A Labour councillor in Tower Hamlets, Kosru Uddin, 45, has been arrested following allegations that he made a death threat to female fellow councillor, Rania Khan, who is a supporter of independent Mayor Lutfur Rahman. Cllr Uddin was held in custody overnight for questioning today and has now been released on bail. Sources report that abuse, […]
Posts Tagged ‘Lutfur Rahman’
The flames of hatred are still alive in the East End
May 10th, 2012 by Rainsborough.Ken Livingstone, who has developed a healthy respect for Ed Miliband, told the BBC Today programme earlier this week that his only criticism of the Labour leader was that he paid too much credence to “discredited Blairites”. There are a number of reasons as to why Labour did well in London, yet Ken Livingstone lost, […]
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Ed, it’s time to apply the lessons of Bradford to the East End
Apr 23rd, 2012 by Rainsborough.Labour leader, Ed Miliband, recently took himself back to Bradford to ‘listen’, as he had promised to do, to local people. He said he wanted to learn the lessons for Labour’s monumental drubbing at the hands of George Galloway and his ‘Respect Party’. The lessons have of course been writ large for years. Bradford was […]
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The politics of hate in Tower Hamlets
Apr 20th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Tower Hamlets Labour Party is like nowhere else. Throughout London, every constituency party campaign team is doing its best to get the vote out for Ken. They recognise that for the party nationally and in London, that is Labour’s political priority. But here the local vendetta takes priority. Against Lutfur Rahman, independent Mayor overwhelmingly selected […]
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Londoners won’t be fooled by the anti-Ken Livingstone spin
Feb 23rd, 2012 by Rabina Khan.The polls are showing the two leading contenders for London mayor – Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson – running neck and neck. Predictably, sections of the rightwing media have started reaching for the proverbial dog whistle; playing politics with race and religion and appealing to a diminishing band of bigoted voters who respond to the politics […]
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Campaign for a ‘Living Rent’
Oct 31st, 2011 by Lutfur Rahman.With average rents in the private sector now over £1,000 a month, and all tenants except those on the highest wages feeling the pinch, this story about the plight of ordinary Londoner Sharada Osman shines a light on some harsh realities of our city’s housing market.
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Labour Party must pay £123,000 compensation to sacked Asian councillor
Sep 12th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.The Labour party has been ordered by an employment tribunal to pay former Birmingham Labour councillor Raghib Ahsan £123,000 after a 13-year legal battle. Although Raghib’s legal costs were funded by the Commission for Racial Equality, Labour’s own legal costs will bring its total bill to well over £500,000. Raghib Ahsan, although now a solicitor, […]
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Andrew Gilligan’s continuing vendetta against Lutfur Rahman
Jun 30th, 2011 by Fred Kite.A friend has just forwarded an extraordinary splenetic blog piece by the journalist Andrew Gilligan, who is apparently getting his knickers in a twist because the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, recently took a couple of bus load of supporters up to Leicester to help Labour’s by election candidate, Jon Ashworth win the seat. Rahman was […]
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On Ken and Lutfur and winning London
May 16th, 2011 by Fred Kite.“Under Ed Miliband, Labour lost Scotland. Now under his leadership, Labour has lost London”. This could very well be one of the top lining political stories in a year’s time, and while it is easy to look into a crystal ball and easier still to paint a bleak picture, Labour is facing a much tougher […]
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Living in the shadow of the Bankers – and paying the price for their greed
Mar 8th, 2011 by Mark Seddon.When the Chief Executive of Barclays Bank, Bob Diamond, made his appearance in front of a House of Commons Select Committee recently, he said that “the time for remorse was over” for the bankers who had driven the Western economies to the edge of the precipice. Last month it emerged that Barclays Bank paid only […]
