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Tower Hamlets politicians have condemned the violence that has occurred across the borough in the last 24 hours.

Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse Jim Fitzpatrick and Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman have both promised that everything is being done to try and safeguard people and property in the area from rioters.

There is a common theme that politicians when elected to office fail to deliver on promises.
Last year there was a firm manifesto commitment on changes to housing benefit.

"Housing benefit will be reformed to ensure we do not subsidise people to live in the private sector on rents that ordinary working families could not afford."

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg criticised David Cameron at the launch of his campaign for the alternative vote system in Canary Wharf.

Mr Clegg was at the East Wintergarden on Saturday morning to address the Liberal Democrats' London region spring conference at the East Wintergarden, and urged party members to get behind the voting reform.

They might have finished second in the Tower Hamlets Council elections in May but this team of Tories proved themselves the top dogs at a Canary Wharf quiz.

The Conservative councillors won the IDCF corporate quiz challenge held at Clifford Chance's Bank Street offices last night.

By Tim Archer

Like it or not, in May this year, the residents of Tower Hamlets voted to introduce a directly-elected Mayor.

Elections will be held on October 21 to decide who will be the first ever executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, and given the £1billion cheque book that comes with the job.

By John Biggs

The election has now gone and it's back to business as usual. Except that at City Hall some things have of course changed.

The most obvious change is that we now have a different government, and one that wants to make quick savings.

The people of Tower Hamlets have decided they do want to have a directly elected mayor running the borough.

In a referendum on Thursday, residents voted 60,758 to 39,857 in favour of the change to the way Tower Hamlets Council is run.

By Tim Archer

It must be an election year as the Labour-run Tower Hamlets Council has proposed to freeze Council Tax.

Coincidentally, the last time Council Tax was frozen in Tower Hamlets was in 2006, also an election year.

By Tim Archer

Anyone who knows Tower Hamlets knows all about the major housing problems the borough faces.

There are some 23,000 people on the housing waiting list, with 14,000 on the list are living in chronic overcrowding. Housing is where the Government and the Labour-run council have let local people down the most.

By Tim Archer

First there was disbelief. Then there was anger. Now we need action. I'm talking, of course, about MPs' expenses. The Telegraph blew the whistle on the abuse of this lax system by certain members.

But the real benefit of this exposure is now the whole political system is under review.

Tower Hamlets residents are set to see a 1.69 per cent rise in their council tax this year.

The ruling Labour party's budget was approved at last week's special budget meeting, increasing the Band D tax from £1,175.46 to £1,195.34.

As the recession sinks its teeth into Canary Wharf, many workers are feverishly scratching away at their desks, waiting for the axe to fall.

Shadow treasury minister Mark Hoban remembers the feeling well.

THE CONSERVATIVE party maintained their grip on the Isle of Dogs with a comfortable victory in Millwall ward.

Tory candidate David Snowdon picked up nearly half of the vote to retain the seat, which was vacated by former blue borough leader Simon Rouse earlier this year.

Labour's Fazlul Haque took Weavers ward from the Liberal Democrats, who were forced to fight a by-election after the resignation of Louise Alexander.

The announcement was made at around noon on Friday (May 2) at the ExCeL centre in Royal Docks.