Biggs makes first pledge to keep a key Lutfur Rahman policy. John “Two Jobs” Biggs found his luck was in last Monday when he opened the Healthy Schools and Healthy Early Years Celebration Event – held, like John Biggs’s Tower ...
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“Two Jobs” John welcomes Housing Investment Zone in Labour Heartland
•Locals may be charged up to £272 per week rent for social homes •Public money will build houses for sale in high cost area •“Fast track” planning powers could leave locals with no say John Biggs has set out his ...
Read More »What’s “Two Jobs John” got to hide?
Tower Hamlets Independent Councillors were stunned at last week’s Council meeting as John “Two Jobs” Biggs moved quickly to cordon off his rule as mayor of Tower Hamlets from independent scrutiny. He made sure all the top jobs were kept ...
Read More »And then there were TEN
John Biggs is to reveal his Cabinet at tonight’s reconvened AGM of Tower Hamlets Council – but BD News 24 is reporting who the Cabinet will be. Expected Cabinet John Biggs has already announced that instead of having just one ...
Read More »Local Labour relocates John “two jobs” Biggs
Last week the London Bangla newspaper shared a snapshot of the Tower Hamlets Labour Party website page devoted to John Biggs. Although it had been updated to show that Biggs was now Tower Hamlets mayor (as well as remaining a ...
Read More »Biggs welcomes Michelle Obama – but doesn’t notice Bangladeshi press exclusion
As Michelle Obama, First Lady of the USA, and her two daughters visited Mulberry School today, John Biggs made one of his first press statements as the Mayor of Tower Hamlets. John Biggs gushed: “It’s fantastic that the First Lady ...
Read More »John Biggs and the missing Labour votes
The predominant emotion in the Labour Party campaign when they woke up on Friday morning (or maybe even Friday afternoon) was probably not elation so much as relief. Although John Biggs won the Tower Hamlets mayoral election, he lost a large ...
Read More »Abu Talha: The Next Generation is here!
Abu Talha Chowdhury could be the youngest member of Tower Hamlets Council if he is elected on 11th June – and what a breath of fresh air he would be on a body that so often seems to be far ...
Read More »Mayoral Manifestos Part 1: Biggs pledges to hold more public meetings
While Cllr Rabina Khan has spent the last full week of the campaign concentrating on how to create more jobs for unemployed women, Labour candidate John Biggs (a Member of the London Assembly) is working hard on getting a second job ...
Read More »Trouble comes in threes for Labour’s Biggs
They say that trouble comes in threes – and the last weekend of the campaign to be mayor of Tower Hamlets saw Labour red-faced over three incidents as they made their third attempt to take the Town Hall’s top post. ...
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