Statement on disruption to Budget Meeting
STATEMENT FROM TOWER HAMLETS LABOUR GROUP: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 29/2/24 The Tower Hamlets Labour Group condemns the abuse and chaos that plagued last night’s budget meeting. We are deeply disturbed that it took the council’s female councillors to threaten to leave the meeting before action was taken against individuals who had persistently disrupted proceedings with […]
Tomorrow’s Budget meeting and update on Best Value Inspection
From Cllr Marc Francis, Bow East, Labour Two years ago, Lutfur Rahman made a bold promise to not to raise Council Tax if he was elected as Mayor of Tower Hamlets. In Labour’s camp people were incredulous. In the wake of Lutfur Rahman’s removal from office in 2015, Labour’s Mayor, John Biggs had had to both raise […]
Statement on comments made by Paul Scully MP
Councillor Sirajul Islam, Leader of Tower Hamlets Labour group said: “It says something about the state of the modern Conservative Party that its MPs feel comfortable parroting the type of comments made by far-right extremists. There aren’t any “no-go” areas in our borough and if Mr Scully feels like he can only condemn the Islamophobic […]
Statement from THLG Leader on Ceasefire vote
On October 24th, 2023, Tower Hamlets Labour councillors wrote to Keir Starmer MP, calling on the Labour Party to back an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. In the 120 days since, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli military operations has risen to 29,000, with many more injured. The majority of these casualties have […]
Mayor Lutfur Rahman Breaks Council Tax Manifesto Promise
Residents of Tower Hamlets are facing severe financial strain as Mayor Lutfur Rahman backtracks on his key manifesto promise to freeze council tax. He is enacting a substantial increase, forcing households to pay an additional 4.99% annually[1], during a time of severe economic hardship. Over three years, this totals a staggering extra cost of £517.71 […]
How Privatisation Threatens “The People’s Park”: A Balancing Act in Austere Times
By Cllr Asma Begum (Bow West and Shadow Cabinet member for the Environment) How do we balance the need for local authorities to raise funds for vital services (in an era of budget cuts and austerity) against the fundamental right for residents to access the green spaces they collectively own? This delicate question comes to […]
Labour councillors slam Mayor Rahman’s plan to ‘Privatise’ Victoria Park
The Labour group of councillors in Tower Hamlets, have strongly criticised Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s decision to amend the Major Events Policy for Victoria Park, which would allow two extra major events to take place in the park each year and increase the capacity threshold for a large event from 5,000 to 20,000 people. This will […]
“TOWER HAMLETS DESERVES A FAIR DEAL” DEMANDS LOCAL LABOUR LEADER
PRESS RELEASE 21 November 2023 For immediate release Local Labour Leader Cllr Sirajul Islam has written to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt demanding that he delivers a fair deal for Tower Hamlets in the upcoming Autumn Statement. The letter comes ahead of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement on 22nd November 2023, in which he will set out the […]
Letter from Tower Hamlets Labour Group to Sir Keir Starmer calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza
Statement from Cllr Sirajul Islam Leader of TH Labour Group on agreement between LBTH & Unite
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 26/09/23 “Tower Hamlets Labour welcome the deal struck between workers from Unite and the Council. It should never have got to the point, where mountains of waste were piled high on our streets, for Lutfur Rahman to realise the value of our refuse worker’s labour. It should never have been the case, […]
