Tower Hamlets is notorious deprived, crisis-ridden, wrong-headed local Borough Council. Right now, its head of legal is involved in a most secretive employment tribunal tussle being very strangely held only yards from the main Council Town Hall. The Central Govt has repeatedly condemned the Council Administration for wasting public money on running a propaganda organ called East End Life, aka 'Tower Hamlets Town Hall's very own pravda'.
Now its 'deputy mayor' has threatened libel ‘action’ against a Fleet Street by-liner who also publishes a regular blog, referring to Tower Hamlets Council's excesses, abuses...
Isn’t it very telling that Tower Hamlets, which every student of social condition knows is ‘home’ to one of England's largest numbers of deprived households and individuals, is going ahead with spending £millions on its propaganda pravda?
And yet as campaigners are finding out, Tower Hamlets is IN EFFECT refusing to help individuals and households going through serious hardship as a result of central govt cuts and due to cuts by the Council which has been misallocating the money that it has available at its disposal.
And the traditional “left” has gone all quiet on the scandal that is Tower Hamlets Council Administration!
Isn’t it very telling that Tower Hamlets, which every student of social condition knows is ‘home’ to one of England's largest numbers of deprived households and individuals, is going ahead with spending £millions on its propaganda pravda?
And yet as campaigners are finding out, Tower Hamlets is IN EFFECT refusing to help individuals and households going through serious hardship as a result of central govt cuts and due to cuts by the Council which has been misallocating the money that it has available at its disposal.
And the traditional “left” has gone all quiet on the scandal that is Tower Hamlets Council Administration!
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wonder why the traditional left is all quiet
13.05.2013 20:54
Could it be that the "Left" is in a Coalition of its own and banking on the deal
so there can be loads propaganda for the Left, the Bank and the bankrupt Tower Hamlets Council
oversighted
Reuters reporting school-leaving teenagers indulging in super cars extravaganza
19.07.2013 23:10
The Guardian said only 4 days ago:
" 57.7% of children in Tower Hamlets live in poverty, the highest rate in the UK. Of the £14.4bn shortfall in funding facing councils in England by 2020, it is the most deprived areas, like Tower Hamlets, that will be hardest hit"
The Guardian report is accessible here:
the first paragraph reads:
"The skyscrapers of HSBC and Barclays dominate the skyline in the London borough of Tower Hamlets. They loom alongside Canary Wharf, a 50-storey monolith of financial might. The economic crisis may have started high up on those trading floors, but other than a few regulatory charges and fines, they haven't felt the effects. The UK's five biggest banks' core profits actually rose by 45% to £31.5bn in 2012."
Yet 4 days later, the Guardian has had to publish the following words describing pictures that it has published about "teenaged school children had hired super cars..."
“Supercars, schoolboys and stilettos in Tower Hamlets - in pictures
In Tower Hamlets, one of the most deprived parts of London according to government statistics, 16-year-old students are increasingly spending large sums of money to rent luxury cars for their National Record of Achievement ceremony. The teenagers, who are too young to drive, are chauffeured around the neighbourhood and attend the ceremony at school, often before spending a night on the town”
See the Guardian pictures [Reuters] and the full publication on the depravity
Some of the REUTERS news agency pictures as published by ITV News London today
Friday 19 July 2013
On another web site
As REUTERS' own reporter Hannah Vinter reports carried by yahoo.com
depravedlessons
Homepage:
http://www.itv.com/news/2013-07-19/east-london-students-hire-supercars-for-graduation/
On hearing in the news about Lamborghinis, Ferraris and even Bentleys
20.07.2013 05:34
being hired by 16 year olds said to be from homes that are in the
most deprived boroughs in the country.
What do the teachers teach those teenagers?
What do the parents tell them about what is important?
What do the community leaders do?
Where did the teen aged boys and some girls get the idea that
they needed to show off and that the appropriate thing to do was by splashing out on renting such costly vehicles?
What had they learnt about poverty, dignity and solidarity?
What role model could they have followed in showing off on hired Mercedes cars
they reportedly rode on streets housing homes that all reports suggest are among the country’s most deprived and in financial struggle?
What lessons do schools in Tower Hamlets impart to their "pupils"?