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Nick Griffin losing in Court yet again !

This morning (7/1/2014) in Court 57 of the Royal Courts of Justice, Nick Griffin and Simon Darby faced another costs hearing, resulting from their long running and disastrous attempt to bring civil actions against several former BNP officials – Kenny Smith, Nicholla Ritchie (now Mrs Smith), Steve Blake and Ian Dawson.

Griffin and Darby lost the first stages of this case as long ago as April 2008, lost the final stage in December 2010, and lost subsequent appeals.  A few days ago Griffin was bankrupted in Welshpool County Court following an action by his own former solicitors, whom he had failed to pay.

Griffin and Darby were also of course ordered to pay the other side’s costs, and characteristically they have tried to drag out the process, tyring to avoid the bill for their hubris.  A first instalment of £45,000 was eventually paid.

Today they were ordered to pay an additional instalment of £22,500 within 28 days.

Yet another costs hearing in the case is now scheduled for Friday 21st March.  This is to allow the Official Receiver, who is now in charge of Nick Griffin’s affairs, to make representations if he so wishes.  The total costs bill in this case is likely to be more than £130,000 (in addition to Griffin and Darby’s own costs).

Anyone considering making a donation to the British National Party should be aware that – contrary to Mr Griffin’s assertions – party funds are unlikely to be safe from Griffin and Darby’s creditors in this and other cases.  Remember that today’s long running case (though the largest) is only one of several legal liabilities confronting Griffin and his party.

Nick Griffin did not turn up to court today, though Simon Darby and Clive Jefferson did.  Surprisingly Heritage and Destiny was the only media organisation represented!

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Buy-to-let tycoon evicts tenants on benefits in favour of Eastern Europeans - because 'they are better at paying rent'

• Fergus Wilson has sent eviction notices to 200 tenants on housing benefit
• He said Eastern Europeans less likely to default on rent than Britons
• Mr Wilson said many other private landlords had taken the same decision

A buy-to-let tycoon has banned housing benefit tenants in favour of Eastern European migrants who he says are more likely to pay their rent on time.
Fergus Wilson has sent eviction notices to 200 tenants on housing benefit and said he would not accept any more welfare applicants.
The former maths teacher, who built up one of Britain’s biggest buy-to-let empires with his wife Judith, said his decision was based on experience as he had found Eastern Europeans were less likely to default on rent payments than Britons on housing benefit.

Fergus Wilson has sent eviction notices to 200 tenants on housing benefit and said he would not accept any more welfare applicants. The former maths teacher built up one of Britain's biggest buy-to-let empires with his wife Judith

He said many other private landlords had taken the same decision, a claim echoed by housing charities including Shelter. It warned ‘benefit blackspots’ were forming across Britain as claimants have been forced to move out of popular areas.
Private landlords have the right to refuse or accept tenants, and recent evidence suggests they do not want those who rely on housing benefit.
Research from the National Landlords Association in December revealed that the number of private landlords letting to people on benefits had dropped to just one in five.
Mr Wilson, 65, said housing benefit rates had gone down in recent years, while private rent had gone up.

 

‘The gap is such that I have taken the decision to withdraw from taking tenants on housing benefit,’ he told The Guardian. ‘From what I can gather just about all other landlords have done the same. Our situation is that not one of our working tenants is in arrears – all those in arrears are on housing benefit.’
Mr Wilson said the housing shortage in the South East meant there was strong competition for rental properties, and he now preferred tenants from countries like Poland, who were more likely to pay their rent on time.
He said private landlords run their properties as a business and have to make decisions based on economic factors.

Mr Wilson said his decision was based on experience as he had found Eastern Europeans were less likely to default on rent payments than Britons on housing benefit. He said many other private landlords had taken the same decision, a claim echoed by housing charities including Shelter

‘Tenants on benefits are competing with Eastern Europeans who came to the UK in 2005 and have built up a good enough credit record to rent privately,’ Mr Wilson said.
‘We’ve found them to be a good category of tenant who don’t default on the rent. With tenants on benefits the number of defaulters outnumbers the ones who pay on time.
‘Single mothers on benefits have been displaced to the bottom of the pile; sympathy for this group is disappearing. There aren’t enough places for people to live.’
Mr Wilson and his wife, also a former maths teacher, started their property empire in 1986.
They were said to have been on the brink of financial ruin in 2008 after banks stopped lending in the credit crunch, but were saved when the Bank of England slashed interest rates and held them at a historic low.
They now own nearly 1,000 properties around Ashford in Kent and their property empire has been valued at an estimated £225million.
Around nine million people pay rent to a private landlord. Shelter said some 500,000 claim housing benefit.
Its spokesman Roger Harding said the refusal of some private landlords to accept welfare claimants as tenants meant they were forced to leave desirable locations and accept poor quality housing.
He said: ‘If this continues we will see blackspots where people on housing benefit simply  cannot find anywhere reasonable.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534331/Landlord-1-000-homes-evicts-tenants-benefits-He-claims-Eastern-Europeans-better-paying-rent.html#ixzz2pfNlukuh

NWN: It's filth like this that should be taxed to high heaven by the Government. All these types care about is counting their money. Patriotism is totally alien and he probably gives donations to the main parties who are bringing in all these immigrants.

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BNP leader Nick Griffin declared bankrupt but will stand again in Euro elections (and is writing a leaflet on dealing with debt!)

• Earns a salary of £76,000 as an MEP plus generous Brussels allowances
• Owes £120,000 to solicitors hired to fight European Commission, court told
• Insists it will not stop him standing in Euro elections in May

British National Party leader Nick Griffin has been declared bankrupt, it emerged today.The outspoken politician insisted he will continue as a member of the European Parliament and run for re-election in May.
He brushed aside the idea that his financial problems would end his political career and revealed he is writing a booklet on dealing with debts.

BNP leader Nick Griffin has been declared bankrupt but insists he will stand for election to the European Parliament again in May

As an MEP Mr Griffin enjoys a basic salary of around £76,000, plus extra basic allowances worth £46,000 with more for travel and accommodation.
A listing at the Insolvency Service showed Mr Griffin was declared bankrupt at Welshpool and Newtown County Court yesterday.

 

The BNP said that Mr Griffin had run up debts of £120,000 to solicitors Gilbert Davies & Partners, which represented him in the early stages of legal action against the European Commission.
He had offered to repay 42p for every pound he owed to all his creditors but this was rejected by the courts.

Mr Griffin was elected for the North West region of England in 2009

Politicians declared bankrupt used to be barred from seeking election again, but the rules were changed in 2002 meaning it no longer prevents someone from being an MP or MEP, or standing for election.
In a statement Mr Griffin said: 'This order will not prevent me fighting for the interests of the British people or leading the British National Party to a fresh round of electoral victories.
'It’s of no political significance whatsoever.  I will take whatever is thrown at me and deal with it.
'I champion the right of the British people to their land and I will never surrender.
'On a practical note, I am now much better able to advise and help the huge numbers of decent ordinary folk in my constituency who have financial difficulties of their own.
'I will be producing an advice booklet on dealing with debt very shortly and can speak from personal experience rather than from an ivory tower in Brussels.'

Mr Griffin will be automatically discharged from bankruptcy in one year, on January 2 2015, in accordance with the Insolvency Act. He was elected for the North West region of England in 2009.
Advice published by the Electoral Commission said bankruptcy in itself does not bar someone from being a member of the European Parliament or standing for election.
Restrictions are only triggered if an individual is made subject to a bankruptcy restrictions order or debt relief restrictions order.
The Insolvency Service said such orders had not been made in Mr Griffin's case.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533184/BNP-leader-Nick-Griffin-declared-bankrupt-stand-Euro-elections-writing-leaflet-dealing-debt.html 

Bankers' very happy new year: RBS boss gets £1.5m shares after three months in job as 115 Goldman Sachs executives pocket £3m each

• Ross McEwan only took over the State-backed bank in October
• He was given stock as compensation for missing out on bonuses
• Announcement made after markets closed for New Year holiday
• Archbishop says foreign banks 'in denial' about their role in crisis
• Barclays boss admits it could take decade for sector to win back trust

Ross McEwan, who only took over the State-backed bank in October, was quietly handed an astonishing £1.5million in free shares

Fury over bankers' pay erupted again last night after the new boss of RBS was quietly handed an astonishing £1.5million in free shares.
Ross McEwan, who only took over the State-backed bank in October, was given the stock as compensation for missing out on bonuses at his previous employer.
The announcement was made after markets closed for the New Year holiday, and was seemingly designed to attract minimum publicity.
Mr McEwan's payout emerged as Goldman Sachs revealed 'obscene' pay deals worth more than £3 million each to 115 of its senior bankers.
The bumper packages were disclosed as Archbishop Justin Welby said foreign-owned banks in the City of London were 'in denial' about their role in the financial crisis, and Barclays boss Antony Jenkins admitted it could take a decade for the sector to win back public trust.
Deborah Hargreaves, of the High Pay Centre, said: 'When you look at the pay everyone else is getting, to see bankers on that kind of salary is just not justified.'
She added: 'We live in a country where some people are being forced to go to food banks because they can't feed themselves, so it's obscene to see bankers being paid £3 million on average. It's an outrageous indictment of a civilised society.'
New Zealand-born Mr McEwan, who is paid a basic salary of £1 million, was given 454,106 RBS shares when he joined the bank in 2012 as its head of UK retail to make up for leaving his job at Commonwealth Bank in Australia. In October, he became chief executive after Stephen Hester walked away from the role.
The 454,106 shares were paid out to Mr McEwan yesterday, with a value of £1.53 million. RBS issued a statement confirming the figures only after the stock market had closed for the year.

 

Mr McEwan immediately sold 214,019 of the shares to cover tax liabilities arising from the vesting, but will hold on to 240,087 shares, worth £816,775, which he will not be able to sell for six months.
He is entitled to a further 1.05million shares – worth £3.5 million based on RBS's closing price yesterday of £3.38. They can't be vested until August 2015.
An RBS spokesman said: 'Ross McEwan will not sell any shares in RBS while he is chief executive of the bank. He wants everyone to have confidence that his interests are 100 per cent aligned with our customers and our shareholders, including UK taxpayers.'

(File picture) A man uses a cashpoint machine outside a branch of RBS in the City of London. The bank has given its boss stock as compensation for missing out on bonuses at his previous employer

Goldman, meanwhile, said 115 of its top staff around the world shared a cash pool worth £122 million, or more than £1 million each.
But senior bankers are also entitled to a bonus paid in shares, which are awarded in three instalments and cannot be cashed in for five years.
The shares are currently worth a combined £250 million, or £2.2 million for each recipient. Taken with the cash, this adds up to a payout of more than £3 million a head.

Justin Welby, the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, says foreign banks are 'in denial' about their role in the financial crisis

Goldman Sachs (pictured here in Fleet Street, London) said 115 of its top staff around the world shared a cash pool worth £122million, or more than £1million each

Goldman employs 5,000 staff in London and 32,400 worldwide. The bank's role in the global crisis came under heavy scrutiny in 2010, when it was slapped with a £333 million fine by US regulators over claims that it misled investors.
New rules limiting what banks in the European Union can pay in bonuses come into force today. They will be banned from paying bonuses worth more than a banker's annual salary, or twice as much as their pay if sanctioned by shareholders. But most banks are expected to raise basic pay in order to offset the decline.

'[Ross McEwan] wants everyone to have confidence that his interests are 100 per cent aligned with our customers and our shareholders, including UK taxpayers.'

RBS spokesman

Mr Welby, an Eton-educated former oil executive who sat on the influential Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, said many bankers did not understand how the industry's culture of high risk and reckless pursuit of profit had brought the global economy to its knees.
'I don't want to name names but I came across some people recently who were senior members of the City from foreign organisations, but who were very clearly still absolutely in denial about what happened in 2008,' he said.
Mr Welby called on banks to think harder about their role in society. But he was forced to admit that the Church had yet to sell £80,000 worth of shares in Wonga, the controversial payday lender that has been attacked for charging sky-high interest rates.
Mr Jenkins, speaking in his role as a guest editor of Radio 4's Today programme, said: 'Trust is a very easy thing to lose and a very hard thing to win back. In my view it will take several years – probably five to ten – to rebuild trust in Barclays.'
Mr McEwan's first three months as chief executive have been beset by problems, including an IT failure that left 750,000 customers of RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank unable to use their credit and debit cards for hours. He branded the failure 'unacceptable' and vowed to 'do better'.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531961/Bankers-happy-New-Year-RBS-boss-gets-1-5m-shares-three-months-job-115-Goldman-Sachs-executives-pocket-3m-each.html#ixzz2p6ofPEOJ

NWN: These are the people who must be challenged, as the paid politicians won't.

Roma already in Britain 'are defecating on people's doorsteps' says top Tory council leader as she warns of burden that Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants will place on public services

• Philippa Roe of Westminster City Council says council taxpayers will face rising bills from Bulgarian and Romanian immigration
• Claims that Roma immigrants have been begging aggressively and behaving in an unsanitary way
• Tens of thousands of Eastern Europeans expected in UK from tomorrow
• Police boss says Romanians are already most likely to be criminals

A leading Conservative has warned that council taxpayers face rising costs from the influx of Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants set to start tomorrow - and claims that Roma are already causing trouble by begging aggressively and defecating in public.
Philippa Roe, leader of Westminster City Council, said that local authorities had 'no idea' how many Eastern Europeans would come to Britain after immigration restrictions are lifted on January 1.
And a police commissioner in the Midlands revealed that more crimes are committed by Romanians than by any other group of foreign nationals in his area even before the rules have changed.
Many Tories and immigration campaigners have been warning for month that tens of thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian citizens are set to come to Britain when laws banning them from are repealed tomorrow.

Trouble: Roma being moved on by police at Marble Arch ahead of restrictions being lifted on Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants

Ms Roe said today that some members of the Roma community have already been causing trouble in Central London with their aggressive and unhygienic behaviour.
'You've only got to wander around Marble Arch at 7.30 in the morning to see the camps,' she told The World at One on BBC Radio 4.

 

'We have people walking out of their front door to find people sleeping on their front doorsteps, people defecating on their front doorstep - it's extremely unpleasant and it goes with the very aggressive begging and pickpocketing and other sorts of crime in the area which affects both residents and tourists.
'It's this minority one is really concerned about, but it is this minority that has this really big impact.'
She added: 'We have been trying hard to make sure we are prepared but one of the issues we face is we just have no idea how many people are going to come to London and draw on our resources.'

Warning: A council leader has said that even before the expected immigration influx there have been problems with Roma sleeping rough and behaving in anti-social ways

ROMANIA APPOINTS NEW CONSUL IN BRISTOL BRINGING TOTAL NUMBER IN BRITAIN TO EIGHT

The Romanian government has appointed a new consul to an eighth British city ahead of an expected influx of immigrants from the Eastern European country.
Razvan Constantinescu became honorary consul officer to Bristol this month, shortly before the UK planned to open its borders to Romanians on January 1.
The country already has representatives in Belfast, Cardiff, Inverness, Leeds, Liverpool, Morpeth and Southampton, as well as the ambassador based in London.
Mr Contantinescu, who works at Bristol City Council fighting human trafficking, says he is keen to establish direct flights from Bristol to Romania as well as boosting business links.
He insisted that fewer of his countrymen would migrate to the UK than is often predicted, pointing out that thousands are already here.
'Most of the Romanians who wanted to come over to Britain to set up in business, to explore working opportunities, have already done so,' Mr Contantinescu said.

Shortly before Christmas, the Government rushed through new rules to ban immigrants from receiving unemployment benefits for their first three months in the country.
However, Ms Roe called for this limit to be extended even further, saying: 'I would much rather it had been a year, if not two years.'
Staffordshire's Police and Crime Commissioner said that Romanian criminals were more prolific than those from any other foreign country and expressed fears that the problem would only get worse.
Matthew Ellis said that he was seeking talks with Home Secretary Theresa May in a bid to mitigate the impact of a large number of poor immigrants arriving at the same time.
It is understood that 981 Romanians were arrested in Staffordshire between April 2010 and September 2013, followed by 967 Polish nationals and 636 Lithuanians.
In total, 7.5 per cent of all arrests in the county involved foreign nationals.
'I am currently talking to the chief constable about the new changes,' Mr Ellis said today. 'This is an area where Stoke-on-Trent is seeing a significant rise in the number of people who are not only being placed there by the state as asylum seekers but also foreign nationals moving there.
'It's clear that their cultures are slightly different and their expectations are slightly different.'

Concerns: Philippa Roe of Wesminster City Council says she does not know how many new immigrants to expect

MigrationWatch UK, which campaigns against unrestricted immigration, has claimed that Britain will be the most lucrative destination in the EU for new immigrants despite the new rules on benefits.
'Britain's generous benefits system acts as a pull factor for migrants from across Europe,' said chairman Sir Andrew Green.
'There must now be a renegotiation of the benefit system in the EU which was designed before 100million people in much poorer countries joined the EU.
But business leaders have welcomed the impending arrival of Bulgarians and Romanians, saying it will help boost the workforce and strengthen the economy.
The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry said that 55 per cent of its members believe immigration has had a positive impact on the capital.
The UK imposed seven-year restrictions on Romania and Bulgaria after they joined the EU in 2007 - only allowing citizens a visa if they were self-employed, had a job offer, or were given a specialist role.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531793/Roma-Britain-defecating-peoples-doorsteps-says-Tory-council-leader-warns-burden-Romanian-Bulgarian-immigrants-place-public-services.html#ixzz2p6lbsIPv

 

NWN: Some of us have been telling everyone for almost 40 years about immigration. But few listened.The Roma have been described as the 'scum of the earth' by many. They seem to be coming here en masse.