Local Councils crash

It has been announced that hundreds of millions of pounds of local council funding was held in bank accounts connected to Iceland meaning that there is a chance that it will all be lost after the crash in the country’s financial sector. The Icelandic authorities have made good savings for nationals but as yet there has been no word on the various overseas divisions connected to the country’s banks – all of which were nationalised a couple of days ago.

So what are the consequences for the UK tax payer?

While so far the local authorities with exposure to Icelandic banks have refused to confirm or deny what the future holds, there is likely to be a cut in local services or an increase in local taxes. However, this episode has also highlighted exactly how much money the local authorities have in savings accounts at the same time as increasing council taxes for millions of people around the UK.

Many believe that either way the UK tax payer will have to foot the bill as these local authorities are pushing for the government to reimburse the funds they may lose, at the overall expense of the tax payer. A lose lose situation for the tax payer seems almost certain!
http://financialadvice.co.uk/news/3/householdbills/8134/Local-councils-lose-millions-to-Icelandic-crash.html

Authorities in London are believed to have about £200 million in Icelandic banks. They include Westminster, which said it had £17 million split between Landsbanki and Heritable; Sutton — £5.5 million — and Havering, which has investments totalling £12.5 million. Outside the capital, Kent County Council said that it had £50 million deposited in Icelandic banks — £15 million with Glitnir Bank, £17 million with Landsbanki and just over £18 million in its British subsidiary, Heritable.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4910126.ece

NWN: We hear that 98 councils are effected to the tune of half a £billion

Death on the NHS

Failed bombers planned 'wholesale' murders, court hears


LONDON (AFP) — Two doctors accused of plotting failed car bombings in London and Glasgow wanted to commit "indiscriminate and wholesale" murder, prosecutors alleged Thursday on the first day of a major anti-terror trial.

Bilal Abdulla, 28, and Mohammed Asha, 29, who both worked for Britain's government-run National Health Service, are accused of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions. Both deny the charges.

Iraqi-born Abdulla was arrested after a burning Jeep Cherokee he was in was driven into Glasgow Airport's main terminal building on June 30. Jordanian neurologist Asha was detained hours later on a motorway in northwest England.

The previous day, two Mercedes Benz cars filled with petrol, gas cannisters and nails were discovered in London's West End theatre and nightclub district.

"Their plan was to carry out a series of attacks on the public using bombs concealed in vehicles," said prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw at Woolwich Crown Court in south London.

"In short, these men were intent on committing murder on an indiscriminate and a wholesale scale.

"In addition to the killing of the innocent, the objective of course was to seize public attention both here in this country and internationally," he said.

Laidlaw added: "It was simply good fortune that the bombs did not go off in London. Equally, it was simply luck that protected the people of Scotland."

He also described as "extraordinary" the fact that both Abdulla and Asha were doctors in the state-funded NHS, arguing that "as the evidence demonstrates, in fact they turned their attention away from the treatment of illness to the planning of murder."

The pair were accused of being Islamic extremists who used a house on the outskirts of Glasgow as a bomb factory, and who made a reconnaissance trip to central London a month before the failed attacks.

A third man, 26-year-old Sabeel Ahmed, was found guilty by a British court in April of withholding information from police about the attacks, and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.

He was deported to his home country India in May after being released from custody due to the amount of time he had already served in jail.

Ahmed's brother Kafeel, trained as an aeronautical engineer, was the Jeep Cherokee's driver, but later died in hospital after suffering 90 percent burns.

Laidlaw alleged that in the Glasgow attack Kafeel Ahmed and Abdulla "by using petrol bombs and by spraying petrol around, were going to try and blow the car up with themselves inside."

"This was, for all intent and purposes, a mobile incendiary bomb with specific explosive content in the form of mobile gas canisters."

The only other man charged in connection with the plot -- Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, who was detained in Australia -- was exonerated by a court of charges that he had abetted a group involved in the failed bombings, after the case against him collapsed for lack of evidence.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g5VjjrILNBqLdASGjpFmjQv8vf8Q

Richard Edmonds on the Advisory Council ?

What is going on here ?

Is this true ?

Richard was a target for the Griffin dirty tricks a few years back, to rid the BNP of RE.

The methods were crude usage of swastikas on peoples arms, that were stood with Richard. They even imposed swastikas on people at Florrie Rost Van Tonningens home where Richard was present at a dinner. The result, Richard was given a warning by the BNP.

Richard asked for help to many at that time, such was his fear at being 'booted out' of the BNP via a kangaroo court such as JT later suffered.

Then John Tyndall was 'hounded out' of the BNP by Griffin and his henchmen, not once, but twice !

Since John Tyndall died, Richard has hardly associated with the so called 'hardliners' if at all. He has however been out and about promoting Griffins weak BNP.

Griffin has not been purging nationalists from the BNP since the year 2000, to now change his mind.

Will Richard Edmonds explain his views, because many are very suspicious of his actions in being allowed to re-join the AC.

What the hell is going on with this development ?

What are your views ?

A taste of their own medicine

Socialist meeting blocked by councillor

SOCIALIST PARTY members in Debden, Essex have been blocked from organising a public meeting at Debden Park community centre on the world economic crisis.
The community centre room initially accepted the booking. However, an unnamed councillor requested that Essex Police inquire into the nature of the meeting and the Socialist Party. The centre then withdrew the room booking, saying they will not accept bookings from any political organisations.

Despite being asked, Essex Police will not release the name or political affiliation of the councillor who asked them to look into the meeting. We believe this is an attack on our democratic right to organise. (NWN Comment: Now you know what it feels like)

We deserve the right to know which councillor asked the police to look into the meeting and whether or not they oppose ordinary people organising and discussing what is happening in the world. Socialist Party members will be organising a campaign to have the name of this anti-democratic councillor revealed.

It is probably no coincidence that the British National Party has four councillors in the area. Despite this attack on our right to organise, Socialist Party members held a campaign stall in Debden last Saturday where 23 copies of The Socialist were sold.

Greg Maughan

http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/6486

Mother of all council houses

A MUM of seven is being paid £170,000 a year in benefits so she can live in a £1.2million mansion.

Taxpayers hit by the credit crunch fund the swish seven-bedroom home enjoyed free by Afghan migrant Toorpakai Saindi and her family.

And her landlord is raking in rent of more than £12,000 a month from a local council — funded by taxpayers.

That’s DOUBLE the normal market value of the seven-bedroom property, located in a swish West London street peppered with the Mercedes and BMW cars of private owners.

Yesterday Saindi, who also gets an estimated £400 a week in child and local tax benefits, said: “It’s a lot of money, but the council pay it.

“This is their problem. I don’t know why they pay so much.”


Landlord Ajit Panesar, who is acting within his rights, also referred The Sun to Ealing Council.

They blamed the Government, saying it set the rate.


But Whitehall insisted the council could have put Ms Saindi in a cheaper home.


The root of the potty payouts lies with the Local Housing Allowance — rolled out nationally on April 7.

More:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1780948.ece

Dewsbury teenagers' BNP bomb plot revealed in court

Two West Yorkshire school boys cooked up a plot to blow up a BNP building, Leeds Crown Court heard.
Dabeer Hussain and Waris Ali, now both 18 and from the Ravensthorpe area of Dewsbury are accused of possessing a terrorism manual called the Anarchists Cookbook on their computers and of discussing a plan to spy on and blow up a building connected to the far right politicals group, British National Party, the jury at heard. Ali, of Dearnley Street, Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury is also accused of downloading a copy of the Proper Anarchists Cookbook onto his computer and possessing small amounts of potassium nitrate and calcium chloride, the court heard. Both chemicals can be used in the preparation of a bomb, the court heard. At the time of the offences between May 2006 and September 2007 Ali was still 15, and Hussain of Clarkson Street, Ravensthorpe was just 16. At the beginning of the pair's trial at Leeds Crown Court on Monday the jury of seven women and five men were officially sworn in. Judge John Milford QC lifted reporting restrictions allowing the pair to be named despite the age of the teenagers at the time of the alleged offences. Both teenagers are currently on bail. Proceeding

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Dewsbury-teenagers39-BNP-bomb-plot.4562918.jp


Friends talked about blowing up BNP members, court told
A PAIR of West Yorkshire teenagers discussed spying on and then blowing up members of the British National Party after downloading a terrorist manual on how to make bombs, a court has heard.
Former school friends Waris Ali and Dabeer Hussain, who are now both 18, chatted online about using secret cameras to film the BNP to identify targets for an attack, Leeds Crown Court was told yesterday.

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Friends-talked-about-blowing-up.4564163.jp

Antifa attack BNP meeting

Antifa have attacked a Bethnal Green BNP meeting, and ended up fighting with the police. It is understood the police sprayed the louts with CS/Mace.

We hear there were 18 to 20 of them, and 6 have been arrested.


Anyone got anymore info?