{"id":1980,"date":"2014-04-04T09:13:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T09:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/londonbanglanews.com\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2014-04-04T09:13:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T09:13:55","slug":"labours-hate-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londonbangla.com\/bangla\/?p=1980","title":{"rendered":"Labour\u2019s hate campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1981\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/londonbanglanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/5-panorama.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1981\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1981\" alt=\"Panorama - The Mayor and Our Money\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/londonbanglanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/5-panorama-300x169.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panorama &#8211; The Mayor and Our Money<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Labour Councillors provide the sources for Panorama allegations: <strong>Labour\u2019s hate campaign<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1982\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/londonbanglanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rachael.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1982\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1982\" alt=\"Cllr Rachael Saunders\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/londonbanglanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/rachael-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cllr Rachael Saunders<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cllr Rachael Saunders after the first mayoral election in October 2010: \u201cWe\u2019ll win back the hearts and minds of the people of Tower Hamlets through demonstrating that we understand their concerns, and that only Labour can represent the whole of our community.\u201d Labour List, 23rd October 2010 Cllr Rachael Saunders, speaking at the Council and broadcast on Panorama \u2013 clearly stirring up division in the community:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cIs there any link between Mayor\u2019s funding of any community organisations in the borough and the mayor\u2019s campaign?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1983\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/londonbanglanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/helal.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1983\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1983\" alt=\"Helal Rahman\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/londonbanglanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/helal-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helal Rahman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Helal Rahman, former Labour Councillor, on Panorama: \u201cThe Mayor has already created an image in the community that he is someone very powerful.\u201d <em>(We have tried to find a quote from former Cllr Helal Rahman from before the Panorama programme, but we can find no record of him having said anything of interest during the course of his period in office.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1984\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/londonbanglanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/josh.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1984\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1984\" alt=\"Cllr Joshua Peck\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/londonbanglanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/josh-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cllr Joshua Peck<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cllr Joshua Peck, speaking on Panorama about the Mayor\u2019s involvement in giving grants to community groups: \u201cI am pretty sure there is some quid pro quo in some of those grant decisions being made. I am pretty sure that part of that quid pro quo is about supporting the mayor politically on the ground in the run up to an election because he doesn\u2019t have a political machine and he needs organisations out there making sure that the electorate turns out to vote for him.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>In 2013, Mr Aman Dalvi lodged a claim in the Employment Tribunal which was settled \u201cout of court\u201d, at a cost to Council Tax payers of over \u00a3100,000. Cllr Joshua Peck has, to date, refused to clarify why he was personally named in the legal proceedings which cost the Council so much money.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1985\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/londonbanglanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/motin.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1985\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1985\" alt=\"Cllr Motin Uz-Zaman\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/londonbanglanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/motin-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cllr Motin Uz-Zaman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cllr Motin Uz-Zaman, speaking at the Cabinet (broadcast on Panorama): \u201cThank you Mr Mayor. Can I just say that my disappointment again, Mayor Rahman, for your non-attendance and your again on the eighth occasion that you have declined to attend the Overview and Scrutiny Committee again.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Cllr Uz-Zaman then left the Cabinet meeting. He attends Cabinet, but declines to stay after he has given his O&amp;S report \u2013 it looks as if he does not want to have an overview of what is discussed at Cabinet (or to scrutinise it).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The man they love to hate:<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1986\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/londonbanglanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Mayor-Lutfur-Rahman-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1986\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1986\" alt=\"Mayor Lutfur Rahman\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/londonbanglanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Mayor-Lutfur-Rahman-1-244x300.jpg?resize=244%2C300\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Lutfur Rahman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211; Most social homes built in the UK<br \/>\n&#8211; Restored EMA when the Government cut it<br \/>\n&#8211; Restored grants for uni students when the Government took them away<br \/>\n&#8211; Restoring Poplar Baths l Several national awards for good Council services<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is really uniting the Borough?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tower Hamlets Labour leaders: they still think they rule an empire in which the Asians behave like the white man wants&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour Councillors provide the sources for Panorama allegations: Labour\u2019s hate campaign Cllr Rachael Saunders after the first mayoral election in October 2010: \u201cWe\u2019ll win back the hearts and minds of the people of Tower Hamlets through demonstrating that we understand their concerns, and that only Labour can represent the whole of our community.\u201d Labour List, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-20"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - 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