The Labour councillor Marc Francis said: “While there has been activity, there is little sign of any real improvement. Labour councillors continue to have serious concerns about the ‘culture of patronage’ and lack of evenhandedness in the town hall and the impact this is having on the services our residents rely on.”
Well, yes.
Envoys were sent to Tower Hamlets after a team of government-commissioned inspectors published a report last November that uncovered a “toxic” and secretive culture dominated by the inner circle of the local mayor, Lutfur Rahman.
Import the Third World, get Third World politics. Tower Hamlets is, essentially, run on Bangladeshi client politics lines. Which is nice for a part of London, no?
Eventually, it’s going to take a neutron bomb.
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100%, with knobs on.
Aren’t neutron bombs the ones that leave the buildings standing?
Not sure that’s necessary in Tower Hamlets.
I guess flying concrete shards might hit someone. Someone who would be missed.
In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion.
Lee Kuan Yew
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And of course it is. For every other species, most people including lefties are content with the idea that evolution expresses itself in both physiology and behaviour. How could it not? Evolution of both is required for adaptation, survival and species thriving.
And yet, the idea that human society – the long-term expression of characteristic group behaviour – is somehow detached from the evolutionary adaptation expressed physiologically by that race, is abhorrent.
Is TH still a part of London? It looks more and more like conquered territory every day!
I reformed a couple of buildings in Whitchapel Road. The churchyard (St Mary’s?) victim of the Blitz, is now Altab Ali Park. Lunchtimes I used to like walking the dog past the Bell Foundry towards the Blind Beggar. Took me past the mosque. Had some raghead tell me I couldn’t walk a good English dog on that pavement. You can imagine the response that got…
I remember a couple of years ago a bunch of East African Muslim immigrants claiming they were being racially discriminated against by Tower Hamlets Council in the provision of subsidised housing. At the time it was interesting because it was already de facto established the council was run by and for Bangladeshi Muslim tribal interests.
There was an incident down at Wapping in the 00s. I was living in a flat in one of those converted Thames-side warehouses, got into the local original community. Some still living around there. It was a face-off between the Banglas & the Pakis. Turf dispute. There were hundreds of the buggers on the Green. Some of them were carrying swords FFS! Don’t know what the casualties were.
Mysteriously, completely ignored by the media. Not even a line in the Standard or the local rag.
Why not just abolish the Towers Hamlets authority (quick act of Parliament?), put it under central government control, and start criminal and immigration law enforcement investigations into everyone involved?
The but-but, ding-dinging would be audible back in their native East Pakistan, which is where they should be “encouraged” to return. Importing the Third World implies the possibility of exporting the Third World.
Indeed. If they came here, they can go back…
I depends on whether you think the national institutions would actually do a better job.
I’m not sure about that; the corruption runs deep and wide.
M – have no particular faith in national government, but Tower Hamlets is Captain Hook: the local authority. It’s been a festering embarrassment and an open challenge to the authority of the British state for years. Pious finger wagging and “reports” haven’t worked.
Imagine if some Russian immigrants organised and used vote fraud to take over a London local authority, funnel money, jobs and perks to other ethnic Russians at the expense of everybody else, while doing shady Russian transactions with taxpayer funds and actively engaging in Russian politics? Coppers would be all over em.
Tower Hamlets isn’t much less brazen than that CHAZ/CHOP Antifa commune nonsense in the US. A modern, diverse, multicultural society with those important “values” politicians and army generals keep telling us about can only afford to turn a blind eye to the Trojan horse strategy of parallel societies for so long. In the US, if the federal government suspected a Southern local authority of being racist or something, the feds would simply take over.
So, easy and perfectly liberal, tolerant and sensitive solution for His Majesty’s government – take over direct running of the local government by our world class stunningly brave and diverse work-from-home civil service whilst we figure out a longer term democratic fix. L’Etat, c’est Keir, non? If it makes them feel better, appoint the lovely Baroness Chakrabarti-Beeblebrox to be temporary mayor so it’s not a win for the chuds, but a win for the kind, sensitive, Guardian fondlers who thought Danny Boyle’s Olympic wankathon was good. A win for transparency, equality, lawfulness, feminism and LGBT respect in the governance of Gayt Britain. I don’t care. The British government has to decide if it’s the government of Britain, knowhatImeanArry? That’s what ’45 was all about.
Excellent post. Rahman has already been done once for corruption. He should have been flogged and shipped back to Bangladesh then.
Don’t know about TH, but this is Upton Park: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/14PZxiDgd8W/
Apols if I posted this here before…….
“Vibrant”.
My god, used to visit there for shopping on the Tube with my nan when I was 10 or 11!
What gets me is how these people manage to turn anywhere into a filthy shithole. They have utter contempt for their surroundings. This isn’t a poor people thing. I look at videos sent by the family of my amiga. The is the Brasilan favela. Brasil’s poor. The streets are spotless
Africans & Southern Asians. Maybe they lack the benefit of that Neanderthal blood transfusion. Poorly evolved..
Couldn’t agree more. Even without looking at the people on the streets you can tell a vibrant area by the amount of litter, rubbish and general decay. Places are not shitholes in themselves; their occupants make them that way.
That’s where my family come from. I can remember that when I was a kid. Shopkeepers would sweep the pavement outside the shop. couple or more times a day. Always kept their stretch spotless. It was competitive.
My mother’s brother died to protect this?
Christ, not even the shittiest shanty towns in Lima are that filthy.
I don’t understand all the whinging. People said they wanted multiculturalism. Now the’ve got it “good and hard”.
Page Hall when it was mostly recent Pakistani residents:
Almost the same location, majority recent Roma residents:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/13/steve-reed-convenes-tower-hamlets-envoys-as-concerns-over-council-persist
Thank you all for showing me what Oz will turn into!!!
PS. But surely Bangladeshi parliamentarians’d have to go back to Bangladesh??
An “Organised crime group” apparently: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y4dxlgkp4o
It’ll be the Welsh choirboy mafia again.