Tower Hamlets council is threatening to take the Government to court if it refuses to ban a march by far-Right group the English Defence League.
Leaders are warning of violence if the event goes ahead on September 3 and will seek a judicial review if Home Secretary Theresa May does not ban it. A council source said: "Something must be done to prevent this demonstration. If a judicial review is the only way then that is what we will do."
The EDL told members in an online message to take "our message into the heart of militant Islam within our own country". The message added: "We will go where we want, when we want."
Last week the Home Secretary banned an EDL march in Telford, Shropshire, saying she was acting to protect communities and property.
A Home Office spokesman said: "The Home Secretary can only ban a march in London following a formal application from the Commissioner of the Metropolitan police. No such application has been received. The Home Secretary will carefully consider any formal application, subject to the relevant legal tests."
Tower Hamlets Labour group leader Josh Peck said: "The EDL march should be banned. The police are more than capable of keeping them under control, but that won't stop the tension and anger that could exist long after they have left."
London Evening Standard
Thanks to Zaahid for the heads-up
August 19, 2011
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4 comments:
why are the met police playing with fire in regards to tower hamlets,look at the mess that happened in regards to slow responce to mark duggan shooting.yet still we see edinburgh make a stand against the sdl far-right.WHAT A FARCE.9xzulug
isn't it funny how the council are now parroting what Hope Not hate have been saying for months?
Shame on certain others for their stupidity meanwhile.
The Met want disorder in TH - mass disorder, at that - so they can ever so conveniently argue their case for no more cuts to their funding. They are using the public for their own agenda and the fuckers don't care who gets hurt.
isn't it funny how the council are now parroting what Hope Not hate have been saying for months?
Maybe they've come around to seeing that the HnH startegy makes sense?
The Met want disorder in TH - mass disorder
I'm not into conspiracy theories (I prefer Occam's razor to explain events) but if the Police support the EDL's "right" to march then something strange is going on in the higher echelons of the Met.
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