More New Labour corruption
Down in Tower Hamlets:
Depressing about this story are the pitiful sums of cash involved. Whilst New Labour wallows around in £14m secret loans, dispensing honours as needed, its underlings are reduced to scrabbling around after sums you'd hardly think worth risking prison for - sums that, nontheless, would make a difference if they'd been spent as intended. Tower Hamlets' "corrupt political culture" may yet choke.
Nasir Uddin, ex-Labour councillor for the St Dunstan's and Stepney ward, and his younger brother, Ain Uddin, dramatically changed their pleas today (Weds) at Southwark Crown Court in a fraud trial also involving Kumar Murshid, a serving member of Tower Hamlets council and a former top advisor to London Mayor Ken Livingstone.
Nasir Uddin, 33, now of Cotswold Gardens, East Ham, admitted taking £15,694 for personal gain from the Stepney-based Youth Action Scheme four years ago.
Depressing about this story are the pitiful sums of cash involved. Whilst New Labour wallows around in £14m secret loans, dispensing honours as needed, its underlings are reduced to scrabbling around after sums you'd hardly think worth risking prison for - sums that, nontheless, would make a difference if they'd been spent as intended. Tower Hamlets' "corrupt political culture" may yet choke.
posted by Meaders at
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