Reetendra BANERJI (Lib Dem) 1959 John BIGGS (Labour) 27,643 (1st preference), 6,500 (2nd preference) = 34,143 Reza CHOUDHURY (Independent) 205 Hafiz KADIR (Independent) 162 Mohammed KHAN (Independent) 164 Nicholas MCQUEEN (UKIP) 4,819 Hugo PIERRE (Trade Union and Socialist Coalition) 871 Lutfur ...
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The Count in pictures
The problem with the view of the count from the press pen in the gallery is that you can’t read what people are thinking from the tops of their heads. ...
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23.00 The latest rumours are, again, that Lutfur has won on the first round. Nothing official has been announced: why won’t they tell us what is going on? We need to get a mayor in post to sort this borough’s ...
Read More »Tower Hamlets’ part-time “Quiet Man” turns DOWN the volume
“The quiet man is here to stay, and he’s turning up the volume,” said Iain Duncan Smith – kick-starting the steady slide down towards losing the election for Tory Party Leader. For his look-a-like John Biggs, Labour’s candidate for Mayor, ...
Read More »Urgent: can we find this man?
The above photograph shows the man who is alleged to have been verbally abusive towards women who were canvassing in the Chrisp Street area on 18th May. The man was canvassing for support for the Labour Party’s John Biggs; the women were ...
Read More »Islamophobic crime soars under opposition parties’ relentless Lutfur-bashing
Metropolitan Police Service crime figures up to the end of March 2014 show that incidents classed as “Islamophobic crime” have nearly tripled, from 17 to 50 individual incidents. The increase coincides with the period of time in which Labour and ...
Read More »The case against dog whistle media
Harry Palmer looks at the aftermath of the Panorama programme. The Metropolitan police have found no credible evidence of fraud in John Ware’s Panorama dossier on Lutfur Rahman. They have made it quite clear that if the audit currently being ...
Read More »Labour denial answers no questions
On Wednesday evening last week, Tower Hamlets First put out a press release stating that Professor Michael Keith, former leader of the Council, had written a document in 1995 in which he claimed John Biggs had written material which was ...
Read More »Labour’s splits on racism go back 20 years
An extraordinary memo, written by former Labour Councillor – and former Council Leader –Michael Keith has revealed that Labour’s internal splits on the issue of race go back nearly 20 years. In the memo, Michael Keith twice accused John Biggs, ...
Read More »Labour double standards on Council newspapers
London Labour stands divided as once again Tower Hamlets Labour members invent a special policy with which to attack Mayor Lutfur Rahman – without stopping to check what their own mayors are doing just a postcode away. Tower Hamlets was ...
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