Tower Hamlets has presided over waste, gross misconduct, and financial mismanagement for too long. Residents deserve a councillor who will scrutinise decisions properly and hold the council to account.
We must pivot from restrictive, punitive measures that disproportionately squeeze lower-income households toward a strategy built on common-sense and innovation.
Secret rooms and tunnels had somehow been left off the planning application. Once again the government stonewalled parliamentary questions.
We know the security services have expressed concerns at this development – are they now being considered?
The research clearly shows that Briton’s, Londoners and Tower Hamlets residents oppose the plans due to the potential security, privacy and safety implications.
Keir Starmer’s problem is his inexperience in real-world negotiations, David Lammy because he’s not tough enough to withstand pressure from the Chinese, and Rachel Reeves because she’s stifled economic growth to such an extent that she’s desperate for anything that might help.
The increasing local objections, in addition to those from statutory bodies such as Royal Palaces and most of all the police, must surely cause the Secretary of State to consider this very carefully.
Curb the demonstrations. Cut the admin. Don’t require police attendance at household incidents where they has been no crime. The policing degree should be scrapped. A police equivalent of Sandhurst should be introduced.
Despite the law being absolute with regard to imprints, the police officer writes “the imprint issue was corrected and a compliant version was distributed.”
Squalid and overcrowded properties are a fire hazard. Councils receive substantial sums from landlords which are ultimately paid for by renters, but it is unclear what they get in return.
There could be an appeal to allow the new Embassy. What we do know is that the local community will not give up their fight to protect their local heritage and resist turning an iconic location into a possibly armed compound.
Elections must be seen to be free and fair; one step is to ensure that fraud is reduced to the minimum.
With 16 years of opposition experience on the Council, I have some idea of how to hold an administration to account and I will continue to do this over this council term.
£50 million of funding was announced this week for 13 councils to research “health inequalities”. The practical benefit has not been made clear.
I hope I am wrong, but every last flicker of hope has been all but extinguished in Labour’s YIMBY movement. Yet those ideas still live on in the Conservatives.