Just how did “Tower Hamlets Labour Party” degenerate out of political existence? Answer: That has had a great deal to do with the likes of its “leading” members typified by Helal Uddin “Abbas”.
Isn’t it astonishing that I am saying that I have not been able to get Helal Uddin “Abbas” to sit down and talk with me for even one hour in DECADES! Back to the start of this Commentary at the entrance to the Brady Centre.
Here is what I said to Abbas: I foresee that the “YES” campaign for a mayor system in Tower Hamlets will get the stamp if we don’t mobilise the Community to say NO. What are you doing? Abbas: I don’t think they will. We are doing the necessary to stop them. Muhammad Haque: Are you sure, Abbas? Abbas: Yes, Bhaisab!
I did not find that assurance representative of the evidence that I was seeing in the Community. There was no activities by the “Tower Hamlets Labour Party” at all about the implications of changing the Council from one of collective democratic organisation to an individual dictatorial undemocratic way.
True, the Labour Party “did” hold meetings. But every single one of those was contrived. And it appeared that Abbas did not want to hold meetings in every part of the Borough. Like in the Whitechapel Ward!
I was forever on the phone at the time with the sole purpose of finding out what, if any, the “Tower Hamlets Labour Party” was doing by way of mobilising a campaign to secure a NO result over the then moving “referendum” that George Galloway had been involved in starting.
Everyone I contacted within the “Tower Hamlets Labour Party” pointed me to “Abbas”. Abbas proved forever elusive, hard to get hold of or when contacted at last, reluctant to answer the urgent questions that mattered. It was not long before evidence emerged that Abbas Uddin had NOT wanted a NO vote in fact.
Question: Why? Because HE wanted to be the elected Mayor himself! That was around March 2010. [To be continued]
Degeneration of Democracy in Tower Hamlets: What did Abbas Uddin "do"?
Just how did “Tower Hamlets Labour Party” degenerate out of political existence? Answer: That has had a great deal to do with the likes of its “leading” members typified by Helal Uddin “Abbas”.
Isn’t it astonishing that I am saying that I have not been able to get Helal Uddin “Abbas” to sit down and talk with me for even one hour in DECADES! Back to the start of this Commentary at the entrance to the Brady Centre.
Here is what I said to Abbas: I foresee that the “YES” campaign for a mayor system in Tower Hamlets will get the stamp if we don’t mobilise the Community to say NO. What are you doing? Abbas: I don’t think they will. We are doing the necessary to stop them. Muhammad Haque: Are you sure, Abbas? Abbas: Yes, Bhaisab!
I did not find that assurance representative of the evidence that I was seeing in the Community. There was no activities by the “Tower Hamlets Labour Party” at all about the implications of changing the Council from one of collective democratic organisation to an individual dictatorial undemocratic way.
True, the Labour Party “did” hold meetings. But every single one of those was contrived. And it appeared that Abbas did not want to hold meetings in every part of the Borough. Like in the Whitechapel Ward!
I was forever on the phone at the time with the sole purpose of finding out what, if any, the “Tower Hamlets Labour Party” was doing by way of mobilising a campaign to secure a NO result over the then moving “referendum” that George Galloway had been involved in starting.
Everyone I contacted within the “Tower Hamlets Labour Party” pointed me to “Abbas”. Abbas proved forever elusive, hard to get hold of or when contacted at last, reluctant to answer the urgent questions that mattered. It was not long before evidence emerged that Abbas Uddin had NOT wanted a NO vote in fact.
Question: Why? Because HE wanted to be the elected Mayor himself! That was around March 2010. [To be continued]
The SPECTATOR joins the latest phase of attacks on Tower Hamlets, the Community
1525 [1520] [1518] Hrs GMT London Sunday 13 April 2014
Noting the SPECTATOR having a go at "Tower Hamlets" . More on the SPECTATOR's role.
Here is a comment posted on the SPECTATOR web site that exposes the outfit's affiliation to Boris Johnson.
"You, Sebastian Payne, must be a product of the distorted imagination of a really toxic decomposition of the Neo Con Lib Dumb Laboured idiocy about Society.
How else could you write something so totally ignorant & contradictory as follows?
“The jury is still out on how successful elected mayors are in Britain — compare the rebirth of Bristol to the divisive regime of Tower Hamlets. But with ever-decreasing turnouts and the rapid rise of Ukip, our mainstream parties, politicians and institutions are no longer catering to the needs of voters. Powerful mayors may well be the solution Britain is waiting for.”
You give no evidence for any aspect of your idiotic assertion as you illogically conclude “Powerful mayors may well be the solution Britain is waiting for”!
How crass!
“Power” over who?
“Power” as against what absence of power?
Not a surprise then that you do not countenance accountability,m transparency, audit let alone the needs day to day of ordinary people, in Bristol or in Tower Hamlets.
Given that Boris Johnson has been manufactured by the PR project for the Neo Cons that includes the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph, it is very creepy that you have nothing to say by way of analysis on the disaster that has been the London Mayor!"
[To be continued]
The SPECTATOR joins the latest phase of attacks on Tower Hamlets, the Community
1525 [1520] [1518] Hrs GMT London Sunday 13 April 2014
Noting the SPECTATOR having a go at "Tower Hamlets" . More on the SPECTATOR's role.
Here is a comment posted on the SPECTATOR web site that exposes the outfit's affiliation to Boris Johnson.
"You, Sebastian Payne, must be a product of the distorted imagination of a really toxic decomposition of the Neo Con Lib Dumb Laboured idiocy about Society.
How else could you write something so totally ignorant & contradictory as follows?
“The jury is still out on how successful elected mayors are in Britain — compare the rebirth of Bristol to the divisive regime of Tower Hamlets. But with ever-decreasing turnouts and the rapid rise of Ukip, our mainstream parties, politicians and institutions are no longer catering to the needs of voters. Powerful mayors may well be the solution Britain is waiting for.”
You give no evidence for any aspect of your idiotic assertion as you illogically conclude “Powerful mayors may well be the solution Britain is waiting for”!
How crass!
“Power” over who?
“Power” as against what absence of power?
Not a surprise then that you do not countenance accountability,m transparency, audit let alone the needs day to day of ordinary people, in Bristol or in Tower Hamlets.
Given that Boris Johnson has been manufactured by the PR project for the Neo Cons that includes the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph, it is very creepy that you have nothing to say by way of analysis on the disaster that has been the London Mayor!"
[To be continued]
BHANGEELAAR! No to Elecetd executuve mayor system AND No to Racists plotting in TH
1435 Hrs GMT London Sunday 13 April 2014.
BHANGEELAAR! Exclusive, original and detailed tweets diagnosing the latest assault on the Community by No 10 Downing Street colluding with Andrew Gilligan at the DailY Telegraph Media Group.
The assault is IN THE FACT that neither Cameron nor Gilligan [seen in this montage by BHANGEELAAR!] has a single word to say about the basic democratic needs of ordinary people in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. More here in the course of the day.
Time to make Tower Hamlets Council accountable to the people of Tower Hamlets
The BHANGEELAAR! Campaign, part of the Movement Defending the Community in the East End of London, is represented by Muhammad Haque. [ Saturday 6 February 2010] Also seen is the lone Lid Dem Councillor on Tower Hamlets Coun cil, Stephanie Eaton, also speaking with a loud hailer backing the NO-to-an-elected-execuive-mayor call. Stephanie Eaton has become a supporter of the Mayor system as well as of the “incumbent” Lutfur Rahman as seen on many occasions in the past four years
Leicester Mercury sheds light on a murky business by the "executive mayor"
IMAGE of Peter Soulsby from the Leicester Mercury WEBSITE
QUESTIONABLE move by Peter Soulsby in Leicester flogging off Leicester public assets under bogus claims
REPORT RETRIEVED AADHIKAROnline the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign Defending the Community in the East End of London, from the Internet portal of LEICESTER MERCURY
Leicester mayor may sell up to 20 more council properties for £1 By Leicester Mercury |
Posted: March 13, 2014 By Dan Martin Leicester mayor Sir Peter Soulsby says up to 20 council-owned properties in Leicester could be sold Comments (27) Sir Peter Soulsby says up to 20 council-owned properties in Leicester could be sold to community groups for nominal sums such as £1. The mayor signalled his intention to councillors who questioned his decisions to dispose of two premises – worth £390,000 in total – for £1 each. Pakistan Youth and Community Association, in Highfields, will be allowed to buy the freehold of the £190,000 premises it has occupied for more than 15 years, while arts charity Leicester Print Workshop has been told it can buy a £200,000 property for £1 if it secures a £300,000 Arts Council grant to help renovate a warehouse in St George Street. Sir Peter has said the deals would help the organisations and, in the case of the workshop, draw in large amounts of investment.
However, councillors, including some of the mayor's Labour colleagues, have said the council should not be parting with valuable assets so cheaply. Sir Peter told his critics: "There have been significant transfers but the number has been quite limited.
"I intend there will be others."
Asked how many properties could be disposed of before next year's council and mayoral elections, he said: "I do not anticipate it will be a very large number but I do know there has been some interest expressed from other groups. "I would suggest it is somewhere between two and 20. "It depends on the level of interest and them being able to demonstrate they would benefit from having the freehold." He declined to say which buildings might be affected or how much they would be transferred for. Former Labour council leader Ross Willmott said: "I am generally not in favour of giving away, even for £1, any of the public assets we hold in trust on behalf of the citizens of Leicester. "The default should be we don't do that because we have been in businessfor several hundred years and are likely to stay in business, whereas community organisations come and go regularly." He said he would prefer groups be offered long leases rather than freehold transfers because once the deal had been done the asset was lost to the council and could be sold. Sir Peter said covenants could be placed to try to prevent that happening, but admitted they could be hard to enforce. He said the council's cash shortage meant it was often no longer possible to offer long-term grants to voluntary groups but giving them the freehold to properties of limited value to the council was a creative way of helping them. He said: "With the asset goes the revenue responsibility." Coun Sue Waddington said: "There's no value in giving away public assets. "There is no guarantee they will be used for what we want them to be used for." Liberal Democrat Nigel Porter said: "We should be trying to hang on to the assets because they are valuable. "I don't think we should be giving stuff away and certainly not 20 freeholds for a quid." Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/City-mayor-sell-20-council-properties-pound-1/story-20802477-detail/story.html#ixzz2vsKvcvZn
BHANGEELAAR! challenging Tower Hamlets Council Tories to show they really care for democracy
BHANGEELAAR! challenging Tower Hamlets Council Tories to show that they really do care for a democratic borough:
BHANGEELAAR! The CAMPAIGN against an elected executive mayor in Tower Hamlets
Muhammad Haque updates diagnosing Ken Livingstone's deeply flawed backing for an elected mayor
1425 [1415 ] Hrs GMT London Saturday 26 February 2011 Muhammad Haque London Commentary continuing the diagnostic update on Ken Livingstone's career plan in London. The following has appeared on the web site of the London DAILY TELEGRAPH in the last hour. the commentary contains a diagnostic of the morass that is tower hamlets council.. which has become even less democratic with the alleged adoption of an elected mayor thing than it had been before! The elected mayor thing was one of Ken Livingstone's zealously plugged 'models' for Tower Hamlets! QUOTING Muhammad Haque London Commentary on the London DAILY TELEGRAPH [Ed West’s blog] : Noting your cryptic aside about Ken Livingstone's 'disclaimer' [quoting:now why would he say that?], perhaps you will allow me to share this little historic update I am making today on Ken Livingstone's constantly changing stance on such matters as 'benefits' and 'rewards' and so on. I have examined the known evidence on Ken Livingstone's career in various London "elected” offices, all maintained and paid for by the people of London and I have yet to come across any independently verifiable entry of one single individual who is not linked with the 'personality' either via a job or a grant or some trade union or a 'patch' in electoral terms [such as, in recent years, the 'Muslims'] who has been a supporter of Ken Livingstone's career plan for the sheer principle of it! I am ethically opposed to the career plans of the likes of Boris Johnson. So what would my preference or choice be? I cannot see Ken Livingstone fitting the objectively verifiable criteria of universal appeal to the democratic demands. Yet he keeps being foisted before me as if he were 'my' 'preferred' 'choice'. To break this really morality and ethics and democracy-free mould, we in London need some truly democratic campaigns. All parts of the population must be able to debate, diagnose and discard the violations that the central Government and the London mayor are imposing on us in every borough in every single area of our existence in the over-hyped city. When Livingstone boasted on BBC Mayor Special editon Question Time [April 2008] that he had LIED to get the 2012 Hosting for London and said that he had done the lying to help 'regenerate' East London, he was let off without being quizzed on the definition of each of the three components of his broadcast bragging: lying, regeneration and East End. Had he been quizzed, there would be no difficulty in showing up that outrage as the three components would not connect. For a start, the East End had never asked for the imposition. Regeneration has not been defined to make ordinary people better off in the East End. The 2012 Hosting does not have any logical or empirical connection with a licence that Livingstone should have been allowed to connect and then perpetrate the lying. In the context of the CONDEM regime's continuation of the 'elected' executive model - for the Police - it is necessary to examine the democratic state of the areas that have been lumbered with elected executive mayor, a 'cause' that Ken Livingstone backed with such blatant ferocity that he was adamant to risk internal and publicly expressed opprobrium from the Blaired party bureaucracy doing it in Tower Hamlets. So undemocratic and dysfunctional has Tower Hamlets Council become since Ken Livingstone's' s fantasy 'executive mayor' mode was allegedly adopted that the Council's budget cannot be passed at a single sitting! It was LIVINGSTONE who had bragged on 6 February 2010 at a hyped up platform he shared with Keith Vaz [from the ‘East End’ borough of Leicester!] that Tower Hamlets Council would function as an efficient and accountable and uncorrupted body if only an elected mayor was allowed to get into post in the name of the people of the inner city deprived area’s local Council! It is time that Ken Livingstone apologised for his touting of the elected mayor thing and did some really serious work on the ground ‘restoring’ his relevance to the democracy movement in London, including Tower Hamlets. 1350 Hrs Saturday 26 February 2011 UNQUOTING Muhammad Haque London Commentary on the London DAILY TELEGRAPH [Ed West’s blog] [To be continued]
CONDEM cuts the heart out of Society! What more does Ed Miliband need before actually OPPOSING ?
BHANGEELAAR! diagnosing Dave Hill's Guardian Blog about Tower hamlets - part 1 Sat 12 Feb 2011
Quoting Dave Hill’s concluding paragraph [11 February 2011]: “In the end, the only solution for Labour may be to take its leader Ed Miliband resolutely at his word and rebuild the local party from the ground up, broadening its base and listening to all those it wants to serve more carefully than ever before. That's an easy thing for a hack in Hackney to write and a much, much harder thing for a politician in Tower Hamlets to do. But it sounds rather like democracy.” Unquoting Dave Hill [with emphases added by the commenter below]. We are commenting here to correct some of the misleading contents and insinuations. We shall come back to deal with any other that we find appropriate in due course. We here concentrate on Dave Hill’s “discussion” on the spelling of particular last name and we examine some other aspects of the Dave Hill’s London Blog in perpetuating the discriminatory myths about “local expertise’ by a “colleague” of Dave Hill’s. We start by examine Mr Hill’s statement: “the only solution for Labour may be to take its leader Ed Miliband resolutely at his word and rebuild the local party from the ground up”. What is Ed Miliband? Is he a magician or is a super human? He is neither. As for “rebuilding” of the former Labour Party, Miliband is even less. He has neither the knowledge nor the interest nor the commitment to rebuild democratic accountability anywhere. He is a machine leader of a machine bureaucracy that is banking for his ‘aim to reach the shore of power’ on the bankruptcy of the British political vessel as it is evident via the democracy-denying, democrat deficit Houses of Parliament Whatever Ed Miliband may have puffed on, he is no different on the evidence so far from any of his predecessors in that post when it comes to the fundamental purpose of the Party bureaucracy. When that purpose is ‘relaunched’ in areas like Tower Hamlets during routine ‘periods of elections’, it is as dull, dishonest and unjust and undemocratic as it ever has been. So what secret are you alluding to when you invest all; your rhetorical hopes on Ed Miliband doing the undoable? Do tell. As for us ordinary folk in Tower Hamlets, we see no evidence now and we have found none in their records of the past half century, of the former Labour Party being anything other than a machine vehicle for time-servers, petty careerists and several brazen liars. The same conclusion applies to what is now the “Tower Hamlets Lib Dems”. The several ‘names’ that you have now ‘introduced’ and or promoted about the former Labour Party in Tower Hamlets are as contaminated on their records as could be found in any of the past five decades. Our Movement has drawn attention to those during the past fifty years and demanded action against the crooked behaviour of so many time-serving place men and women in the former Labour Party that the list of the perpetrators and the allegations against them alone would take up more space than is available on your blog comment slot. The former Labour Party has persisted in failing to take action. Why? Because the entire bureaucracy has been itself corrupt. Let any of that bureaucracy's key decision-making obstructors come out and declare themselves and we shall read them the details of their perpetration with ample updater diagnostics. The only thing that is ‘new’ about your promotion of those is your name and your blog, Dave! You are now doing what decades of “Fleet Street” media has done for the corrupotocrcay that is the former Labour Party. About the rest of your concluding Comment, you have not qualified the phrase “a politician in Tower Hamlets”. Without qualification, that phrase is full of misleading and vacuous potential. For the sake of democratic accountability, we shall attempt a working qualification as always in context here. Perhaps by a politician in Tower Hamlets you are referring to those who seek or occupy “elected” posts. Examples include local Tower Hamlets Borough council posts or the London Assembly post/s or the posts of MPs for any of the two Parliamentary constituencies. Secondly you must be meaning the post or position seekers and the postholders in the former Labour Party that is still floated in Tower Hamlets as a bureaucratic version of its former form at the present time. Finally you must be meaning the couriers of the various sub-candidates and sub-post-seekers that make up the number that also serves as ‘the organisation’ of the former Labour Party. On the facts of the contens of your blog, you could not be meaning people in the ordinary population in Tower Hamlets. Had you meant any of us, you would have said something about the Movement that has actually been working to defend the key universal values from which the time-serving opportunists you DO recognise have benefited [personally and in terms of their own careerists factions] without a shadow of a doubt. You also refer to the Conservative Councillors’ group ‘leader’ Peter Golds who has been doing business fort his cause by parading as a ‘Tower Hamlets politician’ although he has yet to come on the record ANYWHERE as representing the concerns and the demands of the ordinary democratically conscious people in Tower Hamlets. We have pointed this out before about Peter Golds and we do so again here, in context. We also point out that you have not expressly examined poverty of any description in your blog. Indeed, you have not even mentioned the word poverty once. In our knowledge of the ordinary lives of the overwhelming majority of ordinary people in Tower Hamlets, there are three types of poverty currently affecting the quality of life for ordinary people in Tower Hamlets. Poverty as experienced and felt and as measurable by income, earnings or none. Secondly poverty as evident in the absence of accountably, transparently democratic representation at any of the local state levels as linked to ‘electoral’ processes. The third type of poverty is in the absence of delivery of the promised or the purported standard of democracy in accordance with ordinary expectations as defined by ethics, morality or due process in most of the state and local agencies and institutions as operating in Tower Hamlets. Although you appear reserved about Peter Golds, you perform a telling act of excusing him. You let Mr Golds off the hook by deciding to not scrutinise him on the allegations that he had INSINUATED. You say (“) Golds’ letter claimed that the Brick Lane restauranteur Shiraj Haque had, "stated to a number of local politicians that he funded the legal action" and that, "This is a reportable donation that has not been reported [to the Electoral Commission] within the [legal] time limit." (”). Who are the “number of local politicians”? We ask because we know [as defined above again] for a fact that there is no such thing as “local politicians” without links, strings and careerist negotiations and or deals. So whatever “local politicians” is supposed to refer to in relation to Peter Golds’ own promotion of his “party'-linked business would be someone [or more than one] who would be found to be already compromised by some other relevant factors vitiating any attempt to bring about an ethical and a democratically accountable atmosphere in Tower Hamlets. That would mean that you should have demonstrably queried Peter Golds’ assertion. Had you done that, you would have found ON THE EVIDENCE that a true investigative examination of his c,aims would have to reveal that Peter Golds was basing HIS bit of the allegations as much on partisan and untenably non-democratic ground as any of his implied Party political opponents would be doing given the same observed and non-democratic and or antidemocratic objective. Your reference to “the Brick Lane restauranteur Shiraj Haque” is also inaccurate and in context significantly misleading. The person you name as “Shiraj Haque” is in fact known in the community simply as Shiraj. This is true of today as it has been since the end of the 1970s when he was first listed in the public domain as an active member of the community in Tower Hamlets. One of the original validators for Shiraj getting INTO the public domain as an active member of the local community in the late 1970s was the campaign that our Movement was conducting at that time in defence of the community following the racist murder of Altab Ali on Thursday 4 May 1978. So the question that arises now , 32 years on, is this: who has been responsible for moderating or altering or amending the community-based persona of Shiraj? Has there been a legal reason why the spelling of his stated last name was or has been changed? If so, what was that legal reason? If none then why haven’t you or to be more practical your ‘local expert’ [‘colleague’] [promoted by you in the past few months as ‘the’ de facto ‘expert’ on “Tower Hamlets”] explained that change in the spelling of the stated last name cited about Shiraj? This is also important in view of the many references to Abbas Uddin “Helal” as made by you and by at least three others in or about “Fleet Street”. One of those, David Cohen, the self-described ‘rescuer of the dispossessed of London’ as promoted via the London EVENING STANDARD, invaded a democratic accountability forum that had been organised by the Spitalfields Small Business Association [SSBA] on 18 October 2010. The SSBA’s Director Kay Jordan, who sat on a chair next to where David Cohen had been sitting before he stood up to launch his invasion, wondered to our campaign within minutes of David Cohen’s invasion, what would have been the best way of stopping Cohen from violating that meeting. And what was his violating act? Why a personal insinuation against Lutfur Rahman and as retailed on behalf of the interests that were promoting Abbas Uddin “Helal” as their chosen courier of the Blaired party band. David Cohen abused the entire local, SSBA-organised meeting, by standing up and demanding to know from Lutfur Rahman why Lutfur Rahman’s alleged supporters had been spreading an allegation about Abbas Uddin “Helal” abusing or beating his [“Abbas Uddin “Helal”:] wife. Abbas Uddin “Helal” himself was absent from the event. And there was no legal, constitutional law, ethical or democratic or electoral reason why Lutfur Rahman had to even comment on that utterance by the invader David Cohen. But Lutfur Rahman did. And ion making a comment “denying” Cohen’s invasive utterance, Lutfur Rahman confounded the Cohen-contrived confusion even further! He proceeded to deny having abused HIS wife! And a suitably timed supportive sounding woman stood up in a row behind where David Cohen was sitting [and or standing, depending on what moment of his invasion he was engaged in] in the audience and stated words to the effect that she supported her husband Lutfur Rahman totally! In his ‘response’ on the same occasion, Lutfur Rahman also said that he would sue anyone who said what Cohen was saying! This part was in fact triggered by the Lib Dems’ John Griffiths whose own utterance [to Lutfur Rahman’s mind and to observers present] represented a repetition in effect of what Cohen had done earlier in the invasive disruption of the proceedings of the SSBA-organised meeting that had been intended to offer local people a say on what the local Tower Hamlets Council should be doing to support the local small businesses and similar initiatives. Considering the fact that David Cohen VIA the London EVENING STANDARD played a promotional part in propping up the campaign propaganda and image for the Lib Dems and the Conservatives in the run up to the 06 May 2010 elections on the alleged basis that Cohen had been “helping” the “DISPOSSESSED” in London [ played as a “counter” to the then Gordon Brown-fronted regime that was, so the “DISPOSSESSED” theme suggested, causing the DISPOSSESSION to areas typified by the East End Borough of Tower Hamlets], his violation of the people who were attending the SSBA-organised meeting on 18 October 2010 showed just how irrational Cohen was, how contemptuous he was of the rights of the people in the East End and how indifferent he was to what we had to say on that day about our “local Council Cohen on that occasion dispossessed us from our democratic say! Our campaign intervened at the right time to ensure that Cohen was not able to carry with him any pretext that he could later retail for the delectation of the likes of Peter Golds in another exaggerated, untrue and untruthful attack on the invented image of our community portraying it as not only being intolerant to “journalists” but also to “free speech”! Cohen abused the kindness and generosity of the meeting and in his abuse he denied that meeting the freedom to exchange views and information about matters to do with the local Council’s financial and democratic conduct. It is clear that in your “accessible” and “sympathetic” “style”, you too are engaged in doing the same. Why else is it that you promote Peter Golds and then fail to show why his alleged allegation to the Metropolitan Police did not go anywhere? Why is it that you refer to everything else about the various allegations about corruption over the Blaired Party's bureaucracy and its handling or mishandling of the selection etc, but fail to even recognise that there has been a fully active campaign against the very constitutional change to Tower Hamlets being lumbered with a post called executive mayor that is the persistent topic of your particular blog posts. Given that two fifths of the stated votes cast in the alleged referendum were in favour of the NO option, how can you treat 40,000 voters as if they did not record their rejection of the bid to change the Council’s particular structure? Given also the fact that Abbas Uddin “Helal” was himself a “campaigner against an elected mayor system” for MONTHS, how is it that you leave that fact out as if it was not the central feature of the evidence of active contempt for ethics and honesty that the Bliared party bureaucracy has been exhibiting at every level over the matter? You state that you had spoken to Joshua Peck but then you do not include any substance. Why mention him then? If you had asked us, we could tell you that the same Joshua Peck had appeared along with our Campaign organiser on at least four platforms at “public” meetings held across Tower Hamlets between 06 February 2010 and 06 May 2010 “speaking and uttering arguments against” a directly elected executive mayor. We could add that without making any noticeable let alone substantiated apology to the Tower Hamlets community and the public the aforesaid Joshua Peck then began to make appearances on the Bliared Party promotional events in the Borough SUPPORTING an elected executive mayor system! He has remained silent on the fact that Bliared party candidates for Council ward votes on 06 May 2010 received far more votes than the NO question got. The significance of this is in the fact that JOSHUA PECK and other such Bliared Party candidates had been claiming that they were “campaigning against an elected mayor system” and that they were claiming that they had been ALSO asking their canvassed voters to vote NO in the allotted box on the referendum/ballot paper [held on the same day, 06 May 2010] as the general election and the London local council elections. All the evidence that we have obtained of the voters behaviour on that day in the in the run up to polling [and referendum on the mayor] day has shown that those who were actually genuinely approached about the serious flaws and the pitfalls of installing a directly elected executive mayor in fact voted NO. That raises the almost certain possibility that those, like Joshua Peck who were claiming to be campaigning for s NO vote on the referendum were doing less to secure a NO outcome than they were doing to get their personal election as councillor guaranteed. This discrepancy was deliberately created as admitted to our campaign organiser by one of Joshua Peck’s co-candidates in February-April 2010. According that candidate for a Council ward in Mile End, their priority was to get elected as councillors! Yet that ‘NO’ campaign ‘speaker at platforms’ kept on making appearances, even though she knew perfectly well that she was not campaigning for NO outcome as much as she ws claiming to be when on the platform. Given the fact that that ‘No’ campaign ‘speaker’ was soon doing the “YES FOR candidate X as mayor” routine in Tower Hamlets during July-October 2010, the claims that anything any of them said at any time was based on ethics, principle or honesty is very difficult to accept. This is the real problem in the former Labour Party., As it is with the PRESENT Tower Hamlets Council, with or without a directly elected executive mayor installed. Contrary to the prejudiced references you make to Tower Hamlets as a whole, the behaviour of the ‘elected councillors’ and their likes is the real problem as against a truly really actually actively democracy-delivering Council. For the reasons we have shown in this detailed factually revealing comment,. the same finding applies to Lutfur Rahman as it does to his alleged detractors. 0750 Hrs Saturday 12 February 2011 BHANGEELAAR! The Campaign against an elected executive mayor in Tower Hamlets
"East London Advertiser"-"owner" ARCHANT exposed again as a tout for Big Business greed ...
The 'NO' Vote campaign demonstrated against Ken Livingstone’s role 6 February 2010
DEMONSTRATORS against the imposition of a change to Tower Hamlets Council's constitution by ushering in an elected executive mayor were vigorous in their show of opposition. This picture, which was dishonestly cut cropped by the elements that actually broadcast it on Channel satellite TV news on 6 February 2010, was part of a bigger demonstration which was led by Muhammad Haque. Muhammad Haque is only partly shown holding the loud hailer on the top left corner of this still image. [To be continued]
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Has George Galloway chnaged his mind about standing for mayor in Tower Hamlets?
Ed Miliband confirmed his existence! Hours after the heat!
The DAILY MAIL is still backing David Young: Lord Young is right, we are out of this recession By Dan Atkinson, Mail on Sunday Economics Editor Last updated at 3:37 PM on 19th November 2010 * Comments (5) * Add to My Stories Never had it so good? Lord Young at a Conservative youth rally back in 1987 Never had it so good? Lord Young at a Conservative youth rally back in 1987 Lord Young was right. Now there are four words I don't often proclaim. For young 'uns out there (no pun intended) he was the Eighties Cabinet Minister whose bad calls included salivating (with public money) over the prospects of the European single market (remember the 'Europe is Open for Business' campaign?) without seeming to notice that Brussels would exact a high price in terms of British independence. Then there was his love of 'enterprise', a vague catch-all concept that appeared to suggest that fat-cat executives were somehow lean and hungry risk takers and deserved to be rewarded as such. During his stint as Employment Secretary, he also snubbed the trade unions. Those very men with ties and blazer badges and banners and brass bands, the sort you would have thought a true conservative may wish to conserve. So Lord Young has form in terms of being wrong. But on this occasion, when he said that, in many ways, many of us have never had it so good, he was absolutely right, at least as far as those in work are concerned. Here's why. Regardless of the BBC reports on the Young Spat this morning, we are no longer in recession. We went into recession in the second quarter of 2008 and came out in the third quarter of 2009. So Lord Young was talking about a post-recession climate. More... * Lord Young quits as Cameron's adviser after claiming that Britain 'has never had it so good' in this 'so-called recession' Now, a key feature of a post-recession climate is that, in many ways, it seems as gruesome as the recession itself. But here is a key difference. In the early stages of a recession, as firms close and jobs are lost, the manager and the worker both suffer in a sort of equality of misery. But later on, as the authorities respond with cuts to interest rates, the recession starts to play favourites. It prefers homeowners to people renting, because mortgage payments go down and rents do not. It prefers people with skills to those without, as they may find re-employment more easily. And above all, it prefers those with jobs to those without, because not only do mortgage and credit card bills go down - the cost of most things goes down as well. This is accentuated by the immediate post-recession phase. TODAY'S POLL Do you believe you've never had it so good? Yes No VOTE Lord Young POLL RESULTS Close All polls Click to view yesterday's poll results Now, most people are not unemployed. Home ownership is still the preferred option of most people. And while we are in a long, grinding, post-recession period, where there is no clear sign of recovery that would trigger a rise in borrowing costs, that will continue to be the case. Lord Young also mentioned public-sector workers, suggesting there was no real loss because the half-million or so being shown the door were those who thought the State owed them a living. Alas, there are excellent reasons to think that the freeloaders in the public sector will hang on to their posts while the public employees that we value will end up on the dole - the best reason being that too many 'cuts' choices are being left with Whitehall and town halls. So, in this, at least, Lord Young is still wrong. Apart from that, he's right. Lord Young is right, we are out of this recession By Dan Atkinson, Mail on Sunday Economics Editor Last updated at 3:37 PM on 19th November 2010 * Comments (5) * Add to My Stories Never had it so good? Lord Young at a Conservative youth rally back in 1987 Never had it so good? Lord Young at a Conservative youth rally back in 1987 Lord Young was right. Now there are four words I don't often proclaim. For young 'uns out there (no pun intended) he was the Eighties Cabinet Minister whose bad calls included salivating (with public money) over the prospects of the European single market (remember the 'Europe is Open for Business' campaign?) without seeming to notice that Brussels would exact a high price in terms of British independence. Then there was his love of 'enterprise', a vague catch-all concept that appeared to suggest that fat-cat executives were somehow lean and hungry risk takers and deserved to be rewarded as such. During his stint as Employment Secretary, he also snubbed the trade unions. Those very men with ties and blazer badges and banners and brass bands, the sort you would have thought a true conservative may wish to conserve. So Lord Young has form in terms of being wrong. But on this occasion, when he said that, in many ways, many of us have never had it so good, he was absolutely right, at least as far as those in work are concerned. Here's why. Regardless of the BBC reports on the Young Spat this morning, we are no longer in recession. We went into recession in the second quarter of 2008 and came out in the third quarter of 2009. So Lord Young was talking about a post-recession climate. More... * Lord Young quits as Cameron's adviser after claiming that Britain 'has never had it so good' in this 'so-called recession' Now, a key feature of a post-recession climate is that, in many ways, it seems as gruesome as the recession itself. But here is a key difference. In the early stages of a recession, as firms close and jobs are lost, the manager and the worker both suffer in a sort of equality of misery. But later on, as the authorities respond with cuts to interest rates, the recession starts to play favourites. It prefers homeowners to people renting, because mortgage payments go down and rents do not. It prefers people with skills to those without, as they may find re-employment more easily. And above all, it prefers those with jobs to those without, because not only do mortgage and credit card bills go down - the cost of most things goes down as well. This is accentuated by the immediate post-recession phase. TODAY'S POLL Do you believe you've never had it so good? Yes No VOTE Lord Young POLL RESULTS Close All polls Click to view yesterday's poll results Now, most people are not unemployed. Home ownership is still the preferred option of most people. And while we are in a long, grinding, post-recession period, where there is no clear sign of recovery that would trigger a rise in borrowing costs, that will continue to be the case. Lord Young also mentioned public-sector workers, suggesting there was no real loss because the half-million or so being shown the door were those who thought the State owed them a living. Alas, there are excellent reasons to think that the freeloaders in the public sector will hang on to their posts while the public employees that we value will end up on the dole - the best reason being that too many 'cuts' choices are being left with Whitehall and town halls. So, in this, at least, Lord Young is still wrong. Apart from that, he's right. ...Lord Young was right. Now there are four words I don't often proclaim. For young 'uns out there (no pun intended) he was the Eighties Cabinet Minister whose bad calls included salivating (with public money) over the prospects of the European single market (remember the 'Europe is Open for Business' campaign?) without seeming to notice that Brussels would exact a high price in terms of British independence. Then there was his love of 'enterprise', a vague catch-all concept that appeared to suggest that fat-cat executives were somehow lean and hungry risk takers and deserved to be rewarded as such. During his stint as Employment Secretary, he also snubbed the trade unions. Those very men with ties and blazer badges and banners and brass bands, the sort you would have thought a true conservative may wish to conserve. So Lord Young has form in terms of being wrong. But on this occasion, when he said that, in many ways, many of us have never had it so good, he was absolutely right, at least as far as those in work are concerned. Here's why. Regardless of the BBC reports on the Young Spat this morning, we are no longer in recession. We went into recession in the second quarter of 2008 and came out in the third quarter of 2009. So Lord Young was talking about a post-recession climate. More... * Lord Young quits as Cameron's adviser after claiming that Britain 'has never had it so good' in this 'so-called recession' Now, a key feature of a post-recession climate is that, in many ways, it seems as gruesome as the recession itself. But here is a key difference. In the early stages of a recession, as firms close and jobs are lost, the manager and the worker both suffer in a sort of equality of misery. But later on, as the authorities respond with cuts to interest rates, the recession starts to play favourites. It prefers homeowners to people renting, because mortgage payments go down and rents do not. It prefers people with skills to those without, as they may find re-employment more easily. And above all, it prefers those with jobs to those without, because not only do mortgage and credit card bills go down - the cost of most things goes down as well. This is accentuated by the immediate post-recession phase. TODAY'S POLL Do you believe you've never had it so good? Yes No VOTE Lord Young POLL RESULTS Close All polls Click to view yesterday's poll results Now, most people are not unemployed. Home ownership is still the preferred option of most people. And while we are in a long, grinding, post-recession period, where there is no clear sign of recovery that would trigger a rise in borrowing costs, that will continue to be the case. Lord Young also mentioned public-sector workers, suggesting there was no real loss because the half-million or so being shown the door were those who thought the State owed them a living. Alas, there are excellent reasons to think that the freeloaders in the public sector will hang on to their posts while the public employees that we value will end up on the dole - the best reason being that too many 'cuts' choices are being left with Whitehall and town halls. So, in this, at least, Lord Young is still wrong. Apart from that, he's right. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1331305/Lord-Young-right-recession.html#ixzz15kQB5ycC
Harriet Harman Neil Kinnock retaliate against Tower Hamlets people!
Guardian's Dave Hill is always looking right, image is of looking left!
BHANGEELAAR! Contextual examination of the Guardian's London Blog. Starts with an introduction scheduled to appear here at 2200 Hrs GMT tonight Thursday 11 Nov 2010
CONDEMN CONDEM CUTS today! East Enders join demo as well
Students from all over England and Wales are demonstrating against cuts in London today Wednesday 10 November 2010
SAY NO to CONDEM cuts to Education
Channel 4 News online report 10 Nov 2010: Students protest against tuition fees Wednesday 10 November 2010 As thousands of students demonstrate against tuition fees we hear from one graduate who says this is the beginning of the backlash. Natasha Wynarczyk studied history at King's College London. University tuition fees are set to rise Thousands of people are expected to march through London today to rally against the proposed recent cuts to education and rise in tuition fees as outlined in the Browne Review. The demonstration is likely to be the biggest education-related demo in years, attracting students and university staff from all types of institutions, as well as school-level and further education students looking to study in the future. After months of speculation, it was announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review that there would be cuts to higher education of £2.4 billion by 2014. As well as these sweeping and devastating cuts to HE as a whole, the Government also declared that funding would be given only to subjects deemed 'vital' to the economy - the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics related subjects - leaving arts and humanities subjects such as History, English and Classics in the cold. Without going to university I would have been immensely disadvantaged. Natasha Wynarczyk, King's College London graduate This is the firing shot to 'education for education's sake' - studying a subject simply because you have a marked interest in it. I studied History for my undergraduate degree, and I honestly believe that as well as its inherent value, it taught me skills that are necessary to jobs that I'm interested in. Without going to university I would have been immensely disadvantaged. But if my degree had cost £27,000 I would have had to make serious concessions - living at home, not moving to London, perhaps not even studying a humanities subject despite that being where my strengths and interests lie. University fees are also set to increase dramatically - currently home undergraduates pay £3,290 a year - but the Coalition Government seeks to introduce a ‘double cap' on fees for 2012 entry - a basic level of £6,000 a year and an upper limit of £9,000. Russell Group universities such as my home institution, King's College London, are expected to charge the upper limit - grants would be introduced but only for those whose households have a combined income of less than £60,000. This will put pressure on the ‘squeezed middle', and there is no doubt that this marketisation of the education system will price out the brightest students - students who deserve to study at the top level institutions, but simply won't be able to afford such large fees. The national demo is simply the beginning of a backlash. Natasha Wynarczyk Institutions that are primarily arts-focussed or don't have the world-class prestige that can be used by seats of learning to ‘justify' the higher fees could be faced with closure - leading to job losses and less student choice, as well as the removal of widening participation. Some may argue that students are an elite, privileged group, and that higher education actually isn't important to society. But answer these questions: why should young people be denied the basic right to higher education, a route to social mobility? Why should they be forced to stay at home or choose an institution or subject they have no interest in because it'll be cheaper? Why should they have to start their lives post graduation with a crippling level of debt when they are looking at climbing the rungs of the career ladder, getting married, taking out mortgages, having children? And why should they be denied chances to improve their future and grow as people by a group who went to university for free, and who aren't terrified of having to make choices like choosing between which of their children to actually send to university, who aren't afraid of having to remortgage their house to pay for their son or daughters' fees, who aren't worried about the enormous debt they'll incur by studying for three years or more - real-life debt, not only student debt, because it's just so expensive? The National Demo is not the means to an end; it's simply the beginning of a backlash against the harsh destruction of higher education. UK higher education is amongst the best in the world, and it's something that we should be proud of. But its current treatment is in no way deserving of its importance to wider society. The pillars of our society - teachers, nurses, doctors, the majority of them went to university - pricing young people out will have repercussions everywhere. Instead of marginalising young people the general public should stand side by side with us as we lobby the Government for a fairer higher education system. The people who always went to university - the elite, upper classes - will still go to university. The greatest social tragedy will be those students that had their chance to go wrongfully seized from them, creating a further gap between rich and poor. Natasha Wynarczyk studied history at King's College London and is Vice President Student Media and Engagement.
Disastrous descent into anti-democracy in Tower Hamlets
Elections 2010! Bringing out some of the worst stereotypes and prejudices
Vote 'NO' on Thursday to less democracy, less accountability, less decency on Tower Hamlets Council... Vote 'NO' to a directly elected executive mayor in the East End of London borough [To be continued]
Harriet Harman's fan LEO MCKINSTRY deplores vote fraud...
Time perhaps for postal ballot system to be curtailed? CLICK image to see LEO MCKINSTRY's report on the DAILY MAIL
London DAILY the INDEPENDENT reports violent attack on its reporter
VOTE FRAUD allegations in Tower Hamlets and a [white] reporter chronicles being attacked yesterday in Bethnal Green....CLICK on this image from the DAILY MAIL to see the INDEPENDENT online report [To be continued]
One MP candidate, when still an MP, said 'NO' to elected mayor!
Electing a mayor CAN cause serious confusion! And shock! Vote 'NO' on 6 May 2010
0958 Hrs FGMT London Friday 23 April 2010. BHANGEELAAR! Campaign in association with AADHIKAR Media. AADHIKARonline reporting on the 'East London Advertiser' AT LAST publishing a prominent item on the 'NO' campaign Thursday 22 April 2010. The significance of the ‘East London Advertiser’ at last publishing that item is to be traced back to the previous activities by the campaign for a ‘NO’ vote in the ‘referendum’ on the future constitution of the Borough of Tower Hamlets Council. At the campaign meeting held on 11 April 2010 in Bethnal Green South for ‘NO’ vote on 6 May 2010 in Tower hamlets, BHANGHEELAAR! Organiser Muhammad Haque moved that a formal complaint against the East London Advertiser’s bias on the issue be made. It was unanimously agreed. [The full report of that meeting will be published by BHANGEELAAR! in due course]. As part of that decision, the following item was published on the Internet by BHANGEELAAR! On 12 April 2010: “We the undersigned members and supporters of the Campaign against a directly elected mayor in Tower Hamlets back the letter sent on 9 February 2010 by Mr Muhammad Haque and also call on the East London ADVERTISER today Monday 12 April 2010 to publish the letter and to publish the news of our campaign. We call on the East London Advertiser to stop publishing biased items favouring the ‘YES’ side and we demand that equal prominence and apace be given to our campaign as the ELA has been giving to the YES side so far. We fully agree with the contents of the letter by Mr Muhammad Haque and confirm that we shall back any complaint to the Press Complaints commission and the NUJ and any other bona fide journalistic, ethical, media and regulatory and legal forum, tribunal and court against the ELA in then event that the ELA continues then bias and fails to publish the letter the texts of which is reproduced below.” [To be continued]
Tower Hamlets Council opposition Lib Dems group leader Stephanie Eaton says Vote 'NO'
Even OXFORD city said "NO' to elected mayor. Years ago...
VOTE 'No' on 6 May 2010, not abuse the right by fakery and stunts!
Bhangeelaar! The Campaign news bulletin for the “No to a directly elected mayor in Tower Hamlets” was being distributed in Bethnal green South and other parts of Tower Hamlets at the weekend. In this Muhammad Haque photo, campaigners are holding the banner and the Bhangeelaar Bulletin Issue dated 09 February 2010 during a meeting held in Bethnal Green South on Sunday 11 April 2010
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