
Peter Golds: The skewed enforcement priorities of Tower Hamlets Council
Law abiding local citizens face continuous harassment. Genuine problems caused by illegal activity are ignored.
Law abiding local citizens face continuous harassment. Genuine problems caused by illegal activity are ignored.
Polling organisations have strict guidelines as to questions and methodology. Why can’t we have rules to stop dodgy bar charts?
The Electoral Commission stumbles from one crisis to another – while proven voter fraud goes unpunished.
Ten years ago, Tower Hamlets Council named a block of social housing after the slave trader.
Volunteering is thriving. But in Tower Hamlets, we watch which community groups are being given money.
It has, without consultation or a change in the law, slammed shut the principal way that investigating corruption of the register may be properly conducted.
Labour claims to be concerned about what they call “voter suppression.” They should sort out their own Party.
Consider the case of the man whose death was registered in Bangladesh on election day. Miraculously, his vote was recorded thousands of miles away in Tower Hamlets.
In April 2020, Lutfur Rahman will have his disqualification lifted. He will be free to stand in the 2022 local elections. Will the police have learned anything?
In 1872 the secret ballot was introduced to prevent open voting. 137 years later, the United Kingdom cannot guarantee a secret ballot in our capital city.
£750,000 is allocated for “mother tongue teaching”. Yet there is almost no budget for English as a spoken language for non-English-speaking parents.
Will it be bad news for democracy in Tower Hamlets in 2018? The old tactics of toxic allegations in anonymous leaflets are being seen again.
The Crown Prosecution Service and the police are still failing to uphold democracy in Tower Hamlets.
If it is good enough for internal Labour selections then why not for council and General Elections?
There will now be a by-election in the Whitechapel Ward. But will the police ensure that it is free and fair?