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The Barnett v. Dhedi fallout: things are getting nasty

September 15, 2015 Cllr. Chris Robbins, Cllr. Peter Barnett, Cllr. Shabana Dhedi/Qadir, the Labour Party in Waltham Forest

If a recent exchange of correspondence is anything to go by, the Barnett-Dhedi affair (covered in two previous posts) has turned decidedly nasty. Writing on behalf of the Waltham Forest Council of Mosques to Cllr. Robbins, Media Officer Irfan Akhta’s stance is predictably shrill. Cllr. Barnett’s infelicitous language is ‘Islamaphobic’ and ‘grossly offensive’. Religious viewpoints  must be ‘respected’ and ‘understood’. The fact that an internal Labour Party investigation found Cllr. Barnett had no case to answer only adds insult to injury. ‘The community’ was owed an explanation. The investigation should have been ‘... »

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Cllr. Liaquat Ali and the Queen: so near, yet so far

August 27, 2015 Cllr. Liaquat Ali, the Labour Party in Waltham Forest

Mention of Clli. Liaquat Ali as always brings a weighty postbag, with those who have met the great man eager to share their memories. So by way of a thank you, I reprint some photos of when our local benefactor to the otherwise homeless met the Queen. It’s a slightly odd sequence, because the warm handshake that seems about to happen in fact never does. I’ve always wondered why. But no doubt our monarch had her reasons…. »

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Cllr. Liaquat Ali hits the Andy Burnham campaign trail

August 27, 2015 Cllr. Chris Robbins, Cllr. Liaquat Ali, the Labour Party in Waltham Forest

Good to see Cllr. Liaquat Ali out supporting Andy Burnham on his recent visit to Waltham Forest (see http://kashmirlinklondon.co.uk/?p=6862) I hear from well placed sources that should our Andy win the Labour leadership, he will make Cllr. Ali one of his key advisers on solving London’s housing problems. PS Of course every picture tells a story, and here it is interesting to see the aged Leader of LBWF, Cllr. Chris Robbins, relegated to the back row, right – he certainly does not appear to have appreciated the joke. PPS There is surely, too, an unintended irony re Cllr. Liaquat Ali in the wording of the right-hand poster. »

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Cllr. Liaquat Ali in Private Eye, again

August 19, 2015 Cllr. Liaquat Ali, LBWF, Private Eye, Waltham Forest Labour Party

Great to see Cllr. Liaquat Ali make Private Eye again (see below, from No.1399, 21 August to 3 September 2015). Who will ever forget the outpouring of rejoicing when he received his MBE, for which see the comments box here: http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/9429878.WALTHAM_FOREST__Councillor_made_MBE/ »

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Mr. Fawaad Sheikh of the E11 BID Co.: the life and times of a local business leader

August 19, 2015 E11 BID Co., Fawaad Sheikh

Last week’s Waltham Forest Guardian, as has been noted, featured E11 BID Co. board chairman Mr. Fawaad Sheikh pontificating on his dislike of ‘free riders’: http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/13587272._I_don_t_like_free_riders___E11_Bid_director_after_sending_bailiffs_to_collect_controversial_levy/ Appropriate modesty is obviously not Mr. Sheikh’s strongest suit. After all, it is a matter of record that under his stewardship the E11 BID Co. was chaotically run, failed to pay its taxes, and accrued various fines and County Court Judgments. And then of course there is the little matter of all the public money that went the E11 BID Co.’s way, which LBWF finds it so difficult to account for; ... »

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