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9 Nov, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Unfortunately for a 2nd weekend running the Labour Party have delivered these same leaflets containing Council email & phone numbers that they were expressly told not to use in October (& 2018 & 2019)
Evidence of this has been supplied to the Council CEO & Monitoring Officer
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after each weekend but has not had any impact yet
But I do not expect any changes to be made until after these leaflets have all been delivered (we have seen this behavior before in previous elections)
But lots of Labour Cllrs busy distributing them

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But this will be reported to the Special Enquiry Team at the Metropolitan Police as one of the first (but not the last) breach of standards before next Mays elections
Distribution across Tower Hamlets in marginal wards

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At least Boris Johnson's government were forced into a giant u-turn and Owen Paterson resigned after their attempt to change the standards rules failed
Here in Tower Hamlet's instructions from the monitoring officer just get ignored if they are not helpful
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And the investigation into what happened with the ASDA planning decision after the funfair and the involvement of a Cllr(s) on the Committee with the developer? nada, nothing has happened and evidence on Twitter suggests that the public relations people who helped the ASDA
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site get planning permission continue to be closely involved with the Council and Labour politicians

On Sunday I told the CEO and Monitoring Officer
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"I am now considering not running for election next May - the odds are stacked against me and if you cannot supervise fair elections despite your clear warning in October what is the point in me slogging it out for the next 6 months?"
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1 Nov
Where you delivered this leaflet by the Labour Party?
When & where?
And did they use this Council email on them
mayor@towerhamlets.gov.uk
& this phone number 0207 365 4000?
These are both answered by Council officers & politicians were clearly told on the 15th October by the
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Councils monitoring officer not to use Council emails and phone numbers on their party political leaflets
I think this leaflet was delivered at the weekend (tbc)
If you got one can you let me know where & when?
As a response, by private message, email cllrandrewwood@gmail.com
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This keeps happening at elections - the misuse of Council resources by the Labour Party
I have similar emails from the monitoring officer in previous elections so in reality Labour party already knew not to do this before October

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12 Oct
TH Council Internal Audit find limited assurance in the Councils "Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) Information and Record Management" service
Service paid for by MHCLG has problems
In part because trying to use MS Excel spreadsheet to track everything
democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/documents/s192…
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TH Council is too dependent on Excel
But also clear problems with work not being done, letters not sent in time, data missing, staff turnover issues
795 private blocks over 18 meters on spreadsheet = 293 buildings applied for BSF money = 37% of buildings with issues but 158
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owners have not provided full information to the Council
The report is not all bad but you get little sense that this an emergency that affects a 1/3 of buildings in TH
& striking that TH Council has not invested any of the huge amounts of £ it has earn't from these buildings
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30 Sep
"Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector has determined that a Written Statement of Action is required because of significant areas of weakness in the area’s practice"
Hugely disappointed that TH Council again does badly in an OFSTED inspection this time on SEND
And does not disclose
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they get letter 5th July, report published Monday!
I was not aware of this report, it was not mentioned by anybody in last nights full Council meeting
We should have had an emergency update about this rather than about price of milk in Tesco
This is about whether we are
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effectively looking after the most vulnerable children in TH
SEND = Special Educational Needs and Disability where OFSTED found we had "significant areas of weakness"
We should have had an update on this on the 2nd September almost 2 months after 1st draft of letter sent to TH
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29 Sep
Tonight at Council is a rather strange Labour motion, it starts:
1. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) intends to close the JobCentre Plus branch based at Dod Street, Poplar.
2. That the reasons for the closure are due to the landlord not renewing the lease
Why odd?
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Clearly, we do not want the Job Centre closing & I would support asking the DWP to find another location so I am not sure what the 30 minute debate is about, we can all agree to that
What is odd is that since July 2019 TH Council has known of plans to re-develop the site
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for 84 homes in a new 8 storey building & to close the Job Centre
And in November 2020 TH Councillors voted unanimously to approve the development which included the transfer of the Job Centre to Mansell Street
democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=1…
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29 Sep
Stop the sale of the Isle of Dogs Police Station - petition to sign
democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDis…
Although some of you believe that it has been empty, a number of Police teams have been based at the Manchester Road Police station including the local E14 Safer Neighbourhood Teams
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(they are about to or have just moved out) and the Police Cadets, only the front desk was closed
In future, they will need to commute to & from Bethnal Green Police Station about 20 minutes each way if minimal traffic
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Given the continuing increase in population, the increase in stabbings locally, reduction in opening hours of St Andrews Wharf youth centre to then reduce the availability of the SNT & other teams makes little sense especially given how much £££ this area generates now
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29 Sep
Liveable Street (LS) debate tonight at full Council
@going4golds & I have introduced a motion to debate the next steps on LS, following the Mayors announcement of a pause, it starts with "we need to find ways of reducing this division"
A key point at
democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/documents/s191…
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the bottom 1st & top of 2nd page are quotes from the Labour manifesto in 2018
I am not sure this matches what was delivered
It then details the difficulties emergency services have had (more evidence of this in these London Ambulance Service letters)
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2021 residents survey findings are interesting
More residents concerned about congestion 17% than air quality 16% but both are well down the list of top concerns
towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/community…
Motion then starts to make recommendations
In Weavers ward electoral mandate for a restart
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