While Cllr Rabina Khan has spent the last full week of the campaign concentrating on how to create more jobs for unemployed women, Labour candidate John Biggs (a Member of the London Assembly) is working hard on getting a second job ...
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Trouble comes in threes for Labour’s Biggs
They say that trouble comes in threes – and the last weekend of the campaign to be mayor of Tower Hamlets saw Labour red-faced over three incidents as they made their third attempt to take the Town Hall’s top post. ...
Read More »Boris betters Biggs
We were all surprised earlier this year when Labour’s John Biggs declared his intention to carry on as a GLA Councillor for City and East London (the City, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Barking & Dagenham) while also serving as Mayor of ...
Read More »Biggs: it all rests on the Tory votes
As the polls closed on this momentous election day, all the political parties agreed on one thing: it really is too close to call the mayoral election. That is not to say that the winning margin will be small, though ...
Read More »Lutfur Rahman in shifty pro-Biggs escapade
Friday’s our day off in East London News: and what better way to spend it, given that it is the last Friday of the election campaign, than touring the Borough’s mosques to get the last minute vibes? Imagine our surprise, ...
Read More »Biggs: gone fishing?
One of the reasons why the number of people employed in the UK has gone up is that as it’s so hard to get a decent full-time job, people are having to do two or three part-time jobs to make ...
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 »Labour left red-faced after “Stop John” tweet
It wouldn't be the first time the local Labour Party's dropped its own official candidate, so there was more interest than surprise yesterday, when the Party's official Twitter account
Read More »Biggs is the members’ choice
So in the battle between the traditionalists and the modernists, traditionalist John Biggs has
Read More »Biggs -v- Boris on 999
London Assembly Member John Biggs made a splash at the GLA meeting on 31st October when he took on London Mayor Boris Johnson over threats to East London’s emergency services.
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