by Puru Miah | Oct 17, 2019 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets
Scott Nell is a contractor who claims the Council, is going for an expensive contract that will cost the Council £1 million over a 5 year period. Below is a video, of the interview as well as slides. Let me know what you think? And what I should do? Interview with...
by Puru Miah | Mar 4, 2019 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
This has been my first budget at the Council in Tower Hamlets, one of the issue that has come up, again and again is the adoption by Tower Hamlets Council of the Medium Term Financial Strategy, and how it seems to override democratic checks and balances and transfer...
by Puru Miah | Feb 24, 2019 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
Below is a transcript of the speech given by me on the Budget in reference to the Community Campaign – Community Language Service (CLS) – picket inside and outside the main Council Chamber. Cllr Puru Miah (Mile End) – Budget Speech – Full...
by Puru Miah | Jan 15, 2019 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
Below is a piece outlining how Tower Hamlets Council can use its Pension Fund in conjunction with its reserves to divest from Carbon Extraction and invest in Renewable Energy Infrastructure and thus subsidise public services. Climate change threatens us and our...
by Puru Miah | Jan 6, 2019 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
As outlined in a previous article, the way Council Tax operates in Tower Hamlets is that it is regressive meaning poor people pay more as a proportion of their income than those richer. That it has been over three decades since the last rebanding of properties, that a...
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