Leaflet posted to Facebook by Little Ilford councillor Nur Begum
Little Ilford councillor Nur Begum only crossed the floor to the Newham Independents in November, but it looks like she’s already moving on.
In a post on her Facebook page she describes herself as a ‘Solo Independent Neutral Councillor Candidate’.
Her ‘six point plan’ to Make Newham Great Again (seriously, councillor?) is a combination of Newham Independent gripes – parking charges (twice!), freezing council tax, free bulky waste collection – and actual Labour achievements like free school meals.
She says
Labour has presided over years of decline in our borough
while failing to mention that she sat for the better part of four years as a Labour councillor.
She goes on
Unlike the big parties, I have only one priority: You. I will work tirelessly every single day to deliver the improvements that the Little Ilford deserves
Her defection to NIPs came after she failed to win re-election as a Labour candidate. Obviously I have no insight into why she was let go, but one might reasonably speculate that a failure to work tirelessly for her residents was a factor.
forestgatedotnet 
You say “one might reasonably suppose that a failure to work tirelessly for her residents was a factor.” Well that would indeed be a natural assumption. But in Newham Labour (from past posts of yours amongst other things!) that doesn’t seem to be the main criterion for these things – more it’s to do with loyalty or otherwise to the people pulling the strings. Until recently at least, this may have been loyalty to the current mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz, but who is controlling things now? We need to know!