Telling Guardian's Dave Hill on the record

Are you being fair to us, Dave? Or are you giving too much credit to Peter Golds when he does not deserve any in the context of the comments that have appeared in your blog items about Tower Hamlets since we began the commentary a month or so ago?

We say this in view of your comment dated 29 Oct 2010 that you added to your CIF piece.

You have said as follows

[29 October 2010 11:07AM

“A couple of thoughts on allegations of vote-rigging and so on. Various parties have

accused various others of false entries on electoral rolls in the recent past, but the police

have not charged anyone. Peter Golds, leader of the Council's Tory group, thinks they

are scared to get involved. I hope he's wrong.

Then there's the document presented by Helal Abbas to Labour's NEC which

contributed to the decision to drop Rahman as Labour candidate (Abbas was his

replacement). I think the NEC should ask an independent person to thoroughly

investigate those claims. If they don't then those suspicions of a stitch-up which seem to

have worked against the local party won't go away.

I'd have voted Labour, by the way.”

Where is your source?

We can only find the clear and detailed assertion about the fraud and about even Abbas Uddin ‘Helal’ ‘dossier’ mainly mentioned by us in the comments that your blog pieces have carried.

Have we got that wrong?

If so please show to us by citing clear evidence that this is so.

Otherwise, please acknowledge for the records and as the central component of the key evidence concerned our campaign and our work on this.

To deny us that would be to deny the people of Tower Hamlets a serious say in the democratic say.

Remember, we have been then ones to point out that almost 40000 people voted against a mayor system,

We have been making references to both the Retuning officer and the silence of Peter Golds himself.

We have MORE LOCAL EVIDENCE about the duplicity of the councillors than any of your publicised ‘local’ sources either has or will EVER have.

This is not a boast. This is based on the movement for democratic accountability and to use a 21st century trendy phrase [which we have used for decades before it became trendy at all] human rights in the inner cities generally and in Tower Hamlets in particular that dates back to the 1960s in Tower Hamlets.

We do NOT seek office. We seek accountability. Audit and true universal democracy. These are not some slogans. This is the way forward. The solution to the abuses of office and of 'power', and the lack of democracy that we have been referring to and witnessing in this context.