Cronyism at the council...

[Ignitionnet]

Oh dear.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...an-guilty.html

Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman guilty of corrupt and illegal practices over election

Election Commissioner declares east mayoral election result 'void' after Britain's first elected Muslim mayor found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices over 2014 vote

Good

Astounding. Absolutely unbelievable. He can't have done anything wrong, surely?

[Osem]

I wonder if Red Ken Livingstone and George Galloway will now rethink their previous comments and support for this guy...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-30032251

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/polit...y-9889753.html

http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.u...ally_1_3847972

Respect MP George Galloway described action taken against Lutfur Rahman as “a racist, Islam-hating witch hunt against the most popular and best mayor in the country”.

Galloway, a former MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, also praised the mayor’s provision of free school meals and educational maintenance allowance – a grant scrapped across the UK in 2011 – for Tower Hamlets residents.

He added: “Labour should be beating a path to mayor Lutfur’s door and asking him to sprinkle some of his stardust over them instead of expelling him, witch-hunting him and trying to drive him from office.”

Ken Livingstone also spoke in support of the mayor and expressed his hope that Rahman would run as a Labour mayoral candidate in the next election.

And to think there were those who actually voted for Ken Livingstone to run London! The mind boggles...

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Ken Livingstone, today

I’d take Eric Pickles to court. This is like something out of East Germany under the communists.

Funny, I'd have thought he'd quite like that.

[Uncle Peter]

Says Comrade Ken Robertovitch Livingstone

This fifth column does not have planning permission therefore we should insist that it is dismanlted

[Osem]

One of the biggest hypocrites of all time without a doubt.

[Osem]

Ked Livingstone's just been defending Rahman on Iain Dale's show on LBC. I'd find it laughable had I not experienced this guy's loony antics ever since his days at Lambeth and the GLC.

Anyone who fancies listening ought to find it here:

http://www.lbc.co.uk/

[Gary L]

If we were to know just how many people in power were corrupt and being fraudulent.
and if we were to know just how many millions of pounds have been stolen.
and if we were to know just how deep and far it extends to.

we'd be enquiring as to how we go about joining in.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Osem

Ked Livingstone's just been defending Rahman on Iain Dale's show on LBC. I'd find it laughable had I not experienced this guy's loony antics ever since his days at Lambeth and the GLC.

Anyone who fancies listening ought to find it here:

http://www.lbc.co.uk/

While I would certainly not go so far as to suggest Ken would ever indulge in corruption himself, it's perhaps worth pointing out that he may not be as great a judge of character as he appears to think.

[Osem]

I hope the fallout to this will include an inquiry into what the police were up to during the period in which all this was apparently going on and whether there are any similarities between other notable failures.