'It doesn't look like London borough - looks like Ceausescu's Romania!' Tower Hamlets councillor speaks out

Tory councillor Peter Golds told GB News that “people from across the borough” have been getting in touch attempting to rid the area of its flags, whether they are pro-Palestine are not.

“It’s made not just my constituents nervous, but people have been getting in touch from across the borough”, he said.

“It’s a complete rank of people including people who are from the Bangladesh and Muslim community who support the endeavours of Gaza and are hostile to the actions of the Israeli Government.

“They feel they shouldn’t have these flags on streets.

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“I have walked down some of these streets, it doesn’t look like a London Borough, it looks like Ceausescu's Romania!”

He aded: “We have extremes of deprivation and huge problems on the council.”

“We said in council meetings, we cannot interfere with foreign policy, but were have a lot to do on national and local policy. Let’s focus on that.

“That is what the council is trying to do.”

The mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, announced the “difficult decision” to take the flags down this week.

He claimed they are “being used to unfairly attack the people of the borough and further the Islamophobic narrative”.

The council had initially sought to avoid “destabilising community cohesion” by keeping the flags up.

He denied the flags were “symbols of division” but instead “symbols of solidarity and sympathy” with the thousands being killed in Gaza.