From their one-star rating, to one of the highest Council Taxes in London, to their failures in child protection, to the financial incompetence over Alexandra Palace, it’s the same story: high taxes but dreadful services.
Labour-run Haringey is one of the worst performing councils in London. Ofsted have said that when they inspected Haringey with regard to child protection – Haringey gave them misleading information.
Haringey Council spends money like water on consultants and temps and agency workers – and bungled plans that get aborted, wasting everyone’s time and money.
And Haringey Council likes snooping – using the powers granted originally to fight terrorism to now spy on all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons nothing to do with terrorism. However, when it comes to prosecuting fly tippers or enforcing planning applications – those appear to be areas they avoid. Much easier to target the law-abiding for cash than the criminals. With 40% of parking tickets refunded – they should be charged for wasting our time!
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