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Protest and dissent
• CONSTANTLY berating people for not agreeing with you about how they vote doesn’t seem a particularly “liberal” trait, except it seems if you are Lib Dem councillor Faruque Ansari.
In his letter (Voters who are not the Labour Party’s ‘property’, January 24) he wrote protesting about a posting on my blog.
In it I accused Cllr Ansari and his colleagues of fomenting politically-motived dissent at the annual meeting of a community group in my ward, the Bengali Workers’ Association.
I wrote this because the BWA has always been apolitical and I have felt strongly, unlike Cllr Ansari, that local politics should not be forced on local charities.
I was also concerned that some of the really good work which the BWA has undertaken to represent the interests of the community and build social cohesion was being undermined for no good reason.
Cllr Ansari has written letters on many occasions since the 2006 election attacking people who have done nothing other than try to serve their community.
I do wish his considerable energies were devoted to more positive things like helping fight for a new secondary school for the area, more affordable housing and better jobs rather than his remarks about votes which take attention off the real problems people face on a day to day level.
Instead, from what he writes, he seems bent on division and political hustle.
Cllr Theo Blackwell
Labour, Regent’s Park Ward
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