Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
We need a more democratic council
Unfortunately many people will vote blindly for Labour at the upcoming council elections.
I have voted Labour all my life but on this occasion I'm voting for someone else because I believe it is extremely unhealthy to have a council that is so Labour dominated.
I won't go into the many issues that this arrogant council have created or do nothing about but I would like to urge people to find an alternative to vote for that might be a start to putting this council in check and work towards a council system that is more democratic and works for more people.
Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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If you join the Labour party and take part in their selection meetings you can help deselect some of the people you don't like which gets around the very common problem of everyone else just voting Labour. Do it soon though.
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Permalink Reply by Karen Alexander on
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Or better still vote for our liberal democrat candidate Josh Dixon. Josh is young, energetic, hard working, committed and has lots of ideas on improving the area. Its only between Labour and the libdems here so it would be brilliant to add to our number on the council. Labour councilors really don't have to do anything much in this part of the borough to keep getting elected (though many of course are hard working) but libdems have to work tirelessly to earn their keep and they really do. Voting for Josh is good for local democracy, good for the residents and good for the borough because it will go towards a more balanced council - a win win in my opinion.
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Permalink Reply by Ronald Stewart on
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Cheeky reminder here Karen that the Green Party has a standing vote of 21.2% in St Ann's compared to Lib Dems 6.8%, so moving your vote to the Green Party is far more likely to be effective in changing the council composition, if that's your goal ;-)
We all benefit from Green local activism in St Ann's as well as a fresh oversight into council actions. We've done air pollution monitoring here that wasn't being done otherwise - and found shocking levels even at our school gates. We have supported StART's community housing project on the St Ann's Hospital site, linking them up to the GLA.
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I would welcome Lib Dem and Green councillors into the council! The more the merrier.
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I seriously and respectfully suggest that people that are thinking of ditching Labour have picked the wrong time. I have no doubt the Labour candidate Noah Tucker will bring a much needed breath of fresh air to the Council. If my knowledge of him is correct he'll fight tooth and nail against the austerity and creeping privatisation / outsourcing that has seen a steady decline in services. He is also a huge advocate of genuinely affordable housing. There is no doubt in my mind that having Noah inside the Labour 'tent' will serve us all better that a.n.other attempting to do I am not sure what from outside!
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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I see he's also an 'anti-semitism in the labour party' denier.. perhaps even a hezbollah supporter and a holocaust denier too?
https://www.facebook.com/stopthesuspensions/posts/1026463830742010
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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This is your dry humour, Stephen?
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The accusations of anti semitism are all brought by supporters of Israel and are thinly veiled attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, who has a record of support for ALL oppressed people including the Palestinians who suffer mightily from Israels occupation.
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Supporter of Israel..? A generalisation that just doesn't hold up. You are purposely trying to blur the boundaries between the current Israeli government and the right of a Jewish State to exist.
The majority are in agreement about support for all oppressed people, but the Labour left's hatred for Israel goes way beyond that. I'm thinking here of Corbyn's friend Livingstone, who was succesfully silenced before the Corbyn vote.
It would be good for Noah to make his position clear again, although I think he's already done that.
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If you're looking for generalisations that don't hold up, Stephen, can I suggest you consider your own sweeping statements.
I don't know what "the Labour Left" as a body thinks or feels. Or indeed who this Labour Left is supposed to be. The idea that 'it' has a collective "hatred for Israel" makes no sense to me at all.
I've been a member of the Labour Party for over forty years. And of the Tottenham Labour Party for over thirty years. And while that's a limited sample of people, I don't recall a single occasion when I heard or read a Party member saying they opposed the right of Israel to exist.
I'm not a member of "Momentum" and hadn't seen link you gave, Stephen. But curious I clicked through and read it. The so-called resolution is more like a short essay. But I couldn't find anything objectionable. Its call for "a single, secular state in which Jews and Palestinians enjoy equal rights and live in harmony", seems an unlikely dream. But to me doesn't indicate hatred.
If Noah Tucker is elected I expect he'll be spending a lot more of his own time trying to change the Council's so-called regeneration policies. And on other local issues, among them education, health, crime, social services, parks and traffic. As well as on casework in his ward; and hopefully trying to reform the dysfunctional way this Council runs.
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I didn't realize this thread was about big Jezza. I thought it was about our council, Noah and other candidates.
I don't really see why you want to drag the beardy one in to it Phillip.
Surely he's dealt with all those issues already. Didn't Dame Shami publish a report into all those issues and absolved all concerned.
Surely that's the end of that.
Now can we get back to Haringey
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...and in the meantime, vote in anything, an elephant will do, as long as it has a Labour vest on it?
@Alan Stanton.. come, come.. you certainly do know what the Labour left thinks.. It would be shocking if you didn't. That type of put down may have worked with your former constituents.. Next you'll be telling me I don't know where Tottenham is. Have no idea, have never been there.
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