KHOODEELAAR! continues to point the way and provide the example of how to keep Brick Lane ….[2]

Deputy Mayor supports Muhammad Haque over Brick Lane future: 

The © Muhammad Haque Daily Ethical Commentary: Brick Lane Curry Riestaurants face stark, bleak and sinking future: UPDATE [2]

0915 [0900] [0715] [0700] Hrs GMT London Monday 25 February 2013.

The Brick Lane Curry Restaurants featured in a tax dodge item run on BSKYB Channel 814 on Sunday 24 February 2013.

The real dodge is the fact that the “restaurant owners” are in denial about the very serious decline in the “Curry” trade as associated with “restaurants”. This week also sees the end of the local Tower Hamlets Council’s formal “consultations” on the future of “licensed” premises, which came into focus following widespread outrage felt by ordinary local residents as well as by the wider community in the “Brick Lane London E1 area”. 

In that “consultation” one thing that has been noticed has been the ABSENCE of the “Curry House Restaurant Owners” from active participation. 

With very, very minor exceptions.

So the “regulation” by the “local” Tower Hamlets, London Borough Council, of some of the worst offences done in the name of “promoting” individual restaurants’ “offers” to passers-by and others who could not be more uninterested in having anything at all to do with these “houses”, is once again going to become a topical issue among some.

Not enough activity is noticed on the part of the Council itself either.

When I attempted to speak – at the “consultation” meeting staged on 13 February 2013 at the Toynbee Hall, Commercial Street, London E1–about Brick Lane in the context of the “licensed premises and their implications for the local community and the curry houses”, an un-named [so far, to my knowledge] bureaucrat who ran the show which was apparently being chaired by Tower Hamlets Council “deputy” mayor Ohid Ahmed — interrupted me three times and “accused” [!!!] me of having arrived late at the “event”!

The idiotic interruptions confirmed once again that Tower Hamlets Council employees were among the elements that were doing damage to the local community and to the local businesses.

The man was so ignorant that he thrice failed to show any recognition of what I was saying!

And the fact that I had been saying the right things that needed to be said, was proved by the statement that the Chair of the meeting, Ohid Ahmed, said when he stood up to make his comments by way of brining the “meeting” to a close.

Ohid Ahmed’s first comments were made in support of me.

Ohid Ahmed hesitated for bait, as to whether to refer to me by my surname or to address me as his [older] Brother. He settled on the latter before saying that he agreed with me fully.

That was followed by Ohid confirming once again what I had said when he spoke to me on camera [which I then published as a youtube post on the BrickLane News youtube channel].

[To be continued]