The London Met Police is reported by Wednesday's Guardian (16 April 2014) web site and by the Evening Standard to have found 'no evidence' of criminality in Tower Hamlets Council.
There will therefore be no investigation by the Police into Tower Hamlets Council, say those reports.
The Police’s involvement is not anything the BBC’s Panorama (Monday 31 March 2014) had claimed top be linked with the programme’s investigation, says the BBC statement quoted in today’s Guardian item about the Police ‘clearing’ all doubts about Tower Hamlets Council.
The next issue of Private Eye, officially published on Friday, carried another entry about Tower Hamlets in the magazine’s Rotten Boroughs column.
The Private Eye entry too refers to the Panorama programme, more as a PR piece apologising in effect for the programme’s shortcomings.
A very different matter from an original addition to any investigation into Tower Hamlets Borough Council.
That shortcoming, as admitted in the Private Eye is further evidence of the weakness in the strategy they have been backing now for the past few years.
One of the Private Eye “sources” has been given extra space by the tight-spaced publication to no avail.
So how is it that despite the BBC and Private Eye, two of the more widely known ‘organs of the British Media’, have again failed to see any action or rather any results following their roles in giving considerable publicity to the claims as they retailed from sources who are quite easily identifiable locally in the East End?
Could it be that the BBC bought the line that the Council has published against the Panorama programme's s agenda as being motivated by racism and Islamophobia?
Could it also be that regardless of what the producers, editors and programme designers on Tower Hamlets may have said by way of rustication, that they have let the wrongdoers off because the programme lacked real link with the real people on the ground?
This is why the Private Eye pieces are now in danger of being treated as examples of humour in a most bizarre setting.
That the satire and the joke are on the BBC and on Private Eye.
This view is reinforced by the latest dedicated contributions by the original “inquisitor” Mr Andrew Gilligan.
His return as a Telegraph blogger has be4n marked by his vitriolic references to Tower Hamlets.
This ahs been followed by a piece or two in the ideologically aligned Spectator magazine too.
The line that they are stacking to is that the elected e3xscwykve mayor in Tower Hamlets ahs been too closely linked with and been supporting Islamic extremists.
But despite their earnest efforts, the Police aren’t taking any action.
This reluctance by the Police to take any criminal action against Tower Hamlets Council on published allegations may have something to do with the British ‘national interest’.
A factor that beater the BBC nor Private Eye nor the magazine’s ‘sources’ have recognised, even after apparently being “on the case” for over four years!
The dedication of Mr Gilligan dates back to 2010.
He and a few of his allies in the miniature Crusade have not been silent but they have not spoken once about the UK national interest
Could it be that Tower Hamlets Council might have been configured by the unseen strategists playing the power, to suit the dictates, the demands and the diplomatic affiliations of UK Foreign Policy?