Politics

THE VERBAL JOUSTING between Tower Hamlets councillors has hotted up as the Cabinet Member for Environment, Cllr Amina Ali, has joined in the debate over the current parking consultation. The Council is currently conducting a consultation over parking in zones B1, ...

THE LABOUR Group of Councillors have broken their silence on the parking consultation in Bow and Mile End currently being conducted by Tower Hamlets Council. Earlier last week the Council indicated that it was consulting all residents and some businesses ...

AS HIS PETITION on parking breaks through the 5,000 signature mark, Cllr Ohid Ahmed is calling on John Biggs to provide some clarity on the consultation currently underway. The Council has begun a consultation with residents and businesses in controlled ...

COUNCILLORS and residents united in questioning new plans from John Bigg to charge more for parking in Tower Hamlets, is it possible that Labour Councillor Khales Uddin Ahmed has come to the rescue? The following letter has been circulating on ...

INDEPENDENT Councillor Ohid Ahmed launched a petition in response to John Biggs’s sham consultation on parking in Bow and Mile End – and within hours over 3,000 people had signed it. The petition calls on Tower Hamlets Mayor to stop ...

Cllr RABINA KHAN has condemned as “misleading and disingenuous” a consultation which Tower Hamlets Mayor John Bigg has launched on parking in the east of the Borough. Biggs has made no formal statement about why parking should change in the ...

TWO LABOUR Shadow Ministers issued a joint statement on 12th August to mark International Youth Day. Cat Smith, Shadow Minister for Voter Engagement and Youth Affairs, and Kate Osamor, Shadow International Development Secretary, spoke up for the rights of young people – ...

THE CRACKS ARE beginning to widen as UKIP enters yet another leadership contest. The Party did very badly in the General Election – leading to the resignation of the then Leader Paul Nuttal. The process of finding his successor may ...

Hanna-Mariam Chowdhury London is the world’s greatest city for watching the very British sport of football, with fans travelling across the nation and the globe to enjoy the London matchday experience.  London’s success – including that of its football clubs – depends ...

TOMMY ROBINSON, former Leader of the English Defence League (EDL), is backing Anne Marie Waters to be the next Leader of UKIP. Waters is one of eleven UKIP members who are taking part in the contest to select a new ...