Labour Party's rules, the deselected candidates would have fully accepted the outcome.
N.B. Please note that my wife Zena Brabazon is one of the two deselected St Ann's ward Labour councillors. The other is Cllr David Browne.
(Tottenham Hale ward councillor 1998-2014)
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Permalink Reply by Bethany on
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This issue has been rumbling on for months, I don't, or want to know every last detail. But could you tell me why, in your opinion they wanted to rig the vote?
Apart from the basic party manifesto I've found no information on any of these candidates. Why were they so desperate to be selected?
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Permalink Reply by Zena Brabazon on
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Hi Bethany
You asked why they wanted to rig the vote. I can’t give you a definitive answer since obviously those involved in this scandal aren’t saying and I can only guess.
However, as one of the people who was most affected by this – I lost by one vote – I thought I should reply.
I guess the main point is that without rigging the vote by bringing in 5 people who were not eligible to participate in this selection process, the outcome would have been different. Like all candidates, I contacted all St. Ann’s ward members who were eligible to vote. Some were simply uncontactable by phone, in person or by email but I made every effort. And I know other shortlisted candidates probably did the same as permitted by party rules.
From this, I had a good idea of who would be at the meeting. And I was confident I had enough votes to be reselected.
After the meeting some of us met to review what happened. We rapidly concluded that something was seriously wrong. The next day – Monday September 16 – I went and inspected the public electoral register. I was surprised to find the five of the people who we thought had attended the meeting were not registered to vote in St. Ann’s Ward. Having found this out, we then used public internet sources to find out where these people who had participated in the meeting actually lived. We were astonished and angry to discover that they lived and were registered to vote elsewhere. In all some 20 people were signed up as members of the ward who don’t live in St. Ann’s. This against the rules.
Those are the facts. I suppose the simplest answer to your question is that the outcome was dependent on having people there who shouldn’t have been.
Members of the Labour Party ward were cheated by this. But so are the electorate in the ward who have candidates who were not selected in a fair process.
One final point. The Labour Party has insisted that an investigation has taken place and no action needed beyond rectifying the lists. As I understand it, and from experience of what an investigation entails, this is seriously inaccurate. A number of ward members asked for a full and proper investigation. So did I, David Browne and Emine Ibrahim who has been outstanding in insisting on decency and honesty. The so-called investigation was cursory and minimal. For example, as a complainant I was never interviewed or asked to attend a meeting about what happened. New evidence provided was ignored. There were no terms of reference and David Browne never even had the courtesy of an acknowledgement after sending in his detailed evidence.
The worst part of this is that it has cheated you as voters.
Zena
Zena Brabazon
Cllr, St Ann's Ward till May 22
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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I saw a quote from Claire Kober (the Labour leader of Haringey) in this article (below), in which she criticises the Lib Dems for putting up candidates who don't live in Haringey - which struck me as more than a bit hypocritical given how Labour have dealt with the dodgy selection meeting in St Anns.
http://www.haringeyindependent.co.uk/news/11199730.UKIP_look_to_spr...
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