Friday, 25 May 2012

Protest Banned from Canary Wharf

Posted in: Discussion | On the ground

social justice

03/11/2011 4:25 pm

F451

F451

Location: Europe
Posts: 181

This area used to be home to those who worked there, earning modest incomes carrying out work vital to the British economy. Now it's home to centres vital to the world economy, and home to some who work in those roles blackmailing the economy with threats of withdrawal if forced to pay tax.

Those earning modest incomes servicing those earning the higher ones, may soon find themselves priced out of the area, homeless and unemployed.

Yet the courts have agreed to ban future protests by 'people unknown' against business corruption, tax avoidance, and explotation from being held in the area.

Has the balance within our society tipped to far one way?

Unsuitable or offensive? Report this discussion

Post a reply

Sort: Newest first | Oldest first

Author

Message

To whom it may concern

To whom it may concern

Location: Home Counties
Posts: 32

03/11/2011 7:39 pm

Canary Wharf was built like a fortress and is the iconic home of 80's excess, inidividualism, consumerism, and debt funded fantasy - of course the courts would prohibit people from gathering to protest there, imagine the potential loss of electronic wealth.

Unsuitable or offensive? Report this reply

Mr Reasonable

Mr Reasonable

Posts: 2

04/11/2011 12:17 pm

Surely the Police, FSA, HMRC and The Government deal with business corruption, tax avoidance, and exploitation?

Won't they?

Unsuitable or offensive? Report this reply

Anonymous

Anonymous

04/11/2011 1:06 pm

Who wanted to protest there?

Unsuitable or offensive? Report this reply

F451

F451

Location: Europe
Posts: 181

04/11/2011 1:38 pm

@Mr Reasonable

Have they?

So why would they now?

@Nonny

People Unknown according to the injunction

@Alpha

Do you see the power of injunctions over planning enforcement now?

Unsuitable or offensive? Report this reply

Rate this topic

  • 1 star out of 5
  • 2 stars out of 5
  • 3 stars out of 5
  • 4 stars out of 5
  • 5 stars out of 5

You must be signed in to rate.

Post a Reply

You must sign in to rate this topic or make a post

sign in register

Why not register?

Registration allows you to sign up for newsletters, comment on articles, add posts in the forums, quiz our panel of experts, and save articles and jobs in the My IH section.

Register now

Newsletter Sign-up

More Newsletters

Most active members

People are discussing

tags 3 million, affordable homes, affordable housing, campaign, care and support, comment, Common Good, complaint, data protection, debate, Democracy, discussion, homelessness, house building, housing officer, participation, pay, public sector, rebuild, refurbish, regeneration, salaries, Shapps, sheltered housing, Supporting People

Most discussed

Most recent posts

  • From Chris, 27/04/2012 11:42 am in The maddly twittering twit

    With the games fast approaching, has anyone heard anymore from the Hairbrained Minister on this one of his many explosions in the media?

  • posted Anonymously, 27/04/2012 11:39 am in Does the 'Hastoe Experience' spell the end for Shapps 'Great Idea'?

    The proposal was batty from the outset. More about media column inches than any real positive for housing, but then that describes the Minister rather well I think.

  • From Chris, 26/04/2012 1:04 pm in Housing Action Collapse - the shape of things to come?

    I would tend to agree with you on this Jono. Indeed, from a Christian basis Jesus teaches that if you have something another person needs then you should give it to them, having faith that God will see to your own needs. This is not as silly as some may consider it in an ideal sense because if everyone behaved that way we would each be looking out for each others' needs and nobody would be left wanting.

  • From F451, 03/01/2012 3:28 pm in Minister needs to stop whinging!

    Apologies for the missing 'P' - I think someone must have taken it!

  • posted Anonymously, 03/01/2012 1:10 pm in Something seriously wrong with recruitment

    In some cases, departments could have been merged and several managers laid off, and the positions being advertised are for a single manager to oversee a wider area - so the picture may not be as simple as you make out.

  • From F451, 19/12/2011 12:05 pm in Council Housing is not subsidised

    It has always struck me as a little odd how desparate the Blue People are to cling to the notion of subsidy as another hammer to beat tenants with - yet they refuse to digest the fact that the financial arrangement has now been reveresed, or to accept the fact that many other parts of life is subsidised, but because this supports private sector profit appears to be acceptable.

  • From F451, 19/12/2011 11:09 am in Tenancy: where do I stand?

    The other side of these questions is - why were such matters not made clear before the ballot to chose the new landlord (or was there no choice offered, and no ballot taken - so tenants were just treated like so much cattle and sold to their new owners?)

  • From F451, 09/12/2011 4:08 pm in Announcing - nothing

    The other point about this flurry of callers is that people are still game for the something for nothing culture introduced by Thatcher and perpertuated by Blair.

  • posted Anonymously, 17/11/2011 2:18 pm in How Green is that Council

    Council leader Tony Ball, “It is about being involved and getting what is best for the borough because some development of the site is inevitable.”

  • From F451, 04/11/2011 1:38 pm in Protest Banned from Canary Wharf

    @Mr Reasonable