New Tower Hamlets Council Cabinet Announced

Lutfur Rahman's new cabinet has been announced.

List of Mayoral Executive Decisions

Moley has made his very own list of Mayoral Executive Decisions!

Wapping Bus Gate Brings In £4.3m Fines But Costs £3m To Maintain

Wapping Bus Gate generates £4.3 million in Penalty Charge Notices in 24 months

Some Borough Residents Have Been Waiting For Social Housing for 40 Years.

Many borough residents rightfully complain about being on the social housing waiting list for over ten…

Tower Hamlets Council reports itself to Information Commissioner

Council officers have reported the Council to the Information Commissioner for a data breach.

Why Is The Tower Hamlets Council Web Site Not Working?

The Tower Hamlets Council web site www.towerhamlets.org.uk has been offline for at least 24 hours.

Lutfur Rahman makes it to the House of Lords (sort of…)

Those of you who are ardent fans of Parliament.tv may have noticed that our ex-Mayor was…

Mayor Biggs Caught Out (again) Misusing Council Resources

Mayor gets caught out breaking the rules to the surprise of nobody ever.

Biggs Attempts (And Fails) To Hide Bad News From Councillors

Seems the Mayor was trying to keep the SEND Ofsted inspection bad news from councillors.

Council Orders Wapping Overground Station Flowers Removed Because of No Licence

If you know the right people in Tower Hamlets you can do whatever you like. But…

Why Do These Lying Bastards Keep Lying To Us?

Can you keep a secret? Yeah? Good. Don't tell anyone about this, right? Council does not…

ASDA Crossharbour Development ‘Fun Day’ Kerfuffle – What’s In It For Lutfur?

The ASDA Crossharbour development community ’fun day’ on 30th August provided far more fun and games…

Sutton Street Depot Mystery Tenant Identity Revealed Shock!

The Enquirer reveals the identity of the Mystery Tenant for Sutton Street Depot which the Council…

Cancer sufferer forced to delay chemotherapy due to council intransigence

Resident suffering from pancreatic cancer forced to delay chemotherapy due to council intransigence.

How to find your Tower Hamlets councillor

Do you know who your ward councillor is? Yes? No? Here's how.

Payments to Suppliers data emerges from town hall information void

After a five month delays LBTH has finally responded to an FoI for Payments to Suppliers…

£230 million Payments to Suppliers data adrift somewhere

Tower Hamlets council has not published any Payments to Suppliers data covering around £230m since May…

12 Labour councillors write open letter to Mayor Biggs

It's not often Moley gets sent interesting letters, especially not ones that are an open letter…

Anyone fancy a grant? Free Covid grants here! Roll up!

An odd story of the two FoI responses and how one person was offered a Covid-19…

Council uses Excel to track £2.7 billion of council assets

Yep, £2.7000,000,000 Or two point seven billion pounds. Or around three years income for Tower Hamlets…

Wapping Mole complains to Information Commissioner

In September 2020 Moley submitted a Subject Access Request (SAR) to Tower Hamlets council. Guess what…

Desperate Mayor attempts Liveable Streets whitewash

Mayor Biggs is trying to whitewash the consideration of the Liveable Streets petition at council at…

Delay publishing Payments to Suppliers data shows ineptitude of LBTH

Payments to Suppliers data has not been published by Tower Hamlets Council since May 2020. Why…

What’s in a name? Ward name changes proposed & LIF spending suggestions

Ward name changes proposed and suggestions for how to spend LIF funds. How exciting.

Liveable Streets Bow report approved by Cabinet

Main event of last night's Cabinet meeting was to make a decision on the Liveable Streets…

Attempt to ram through Liveable Streets Bow decision today

Mayor Biggs Cabinet will today attempt to get approval for the Liveable Streets Bow decision through…

Moley’s Council News Snippets – Part One

Whatever is going on inside the Council at the moment it is very messy indeed.

Moley’s Council News Snippets – Part Three

Quite what went on with the transfer of Poplar HARCA housing stock to the Council is…

Moley’s Council News Snippets – Part Two

In a more recent Audit Committee meeting there is reference to all sorts of stuff that…

Secret meeting of General Purposes Committee to be held today

Later today, Friday 13th November, there is an Extraordinary General Purposes Committee meeting at 2pm. Anyone…

Budget Consultation highlights Idea Store visits but that’s it

Tower Hamlets Council has launched its Budget consultation exercise for a year in the future but…

Day Centre closures: “Corporate spiel can justify most actions”

Zakir Hussain gave an extremely good account of himself at last week's cabinet meeting when speaking…

Virtual ‘Ask the Mayor’ session 3 September 2020

Just in case you missed it here is the video of the online 'Ask the Mayor'…