The absence of an alternative financial strategy that should have been presented by the RESPECT Group on Tower Hamlets Council last week is not an isolated incident.
The group is in danger of being rendered totally bankrupt even before a year is out since it got elected amid so much fanfare and claims made by the Galloway group’s publicity organisers.
The group is in danger of being rendered totally bankrupt even before a year is out since it got elected amid so much fanfare and claims made by the Galloway group’s publicity organisers.
It seems that a serious lack of actual contact and coordination among and between key postholders in the RESPECT Group as well and within the ‘RESPRECT’ party
Is letting down the opposition.
Given that the controlling clique is corrupt and unrepresentative of the community, the presence of as many a 12 members in one Opposition group [there are two other 'Opposition' groups, of 7 Tories and 6 Lib Dems] made up of members who all come from or are traceable to the most deprioved part of the borough’s population, the 12 RESPECT Group councillors cannot afford this.
So who is letting them down?
They have got to get to grips with the factors fast.
And remove the elements fast. Before any more damage is doen to the community’s right to have a robust, honest, effective opposition on the local council.
For if the ‘RESPECT 12’ don’t, the people won’t like the failure at all.
Just as the people did not like Oona King’s abysmal failures and contempt shown by her – and at times in her name by her close gang of social and political malcontents posing as her 'friends' -
We had long said that Oona would be kicked out of her cosy number in Bethnal Green and Bow if she failed to pay heed to good and timely warnings. She instead chose to befriend social and political malcontents whom she gave priority over the truth. As she is finding out now, no amount of ‘validation’ by Blair is proving to be good enough to secure her another cosy number!
We say to George Galloway’s internal ‘advisers’ be advised!
Do not be contemptuous of the community and take us for granted. The ‘East London Idiotiser’ will not save you.
Pay heed to the people. Pay RESPECT. This is the least the community
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Is this a joke?
05.03.2007 16:45
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galloway is a prick
05.03.2007 17:15
(A) in the uk
Mnnnn
05.03.2007 19:35
They could be Peter and Christopher Hitchins divulged of all their intelligence after undergoing twin full lobotomies. Or is it just a lone crusader, or the BNP's chief political strategist.
George
Respect councillors
05.03.2007 19:54
It was true what the post said, unfortunately the Respect councillors if they do not get a move on they will dig their own electoral grave unles they jump ship to the other political parties. Ideally they should have hit the ground running but this was not the case after they got elected. They were even having to be steered through the council meetings early in their political life by the Conservatives.
Si
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Yeah…
05.03.2007 22:51
Working class people don’t need RESPECT, they should be consumed with racist hate and fighting amongst themselves whilst callous right-wing politicians take away our civil liberties and destroy this country making it more and more dangerous for all of us.
Bring back public flogging and hanging. Bring back soup kitchens. Destroy the NHS and the Welfare State. Join a union so they give your subs to Blair so he can use your money to undermine your hard fought for rights. Fuck it, who needs a proper living wage or a state pension anyway.
(Arms-Industry) in the UK
meaningless interjections
05.03.2007 22:52
From your comment it appears you are an expert in "meaningless interjections".
Are you saying Respect /Galloway bad - Socialism, Anarchism, Unions, Labour or even Conservatives good?
Why would you want to go to a council budget debate, if you didn't have to? It's a very odd thing to do.
I am intere
George
Facts on how G Galloway MP cannot claim a moral high ground
06.03.2007 11:41
When Galloway spoke in the House of Commons on vote fraud in Tower Hamlets, did he do so by accident? Hardly.
He carried in that speech evidence of more research than most of his speeches [rare though they are].
Why would that be?
Perhaps the Galloway -SWP failure to get anywhere with their repeated court challenges over vote fraud in Tower Hamlets may have something to do with it.
George Galloway is not propelled first by principle. If he were, he would have addressed the issue of corruption within his own entourage.
Or is it being too harsh?
OK. Let’s rephrase this: Galloway should have looked at the possibility of corruption occurring within his SWP mates in Tower Hamlets.
Here, below, is only one reason why. There are other reasons.
His 'assistant' Rob Hoveman is close to Judy Cox. Both occur as speaking for or getting quoted on behalf of 'RESPECT' and Galloway, both pushing the same line.
Glyn Robbin/Robbins, the Tower Hamlets RESPECT chair is close to Eileen Short.
Eileen Short is the most frequently cited spokesperson for the Tower Hamlets Defend the Council Housing campaign.
Eileen Short is also the paid adviser to Tower Hamlets RESPECT group of non-SWP councilors.
Eileen Short is the sister of Clare Short who is included in the promotion line that she should be imposed on the poor voters of Bethnal Green and Bow at any general election that may be called.
Eileen Short had been the figure that Galloway and the SWP created as a personality in the 18 months leading up to the Galloway appearance as a candidate for the Bethnal Green and Bow constituency.
Until then, Eileen Short had not been publicized as anything more than the fact that she was an opponent of the attack on Iraq and that she was Clare Short's sister.
Neither the fact that she was [had been, depe4dning on the point in time that a given propaganda item appeared] employed as publicist for Tower Hamlets Council nor that she was close to the SWP was allowed to get into the public domain.
What she used to claim for the Tower Hamlets Council is not very hard to examine.
Most of what Eileen Shirt publicized as being achievements of the Tower Hamlets Council would not be seen as such by any genuine voters who thought that Galloway was there to provide an alternative.
The George Galloway MP's records in the House of Commons are very worryingly thin. They are tellingly reminiscent of the contemptuous attitude displayed by so many other MPs to their constituents.
The remarkable high profile that he is involved in lending to, for instance, Carol Swords, the amusingly titled ‘lone campaigner’, is shown up as a sham when the facts are looked at. Ms Swords is a very well known member of the Galloway party as she is also a very active presence in the ‘RESPECT’ office in Shoreditch.
Whoever may be cultivating Ms Sword’s image as the lone campaigner on housing is not doing any favours to the very serious cause and case for retaining public sector control over publicly funded housing. Ms Swords was also a very well publicized candidate the 4 May 2006 council elections.
It is not very nice to conceal so many obvious facts and dress Ms Swords up as lone campaigner when so many people are truly opposed to what the Council has been doing ion Council housing. And even to other RESOECT supporters who have given and continued to give so much of their time, the description is more than baffling. More than mysterious.
All of these links raise serious questions about conflict of interests and to be kind to Eileen and Galloway and the SWP, opportunism.
With so many of the key personnel around Galloway being so closely involved and linked with one another, it is not reasonable to expect that the SWP grouping, styled for an evidently short, opportunistic period as 'RESPECT" would operate as any better than their effective model that is in control of the present Tower Hamlets Council.
None of the 12 councilors is playing any role in making any policy. As can be seen. The SWP and the 'respectcoalition' web sites tried to use a female one, Rania Khan for a while. But they have found out that the claims they were advertising with her name and involvement were not catching the imagination of the politically principled and pro-democratic members of the population.
There is more evidence of similar goings on.
watchingtheircareers
“All of these links raise serious questions”
07.03.2007 00:35
what the fuck have you been sniffing?
Events in the East End of London again vindicate AADHIKARonline
05.05.2007 08:41
©Muhammad Haque/AADHIKARonline 2007
Exactly two months ago, on 5 March 2007, AADHIKARonline published on the UK Indymedia observations about the Tower Hamlets Opposition group 'RESPECT'.
In the past week, things have happened including the 'defection' by one RESPECT councillor to the controlling faction on Tower Hamlets Council, confirming the existence of very serious problems within the group ordinarily identified with the Bethnal green and Bow MP George Galloway.
What is likely to happen in the near future is even grimmer than some of the comments to our original post suggested.
With the corrupting influence of 'Undone mayor' Ken Livingstone being spread across what many still consider to be the 'Socialist Workers Party' in semi camouflage , the RESPECT group is not about to become the consistent, ethically and democratically robust [as opposed to being undemocratically and unethically and corruptly defiant] and accountable opposition in the Borough that the community deserves.
AADHIKAROnline has scheduled the publication of another series of exclusive investigative reports, starting this weekend on a new web site, focussing on the crisis that the people in Tower Hamlets face due to the absence of opposition on the local council and on other 'constitutional' forums about Tower Hamlets.
The publication is part of the forthcoming appearance of a community-based news operation that is intended to fill the gap left by the absence of a local press that is truthful let alone prescient about key political currents and tends in the context of the massive heeds for such media in the East End of London today.
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