Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Vote for Harringay LABOUR Action Team – May 22nd 2014
With your support and confidence behind us on May 22nd you can help build a fairer Harringay, a fairer Borough and send a clear message that the residents of Harringay ward believe in social justice, community cohesion, the opportunity for all to thrive and equality.
Our key priorities for the borough:
- We will freeze Council Tax for four more years
- We will invest £25million improving our pavement and roads making them more pedestrian and cyclist friendly
- Every school and childcare setting will be rated good or outstanding by Ofsted
- We will invest £1million putting more police on our streets
- We will deliver over 1,000 new affordable homes 250 of which will be built by the council
Labour’s Record in Harringay
- Campaigned on parks – making Ducketts Common, Fairland Park and Finsbury Park safer, cleaner and with more equipment. We have also secured money from the GLA for Harringay’s Pocket Park – improving the local environment between Allison Rd and the Salisbury Pub
- Tackled rouge landlords, with tough action like taking bad landlords to court. We have also secured tougher regulations in Harringay ward and new restrictions on converting properties in to smaller flats.
- Campaigned for the investment of record money into roads to improve the local environment for cyclists and pedestrians.
- Expanded the play streets scheme where a local road can be closed for a few hours allowing children and families in Harringay to play and have fun safely outside.
- Funding has been secured for 6 new roaming police officers
- We have secured a much needed pedestrian crossing on Green Lanes
- We have successfully campaigned for a new fixed camera on Wightman Rd to stop large lorries (HGVs) breaking weight restrictions and using the ladder as a rat run
We have also
- Fought for and increased support for the credit union to tackle legal and illegal loans sharks. Every child starts secondary school in Haringey will get a £20 credit union account to teach them about saving and the dangers of debt and ‘legal loan sharks’
- Supported Haringey 40:20 & plans to lower carbon emissions
- Campaigned for protecting and improving our local libraries – we are proud that Labour in Haringey has protected libraries despite unprecedented budget cuts from central government
How the Liberal Democrat record damages Harringay locally
- Backing to cuts to Haringey services 13 times deeper than Tory boroughs like Richmond. This has decimated parts of the voluntary sector.
- Supporting the pernicious ‘Bedroom Tax’, hitting hundreds of disabled people
- Supporting police cuts that have seen 130 officers lost from Haringey’s streets.
- Supporting the privatisation of our NHS and putting local health services at risk
People in Harringay believe in fairness and social justice and the Liberal Democrats have abandoned that all together. They have supported Pickles, Duncan Smith and Osborne all the way.
The Liberal Democrats talk down Harringay but they have no positive vision for improving the ward or the borough and dealing with the big challenges. The Liberal Democrats in Harringay ward offer support for their party’s legacy of broken promises and Harringay Labour offer the opportunity for residents to help us build and support a fairer more inclusive community.
We want to see improvements to the local environment which means tougher action on landlords, betting shops, planning and licensing breaches. We also want to see improved safety for pedestrians and will continue to campaign for a crossing at Alroy Rd, traffic calming measures and improvements to pavements and roads.
Please use all three of your votes on May 22nd for Harringay Labour.
Cllr Gina Adamou
Emine Ibrahim
James Ryan
The Labour Party Candidates for Harringay Ward
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Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Keith, not all disabilities are visible. I think you are making unfair assumptions.
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Permalink Reply by Keith Waterhouse on
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Black is not invisible though. And the majority of us with disability have a visible sign that we are. Our brains work, its our bodies that let us down. This was a missed oppurtunity. Perhaps Labour consider us to be bad for the image. The last black Labour councilor in St Anns Ward where I live was Brian Haley and they deselected him under a cloud as well.
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My disability is only visible when I have a seizure. Does that make me less disabled somehow? I would be interested to hear if you think potential candidates in St Ann's and Harringay were not selected on the grounds of their ethnicity or disability.
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No one asked them
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Asked who?
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The disabled or black people. Do you agree that black is not invisible?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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In St Ann's the Labour party have put up a modestly diverse list of candidates. Their selection process ensures that at least one woman is ALWAYS selected and as Emine has pointed out, there are Black residents who choose to stand in safer seats further east (one even lives in St Ann's). You can criticise them for a lot of things but definitely not this.
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But not so diverse it included the disabled or a black person. Image is at work here and nothing else.
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There are 57 council seats up for election and you want each ward (3 in each) to have a disabled candidate standing for each party? The libdems couldn't even find 57 people who lived in Haringey.
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I would like as many wards as possible to do more to encourage the disabled and the black community to put people forward for election into more positive roles. But image is everything.
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If there are disabled people out there who want to be candidates there is definitely room for them! Find me one who wanted to be a candidate but couldn't. It's just not a fair thing to bash the political parties with. Unless it's a safe seat they have trouble getting candidates.
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You think it takes a disabled person to look out for the rights of disabled people? You think it takes a black person to look out for the rights of black people? I suppose you think BAME candidate won't ONLY look out for the rights of their particular ethnicity?
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