May 22 2013
At Tuesday night’s Mayor Making event, which I was fortunate enough to get invited to (full disclosure: my invite was provided by the Conservative group), Cllr David Perry, Leader of the Labour Group, stood to make the following speech. However, he was heckled and interrupted and finally told by the Mayor, Cllr Nisam Ismail, to …
May 19 2013
A true friend stands by their friends so it is with a touch of irony that I find myself defending two councillors from the same party but who are now on opposite sides of a political divide that, in these past weeks, has poisoned local politics in Harrow. Cllr Victoria Silver (Labour) is accused of …
May 18 2013
Cllr Husain Akhtar, Secretary of the Independent Labour Group in Harrow, appears have got into an argument with the London Regional Director of the Labour Party over his membership of the party, a row which culminates with a threat to wipe Harrow out in Labour in the 2014 and 2015 elections. Documents sent to iharrow.com …
May 16 2013
Guest post by Twitter user @praxisreform on the splintering of the Harrow Labour group. This was originally written for a local paper, but didn’t make the final cut. It’s far too good to discard, so we reproduce it here in full. The split in the Council was rather surprising, and I’m still agnostic as to …
May 15 2013
Harrow’s Independent Labour Group have asked us to publish this statement, in response to a statement made by the original Labour Group. Whilst it’s turning into a “he said, she said” type of debate, and, perhaps, shouldn’t be aired in public, it’s appropriate to continue to publish these. Whilst David Perry might have a ‘democratic’ …
May 11 2013
One of the responses we received from our request for Harrow’s Public Realm workers to get in touch, came from a member of staff who worked in the street scene group – the very people that look after the mess left behind on a daily basis across our borough. He says that he has faulty …
May 10 2013
Two days ago, we were told that Cllr Raj Ray had defected from the Harrow Labour Group to join the Independent Labour Group, along with eight of his colleagues. Today, we hear from Group Leader – not Council Leader, you understand, that Cllr Ray has, in fact, defected BACK to the Labour Group. Is this …
May 01 2013
An unusual article, this one. If you work at Harrow Council in the Public Realm department – the people who sweep roads, lock/unlock parks, clean graffiti, and look after community safety – particularly if you’re affected by Harrow Council’s huge slash-n-burn cuts to the service, please get in touch, and let us know what’s happening. …
May 01 2013
Our boy on the inside Harrow’s Labour Group tells us tonight that there are some changes to the Council’s cabinet, following the axing of Thaya Idaikkadar as group leader, just a few months after his appointment, to be replaced with Cllr David Perry. Cllr Mitzi Green, who perhaps thought she wasn’t up to the job, …
May 01 2013
Library services will be made secure for the future and improvements will be made to Harrow Leisure Centre if Harrow Council’s Cabinet approves the new delivery of library and leisure management services and a £1.7m investment in the Leisure Centre at a meeting next month (9th May). Harrow Council is expected to agree to …
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