Metropolitan Police Service crime figures up to the end of March 2014 show that incidents classed as “Islamophobic crime” have nearly tripled, from 17 to 50 individual incidents. The increase coincides with the period of time in which Labour and ...
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Opposition parties’ timing drains Council coffers (a bit)
The BBC’s Panorama programme is in the news again. The allegations aired during the programme were not new: the “documentary” referred to Council grants made several months ago. Viewers saw former Labour Leader Cllr Josh Peck say that he was “pretty ...
Read More »Labour denial answers no questions
On Wednesday evening last week, Tower Hamlets First put out a press release stating that Professor Michael Keith, former leader of the Council, had written a document in 1995 in which he claimed John Biggs had written material which was ...
Read More »The new issue of East London News is now ready
ISSUE 01/24 ————— The new issue of EastLondonNews is now ready. You can browse the latest copy online. Use the link below to direct you to the website and simply click the front page of the paper to view full ...
Read More »Labour’s splits on racism go back 20 years
An extraordinary memo, written by former Labour Councillor – and former Council Leader –Michael Keith has revealed that Labour’s internal splits on the issue of race go back nearly 20 years. In the memo, Michael Keith twice accused John Biggs, ...
Read More »Labour double standards on Council newspapers
London Labour stands divided as once again Tower Hamlets Labour members invent a special policy with which to attack Mayor Lutfur Rahman – without stopping to check what their own mayors are doing just a postcode away. Tower Hamlets was ...
Read More »Deafening silence and bizarre rambling greet “no fraud probe” news
It was interesting to hear that the Met had decided not to investigate Mayor Lutfur Rahman and/or the Town Hall for committing fraud or other criminal offences on the basis that “no credible evidence” had been supplied to “provide reasonable ...
Read More »Mayor Rahman: Met Police stop fraud investigation BEFORE IT HAS BEGUN
The Metropolitan Police Service has today issued a statement confirming that it is not launching an investigation into fraud in Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Town Hall – because the allegations of fraud made to date are not accompanied by any credible ...
Read More »Labour’s Biggs so desperate for support he’s even asked Ken Livingstone!
Ken Livingstone is one of the few politicians to refuse to become embroiled in the hate campaign against Mayor Lutfur Rahman which began when party officials over-ruled local Labour Party members who had chosen the then Cllr Rahman to be ...
Read More »An insult to me; and an insult to the community
Cllr Anwar Khan to take grievance about Cllr Joshua Peck through Council channels “I’m not letting this drop. It’s a question of principle,” former Labour Councillor Anwar Khan, Bow West ward, told East London News. Cllr Khan was referring to ...
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