Politics

WHY HAS Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs ordered the closure of the Council Meals on Wheels Service, which provides meals to vulnerable adults? Service users and community activists have been raising concerns about what will happen when the service ...

LABOUR PARTY members in the Ilford South constituency have chosen Sam Tarry to be their candidate at the next General Election. The selection is subject to endorsement by Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC), which is thought to be a formality. ...

SUPPORT FOR vulnerable adults in Tower Hamlets is again being reduced as Executive Mayor John Biggs wields the axe on Meals on Wheels. It is understood that the service will end just before the end of the financial year, in ...

THE LABOUR PARTY is close to announcing who its candidate in Poplar & Limehouse will be at the next General Election – following the announcement by Jim “Dim Jim” Fitzpatrick that he will not contest the seat again. Campaigning by ...

THE LABOUR PARTY has halted its selection contest – which was to have voted today to find a candidate to contest Ilford South at the next General Election. The news came as the selection process was about to conclude. Labour’s ...

AS TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets every tactic the remainers can throw at him with not so much a straight bat as a hook shot aiming for the boundary, it seems that we might be welcoming a General Election ...

THERE CAN’T BE many Councils in the UK which have banned charities from using their local parks – but Tower Hamlets Council is one of them, with officers’ reasoning only being discovered after Freedom of Information Requests. The Big Ride, ...

AS BORIS JOHNSON tried to get away with cynical manoeuvres inside Parliament, activists from Tower Hamlets joined thousands of protestors outside Parliament – at a demonstration called just hours earlier. John McDonnell MP addressed protestors, with Diane Abbott MP lining ...

THE TORY way of doing foreign policy used to be to send out the British Navy to resolve any disputes with other countries by firing a few cannon – or threatening to do. New Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ...

A LABOUR COUNCILLOR has published a video on his Facebook page of a speech he has given criticising the Labour Party. He claims that the Party’s decision to run an All-Woman Shortlist (AWS) to select Jim Fitzpatrick MP’s successor in ...