by Puru Miah | Oct 7, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
On Friday the 5th October, I and four other Councillors signed a Call In (Request to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee to ask the Mayor to reconsider his decision) with regards to the decision to close the remaining 3 Local Authority Day Nurseries. The other four...
by Puru Miah | Oct 6, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
On Friday the 5th October, I and four other Councillors signed a Call In (Request to the Overview and Scrutiny Committee to ask the Mayor to reconsider his decision) with regards to the decision to Outsource/Privatise the Community Equipment Service (CES). The other...
by Puru Miah | Sep 23, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
How members and ordinary residents can win: big politics, grassroots organising: transforming Tower Hamlets Labour into a Social Movement Big Politics: Reversing the binary – making the ‘Man in the Suit’, work for ordinary residents and members, and not the...
by Puru Miah | Sep 23, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
Below is a guest post from Labour Women for Public Nurseries who are campaigning to keep open the remaining three Local Authority Day Nurseries (LADN), Mary Sambrook, John Smith and Overland. “£6 billion of taxpayers’ money subsidises childcare each year much of which...
by Puru Miah | Aug 23, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
Once upon a time the East End of London was at the forefront of cutting edge political thinking and activism. In order to bring about a renaissance of this Golden Age, councillors such as myself along with activists have to break with existing political conventions,...
by Puru Miah | Aug 11, 2018 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Crime and Anti Social Behavior (ASB), Democracy
On the 24th of July 2018 the Strategic Development Committee decided to grant Poplar HARCA and Telford Homes their plans to redevelop Chrisp Street. In this piece I will outline my reservations about the application as well as further questions that need to be...
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