BHANGEELAAR! asks Tower Hamlets Councillor [ex], Lutfur Rahman why he found no person in this borough worthy of 'his following' on a social network!

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23 December 2010
Editor © Muhammad Haque
Your ["East London Advertiser" online, Thursday 23 December 2010] report is essentially about the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council. And in this context, we share with your readers a representative comment with a few timely questions. Whatever temporary post Lutfur Rahman may be being able to use in the name of the people of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council will not discharge the duties the same Council owes to the people across the Borough that the individuals and any engaged or publicly paid for 'advisers' involved in the making of the 'definitive' decisions on given matters are behaving in accordance with the requirements of universally valid accountability, answerability and probity UNLESS the 'users of the remits' in the Council are manifestly seen to be doing so.
What has Lutfur Rahman done to answer this basic requirement as it applies to the overwhelming majority of the ordinary people in the ‘deprived’ borough of inner city Tower Hamlets?
What can Lutfur Rahman say without contrary evidence emerging that he has been truly active in working for the community REGARDLESS of any income or benefit accruing to him in any shape or form – materially speaking?
These questions are only the tip of the iceberg. We can see a whole lot of grief appearing on the surface in Tower Hamlets specially as the ‘guru’ from Lewisham Council keeps hovering over the heads of our locally “elected councillors”.
It is noticeable that as a recent councillor himself, Lutfur Rahman has not found any single person in all of Tower Hamlets to follow! What “community” has he been an “activist” in?
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From the web site of the "East London Advertiser" Thursday 23 December 2010:


Lutfur Rahman
East End mayor joins twitterati
Thursday, 23 December, 2010 15:39 PM
The new mayor of Tower Hamlets has embraced social networking by joining the twitterati.

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Lutfur Rahman who is the first directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets described himself as “a community activist” and a “social democrat”.
He has just joined twitter as @MayorLutfur and is following fellow directly elected mayor Lewisham’s Sir Steve Bullock who was first elected to his job in 2002.
Mr Rahman faces some tough times ahead as Tower Hamlets council has to make difficult decisions at it trims its budget and sheds an estimated 500 jobs in a round of cuts in the new year. Forty per cent
Lawyer Mr Rahman who previously represented Spitalfields and Banglatown on the council won the £65,000 a year job with 23,283 votes.
His first tweet which has to be 140 characters or less reads: “Snow receding, ice melting but work continuing ... all the excitement is in Tower Hamlets!”
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We can see a whole lot of grief appearing on the surface in Tower Hamlets specially as the ‘guru’ from Lewisham Council keeps hovering over the heads of our locally “elected councillors”.
It is noticeable that as a recent councillor himself, Lutfur Rahman has not found any single person in all of Tower Hamlets to follow!
What “community” has he been an “activist” in?
2105 Hrs
Thursday
23 December 2010.
BHANGEELAAR!
The Campaign against an elected executive mayor in Tower Hamlets
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Or, instead of tweeting,he could easily have blogged,'Sent minion to Apple Store in Covent Garden to pick up a £599 top-of-the-range Apple i-phone 4. My Council-issued Nokia and BlackBerry phones were just like so yesterday dahling.' The Advertiser reports,'Mr Rahman faces some tough times ahead as Tower Hamlets council has to make difficult decisions as it trims its budget and sheds an estimated 500 jobs in a round of cuts in the new year.................' Exactly. That £599 tiop of the range Apple i-phone will be very handy when he's calling out the redundancies. And by the way Mr. Mayor,let's see Democracy in action. Replace that table which was previously used by reporters at Council meetings.
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