The © Muhammad Haque Political Poetry on the “arrival” of the “New Year 2013” [1]

1840 Hrs GMT

London

Tuesday

01 January 2012.

The © Muhammad Haque Political Poetry on the “arrival” of the “New Year 2013” [1]

Who,
exactly,
decides
to “celebrate”
“New Year”?

What IS NEW?

The deaths of the children in the stampede in the Ivory Coast in Africa?

Deaths of the children!

Deaths of innocent children!

Deaths of the children

is NOT NEW!

Just as EVIL is NOT NEW!

Just as violation of innocence by Evil

is not new!

Just as the influence of Evil on the ones crazy with “power”

is not new!

Just as robbery of the poor by the rich is not new

Just as denial of humanity by the powerful everywhere is not new

Just as the pitying and the contempt shown to the weak and the vulnerable is not new

Just as lying by the Government is not new

Just as covering up the crimes of Ministers by the Governments is not new

Just as looting by the ‘aid groups’ of the food allegedly meant for the starving

is not new

Just as a judge delaying and in the end denying a say to the unlawfully violated is not new….

Just as the smug, sniggering showing off of opulence by the “Mayor” in the name of this City or that is not New

Just as injustice on the Delhi Gang rape bus

followed by the Delhi armed police beating up protesters, women is not new!

What, EXACTLY, is NEW in the “New Year” 2013?

[To be continued]

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Examining Tower Hamlets Council's POVERTY-CREATION programme: [2] Whose idea was it to 'TELCO'?

Examining Tower Hamlets Council's POVERTY-CREATION programme: 

[2] 

Whose idea was it to 'TELCO'?

1645 [1620] Hrs GMT London Tuesday 01 January 2013

The © Muhammad Haque Daily Ethical commentary: Part TWO of the evidential diagnostic update on HOW Tower Hamlets Council CREATES POVERTY in the East End Borough

CLICK on this IMAGE to see twitter UPDATES by KHOODEELAAR! on the Manifesto for Tower Hamlets where the local Council has been all but abolished by the imposition of an antidemocratic "executive mayor” “non- system” [More on this word, ‘non-system’, our word, in later parts]

This IMAGE is based on the Internet "news" item that the Roman Catholic outlet “THE CATHOLIC HERALD” had published after Iain Duncan Smith, then still “Leader” of the Neo Conservative Party, "posed”, in the 1990s, as a champion of morality and pledged that he would make the Conservative Party reflect the Roman Catholic church’s values 

Below are the texts of the "news" report in the CATHOLIC HERALD, also promoting TELCO, a strange outfit that made its appearance in Tower Hamlets a few years later and "successfully" demolished the local Tower Hamlets Council by intervening FOR THE INSTALLATION of an antidemocratic structure on the Coun cil.

AADHIKAROnline shall examine the role of this STRANGE, STRANGE outfit “TELCO” in destroying Society in the East End and ask questions about whether “TELCO” in the most bizarre role it has played in the manufacture of a “Platform” that has DISPLACED and in effect destroyed the majority of the ordinary community and its campaigning activities in the East End, truly - or “at all” - reflects the agenda of the Catholic Church in England.

We ASK: Whose IDEA was it to launch the anti-social COUP in the East End that has at once managed to displace the DEMOCRATIC ORGANISATION of the ELECTED LOCAL Council and worse, the independently active organisations in the ordinary po;population the the context of the Borough of Tower Hamlets??????

[To be continued]

Tory policy 'to reflect Church social teaching'

BY SIMON CALDWELL

THE LEADER Of the Conservatives has promised to make his Party's policies reflect the social teachings of the Catholic Church.

lain Duncan Smith, a Catholic, also described the Pope as "one of the greatest moral leaders of the modem age" during the launch of the Redbridge branch of Telco, a largely faith-based organisation that works to improve the quality of life for people within their own communities.

Mr Duncan Smith. the MP for Chingford and Woodford Green, applauded the work of Cafod, the overseas development agency of the Catholic bishops of England and Wales, and said that the Tories were preparing to "unveil aid and trade policies that will expand Britain's capacity to help the poorest people of the world lift themselves out of poverty".

He said he would find policies that would "support marriage", support Church schools, and help to build a "culture of life".

But while he voiced his personal opposition to abortion, he said that it would remain an issue of conscience in the Conservative Party. Mr Duncan Smith has always upheld the Tory policy opposing euthanasia.

He said that, if elected, the Tories would also protect faiths based voluntary and caring organisations from excessive red tape, political cor erectness and restrictions on appointments of staff.

Mr Duncan Smith began his talk, called "Building the Common Good in Redbridge", by praising the Catholic tradition of social teaching that began with Rerum Novarum, an 1891 encyclical of Pope Leo XIII.

He thanked the Catholic bishops of England and Wales fur the documents on the subject that they had released ahead of the 1997 and 2001 General Elections. He then said that the five greatest challenges facing the British people were rising crime, failing schools, substandard healthcare, child poverty and insecurity in old age — social problems which he said had worsened because "too much power has been grabbed by the state from people-sized institutions like the family".

"Introduced in the 1930s when Fascism was a growing menace, the Catholic idea of subsidiarity says that power should be as close to the peo ple as possible," he said.

"Subsidiarity reminds government not to rob institutions like families of the functions and resources necessary for them to flourish. A greedy know-all state elbows aside the self-help and charitable groups that lie behind it and individual people. It second-guesses a headteacher's leadership of a school. It ties up charities in red tape. It overtaxes families and denies them any choice about which school their children can attend."

He added: "The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Corrnac Murphy-O'Connor, rightly said that `marriage is at the heart of a stable society', and it is still the aspiration of the vast majority of young people.

"Government should support the aspiration to marry — because healthy marriages are good for children and good for society as a whole. This is not about preaching to people about how they should live their lives, but about what works.

"Government does, after all, support socially constructive ambitions like the ambition to learn, to save or to start a business. Conservatives are carefully studying the ways in which European tax and benefit support marriage, "We also want to learn how the American and Australian governments are using community and faith-based groups, to help people prepare for and sustain their relationships."

Mr Duncan Smith said the Tories would reduce poverty and crime by creating 20,000 extra rehabilitation places for drug addicts and recruiting 40,000 police officers to patrol Britain's streets, The meeting was held at Trinity Catholic High School, Woodford Green, Essex, and drew an audience of hundreds from with the Borough of Redbridge.

It was hosted by Dr Paul Doherty, the headteacher, and chaired by Bishop Thomas McMahon of Brentwood.

The bishop said afterwards that Mr Duncan Smith's speech was remarkable in that he put himself "firmly behind Catholic social and moral teaching" even though he was addressing an audience drawn from a wide range of backgrounds.

Bishop McMahon said: "He was explicitly backing Catholic moral and social teaching and quoting liberally from the Pope and previous popes and the bishops' documents on the common good. sI was extremely impressed with his speech ... he was very clear about his own Catholic faith and where he stood."

Dr Doherty described Mr Duncan Smith's speech as "charismatic" and said it addressed issues close to the audience. He said it was clear that the Tory leader was very concerned about the plight of Britain's "underclass", and by areas plagued by crime and by drug abuse.

Francis Keay and Carlene Gbeho, the head boy and head girl of Trinity, spoke during the meeting about their own commitments to the social teachings of the Church

STARTING HERE: HOW TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL abuses the money, resources that it DOES have and causes poverty, loss and damage to the community -1

STARTING HERE: 

HOW TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL abuses the money, resources that it DOES have and causes poverty, loss and damage to the community -1

0555 [0540] Hrs GMT London Tuesday 01 January 2013

By © Muhammad Haque

In March 2012, I wrote that Tower Hamlets Council “is in crisis”. 

That was a part of the KHOODEELAAR! Manifesto that I said would be published in a few weeks time.

So, a few weeks time from March 2012 would have been in April 2012, at the latest.

What did the KHOODEELAAR! Manifesto say then, in April 2012 that is?

The KHOODEELAAR! Manifesto did not say much as a manifesto but we have been reporting daily on aspects of the crisis.

There have been several statements by way of the updates to the Preamble

The reason why the full length Khoodeelaar! manifesto was not published is precisely to do with the serious obstructions that Tower Hamlets council causes to initiatives like AADHIKAR Media Publishing.

We start by reporting on those obstruction.

In our NEXT reports here and on associated KHOODEELAAR! blogs and social sites

Before doing so and as a topical contextual item of reference, we publish below the position as conveyed via the DAILY TELEGRAPH by the current CONDEM COLLUSION Minister in the Cameron cabinet with the brief about local Councils, Eric Pickles.

[To be continued] [a] 

The following has been retrieved from the web site of the London DAILY TELEGRAPH

England's local government system must be fundamentally reformed, says MP

England's local government system must be fundamentally reformed to stop ministers "humiliating" councils, a leading MP has said.

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has told local authorities to dip into their funds rather than reduce key spending

 Photo: GEOFF PUGH By Tim Ross, Political Correspondent 10:00PM GMT 31 Dec 2012

  Graham Allen, the chair of the Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee, said councils were "on their knees" and needed a new remit.

Mr Allen was speaking after a dispute broke out between the coalition and local leaders over funding cuts.

Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, attacked councillors for threatening to close local services while "stashing" money in their cash reserves.

Mr Allen, whose committee publishes its report on the future of central and local government relations next month, said: "It appears there is no end to the indignities and humiliations that local government leaders are prepared to accept from Whitehall.

"Instead they need to work together and come up with a plan for their long term future.

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"Such a plan needs to appeal to ministers and to rouse local government from its knees."

Mr Allen added: 

"Neither the oppressor nor the oppressed are comfortable with this relationship, together they need to work out a sustainable relationship.”

Mr Pickles told local authorities to dip into their funds rather than reduce spending on libraries, parks, bus services and bin collections.

The Communities Secretary intervened after council leaders complained that his department’s cuts to their annual budgets threatened to incite rioting and a wave of crime in northern cities.

Conservative leaders of rural councils said the reductions in their grants would “crucify” the countryside and drive voters into the arms of the UK Independence Party.

More than half of councils are believed to be preparing to defy ministers and increase council tax to fill the gap left by central government funding cuts Mr Pickles has said councils have a "moral" duty not to raise council tax next year.

The dispute follows Mr Pickles’s announcement earlier this month of the finance settlements for local authorities for the next two years. This will see councils’ “spending power” fall by 1.7 per cent in 2013-14 and by a further 3.8 per cent the following year.

However, Mr Pickles said councils had significantly increased their reserves of funding in recent years and should be prepared to use this money rather than cut services.

Figures from the Audit Commission disclosed that English councils’ cash reserves stand at £12.9 billion this year, £4.5 billion more than in 2007.

“It is unacceptable that some councils are stashing away billions, turning town halls into Fort Knox, whilst at the same time threatening to cut frontline services,” Mr Pickles told The Daily Telegraph.

“Given the steady rise in reserves over the past two years, it is irresponsible that certain sections of local government have chosen to needlessly scare the public with unfounded and baseless accusations.

“Whilst local authorities should maintain a healthy cushion, it's time for them to dip into their substantial reserves to ensure they protect frontline services, with a view to building up their reserves again in sunnier days to come.”

The Coalition faced a twin assault from Labour and Tory town halls on Sunday. The council leaders of three of England's biggest cities - Newcastle, Liverpool and Sheffield - warned of increasing “social unrest” and community tensions in the north, which they said had suffered more as a result of austerity than the south.

There was also a backlash from rural authorities, mostly Conservative-led, who claim that the shires are disproportionately affected by cuts.

The Labour leaders of Newcastle, Liverpool and Sheffield - where Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is an MP - wrote to a Sunday newspaper accusing the Westminster government of promoting “Dickensian” policies.

“Rising crime, increasing community tension and more problems on our streets will contribute to the break-up of civil society if we do not turn back,” they said. “The unfairness of the Government's cuts is in danger of creating a deeply divided nation. We urge them to stop what they are doing now and listen to our warnings before the forces of social unrest start to smoulder.”

Separately, The Sunday Telegraph reported that more than 120 rural councils were considering a judicial review of the spending settlement for local authorities because it was “grossly unfair” and would hit services in remote areas.

Roger Begy, leader of Conservative-controlled Rutland Council and chairman of a new campaign called "Sparse", said: “Rural authorities for the last 10 to 12 years have been seriously under funded in relation to urban areas.

“We are going to have to do something. This is totally unfair and is going to crucify a lot of rural areas.”

According to House of Commons research, the average cuts in central government grants to councils, excluding ring-fenced funding for schools and colleges, will be 3.9 per cent for 2013-14.

Cuts for the following year in central government funding in England will amount to 8.5 per cent.

Councils are expected to boost their own incomes through business rates, which will deliver more money as the economy recovers and local trade increases, and also receive about £24 billion in council tax.