BHANGEELAAR! No to a directly elected mayor in Tower Hamlets updating the evidential diagnosis of Andrew Gilligan’s obsession with the diversionary

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09 September 2010


[2330 Hrs GMT London Saturday 04] September 2010

This AADHIKARonline/BHANGEELAAR! Original diagnostic and commentary was first published on 04 September 2010. The following version has been updated at 0740 [0730] GMT today Thursday 09 September 2010

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BHANGEELAAR! No to a directly elected mayor in Tower Hamlets updating the evidential diagnosis of Andrew Gilligan’s obsession with diversionary elements at the expense of democratic accountability and honest representation in Tower Hamlets

AADHIKARonline diagnosing Andrew Gilligan and the failure of Channel 4 to focus on the real problems in Tower Hamlets. Andrew Gilligan probably doesn’t know this – or if he does he may be in denial and far deeply into that state for him to get a grip on the truth. What he has been doing for the past seven months is to rehash some of the fabrications about Tower Hamlets while failing to report on the serious problems in the same Borough. When it is remembered that Gilligan became ‘known’ by the – in our view - ‘strange’ [NOT] ‘accident’ of featuring as a reporter about Blair’s war on Iraq broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme in an early bulletin during the first half of this decade, it is difficult to understand how he could make such a big error over Tower Hamlets. Why are we saying this? The answer is not to be found in an opinion but in the fact that became published VERY SOON after Gilligan ‘hit the headlines’. PRIVATE EYE the so-called satirical magazine [it is NOT satire so much as an outlet for insider information from original Establishment elements and assorted UK state and related agencies] published an accurate report with an accurate observation at a time when Gilligan was being in effect ‘hailed’ [we shall come to that dubious and in context pro-Hitler linked word in a later piece] by ALL in 'Fleet Street' as a true investigative 'pioneer'! In their piece. "PRIVATE EYE" referred to an incident [or more] in Andrew Gilligan's past involving him in almost the same sort of fabrication that eventually got him damned [during the doubly so-called HUTTON Inquiry] over his BBC Radio 4 'Today' 'exclusive on Tony Bliar’s ‘sexing up’ the case for illegally invading Iraq. The fact that Gilligan had indeed faked part of his ‘account’ about his source [who was then publicised to be the tragically dead David Kelly] was confirmed by Gilligan himself during the so-called Hutton inquiry hearings. Gilligan’s loss of a contract with the BBC was one consequence of his fabrication. Had it not been for that fabrication, Gilligan’s role would have been noted in a very different way indeed. So we are saying that he should have learnt from that experience. However, he appears to be unwilling or unable to leave that habit and has now confounded his particular propensity by over-publicising Lutfur Rahman and by over focussing on the diversionary [we repeat the DIVERSIONARY] and refusing to tell the truth about the REAL problems that ordinary people OF ALL ethnic, nationality, religious and political party affiliations, origins, backgrounds in Tower Hamlets have been caused and are suffering due to the failures of the Tower Hamlets Council …[To be continued]