There was new embarrassment for Haringey’s embattled Labour-run council this week, as ‘notes’ from a summer summit on council services leaked to the Liberal Democrats show that even Labour’s top councillors overwhelmingly rate council services as “bad” or “ugly”.

The summit, held over the summer, with the council’s Management Board and the ruling Labour party executive of leading councillors, included an exercise where participants were asked to highlight council services as “good”, “bad” or “ugly”.

Although they rated 34 areas as good, a further 37 were rated as bad, with comments including “lack of consultation”, “lighting needs to be improved more” and warnings about the “increase in council tax”.

Even more remarkably, a further 33 areas were described as “ugly” by those in charge, including dumped rubbish, abandoned cars, post-16 education, social services and the lack of confidence from local schools in Labour councillors.

Lib Dem leader Lynne Featherstone comments:”Residents have known for years how badly Labour is running Haringey. Now even Labour’s own councillors have admitted in private that they know their record is dreadful.”