TOWER HAMLETS Executive Mayor John Biggs has taken a break from the big decisions involved in running a London borough and is now advising residents how to organise their food shopping and storage to save themselves money. The Executive Mayor ...
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Abjol Miah: in his own words
FORMER COUNCILLOR Abjol Miah has issued the following statement to explain why he is joining the Liberal Democrat Party. After consulting community members, supporters and family members I have, for the first time, decided to move on from fractious independents to ...
Read More »How to lose Respect and influence over people
CRASH! Late last night – Saturday, 14th July – the news broke. Abjol Miah has joined the Liberal-Democrats! This is Bastille Day – the day, in 1789, when the people stormed the Bastille prison, attempting to release political prisoners. This ...
Read More »Corbyn congrats for England but silence from Jim & John
LABOUR LEADER Jeremy Corbyn led the way for Labour yesterday with a succinct tweet praising both England manager Gareth Southgate and the team’s players for their performance in the Football World Cup. The same excitement came from London Mayor Sadiq ...
Read More »Biggs backs down on pay for young workers
JOHN BIGGS HAS backed down in the face of a campaign by Unite the Union and agreed that young people working in Council leisure facilities run by GLL should receive he full London Living Wage (LLL) – but he hasn’t ...
Read More »Biggsmania loses out to the footie
THEY MAY HAVE come out in their thousands to vote for him in two months ago – 44,865 of them, up from just 32,754 in 2015 – but Tower Hamlets voters were not coming out to Executive Mayor John Biggs’s Ask ...
Read More »Biggs moves to close nurseries
JOHN BIGGS, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has moved to close the borough’s last remaining three day care nurseries. The move comes after Labour ran a campaign to keep the nurseries open when the former Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, proposed closing ...
Read More »Nursery campaigners have their cake – and eat it
CAMPAIGNERS FROM Save Our Nurseries tried to find a crumb of comfort in their campaign this weekend – by taking a giant cake to an event where John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, was due to speak. The campaigners ...
Read More »Biggs under fire as he moves to close nurseries
“HE’S NO George Lansbury, is he?” was the response from one mum on finding out that John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, is going to close the remaining three Council day care nurseries in Tower Hamlets. “Is this how he’s going ...
Read More »Nursery campaigners surprise Biggs at suffragette event
IN A TRIBUTE TO the direct action of the suffragettes, Tower Hamlets Save Our Nurseries campaigners pressed their cause with John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, on one of his first engagements outside the Town Hall since he was ...
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