An article in UKMalayalee.com suggests that South Indians are beginning to lose their affection for Labour.

In a strategic decision, aimed at unseating cabinet member James Asser, The Green Party have teamed up with the Campaign to Save Newham City Farm to fight the seats in Beckton. In their words:

We are happy to amend the article on selection fraud . Mr Mirza, who may yet turn out to be the outsider who upsets Labour’s apple cart, has been in touch to request that we note the following, which corrects a misstatement in the article. We are happy to do so.

We have received the following complaints from the Families and support group representing some 20 Newham Refuse Workers.

In an exchange on Nextdoor, the social media platform, Cllr Shaban Mohammed BSc (from the university of nowheresville) has become engaged in a bit of a spat about housing.

Here is Mohammed’s argument for the long waiting list

… just 4 months after the Tory sleaze scandal that saw Owen Paterson resign, Boris Johnson is back to taking the British people for fools.

It appears that the resignation of Althea Loderick was more acrimonious than we had imagined.

Well, actually, not very much.

Of course, both have been accused of bullying.

The statement above comes from the Labour Party’s complaints procedure on antisemitism. It is available on the Labour Party website.

The failure of Mayor Fiaz to address the core problems of the residents of Newham may well come back to bite her. Scanning through local social media there are several themes that should give Labour some cause for concern.

We learn that Newham’s Chief Executive, Althea Loderick, is moving on to take on new challenges in Southwark.

You may recall that prior to her election, Ms Fiaz was very keen on openness and transparency and lots of council meetings.

The mayor’s new community organ carried an interesting headline this month.

Time was, in the boring old days, when Labour went about its internal business and nobody else was any the wiser.

Normally, we would not encourage councillors to embroil themselves or their councils in political campaigns beyond their borough borders.

The bullying issue is not going away for Mayor Fiaz.

Newham Recorder, that one-time essential source of local news has just realized that some of the mayor’s colleagues think that she is a bully.

When, as a candidate Ms Fiaz promised that she would not run parking controls as a business,

In an interesting diversion from the norm, the February meeting of Newham Council saw a voice of dissent.

We have learned that former Mayor of Newham, one Robin Wales (and the picture is a Welsh dragon, not a devil; subtle, eh?), anyway, the former mayor has taken metaphorical pen to paper and is nearing completion of a tome that looks at his time in office in Newham.