BHANGEELAAR! telling the Guardian blog to move forward and support the campaign for democracy across London
Quoting Dave Hill [of the London GUARDIAN Blog] [Monday 31 January 2011]
I have plans to catch up on recent, budget-related developments in Tower Hamlets, Hammersmith and Fulham and maybe other boroughs too. This, of course, may mean nothing...
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This must be one of the rarest occasions when you could be said to have completely accurately predicted the substance of what you would find by way of facts and also of their implications!
Whatever you may find out about “Hammersmith and Fulham and maybe other boroughs”, there is no doubt about your concluding words already applying a hundred percent to Tower Hamlets. What has been happening in Tower Hamlets Borough Council.. has not furthered any claim that the paper “opposition” “elected councillors” are behaving as “elected councillors” as far as the cuts agenda being implemented by the Tower Hamlets Council.. bureaucracy goes.
There has been no independently verifiable evidence in the public domain so far [1930 GMT Monday 31 January 2011] that the “Opposition” councillors have even wanted let alone tried to create a genuinely pro-democratic, accountable environment on the Council in which the cuts-carrying bureaucracy is left with no alternative but to submit to the implicit constitutional and democratic demand that “one of the most deprived” boroughs in all of England is not and must not - and does not deserve tl be - teated as if it were economically, socially a well off population comparable to the average income and social space enjoyed by the friends of “Dave” and “Boris” in their “ordinary neighbourhoods”.
No activity either has been seen by the so-called “party political” groupings[run for electoral aims and offices] on this issue. And this is true of the context of your report on Bob Crow in today’s blog about the unstaffed underground stations. If the “political groupings” “organised across London” had been really democratically active and if they were operated for furthering democratic say above all else then it would not be Bob Crow but those groupings or at least a number of those that would have featured in your coverage.
There has been no evidence in the years since you began your current blog on the Guardian, that a single one of the electorally operated and orchestrated “party” political groupings has been even bothered about a London wide democratic audit of the London underground or of the London Assembly.
No wonder that BoJo is looking as smug as he is doing, despite the very understandable and the very limited ‘ action’ [which are in the main strike and stoppages that have extremely limited repercussions] utterances you routinely attribute in context to the RMT!
The London public - and the communities in the many areas that are being systematically made even poorer by CONDEM with the collusions of their ‘local’ Council.. bureaucracies - need and deserve a far more democratically active and diverse representation than the Trade Union blocs can or EVER WILL provide. That the trade union blocs are the only ones making the noise on the record in the mainstream shows that the urgency and the need for organising democratic opposition in defence of London people cannot be stressed too strongly or emphatically.
1945 Hrs GMT
Monday
31 January 2011
BHANGEELAAR! The Campaign against an elected executive mayor in Tower Hamlets
[To be continued]
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