Well, actually, not very much.

Of course, both have been accused of bullying.

The statement above comes from the Labour Party’s complaints procedure on antisemitism. It is available on the Labour Party website.

The mayor’s new community organ carried an interesting headline this month.

We have learned that former Mayor of Newham, one Robin Wales (and the picture is a Welsh dragon, not a devil; subtle, eh?), anyway, the former mayor has taken metaphorical pen to paper and is nearing completion of a tome that looks at his time in office in Newham.

We are getting interesting, and disturbing reports from Labour councillors who have recently been interviewed to determine if they are suitable candidates to stand for election in 2022.

Would you believe it? Two hundred and thirty applicants to become councillors and Newham Labour seem to have run out of women.

The publication of Roxi and the Tablighis has raised some interesting additional material.

The individual, ‘Mufti’ Umair Zulfiqar was identified as one of the principal activists within one faction of Tablighi Jamaat and within Newham People’s Alliance.

Veteran councillor from Royal Docks, Patrick Murphy has resigned the whip in protest at the decision of the Labour Party to reimpose Rokhsana Fiaz as Labour’s candidate for mayor in the May 2022 local elections.

This post on local social media has begun to garner dozens of supportive comments

In what appears to be a co-ordinated event, the Chair of East Ham CLP, Tahir Mirza and the Chair of West Ham CLP, Carel Buxton have both resigned the membership of the Labour Party.

The Newham People’s Alliance (NPA) was prominent in the campaign to have Rokhsana Fiaz selected as the Labour Party candidate for mayor. The posting above was taken from the Facebook page of Newham People’s Alliance. It appeared in September 2018 and was an unsolicited vote of thanks from the outgoing management of the site to two individuals who had helped them earlier in the year. Or at least it seemed to be.

It seems that the Labour Party has a number of new problems. Having got rid of several of the entryist factions committed to the ‘downfall of capitalism’, a new one has arisen in Newham.

We recently received a communication from Mr Mirza, indicating that he had not been ‘expelled’ from the Labour Party and that he had merely been suspended. He went to some pains to point out that had never revealed the reason behind his suspension and that as he had not revealed it, no-one knew the real reason.

That when you upset people, they can get together and, well you see what below.

This tweet says it all.

Newham in a financial crisis; redundancies; increased dissatisfaction with the council; increased taxes; new charges for residents; a Labour Group riven with antisemitism and Islamophobia; the local Labour Parties suspended.

You’d think that these issues might occupy some of the time of our local political leaders.

It seems not.

It appears that the mayor is on a recruitment drive.

Earlier in the summer she took herself along to the Masjid Imambargah, a mosque in Plaistow, near to the Abbey Arms. With the closure of the Imamia Mission on Romford Road this is the only Shia mosque currently operating in the borough.

She was at pains to point out that she was there in a personal capacity, not as the First Citizen of the Borough. Yeah.

Various members of the General Committee seem to have been invited to join in a request to Amy Fode, to reinstate West Ham CLP.

We learn that Labour Party members in Newham have all received an email about the suspension of the parties in East and West Ham. They learned that the parties are still suspended!

A Labour MP brutally murdered by a right-wing extremist and her sister stands for her seat; it should have been a shoe in for Labour as they sought to capitalise on the sympathy vote. In 2019, at the general election Labour was returned with a healthy 3500 vote majority and some 42% of the vote.