Talk:Lutfur Rahman (British politician)

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- -- Thesocialistesq/M.lesocialiste 23:27, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The introduction appears unduly favourable, even biased, given the extent of unfavourable coverage in the media. The statement that "much of his work has focused on assisting those affected by these cuts" is at odds with other reports suggesting he uses public money to effectively buy votes. Similarly the statement that his "political ability has been well commented on", is an unusual expression, and apparently a misunderstanding and confusion between there having been "much comment" and "favourable comment". There has been a lot of coverage, but much of it far from favourable. The February 2011 Guardian blog report, for instance, covering his early performance as Mayor, may well have concluded that he had proved "highly adept at political jujutsu". However that is a criticism, not a complement.Royalcourtier (talk) 05:00, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
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message: Lutfur Rahman has been accused of cronyism by various parties - Private Eye (Issues 1219, 1238, 1240) and The Evening Standard , to name a few. Should this be included in this article? NylonPylon (talk) 20:06, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
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message: *http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10581958/Borough-of-Tower-Hamlets-a-byword-for-sleaze.html
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Needs to be added to article.--Helwingia (talk) 08:00, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  More corruption 

message: Does Election court#Recent cases need to be updated following the judgement against Lutfur Rahman? Thryduulf (talk) 11:50, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related article to update? 

message: Tower Hamlets First were established by both the Election Court and the Electoral Commission  to be not a bona fide political party. They were anyway also deliberately structured in other ways falling just short of being a bona fide political party, such as the fact that they did not accept members or political donations, because the whole point of Tower Hamlets First was that Lutfur Rahman wanted (and still wants) to get back into the Labour Party one day, and he must had privately thought to himself that setting up a sham political party (although pretended to have been properly registered with the Electoral Commission (when they were in fact not)) might somehow be considered a lesser "crime" or offence, in the eyes of the (future) members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party, than otherwise, were he to one day apply to be re-admitted into the Labour Party as a member. Anyway, potential WP:Content fork. A separate article for Tower Hamlets First would not even be useful for students, actual, professional or amateur, of British politics or of British political science, because a study of the story of Tower Hamlets First would always be incomplete without also studying the story of Lutfur Rahman himself, at least as a (debarred former) politician. -- Urquhartnite (talk) 20:58, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I think they should be kept [separate].  It was a [political] party for a while - implied by the the Electoral Commission wording "the party’s registration is no longer valid". Being involved in a fairly unique election court case gives it some persisting historical significance. Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) seems to be the applicable [notability] policy. The primary requirement there is "significant coverage in secondary sources", more detailed as "Evidence of significant coverage by international or national, or at least regional, media is a strong indication of notability"; it seems to have enough mentions in national media to meet this criteria. Rwendland (talk) 21:23, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is, Tower Hamlets First (also known as Mayor Lutfur Rahman) were never notable in their own right independent of Lutfur Rahman. -- Urquhartnite (talk) 09:12, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Totally oppose the merge. Wikipedia is not an editorial opinion about a corrupt politician. We have (1) a person and (2) a political party that each separately existed (separate at least in terms of legal status). That suffices. Don't use wikipedia to make a purely political statement.109.134.190.181 (talk) 17:23, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
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