Long queues of "consumers" spotted in Brick Lane! Yet Tower Hamlets is still at the top of the list of jobless East London boroughs

1650 [1625] Hrs GMT
London
Saturday
22 October 2011


a Brick Lane Report
Editor © Muhammad Haque
For the past three days, long queues have been forming of mostly young people [aged under 30] in Brick Lane.
What are they queuing up for?
And where, really, do they come from?
Answers to these questions will tell more about the state of the UK Economy than any number of spiels attributed to George Osborne.
If the young people have been queering to take advantage of a show or a sale that doesn’t cost them anything then of course the event would not be as definitive an indicator.
However, they are evidently joining the queue and also paying to do so.
So what does it tell us about the “Economy” in the East End of London?
The event doesn’t tell us anything much really.
Except that the people on the queues are mostly NOT from the East End.

And whatever they have been queuing up for is NOT an East End of London product or service.

And therein lies one key anomaly that also again exposes the untruth that is being peddled every week by the “local” “elected” Tower Hamlets Council.

The “Council” is reportedly in the running for the [allegedly] “coveted” “City” status, that the Queen, Elizabeth 2, is expected to grant to one of about 30 “aspiring” applicants.

And as part of the promotion for that application for that “status”, a local “MP”, Jim Fitzpatrick, has been given publicity by a Canary Wharf-based propaganda outfit, also called the Wharf, as having delivered a spiel in the House of Commons last week allegedly singing praises of the Tower Hamlets Council.

Jim Fitzpatrick’s spiel was as free of substance about the real life day to economic, social and democratic experiences of ordinary people in the Borough of Tower Hamlets as it was blank on the state of “accountability” available to the people from or via the varieties of pliant “elected” occupants of offices that are funded by the public and in the collective name of the people in the Borough of Tower Hamlets.

A substantive argument would have showed just how ill-advised the “City” “status” “bid” is and how appallingly dismal the role of the “elected” occupants had been.

One area of abysmal failure would have been shown to have been the Council-controlled local schools in Tower Hamlets.

In the main, the overwhelming majority of school-leavers in Tower Hamlets are leaving schools every year without achieving the necessary foundation in education.

Education as defined in the context of socially responsible and accountable and able human beings.

[To be continued]