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Friday, October 22, 2010
Oh dear, what a shame, never mind, onwards and forwards
Check out the result of yesterday's election for Tower Hamlets Mayor here.
shame that Helal did not win but no surprise since the IFE had threatened all the mosques into supporting LR.
This is a actually a good result since the local Labour Party has finally got rid of most of its internal cancers.
No more GBH former drug dealers in their ranks
it is good to know that city businesses are finally waking up to the homophobes and racisits - and are oganising silent boycotts of the millionaire backers of you know who.
I hope this new Mayor turns out to be a nutter. I hope that this way the new coalition can abolish directly elected Mayors. They have not learned from the mistakes of Newham Mayor.
Oh dear, another own goal. Firstly for backing the elected mayoral system, which those of us in Newham have seen concentrate power disastrously in one person, to the detriment, in my view, of local politics. And, secondly for manipulating the process against the will of the local party - for which Labour has been punished by the electorate, not for the first time.
All kinds of allegations are flying around I think and I have no way of knowing the truth, but in a borough in which the style of politics is being put under question, the last thing you need is to concentrate power further in one person.
We really need a rethink on elected mayoral systems. Or the building in of adequate safeguards that restrict the powers of patronage and guarantee effective scrutiny.
In truth perhaps the election of an independent mayor as opposed to someone attached to a party may be a better way of achieving scrutiny of mayoral policy and practice, because there may be sufficient balancing of power between different bodies.
Newham losers whining pointlessly about things again i see. they just love the relgious bigots in tower hamlets taking over. since they are the wealthy middle class who live in different world than rest of us.
11 comments:
Good I am glad the Labour Candidate won
he didn't - the millionaire's and bigots friend won
Oh well John, so much for your 'uniting the East End' candidate
shame that Helal did not win but no surprise since the IFE had threatened all the mosques into supporting LR.
This is a actually a good result since the local Labour Party has finally got rid of most of its internal cancers.
No more GBH former drug dealers in their ranks
it is good to know that city businesses are finally waking up to the homophobes and racisits - and are oganising silent boycotts of the millionaire backers of you know who.
action speaks better than words.
How amusing to see that committed labour party member Ken Livingstone out with Lutfur Rahman. You really were united on this weren't you
I hope this new Mayor turns out to be a nutter. I hope that this way the new coalition can abolish directly elected Mayors. They have not learned from the mistakes of Newham Mayor.
the anon nutter doesn't seem to understand that the coalition think elected mayors are great and are going to impose them on all councils.
look at the turnout
regardless of the result
who thought it would be a clever idea to have a mayor for tower hamlets
a borough driven by shame politics where swp/respect members join the tories etc
This and some of the Northen Cities are a disgrace
the Mayors are a joke
"who thought it would be a clever idea to have a mayor for tower hamlets"
answer
"swp/respect"
Oh dear, another own goal. Firstly for backing the elected mayoral system, which those of us in Newham have seen concentrate power disastrously in one person, to the detriment, in my view, of local politics. And, secondly for manipulating the process against the will of the local party - for which Labour has been punished by the electorate, not for the first time.
All kinds of allegations are flying around I think and I have no way of knowing the truth, but in a borough in which the style of politics is being put under question, the last thing you need is to concentrate power further in one person.
We really need a rethink on elected mayoral systems. Or the building in of adequate safeguards that restrict the powers of patronage and guarantee effective scrutiny.
In truth perhaps the election of an independent mayor as opposed to someone attached to a party may be a better way of achieving scrutiny of mayoral policy and practice, because there may be sufficient balancing of power between different bodies.
Newham losers whining pointlessly about things again i see. they just love the relgious bigots in tower hamlets taking over. since they are the wealthy middle class who live in different world than rest of us.
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