Khoodeelaar! gave the 'Lib Dems' as much opportunity to SHOW what they were made of in Tower Hamlets politics as we gave to 'others' -4

By©Muhammad Haque
2128 Hrs GMT
London Tuesday 13 May 2008


How did we do that?

By doing all the hard work that was necessary to create a clear political atmosphere in which any genuine 'political party' could do its duty of fighting for legitimate rights of the community.


First, the Lib Dems and the role played by Janet Ludlow in sinking the Lib Dems in Tower Hamlets.

Janet Ludlow was one of the speakers at the “Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole plot” CAMPAIGN public meeting held on 22 January 2006 at the Brady Centre.

And she also spoke in February 2006 outside the Tower Hamlets Council building at the Khoodeelaar! demonstration.

As she ddi on Wednesday 1 March 2006 - the same time that her party colleague, and fellow councillor Louise Alexander, did.

So how was it that janet Ludlow sank her party’s position in Tower Hamlets? Surely her presence at the various Khoodeelaar! campaign events and her participation in them should showed that she was doing the right thing?

Only apparently.

What she was doing was making the appearances for the purpose of the photos - on which, more, later - that she was ‘with the campaign’ but what she was actually saying was NOTHING AT ALL to do with the purpose or the aim of the campaign.

And I could see her and I could hear her very clearly.

So why did she do that?

The answer ; although brief, in fact is the core reason why the Lib Dems will not be a main political player in Tower Hamlets. And possibly in the UK.

The ‘policy’, the so-called ‘policy’ on Crossrail that the ‘national’ or the ‘head office’ of the Lib Dems had, was really not a policy. It is like the recent Nick Clegg stunt staged in the UK House of Commons about voting and not voting over Europe. The Lib Dems policy on Crossrail is a fake. And ALL their spokespersons on it in the House of Commons have shown deep ignorance and ambivalence and incompetence about transport.

How?

Because the Lib Dems don’t have then intellectual independence from the prevailing dominant position taken by the other two parties.

That is bad enough centrally. When it is analysed against the background of the ‘local’ communities, the Lib Dems simply evaporate.

That is bad.

But Janet Ludlow’s ‘leadership’ of her Group on tower Hamlets Council made it impossible know if they existed in the same East End borough as the main ordinary population. Or if the Lib dems even existed on this same planet.

Here was an inner city borough whose ‘local council’ had been hijacked by a brigade of Blairing corrupters, most of whom had been parachuted in to take over the former Labour party ‘organisation’.

THOSE were not only not local people, those were Blair-licensed hijackers of the democratic rights of the local population in Tower Hamlets.

The borough that was festering in poverty, in dis-education, no education, social and community dislocation....

And the evidence of the deterioration was everywhere to see..

Except in the ‘thinking’ of the Janet Ludlow ‘leadership’


[To be continued]