Politics

JOHN “NO MATES” BIGGS is becoming increasingly isolated as he tries to justify imposing new, worse terms and conditions on the Council workforce – despite trade union members voting consistently against the changes. While Councillors are not queueing up to support ...

Marks & Spencer is the latest major retailer to announce job losses in the wake of falling sales over the Coronavirus lockdown. Nearly 1,000 jobs are due to go, mostly in store management and head office. The job cuts are ...

DAVE PRENTIS, General Secretary of Unison, has made it quite clear why he believes that Executive Mayor John Biggs – and the majority of the Labour Councillors – are wrong to impose the Tower Rewards contracts on the Council workforce. ...

DAVID may well have found a way to beat Goliath, but no one is laying odds that Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs will succeed in defeating one of the UK’s largest trade unions in the Tower Rewards saga. On ...

THE COURT OF APPEAL has today ruled that Shamima Begum should be permitted to return to the UK to contest the UK Government’s decision to revoke her British citizenship. The Government has responded to today’s Court of Appeal decision by ...

EMAIL IS A quick and efficient way of contacting people, yes? Not always: when it comes to contacting the Tower Hamlets Council Communications Team, you may be better off walking over to the Town Hall, standing outside – and hollering ...

JOHN BIGGS has displayed the consistency of Boris Johnson explaining the relaxation of lockdown rules as he presides over the first boroughwide strike of Tower Hamlets Council workers in living memory.   All we need is for Matt Lucas to ...

Cllr Nazir Ahmed FRSA – barrister, writer, analyst and public representative – calls on the Home Office to lift the “No Recourse to Public Funds” restriction. No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) is a standard condition applied to those staying in ...

KEIR STARMER has taken his first step towards silencing dissent in the Labour Party – by sacking Rebecca Long Bailey from the Shadow Cabinet. During the leadership election, Starmer said that he wanted to unite the Labour Party. Old cynics ...

JOHN BIGGS is to sack the entire Council workforce on Monday, 6th July in order to impose new terms and conditions at work upon them. Biggs was elected on a Labour Party manifesto – and trade unions are now wondering ...