Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Local councillors and Terrapin Communications
I wasn't going to say this as I'm loathe to criticise someone's choice of employer for their first job. I did however think it was a bit off that Adam Jogee was working as a researcher for Terrapin Communications. Why did I think this was off? Well, their list of clients included the three firms currently bidding to run a large part of the council'sour land in a 20 year "partnership" deal. I asked around and was told that he was a good boy and was being responsible about it. He's now the Majority Chief Whip.
So then I come across THIS POST on OpinioN8 which is Crouch End's version of HoL. There it states that
Councillor Kober has dined six times at Terrapin's expense, once in Cannes. Detail on the lunches decreases over time.
Councillor Strickland was also at this dinner in Cannes and has dined at Terrapin's expense another four times.
Councillor Jason Arthur - twice, recently, with Peter Bingle and again with another partner, Christian Klapp.
Go see the post on OpinioN8, click on the links. See for yourself. Adam was a just graduated student when he became a Labour councillor, now he's a researcher for perhaps the country's best known Tory lobbyist.
Martin Ball pointed some of this out to us about 18 months ago and we were all a bit meh. Presumably we consider it slightly off to worry about who pays for someone else's lunch. However, Terrapin's client list should give us cause for concern given what is also happening with Hornsey Town Hall. Have we been duped here?
Tags for Forum Posts: corruption, haringey, haringey development vehicle, hornsey town hall, opinion8, terrapin
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on
-
This poetry frames it well
-
-
While the internal battle continues, residents will continue to suffer.
-
-
I'd say our hospital facilities across the borough the biggest sell off, but granted that was the NHS 'spoke and hub' decimation plan, although not with the kind if lack of resistance I would never expect from our representatives, sadly I have come to expect it now.
-
Permalink Reply by EMC2 on
-
Terrapin seem to be on good terms with Haringey. Laura Cooper's FOI response just refers to Terrapin Communications' Ellie De Forest-Brown as 'Elli, Terrapin Comms".
-
Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
-
Yes they are. I even have a new follower on Twitter who is their CEO.
-
Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
-
- "If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.”
A quote attributed to Warren Buffett. The term also used by other versions of this saying is "sucker".
But let's consider this as more like multi-dimensional chess. Is Adam Jogee aware that he's Claire Kober's pawn? Her patsy? I've no idea.Is Claire Kober aware that she and her close allies are complicit in a far larger 'game'? Which, in my own view, is a plan from the Stuart Lipton report and by various property owners and developers, to enable so-called regeneration to regenerate very large sums for their bank balances, by destroying, exploiting and rebuilding large parts of Tottenham and other parts of Haringey. In the process dispossessing many of the existing residents in what has been called social cleansing.
So my sympathies for Mr Jogee are limited. Especially as the "... great deal of danger with regard to income/employment" you mention, is shared with thousands of other residents who appear rather more vulnerable.
-
-
Silence from the council and Terrapin. They're just hunkering down and hoping it will blow over.
-
-
And silence from most of HoL too. So one of our senior councillors, who is currently whipping his party into line over the sale of Hornsey Town Hall, is employed by a lobbying firm who represent one of the bidders. We wonder at the lack of democratic decision making that goes on in Haringey, especially with regard to planning and public land, and never point the finger at ourselves for actually not caring about it at the source.
-
Permalink Reply by Adrian Hackney on
-
One of the owners of Terrapin, Peter Bingle has tweeted a little about the probity of such an arrangement. Click on the links to see the original, and the replies.
June 2014 - Should an agency take on property and planning work in a borough when it employs a consultant who is a councillor in the area? A dilemma?
June 2014 - Who checks the activities of councillors who advise property clients on planning? Is this a scandal about to break? Perhaps it is ...
June 2014 - What is the PRCA view of existing councillors working for public affairs agencies involved in property and planning? Are there guidelines?
June 2014 - How does an agency manage a councillor who is involved in planning in a borough being part of a team that advises clients in that borough?
The dates on these suggest PB had his eye on someone else, other than Terrapin? But since 29th Feb 2016, the questions all relate to him.
-
-
Adam is not just a councillor, he is the Chief Whip. His job is to "convince" counciilors to toe the party line. In this case because the buyers of Hornsey Town Hall are represented by his employer there is a very, very clear conflict.
-
-
One of the participants in the consortium buying HTH have at some time been represented by his employers
-
-
He would have registered a conflict of interest.
Unrelated but is it a coincidence that the Fairview Homes Comm's guy was an ex Labour Councilor from Enfeild,
or is politics taking over from the Masons now, just wave the card.
Reminds me of Ab Fab's 'Eddie Pie Hands...' fingers in lots of pies!
© 2024 Created by Hugh.
Powered by
