Team Lansbury have been on #LabourDoorstep with Unmesh Desai AM speaking to local residents about Sadiq Khan’s achievements:

🌹Freezing fares
🌹Providing free school meals
🌹Building record numbers of council homes
🌹Investing in young Londoners

On May 2 - #VoteLabour 🌹

Have got my interview with the 'Best Value' team inspecting Tower Hamlets Council tomorrow. Mayor Rahman has done some good things but there are too many instances where public money is not being used wisely + current goverance is so weak there is no check & balance on his powers

I was doing my ward round & was excited to see O’Brien House garages have been demolished to start construction of 10 new Council homes commissioned by former Tower Hamlets Labour Group administration. Supported with funding from Mayor of London

More carers share how their lives have been overturned by having to repay accidental overpayments of Carer’s Allowance. Carers UK calls for urgent reform for carers benefits and more support. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-687743…

Finally, some better news from LBTH Waste Services. After 2 years of us raising this at O&S, the new Director has agreed to expand provision of pink recycling bags in an effort to boost Tower Hamlets Council's hopelessly low recycling rates. Not the whole solution, but part of it

Join Bow Arts at the Nunnery Gallery for a the Youth Programme 1813 social! The social is free and open to 18 to 24-year-olds living in Newham or Tower Hamlets. No previous art experience is required.

📅25 April
Find out more: buff.ly/3VSpcMu

Just catching up with Jessica Frank-Keyes' story for City A.M. about the departure of Tower Hamlets Council's former Chief Executive last year.
For the record, Tower Hamlets Labour Group refused to back this big pay off as Mayor Lutfur Rahman gave no reasonable grounds for it. cityam.com/mystery-surrou…

A reminder as most benefits are uprated from today: the basic level of support will be lower this year due to the Cost of Living payments ending - £685 lower in real terms for a single person and £110 lower for a couple w/ 2 kids

We’re hiring a casual park ranger who can give information & guidance to park users & run community activities.
Help provide a proactive, approachable, & recognisable presence in our award winning parks including Victoria Park.
Apply by 24 April: orlo.uk/lXwqk

Looking forward to this important documentary over next few evenings. It is vital that all of us representing Tower Hamlets understand the struggle against violent NF racists who targetted Bangladeshi residents around Brick Lane. This story needs to be known by the whole nation

More quality canvassing from Peter, Md Rafique, Lauma + Matt in Fish Island yesterday. Lots of support for Sadiq Khan + Unmesh Desai AM but also concerns from some residents about how Tower Hamlets Council is dealing with their complaints. Will be taking those up with officers later

Great to see charities coming together to challenge politicians over the #TwoChildLimit . Along with the #BenefitCap , this awful policy is a key driver of child poverty. If he wants to repeat Blair/Brown's success in lifting families out of poverty, Keir Starmer has to scrap them

21 residents in my advice surgery today, every one of whom has been let down by the Govt, LBTH or a social landlord.
This shows the state of public services after 14 years of Tory cuts, deregulation + welfare reform. An incoming Labour Govt faces a huge challenge to put it right

2 MILLION households receiving Universal Credit faced hunger last year, according to government stats 👉 bit.ly/3Pumj0p

This isn’t right. Our social security system should protect us all from going without the essentials. 💚

Six months on, the Israeli military campaign has brought relentless death & destruction to Gaza.

Lives shattered. Children dying for lack of food & water.

This is incomprehensible & entirely avoidable.

Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.

Failure to invest adequately in refuse disposal and cleanliness compromises health and hygiene in the borough.

Tower Hamlets is neither cleaner nor greener under Lutfur Rahman.

Tower Hamlets Council Please collect rubbish promptly.

Our friends Cordwainers Grow are doing interesting stuff in the Victoria Park outdoor classroom

📣20 Apr 11am-1pm What We Have Become Creative Workshop
Using memory and examples of archival textiles from the Tower Hamlets collection, costume and set designer Veronika Seifert will lead a collage workshop with text, texture, sculpture and imagination.
orlo.uk/uKDcm

One of the joys of my walk to new Town Hall is seeing hidden snippets of Tower Hamlets' municipal history, like this stone marking the Butler estate in 1934. So glad LBTH under Tower Hamlets Labour Group + Sadiq Khan finally got back to building new council homes, like those on nearby Globe Road

🎨 Are you an artist or creative aged 18-24? Join us at the NunneryGallery for our very first young people's social!

📅Thursday 25th April⏰ 6:00pm to 9:00pm
💒 Bow Arts Trust Courtyard Room

bowarts.org/event/1813-soc…
#creativeopportunities #TowerHamlets #Newham #youngcreatives