BHANGEELAAR! Lists Keith Vaz as an interferer in the 'referendum'. We find Kevan Collins failed to act under possible extra interference

1750 Hrs GMT
London
Sunday
19 September 2010

Editor © Muhammad Haque



In the report the PRESS ASSOCIATION as carried by the London daily the INDEPENDENT dated 6 May 2005 said:

[“] In addition, Mr Galloway claimed that electoral fraud had occurred.He criticised the Tower Hamlets council electoral office for publishing an electoral roll which he said was "so shot through with errors and anomalies... as to be almost meaningless". [“]

So from 6 May 2005 to 6 May 2010, what IF ANYTHING had changed about corruption in elections in Tower Hamlets?

AADHIKAR Media Foundation had been OBSERVING ‘developments’ throughout the FIVE years.

And in April 2006, just under a year following his first public statement [as the elected MP for Bethnal Green and Bow] about electoral corruption in Tower Hamlets, George Galloway made an even more detailed attack on the culture of corruption that he said prevailed in Tower Hamlets Council.

So what happened to those statements that George Galloway was making, in quite express and explicit terms, about corruption around and in elections in Tower Hamlets?

Were they being acted on?

Were the concerns being taken seriously by the main Political Parties involved? Were the Returning officer and the key decision-making personnel in the electoral ‘services’ in Tower Hamlets bothered about what were very serious allegations?

Clearly not.

And we say this on the evidence of the relevant behaviour in 2010 of the current Returning Officer.

Nothing has so changed between May 2005 and May 2010 that could justify moderating or substantially amending the statement that George Galloway had originally made naming Christine Gilbert the then Tower Hamlets Returning Officer in connection with his allegations.

So will George Galloway support a realistic campaign in 2010 to bring an end to the corrupt practices?

Given that the BHANGEELAAR! Campaign played a significant part in EXCLUSIVELY making the fact widely known that George Galloway had already NAMED on 20 June 2010 Lutfur Rahman as his [Galloway’s] preferred candidate for an elected mayor post in Tower Hamlets – a fact that weeks later George Galloway expressly confirmed in his statement explaining why his Respect grouping was not putting forward a candidate for any election to a mayor post - this question is very hypothetical in the circumstances.

It therefore looks unlikely in the immediate future and in the context of the Bhangeelaar! CAMAPAIGN against there being an elected mayor in Tower Hamlets that George Galloway will see fit to back any public campaign in the current context against the malpractices and abuses and breaches that we have been asking the Returning Officer to act on.

And the same applies to Ken Livingstone too.


What is the point of referring to Ken Livingstone here?

The point is most pertinent.

It was at the same event on 6 February 2010 that Ken Livingstone made a detailed utterance exclaiming and explaining that Tower Hamlets Council was, in effect, in the grip of widespread corruption.

Both of them attended a widely hyped event on 6 February 2010 at the Brady Centre where they spoke in favour of an elected mayor system in Tower Hamlets. A publicised fellow ‘name’ present at the same event. Keith Vaz from the local [NOT] Tower Hamlets [NOT] constituency of Leicester went one further and in fact NAMED Lutfur Rahman as the candidate of HIS choice!

That was 6 February 2010.

A good SEVEN Months before 4 September 2010 when the Bethnal Green announcement was made by Labour Party London bureaucracy mouthpiece Ken Clark to the effects that Lutfur Rahman had been selected by the Party members in Tower Hamlets.


[To be continued]