Interview with Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor Lutfur Rahman at Town Hall event

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The executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets and the Young Mayor of Tower Hamlets spoke, before the Bollywood Brass Band lead everyone outside for speeches and the unveiling of the dual language plaques in English and Bengali by the Mayor and Young Mayor.

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00:0090% of our people in the resident survey, it says that we get on together.

00:07This council is about making sure we continue to deliver excellent services for 340,000 people, our population,

00:16so everyone has a stake in this town hall, everyone has a stake in the communities of Tower Hamlets.

00:22Tower Hamlets Council held a series of events at and around the borough's town hall over the weekend.

00:34Together, the two free events brought more than 22,500 people together with an estimated 20,000

00:42visitors to the Curry Festival and 2,500 people joining the town hall festivities. The borough

00:49intended the weekend to celebrate East London's history of migration and its culinary and cultural

00:58diversity. But they added the events last weekend were held in response to what the borough describes

01:07as the far right march through the capital the weekend prior.

01:13It's the launch, it's the official launch of our town hall, and what we did, we've opened it up

01:23to the people of the borough. They have a tour of the town hall, they can see where politicians sit,

01:29people they've elected, we're public servants, we're their servants, officers who work for them,

01:34where they see it, where they do their work, and they need to have access, they need to be, make sure the

01:40town hall is available for them, and we're celebrating that today. It shows that we are

01:45one community, doesn't matter where you come from, if you're black or white, or you're from any other

01:52part of the world, if you're here in Ta Hamlets, we're one community. We celebrate our diversity,

01:58we celebrate our oneness, our unity. Ta Hamlets, it's a great borough, it's been home to immigrants

02:06over the centuries. The French Huguenots came, settled there, moved on. The Jewish community

02:13came and settled there. Then the Somali community and the Bangladeshi community now.

02:18The Eastern European communities also came here. It clearly demonstrates that whoever you are,

02:24we celebrate you, we are here to serve you.

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