Showing posts with label devolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label devolution. Show all posts

Saturday, 20 September 2014

Spiral Notebook: David, Goliath and the sickening politics of scorn in Tower Hamlets

rahmanwalkout.jpgYou may believe that Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman is right to challenge the Government's investigation into alleged financial malpractice at the Town Hall.

You may believe that the council's publicly funded bid for a judicial review is a necessary David-and-Goliath battle to protect a fragile branch of democracy from Eric Pickles' Communities Department.