On Friday night Mayor Fiaz was championing the striking dockworkers of yesteryear. On Monday she was in conflict with the striking bin workers of today.

Funny that.

This is Canning Town Library. We covered the saga surrounding it several years ago, but as the property has been allowed to fester, we have decided to revisit the subject.

Ms Fiaz previously worked for The Coexistence Trust, on her website she says,

In those distant days when Fiaz saw her future with the vanguards of the Corbynite Left, Fiaz published a number of pledges. A pledge to end all further privatisation and outsourcing was prominent amongst them.

We reported that Mayor Fiaz was to join the assembled members of various trade unions and far left groups to celebrate the anniversary of the imprisonment of the Pentonville 5.

If you are old enough, you will recall that Labour Prime Minister, Jim Callaghan was brought down by a winter of public sector strikes, the most notable of which was the strike of the refuse workers which saw mountains of black bags built up across the country.

Rokhsana Fiaz. “Getting Stuff Done”, just not in Newham.

Again, we see the hypocrisy of the Labour Party in Newham. Decrying private landlords, when almost a quarter of the council are private landlords. Let’s see what we can uncover this time.

We thought that we’d take a look at the disclosures of the new batch of Newham councillors. (Details correct as of 26/7/22).

Readers will recall that we noted the injudicious remarks from Mayor Fiaz with regard to the other Mayor in Newham, Sadiq Khan, you know, the Mayor that runs London. Fiaz you will recall, retweeted a post from an anti-tunnel campaign group, that effectively called Khan a liar.

In their last meeting, (July 14 2022) the Standards Committee considered a complaint under the Code of Conduct against Cllr Shaban Mohammed.

In an earlier article, we raised some questions about the Mayor’s declarations. The Mayor has since updated her entry on the Register of Interests, some 11 weeks after the election.

We have seen how the attitude of former ‘mandatory reselection’ supporting MP, Sam Tarry changed when he lost a trigger ballot in Redbridge. Tarry will now have to fight for his seat in an open selection process.

The supposedly left-wing regime in charge of Newham Council finds itself embroiled in a pay dispute with its own workers.

Readers will recall that Newham has had a history of problems with Labour Party members; some of them didn’t seem to live at the address on their membership card; some weren’t registered to vote; some were in employment but paying reduced subs.

Now it seems that the same thing is being alleged in Redbridge.

We have reported before on the way in which Newham Council is using FPNs (fixed penalty notices) as a means of generating additional unchecked income. The news has reached the financial press.

Labour insiders have recently returned to the progress being made by Councillor Luke Charters, who spreads his time running his own business, campaigning for the parliamentary seat in York, starting his own family and being a Deputy Cabinet member in Newham.

We wonder about the reading habits of some of our correspondents! Recently, one of them was kind enough to refer us to the website of The Socialist Party; you know, they used to be known as Militant. And as part of the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) they regularly pick up 2% of the vote.

It seems that Mehmood Mirza has not let up on his campaign to get Newham Council to clean up the borough. Mayor Fiaz has been vociferous in her promises to improve the state of the streets in Newham. The evidence of this improvement is yet to be seen.

When Edward VI gave St Stephen’s Chapel, in the Palace of Westminster for the use of the Commons, he inadvertently established the form that political debate in England would take for the next millennium.