Tower Hamlets vote fraud scandal: Muhammad Haque commentary for establishing a Council with true local democratic dignity -1

Tower Hamlets vote fraud scandal: Muhammad Haque commentary for establishing a Council with true local democratic dignity -1

1655 [1600] Hrs GMT.
London.
Tuesday.
06 March 2012.
By © Muhammad Haque. .
.Original contextual commentary and democracy-building constitutional law perspective about Tower Hamlets vote fraud and the disgrace that the controlling cliques on the Tower Hamlets Council have created in the borough over the past decades. It is daunting to have to admit that it is geographically the same Borough which contains the smaller Poplar area that had once been brilliantly democratically represented by true local fighters and activists like George Lansbury and his fellow Poplar councillors
It has been said in Tower Hamlets in the past weeks that “if a by-election is called” in the Tower Hamlets Council Ward in the Brick Lane London E1 area “because” of Shelina Akhtar’s “absence” [very strange this notion of accommodating legalised corruption already in the electoral system that is fast become a farce!] then the “Parties and groups” will stage their own frauds and put forward “candidates” after performing internal irregularities!
How so? Because they will not allow "ordinary members" the choice to choose a candidate! Imposed candidates will be produced for the charade that will be the by-election in the banana republic atmosphere that will be created for the purpose of procedural compliance etc.
There is nothing in the records of the clique that operates the Council at any given time [and that includes] going back more than 40 years to inspire confidence at all. And that is reaching the point shortly after the creation of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the middle of the 1960s.
I have observed Tower Hamlets events from before the Borough was created. And I am not impressed by anything the controlling clique has done for democracy… This is one reason why I have found it necessary to keep mentioning the fact that in the same area that we now a days know as Tower Hamlets, there once was a small group of elected councillors who did set an example of really locally delivered democratic representation. They had their most famous colleague who went on to be an MP. I only refer to this two letter word “MP” not for any democratic quality that attaches to it now but because of its link to Lansbury getting to be the most remembered one of the groups. There were others in that group who were as dedicated and as committed as Lansbury.
But because of the institutionalised, pro-bourgeoisie brainwashing that is involved in the recording and in the reciting of "history" in Britain, anyone who is "MP" no matter for how long, is given automatic status as a “superior person” by that fact alone!! Which is utter rubbish and the time has been due for ages, for centuries in fact, to scrap that two letter word from the automatic place at the top of the records and at the head of all "ceremonies”.
Having said that, and c contextually, because he was an MP, all the later references to the Poplar Councillors battle have been made by giving them the collective identity as if they were George Lansbury’s subordinates. They were not
They warrant as much recognition as George Lansbury has been given.
I am engaged in updating on the Poplar Councillors and will post the approximate pieces here in due course
It will be a hundred years soon since the Poplar Councillors were active in their borough and since they historically marched all the way from polar to the to the High Court in central London and braved and endured imprisonment for their principles against the then CON attacks [1920s East End and the London Reactionary atmosphere of that time as far as “probity” of “public spending” ands related issues of democratic representation was concerned] on local democracy at its best.
Nearly a hundred years later in the second decade of the 21st century and we have not seen anyone or anything in the behaviour of any other councillors “elected” to Tower Hamlets Council SINCE the 1920s doing anything democratically remotely comparable to those Poplar Councillors
Now THAT is a backward record for the thousands who have been known as “councillors” since the time of the Poplar Councillor rebels!
[To be continued]