East End community campaign rejects latest plug for Big Business agenda as peddled by Seb Coe et al abusing the "Curry" restaurants as a peg for PR

East End community campaign rejects latest plug for Big Business agenda as peddled by Seb Coe et al abusing the "Curry" restaurants as a peg for PR





Your [REUTERS/Yahoo.co.uk] ['news' plug, realsed 30 march 2011] use of the phrase “peace deal with angry locals”! is unfounded. If the ordinary people - the logical! meaning of ‘locals’ - had been angry then
the ordinary! people in the area would have noticed. There would have! been credible evidence of the ‘locals’ anger’. That! cannot be said.
What
there has been is the failure on! the part of Tower Hamlets Council, the ‘locals’! ‘elected local body’ within the existing UK! ‘constitution’.
The
‘deal’ therefore is between that! Council and the 2012 Games Hosting bureaucracies. They! want to create an impression that ‘2012 Games! Hosting’
‘benefits are being brought to the local! community’ when the truth is that the Council and their! counterpart bureaucrats have been exposed as
having! failed to deliver deliver any sustainable benefits to! the people in the area. The most recently published! findings on social and economic
research once again! show Tower Hamlets to be at the top of the list of the! boroughs across England with the highest numbers of! people in chronic
income slump with indices on health,! education and skills all showing serious persistent ! deficits and underachievement. This statement could be!-
made about Tower Hamlets 40 years ago. It has in effect! been made every year and more frequently in the past 40! years. So why does the situation
change in a way that! the diagnostic and the resulting language would have! changed by now? The answer must be sought in the! behaviour of the schools, their agenda and the fact of! their being allowed to fail with no democratic audit! being conduct on their activities.

Muhammad Haque,! Convenor, Brick Lane Community Business Forum in! association with the Kay Jordan Foundation for! sustainability of small scale enterprises in the! context of inner cities economies

0410 Hrs London! Thursday 31 March 2011




The texts below of the REUTERS/yahoo.com 2012 games PROPAGANDA about “Brick Lane” news item on which the © MUHAMMAD HAQUE commentary has been based [above]



Brick Lane in London's East End was dubbed Curry Capital 2012 on Wednesday as part of a peace deal with angry locals after the Olympic marathons
were re-routed away from the deprived area.
Denis Oswald, chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) commission checking on progress for the Games, joined London 2012 chairman
Sebastian Coe and Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman in strolling down a street famed for its cuisine.
"The Olympic Games is on the doorstep. It gives the opportunity for Tower Hamlets and Brick Lane to be showcased in an extraordinary way," said Coe
after sampling the local poppadoms.
"It's an iconic street in London and throughout the world now.
"The Olympic Games is probably going to attract between 800,000 and a million extra people to London," added Coe. "This is a great street, a great
community for people to spend time between all the fantastic sporting competitions."
A deal was agreed last month between the organising committee and Tower Hamlets after the council had called for a judicial review of the decision to
move the marathon route away from the East End.
The council had also accused the organisers of being "ashamed of the very communities who helped London win the Games."
"The curry industry contributes some four billion pounds to the treasury and Brick Lane and 'Banglatown' also plays a big part in contributing to the
treasury coffers," Rahman told Reuters as he waited for Coe and Oswald to arrive.
"I read somewhere that Queen Victoria used to like a curry here and there."

The new marathon route begins and ends outside Buckingham Palace, official residence of the British monarch since the days of Queen Victoria.
Oswald, who will hold a news conference on Friday at the end of the visit, said he liked what he had seen and tasted.
"We were at the Park yesterday and it's 80 percent finished, which is very impressive if you think it's more than one year to go until the Games," he told
Reuters.
"It's a unique situation in Games history and why we feel we are in a very comfortable position."