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September 24, 2010 by trialbyjeory

Nominations for Tower Hamlets mayor have closed.

There are five candidates:

Helal Abbas  – Labour

Neil King – Conservatives

John Griffiths – Lib Dems

Lutfur Rahman – Independent

Alan Duffell – Greens

Respect are not fielding anyone and will be backing Lutfur.

A statement given to the East London Advertiser by Respect reads:

“Having chosen to deselect Cllr Rahman, even more bizarrely, the NEC then chose not to offer the candidacy to the second place candidate, London Assembly member John Biggs, but rather to Cllr Helal Abbas Uddin who received less than one third of the popular vote received by Cllr Rahman and less than one sixth of the total votes cast by Tower Hamlets Labour Party members. Cllr Abbas has no credibility therefore to be Labour’s candidate either with the Tower Hamlets Labour Party membership or with the wider electorate.

“Cllr Rahman on the other hand has a fine track record as leader of the council and has declared that he wishes to lead the fight against the appalling Con-Dem cuts on the basis of a broad coalition involving the trade unions and community groups across the borough. We strongly believe he can win the mayoralty on this basis and we will do all we can to help bring about his victory.”


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  1. on September 24, 2010 at 1:34 pm Mike Law

    So it’s Lutfur for Mayor then; Let’s hope, for the sake of openness and transparency, that the Overview and Scrutiny team get it right before the people of Tower Hamlets are lumbered with a very powerful elected mayor.


  2. on September 24, 2010 at 4:17 pm TooManyStupidPeopleOnHere

    Good on Lutfur to stand up to the racists in Labour and fight back by standing as independant. Politics is dirty and Abbas’s camp seem to be taking everyone for a ride these days!


    • on September 24, 2010 at 10:06 pm PWE Ingham

      How can it be “racist” to replace one Bengali Muslim (Lutfur Rahman), with another Bengali Muslim(Hellal Abbas)? How does that work? Rahman was dumped by Labour because he is damaged goods, simplez.


  3. on September 24, 2010 at 4:41 pm Ebby

    time to kick out racism and islamophobia. go go lutfur.


  4. on September 24, 2010 at 6:23 pm Anonymous

    Is the comment from “TooManyStupidPeopleOnHere” supposed to be ironic?



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