By©Muhammad Haque
1150 Hrs GMT
London Wednesday 8 August 2007




Given the promotion to this ‘inmporybn at’ by-eelectyonShadwell had been kept in the firm grip....... which has been contained in the factional publicity as well as in the corruptly-edited local ‘East London Advertiser’, it is almost certain that a clear outcome at the end of the scheduled poll may receive more coverage - albeit in tabloid style and empty contents- in and via parts of the targeted 'media' in the UK than should be the case for a Council ward by-election.

Tower Hamlets Council is notoriously ‘deprived’.

So what is it that is making the ‘Shadwell’ by-election so important?

This is more to do with the opportunities for corruption that are available to the controlling faction on the local Council than anything at all to do with any assumed constitutional location of the inner cities Local Council [the ‘London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council’] or indeed with any possibility of any emergence of any evidence that any of the candidates is in possession of the moral, the ethical or the democratic credentials or qualities that ought in objective terms to make them warrant prominent inclusion in the news bulletins in the run up to the poll on Thursday or in the immediate aftermath of the decisive outcome being announced.

And the part played by one of the candidates in creating on, through and in the Tower Hamlets Council an acceptable culture of undemocratic, unaccountable opportunism and nepotism. And a dire, utter diversion away from the needs of the people and into the arena of degeneration.

This term DEGENERATION had been one of my creations in the late 1990s when I battled Michael Keith and his Blairing cohorts who were corrupting the then Tower Hamlets Labor Party organization beyond recognition.

The ‘voters’ are already highly touted on this occasion if not on past occasions.

The touting is being done quite dishonestly.

Manifestly incredibly as well.

The touting is being programmed by forces that are bent on lying to the community about the true purpose behind the by-election.

It is almost certain that the by-election was engineered so that an opportunity could be plausibly created for the election to the Council of Michael Keith.

Now the alleged opponents of this particular candidate – the George Galloway/SWP ‘grouping’ called RESPECT are not really opposing him on matters that really matter.

In the 14 months or so since 4 May 2006 when Keith was ‘defeated’ at Shadwell where he had shared the Ward with two others, the ‘winners’, ‘RESPECT’ have NOT shown any evidence of providing the political alternative, let alone democratic challenge to Michael Keith that they had uttered slogans saying they would do.

In fact, ‘RESPECT’ councillors have shown serious collective disrespect to the very ideals that had been floated on behalf their panel pre 4 May 2006 as being their motto, their programme, their commitment, their manifesto!


So much so that one of their own councillors resigned and paved the way for Michael Keith to try to get back on the same Council!


Just how did ‘RESPECT’ achieve this is the subject of an AADHIKARonline investigation right now. The findings of our investigation will be published after the Thursday by-electron.

Assuming that either RESPECT manage to fend off Keith or that Keith manages to get back in, there is good reason to point out here and now that the community will not see any difference in quality.

As some British Trotskyite front outfits –rivals to the 'sub-Trotskyite SWP'- have been pointing out, the white, sexually liberated [!] SWP faction within ‘Tower Hamlets Respect’ has ‘lost out’ to ‘fundamentalist Muslims’.

This is an alleged analysis that I am only briefly referring to in order to set the context for my comments that follow.

I have looked for fundamentalist Muslims in the ‘RESPECT’ group of councillors on Tower Hamlets Council. I am yet to find one. Or, rather, I am yet to find or see or observe credible evidence of there being a single ‘fundamentalist Muslim’ among the current number of councillors who voluntarily or publicly describe their affiliations as being with the grouping known as ‘RESPECT’ .

So what do they represent?




In my observations, nothing more than a group of moderate ‘opposition’ councillors on a London local borough Council.

There is nothing that they have done that could not be found in any other group of opposition councillors.

Their public record has been moderate. They have been accommodating of the controlling clique. They have shown no recollection of the promises that they had made to identity with the main community campaigns.

Or they have shown no awareness that the coded image which triggers a vague awareness visually at least about the existence of the ‘RESPECT/SWP’ , the figure of George Galloway, has – or rather, HAD, in the period to 4 May 2006, said things that could now be described as commitments to the defence of the local community and a commitment to even oppose corruption on the local council and in the local Borough.

[To be continued]


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