Brick Lane CURRY 'touting': How to stop it and to find jobs for those who depend on 'touting' - the Muhammad Haque London Report - Part 1

Brick Lane CURRY 'touting': How to stop it and to find jobs for those who depend on 'touting' - the Muhammad Haque London Report - Part 1
[Edited again at] 1841 [1825] Hrs GMT London Sunday 13 March 2011 AADHIKAROnline © Muhammad Haque CAMPAIGN reporting on Curry restaurants and touting in Brick Lane [Linked video Interview filmed 08 March 2011M2U02624] This is a commentary that I am publishing online today Sunday 13 March 2011 along with footage [that will go online after 2300 Hrs GMT tonight] of a series of interview I have recorded with one of the restaurant owners in Brick Lane. I have already published detailed accounts about the views held by this one particular restaurateur, Azmal Hussain. What I am doing here is putting in historical context the whole issue of touting passersby as potential customers for the Curry restaurants. are a total of about fifty such restaurants in Brick Lane going into Osborne Street to the south towards the Whitechapel Road. The estimated number of people working as staff in the restaurants would vary from three to five hundred.
Then there are the ‘touts’. All the staff are Bangladeshi. Exceptions are very rare.
This is the core of the identity of these restaurants. And their real strength. Without Bangladeshi staff, these restaurants would not be able to function. In latter parts of these reports, I shall examine the history and the current state of staff, training and the prospects of business for these restaurants. Right now, and in view of the deliberate creation of joblessness that is going on under the CONDEM regime in Britain, the issue that I shall be focussing on in the next part after this particular updater is the nEED FOR JOBS and the relevance of those needs of the availability of young people to ‘work’ as touts. I shall then look at the role of each of the following and examine their particular duties and performances:

The local Tower Hamlets Council

The London Metropolitan Police

The London Mayor in the context of the 2012 Hosting

Why I am concerned about the matter of touting in Brick Lane:

I have defended the community in the East End now for forty years, give an take a year or so. However, I have been part of and have in fact founded the Movement for the defence of the East End Community that has now existed for over 50 years.
And so to me Brick Lane has been at the metaphoric and the physical heart of the frame of action steps taken by the movement at the start and the ones being still taken today.
As I spelt out in my speech to the large gathering of the people who had assembled at the Hanbury Street ‘Brady Centre’ on Sunday 22 January 2006 in support of the KHOODEELAAR! campaign against the Crossrail hole, I had been walking the streets of the East End for years raising awareness on the imminent and the lethal attack on the very existence of Brick Lane that we had known it to be.
And the reason why I had paid so much of time and resource to the cause of defending the area was as live then as it is today and as it has always been Apart from housing a whole host of people from all over the rest if the world with their own backgrounds and identities, Brick Lane has been the second home for Bangladeshis outside of Bangladesh. That is general. The more acutely true thing is that Brick Lane is the only place where it feels as if we are at home in Seelot!
At least that is the feeling when we forget about the unease, the nuisance, the hassle and the embarrassment that touting has now brought on the collective and the individual being of the community in the East End of London.

So it was a shock when I was treated as possible ‘customer’ by a stranger who almost blocked my passage as I took the turn left from the Hanbury Street into Brick Lane.
That was eleven years ago. In the year 2000. [To be continued]

Brick Lane CURRY 'touts': How to stop it and to find jobs for those who depend on 'touting' - the Muhammad Haque London Report - Part 1

Brick Lane CURRY 'touting': How to stop it and to find jobs for those who depend on 'touting' - the Muhammad Haque London Report - Part 1
[Edited again at] 1841 [1825] Hrs GMT London Sunday 13 March 2011 AADHIKAROnline © Muhammad Haque CAMPAIGN reporting on Curry restaurants and touting in Brick Lane [Linked video Interview filmed 08 March 2011M2U02624] This is a commentary that I am publishing online today Sunday 13 March 2011 along with footage of a series of interview I have recorded with one of the restaurant owners in Brick Lane. I have already published detailed accounts about the views held by this one particular restaurateur, Azmal Hussain. What I am doing here is putting in historical context the whole issue of touting passersby as potential customers for the Curry restaurants. are a total of about fifty such restaurants in Brick Lane going into Osborne Street to the south towards the Whitechapel Road. The estimated number of people working as staff in the restaurants would vary from three to five hundred. Then there are the ‘touts’. All the staff are Bangladeshi. Exceptions are very rare. This is the core of the identity of these restaurants. And their real strength. Without Bangladeshi staff, these restaurants would not be able to function. In latter parts of these reports, I shall examine the history and the current state of staff, training and the prospects of business for these restaurants. Right now, and in view of the deliberate creation of joblessness that is going on under the CONDEM regime in Britain, the issue that I shall be focussing on in the next part after this particular updater is the nEED FOR JOBS and the relevance of those needs of the availability of young people to ‘work’ as touts. I shall then look at the role of each of the following and examine their particular duties and performances:

The local Tower Hamlets Council

The London Metropolitan Police

The London Mayor in the context of the 2012 Hosting

Why I am concerned about the matter of touting in Brick Lane:

I have defended the community in the East End now for forty years, give an take a year or so. However, I have been part of and have in fact founded the Movement for the defence of the East End Community that has now existed for over 50 years. And so to me Brick Lane has been at the metaphoric and the physical heart of the frame of action steps taken by the movement at the start and the ones being still taken today. As I spelt out in my speech to the large gathering of the people who had assembled at the Hanbury Street ‘Brady Centre’ on Sunday 22 January 2006 in support of the KHOODEELAAR! campaign against the Crossrail hole, I had been walking the streets of the East End for years raising awareness on the imminent and the lethal attack on the very existence of Brick Lane that we had known it to be. And the reason why I had paid so much of time and resource to the cause of defending the area was as live then as it is today and as it has always been Apart from housing a whole host of people from all over the rest if the world with their own backgrounds and identities, Brick Lane has been the second home for Bangladeshis outside of Bangladesh. That is general. The more acutely true thing is that Brick Lane is the only place where it feels as if we are at home in Seelot!
At least that is the feeling when we forget about the unease, the nuisance, the hassle and the embarrassment that touting has now brought on the collective and the individual being of the community in the East End of London.

So it was a shock when I was treated as possible ‘customer’ by a stranger who almost blocked my passage as I took the turn left from the Hanbury Street into Brick Lane. That was eleven years ago. In the year 2000. [To be continued]

The axeman Danny Alexander was left biting his tongue when faced with some of the most basic questions caused by the drastic, insane cuts to Society..

1145 Hrs GMT

London

Sunday

13 May 2011

By © Muhammad Haque

Sheffield stalled!

The axeman Danny Alexander was left biting his tongue when faced with some of the most basic questions caused by the drastic, insane cuts to the strategic areas of the economy and Society, a few minutes ago. Alexander, probably the closest crony groomed by Sick Clegg the fantasist ‘deputy prime minister’! It was ‘danny Boy;’ who was a closet colluder for the CONDEM Collusions long time before the country went to the polls on 06 May 2010. Clegg and Alexander were together in the long plot against democracy and against the welfare foundations of the UK Society. Alexander is styled ‘Chief Secretary to the Treasury’.

This is an over-hyped title. It does NOT represent either the ability of the postholder or the agenda that the postholder peddles and executes whilst in that post. And it does not refer to any probity whatsoever about the conduct of the Nation's finances. It is a bloated badge that belongs to the boasting aspect of a careerist's ego than to any sober far less responsible conduct in serving the people with the treasury powers. And so it proved when Alexander appeared on Sky.com news programme hosted by Dermot Murnaghan in the past 20 minutes. On every key question put to him, Alexander was unable to answer with credibility or even application. He was wide of the mark.

And that is going to be repeated in the time left for the Colluders as being ‘in power’. That phrase, ‘in power’ does not sound the same any more. Not since Nick the Sickmaker Clegg has overused it in justifying his collusion with the Bullyboy ‘Dave’ Cameron in the latter’s assault on Society under the guise of ‘deficit reduction’. Cameron has been cutting vital health and welfare support provisions which cannot be rationally justified by his claim that it should hurt to make sense. For BIG BUSINESS is in fact retaining the agenda that it had placed on Gordon Brown. typical of that retention is the HS2 and the Crossrail projects.

Neither has been found to be economically vital. In fact even Conservative Boroughs like Bromley are now openly defying CONDEM over CROSSRAIL.

As are Conservatives along the route of the planned HS2 attack on the English countryside. the vast majority of the people opposing HS2 are conservative and not motivated by any party political leanings whatsoever. And this analysis extends to the rest of the scams that CONDEM is still FINDING at costs of £Billions of UK Public [=’taxpayers’]. This is not only too fast [as Ed Balls reminded all when HE spoke to SKY presenter Murnaghan a few minutes before Danny Alexander did] but it is also too far.

That is to say that the CUTS are NOT Necessary. Especially those, as Ed Balls also reiterated, that were causing people to lose their jobs! How can that be justified? [To be continued]