Politics

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 ...

ONCE AGAIN, Tower Hamlets veteran politician Helal Abbas Uddin has seen the Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC) take a decision which affects his political future. But this time, rather than being in his favour, the NEC has dashed his ...

“I’M NOT LISTENING” is the message Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs sent to residents and councillors last Friday, 16th August. Just two days after councillors on the Overview & Scrutiny Committee (O&S) asked him to reconsider his decision to ...

CONTROVERSIAL EAST HAM MP Stephen Timms took time out to visit a holiday club at a local primary school last week. The Club was part of Sainsbury’s Active Kids scheme, which supports activities in 70 locations across the UK. The ...

COUNCILLORS IN Tower Hamlets have asked Executive Mayor John Biggs to think again about how the Council’s housing stock is managed. Their main concern was the very flimsy consultation exercise on which the Mayor relied when he took his recent ...