“I stand for homes, jobs and peace”
When George Galloway was elected MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in 2005, he made a promise. He said that at the next election, he would stand aside to allow someone from the local community to run. It is rare these days that a politician keeps his word. I am proud to be that candidate.
I am Bethnal Green and Bow to my core. I have spent my whole life living and working here. Now I am standing for Parliament to give the people of Bethnal Green and Bow a real choice. I offer peace, justice and equality — my opponents can only offer cuts, privatisation and war.
I hope you will give me your support.
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Let's renew our efforts for peace, justice and equality |
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010 |
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Last Thursday's result was obviously disappointing for us in Respect and for myself personally in Bethnal Green and Bow. I would like to thank my friends, family and my many thousands of supporters who placed their trust in me to make the case for jobs, homes and peace in Bethnal Green and Bow. Volunteers worked tirelessly for myself and for George Galloway for weeks and months and every single contribution is hugely appreciated. My thanks are also due to the hundreds of you who have contacted me since last Thursday to offer your sympathies and your support.
New Labour may have won the battle in East London this time, but they have lost the war. Even in opposition, Labour will be unwilling to defend the most vulnerable and impoverished in society. That role will fall to Respect and others like us, in the labour movement and in our broader communities. Despite the results we remain the most successful left-of-Labour party in generations. United, our work goes on. I have been heartened by the determination of our supporters to plot a course ahead.
In the East End of London, we owe George Galloway far more than he knows. He showed us in 2005 that as a community, together, we could stand on our own two feet and no longer had to rely on deceitful, corrupt and warmongering parties that took us for granted. Try as they might our opponents cannot ever erase that contribution.
I said throughout my campaign that I have always been a community activist for everyone in Tower Hamlets, and if elected I would be an MP and a community activist. I will soon be back on the streets of the East End as a community activist again. My first and foremost consideration has always been and will continue to be the people who live here.
The bitter frustration I felt on Thursday has not lasted. If we believe we are correct to stand up to inequality, racism, cuts and war, in a Britain where the banks are bailed out and the people are hung out to dry, and say ‘there is an alternative to this, it does not have to be this way’, then nothing should frustrate us.
Let us be patient with ourselves and impatient with injustice, and let’s renew our efforts for peace, justice and equality. |
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Election day arrives! |
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Thursday, 06 May 2010 |
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Today is voting day and Abjol Miah, alongside hundreds of our supporters, are now out across Bethnal Green and Bow canvassing for your support. If you have not done so this is the time to make your choice. Forward with Respect - or send our neighbourhoods backwards with New Labour.
Vote NUMBER TEN - VOTE ABJOL MIAH! |
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Abjol Miah calls on Rushanara Ali to denounce voting fraud and support suspensions |
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010 |
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Abjol Miah this morning called on Labour candidate for Bethnal Green and Bow Rushanara Ali to denounce the widespread vote tampering and voter fraud which have undermined the integrity of the elections in Tower Hamlets.
”Leading Labour councillors and candidates in Tower Hamlets are now under police investigation,” Abjol Miah said this morning. “Yet Rushanara Ali has so far remained silent and has not come out clearly to condemn these attempts to steal the election and support Respect’s demand that these Labour candidates be suspended from the Labour Party.
"Channel 4 News reports Mr Ahmed has registered a total of 77 voters across eight addresses. We have sitting Labour councillors like Rania Khan, Lutfa Begum and Shiria Khatun who in the final days before the register closed added names to the register at their homes wholly implausibly. This is happening here in the borough that Rushanara Ali is standing in and it is an outrage. On top of this, we have had one journalist investigating fraud physically assaulted and another verbally abused by the husband of Councillor Shiria Khatun."
Abjol Miah added: “The Labour Party has shown extraordinary complacency over these events bordering on complicity. If Rushanara Ali fails to denounce the fraud and support the suspension of candidates, she will face the charge that she is complicit with the subversion of the democratic process in Tower Hamlets."
To see Abjol Miah speaking to Channel 4 news on the issue of the vote rigging investigations click here.
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Vigil of light remembers those lost in foreign wars |
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Tuesday, 04 May 2010 |
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Last night I stopped by at a vigil in Mile End Park organised to remember the lives of innocent people who have been killed in senseless and brutal wars abroad. Floating lanterns were released to signify all those who as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are no longer with us.
In Parliament, I will demand an immediate withdrawal of British troops from foreign wars. The British people want an end to the war in Afghanistan and for our troops to be brought home. So do we in Respect. But New Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats are determined to ignore the popular will and persist in this unwinnable war.
Well done to the organisers. Let us never forget the lives that have been needlessly lost on all sides in this disastrous episode in British foreign policy. |
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Nightmare scenario of fivefold rise in university fees |
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Monday, 03 May 2010 |
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Today's Guardian reports that a cross-party review 'plans to raise university tuition fees by as much as £1,000 each year until they are almost five times higher that they are now for some courses'. Some science degrees, it is reported, could be £14,000 per year.
Both Labour and the Tories have colluded to keep fees off the election agenda because of an agreement that their support for higher fees would be very unpopular.
But now their plans are becoming clear - and it makes for extremely concerning reading.
Respect is the only party calling for the immediate abolition of university fees. If free education was good enough for Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and David Cameron, why is it not good enough for young people in this area struggling to even think about going on to university because of the mountain of debt they would be faced with?
I say no to student debt, no to higher fees and for free education. That's another promise to you.
Abjol |
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