Sentences with phrase «hamlets labour»

Parent Keeley McSweeney also talks about the impact this has had on the schooling of her children while Tower Hamlets Labour councillor Joshua Peck says the council failed to respond to the need for schools.

But in the spirit of Tower Hamlets Labour, they might well reply: «I'd rather stick hot needles in my eyes.»

In September 2010, Rahman was selected [13] by the Tower Hamlets Labour Party as its candidate to be the first directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets.

This latest episode in the colourful history of Tower Hamlets Labour highlights not only the level to which party discipline nationally has diminished, but also how Labour is struggling to retain control over its local party in the east end.

Whilst congratulating comrades on the result in London, I had to point out that in Tower Hamlets Labour lost.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

Hatred runs deep in Tower Hamlets Labour — as we've reported before.

The constituency secretary, Stephen Beckett, a member of Tower Hamlets Labour Party for thirty years, has himself, it seems, been expelled from the party for supporting Lutfur (though no - one from the party has seen fit to tell him).

A failure to do this will see Tower Hamlets Labour continue to be a polarised, dysfunctional and ineffective party.

To his credit, he had been the only Tower Hamlets Labour politician willing to canvass with me in the ward campaign I ran single - handedly during the London Mayoral election.

John Biggs won the tower hamlets labour mayoral selection, well just about by 8 votes after the second preference votes were redistributed.

Not exact matches

When it comes the election next year, I will, as a Labour Party member in Tower Hamlets, campaign for Labour Party candidates.

On Friday night Tower Hamlets became the last council to declare, with Labour the winner.

Last week I received a dossier about Labour Party members in two wards of Tower Hamlets.

The reality is that the Labour vote is going to be divided between the candidate imposed by the NEC Helal Abbas and Lutfur Rahman, the candidate chosen by Tower Hamlets party members, who is now standing as an independent.

Labour has gained control of Tower Hamlets council, over which no party previously had overall control, the Press Association reports.

Although registered as Labour Party members in Tower Hamlets at these addresses, the dossier alleges that they did not live there.

Well, in Tower Hamlets, the opposition Labour group don't need a 2/3 majority because they have formed a voting pact with the David Cameron's Tories.

Two weeks ago, the Campaign for Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against an imposed Labour candidate — Helal Abbas.

As the final election result was declared in the London borough of Tower Hamlets overnight, Labour sealed their best result in the capital since 1971.

The turn to the Labour Party and Rahman appears to have been because IFE / Jamaat lost confidence in the Respect MP for Bow and Poplar (in Tower Hamlets), George Galloway, after he made a complete fool of himself on Celebrity Big Brother.

Rahman won the 2010 mayoral election as an independent although Tower Hamlets is by no means a majority Muslim borough, less than 40 % are Muslims but they do constitute the bulk of Labour's electoral base and once Rahman was able to win this no - one could beat him.

The same year he was selected as the Labour candidate to stand as the directed elected mayor of Tower Hamlets before being removed by the party's NEC.

Labour National executive has decided to replace party members» choice for Tower Hamlet's Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, on the basis of complaints which have not been disclosed to Lutfur Rahman or anyone in Tower Hamlets.

THF is entirely drawn from Tower Hamlets Bangladeshis (and one would assume, Muslims), although six have previously been councillors of both the Labour Party and Respect.

Rahman was dumped as Labour's mayoral candidate in Tower Hamlets in 2010 but went on to win as an independent.

Both Lutfur and John, irrespective of who is Mayor tomorrow, should now work to reunite the Labour family in Tower Hamlets.

In the long run, such behaviour will undermine Labour support amongst BAME communities in and beyond Tower Hamlets.

Both Labour and Tower Hamlets First (Rahman's slate) backed secular Muslim candidates as well as candidates whose base of support is closely associated with particular mosques — though Rahman's supporters appear «guilty» of being far more successful at winning support through those mosques.

Bradford West and Tower Hamlets — both areas in which the taken - for - granted BME vote rebelled, delivering stinging defeats for Labour in their heartlands — show that working via «elders» is less of a guarantee than has been assumed.

There are many more Labour councillors who will want to work with the mayor of Tower Hamlets and serve the community of Tower Hamlets.

Much to her surprise, Amina Ali, a Labour councillor from the London borough of Tower Hamlets, was chosen as the candidate.

He now needs to do the same in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, where years of infighting, and poorly thought through interventions from the Labour Party had led to a febrile increasingly combustible mix.

Two weeks ago, the Campaign for Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against -LSB-...]

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.

I want to see the door left open for those councillors who have resigned the party whip to return so that whoever is elected can be sure that there is a strong Labour group that will work with the Mayor to ensure the needs of Tower Hamlets comes first and we reunite the local party once the dust has settled.»

Just 2 1/2 years ago, Lutfur Rahman was selected as Labour's candidate for Mayor of Tower Hamlets with 433 votes compared with 251 for local London assembly member, John Biggs, and 157 for council leader, Helal Abbas.

A united Tower Hamlets ought to be the objective of everyone — we should not allow how Labour's NEC has handled this to divert us from this objective.

However, my position is clear: I fully support Labour candidates in all elections and I am calling for Tower Hamlets residents to use their first preference vote for our candidate Helal Abbas.

Until today, I have avoided writing about the hard - fought election in Tower Hamlets in which Labour's John Biggs, who I backed to be Labour's candidate in this election, hoped to unseat as Mayor the incumbent, Lutfur Rahman, who I supported as Labour's candidate four years ago.

the people of Tower Hamlets rejected the politics of division and joined with us backing our Labour vision of a united East End»

The Lammy campaign continues to be overseen by Labour's Tower Hamlets election co-ordinator Matthew Bethell, and our source stressed that Corinaldi was working on a part - time basis.

People with something to say that might help explain why thirteen years of Labour government and unprecedented spending have had a minimal impact across estates in places like Tower Hamlets or Bradford.

With 22,236 votes, the former leader of Tower Hamlets» Labour Group, Christine Shawcroft, was also elected to the NEC.

A timetable for selecting a Labour candidate for mayor of Tower Hamlets in May 2014 was agreed by the organisation committee, where discussion centred on the last - minute exclusion of Lutfur Rahman in September 2010 and his subsequent victory as an independent.

The tweet referred to an ongoing party procedure that decides whether the sitting Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs, has to win a vote among members of his local party before becoming the Labour candidate for the 2018 - 22 term.

Only Tower Hamlets has reinstated EMA and Aim Higher, scrapped nationally by the same people who Labour group leader Councillor Joshua Peck stood shoulder to shoulder with in the vote on Thursday.

Former Mayor of London Ken Livngstone has apologised and paid libel damages to the former Labour leader of Tower Hamlets Council, Michael Keith.

I said at the meeting that the only way out is to accept Lutfur Rahman and members of Tower Hamlets First back into the Labour Party where they belong, and I will be working towards this end over the next few months.

It was with a heavy heart that Labour Uncut uncovered a little - reported nugget from seasoned east end politics commentator Ted Jeory: the expulsion of five Tower Hamlets councillors from the Labour party.