LONDON BANGLA COMMENT: WHERE HAS the Labour Party gone? Well, yes – into Government. And ministers don’t need the Labour Party website so much, as their press releases can now appear on ministerial press sites. But have they forgotten about ...
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Don’t we just need more homes?
TOWER HAMLETS Council has been successful in applying to the Make Every Adult Matter (MEAM) Network. Yes, we’re delighted to. What does it mean? No idea, really. The announcement came in a Council press release dated 23rd October. This much ...
Read More »Nasty, dangerous – and banned from next June
THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT has done a good thing by promising to enact one of the previous Tory Government’s plans. Now there’s a sentence you don’t hear often. The cause of all this joy is that the Government has announeced that ...
Read More »Labour flip-flops like a man on a beach
LONDON BANGLA COMMENT: LABOUR COUNCILLORS are having a hard time of it lately – looking for new ground to occupy now that their party is in national government but is still giving local government a hard time. For many voters, ...
Read More »Winter fuel: Rahman to the rescue!
IT’S NOT THE first time that Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor Lutfur Rahman has stepped in to save the people of Tower Hamlets from Government cuts. But it is the first time he has had to save us from Labour Party ...
Read More »Take action for Gaza!
ARE YOU funding the genocide in Gaza? You may not want to send guns to the Israeli state so they can murder more Palestinians. But someone is paying for those weapons – and it may be you. Now the Tower ...
Read More »London Bangla Press Club condemns violence in Bangladesh
THE LONDON BANGLA Press Club is deeply worried about the escalating violence in Bangladesh, which has seen a large number of students and journalists lose their lives. Students began protesting at the Government’s approach to recruiting to the civil service ...
Read More »Starmer can’t undo own goal on Bangladeshis
“I’M SORRY I upset you about ‘Bangladeshi Removals’” read the headline on the Evening Standard article describing how Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer tried to limit the damage from his careless comments on Bangladeshi migrants. Sorry? Sir Keir Starmer? Yes, ...
Read More »Table for thirty-eight thousand and two, please!
IT WAS NO quiet lunch for two on Thursday as Mayor Lutfur Rahman and Deputy Mayor Cllr Maium Talukdar went to Swanlea School to celebrate the launch of free school meals for secondary school pupils. “Thrilled to launch free school ...
Read More »Ekota Academy to host warm bank for Redbridge and Barkkng & Dagenham residents
Muhammad Talha The volunteers at Ekota Academy play a huge part in the sporting club providing excellent grassroots community programmes. For young people there’s cricket, football and martial arts, and for the elderly there’s Zumba and fitness classes for women, ...
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