LABOUR PARTY members in Poplar & Limehouse constituency have chosen the candidate they want to stand for them at the next General Election: Apsana Begum. A new candidate had to be found as sitting MP “Dim Jim” Fitzpatrick is retiring. ...
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Labour councillor leads attack on Poplar AWS
A LABOUR COUNCILLOR has published a video on his Facebook page of a speech he has given criticising the Labour Party. He claims that the Party’s decision to run an All-Woman Shortlist (AWS) to select Jim Fitzpatrick MP’s successor in ...
Read More »Helal Abbas: MP dreams crushed as PAL goes AWS
ONCE AGAIN, Tower Hamlets veteran politician Helal Abbas Uddin has seen the Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC) take a decision which affects his political future. But this time, rather than being in his favour, the NEC has dashed his ...
Read More »Dagenham hosts inaugural Beanibazar Club Badminton festival
Emdad Rahman YOUNG AND OLD players were the key attraction as Beanibazar Sporting Club hosted a community sports event. The Club delivered a popular inter-generational badminton festival at Dagenham Park Leisure Centre, which was attended by visitors from far and ...
Read More »Labour vote sinks below Independent levels
LABOUR IS licking its wounds in Tower Hamlets as official figures show the Party attracted just 25,602 votes from across the Borough in last Thursday’s election of Members of the European Parliament. Since Lutfur Rahman was first elected Mayor of ...
Read More »Biggs enters second year rewarding loyal followers
THERE WERE NO pom-poms in sight in Mulberry Place tonight as John Biggs presented his new Advisory Cabinet to the Council – but as so many of the cheer-leaders were in the said Advisory Cabinet, there was no one left ...
Read More »Bring back democracy to Tower Hamlets?
A LONG JOURNEY starts with a single step – and that single step may have been taken in Greatorex Street in Tower Hamlets on Sunday night, 7th October when a number of community activists came together to discuss how to ...
Read More »How to lose Respect and influence over people
CRASH! Late last night – Saturday, 14th July – the news broke. Abjol Miah has joined the Liberal-Democrats! This is Bastille Day – the day, in 1789, when the people stormed the Bastille prison, attempting to release political prisoners. This ...
Read More »Biggs upset on nurseries as “councillors say no”
COUNCILLORS have asked Executive Mayor John Biggs to think again over his plans to close the borough’s last three remaining Local Authority Day Nurseries. The move came at a special meeting of the Council’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee (OSC), held ...
Read More »Biggs backs down on pay for young workers
JOHN BIGGS HAS backed down in the face of a campaign by Unite the Union and agreed that young people working in Council leisure facilities run by GLL should receive he full London Living Wage (LLL) – but he hasn’t ...
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