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Titbits – Lying little rags and political handbags

Plus ça change – it’s the monthly column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough

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Election fever on Twitter

(17 January) as Lib Dem candidate Darren Martin crossed swords with Mayor Glanville over council tax rises. After Martin slammed the changes, Glanville attacked the Lib Dems’ record in coalition government. Martin accused the Mayor of “finger pointing politicking”, at which point Cllr Jon ‘bruiser’ Burke, cabinet member for Energy, said Martin’s party had “colluded with the Tories in government”, adding: “Hang your head in shame.” Darren ‘catty’ Martin shot back, “Glad you finally got the [London Fields] lido open councillor”, to which the Mayor said: “You’re as party political as anyone on Twitter, perhaps the most political in Hackney…” Meow!

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