More on Atiq Malik, independent candidate in Brent Central, on this weeks WBTimes front page. They don’t disclose the nature of the allegations against him for ‘legal reasons’ and the internet isn’t throwing up rumours for me to link to, not even on Labour Cllr James Powney’s blog – although there is a great archive of items on Atiq Malik’s views on women and optioning aspects of Sharia Law for UK Muslims.

WBTimes carry a statement from the Standards Board that they had received a referral from Brent Council’s Standards Committee on the 24th March. However there are “No documents are available for [the] meeting”  of the Committee on the 24th March online a month after the meeting.

Inquiry into candidate

The Willesden and Brent Times spoke to local candidates standing as independents or for the smaller parties, including Shahrar Ali for the Green Party and Atiq Malik.

Atiq Malik is Brents’ own ‘controversial’ candidate. An ex-conservative councillor in Queensbury ward,  jumped/pushed from the party in 2008, he has previously been referred to the Standards Board for England, the standards watchdog for Councillors and other officials. He was subsequently cleared of misconduct. Atiq Malik’s pledges have a clean up politics air about them, the usual puff against employing family members, claiming second home allowances (like Brent’s Dawn Butler and her £66,000 of expenses), having jobs outside parliament… He could do with starting the political clean up in his own office by all accounts. Illegally copying private correspondence and distributing it for political aims is not the sort of politiking I want see represented in parliament.

I’ve scanned the pages or you can also get the WBTimes article online.

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A link to rockyf.com has been added – Rocky Fernandez:advocate and campaigner. Rocky has stood as an independent candidate in both local and national elections in Brent over the last few years. Most recently famous for the double-switchback manoeuver: joining the Lib Dems getting kicked out and then bitching about them online and in print (I’ll scan the letter from last weeks local paper later)…hummm, search for ‘fernandez‘ yeilded no documents…..