Tackling worklessness: Newham v. LBWF
I was interested to read a story last week in the Guardian which suggested that Newham’s growing affluence was partly the result of its council’s ‘reimagined jobs scheme’, Workplace (‘What’s behind the...
View ArticleLutfur Rahman: yet another low
Mark Baynes at Love Wapping has a powerful story on the latest development in the Lutfur Rahman affair, which begins as follows: ‘Lutfur Rahman, ex-Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has been damned once again by...
View ArticleLBWF’s policy on Prevent reaps what it sows…
In a recent post, I warned that LBWF’s Prevent strategy, and the secrecy that surrounds it, invite trouble. As if on cue, up pops the stage army of the Left, guided by the ubiquitous ‘red vicar’,...
View ArticleDelta Club: a very Waltham Forest story, up like a rocket, down like a stick
In the mid- to late 2000s, Delta Club (hereafter DC) was one of the most high profile organisations in Waltham Forest. Incorporated as a private company in 2003, with sometime Labour Cabinet portfolio...
View ArticleJohn Cryer and the EU: always read the small print
A correspondent writes as follows: ‘No doubt so as to further underline his left-wing credentials, John Cryer has always presented himself as anti-EU, and a good example of this occurs in the latest of...
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Cllr. Liaquat Ali: an update
Our favourite figure of fun marches on! From Private Eye, no. 1413, 4-17 March 2016:
View ArticleJohn Cryer’s moonlight flit – the speculation continues
A corespondent with his finger on the pulse of Labour politics revisits the Cryer flit: ‘Back in July 2015, we reported that one of our local Labour MPs, John Cryer, had moved to Lewisham two months...
View ArticleSelwyn Primary School, Highams Park: Demolish in Haste, Repent at Leisure?
A local resident writes as follows: ‘Waltham Forest Council (hereafter LBWF) wants to demolish Selwyn Primary School in Highams Park and replace it with a modular building block of the same capacity....
View ArticleSTOP PRESS: Cllr. Ali gets Guido-ed
The portly one gets the full GF treatment: http://order-order.com/2016/03/18/will-khan-name-and-shame-the-ali-family/ How long will ‘Strong Leader’ Robbins keep standing by this embarrasing liability?
View Article‘Forget the homeless, what about the coffee drinkers?’ LBWF v. The Christian...
We published Part 1 of this story some months ago (see link below in Related Posts). Our correspondent now provides the sequel. ‘The Christian Kitchen has been feeding the homeless in Walthamstow for...
View ArticleLBWF councillors through the prism of their register of interest forms
The LBWF councillor code of conduct requires each member to answer questions on a register of interest form at the beginning of their term of office, and then update as necessary, with the results...
View ArticleNorth London Ltd.: Further Significant Revelations
In previous posts, I have discussed North London Ltd. (NLL), and pointed out some of the mysteries that surround it. To recap briefly, NLL was a private company that (a) was handed hundreds of thousand...
View ArticleLBWF and the Freedom of Information Act: dumb insolence reigns?
LBWF’s response to Freedom of Information Act inquiries has, in my experience, always been pretty hit and miss, but recently things seem to have deteriorated sharply, ostensibly due to the fact that...
View ArticleFMG and Waltham Forest
From yesterday’s Evening Standard: ‘A survivor of female genital mutilation today told how she had been attacked in public over her outspoken campaign to confront the barbaric practice in London’s...
View ArticleLWBF, Prevent, and the Lea Bridge Rd. Mosque
An interesting and very concerning report on the Lea Bridge Rd. Mosque has been published at the blog Harry’s Place:...
View ArticleCouncil Leader Chris Robbins: staying or going?
A local Labour Party mole writes in as follows: ‘When Labour was re-elected at the 2014 council elections, it was assumed by many insiders that this would be Chris Robbins’ last term as Leader....
View ArticleCllr. Khan steps down amid talk of inadmissible intolerance.
Word reaches me that earlier in the week Labour councillors were circulated with an e-mail which announced that Cllr. Ahsan Khan, Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, had stepped down from the...
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The Cllr. Khan affair: new revelations UPDATED
Harry’s Place has further revelations about the Cllr. Khan affair: http://hurryupharry.org/2016/04/18/meet-the-friends-of-corbynista-vicar-steven-saxby/ It certainly does seem strange that a person who...
View ArticleCllr. Robbins on the Private Eye and Guido Fawkes allegations about Cllr. Ali
I reprint below some correspondence that I have had with Cllr. Chris Robins, Leader of LBWF, concerning allegations involving his close colleague Cllr. Liaquat Ali and the latter’s family. Most of...
View ArticleAcademies, George Tomlinson Primary, and LBWF Interim Director of School...
Earlier this week, a reliable contact in the Town Hall rang me to say that some Labour councillors seemed spooked by the stance being taken by LBWF’s Interim Director of School Standards, Rosalind...
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