In the cause of landlords
Rushanara Ali – Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Stepney, and now former minister for homelessness – once spoke of needing to empower people to “challenge unreasonable rent increases”.
As a landlord herself, she probably hoped her tenants wouldn’t heed those words…
In an act so cruel and cynical as to be reminiscent of a Dickens novel, the East London MP kicked out the occupants of a property she owns, in order to increase the rent by £700 – just before such a move became illegal under the new Renters Rights Bill!
You literally could not make this up!
While Ali lines her pockets, 1-in-41 people in her home borough of Tower Hamlets are currently homeless – one of the highest rates in the country.
Even the most modest estimates have put homelessness at around 300,000 in Britain. Those lucky enough to have stable accommodation, meanwhile, often pay more than half of their salary on rent.
And now we have ‘Labour’ ministers and MPs – already ‘earning’ a tidy £94k per year – adding to this misery, putting workers and vulnerable people out onto the streets.
It’s clear in whose interests Starmer’s Labour and all these parasites in Parliament act: for elite landlords, and not for the rest of us.
It’s about time we evicted these evicters from power!
Fontane, Newham
Guardian defends slimy Siddiq
Just when you think the bourgeois press have reached rock-bottom levels of sycophancy, they keep finding ways to dig deeper.
Daniel Boffey, chief reporter of the Guardian, recently wrote an exonerating puff piece for Tulip Siddiq – MP for Hampstead and Highgate, and niece of deposed-Bangladesh-autocrat Sheikh Hasina.
Siddiq is currently being investigated for corruption by the Bangladeshi authorities, with her family accused of embezzling billions.
If true, this is not the first time that Tulip Siddiq would have profited from her ties to the former Hasina regime.
Her election campaigns in 2019 and 2024 were supported by the UK branch of Hasina’s murderous Awami League party. Indeed, she claims that she would never have kept her seat without their help!
Siddiq has also lived rent-free her entire life thanks to the largesse of her aunt: from a flat gifted to her by a businessman tied to the Awami League; to a five-bedroom house generously provided by a millionaire rewarded by Hasina herself.
If you’re the relative of a murderous dictator, you might as well enjoy the perks that come with it!
Not only does this ‘honourable’ MP and close ally of Starmer deny all wrongdoing, she has even claimed that she had no knowledge whatsoever of Hasina’s crimes.
Moreover, she dares to insinuate that the revolution that toppled the rotten Hasina regime was nothing more than a feud between current interim leader Mohammed Yunus and her aunt!
According to Siddiq, she is the victim here – certainly not the Bangladeshi workers and students who had to suffer under her family’s dictatorship.
Scandalously, the Guardian has printed these mendacious, outrageous claims without an ounce of scrutiny. Far from ‘speaking truth to power’, it seems this newspaper’s role is to speak power’s lies as truth!
Benjamin Breyer, Kilburn
