Politics

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 ...

THE COUNCIL that banned a The Big Ride, a charity raising money for children in Gaza, from one of its local parks seems to have let a shadowy centre-right think tank hold an ideas conference in another park. The Council’s ...

IS JOHN BIGGS guilty of double standards? This is the question local activists are asking after Tower Hamlets Council refused to allow The Big Ride for Palestine to end a charity bike ride in a public park as it may ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has been found out refusing to host a charity event organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) – on the grounds that it might be construed as anti-semitic. An article in The Guardian today has revealed that ...

JOHN BIGGS – Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets – has decided to cut the amount of money spent on Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). And now he’s consulting the public on how to do it. As usual, ...

CLLR RITA BEGUM has been nominated by the Westminster Labour Party to be a considered as the Labour candidate for the West Central seat on the Greater London Assembley (GLA). Cllr Begum has represented Maida Vale ward on Westminster Council ...