1240 [1215] Hrs GMT
London
Sunday
10 October 2010
Editor © Muhammad Haque
BHANGEELAAR! is the latest active campaign that forms part of the movement for democracy in the East End of London. As such, we have vuluntarily and expressly pro-democratically acknowledged the Editorial comment “Scrap this tainted ballot” which the “East London Advertiser” has now published [September 2010]
Is this acknowledgement reciprocated by the “East London Advertiser” itself?
And if it isn’t – and the fact is that it isn’t– then does that lack of acknowledgement by the “East London Advertiser” mean that we have been doing the campaigns in a foreign language?
We are posing these questions as part of our examination of the role of the “East London Advertiser” in relation to the wasteful mess in Tower Hamlets [and most possibly beyond] that the directly elected mayor is creating at the expense of the very democratic process which the Advertiser’s [Archant] group editor Malcolm Starbrook expressed such explicit concern as quoted by Andrew Gilligan in July 2009.
When the “East London Advertiser” ran that online ‘poll’ [in February 2010] promoting a “YES” answer to the question about an elected mayor, it did so in the knowledge that the likely pool from which a candidate could be selected by the main Parties lacked the kind of candidate who could [because they had the capacity, commitment and true record] and would [because that would be their real purpose in 'politics'] bring about and uphold an overdue objective and lasting democratic process in Tower Hamlets.
The “East London Advertiser” did so also in the knowledge that the records of the existing councillors on Tower Hamlets Council were INCONSISTENT with the objectively defined universally understood democratic process that the ordinary people in the East End of London needed,
Why then did the “East London Advertiser” refuse to run the BHANGEELAAR! Comments at that time [February 2010 to September 2010] pointing out the serious problems that would affect the ordinary people in the East London inner city deprived borough of Tower Hamlets if the community got saddled with an executive mayor?
[To be continued]
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