Tuesday, 6 March 2012

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!
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DAILY MAIL blogger on Tower Hamlets vote fraud: "The London Mayoral election is at serious risk of being stolen "

from the London DAILY MAIL website:


The London Mayoral election is at serious risk of being stolen

By Harry Phibbs

Last updated at 12:13 PM on 2nd March 2012


Picture the scene on the evening of Friday 4 May this year.

Ken Livingstone has just been re-elected to his old job of Mayor of London by the narrowest of margins. Congratulatory telegrams come in from Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. Lee Jasper is announced among the new appointments to City Hall.

Boris Johnson refuses to say if he will seek a return to the House of Commons at a future by-election. The pollsters have been confounded as they had shown a narrow win for Boris.

The evidence of voter fraud allegedly taking place in Tower Hamlets risks the London Mayoral election between Ken Livingstone, left, and Boris Johnson, right, says Harry Phibbs
The evidence of voter fraud allegedly taking place in Tower Hamlets risks the London Mayoral election between Ken Livingstone, left, and Boris Johnson, right, says Harry Phibbs

The evidence of voter fraud allegedly taking place in Tower Hamlets, risks the London Mayoral election between Ken Livingstone, left, and Boris Johnson, right, says Harry Phibbs

Then it emerges that Livingstone's narrow victory was entirely due to one borough. That of Tower Hamlets where there have been remarkably sharp increases in turnout, the number of voters on the register and share of the vote received by Livingstone.

The evidence of massive voter fraud taking place in Tower Hamlets is overwhelming. 'Postal vote farming' where extra names are registered at an address, is not an isolated or random occurrence but is taking place systematically.

The Evening Standard has investigated and found that 'dozens of flats are holding up to eight people per bedroom, according to the electoral register.'

In one case 12 adults are still listed as voters at a three-bedroom flat in Mile End despite having moved out about four months before officials gathered data for the register. A lettings agent said that only 'three or four' of those named had ever lived there.

Cllr Peter Golds, the Conservative opposition leader of the council, has written on Conservative Home this morning about the failure for anyone to take action.

'In 2009 I handed over to the police copies of emails regarding postal vote farming,' he writes. 'The police spoke to the sender who "promised not to do it again" and therefore indicated a prosecution would not be in "the public interest", despite the fine for this being £5,000.

'The electoral commission advises that concerned citizens approach the town hall, who then ask you to send your evidence to the police, who go back to the electoral commission on this merry go round of inertia.'

Cllr Golds adds there is similar indifference to 'appalling intimidation at polling stations.'

Evidence: In one case 12 adults are still listed as voters at a three-bedroom flat in Mile End despite having moved out before officials gathered register data

Evidence: In one case 12 adults are still listed as voters at a three-bedroom flat in Mile End despite having moved out before officials gathered register data

This is not a new problem. The 2008 mayoral election saw the Labour share of the vote sharply increase in Tower Hamlets against the trend elsewhere. In the 2004 results Livingstone beat the then Conservative candidate Steve Norris by 16,229 to 10,157.

In the 2008 results we saw Livingstone beat Boris Johnson in that borough by 37,361 to 17,509.

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Then we had in April 2010, just before the General Election, an increase in the electorate of 7,000 recorded in just one month.

This is a council where later that year the directly elected Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, stood as an independent but with the support of Livingstone against the official Labour candidate.

Reassurance: Tory MP Gary Streeter, said the Electoral Commission had been assured by the police and Tower Hamlets that the issue was being treated seriously

Reassurance: Tory MP Gary Streeter, said the Electoral Commission had been assured by the police and Tower Hamlets that the issue was being treated seriously

Tower Hamlets Council's response is to deny that there is a problem and of course there is no suggestion any of the participants in recent elections were party to any fraud.

'No cases of electoral fraud have been found in Tower Hamlets,' A council spokesman said, adding that the borough 'suffers from very high levels of overcrowding.'

So if the council can't or won't act, who will? What is the Electoral Commission doing about this? Nothing. It has a budget of £24million but when I rang them it became all too clear that it has no power to ensure free and fair elections take place - merely to offer 'guidance.'

It could act as a whistle blower but won't even do that.

When the Conservative MP Lee Scott raised the matter in Parliament he was told by his colleague Gary Streeter MP, who speaks on their behalf of the Electoral Commission, that 'the Commission has been assured by the police and Tower Hamlets electoral registration officer (ERO) that the issue is being treated with the appropriate seriousness.'

Streeter added: 'The Electoral Commission informs me that it has made no specific assessment of the level of (a) over registration or (b) fraudulent registration in the London borough of Tower Hamlets.'

Still all the boxes are ticked: 'The Commission monitors the performance of electoral registration officers (EROs) in Great Britain, including their plans for preventing and detecting electoral malpractice. The most recent report of performance against the standards set by the Commission found that the ERO for Tower Hamlets exceeded this standard in 2010.'

The Cabinet Office Minister Mark Harper, also proposes to do nothing - while 'taking the matter very seriously', of course.

So there we are. There is a serious risk of the election for Mayor of London being stolen yet nothing is being done to avert this from happening in the mother of democracy.

Perhaps we need some international observers from developing countries to help us out. We seem to be unable to manage to ensure a democratic election takes place.

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these are not our people!

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''The political class'' has turned UK into an EU ''banana republic'' Only people Postal voting should be Disabled,or people who have trouble walking. Bread and circuses, YET the British public will Still vote for them lib-lab-con mediocrities

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In the distant past an offense like this would have been almost treasonable, now it's treated with a kind of deliberate indifference. Someone should be in the police cells, it's a disgrace that undermines the very foundation of government.

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If I lived in London neither Johnson nor Livingstone would get my vote.

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When the BNP won its first council seat in Tower Hamlets left wing activists moved in and showed the locals how to get the result they wanted. Now Islamic extremists are in control. Labour has been hoisted by their own petard.

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The only answer to all this nonsense is to abolish Postal Voting and to require voters to produce adequate identification at the polling booth. NuLab refused to do anything of the sort presumably because in areas like Tower Hamlets they would lose not only votes but alienate certain ethnic groups something which of course they would never contemplate. Will we see a change to the rules before the next election ? I doubt it. For the NuconLibDems to do something they would have to admit the unspeakable, namely that some among certain ethnic groups have unashamedly brought their own ' democratic ' habits with them.

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Even a quick glance at Ken Livingstone's life would reveal him as totally unsuited to office. Goodness knows what skeletons he's got in his closet. Shame we don't have journalists who investigate and report things like this, instead of telling what some has-been or wannabe celebrity is wearing!

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When the BNP won its first council seat in Tower Hamlets left wing activists flooded in to ensure it never happened again. They taught the locals how it could be done and now Labour has been hoisted by its own petard in the borough with Islamic militants in charge. The properties are so overcrowded that if the electoral register was right they would need to have the highest number of houses in multiple occupation ever recorded!

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(1) Stop all postal voting - in all elections, and make people pring passport or driving licence photo ID to polling station [take off burkas as necessary] (2) Ensure all these properties in Tower Hamlets are properly reigstered as Houses of Multiple Occupancy and issue fines if not.

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BORIS IS CERTAINLY NOT A BUFFOON. HE IS A BRILLIANT MAN. REGRETFULLY HE DOES LAUGH QUITE A BIT. BUT HE DOES COME UP WITH THE IMPORTANT CRITICISMS OF THE RULING PARTIES. LET BORIS BE THE FUTURE LEADER OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY. THE LIMITED LIABILITY OF ALL BUSINESSES MUST BE RETRACTED. tHERE ARE THOUSANDS OF SMALL COMPANIES BEING SET UP MERELY TO AVOID THE PAYMENT OF TAX OVER THE RATE OF 20%,. uGHHHHHHHHHH I LAMENT FOR BRITAIN IN THE FUTURE FROM WHJAT i OBSERVE NOW. IN FACT I HAD THAT OPINION FOR THE PAST 50 YEARS PLUS.

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Why hadn't they believed Doreen and Neville Lawrence at the beginning, in 1993?

1045 GMT London Tuesday 06 March 2012. By © Muhammad Haque.
Question is: why hadn't they believed Doreen and Neville Lawrence at the beginning, in 1993? when they voiced their suspicions of wrongdoing by those in charge of investigating Stephen's murder???


The Rebekah Brooks horse may have unleashed OTHER links that expose worrying flaws in Society’s key institutions
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The © Muhammad Haque Ethical Commentary.
A horse to cover for CAMERON, now a certified member of the gang carrying out the assault on Society.


0330 [0310] Hrs GMT London Tuesday 06 March 2012.

The © Muhammad Haque Ethical Commentary.
A horse to cover for CAMERON, now a certified member of the gang carrying out the assault on Society.


By demolishing the truth. As even the CONDEM-backing DAILY MAIL Group has found, Number 10 Downing Street PROPAGANDA Machine had been lying about that horse link.


Or rather about Cameron’s riding Raisa!.


In this clip, one of the Westminster journalists, ITN’s Daisy Sampson tells Kate Garraway [DAYBREAK, ITV, London ] about the gossip in the Parliamentary Lobby. And the top of the topics of course has been that horse!


The one that David Cameron never rode. The horse that No 10 Downing Street PR people had never heard of. The horse that was “lent” or “loaned” by the London Metropolitan Police to Rupert Murdoch's SUN’s ex-editor Rebekah Wade [Brooks]!


The horse that has maintained her presence as the single most interesting topic engaging parliamentary journalists and assorted “Westminster Villagers” for more than a week now.


So let’s hear Daisy Sampson [McAndrew] summarise what the lobby [that is, “journalists” covering the British Parliament and Whitehall] are saying and what the implications of the denials by Cameron about riding the horse entail.


Daisy Sampson discusses “Raisa”, the horse, at the start of this clip of the DAYBREAK programme at 0635 Hrs [GMT] on 02 March 2012. AADHIKAROnline recorded the clip externally from the live broadcast.

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