16 April 2014

Lutfur Rahman and police denials fall apart: there is a criminal investigation of Tower Hamlets

.... Panorama, too, alleged favouritism in the allocation of council grants and misuse of council resources for electioneering purposes. The fraud allegation didn’t form part of the programme because it wasn’t ready for broadcast in time.

But be in no doubt – as well as the auditor investigation into Tower Hamlets into all the non-criminal sleaze, there most certainly is an ongoing police investigation, for all the Met’s denials to the contrary.

[A COMMENT] So the corruption and nepotism that is endemic throughout the Islamic world is now becoming endemic in the predominantly Islamic areas of the UK, from Birmingham's school system to London's borough councils?

No one could have seen that coming. As we all know from our compulsory diversity awareness training, upon breathing the sweet British air foreigners Immediately abandon the centuries old customs of their homelands and become as British as you or I. [The Telegraph] Read more