If Jeremy Corbyn is elected leader of the Labour Party, will Harringay get its first Blue Plaque? He was a ward councillor for Harringay and lived in Lausanne Rd.
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If you know the address on Lausanne Road I guess he can get a Harringay online Virtual Blue Plaque posted on http://www.communitywalk.com/harringay/london/blue_plaques_for_harr....
The press has given increased coverage to Jeremy Corbyn in recent months and I have noticed, with increasing discomfort, that some perfectly normal facts about him (for example that he has had a beard for many years and grows vegetables) have been adduced as though they support his reputation as a political eccentric holding radical left wing views. My friends on HoL will know that I too have had a beard for many years and grow vegetables and before the tendency to misread such associations gets out of hand, let me say that I have found nine other things in the press that I have in common with Jeremy Corbyn:
Heaven knows what certain journalists might make of this but I should like to make clear that none of it implies anything at all about his political views or mine.
[1] In my case to study statistics at evening classes.
[2] What is known here as a Lenin cap is merely the normal shape of men’s cap that was popular, especially in Poland, for much of the 20th century. Needless to say, in Poland, it has no association at all with Lenin and, if it had, only eccentrics would have worn them.
So far as I can discover, he might favour a Government Of All the Talents.
I think Richard only lives in Harringay because he can't afford Muswell HIll.
Well Dick, with apologies to the late Mercutio, may I say belatedly, "A plaque on both your houses!"
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