Following the crushing defeat at the Roxbourne by-election few weeks back, Tories are desperate to show improvement at the Kenton East by-election.
A fake news is circulating in India and brought to Harrow through tweets etc that an early day Commons motion sponsored by the Harrow East MP Bob Blackman (the only signatory) supporting India and condemning Pakistan regarding the Kashmir region, has been debated and passed by the Commons, even creating a visual illusion of a Commons debate  where Theresa May viciously speaking for the motion (no sound)!!
The motion has never been moved, debated or resolved nor this is likely to happen.
Bob Blackman has not issued any correcting statements to Indian press despite that his assistant, an Indian controlled Kashmir activist and a Queensbury ward candidate who claims to have an Indian journalist background, is well connected with the Indian news outlets.
Not only this, but Bob Blackman has been colluding with the fake news based tweets from India, most probably by the friends of his assistant, by retweeting these without any mention that the news has been faked.
The plot
March, 22: Bob Blackman reported his meeting with the Indian high commissioner in London.
March, 23: Bob Blackman signs the early day Commons  motion re ‘annexation of Gilgit-Baltistan by Pakistan’ in a show of support for India, most probably to influence the outcome of the Kenton East by-election.
March, 25: the fake news was pumped to India and was reported as “A motion was passed in the British Parliament condemning Islamabad’s announcement declaring Gilgit-Baltistan as its fifth frontier, saying the region is a legal and constitutional part of Jammu and Kashmir”.
To prove his decency and integrity, Bob Blackman must publically condemn the fake news revolving around him and implicating not only the Commons but also the prime minister.

At the time when serious efforts are being made to enhance national unity, Harrow East Conservative Association nurtured Bob Blackman MP (Con), who has seemingly calculated his votes, continues to play divisive game, this time most probably to influence the outcome of the Kenton East by-election in Harrow East.
He tabled an Early Day Motion (1107) on 23 March 2017, condemning Pakistan about Gilgit-Baltistan as its Fifth Frontier, asserting that the area is part of the Indian controlled Jammu and Kashmir.
Kashmir is a legacy of the British Empire and a long standing divide line between India and Pakistan relationships, needing a harmonious and sensitive approach by the global community to resolve the matter.
The motion signed only by Mr Blackman has not been debated nor it is likely to be discussed as very few EDMs are actually debated or have any legislative effects.
But an Indian electronic media (India Today)* carried a fake news on March 25, 2017 that the British Parliament has declared Gilgit-Baltistan belongs to India and it called the construction of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor as illegal.
No surprise about such a mischievous and false news or the resulting  misleading celebratory tweets from India, but what is most concerning is that Mr Blackman has retweeted many of these (example) rather than condemning the false reporting.
Mr Blackman’s visits to India and Indian high commissioner in London have dramatically increased since he found his assistant Lakshmi Kaul who is an Indian-held Kashmir activist with her own agenda – *she is no stranger to India Today either.
Previously Mr Blackman has actively sided with the negativities associated with Brexit campaign and the last London Mayor election.
He is also well known to give a sense of stirring up emotions for votes by taking side with international situations like India-Pakistan tension.  No one recalls such underhand practices by any previous Harrow MPs.
Harrow is  proud of its good communal relationships and would like to keep it this way, for example by leaving India and Pakistan situations at the appropriate international level rather than bringing it to Harrow by any political groups and stirring up emotions for political gains.

In a sudden move, Harrow Council has announced the closure of the school in Latimer Gardens, Pinner for health and safety reasons.
The geotechnical surveys found an unacceptable risk that the ground beneath the school buildings and playgrounds could become unstable and unsafe, due to the condition of very recently discovered chalk mine tunnels below.
During the summer holidays of 2015, a 3 metres wide and 1 metre deep hole unexpectedly opened up in the tarmac of the staff car park.
The Council and school made the area safe and commissioned specialist professionals to analyse the causes of the hole. They determined that the hole was situated on top of an old, disused shaft. The material used historically to backfill that shaft, they concluded, had only been loosely compacted and had subsided – creating a hole.
The school’s 596 children between the ages of 3 and 11 will be relocated to other educational settings in Harrow in time for pupils’ schooling to resume at the start of the Summer Term.
Council  hopes that they will be able to stabilise the ground and return the site to a safe condition but they have warned that “It may, however, be the case that it is not economically feasible to restore the ground and that the school may never reopen in its current form on its current site”.

As expected, the Labour candidate Maxine Henson very comfortably won the Roxbourne Ward by-election held on 9 March 2017,  due to the sad death of Cllr Bob Currie.
Labour’s share of votes at the ward (62.8%) has improved and remains much higher than Tories who have been facing  crushing defeats under Cllr Hall’s leadership – previously lost the councils in 2010 and 2014 and two by-elections in between.
At 21.5% now, the Tory share of votes is lowest since 2002.
Cllr Hall now leads a highly divided group as 42.31% members of her group did not vote for her at the last leadership election (leadership challenge is imminent this year).
People rightly say that the Tory opposition group under its politically immature leadership can’t be taken seriously, for example they failed to present a shadow budget at the last Council meeting to enrich the financial decision making – they owed this to the residents…. read more by clicking here
Added to this is Cllr Hall’s concerning conduct at the council meetings and childish social media encounters.
Many believe that the pattern of Tory defeats would continue at the Kenton East by-election for similar reasons.

Such is the state of comic that on the polling day campaign, the Tory candidate team tweeted a photo taken at Lynton Road which in Rayners Lane and not in Roxbourne ward!

Seemingly the Labour candidate Maxine Henson is all set to comfortably win the Roxbourne Ward by-election on 9 March 2017, called due to the sad death of Cllr Bob Currie.
Labour’s share of votes at the ward was 31% higher than Tories at the last council election.
Added to this, Tories have been consistently facing defeats under Cllr Hall’s leadership – lost the councils in 2010 and 2014 and two by-elections in between.
Cllr Hall now leads a highly divided group as 42.31% members of her group did not vote for her at the last leadership election.
People rightly say that the Tory opposition group under its politically immature leadership can’t be taken seriously, for example they failed to present a shadow budget at the last Council meeting to enrich the financial decision making – they owed this to the residents…. read more by clicking here
Many believe that the pattern of Tory defeats would continue at the Kenton East by-election for similar reasons.

National NHS demonstration: ‘Keep Our NHS Public’ – ‘Our NHS is not for sale’.
Demo on 4 March 2017 was called by Health Campaigns Together & the People’s Assembly.
Over 250, 000 people marched from Tavistock Square to Parliament Square. Support by many in Harrow.
Jeremy Corbyn and his speech very warmly received.

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