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The item we reproduce below this updater commentary contains the continuation of the falsehood and the contrivance that Andrew Gilligan has been peddling about a directly elected mayor in the name of Tower Hamlets voters.
The point that needs to be made at the outset of course is the one to do with Gilligan's unconcealed obsession with a number of secret or allegedly secret outfits and individuals in Tower Hamlets. This obsession is most likely to boomerang in Mr Gilligan’s face. UNLESS he is very careful with the facts.
What facts are we referring to here?
To begin with, Andrew Gilligan is making the same assumptions that his perceived target, Ken Livingstone has made for years about Tower Hamlets. And it is this: that the timeserving, self-serving careerist opportunist and corrupting cabals constitute the voice of democracy in the population in the over-hyped borough. [On the over-hyped state, we shall comment later in a detailed series starting in August 2010]
The ignorance that has been being peddled via Andrew Gilligan – who CANNOT BE the source or sources that are feeding him, ON THE FACTS OF HIS publication so far – will not serve the cause of universally recognisable and objectively desirable democracy and audit in the interest of ordinary people in Tower Hamlets or in any comparable location or area elsewhere in England.
So what is the point of the Andrew Gilligan publication around the ‘mayor’ thing?
The point is manifestly one that Gilligan has been unwisely engaged in seeking to make: that Ken Livingstone is mixed up with a not acceptable bunch and Gilligan is dedicated to doing everything to magnify that alleged link to ensure that Livingstone does not get to be anywhere near replacing Boris Johnson or anyone else and return to the ‘City hall’ in London SE1.
Unfortunately, Gilligan has come across as lacking credible evidence!
And what a letdown that is!
After all, the Bhangeelaar! Campaign is AGAINST Ken Livingstone's careerists egotistic opportunistic cabal career!
So we would not have said anything that would give Livingstone any comfort whatever.
The following texts have been taken from the London DAILY TELEGRAPH media group website at 2150 Hrs GMT appx, Thursday 29 July 2010:
How much humiliation can a man take? I ask because last night it became clear that yet a third attempt by Lutfur Rahman, the fundamentalist-linked councillor who is seeking to become Labour’s candidate for the powerful directly-elected mayoralty of Tower Hamlets, had been crushed.
Lutfur’s powerful friends – of whom more later – have been angling to get him back on the mayoral shortlist after he was twice excluded by the party amid deep concerns about his links with the fundamentalist Islamic Forum of Europe.
Yesterday, Lutfur even held a press conference and issued a suspiciously expensive-looking glossy leaflet to announce the joyous news that he’d made it back on to the list. Oh no, he hadn’t. Labour spokesmen last night insisted that the shortlist remains as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be – Lutfur-free.
Lutfur’s and his allies’ absurd manoeuvrings have succeeded only in making him, and the Labour Party, look ridiculous. What next for the great man? Does he stand as an independent? Or does he stand in front of the Town Hall like Bonnie Prince Charlie and proclaim himself the true king of Tower Hamlets?
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Aren't people entitled to know what is going on?
Here it is again:
'Government opts in to controversial European Investigation Order
Home Secretary Theresa May announced yesterday that the Government has decided to opt in to negotiations on the controversial European Investigation Order (EIO), which will give foreign police forces the right to request that UK police officers seek out and share evidence on suspects in Britain. May acknowledged that the existing draft EIO was "not perfect" but that by opting in at this stage "we have the opportunity to influence its precise outcome".
Open Europe's Stephen Booth is quoted by PA saying, "Theresa May did her best to push the 'nothing to see here line', but the truth is that the Government cannot guarantee how the final directive will look until after negotiations with other member states and MEPs in the European Parliament." The UK would be powerless to veto the EIO if any unwanted elements are retained or if any unforeseen amendments are added, since the decision will be taken by majority vote.
He added, "The UK's huge DNA database means UK citizens will be subject to much greater exposure to data requests than other EU citizens. The burden placed by the 90-day deadline means that police may have to prioritise requests from other countries over domestic policing priorities. These are hugely important questions, which remain unanswered, regarding safeguards for civil liberties and the new pressures on police resources in the UK."
Independent BBC Open Europe blog
'Government opts in to controversial European Investigation Order
Home Secretary Theresa May announced yesterday that the Government has decided to opt in to negotiations on the controversial European Investigation Order (EIO), which will give foreign police forces the right to request that UK police officers seek out and share evidence on suspects in Britain. May acknowledged that the existing draft EIO was "not perfect" but that by opting in at this stage "we have the opportunity to influence its precise outcome".
Open Europe's Stephen Booth is quoted by PA saying, "Theresa May did her best to push the 'nothing to see here line', but the truth is that the Government cannot guarantee how the final directive will look until after negotiations with other member states and MEPs in the European Parliament." The UK would be powerless to veto the EIO if any unwanted elements are retained or if any unforeseen amendments are added, since the decision will be taken by majority vote.
He added, "The UK's huge DNA database means UK citizens will be subject to much greater exposure to data requests than other EU citizens. The burden placed by the 90-day deadline means that police may have to prioritise requests from other countries over domestic policing priorities. These are hugely important questions, which remain unanswered, regarding safeguards for civil liberties and the new pressures on police resources in the UK."
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...sorry to be pedantic, but might I suggest you really mean ...'even more ridiculous'...
The gentleman you are reporting on is by no means the only addition to this multi-ingredient platter, and to be fair, in terms of humiliating himself and the Labour Party, he could hardly demonstrate greater commitment to the task than the incompetent cretin ejected from Downing Street in May or some of the regular delusional Pro-Labour contributors on these threads?
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But not as useful.
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Lutfur’s and his allies’ absurd manoeuvrings have succeeded only in making him, and the Labour Party, look ridiculous.
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Exactly WHAT makes Labour look ridiculous about this?
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Something to do with your disinterest in Society?
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He wasn't born here, wasn't invited here and he is not needed here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutfur_Rahman
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BTW, do you think that you can write an article on the background of David Cameron's "anger" about the EU not accepting Turkey as a member?
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