{"id":84294,"date":"2026-01-31T18:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84294"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:06:53","slug":"the-councillor-raking-in-20k-a-year-in-taxpayers-cash-while-living-5000-miles-away-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/31\/the-councillor-raking-in-20k-a-year-in-taxpayers-cash-while-living-5000-miles-away-in-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"The councillor raking in \u00a320k a year in taxpayers&#8217; cash&#8230; while living 5,000 miles away in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/01\/30\/15\/105971147-15512043-image-m-4_1769788294329.jpg\" alt=\"Sabina Khan (pictured) was elected to serve Tower Hamlets in east London but for the last eight months has been staying in Sylhet in the Asian country\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-41402680-fdb0-11f0-b047-f7440fd402db\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/london\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">London<\/a><\/span> councillor is being paid over \u00a320,000 in taxpayer-funded allowances while based 5,000 miles away in Bangladesh, the Daily Mail has learned.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15512043\/The-councillor-raking-20k-year-taxpayers-cash-living-5-000-miles-away-Bangladesh.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A\u00a0London councillor is being paid over \u00a320,000 in taxpayer-funded allowances while based 5,000 miles away in Bangladesh, the Daily Mail has learned&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sabina-Khan.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84296,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84294\/revisions\/84296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}