Only a few weeks to go and the mayoral statements from the various candidates have been released. We take a brief look at them in the order in which they appear.

From mayoral candidate Simeon Ademolake

“Thanks so much for your article about my Mayoral bid. Unfortunately, some of your information is inaccurate.

Labour has now decided upon its candidates for the 2022 local elections in May. It seems like a victory for Mayor Fiaz who has cleared out almost all of those connected to the ancien regime and imported a number who will be unfamiliar to readers, and to most of the local Labour Party!

An article in UKMalayalee.com suggests that South Indians are beginning to lose their affection for Labour.

In a strategic decision, aimed at unseating cabinet member James Asser, The Green Party have teamed up with the Campaign to Save Newham City Farm to fight the seats in Beckton. In their words:

The failure of Mayor Fiaz to address the core problems of the residents of Newham may well come back to bite her. Scanning through local social media there are several themes that should give Labour some cause for concern.

Time was, in the boring old days, when Labour went about its internal business and nobody else was any the wiser.

It appears that there may have been some manipulated leaflets uploaded to social media. Recently we posted the extract above.

It seems that someone might be trying to get Mr Mirza in trouble over election expenses. So, in line with our policy, we have taken down the original article and below, we have attached the correct leaflets.

We know that Newham is effectively a one-party state, but surely this missive from the London Labour Party to its members must be a little presumptuous.

The NEC has spoken. Rokhsana Fiaz was re-selected as the candidate who will contest the mayoralty in the local elections in May.

It seems that the interviews for the Labour Candidate for Mayor were held on Tuesday 1st February. As we predicted, the only candidates were Rokhsana Fiaz and Unmesh Desai. No results have yet been announced.

It seems that Ms Fiaz needed to be called back for a second interview on Thursday 3rd February. The procedure has been somewhat opaque so we don’t know the reason that the panel needed to see her again.

From a panel of about eight candidates who submitted their names with regard to an interest in the Labour candidacy for mayor, the NEC have decided to interview two.

It does seem that some of the candidates for the position as Labour’s candidate for mayor have decided that it would be a good idea to engage with the membership in the selection of that candidate.

Six of the declared candidates were invited to sign the letter below, for reasons unknown, but which can be surmised, one of them chose not to.

As we enter the final stages of the Mayoral Candidate Selection Race, we will take a look at the Mayor’s record.

I will “revise the Council’s constitution to increase the number of full Council meetings and bring back Public Question Time.”*

Not yet a councillor and definitely the youngest contender, we hear that Zain Miah is throwing his hat into the ring as a mayoral contender.

On Friday 3rd, nominations from the place of Labour’s mayoral candidate closed. This is the selection which will determine the governance of Newham 2022-2026.

Having served their purpose and now that the winds of change are clearly blowing in a different direction, Mayor Fiaz has had to extract herself from yet another faux pas where she is linked to the far-left.

Having revealed that the Labour Party does not trust its members to choose their candidates for mayor and councillors, we thought that we’d have a look at some of the potential mayoral candidates.

On Thursday 6th May, Newham, and much of the country went to the polls. The results are in and now the arguments begin about what the results mean.