The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Civic Societies will today host a meeting in Parliament to consider how communities can play a greater role in protecting our heritage. Tower Hamlets has a great deal of multi-cultural heritage – but ...
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Biggs slaps “austerity tax” on Tower Hamlets voters
Labour’s John Biggs has balanced his budget – by getting local residents to dig into their pockets to make up the shortfall. Gone is Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s cast iron pledge protect the most vulnerable in our community – replaced with ...
Read More »Race card may be trumps for Donald
Donald Trump’s suggestion that Muslims should be barred from entering the USA has elicited a storm of protest around the world – with a community gathering outside the East London Mosque last Friday joining in – but has also elicited ...
Read More »Two jobs-John leaves tenants to “do it yourself”
There’s a nasty little scam going round at the moment. Con artists are gaining access to flats and advertising them for rent. When a prospective tenant comes round to view the flat, the con artist poses as a landlord, takes ...
Read More »Rich pickings for Rich Mix?
Labour’s John “two jobs” Biggs is looking into how to make his Administration more transparent: according to Councillors Shahed Ali and Oliur Rahman, he could make a good start by coming clean over the Rich Mix Centre. The two Independent ...
Read More »Live from the Council
The meeting ended at 22.46. Good night. 22.34 Cllr Clare Harrison then moved motion 12.10, which was on the Trade Union Bill currently going through Parliament. Cllr Saunders seconded the motion. Both spoke up, as you might expect, for trade union ...
Read More »Commissioners efforts leave areas “under-represented for funding”
Anti-under-representation Czars correct their own under-representation gaffe Some months ago, Eric Pickles said that under Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Administration, Tower Hamlets Council handed out grants unevenly across the borough. He sent in “commissioners” to run the borough better – who ...
Read More »Commissioners to stay!
Government turns down Biggs’s request to withdraw Commissioners Biggs offers to cut East End Life if Commissioners will go John Biggs has failed in his attempt to get government Commissioners out of Tower Hamlets so that he can run the ...
Read More »“No comment” from rebel local MP Rushanara Ali
Bethnal Green & Bow MP defies official Labour instruction to oppose Tory austerity charter Five years ago, Labour’s National Executive removed Lutfur Rahman as Labour’s candidate for mayor of Tower Hamlets – without notice. Several local Labour figures condemned the then Cllr ...
Read More »The public question Tower Hamlets Council (or mayor)
The third main item on the agenda of the Tower Hamlets Council meeting on 16th September was questions from members of the public. This does allow members of the public to raise issues with the Council, but each individual is ...
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