Tower Hamlets 'bid' to become a 'City' is Trojan bid by Big Business to take over the remainder of the Borough Council

Tower Hamlets 'bid' to become a 'City' is Trojan bid by Big Business to take over the remainder of the Borough Council

[To be continued]

Contextually citing a few seconds of a clip of 'news' as featured on a UK SKYdoctom satellite channel licensed in the name of a UK community 30 May

Contextually citing a few seconds of a clip of 'news' as featured on a UK SKYdoctom satellite channel licensed in the name of a UK community 30 May

DAVOS DAVE's secret deprivation, want, famine, hunger and starvation, with the collusion of 'Fleet Street', 'mainstream' 'media' eg ‘ITV News’

0610 Hrs GMT London Saturday 28 May 2011.
AADHIKAROnline © Muhammad Haque London Report.
On the day that UK CONDEM Collusion’s front man David Cameron did his Davos display of concern ABOUT the ‘North African’ ‘flash points’ - almost reminiscent of GW Bush’s first pretences before his first attempt at getting into the White House, when GW paraded his affiliation to something called ‘Conscientious Conservatism’ – the mainstream mass communication media manufactured in the UK continued to fail to report reality. Reality from the concealed concentration of poverty, deprivation and hunger across the UK itself.
This has been typified in the DAVOS DAVE package fronted on ITV ‘morning news’ bulletin by Tom Bradby who was as generous this morning to ‘Dave’ Cameron’s fakery has he had been on hundreds of occasions before.
This sort of journalism of denial can be extrapolated with one hundred percent evidential support to cover all aspects of life in the UK and all aspects of what remains of ‘Society’ in the post-CONDEM mental frame created for the perpetuation of the agenda of regression, reversal and reaction. Not a surprise then that the ‘Mainstream’ in Fleet Street [a double fantasy there again] this morning is bare of substance about the true state of the economy and of society in the UK this weekend. [To be continued]

Contextual action flashback to 19 January 2008

Khoodeelaar! challenges the UK ‘Crossrail Bill’ in the UK Parliament [’the House of Lords’] and warns the UK Government of damaging embarrassment…..
By©Muhammad Haque 1740 Hrs GMT London Saturday 19 January 2008: Khoodeelaar! challenges the UK ‘Crossrail Bill’ in the UK Parliament [’the House of Lords’] and warns the UK Government of embarrassment unless ALL the objectors in the UK to the Crossrail Bill are allowed to pout to t Parliament all the evidence against Crossrail plot.. and unless the process of scrutiny in parliament is actually allowed to take place and is seen to be taking place….


The CURRENT campaign news, information and commentary being created for Khoodeelaar! by the AADHIKAR Media Foundation and published on the internet is focussed on the CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
What is Khoodeelaar! doing to bring about compliance with the UK’s European Treaty obligations in the conduct of making laws in the UK. Khoodeelaar! is at once embarked on a multi-faceted programme of defence of the ordinary public in London and by extension across the UK against the illegal, unconstitutional, illegitimate behaviour on the part of the UK executive.
As this week’s ‘comments’ in the ‘mainstream’ media in the UK has been about the near-disaster [that was, according to a number of news reports, averted only by a worrying 2 seconds!!!] at the Heathrow airport which reportedly occurred when Gordon Brown was in the vicinity, the Khoodeelaar! campaign is going to put appropriate legal and constitutional law emphasis on the demand that it has already put to Gordon Brown’s administration to show the evidence of uncorrupted correlation between the various claims that the Government has been making for the Big Business CrossRail hole plot.
Of specific importance is the claim that has been made with insane fanaticism, and echoed by a Ken Livingstone-compromised Gordon Brown in the weeks and months between 1 October 2007 and 1 December , that one of the most vital ECONOMIC arguments and justifications for Crossrail is that it would link up Heathrow airport with the rest of the ‘City of London’. Now that even Frank Field, MP [Birkenhead, England] [on the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Any Question’ as broadcast on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 January 2008] has called Heathrow airport obsolete and assorted other commentators have been able to speak out against any plans to create another terminal at Heathrow airport, questions that Khoodeelaar! has already put to Ruth Kelly [the Current ‘Crossrail hole plot-promoting UK Secretary of State at the Department for Transport’] will be updated and reinforced.....
Khoodeelaar! will show the constitutional law way forward for solving the genuine transport needs of London . Khoodeelaar! dissecting the language of CrossRail lies by Crossrail promoters.
Khoodeelaar! evidence of constitutional and democratic questions as put to the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council – the past four years .
Khoodeelaar! questions to the several relevant UK MPs . Khoodeelaar! questions to the office concerned in the UK House of Lords dealing with the House of Lords ‘consideration’ of the ‘Crossrail Bill’ .
Khoodeelaar! diagnosis of the unconstitutionality of the behaviour of Ruth Kelly, Tom Harris and their co-ministers and post-holders in the uk Department for Transport

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Khoodeelaar! invokes the ‘lessons’ of 1988 and the follies of the PRE-Crossrail UK Department for Transport and their THEN idiocies which exposed the UK Government of the day [Maggie Thatcher] to Europe-wide ridicule [ as based on the UK’s Government’s UNCONSTITUTIONAL, unethical and dishonest behaviour] in a big way . Khoodeelaar! constitutional law updates against the drafting of, the proceedings about and the promotion of the current ‘Crossrail Bill’


Saturday 19 January 2 8: Khoodeelaar! No to the “Crossrail Bill”- The evidence of the context and constitutional rationale law as put to the personnel involved in the administration of the House of Lords in November 2007 by the Khoodeelaar! Organiser Muhammad Haque - January 19, 2008 by Khoodeelaar “ The Khoodeelaar! Formal petition to THE UK HOUSE OF LORDS AGAINST THE HYBRID ‘CROSSRAIL BILL’

Following our last e-mail sent to you on Monday, We decided to send the material today, after discovering some information about what was going on in the house of commons. We note the appearance of the ‘secretary of state For transport’ Ruth Kelly before a HOUSE OF COMMONS committee on Monday 12.11.2007.

In our petition [the procedure and formal Structure, addressing etc of which will be finalised upon our receipt of the guidance that is being still prepared by yourselves], we shall refer to a number of the factual Issues that have arisen both during Ruth Kelly’s latest statements as well as the relevant Questions as put to her by members of that committee. We are letting you know, at this stage by way of information for any relevant advance preparation/s on your [plural] parts, that our campaign AGAINST the CROSSRAIL [HOLE PLOT] Bill has been thoroughly in accord with the principles of universally Verifiable and recognisable constitutionality and that we have found that such standards of constitutionality That We have ourselves adhered to in our various and Detailed inquiries of the Secretary of State [as the Promoter to date] in this matter of our serious objections To the contents and the implications of the ‘CrossRail Bill’ have not been even acknowledged let alone expressly recognised by the succession of holders Of the office of `Secretary of state…]. This really is the reason why we shall seek to draw to the attention of the upper house committee concerned the most serious flaws and defects in the present [the current] ‘CRASSRail’ London, scheme.

We are aware of the constitutional options beyond and after the process in the Upper chamber is [has been] formally concluded on this matter.. At this time we are making appropriate demands and representations both to the Secretary of state as well as to any other backers of this seriously irresponsibly promoted scheme that in our view will not address the main transport needs of London and will be an unwarranted waste of a lot of money from the public sector.



Yours

Muhammad Haque
The Organiser
Khoodeelaar!
1315 Hrs GMT/UK Tuesday 13.11.2 007

East Ender Ian Tomlinson's widow sobs as she tells of her loss.....D Mi

1600 GMT Tuesday 24 May 2011 Edited summaries and links to external news outlets as checked at 1555 GMT Tuesday 24 May 2011 Pc faces G20 manslaughter charge PC Simon Harwood, the Metropolitan Police officer involved in the G20 protests death of Ian Tomlinson has been charged with manslaughter and will face trial.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/pc-faces-g20-manslaughter-charge-16003595.html



Ian Tomlinson's widow sobs as she tells of her loss
The widow of Ian Tomlinson sobbed uncontrollably today as she told how she had lost the love of her life.
Giving evidence at the inquest into the death of the newspaper seller, Julia Tomlinson said he treated all nine of her children like they were his own.

Fighting back tears, she added: "I remember feeling he was the best thing that ever happened to me."
She added: "I must say we do miss him very much. He was a great part of my life."
Mrs Tomlinson said they were in love and she always wore her wedding ring despite the alcohol problems which blighted his latter years.

The couple met at a market where he worked when she was 27 and he was 31. They were married in 1991 after she fell pregnant.

"He was over the moon when Sam (their first child together) was born," Mrs Tomlinson added.
But she added: "He did not treat his biological children any different to the others."
She believed his heavy drinking started because of problems during childhood.
But she added: "Although he had drink problems, there were long periods when he did not drink and I had many happy memories of being a family and taking the children on day trips to the park.
"He also helped around the house. There was plenty to do."
She said he was "apologetic" for his alcohol problems, adding: "He felt a lot of guilt."

Coming here NEXT the exclusive examination of 'Colin' the man who has taken over Tower Hamlets Council implementing CONDEM agenda for years. For years

0445 Hrs GMT
London
Tuesday
24 May 2011

Coming here NEXT the exclusive examination of 'Colin' the man who has taken over Tower Hamlets Council implementing CONDEM agenda for years.

For years!

[To be continued]

Muhammad Haque London Parliamentary Commentary. The abysmal derailment of democracy from the UK Houses of Parliament

The © Muhammad Haque London Parliamentary Commentary.
1212 [1150] Hrs GMT
London
Sunday
22 May 2011.

The two words: McNulty Report! They conjure up a neat scenario translated as follows: Could this be related to anything another McNulty [Tony McNulty who was at the UK Transport Dept when Alistair Darling was the Secretary of State at ‘the Daft!’ ] had said about transport in London as at the time adequately prominently and almost accurately reported by the [twice-weekly printed] ‘South London Press’?
If it could be related then whatever THEN happened to the aforesaid Tony McNulty who mysteriously [!!!!] got derailed so publicly [albeit years later] and thus was unable to deliver on the promises that he had made at the start?
The word knitting [as used by the reporter on the London EVENING STANDARD, as a joke and in irony] may also be extrapolated to contain the superfluity of today's untruths that are being issued by the same Daft stooges of Big Biz contractors.
The truth is that the abysmal transport experience that people have in the UK is mainly to do with the abysmal standard of Parliament that we have here.
Refer back to the events on the floor of the House of Commons on 19 July 2005 and you will see the list of utterers of untruths who vied with one another to be seen as the most shameless suckers up to the hidden hands that were setting the promotional plug for the Crossrail scam that the stooged ‘MPs’ were ‘debating’ !!!! Read what they uttered then and you will see just how corrupt the proceedings can be. Those braying MPs were NOT on this planet.
Of course that was a good five years before the full extent of the thefts and dishonesty by MPs [in a long while] was at least begun to be admitted [via those ‘revelations’ called ‘expenses’] as a notion!
So what is the excuse now for allowing lies to be uttered by MPs for Big Business and similar interests that continue to deny the public a decent accountable Parliament?
In our view, MPs will NEVER tell the truth if telling the truth is a moral matter.
They will tell; anything, mostly lies, if that will suit them!
The gap remains as wide between the need for having a truthful Parliament and the reality of a zombified electorate or a zombified electoral system that makes sure that we have SUCCESSIONS of liars in place[s] as elected holders of “democratic posts”!

CONTRADICTIONS eternally confounded
[To be continued]

McNulty Report! Yet another confession that UK public ill served by the trains 'service'! KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! For years!

By © Muhammad Haque
1150 Hrs GMT
London
Sunday
22 May 2011

The two words:
McNulty Report!
They conjure up a neat scenario translated as follows:
Could this be related to anything another McNulty [Tony McNulty who was at the UK Transport Deptt when Alistair Darling was the Secretary of State at ‘the Daft!’ ] had said about transport in London as at the time adequately prominently and almost accurately reported by the [twice-weekly printed] ‘South London Press’?
If it could be related the whatever THEN happened to the aforesaid Tony McNulty who mysteriously [!!!!] got derailed so publicly and thus was unable to deliver on the promises that he had made at the start?
The word knitting may also be extrapolated to contain the superfluity of today's untruths that are being issued by the same Daft stooges of Big Biz contractors. The truth is that the abysmal; transport experience that people have ion the UK is mainly to do with the abysmal standard of Parliament that we have here.
Refer back to the events on the floor of the House of Commons on JUly 2005 and you will see the list of utterers of untruths who vied with one another to be seen as the most shameless sucker up to the hidden hands that were setting the promotional plug for the Crossrail scam. Read what they uttered then and you will see just how corrupt the proceedings can be.
Those braying MPs were NOT on this planet. Of course that was a good five years before the full extent of the thefts and dishonesty by MPs was at least begun to be admitted as a notion! So what is the excuse now for allowing lies to be uttered by MPs for Big Business and similar interests that continue to deny the public a decent accountable Parliament?

Ken Clarke’s captivity in the “hole of his own making” is nothing as compared with his deeply flawed contempt for constitutionality......

AADHIKARonline © Muhammad Haque Constitutional Law Commentary.
0830 [0640] [0610] Hrs GMT
London
Friday
20 May 2011.

Ken Clarke’s captivity in the “hole of his own making” is nothing as compared with his deeply flawed contempt for constitutionality, as the failures of his “Justice” portfolio to deliver constitutional compliance by the various entrenched bureaucracies confirm.
Come to think of it, his “detractor” on record and surfaced yesterday via Rupert Murdoch's endorsement as displayed as a page one slot about Ken Clarke, is no better: Jack Straw is as contemptibly disrespectful of the ethics and the morality of universal constitutionality as Ken Clarke has been.
I shall diagnose Jack Straw's unfitness in the course of this series of Comments. First Ken Clarke.
I have first hand experience of the brazenness of Ken Clarke’s mind. Even without such experience, I would find him guilty of disrespect to constitutional ethics and morality. The man is, truly, a disrespecter of constitutionality. That he has managed to say the “sorry” word “at last” should not be allowed as an excuse for his disservice to universal norms of constitutionality.
This Clarke, like the other one bearing the same surname and also occupying the “high office” called the British Home office in the recent past, is not fit for UNIVERSALLY valid and warranted constitutional purpose. What his “choice of words” has exposed is not his lack of linguistic dexterity but his fundamental disrespect to the universal rights of people he considers to be at a level below the one where they “should be” to warrant his respect! On this latest row, Clarke has been shown up for his disrespect to women.
On MANY other occasions in the past decades during his occupancy in publicly paid and “constitutionally-"validated” posts, Clarke has been directly seen for hs disrespect to people of African and Asian backgrounds. And of “other” faiths other than the or any “faith” that alone warrants his respect, “according to him”.
That Clarke has had to be cornered from so many sides in the hours following his abrasive and contemptible expression of contempt to victims of the violence called rape is not something that ends with him alone.
It goes straight into the mind of David “Dave” Cameron who failed to answer the charge when confronted at the PMQs with the evidence of Clarke's unsuitability.
What does THAT say about just how much, if at all, Cameron has “changed’ from the mindset of the likes of those who claim he is not a genuine Reactionary Right-wing Conservative?
[This “AADHIKARonline © Muhammad Haque Constitutional Law Commentary” is continued on http://twitter.com/aadhikaronline]

Seelotee-speaking Bangladeshis in western countries are treated as SOURCE of 'Dollar' remittance! That is all! [1]

AADHIKARonline © Muhammad Haque EXCLUSIVE London ECONOMIC SOCIAL ETHICAL MORAL SPIRITUAL HISTORIC Commentary.
0610 [0445] [0435]
[0340] Hrs GMT
Thursday
19 May 2011.
This is about a very short clip taken externally from Channel 814 on the UK satellite facilitator SKY.com from a broadcast accessed at 0005 to 0030 Hrs GMT today Thursday 19 May 2011.
The content of the scripted ‘news’ refers to Seelot and the Seelotee speaking people in [mainly] western countries. The line is about the money expressed in USA dollars, that is remitted to “Bangladesh” by the Seelotee people.
The item is typical illustration of the disconnect between the necessary components that actually make up a “society” and the [supposed and the claimed -a s claimed by these petty operators of the “news” agenda that is retailed via these petty operators by the real setters of the agenda who have conspired, plotted and contrived so far to remain hidden from obvious observation. they are NOT hidden.
As these commentaries will itemise and detail and reveal in the forthcoming updates and examinations] servants or service-provers in the name/s of the communities concerned. In the actual targeted audience which is again Seelotee speaking[as localised in the alienating ‘visual narratives’], the rest of the “news theme” is not about the life of the same people in the same very pressurised, depressed and embattled locations in the ‘same’ western countries. This factual and reality-devoid disconnect has been deliberately created by the alienating agenda that has been foisted on and followed via the so-called “community” channels of which channel 814 is and has been since its de facto operational commencement in 2006 the more pronounced type and illustration. On the ground in the parts of the UK and the USA [and for that matter of Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands] where the Seelotee speaking people as a community exists, their day to day, main tropics or concerns or their “thinking” is not supported by any of those channels or their programmes. In fact the “thinking” is stultified, silenced to daily distortion, diversion and disorientation. Every single day, the outlets broadcast items that are at odds with each other [on sheer mundane facts] but even more seriously they are at odds with the realities of the struggles that individual Seelotee speaking “immigrants” [more on that concept in later parts of these COMMENTARIES] have to endure in these societies. Instead of being supported, they are treated as SOURCES OF FOREIGN CURRENCY IN THE MAIN, as is shown in this video clip recorded manually with an external device off the Channel 814 on SKY.Com.
[To be continued]

Khaleda Zia in a Tower Hamlets Council Chamber looking so empty! Whose idea was it to "receive her like THAT"?

Khaleda Zia in a Council Chamber looking so empty! Whose idea was it to "receive her like THAT"?

0435 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday
18 May 2011
© Muhammad Haque London Commentary. To the “East London Advertiser” as based on their online report about a few activities in and around the “Mulberry Place” in London E14 2 BG on Tuesday 17 May 2011. TEXTS as published by AADHIKAROnline at 0435 Hrs GMT Wednesday 18 may 2011:

Your [The “East London Advertiser” online] headline “Protests greet Bangladesh Opposition leader Khaleda Zia arriving in Tower Hamlets” is an unambiguous message saying that the visiting Bangladeshi Political Party leader is at the centre of a controversy here.

Your [The “East London Advertiser” online] pictures too support your message. The words you use refer to a “reception” held in the Tower Hamlets Council-controlled premises. Your [The “East London Advertiser” online] account is broadly supported by other information circulating in the evening of Tuesday 17 May 2011.

So what should have happened? The local Council should have arranged any “reception” that would not associate the Council with any Party Political side in another country.

Did Tower Hamlets Council consult with local people about how to go about holding such an event that would also give a genuinely inclusive representation of the Borough's population and diversities? If they did, where were the local community in the “reception” or in any other part of the "activities" that you cover?

There is a long-standing tradition in both locally elected councils and in the central parliaments both in the UK and in broadly democratic territories elsewhere in the world that they do not allow their contacts with leading members of political parties in other countries to be entangled in obvious "controversies".

Ironically, Khaleda Zia’s late husband, Ziaur Rahman too visited Tower Hamlets 20 years ago when he held the post of President of Bangladesh. But he was not subjected to a manufacturing by the local Tower Hamlets Council. In contrast to Tuesday’s events featuring Khaleda Zia, her husband 20 years earlier had been given a rousing welcome by probably the biggest gathering of Bangladeshis assembled in an open air event of that kind ever in the UK. There were under 20 persons who did chant slogans against him. But the Ziaur Rahman reception, held at the Allen Gardens, off Brick Lane, had been an event that was open to and attended by Bangladeshis of all backgrounds and political views.

Why?

Because that event was NOT organised by Party Political clique or grouping.

Non-Partisan Bangladeshis wanted to offer the person in Post in Bangladesh a broad welcome. Can that lesson be repeated next time in Tower Hamlets?

Will the Bangladsesh-based Political Parties evidently operating with increasing frequency in the UK generally and in Tower Hamlets with particular concentration over the past five years or so, show the distinction that will do lasting and democratic good to them and to the vast majority of ordinary Bangladeshis who do not belong to any of the parties?


Will Tower Hamlets Council stop behaving as a segregation corner as well on such occasions and will they instead start inviting people from all backgrounds in the borough to be part of any “reception” that is held in the “town hall” that is supposed to belong to all the people here?
0535 Hrs Wednesday 18 May 2011

Do the headlines hide more than they reveal today? Under the cloud DSK, Muammar Gaddafi and Chris Huhne!

0845 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 17 May 2011. AADHIKAROnline © Muhammad Haque “World Mainstream Media is a tool for Big Business Military Industrial Complex agenda of robbing the world and of keeping the status quo of robbery on the world stage...” Commentary.

Do the headlines hide more than they reveal today? Under the cloud DSK, Muammar Gaddafi and Chris Huhne!
The answer is a resounding YES.
No to the AV scam that Huhne was so fervent about. But YES to the question about the headlines.
Just like Huhne is in denial so is Muammar Gaddafi as is Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
But the very media that is doing the hiding is doing so with far deeper thought than may appear entailed from even this diagnosis. So what is the deeper thought? Take a look at each of the items and see if you can work out the element that is the at the core. And that element is the consistency. Without fail, the three items focus on the individuals. They do NOT even have a hint about the agenda that is, on the facts, Big Business. Muammar Gaddafi is now the target because that is what suits Big Business. That is what MIC wants now. MIC does not want Syria to be treated the same as Libya.
That is why Assad Junior is not being targeted with the additional ICC crawler. Nor is anyone in Yemen or indeed in Bahrain. Or indeed in Tunisia...Flick back to New York and you find that there is no instant interviews with a single person that can tell on how the IMF created poverty, famine, hunger and starvation all over the world, especially in Asia and in Africa and in parts of South America...... Contrast that with the instant finding of the blond - yes the Hungarian one for a start or, to put it in a gradual way, to count one....] - with tales of IMF bureaucracy's “outrage” because, the blond now reportedly asserts [she is cutely based in London now with a more lucrative job!] they had undermined her true feelings as they had closed franks and in effect deterred her from going all the way with her genuine complaints against DSK over her affair with him! There is not an iota of concern for the MILLIONS of women in Asia and Africa whose very breath was [collective] taken out of them by the hunger, famine and starvation that the IMF IMPOSED as part of the conditions for austerity measures on those “little” countries. “Little” in the context of the world-stage power that those regimes could exert as against the TERROR that the IMF creates on any regime in economic crisis..

[To be continued]

Do the headlines hide more than they reveal today? Under the cloud DSK, Muammar Gaddafi and Chris Huhne! The Muhammad Haque Commentary, NEXT

2215 Hrs GMT
London
Monday
16 May 2011


Do the headlines hide more than they reveal today?
Under the cloud DSK, Muammar Gaddafi and Chris Huhne!

The Muhammad Haque Commentary, NEXT

The Paralysis of Tower Hamlets Labour Party and the morass that is Tower Hamlets “elected local Council” [Part 62]

Jon Cruddus [MP, a contender to Labour Party leadership, pulled out before the finish] tells Muhammad Haque about the values of George Lansbury- resist peoples dispossession.... 

AADHIKAROnline © Muhammad Haque London “democracy deficit and poverty-creation, deprivation by elected antidemocratic agencies” Commentary: 

The Paralysis of Tower Hamlets Labour Party and the morass that is Tower Hamlets “elected local Council” [Part 62] 

0410 Hrs GMT London Monday 16 May 2011.

I only had a few seconds to get Jon Cruddus to comment on the situation in Tower Hamlets in the context of the traditions of George Lansbury. Cruddus was able to sum up as follows, continuing his phraseology as based on my question to him:

[Jon Cruddus] [it is all about] resistance to people’s dispossession, from their land, from their own labour, from their franchise

That was a very brief statement. But it captures the essence. The battle in Tower Hamlets is against the dispossession that has been going on via the VERY elected local Council which is supposed to be helping people mount that resistance. And Jon Cruddus, the ‘left’ MP who nearly got in where Ed Miliband now is, had spoken in more detail about George Lansbury earlier at the event [Bow Church Sunday 08 May 2011].

What he had said there and what he later told me [quoted above] confirm one thing: that had George Lansbury been around now in Tower Hamlets along with his fellow Poplar Councillors, the borough would be witnessing a very different scene of acton every day than what is being foisted on the community now.

And George Lansbury would have been outraged by the antics of the “chief executive” “Dr” Kevan Collins who posed with a man known on the facts and undeniable evidence to have been guilty of causing significant dispossessions to people in the East End borough of Tower Hamlets over the years. [To be continued]

The paralysis in the Tower Hamlets “Labour Party” and the democracy deficit and morass afflicting the “elected” Tower Hamlets Council [Part 61b]

AADHIKAROnline © Muhammad Haque London “democracy deficit and poverty-creation, deprivation by elected non-democratic agencies” Commentary:

0340 Hrs GMT London Monday 16 May 2011
The paralysis in the Tower Hamlets “Labour Party” and the democracy deficit and morass afflicting the “elected” Tower Hamlets Council [Part 61] .


One of the world-scale scandals that has been documented over the past 40 years but is yet to be featured in any “mainstream” media outlets warranting the “mainstream” attention is the case of the neighbourhood which has been uprooted by the collusion of Tower Hamlets Council... And the only beneficiary is a property speculator who has made a multi million £ fortune in an overseas country where he has been able to “invest” part of the proceeds that he was allowed to loot from the neighbourhood in Tower Hamlets.
So how does THAT “achievement ” takes the commentary back to “Dr” Kevan Collins? Why the “postholder” in the post of “chief executive” of the Tower Hamlets Council has been more than adequately aware of all the facts and despite that awareness has failed [as in 'negligently refused'] stop the robbery of an entire neighbourhood by the property speculator. Did “Dr” Kevan Collins even suggest that such possibilities might exist in the Tower Hamlets Borough Council's’ “delivery of service” to the community? Most certainly not.
Why wouldn't’ “Dr” Kevan Collins admit such robbery that Tower Hamlets Council has been complicit in being committed against the people in the neighbourhood?
Was it because “Dr” Collins might not have been personally in post at the time that the robbery was being committed? That questions is irrelevant. Why? Because in the COURSE of the preparation for his appearance as “the star” [the word used by “EAST END LIES”, the TH Council’s very own propaganda sheet or ‘pravda’!] in Channel 4 TV ’s “The UNDERCOVER BOSS” “Dr” Kevan Collins did acquire sufficient knowledge about one particular individual carrying serious liabilities for that very same robbery committed by the property speculator speculator against a neighbourhood in Tower Hamlets. So what did “Dr” Kevan Collins do about the individual's liabilities and those of the Council on whose behalf the individual had acted in collusion with the particular property speculator in the completion of the perpetration? Did “Dr” Kevan Collins take steps to make amends for the robbery, even though no amount of material compensation could go anywhere near compensating the victims of that robbery? “Dr” Kevan Collins most certainly did not. In fact “Dr” Kevan Collins did not show any hint that anything could be anywhere near as criminally negligent inside Tower Hamlets Council as the particular facts show. Far from admitting any faults, “Dr” Collins was on that “UNDERCOVER BOSS” as the “star” of the propaganda show! And how satisfied his grins looked as the viewers who were “fortunate” to catch even a momentary glimpse of “Dr” Collins during his “I am THE BOSS! And I conned you posing as Colin! Ha Ha Ha!” Roundtable DOUBLE SMUG SESSION, also staged on film at a location inside the “Mulberry Place” must have only too acutely been forced to realise!!!!!


“Dr” Kevan Collins uttered a series of untruths on “UNDERCOVER BOSS” as broadcast on Channel 4 [22 July 2010] as he promoted that man who is responsible for a serious part of the damage done to the neighbourhood. That man is an employee in Tower Hamlets Council where he has been in a paid post for almost [if not more than] [number withheld for very good legal editorial reasons] years.


The magnitude of the damage that that employee has been responsible for causing to the victims of his collusion with the particular part of the property speculator’s scam can only be guessed at. Why? Because the facts are that CONTRARY TO being a democratic local authority “with its services being lawfully ethically democratically dedicated to serve the people in the borough”, Tower Hamlets Council is a private business IN FACT and it is controlled by a clique of uncaring self servers bent on making a fast gain for themeless regardless of the cost of their callouts conduct that the community has to bear. Why is that so? Because the “elected” councillors, the majority of them, are democratically inactive and in several cases incapable of even being democratically active.
For this paralysis, a great deal of fault lies with the main [numerical] Political Party that claims the largest number of elected councillors on the Council. The Labour Party in Tower Hamlets has been effectively paralysed itself for ten long years.
Although the records show that the Labour Party had been democratically malfunctioning in Tower Hamlets even before that, the paralysis in the past decade has reached a new low even for the Tower Hamlets Labour Party.
How?
[To be continued]

Examining the paralysis in Tower Hamlets “Labour Party” and the morass that is the “elected” Tower Hamlets Council [60]

2108 [1735] Hrs GMT London Sunday 15 May 2011.

AADHIKARonline © Muhammad Haque London “Democratic deficit and poverty of principles in the behaviour of the elected careerists in the UK..” Commentary.

Examining the paralysis in Tower Hamlets “Labour Party” and the morass that is the “elected” Tower Hamlets Council [60]


HASTENING to ADD that the role of Jim Fitzpatrick in destroying all values of universal democracy, ethical; representation and accountability in the East End of London remains as persistent this weekend as it was in February 2010.


If an objective thinking, non-careerist person took a random look at the utterances of Jim Fitzpatrick, [still the claimant to one of the two ‘parliamentary seats’ in the name of the electors in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets] on the subject of the democratic needs of the community that makes up the “Borough” then the only consistent thing they are going to find is the fact that Jim Fitzpatrick has been at the top of the league for inconsistency, unreliability on democratic demands and needs of the people.


No wonder that he was not seen to be playing any known, let alone noticeable p[art in celebrating the work of the ‘Poplar councillors’ or indeed of George Lansbury!

That Jim Fitzpatrick has not been so seen proves that alarm bells should keep ringing all across the East End.


Examining in context the role that Jim Fitzpatrick played in confusing the community about the democratic needs in the Borough:


Jim Fitzpatrick has oscillated from saying NO to an elected executive mayor in Tower Hamlets to doing YES without exhibiting a shred of conscientious obligation to account for his unreliable "principle" on the matter. But, then, Jim Fitzpatrick is not alone in the unreliability stance in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. He is part of the collective bankruptcy damaging the democratic rights of the East End people across Tower Hamlets that is encountered in the conduct of the publicly paid for postholders that crave and seek the places they hold in the name of the local voters and at the expense of democratic representation in the area. They undermine the values of Society and they give succour to the likes of CONDEM Golds who, like them, lacks any traceable moral consistency. Peter Golds too changed his 'stance' without giving a moral, ethical, democratic account for his betrayal of the principles that he had so publicly claimed to espouse when he made that appearance at the routine, unenlightening, uninformative, stultified ‘do’ allegedly staged in support of the “NO” ‘campaign’ by the time-servers concerned taking every fibre of life and incentive out of the proceedings. So barren were the proceedings that the “gathering” became a vacuum with the passage of every minute and while “speakers” were still being “called”. By the time the emptiness was complete, “everyone present was a speaker” and there was no-one left to EVEN “hear them” let to “listen to them’! This is how Jim Fitzpatrick,k and his then “friends in the NO to a directly elected mayor” put paid to the sustenance of a tangible grass roots movement and this is how they aided and abetted the very elements that had conspired to undermine the already fragile democratic foundations on which the still “elected” London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council “stood”.
[To be continued]

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Google, which owns the Blogger.com, ha said that it is still restoring posts that it had removed. UPDATES will be posted once we know if that is true.

[To be continued]

Google has REMOVED Posts from this blog! why?

Google has REMOVED Posts from this blog! why?

CONDEM-backer Guardian has confessed that Bullyboy Dave Cameron is now flouting UK domestic laws and its Treaty obligations .[50]

1650 [1630] [1625] Hrs GMT London Thursday 12 May 2001.

AADHIKAROnline © Muhammad Haque “UK Economics and Constitutional Legal Crisis” made worse by the minute by CLEGG-CAMERON CONDEM Commentary [50]

Breaches of UK domestic laws. Breaches of the UK’s EU Treaty and other international legal obligations. Breaches of every single one of the known utterances by Ed Miliband of the “new” culture of respect by the Labour Party under his ‘leadership’.
The illegal policy of forced starvation and suicide-encouragement [inducement] [suggestions] to the poor by CONDEM Dave and Clegg Collusion, as reported by the Guardian newspaper [which has held on to more facts that it has published but it has still published more facts than any other outlet has done in Fleet Street or elsewhere in the ‘mainstream’ British news media] in the past few days!
Yet no sign of Ed Miliband's Liam Byrne.
Nor even by Ed Balls

Given that Ed Miliband flew out to Afghanistan within literally ‘hours’ of being declared the ‘AV’ Leader of the Bliared Party bureaucracy and that he did so to allegedly spout out the words in imitation of G Brown and HIS ‘British vah-loos’ , it is significant that he has not been able to ‘visit’ any of the real theatres of action at home in England! I say the phrase “at home in England” advisedly! Those “theatres o action in England” are the ones where the disabled people are beings starved. Where the elderly and the infirm are being denied care that they deserve. Where people with no jobs are being treated as criminals. Where EXISTING LAWS are being breached and people legally entitled to benefits are being told to in effect contemplate suicide....

I am very actively aware of the grin on the face of Alex Salmond! I am also aware that regardless of the length of that grin, Ed Miliband is heading for a deeper crisis than his “spin” fakers are letting him know. So what is to be said about Ed Minor? That Ed Major is NOT the way to follow. That BROTHERS have to SHOW that they understand what it is that they are uttering about ANYTHING! One Bliaring rubbish that sounds ‘pleasing’ to Hillary Rodham!

[To be continued]

How Tower Hamlets Council is operating the agenda for internal deportation [6]

AADHIKAROnline © Muhammad Haque London Economics Commentary.
In contrast with the UK as a whole, the inner city deprived Borough of Tower Hamlets is in the grip of a bureaucracy at the local Tower Hamlets Council that is engaged in carrying out a pogramme of internal deportation.


How Tower Hamlets Council is operating the agenda for internal deportation:

1930 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 11 May 2011.
© Muhammad Haque
CONTINUING to examine the evidence of the fakery paraded by “Dr” Kevan Collins, Tower Hamlets Council’s “UNDERCOVER BOSS” [Channel 4 TV 22 July 2010].
DID Kevan Collins, in his smug appearance on Channel 4 TV slot “UNDERCOVER BOSS” knowingly impersonate an employee of the Tower Hamlets Council?
I am asking this question a second time, at least. Why? Because the “UNDERCOVER BOSS” programme contains information that “Dr” Kevan Collins did know that man and the the latest research verified this week [09 May 2011] shows that the same man is still in place as an employee in Tower Hamlets Council. So why is this fact relevant to what “Dr” Kevan Collins, “chief executive” is or is not doing?
The fact is important because the man has been involved in creating poverty in Tower Hamlets and in causing a number of families to suffer deprivation that they would not otherwise suffer. So that raises the question about “Dr” Kevan Collins himself. In the Channel 4 programme UNDERCOVER BOSS as broadcast on 22 July 2010, “Dr” Kevan Collins boasted that he was the boss of a work force that was caring, honest and to paraphrase a newspaper TV critic of the time, “salt of the earth saints”! Surely none of those ‘saints’ would be or would have had a history of being involved in violating the rights of people in the Borough? So how does “Dr” Kevan Collins explain the facts as I am putting here about the role of that man that also appeared on the same pogramme with him and the man who has been responsible for casing serious hardships and damages to people in the same Borough, Tower Hamlets?
[To be continued]

[From preevious editions]
How Tower Hamlets Council is operating the agenda for internal deportation:
1930 Hrs GMT
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11 May 2011.
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CONTINUING to examine the evidence of the fakery paraded by “Dr” Kevan Collins, Tower Hamlets Council’s “UNDERCOVER BOSS” [Channel 4 TV 22 July 2010].
DID Kevan Collins, in his smug appearance on Channel 4 TV slot “UNDERCOVER BOSS” knowingly impersonate an employee of the Tower Hamlets Council? I am asking this question a second time, at least. Why? Because the “UNDERCOVER BOSS” programme contains information that “Dr” Kevan Collins did know that man and the the latest research verified this week [09 May 2011] shows that the same man is still in place as an employee in Tower Hamlets Council. So why is this fact relevant to what “Dr” Kevan Collins, “chief executive” is or is not doing? The fact is important because the man has been involved in creating poverty in Tower Hamlets and in causing a number of families to suffer deprivation that they would not otherwise suffer.
So that raises the question about “Dr” Kevan Collins himself. In the Channel 4 programme UNDERCOVER BOSS as broadcast on 22 July 2010, “Dr” Kevan Collins boasted that he was the boss of a work force that was caring, honest and to paraphrase a newspaper TV critic of the time, “salt of the earth saints”! Surely none of those ‘saints’ would be or would have had a history of being involved in violating the rights of people in the Borough? So how does “Dr” Kevan Collins explain the facts as I am putting here about the role of that man that also appeared on the same pogramme with him and the man who has been responsible for casing serious hardships and damages to people in the same Borough, Tower Hamlets?
[To be continued]

The Daily © Muhammad Haque London Communities Commentary: Westminster City Council [2]

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The daily © Muhammad Haque London Communities Commentary.
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD Westminster City Council so for years! As we have told other London councils over the same period. That spinning, faking and lying won’t do. Now that they are faking about housing and pretending to have some sort of ‘sympathy’ with the people in low income housing I am reminding them of the basic evidential diagnosis that we have made of their policies and their practices over the past DECADES. We say to Westminster City Council generally and their current fronter [Housing committee chair] Phillipa Roe in particular that in staging their ‘rent’ stunt this week they are forgetting that their looting of the low paid and the nopaid is still hurting more people than they will ever admit. THAT should be addressed. That is, Westminster must stop robbing the poor. And that is the very basic that they should do, for a start. Then they must get down to delivering the services that they have been denying the low income families and persons for years. No, for generations in Westminster City Council areas. [To be continued]

KHOODEELAAR! TOLD Westminster City Council so for years! As we have told other London councils over the same period: STOP LYING to the community!

Councillor attacked for existing tenant 'raise rent' plan
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A housing cabinet member at a London council is calling on the government to give authorities the power to raise rents for existing social tenants.

Conservative Philippa Roe, Westminster Council, said the power would enable the council to increase rent for more affluent households and use the extra cash to pay for more affordable housing.

Ms Roe said: ‘There is currently no policy in place to increase rents. However, we believe the overall system should be changed and that councils should have greater freedoms to set rents, which are currently set by central government.

‘At the moment we have a one-size fits all system which does not take into account any change in circumstances. In Westminster, we estimate that we have more than 2,200 households in social housing who are on over £50,000 a year, which is more than 95% of the working population earn.

‘We also have around 200 households who are on £100,000 a year but yet pay the same rents as pensioners, who are on low fixed incomes above the threshold for receiving benefits.

‘They have worked hard all their lives and therefore it is these people that we should be supporting and not those who do not need the degree of public support that these medium and high earners are getting.

‘By having the power to set rents, we could also then use this additional money raised to deliver more affordable housing to house the next vulnerable family.

‘What we would do in Westminster is take a look at what the person was earning and perhaps increase their rent by a small amount so they were demonstrably better off working but were paying slightly more in rent.’

The Labour group described raising rents as an ‘attack on middle-income earners’ and said it would drive hard-working families out of the borough.

Paul Dimoldenberg, leader of the Labour group on the council, said: ‘Putting up rents is just another way for the Conservatives to increase taxes for middle earners and will push many hard-working residents out of Westminster.

‘Why are they attacking hard-working residents, the backbone of the community?’

© Muhammad Haque London “CONDEMNED Society” Commentary 09 May 2011

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Monday 09 May 2011, Part 4 of the exclusive examination of the paralysis of the Tower Hamlets Labour Party and the Apartheiding of the Tower Hamlets Council.


PART of the diagnostic examination of the corruption that has been reinstated in the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council during the past 20 years.


Why do I say “reinstated in the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council during the past 20 years [.] ” ?
Because in the wake of the then SDP [= ‘Liberal’ ‘Focus’ Team/Group] take over of the Council [1986 - 1994], the previously entrenched and corrupt clique had been INTERRUPTED in various ways.

One was the affiliations on ‘Party’ lines. Because of that interruption, and I say mo more than that, the clique needed a few years to regroup. Which it did in the middle of the SDP ‘hold’. And once the SDP was ousted, the older elements got back together. Not always on the Council’s payrolls. But in effect in shaping the agenda of the Council. That regrouping has led to an unprecedented deterioration of democracy in the East End. And the process of the decline has been exacerbated by the corruption inside the Labour Party in the same East End Borough of Tower Hamlets.

[To be continued]

Why does Suffolk County Council look suddenly next door to Tower Hamlets? Or why it SHOULD do!

1125 Hrs GMT London Monday 098 May 2011. © Muhammad Haque London :”Democracy Deficit”: Commentary.

Apartheid Council: why Tower Hamlets Council is susceptible to abolition.

Why does Suffolk County Council look suddenly next door to Tower Hamlets? Or why it SHOULD do!

I am asserting the first on the evidence of the misconduct by Tower Hamlets Council that I have witnessed for a very long time. And I am posing the second, the question about Suffolk, on the evidence that OTHERS have brought out into the open about the behaviour of that County Council...

I am joining the two together and concluding that on objective basis, the two Councils should be treated as the same, in principle of course. And when such treatment is 'meted out' [!!!], the people affected by BOTH these Councils would be better off. Contextual sparkling of course.

Here is how the London DAILY TELEGRAPH has been reporting on the Suffolk County Council Chief executive's latest state. I shall cite and examine other sources in due course later today.. [Monday 09 May 2011].

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8496578/Extended-leave-puts-future-of-218000-council-boss-in-doubt.html

Apartheid Council: why Tower Hamlets Council is susceptible to abolition

Apartheid Council: why Tower Hamlets Council is susceptible to abolition

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UPDATER commentary and ACTION REPLAY from October 2007: The month when Gordon Brown behaved as a poodle of Neo Cons Big Biz and ignored EDDINGTON

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UPDATER commentary and ACTION REPLAY from October 2007: The month when Gordon Brown behaved as a poodle of Neo Cons Big Biz and ignored the recommendations on the UK railway industry as compiled by Rod Eddington...[1]

THE KHOODEELAAR! campaign has been vindicated at every stage as it has been shown to have been active in defending the community in the East End of London. The vindication has been seen in the recognition that the CONDEM CUTS agenda - which in October 2007 was years away as far as the “stooged tools in Government’ were able to claim ‘parliamentary authority’- is part and parcel of the agenda of Big Business that had spawned the Crossrail hole plot.

[To be continued]

FROM THE MUHAMMAD HAQUE commentary as published on the UK Indymedia web sites in October 2007:


"Exposing the latest crassness of the MPs’ 'committee' for Crossrail hole plot

10.10.2007 01:44

By © Muhammad Haque

0045 GMT London Wednesday 10 October 2007:

Khoodeelaar! The Brick Lane, Whitechapel and Stepney London E1 Area campaign against Crossrail hole plot, scam, scheme project Bill, examining the Evidence of the latest display [dated 9 October 2007] of Crassness by the poodle 'scrutiny' [!] committee of MPs in the UK House of Commons set up to facilitate the agenda of the Big Business lobby for CRASSrail. They are called, on paper, the ‘Crossrail Bill' ‘select committee’ [House of Commons, London]. They do show recognition to four persons in the Princelet Street [parallel to Hanbury Street] [off Brick Lane] who put their objections to the Crossrail hole plan, before that poodle committee of MPs in June 2006 because the Crossrail hole would affect their property and its value….

The Brown Govt accepts the recognition and a makes [so far] unique undertaking to pay the persons cash.

But then neither the CRASSrail committee, nor the Alistair Darling administration show any recognition of the rights of anyone else in Princelet Street or in the Hanbury Street or indeed in the Bethnal Green south ward [in Tower Hamlets Council] that are going to be also affected by the CRASSrail hole/s…

We examine the ‘hint’ that CRASSrail may NOT dig a hole in the Hanbury Street-Princelet Street, after all! And we scrutinise the other crassness of the Crassrail promoters…here and on the Khoodeelaar! - associated No to CrossRail hole web sites and pages

Khoodeelaar! The London E1 Area campaign against Crossrail hole Bill
e-mail: lawmedia@htmail.co.uk
Homepage: http://khoodeelaar.com

EVIDENTIALLY publishing a piece from the Guardian web site together with the comments about CONDEM actually creating poverty via ATOS [1]

'Evidence' suggests benefit fraud but injustice for disabled people is more apt
Benefits system is in danger of creating its own miscarriages of justice, says Edward Lawrence

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The Birmingham Six celebrate their release in 1991. Are changes to disability benefits a reminder of the miscarriages of justice of the 1970s? Photograph: Sean Dempsey/PA NEWS
Employment and support allowance (ESA) replaced incapacity benefit and income support for new claimants in October 2008, accompanied by a work capability assessment, a controversial computer-based test that judges a claimant's suitability to work. The assessment has been denounced in some quarters as finding disabled people fit for work, but for some others it has provided conclusive evidence of widespread fraud within the benefits system. Chris Grayling, the employment minister, is recorded as saying: "Once again, we have clear evidence of the need for change in our welfare system."

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures, which cover the period from 27 October 2008 to 31 August 2010, show that 887,300 of the 1,175,700 applicants for ESA failed to qualify for any assistance. Of those, 458,500 (39%) were judged fit to work, while 428,800 (36%) ditched their claim. A further 16% were placed in the "work-related activity group", in which individuals are deemed able to take on some level of work but still receive a level of ESA support. Over a third (36%) of people who made a claim for ESA between October 2008 and February 2010 and who were found to fit to work at assessment have appealed, with the original decision overturned in almost four in 10 cases (39%).

This appeal process, in which four out of 10 appeals are successful, should ring alarm bells with the government, as it seeks to criminalise disabled people who are claiming their legal entitlement.

Because, just like the bad old days of the miscarriages of justice in the 1970s (the Guildford Four, the Maguire Seven and the Birmingham Six come to mind), so the benefits system is in danger of creating its own miscarriages of justice. The new workplace capability assessment will find disabled people fit to work when they are manifestly unable to do so. It will penalise them financially and so curtail their independence.

I am not suggesting that the treatment meted out to innocent victims of miscarriages of justice is in any way comparable to this government's treatment of disabled people, but there are similarities.

First, there is the overlooking of evidence that doesn't support the official view, and consequently making the evidence fit the charge, rather than the charge fitting the evidence. Then, there is the issue of judgments, which deny rights and are held up to be lawful, but which are subsequently overturned on successful appeal, in a campaign led by dedicated believers in the face of official pronouncements that the original verdicts were safe.

The new medical assessment is part of the popular view (denied by officials) that tests and examinations are getting easier – think of the hysteria surrounding declining standards because of apparently easier A-levels. So, if too many people are passing the test, and the capabilities of the people taking the tests have not changed, then redesign the test. Make it harder to pass!

And there it is: Grayling's "clear evidence of the need for change in our welfare system". But evidence can be fabricated.

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pjlythgoe
5 May 2011 10:10AM
The whole thing is an absolute disgrace and a shameful indictment of our society.

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Ranald
5 May 2011 10:16AM
To qualify for ESA the claimant has to wait a 13 week "assessment phase" before qualifying, why is it so hard to understand that many will recover (broken leg, flu etc) before that time?

I have a progressive and incurable physical disability but not every case is as cut and dried as mine, there are a great many who slip through the cracks due to a completely unsuitable medical, that doesn't take their particular problems into account.

How can it be right to disregard the claimant's own GP and Specialist doctors but fully accept the result of a brief tick-test, which may or may not be relevant to their individual case. (mental illnesses, rare diseases).

The system might have needed reform but this isn't it.

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EvilMcBad
5 May 2011 10:30AM
This is a very sad indictment on a supposedly civilised society - I hope the Tories and their yellow friends get a bloody good kicking for this kind of wickedness today.

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jimmyroy
5 May 2011 10:38AM
And lets not forget it was the Tory government of the eighties that encouraged jobcentres to advise unemployed people to go to their doctors and ask to be classed as incapable of work, and so claim for disability allowance. All this to keep unemployment figures down which were spiralling out of control. So after thirty years of successive governments complacency, the big stick has to come down on everybody, including the very people it is meant to protect. But then, we are all in this together are'nt we.SCANDALOUS.

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PaulTno1
5 May 2011 10:47AM
A couple of points which I think are lost slightly in this piece.

First, the official statistics used refer only to first tier decision making. Something like 35% of those people refused lodge appeals and about 39% of those appeals are successful, indicating a pretty poor standard of first tier decision making. In any other judicial arena, such a rate of over-turned decisions would lead to urgent changes to the decision making structure, not used as a stick to beat those who "fail" the test.

Second, there will be a number of people who "fail" the test who don't appeal, because they are not told that they can, because they are told that they must claim JSA instead, and because there is a diminshing amount of welfare rights advice available to assist people through the appeals process. So the actual level of poor decision making at the first tier is likely to be even higher than referred to above.

Third, a significant number of those people who give up on their claims prior to the assessment will do so because they have short-term medical conditions, not because they have cheated the system. ESA is set up such that the medical assessment does not take place until at least the 13th week of the claim, and is often later (due to DWP/ATOS inefficiency). To use these figures in the way that DWP and government have is quite misleading and is further evidence of their quite cynical manipulation of data.

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hacklesup
5 May 2011 11:31AM
These figures have Cameron written all over them

Dishonesty

While it is perfectly proper for an attempt to be made to cut down on actual benefit fraud and while it is perfectly laudable that some disabled people who can be helped ,should be helped to get at least a little work to help with their overall quality of life ,we have heard what happens in these so called assessments . They are a disgrace .

and the appeals are often upheld which indicates that the 'client ' should not have had to go through such a worrying and humiliating procedure .


The government has clearly massaged the figures as shown above ...they do not tell the whole story

It is disinformation

It is a Cameron thing .

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budugs
5 May 2011 11:43AM
I listened to evidence give to the "dwp select commitee" which can be found on "house of commons web site".

I was disgusted at the evidence presented to the committee which shows how guenuinly sick and disabled people are being treated within this system, the evidence given on specfic cases was "tantamount to cruelty perpertrated by the state".

I urge all those who beleive this new system is about catch out scroungers to listen to the meeting, of the above mentioned select committee and challenge you not to be touched by the unfairness of treatment being meatered out by the state to sick and disabled people

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Ranald
5 May 2011 11:47AM
It is important to note however, that it was Labour who brought in the new ESA, the "Islington, Champage Socialists".

I don't believe any one political party can take the moral high ground, i am still not sure who i shall be voting for today! I will vote SNP in the Scottish Election but only out of habit, as for AV and the Westminster crowd, i am at a loss. ;-)

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jollylips
5 May 2011 11:48AM
It beggars belief why this system has been rolled out nationally, when there are so many problems with it. Some of Harrington's recommendations have apparently been implemented, yet some of the descriptors have been changed/omitted which sets the majority up to "fail" anyway.
Anecdotal evidence shows many sick/disabled claimants are treated appallingly by Atos employees and considering the undue stress claimants are experiencing by having to undergo the assessment in the first place, well, it's just disgraceful.
CAB, mental health charities, Professor Gregg, to name but a few, are all calling out for the problems to be addressed asap but it's falling on deaf ears. And the reporting by some parts of the media is utterly disgraceful and the DWP and government ministers are responsible for this.
This whole system is set to fail and tragically, already vulnerable people will suffer further.
If they insist on going ahead with this (ok they already have), they should postpone the process now, ensure all recommendations are put in place to make it a fair and valid assessment, then roll it out. If after that, they need to tweak it in order to improve it more, then fine. But to go ahead with it when there are still so many problems is ludicrous.
Better still, scrap it completely and start again !

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parrotkeeper
5 May 2011 12:13PM
Interesting research report I found on DWP website which, perhaps tellingly, carries the following statement:
" Views expressed in this report are not necessarily those of the Department for Work and Pensions or any other Government Department."

Characteristics of those claiming Employment and Support Allowance

Compared to the general population, people claiming ESA are
• disproportionately male – almost two-thirds (65 per cent) of those claiming are men;
• older (with an average age of 43);
• more likely to live in social housing – 35 per cent are owner-occupiers, compared with 68 per cent for the UK as a whole; and
• more likely to be single or a lone parent.

(Hardly the picture painted by many. They must be so disappointed!)

The majority (71 per cent) of people said they were claiming a sickness benefit for the first time, and half (51 per cent) had been working immediately before their claim. However, over two-thirds (69 per cent) said they had multiple health problems and a considerable proportion also had characteristics that may disadvantage them in the labour market, with over a third (36 per cent)
having no qualifications and more than one in five (22 per cent) being in a group recognised as facing severe employment disadvantage.3
There appear to be broad similarities in the demographic and economic profiles of the different ESA claim groups (the WRAG, SG, and FFW Group), but compared to the UK population as a whole, ESA claimants are an economically disadvantaged group.

Destinations of those whose claim had ended
The FFW Group
Only a relatively small proportion (13 per cent) of those who had been found FFW were back in employment by the time of the survey, and a sizeable proportion of claimants still identified themselves as being sick; 22 per cent reported that they were permanently off work due to sickness.
A further 28 per cent of those found FFW were unemployed and looking for work. It is likely that most of this last group were claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), as a separate question shows that 26 per cent were claiming JSA.
Being found FFW appeared to have little bearing on an individual’s own understanding of their health condition and its impact on their ability to work. When asked about barriers to work, a large proportion of the FFW Group, 46 per cent, identified their health as a main barrier, far higher than the next most cited barriers – lack of suitable jobs locally (12 per cent) and low confidence
(11 per cent).

The claim closed and claim withdrawn group

This group is comprised of people whose ESA claim ended before they received a decision on their claim. Some people withdraw their claims, while claims may also be closed by Jobcentre Plus if customers do not respond to letters, or requests to attend a face-to-face WCA.
A significant proportion of this group had returned to work by their time of the survey – 41 per cent, over three times the rate for those in the FFW group. This suggests that spontaneous recovery was a key driver of ended claims. A further 30 per cent were unemployed at the time of the survey.
A much smaller number of this group identified themselves as being sick, and very few (three per cent) reported being permanently off work due to sickness. A sizeable minority of the claim withdrawn or closed group reported having no barriers to work. Perhaps surprisingly, given the small number who identified themselves as being sick, 27 per cent reported that they still had a health
barrier to work.

Appeals

Overall, 41 per cent of WRAG/FFW customers in the survey had appealed. Appealing was more common amongst:
• people who had claimed Incapacity Benefit (IB)/sickness benefit before (57 per cent, compared with 37 per cent for those making a first claim);
• those found FFW25 (60 per cent of the FFW group appealed, compared to 12 per cent of WRAG).
Those with physical health conditions (43 per cent) and mental health conditions (44 per cent) were equally likely to appeal.

Most (79 per cent) of those who had appealed were still awaiting the outcome.

http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2009-2010/rrep707.pdf

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I would really like an investigation into the work of ATOS. They get paid millions to "assess" people & find them fit for work. 40% of appeals upheld clearly shows the method used is flawed.
They then get paid millions again to find them work through their A4E arm.

Too cosy? You bet your life it is!!

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5 May 2011 12:42PM
What is the point of those reform changes?????

Is it a mass fraud investigation?
Is it a cost cutting excersice?
Is it a maraculous cure for ones illness?
Is it to improve peoples lives?
Is it just a meerly school ground bullying tactics?
It certainly isn't an aid to helping people back into work, but meerly push people further under ground.

If a sensibal government lisens to the people they would realise that disabled people had been asking for the rights of the dignity of work for many years. If they anounced in there reforms that they would bring about a garantee of employment with adaptions being made in place throughout towards each individuals illness. Then the reform would probably take on a different character and would have been welcomed by all. As it stands life's are being lost hardships are being known throughout. Which can only suggest this is purely a cost cutting excercise which will undoubtably bring costs towards the tax payers in the meduim term.

I personally have returned to hospital as a direct acount of those reforms. In the process at present a return to full tax payer funded support. This has come about due to the anxiety over those assessments. The support services have now seen whats in my food cupboards, they have seen the state of my clothing. This is after going over a year with no monies due to failure to attend those assessments. During this past year I've even had to make the chose between a bar of soap or a tin of food.

Prior to all this my immediate neighbours after much understanding on their part aided myself on helping with taking me shopping and numerous other things that kept myself living as independant as I could within the community. This was no cost towards tax payer or NHS.

As things stand presently, and due to my withdrawal of neighbour support due to lack of monies and the stress of those assessments. I've got to rely on the help from a total stranger (tax payer funded support) and the intimadation of support on carrying out my shopping and other needs that bring independance of living within the community. During this period of deteration towards my health as a direct result of those assessments and reforms. A referral has also been made towards further treatments from specialist doctors. Another tax payer funded body.

I am only one individual how many more of the "428,800 (36%) ditched their claim" will be returning to their original rights of claim going through the process in which I have had to endure?

I payed years of taxes whilst in work. A work place accident progressed my illness which left myself in this situation.

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5 May 2011 1:48PM
ATOS should be made to pay for the cost of all the appeals, not the taxpayer. They would soon change their tick box exercise and stop declaring the severley or teminally ill fit for work, to get their bonuses.

This test must be stopped immediately and a proper medical brought in which takes evidence from patient's Gps and Consultants.

Why the need to rush ahead with testing 10,000 poeple a week when everyone says it is not fit for purpose.Why not let Professor Harrington finish his review and implement the changes he has already recommended.

The government should be more than ashamed especial Grayling for misrepresenting the statistics in the way they have as propaganda. And the public should wake up to the fact that they are being manipulated.

Thanks to this, attacks on disabled people have increased dramatically with everyone being declared a faker by their own neighbours. This is no longer a civilised country when the sick and disabled are blamed for an economic crisis caused by bankers.

Tax evasion by corporations and the wealthy will net 125 billion. Welfare reform 81 billion. Why is there no hotline to shop a tax avoider?

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5 May 2011 1:53PM
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wishface
5 May 2011 3:22PM
Why are we still having this debate? The evidence is clear! HOw many times have we got to be saying this before we will be heard by that scumbag Grayling and his master IDS? Stop Treating us like shit!

I'm so sick of this government. So very fucking sick.

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wishface
5 May 2011 3:31PM
The top floor of my local Jobcentre office building is given over entirely to ATOS. Cushy.

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klang
5 May 2011 4:01PM
The DWP have behaved disgracefully; releasing dodgy stats to dodgy newspapers, purely to get their way.

A terrible way to govern a country.

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5 May 2011 4:23PM
The 'Fit to Work' argument is only one side of the issue. It is the 'supply' side.

The 'demand' side is largely overlooked. The failure of very many organisations to employ a job applicant with a disability means that there are no jobs for those affected by disability. The legislation requiring employers to make reasonable adjustments for disabled job applicants is ignored and unenforcable.

Large parts of the public sector, notably the NHS, are very poor employers in this regard.

The new Employment Support scheme will pay upto £14,000 for each person placed in work.

It would have been more sensible to enforce the legislation.

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5 May 2011 4:33PM
The government can claim all they like that welfare reform is about reducing fraud and helping long term claimants back in to work, but we all know it's total bollocks. Not only have we to endure this whole shitty process, but we've also got to fight against the ignorant of society who either don't care or are totally oblivious to what's really happening, all because of this fucking wank of a government and their lick arse mates in the media.
Fraud is minimal and the welfare to work program hasn't exactly got a great track record, but Grayling, IDS and the rest of them continue to spout shit to justify treating disabled people like crap.
My emotions are turning to anger now, not good for somebody with mental health problems and certainly not good for anybody else around me, is this what they call helping people???

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Nemain
5 May 2011 6:48PM
Could I mention that ATOS an Excel PDF listing all Assessment Centres locations along with access information to the building and the facilities within, which can be downloaded from the Atos website.

My local Atos Assessment Centre Is located in a business a park, at a dead end, dirt track. They could not have chosen a more remote or inaccessible site to locate the building.

The Excel PDF data base states there is no parking on the 2nd floor although a lift is provided, no bus or train station nearby, no wheelchair access, no chairs with arms and refreshment provided via a water cooler.

Anyone with mobility problems will have an monumental task to reach this location! Lets not forget your constantly monitored by the CCTV cameras along the route to the building and leaving. CCTV cameras also monitor you in the building and lift.


The chairs have no arms rest they can monitor you sitting and getting up from a chair. The use of the water cooler will also be monitored as are the route to the toilets.

Once again.

They could not have chosen a more remote or inaccessible site to locate the building.

I was thinking of writing to my conservative MP about the unsuitability of the site and the lack of facilities for people with mobility problems especially wheelchair users.

But then I’m wary of this option.

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5 May 2011 6:55PM
The Excel PDF data base states there is no parking on the 2nd floor although a lift is provided

Sorry tired

Atos is located on the 2nd floor a lift is provided

No parking facilities outside

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5 May 2011 9:40PM
http://www.atoshealthcare.com/UserFiles/File/fact-sheets/2011/Assessment%20Centre%20Location%20List.xls

Details published on the Atos website reveals that more than 20% of its 141 medical assessment centres, used primarily for employment and support allowance medicals, do not have wheelchair access.
In addition, out of all 141 Atos centres, only around 50 have dedicated parking on site and just one centre –Wrexham – is listed as having disabled parking. And even then it’s only one single space. Other centres rely on public car parks, which may be five or ten minutes walk away.
31 of Atos’ medical examination centres are not even on the ground floor, with Chesterfield actually perched on the 5th floor.
16 centres have no chairs with arms, vital where claimants have problems with rising from sitting. Others are listed as having just a single chair with arms.
Twenty seven centres do not even supply drinking water for claimants, who may be kept waiting a very long time for their assessment.
Very worryingly, in spite of the many thousands of claimants with continence problems, no details of whether the centres have toilets – let alone disabled toilets – are given.
In a leaflet made available to claimants Atos ask themselves the following question:
“Why are some assessment centres above ground level when Atos Healthcare
has a policy not to examine people if they are unable to evacuate the building
using stairs?
“The DWP considers all assessment centres before approving them for use by Atos Healthcare.
Should an assessment centre not be on a ground floor, and a customer is unable to the stairs [sic]
in the event of an emergency (as this is a health & safety regulation of Trillium’s), Atos
Healthcare will look at an alternative venue or a home visit. The DWP considers all
assessment centres to be appropriate for purpose and DDA compliant.”
Atos has a contract with the DWP which is now worth far in excess of the half a billion pounds they were awarded back in 2005. They clearly have the money to provide high standard facilities.
That some centres have no suitable chairs for people with problems rising from sitting, that most have no listed disabled parking facilities and that one in five are not accessible to wheelchairs is astonishing. That the DWP “considers all assessment centres to be appropriate for purpose” is beyond astonishing – it is a national disgrace and clear evidence of the contempt which increasingly characterises the DWP’s dealings with sick and disabled claimants.

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5 May 2011 10:22PM
I claimed ESA for a short period in 2009, and so felt I'd give my thoughts here regarding ATOS and the procedure.
The ATOS form an ESA claimant has to fill out is nearly 40 pages long, and almost all of it is related to physical illnesses and disabilities.
What immediately struck me was that there is almost nothing in here about mental problems (stress based illnesses, or depression, for example).
The 2-3 pages at the back, which seemed to wander into mental territory, ask questions like if I can remember to get dressed in the morning. I don't have dementia.

I was actually panic-stricken with regards even filling out the form, as I was convinced they'd think I was faking (even though my doctor had told me I was suffering from depression, not the other way around).
I filled it out, returned it, and got invited to the ATOS assessment.
I had assumed this might be at a hospital, or a doctor's surgery, but as earlier commenters have said, it was a grotty industrial estate miles from anywhere, quite a long way from any bus stop. Although I wasn't suffering from a physical problem, it would have possibly been a struggle to get to, if I was.

My appointment was at 1pm, and I was advised to turn up 10-15mins early, which I did. I was seated in a freezing cold waiting room, next to two automatic doors which hadn't been oiled in years, which squeaked irritatingly whenever anyone (not just people regarding assessments) left or entered the building. They entered or exited roughly every couple of minutes.
One of the other people in the waiting room shouted racist and homophobic views (not at me, just in general) from the time I arrived, to the time I was eventually seen at nearly 2.30.
Yes - 1.5 hours later than the appointment time they'd given me. No apology or explanation was given.

During the assessment, the nurse conducting it typed continuously on her keyboard, as if making notes on everything I said. She asked me a lot of questions I'd already answered.
She told me this would be written up and sent to me, and it was - in two parts. The first part was an incredibly vague document that ranked me with a score figure. It says you have to get 15 points to be eligible, but doesn't tell you how they arrive at the figures really, or what their measurement system is. It categorises various things, but doesn't say how many for each category.
I'll give you an example. Can you "walk on level ground without difficulty"? - if yes, no points there. Assuming I couldn't walk, do I get 1 point? 10 points? Presumably they know what the scoring system is, but they're not going to tell anyone else.
Given that only 10 of the sections are non-physical, I'd estimate it's pretty hard to get 15 points, if suffering from a mental condition.

Under one section, they wrote "you have no problems meeting and mixing with new people". Or existing friends. In fact, from reading this document, you would assume I had no fears or weaknesses at all and was somewhat of a social butterfly.
In the detailed version of the nurse's assessment though, they wrote:
"In the future, the client states that they would like to chat on the telephone with their friends. The client finds this difficult at present".
The only people I had felt able to speak to in weeks, was my doctor, and the counselor that my doctor referred me to.

The nurse's summary said "A phased return to work should be considered" and "within 6 months".
Within 6 months.
How long before my ESA benefit stopped? A week.

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6 May 2011 10:17AM
That's terrible Toasterman.

Even where there are mental health questions, mental illness seems to be treated as if it's the same as a learning disability, and there seems to be no recognition of the fluctuations of conditions that are emotional in basis. A person with mental illness can be very bright, but this would lose a person points, as they are supposed to act as if they were learning disabled (the pc term) when the two can be very different.

I like so many others, have needed emergency treatment due to my fears over this business, and am now on three different medications.

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wishface
6 May 2011 1:22PM
Hey people, how did you like your Programmed Democratic Distraction? Fun was it?

It's good to have something to take your minds off the total loss of power that we the ordinary and the poor have experienced.

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6 May 2011 2:12PM
toasterman@

The ATOS form an ESA claimant has to fill out is nearly 40 pages long, and almost all of it is related to physical illnesses and disabilities.
What immediately struck me was that there is almost nothing in here about mental problems (stress based illnesses, or depression, for example).

In reply:

The system that is in place for the The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) is enough to drive the sanest person mad.

The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) that is being undertaken by Atos on behalf of this government is grossly unfair, criminal?

Although my health problems were mostly physical, Cerebral Palsy.

My mental health is being negatively effected. I’m starting to believe that I’m a benefit scrounger, the drip drip effect of the governments brainwashing campaign is working on me.

I’m becoming more aggressive and isolating myself, because of my aggressive outbursts.

I’m scare to death, that I might unintentionally hurt someone, I keep on thinking that I will end up in prison.

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6 May 2011 2:13PM
scared

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6 May 2011 6:07PM
Nemain@

I know those aggressive feelings well.

I actually went to attend the assessment got as far as the door and couldn't go in as I recognised that the spontanous acts were vulnerable at that time. If I went into that assessment there were the high chance that I would of wrecked there computers and probably ended up with a criminal record. It's the same feelings that bring about suicidal thoughts but mostly lead back to self harm to try and over come them. Constant nightmare once those thoughts come about as there's no getting rid of them except ride the tide sort of speak. No matter what one try's to do the fixation is to great to fight. This deepens the depression levels as well to the point of being virtually paralysed.

The isolation process can go on for a day or it can go on for months at a time. Being pushed into the situation of an assessment when one already finds difficulty in going to the GP it just doesn't work.

At the end of the day and as stat's show the aggression is taken out on either one's own property or through self harm such as turning to a period of excessive drinking, and as you mentioned above isolation which is the route I mostly take. The aggression is never ever taken out towards another being even though the thoughts are there at times. Burn out is more than likely prior to any action due to the awareness.

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6 May 2011 7:12PM
My levels of anxiety will crescendo with the arrival of my Work Capability Assessment (WCA) at my remote and inaccessible Atos Assessment Centre.

If you turn up, you’re obviously fit for work. Don’t turn up and you get your benefits removed.

I will be asking for a medical at home, using the two points below:

(1) The DWP considers all assessment centres before approving them for use by Atos Healthcare.

(2) Should an assessment centre not be on a ground floor, and a customer is unable to the stairs [sic] in the event of an emergency (as this is a health & safety regulation of Trillium’s), Atos Healthcare will look at an alternative venue or a home visit.

I believe the system being used by Atos is specifically designed to drive people mad, with the blessing of the DWP as per

(1) The DWP considers all assessment centres before approving them for use by Atos Healthcare.

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7 May 2011 12:42AM
I applied for DLA last summer after being diagnosed with severe depression. After filling in countless forms, which felt like a job application with the questions that were asked, DWP said they would contact my GP. After numerous delays, it was decided that I'm not disabled, despite the effects my condition has on my everyday life. Yet my university has classed me as disabled.

Since being rejected for DLA, I have had further diagnoses with regard to my mental health, and while my university is offering round-the-clock support, I can't see the same happening with the DWP.

Most people applying for benefits aren't 'scroungers' wanting to cheat the State - they are desperate, poor and often ignored by society at large, and need help to get by.

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naturalcynic

Having depression is not an automatic entitlelment to DLA regardless of how severe it is. DLA is one of the more difficult benifits to obtain as the criteria for claiming that benifit is very high and is only given in extreme circumstances.

In most cases esspecially with Mental Health it's the proffesional bodies that fill in that form as the illness of the individual is that of extreme severity. This is what makes it rediculas for Government to try change that system.

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Muhammad Haque London Democracy Campaign Commentary on the role of the Poplar Councillors as led by George Lansbury

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© Muhammad Haque London Democracy Campaign Commentary on the role of the Poplar Councillors as led by George Lansbury 0505 Hrs GMT London Sunday 08 May 2011.
They marched from Bow to the High Court in central London and carried a banner saying proudly that they were possibly also marching to prison.
[Continued via http://twitter.com/khoodeelaar]

Guilty of fighting for the East End community! And proud of defying the rich and the wealthy! [1]

Guilty of fighting for the East End community! And proud of defying the rich and the wealthy! [1]
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0115 Hrs GMT
London
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08 May 2011:
They marched to the High Court and possibly to prison!
Who were they? East End councillors, of course! And the reason for their march? To protect the deprived community from the unfair, unequal burden of tax that was being imposed to keep the wealthy London boroughs and institutions going while the poor deprived East Enders lost out and went without! I have written too much already. Time to pause! Of course I have left out the little matter of the time when these events took place. They did not march this past week. Nor in the past year. In fact the march took place nearly a hundred years ago! In 1921!
[To be continued]

[To be continued]

Contextually re-citing the London EVENING STANDARD 'diary' blog and its promotion for “Dr” Kevan Collins, The Tower Hamlets Council’s 'UNDERCOVER BOS

1235 Hrs GMT London Saturday 07 May 2011 Contextually re-citing the London EVENING STANDARD 'diary' blog and its promotion for “Dr” Kevan Collins, The Tower Hamlets Council’s 'UNDERCOVER BOSS’ as almost without a single word of objectively propagated and depicted in the C4 programme shown on 22 July 2010


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Council boss goes undercover to find staff are East End heroes



A different image of Tower Hamlets council is seen in a Channel 4 documentary tonight.
Its chief executive, Kevan Collins, agreed to spend a week undercover in preparation for forcing through cuts in excess of £50 million over the next three years (thanks to Whitehall's age of austerity).
The idea was for Mr Collins to go back to the "shopfront" and see how well - or poorly - the council's £1.2 billion annual budget was spent each year. But don't expect a horror story - what transpired was a soft-focus piece showing council staff as salt-of-the-earth EastEnders not even portrayed in the BBC1 soap.
screens at 9pm - but hardly what I'd call investigative journalism. Mr Collins, who partly disguised himself by changing his name to Colin, having his hair cropped, growing a beard and wearing a beany hat, also comes across well, too. It's a nice watch -
After spending a week incognito, Mr Collins revealed his true identity to shocked staff - and said he had nothing but praise for their dedication to their jobs.
His council, which covers some of the most deprived parts of the East End, could lose up to a quarter of its government grant.
Mr Collins, 49, who began his career as a primary school teacher in Mile End, told me: "I liked the fact that what we were doing was high quality. Not in any way was it the case that because people were poor the services they got were poor."
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Muhammad Haque exposing the fakery paraded by “Dr” Kevan Collins, Tower Hamlets Council’s “UNDERCOVER BOSS” [Channel 4 TV July 2010], in a comment

Muhammad Haque
exposing the fakery paraded by
“Dr” Kevan Collins, Tower Hamlets Council’s “UNDERCOVER BOSS” [Channel 4 TV July 2010], in a comment piece published online by the London
EVENING STANDARD
on Wednesday 04 May 2011.
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Citing your quoting “Dr” Kevan Collins:
"I liked the fact that what we were doing was high quality. Not in any way was it the case that because people were poor the services they got were poor."
Questions arise:
Does that mean that poverty is a perfectly acceptable thing for the chief executive of the Council which is paying him over £200,000 per year in salary? Isn’t “Dr” Collins also “quietly” callous because the ONLY CASE where the “Services” were NOT poor were the ones involving those who were on hundreds of thousands of pounds in salary? How would THEY know what poor service was? The people who would know something about poor service would be those individuals, families and their neighbours who were being sanctioned, targeted, harassed by the DWP whose programme of poverty creation was being conducted by the services of Councils’ benefits administration departments. Have you asked “Dr” Collins to tell you about how many “social landlord” organisations [created to RAISE the levels of incomes of Tower Hamlets Council’s groups of employees who are now holding key positions in those organisations] carrying out de facto deportation schemes, driving entire groups of people out of their home neighbourhoods, estates and even borough? Have you noticed how stunningly quiet all those “elected” Councillors are as they have been complying with the agenda of the CONDEM Collusion carrying out the cuts programme that is driving the community out of Tower Hamlets? UNDERCOVER BOSS perfectly immune from audit or accountability as he “presides” over the destruction of the community by the cuts programme currently on!
1325 Hrs Wednesday 04 May 2011

Muhammad Haque first comment on "East London Advertiser" online piece about George Lansbury and the Poplar Councillors' stand

I quote you [Mike Brooke, East London Advertiser online, dated 04 May 2011] :

[“] Angela Lansbury unveils a commemorative plaque on Saturday to honour her grandfather’s life and the legacy he left behind—an East End that fights for social justice against the odds. [”]


So how are the current “elected Councillors” on Tower Hamlets Council keeping up the tradition of the Poplar Councillors and of George Lansbury?

On 8 March 2011, I had arrived at the “Mulberry Place” “Town Hall” intending to observe the “Budget setting” session of the “Full Council”. I was surprised to find that iron barriers had been placed all over the entrance to the building with a number of uniformed Metropolitan Police officers present. There was hardly anybody else around on the outside of the building Then I spotted about five persons standing on a side. When I asked them why they were there instead of being inside the Council chamber, they said they had been refused entry.

I saw a semi-uniformed, security-guard-type person who told me that the “chief executive” [“Dr” Kevan Collins] had “advised” that just under 50 person would be allowed to enter the “public gallery”. No reason was available. I also saw the clearly displayed notice to the effect that person wanting to get into the meeting would have to submit to searches and if they rescued they would not be allowed into the building.
Did your paper report any of this?

And did you come across any precedent for the Stockade-style barriers that the current clique on Tower Hamlets Council has taken to putting up in order to suppress the people of the Borough from even being able to observe what little the “elected” councillors actually show of their true roles when attending the cuts-making procedures that are reducing the East End’s ‘democratically elected local Council” to an ever authoritarian entity colluding with the agenda ofd making the population here even more deprived than it is already?


0100 Hrs Thusrday 05 May 2011

UNDERCOVER BOSS immune from audit or accountability as he “presides” over the destruction of the community by the cuts programme currently on

Citing your [LONDON EVENING STANDARD writer Ross Lydall’s blog dated 22 July 2010] quoting “Dr” Kevan Collins:


"I liked the fact that what we were doing was high quality. Not in any way was it the case that because people were poor the services they got were poor."


Questions arise:


Does that mean that poverty is a perfectly acceptable thing for the chief executive of the Council which is paying him over £200,000 per year in salary?

Isn’t “Dr” Collins also “quietly” callous because the ONLY CASE where the “Services” were NOT poor were the ones involving those who were on hundreds of thousands of pounds in salary?

How would THEY know what poor service was?

The people who would know something about poor service would be those individuals, families and their neighbours who were being sanctioned, targeted, harassed by the DWP whose programme of poverty creation was being conducted by the services of Councils’ benefits administration departments.

Have you asked “Dr” Collins to tell you about how many “social landlord” organisations [created to RAISE the levels of incomes of Tower Hamlets Council’s groups of employees who are now holding key positions in those organisations] carrying out de facto deportation schemes, driving entire groups of people out of their home neighbourhoods, estates and even borough?

Have you noticed how stunningly quiet all those “elected” Councillors are as they have been complying with the agenda of the CONDEM Collusion carrying out the cuts programme that is driving the community out of Tower Hamlets?

UNDERCOVER BOSS perfectly immune from audit or accountability as he “presides” over the destruction of the community by the cuts programme currently on!

1325 Hrs Wednesday 04 May 2011


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