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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Former Cllr Jeremy Corbyn in Harringay supporting Zena Brabazon

Residents on Beresford Rd got a lovely surprise this evening when a former Cllr for the ward knocked on their door to remind the to vote tommorrow!

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Permalink Reply by stuart on July 28, 2016 at 9:31

Well , I'm NOT one of them , nothing more than a protest movement . The soon the labour party split , the better for me .

Permalink Reply by matt on July 28, 2016 at 7:39

OK, so we have had a visit from the leader of the Green party & the leader of the Labour party ... for little old Harringay ward ... for a by-election. What's going on? 

Permalink Reply by John McMullan on July 28, 2016 at 8:04

A glut of politicians with parliament closed and no other elections on.

Permalink Reply by Philip on July 28, 2016 at 7:42

delighted to see Jeremy in Harringay. The change that is sweeping the Labour Party will find its way into Haringey Council. Lord knows we need it. Just had to correct a post on Facebook which had photos of Jeremy and Zena canvassing in Tottenham!

Permalink Reply by Cllr Emina Ibrahim on July 28, 2016 at 8:03
Hi Philip the Tottenham reference refers to the constituency Harringay ward is in
Permalink Reply by matt on July 28, 2016 at 9:23

Philip, a toad on a toadstool could get in as Labour Party leader with an anti austerity msg! It's not Jeremy per se who has particularly made the uprising within the Labour voting electorate happen. He has simply reflected what people have been feeling. But he won't be able to bring in the middle ground voter in the next election unfortunately so Labour needs a leader who can ... and at the moment he's in New York. 

Permalink Reply by John McMullan on July 28, 2016 at 10:43

The middle ground/class voters are being utterly destroyed, he'll get them.

"Philip, a toad on a toadstool could get in as Labour Party leader with an anti austerity msg!" <- Owen Smith. #fail

Permalink Reply by andy h on July 28, 2016 at 12:09
I'd be very surprised if he does.
Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on July 28, 2016 at 21:46

To stick to Cllr Ibrahim's original post, rather than go wandering off like everyone else here, I very happily voted for Jeremy to represent this Ward in 1978 and 1982 and would have voted for him also in 1974 had I not been living in a Sierra Leonean ward at the time. The reasons? (a) Jeremy was an excellent Harringay councillor, and (b) he lived in Harringay Ward - on John McMullan's road, if I'm not mistaken. The reasons the wife and I have voted today for Karen Alexander is (a) she has been an excellent Harringay councillor and (b) she lives in Harringay Ward - on our road as it happens, but that's just a slightly parochial bonus. I have no doubt that Zena Brabazon would be an excellent Haringey councillor, too - indeed she has been.  Nevertheless, I'm sure Jeremy should find something else to occupy his time - like pruning back that damned (?Labour)rose-bush just outside his door before it removes his left eye one of these mornings in full view of the world's prying cameras.  

Permalink Reply by Angela on July 28, 2016 at 22:20

I agree (sort of)

Local politics is different to national politics imo and I vote accordingly.

JC turning up on my doorstep would not have influenced my vote at all. But Ms Brabazon on her own may have done so.

Permalink Reply by Admiral on July 29, 2016 at 15:19

Zena Brabazon would have won in Harringay without Jeremy Corbyn's eve of poll visit because she was a very convincing candidate on the doorstep. However, isn't it good that to see a Leader of the Opposition who is a real person who cares about where he started his political career rather than a slick creation of calculating spin doctors just out to exploit the next media opportunity? What he has done in the Labour Party is to restore its heart and rescue it from being a walking corpse, whether in power or not. By the way, Tony Blair's ghoulish appearance now rather reflects what New Labour became.

Permalink Reply by StephenBln on July 30, 2016 at 14:19

Tony Blair - The only labour leader ever to win three elections..  The far left push to take over the labour party is self defeating. What does 'restoring it's heart' really mean.? Going back to 1924, 1945 or Corbyn's revived 1983 policies ?  They are no answer to 2016 problems, so no chance in hell of winning a general election majority, as was recently seen in Spain, where Corbyn's friends, the hyped up Unidos Podemos, UP, failed the test too. But hey, who wants to win an election? As long as we feel good about ourselves. 

The far left, once it has monopolised the Labour Party trade mark, which is what the current battle is actually about, will soon find out that in opposition, a party can't change anything.

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