Vote Early, Vote Often, Vote Lutfur seems to be the name of the game in Tower Hamlets in East London.

That is the message that has come from an advisor to the Islamist-linked Mayor of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Just consider how appalling that is for a moment. Here we have a person connected to a politician who is making what looks like an overt threat of street violence.

For the first time on mainland Britain for many a year in my recollection we have threats of political violence following an election. The statements about potential violence are not being made by some far Left hothead or some tin pot community leader of no relevance but by Kazim Zaidi, Mr Rahman’s publicly-funded political adviser at Tower Hamlets.

According to the Daily Telegraph as reported by the Pamela Geller blog Kazim Zaidi said on a local Tower Hamlets blog:

““If those who still seem unable to accept the result continue as they are, it will spill out onto the streets where even the cleverest machine politicians will not be able to manage it.”

I don’t know about you but that looks more like a threat than anything else. The allusions to street violence which would be be unmanageable by police and politicians has an unmistakably menacing quality.

The quoted Telegraph article said:

“A senior adviser to Lutfur Rahman, the extremist-linked mayor of Tower Hamlets, has said there will be street violence unless people stop questioning the manner of his re-election.

The Electoral Commission is to hold an inquiry into polling in the east London borough after dozens of reports of voter intimidation and a chaotic count that took more than five days to declare a final result.

Mr Rahman narrowly won re-election as an independent, by 48 per cent to 52 after second preferences. He was expelled from the Labour Party in 2010 after The Telegraph revealed his close links to an Islamic extremist group, the Islamic Forum of Europe.

Kazim Zaidi, Mr Rahman’s publicly-funded political adviser at Tower Hamlets, wrote on a local blog: “If those who still seem unable to accept the result continue as they are, it will spill out onto the streets where even the cleverest machine politicians will not be able to manage it.”

Cllr Peter Golds, leader of the opposition on the council, said: “I am gobsmacked. This is actually a threat of violence. Given what we know of the mayor’s ability to bring people out on to the streets, this is deeply disturbing.”

Around two thousand of Mr Rahman’s supporters mobbed the count centre in Limehouse during counting on Friday, effectively barricading Mr Rahman’s opponents inside the building. A number of Labour figures, including Sadiq Khan, the shadow justice secretary, were told by police that they could not leave.

Many polling stations in the borough were also picketed by large crowds of Mr Rahman’s supporters, through whom voters had to push to reach the ballot box.

Rachael Saunders, a Labour councillor in Tower Hamlets, said: “There were huge mobs of people at the polling stations, shouting, intimidating, actually making it quite difficult for people to vote.”

Another voter told The Daily Telegraph that he was followed into the polling booth by Mr Rahman’s supporters who attempted to ensure that he cast his vote in the “correct” way.

A spokesman for the Electoral Commission said: “Everyone should be able to vote free from intimidation and be confident that their vote is safe. Clearly there have been issues at the Tower Hamlets count and we need to make sure we understand what happened, and the reasons for it, before reaching conclusions.”

Mr Rahman’s council is under two further investigations by police and auditors called in by the Department for Communities and Local Government for corruption and misuse of funds. The Telegraph and the BBC’s Panorama showed that he channelled council money disproportionately to members of his own Bangladeshi community.

Mr Zaidi, who is paid around £53,000 a year from public funds, previously wrote a chapter in an Exeter University pamphlet libelling members of the Tower Hamlets Labour Party. The university was forced to apologise and pay damages.

The council insisted that the count went well and that it had received no reports of intimidation.

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The situation in Tower Hamlets has gone beyond a joke. This election must not be allowed to stand because there are too many credible accounts that it was not run in a fair or free manner. There should be a separate poll in the borough to replace and overwrite this very much disgraced one.