Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
St Ann's By Election - who is standing?
Does anyone know who is standing in the upcoming By Election?
The only incumbent Councillor in the ward who actually does anything is standing down due to disgust with Haringey Labour and the Starmer regime.
Turnout is typically low 20%. I imagine it will be even lower again. If the Greens, LibDems or even Reform put up a credible local candidate they stand a very decent chance of winning.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Nominations don’t close until 4pm on Friday 14 March
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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IN RESPONSE to the resignation, the official statement from the ruling Party, mentions delivery of a "greener" Haringey. No surprise there are no details.
Apart from the usual production, at great length, of action plans, in practice there is little evidence of action.
I was a bit surprised that, rather than resigning as a Member, Cllr Hymas did not decide to join the council group of Independent Socialists. However, I was pleased to note in the resignation statement:
… ensuring our streets are for people, not just high polluting vehicles.
I hope all the candidates will speak up for the environment before the election and that the successful candidate might stick up for this after the by-election.
It is largely forgotten, but a meeting of Full Council unanimously declared a climate emergency. It was in March 2019.
Such gestures were fashionable at the time.
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Permalink Reply by Peter Chalk
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Why make cheap political points when councils have been cut to the bone by Lib Dem and successive governments? Lib Dem government did nothing for the environment.
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Permalink Reply by JulieB on
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I had an email on Friday saying Stephen Tawiah has been chosen as the candidate. We've had Labour and Green canvassing already this week.
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Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside) on
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Stephen Tawiah, human rights lawyer. a likely winner to add to the largesse blob.
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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth M
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who's bio says he was born and bred in Tottenham.
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We actually need two new councillors for St Anns ward. The remaining incumbent, Ms Holly Harrison-Munane has not been seen or heard since the last election. She has also been absent from 89% of council meetings as evidenced on the Haringey website below.
https://www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=13539
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Apologies - it's Harrison-Mullane not Munane. Irish names are always tricky!
Anyway, Ms Holly appears to be on the Momentum fast-track scheme. The aim is it get young Momentum apparatchiks into councillor roles as a stepping stone. I object to this sort of thing. It robs other people who would actually take the role seriously of the opportunity to help improve their local neighbourhood.
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Permalink Reply by Carol Tennant
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My understanding is that Holly is or has been in hospital for a lengthy stay.
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That is unfortunate and I wish her a speedy recovery.
However, you'll see from the link above to the attendance record that for the 89% of council meetings for which she was absent, apologies were only sent in advance a handful of times.
If she is consistently unable to attend meetings for health or any other reasons she is unable to fulfill the requirements of the role and should step down.
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Yes, a Ghanaian-British. Quite an impressive bio here. Registered as a barrister and solicitor England and also in Ghana, he specialises in immigration and asylum law, prison law and public law. I imagine he has the skills, motivation and hipefully time to really represent the residents of St Anns.
The things I think he could help tackle are:
- support for schools in St Anns ward
- permanent fixing of the potholes and deteriorating roads that put cyclists and motorists at risk
- ways of reducing congestion and pollution on West Green Road resulting from the impostion of the LTNs (which I quite like to be honest but the flow on effects to other parts of the ward have really negatively impacted residents especially on perimeter roads)
- antisocial behaviour (street drinking, drug dealing, parcel theft)
- improvement to the 'street scene' on West Green Road
- the lack of supervision and control of people with complex needs often resulting from drug and psychotic substance abuse who are housed in residential homes in the ward. Some of these men roam around unsupervised sometimes intimidating residents (and putting themselves at risk by wandering into traffic and being aggressive)
- more trees on footpaths especially on West Green Rd to partially address the pollution
- better cycling infrastructure (the north/south route through the now quiet Blackboy Lane and Warwick Gardens is fine but danger ensues when cyclists have to then join West Green Rd, St Anns Rd or Green Lanes
Actually, I'm starting to sound like a Greens supporter... but vote for local lad Mr.Tawiah anyway because he'll be more able to influence matters as a Labour member than an isolated Greens Councillor.
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Permalink Reply by HoL Site Admin
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Tawiah claims on Twitter to have been born and bred in N15. So unless you know different, he is British. For the sake of accuracy, the statement you added to your post to the effect that he is Ghanian has been corrected. Given that Tawiah has chosen also to register for the bar in Ghana, we can assume that he is very proud of his Ghanaian heritage. So I have used the phrase British-Ghanaian.
Your statement that he "Seems to specialise helping people overcome hurdles to immigrate to the UK", an honest mistake I'm sure, has been replaced with a quote from his official work bio, that "He specialises in immigration and asylum law, prison law and public law"
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