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Thursday
30 September 2010
Editor © Muhammad Haque
The “reporting” [NOT] by the “East End Lies” [Oops! ‘East End Life”, the in-house propaganda title that is produced for the promotion of the image of those who control the Tower Hamlets Council] has created one of the most malign burdens at the expense of ordinary people in the East End area that even if the “East End Lies” were [this is a big hypothesis ‘still’] shut down today and its archives of lies and fabrication traced back over the past say 15 years [to start with], the task that the overdue corrections would entail would take at least twice as many years, if not longer.
The reason for that is not unconnected with the role of those who have seized control at the Tower Hamlets Council.
Most of the elements that we have described [in recent months] as constituting the corrupt clique actually are not legitimately there. So how is it that they have been there at all?
To understand the situation, it is necessary to first understand the reality of what elected councillors actually do as elected councillors in the name of the Council wards and voters in Tower Hamlets.
The first things to note on that is that there are worryingly less democratic activities by councillors than there are other things.
It has been the role played totally by the elected councillors that has brought democracy to its knees in Tower Hamlets.
This as a process of deteriorating democracy has been on for ages in Tower Hamlets. In fact the reduction of Tower Hamlets Council to its present brazenly undemocratic behaviour has not happened in a year or two. It has taken years of corruption in the local organised groups and groupings on the one and a determination by the bureaucracy at the centre of the UK Labour Party [as the main Political Party in this East End of London context] to allow the corruption to fester so long as that did not become an issue that could threaten the Labour Party's claim to rule here.
The second reason has been and remains the lack of any democratic mechanism or willingness inside the Labour Party itself to deal with corruption and abuse.
The third and an equally centrally important constant factor has been the refusal by most of the ‘locally relevant’ ‘mainstream’ ‘media’ to report on the consistently available proof of ongoing corruption in and via the local Council.
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