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 ...
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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 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 »“Two Jobs” John swans off to the seaside as Boris takes over Bishopsgate
The future of Brick Lane hung in the balance this week, as Tory Mayor of London Boris Johnson agreed to take direct control of planning decisions concerning the Bishopsgate Goods Yard, removing the Planning Committees of Hackney and Tower Hamlets ...
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 ...
Read More »Tower Hamlets petitioners raise concerns at Council meeting
African Families Service The first public petition to be heard at the Council meeting on 16th September came from the Pastors and Community Leaders Group, asking the Council to note their opposition to the African Families Service being cut. Labour ...
Read More »Chief Exec: £200,000; 237 community organisations: £0
Tower Hamlets Labour and Tory Councillors united in the last week of August and agreed to spend up to £200,000 a year employing an additional senior officer – just weeks after 237 community organisations learned that John Biggs’s Administration did ...
Read More »Double standards!
John Biggs and Tory Leader Peter Golds unite to back candidate Labour and Tory councillors appoint candidate who is under police investigation Independent councillors abstain following last minute release of shock information On Wednesday evening (26th August), John Biggs stood ...
Read More »Will Abdal be “the people’s choice”?
Support builds for Abdal Ullah as Labour members warm to “a safe pair of hands” Labour Party members across East London will begin voting on Monday to choose a Labour candidate for the Greater London Assembly elections next May. And ...
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The report starts at the bottom of this post: new paragraphs are being added at the top. 20.34 With two minutes left, Cllr Oli Rahman moved that the order of business be changed so the Council could discuss a motion ...
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