Yes this is a real story. He’s being told that organising a group to clean River Roding is illegal. The environment agency is the one threatening him.

And well-deserved too!

New Post: "More praise for London Centric" newham65.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/m...

Very helpful thread from @joehudsonsmall.bsky.social below. Newham 65 covers the meeting here: newham65.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/e...

Wow! The Beckon Corridor in Newham is looking great💚 It's making walking, wheeling & cycling safer & more accessible for everyone. Work include new paths & lighting from Beckton DLR to Beckton Park - connecting local communities to green spaces in the area. @NewhamLondon @tfl

He’s a good Mayor who mostly does good stuff, and gets an unbelievable, wholly unwarranted amount of abuse for his efforts

This moment is seminal; it is the first time Newham Councillors can realistically independence from a directly-elected Mayor. A poor chair now could have set a bad precedent. newham65.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/e...

Efficient operation replaces ideas of grandeur, as Nate takes the chair newham65.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/e...

“News from the Streets” on our website: see the many infra projects on the ground in Newham. newhamcyclists.uk/news-from-th... Great progress to report on Westfield Ave, Romford Road, and the Water Lane crossing—and Jack Dash Way (part of the Beckton Corridor) looks almost complete too!

How did that "the previous Labour administration was rubbish, vote Labour" campaign work out for you, Newham?

I mean if you’re the incumbent you’re judged on your record. Saying “our record sucks, vote for us” is so incoherent it’s unreal

It's pure Newham Derangement Syndrome. Absolutely inexplicable how many times Forhad STARTED HIS PITCH with 'Rokhsana was rubbish.'

The election nerd community cries out for justice.

Show us the data! Josephine Grahl @woodscolt79.bsky.social writes for Newham 65. newham65.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/s...

"The Newham 65 blog captured it perfectly". Likewise.

Forhad Hussain elected, but LTNs win newham65.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/f...

Newham Centric newham65.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/n...

Guest post for @newham65.bsky.social I spotted some familiar faces on the Newham local elections candidate lists: newham65.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/b...

Blasts from the past newham65.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/b...

Phenomenal work being achieved in Newham right now (credit to @sarahj53.bsky.social @plaistovian.bsky.social @jamesasser.bsky.social et al - don't let Forhad or Mehmood blow it).

If I recall correctly, most councils have a policy of not naming things after people until they’ve been dead for at least 10 years…

Onwards to a Fiaz cul-de-sac? newham65.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/o...

Nice thread here on the situation with the #WestHamParkLTN, which in another survey had satisfied 59% of residents and has had positive outcomes for congestion, safety, and air quality—but is still being sent back for reconsideration. We naturally hope the decision makers won’t change their mind.

According to officers' reports, over a year, traffic volumes went down 46% inside the LTN and down 9% on boundary roads, while cycling was up 18% and walking up 36%, with recorded air quality improvements too.

And this is the whole debate in a nutshell. The idea that one person’s entitlement to the shortest possible car route in every direction is more important than the quality of life of the whole neighbourhood, and even the ability of kids to safely walk to school.

This is ridiculous. They’ve actually managed to get support in one of these self-selecting surveys of disgruntled drivers, & overwhelmingly positive data, & still it isn’t enough. Why do opponents get a veto on other people’s safety?

We’re disappointed by repeated political opportunism around the West Ham Park #LTN, which has made clear improvements for road safety, air quality, and reducing congestion on our streets. If your car journey is longer, you can leave a few minutes earlier—a small price to pay for everyone’s safety.

There's not an uproar because most people want to drive to just outside the shop they live 1/2 a mile away from and pollution is invisible.

Giving away permits for the first car will cost around £20 million over fours years in lost revenue- a massive tax giveaway to the 50% of households that have a car. While the 50% that don't end up with either poorer services or higher council tax as a result.

A Newham @livingstreets.bsky.social group is launching this week in Canning Town. Go along if you can 🚶‍♀️🚲🛴🦽🦯 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-of-...

Great to be working with @plaistovian.bsky.social & colleagues from Newham Council. This new crossing on Water Lane will make it easier and safer for people to walk and cycle in the area.

Compare Labour's communications in Camden, compared with Newham's new mayoral candidate.

‘Free parking’ is *never* free! It is paid for in 2 ways: 1) Direct financial subsidy from the taxes of everyone who doesn’t use it (eg bus passengers) 2) External costs paid by society at large - the extra pollution/casualties/spatial implications & other harms induced by the ‘incentive to drive’

Good to see work underway on Cycle Future Route 7 - between Leyton, Stratford, West Ham & Plaistow in Newham. Phase 1A will run along Liberty Bridge Rd, and the A112 from Leyton Rd at Chobham Rd to Angel Lane at Great Eastern Rd. newhamco-create.co.uk/en/projects/...

And the signs are in along Cycleway 54 from Canning Town to City Airport 💚

Pledges of the Labour candidate for Newham Mayor have now been thrown into disarray by a mildly comical combination. newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/f...

The Court of Appeal's judgement stopping Tower Hamlets from ripping out safety infrastructure is good news for Londoners. It's good for road safety & reducing danger. It's good for air quality, good for health, and good for communities across the capital. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

This is significant news for schemes delivered across London in the last nine years. It means politicians can't simply 'rip out' LTNs and bike lanes they don't like. Some of those running in May's elections are going to have to rethink their pledges www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

This is what real leadership looks like! Making tough choices that's right for Londoners.

Sadiq, please tell Forhad Hussain and Mehmood Mirza in Newham! @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social @metecoban92.bsky.social @sebdance.bsky.social @ellybakeram.bsky.social newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/f...

Forhad Hussain’s early pledges are in tatters newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/f...

New blogpost: #Newham council's three big parties have announced their candidates for Mayor. forestgate.net/2026/01/07/c...

James Asser did a great job on Newham Council. But his legacy is under threat from the policies of an imposed Labour candidate for Mayor of Newham. And his neighbour @umakumaran.bsky.social is opposing even a 'school street'!! newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/l...

Cllr Areeq Chowdhury will be the Green Party candidate for Mayor newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/c...

After the recent successes of the excellent folk in Newham’s sustainable transport team, this suggested backwards step is even bigger…

Appalling first policy announcements from Labour's candidate for Newham Mayor newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/l...

"We would describe this as driving a coach and horses through Sadiq Khan’s Transport Strategy but a coach and horses would be less damaging to the Labour Mayor of London’s air quality targets than this giveaway to drivers will be." newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/l...

Labour Promises a Return to Robin Wales in May 2026 newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/l...

Forhad Hussain ought to have spoken out by now on the current genocide in Gaza. This meant distancing himself from the national Labour Party, even though he owes his position – as an imposed candidate for Mayor – to them, not to a local selectorate. newham65.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/n...

No "Forhad bump" in the Plaistow South by-election newham65.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/n...