Harry Palmer looks at Lutfur Rahman’s policy record. There are many reasons to wish Lutfur Rahman success in this coming election. But there is greater national significance beyond just its effects in Tower Hamlets. It was 20 years ago this ...
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Why we must all put Tower Hamlets First
Well, here we are; three and a half years later, and it doesn’t seem like five minutes since 300 people stood on a frosty Old Ford Road at gone 2am one Friday morning in October 2010 and cheered their heads ...
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 »The case against dog whistle media
Harry Palmer looks at the aftermath of the Panorama programme. The Metropolitan police have found no credible evidence of fraud in John Ware’s Panorama dossier on Lutfur Rahman. They have made it quite clear that if the audit currently being ...
Read More »Labour denial answers no questions
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 ...
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 »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 ...
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