AADHIKAR bringing breaking news about directly elected mayor Steve Bullock's latest insensitivity, this time to the East End -

AADHIKAR bringing breaking news about directly elected mayor Steve Bullock's latest insensitivity, this time to the East End of London.

We report here the introductory scenes. In this series of exclusives, we shall cover the key aspects of the undermining of democratic representation that is taking place in Tower Hamlets borough in the present time by those who have backed the ending of a semblance of a democratically accountable locally elected Borough Council.

To anyone who might have been skeptical about the many 'good reasons' claimed by the backers of the anti-democratic elected mayoral system, the import from across the Thames in the ‘directly elected mayored Lewisham’ borough in South London of Ken Livingstone’s ‘friend’ and ‘ mayor-model’ Steve Bullock to serve as a 'distinguished' panellist at what was described as the launch of the 'election campaign' for the candidate from the Labour Party in Tower Hamlets exposed the dangers that are contained in giving a single individual so much power in the name of so many people in a demographically significant London borough.....

That demographic significance is set now in our view to find expression in magnified misrepresentation that will only bring negative consequences that are bound to get heightened by and through the behaviour and the policies of the UK CONDEM regime…..

Updated at 2315 Hrs GMT Wednesday 15 September 2010

[2355 Hrs GMT London Tuesday]

14 September 2010

Editor © Muhammad Haque

AADHIKARonline 'Breaking news' about Lewisham's 'directly elected mayor' Steve Bullock! He made it to the Troxy in Commercial Road. Livingstone didn't…

Not only did Steve Bullock make it, he also performed yet another verbal act of outrage that had, until that moment this evening [Tuesday 14 September 2010], exposed him as an unacceptable face of a directly elected mayor with so much power allowed to be exercised by a single individual [regardless of their reckless attitude as can be found in the behaviour of Steve Bullock since May 2010] over the local Council and at the expense of local democracy.

Steve Bullock appeared at the Troxy stage following superlative praise lavished on his fellow ‘panellists’ as stated by two current Tower Hamlets councillors taking part in the ‘launch’ of ‘Lutfur Rahman for mayor’ ‘campaign’ event.

To observers sent reeling by Steve Bullock’s post 6 May 2010 assault with Bullock’s undisguised insult upon “xxxxxxx idiots”, the two words he used to describe campaigners in Lewisham against the CONDEM cuts, his straight-faced utterance tonight at the Troxy, Commercial Road, London E1 of the need to complete a ‘Gang of Four’ ‘directly elected Labour mayors’ in London would bring no reassurance at all.

For a start, the Gang of Four that had undone the post-1979 Labour Party had conducted their many plots at a location in ‘Limehouse’ NOT so far from the Troxy venue he was appearing in in the Commercial Road.

And all of the Gang members remained unrepentant over the role that they had played in the unravelling of the Labour Party to the point of it being kept out of office for almost two decades.

The Gang of Four is still known, on the facts, as four traitors to the Labour Party. And in the long run to the values and the causes of the ordinary people whom the historic Labour Party and movement belonged to.

As if there were any doubts this evening in the Commercial Road London E1 venue about the divide still existing between the values of the Gang of Four – [originally consisting of] David Owen, Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins – a fellow ‘panel member’ who also spoke at the do, dispelled such doubts.

He was introduced as the secretary of the local Tower Hamlets Labour Party. His name: Stephen Beckett.

In what looked like a prepared speech, Stephen Beckett spoke passionately about the divide that was prevalent between parts of Tower Hamlets at the present time.

Beckett outlined a divide between the haves now occupying the Canary Wharf and the have-nots in the other parts of Tower Hamlets.

A picture emerged in Becketts’ oration of the Rich associated with the New City that Heseltine brought about and the Poor that the Old City [of London] has been encroaching on for years.

Many of the promoters of the change in the constitution of the Borough of Tower Hamlets Council to a directly elected mayor system will be exposed as having been playing touts’ parts for the City of London for a good number of years!

Just to make sure that he was hitting the targets accurately in his speech at the Proxy on Tuesday night, Steve Beckett spoke of the current Government cuts and he sided with the people on benefits whom he evidently identified with as being involuntarily in that state.

This double divide in policy and outlook and language that was typified in the two utterances of the two Steves may not be resolved soon.

Not when Graham Taylor, described in tones suggesting him to be a part of the Establishment of the local Tower Hamlets based Labour Party local bureaucracy, was said to be absent from the event owing to unavoidable reasons! Those reasons were not spelt out.

And not too surprisingly either.

It soon transpired that Jim Fitzpatrick, one of the two constituency MPs from the two seats made up of eligible voters in Tower Hamlets, was attempting to show his face on the big screen.

His face was a mass of flickers and his voice very hard to hear.

It was not long before the oversized image of the face of Jim Fitzpatrick was terminated without explanation.

There then followed a pause much longer than promised by one of the two councillors doing the conducting.

We shall come to publishing an up-to-date and apposite description of that councillor in later parts of this series of reports.

It was minutes before Jim Fitzpatrick appeared in digital images in motion, delivering the same standard of Seelotee intro that he had done in 2006 when campaigning in Shadwell for the election of Michael Keith to Tower Hamlets Council.

It must be pointed out [at 2248 GMT Wednesday 15 September 2010] that the community of electors in Shadwell have now demonstrated their preference to NOT elect Michael Keith to Tower Hamlets Council on three successive occasions. In May 2006, in the 2007 by-election and in May 2010. And on every single one of those occasions that Michael Keith tried to get elected, Jim Fitzpatrick was publicly showing string support for that candidate. We shall examine Jim Fitzpatrick’s ‘contributions’ in this series shortly.

[Editorial update at 2252 GMT Wednesday 15 September 2010]

As must have been designed by the strategists behind Jim Fitzpatrick’s feigning to speak Seelotee, even the primary stage attempt brought forth an apparently spontaneous applause from the addressed audience.

Beyond that, not much substance. In fact most of what Jim Fitzpatrick then said in English could have been left off stage. It was mundane and did not justify the wait or the laboured attention.

As if that was not the end of the digital display, on came the moving images of Ken Livingstone, once again delivering a strange collection of words about Tower Hamlets and the local Council

He said that the directly elected mayor system would bring an end to the bickering and the problems that Tower Hamlets Council [he meant internally] had had!

Livingstone was followed by an even longer digital display containing the images of Keith Vaz.

[To be continued]