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PENSIONS promise of talks with the government over pensions, no such talks materialised. build up to ballot for industrial action in defence of their pensions with this lobby of parliament on May 9. Haringey: good ... but not good enough Tories and Liberal Democrats but still 400-500 less than Labour in each case. This was a consolidation of our support rather than a major step forward. Elsewhere in the Borough the Liberal Democrats made gains but fell short of their targets and the Borough remains under New Labour control.
There were positives to take from the campaign - not least that the turnout on Broadwater Farm Estate rose from 25% at the General Election to about 45% showing that the Respect campaign was engaging parts of the community that had not previously voted.
It is early to analyse the result but my view is that we held our support in sections of the community; Turkish, Somali, Muslim, where it was Local government workers were furious but not surprised when, after their planned industrial action at the time of the local elections was called off on the basis of the supposed In the meantime rail workers trade unions continued their
already strong - but have failed to attract other sections of the traditional Labour vote despite widespread disenchantment (even among its own members) with the New Labour government. There is now nearly two years until further elections (barring by-elections) time which must be used to establish Respect as a campaigning force in Haringey outside of and which beyond the (still essential) opposition to the occupation of Iraq. The membership base still remains largely composed of the SWP and Day-mer and increasing this must be a focus - both in the estates and areas where our existing votes lie, and beyond that in the local labour movement and nade umous.