On Wednesday evening last week, Tower Hamlets First put out a press release stating that Professor Michael Keith, former leader of the Council, had written a document in 1995 in which he claimed John Biggs had written material which was ...
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Read More »Labour’s splits on racism go back 20 years
An extraordinary memo, written by former Labour Councillor – and former Council Leader –Michael Keith has revealed that Labour’s internal splits on the issue of race go back nearly 20 years. In the memo, Michael Keith twice accused John Biggs, ...
Read More »Labour double standards on Council newspapers
London Labour stands divided as once again Tower Hamlets Labour members invent a special policy with which to attack Mayor Lutfur Rahman – without stopping to check what their own mayors are doing just a postcode away. Tower Hamlets was ...
Read More »Deafening silence and bizarre rambling greet “no fraud probe” news
It was interesting to hear that the Met had decided not to investigate Mayor Lutfur Rahman and/or the Town Hall for committing fraud or other criminal offences on the basis that “no credible evidence” had been supplied to “provide reasonable ...
Read More »Mayor Rahman: Met Police stop fraud investigation BEFORE IT HAS BEGUN
The Metropolitan Police Service has today issued a statement confirming that it is not launching an investigation into fraud in Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Town Hall – because the allegations of fraud made to date are not accompanied by any credible ...
Read More »RCN asks: where did the BME NHS Execs go?
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has hosted the launch of a major new report which reveals a shock decline in the level of black and minority ethnic (BME) representation on London’s NHS trust boards. Health academic Roger Kline’s research found ...
Read More »Is government Pickle Labour’s recipe?
Harry Palmer reflects on the close alliance between Labour and the Tories. This week Eric Pickles threw his spotlight on Tower Hamlets: but while he was shining his light on Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Council, he also brought the actions of ...
Read More »Labour’s Biggs so desperate for support he’s even asked Ken Livingstone!
Ken Livingstone is one of the few politicians to refuse to become embroiled in the hate campaign against Mayor Lutfur Rahman which began when party officials over-ruled local Labour Party members who had chosen the then Cllr Rahman to be ...
Read More »An insult to me; and an insult to the community
Cllr Anwar Khan to take grievance about Cllr Joshua Peck through Council channels “I’m not letting this drop. It’s a question of principle,” former Labour Councillor Anwar Khan, Bow West ward, told East London News. Cllr Khan was referring to ...
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