Four Labour councillors in Tower Hamlets have decided to join the cabinet of Lutfur Rahman, who was overwhelmingly elected Mayor of Tower Hamnlets as an independent after being replaced as Labour’s candidate by the person who had come third in the ballot and had made as yet un-investigated allegations against him. The Labour Group had previously […]
Posts Tagged ‘Tower Hamlets’
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 […]
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Tower Hamlets: membership inquiry reveals no conspiracy
Jan 26th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Labour’s national executive yesterday received a report into “alleged membership abuse” into Tower Hamlets which contained nothing that could be regarded as evidence of a conspiracy by anyone. Complaints made against Lutfur Rahman, then the candidate chosen by Labour’s members as their candidate for Mayor, then debarred pending an investigation and subsequently elected as an […]
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Phil Woolas and Lutfur Rahman: extremism, defamation and the Labour Party
Nov 11th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Two former Labour elected representatives, Phil Woolas and Lutfur Rahman, have something in common. Both are from areas with histories of BNP activity fomenting racial strife. Both find themselves prevented from being a Labour candidate and excluded from the Labour Party, as a result of accusations of association with Islamic extremists. Both have supporters in […]
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Labour NEC decides not to pursue complaint against Livingstone
Oct 26th, 2010 by Andy Newman.The Labour Party NEC Disputes Committee recently discussed the case of the Tower Hamlets councillors who have “automatically” placed themselves outside the Labour Party by campaigning for Lutfur Rahman. At the same meeting, a fly on the wall tells me, the Disputes Committee held a discussion on Ken Livingstone’s actions, and they decided that because […]
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Tower Hamlets: victory for Lutfur Rahman
Oct 22nd, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Lutfur Rahman is Mayor of Tower Hamlets. He won 23,283 votes, 52% of the total — 10% more than Labour did in the general election in the borough — and Labour’s Abbas won just 11,254 or 25%. The Tories won 12% and the Lib Dems 6%, little more than half and a third of their […]
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Ken and Tower Hamlets update
Oct 19th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Someone upstairs may have had a word with Ken. His response is a masterful press statement: I am disappointed by the way the NEC handled the selection in Tower Hamlets and I am sure that under Ed Miliband’s leadership things would have been handled differently. However, my position is clear: I fully support Labour candidates […]
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Labour versus Labour in Tower Hamlets
Oct 18th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Ken Livingstone, Labour candidate for London Mayor and leading member of Labour’s national executive, was in Tower Hamlets today, campaigning with a Labour candidate for mayor of Tower Hamlets. The candidate selected by Labour members in Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, that is, not the one rejected by Labour members in Tower Hamlets, Helal Abbas. Mr […]
