It isn’t funny, actually. But there is a bleak comedy about the battle for supremacy between the two different versions of the Labour Party in Haringey – the Jeremy Corbyn model and the one other Labour members belong to – for control of the borough after next May’s elections. To the average person, the idea […]
From tonight, branches of the Labour Party in Haringey begin choosing their candidates for next year’s borough elections in an atmosphere made inclement by anger, division and mistrust. Across the city, members enthused by the rise of Jeremy Corbyn have secured control of branch and constituency organisations, but this tide of change has yet to produce a […]
Predictions that supporters of Jeremy Corbyn would unseat Haringey Council’s Labour leader Claire Kober over her administration’s extensive redevelopment plans for the borough have proved resoundingly wrong, with the Seven Sisters ward councillor winning tonight’s re-selection vote by a massive 64 votes to 19. Kober’s fellow Seven Sisters councillor Dhiren Basu was also comfortably nominated to […]
The campaign to replace leaders of the Labour group currently running Haringey with councillors more aligned with Jeremy Corbyn has been quite widely documented, not least by this website. Protesters have found a potent focus in the Haringey Development Vehicle (HDV), a partnership the council intends to form with property giant Lendlease for redeveloping large quantities of […]
The effects of the transformation of the Labour Party’s membership under Jeremy Corbyn have been felt in many parts of the city, with the Momentum wing winning elections for positions running constituency organisations and ward branches. So far, though, there’s been no mass breakthrough by it into the ranks of candidates selected to contest next May’s borough […]
Haringey is the London borough where Labour Party members strongly supportive of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership have been making the biggest inroads into local party structures. Earlier this month, candidates backed by Momentum won clean sweeps of officer positions in ward branches and in the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency party, where long standing chair and London […]
Candidates backed by Momentum, the activist group formed to support Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party, have won a clean sweep of elections to executive positions in the Hornsey and Wood Green constituency Labour Party (CLP), dislodging in the process veteran trade unionist Steve Hart from his position as chair. The defeat of Hart, […]
Candidates backed by Momentum, the activist group formed to support Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party, have won election to a string of key positions in branches of the party in Haringey. Annual general meetings held in the Alexandra, Bounds Green, Crouch End, Hornsey, Noel Park and Stroud Green wards have seen sitting branch officers and […]
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