0740 Hrs London Tuesday 5 May 2009
EAST LONDON PRESS bringing on the real insight in following up the SUNDAY TIMES insight piece on ‘Baroness Pola Uddin of Bethnal Green’, Wapping and may be even Maidstone.
"Baroness of Bethnal Green" was feted and hyped by London Evening Standard in 1998. The Standard had not checked its facts.
The REASON why the word Bangladeshis is preferred to bengali is to do with the fact that the UK Bangladeshi population is not Bengali. It is from the Sylheti speaking regions in Bangladesh. NOT Bengali.
The EVENING STANDARD also swallowed the lie that Pola Uddin was the first bengali woman to sit on a local Authority.
How could the EVENING STANDARD publish such a lie?
The EVENING STANDARD had at least two regular staff members attending the former County Hall. Mostly to cover the former GLC.
Mike King, who is no longer on the staff. And the recent Transport Editor Dick Murray.
The Inner London Education Authority was based there. The ILEA had a community-elected part that it described as ‘the Ethnic Minorities Section’. On that section was a Bengali woman with a Ph D who was also a Councillor on a South London Council.
That was more than ten years before Tony Blair made Pola Uddin a baroness.
And almost a decade before Pola Uddin got anywhere near Tower Hamlets Council as a member.
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Baroness Pola Uddin
The Evening Standard (09.09.98) has a feature article on high-achieving female Londoners. One of those included is Baroness Uddin (see BMMS for June and August 1998), of whom it says: "The first Muslim to sit in the House of Lords, 38-year-old Baroness Uddin is a committed campaigner for the rights of oppressed Bengali women in London’s East End. Married with five children, she became the first Bengali woman to sit on a local authority in Britain when she was elected a Labour councillor in 1990, and became deputy council leader from 1994-1996. Currently equality manager at the London Borough of Newham, she was made a working peer this summer." [BMMS September 1998 Vol. VI, No. 9, p. 7]
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