Protestors plan Spalding march

Protesters who gathered in Boston to highlight problems with immigration have vowed the next stop will be Spalding.

More than 300 people attended the protest last Saturday, some holding banners such as ‘Free Us From The Shackles of Europe’ and ‘Get Back Our Country’.

Now the Boston Protest Group have bowed to pressure from residents in Spalding to hold an event in the town next year.

Organiser Dean Everitt said: “We are in the very early stages of arranging things but are looking at March. There have been several requests for us to do it and it’s time to come to Spalding now.

“Then if the Government and councils still won’t listen to us, we’ll take it to Westminster.”

Mr Everitt said he was delighted with the turnout in Boston, which was a static protest. He said: “It was a peaceful protest. There was no trouble at all.

“We even had a migrant worker in the crowd talking to protestors – it was a really good atmosphere.”

The protest was planned for last year but was cancelled after the borough council agreed to set up a task force.

A report on population change was published as a result, but campaigners said it had “not gone far enough” and the Government still needed to listen.

Protestors are planning a march in Spalding and Mr Everitt believes it can’t come soon enough.

Mr Everitt, said: “I am a landworker and it’s almost impossible for an English man to get work now.

“Migrant workers can afford 16-hour contacts on minimum wage and then be laid off for a day because several of them live in a house together.

“When they are out of work they gather in town centres drinking on the streets which upsets many people.

“The days of time and a half for overtime have gone – companies are making big bucks out of it.

“In 10 years time when our kids are looking for jobs there will be none.

“We need full-time jobs and until this is addressed we will keep raising awareness about it.

”Councils and the Government must pull together to look after our towns.”

Nick Worth, deputy leader of South Holland District Council, attended one of many scrutiny committee meetings in Boston to give input on the situation in Spalding.

He said: “I don’t think migrants cause that much of a problem in the Spalding area, but this is a democracy and so if campaigners want to come here and have a peaceful protest that’s fine.

“However, we would hope they speak to us and the police first so arrangements can be made for it to go off safely.”

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No Faith in the System afterToddler's attackers escape jail

A COUPLE who hit a two-year-old boy so hard he was left with brain injuries after he would not eat his dinner have avoided prison.

The toddler was attacked by Alix Bluck, 22, who along with then partner James Bluck, 35, was supposedly caring for the child.

A shocked visitor said the child looked like a "Romanian orphan" as he lay on a mattress in a bare room.
When the child – who cannot be identified for legal reasons – was taken to hospital in Glasgow, medics discovered multiple bruising.

He was severely underweight and had brain haemorrhages and permanently reduced vision in his right eye from his ordealYesterday at the High Court in Edinburgh, the pair, of Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, avoided jail.

Alix Bluck was sentenced to 100 hours of unpaid work in the community and a three year supervision order. Her ex-partner was also ordered to perform 100 hours unpaid work and told he would be supervised for one year

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BRITISH prisoners are not eating bacon or showering naked in jail for fear of upsetting Muslim radicals.

Extremist inmates are conducting a campaign of fear and intimidation against other cons at a top-security prison in a bid to persuade them to convert to Islam.

The religion bans men from seeing other males’ private parts. Eating pork is also prohibited.

Research conducted by the Cambridge Institute of ­Criminology on behalf of the Ministry of Justice claims “heavy players” among the Muslim population at Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire are bullying other lags. Professor Alison Liebling, who led the study, said: “Non- Muslim prisoners described wearing underpants in the showers out of ‘respect and fear’ and some Muslim prisoners described a form of intimidation exerted over frying bacon in the kitchens.”

The report also revealed white “old lags” who were once prison power brokers had been reduced to onlookers by the arrival at the jail of black gang members, young white drug users and Muslims.

Ms Liebling added: “The ordinary Muslim prisoners are horrified by what the heavies are doing under the umbrella of faith. It is not about faith, it is the phenomenon of a new source of power to which others are attracted.”

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The terrifying world of child brides

Devastating images show girls young enough to be in pre-school who are married off to older men 

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This scumbag thinks he can resign and fade away resigns, to keep his pension and likely pay off.

Head of Rochdale Social Services resigns and avoids disciplinary action over child grooming gang scandal

The head of children's services at a Greater Manchester council at the centre of a child abuse scandal has resigned - one week after a damning review into the case.

Steve Garner, director of Targeted Services at Rochdale Borough Council, has handed his notice in, the council announced.

In his resignation letter, Garner wrote of his 'many fond memories' of Rochdale.
Having left the council, it appears he will not face any disciplinary charges for any issues that happened under his watch.

Mr Garner, who has been in position for three years and worked as a manager in children's social care before his promotion to director, was in charge at the time of the scandal, which saw at least 47 children used by an Asian gang for sexual gratification.

Nine Asian men were jailed this year for between four and 19 years for grooming young white girls in and around the town - picking them up from the school gates and taking them to houses and flats to be plied with alcohol and drugs before being passed around for sex.

Forty-seven children were identified as victims of the exploitation that left many of their lives in tatters.

A report into the investigation found that the local council and police force received 127 warnings from NHS staff in the years up to and including 2010, about children as young as 10 at risk of abuse.

Rochdale social services, police and the Crown Prosecution Service failed to shut down the sex ring - turning a blind eye and dismissing victims as prostitutes, the damning report into the scandal found last week.

But the council said Garner had not stepped down as a result of last week's report but that he felt the time was right for a 'new challenge' - and talked of his 'fond memories' of the job.

Resignation letter: This email was sent around Rochdale Council on Thursday morning

Last week the Rochdale Borough Safeguarding Children Board (RBSCB) said 'deficiencies' in the way children's social care responded to the victims' needs in Rochdale were caused by 'patchy' training of frontline staff.

The 29-page report into child sexual exploitation (CSE) also said social workers, police and prosecutors 'missed opportunities' to stop the child exploitation ring abusing young girls.

The review came four months after nine Asian men were convicted of the systematic grooming and sexual abuse of white girls in Heywood and Rochdale.

Jim Taylor, chief executive at the council, said: 'The council is undertaking a review of senior management and the service director of Targeted Services has decided that the time is now right for him to move on to a new challenge.

'The last few years have been challenging and demanding for Children's Social Care Services.


'The service director has been considering his options for some time, and following the safeguarding board's thematic review of multi-agency responses to sexual exploitation of children, he believes the time is right to allow someone else to continue to take forward the recommendations.'

The gang of nine men received jail sentences of between four and 19 years in May from a judge who said they treated their victims 'as though they were worthless and beyond any respect'.

Girls were given alcohol, food and money in return for sex but there were times when violence was used.

Police said the victims were from 'chaotic', 'council estate' backgrounds and as many as 50 girls could have been victims of the gang.

Labour MP for Rochdale Simon Danczuk said the council should not be allowing senior managers to 'sneak off without being held to account for their failings'.

He said: 'Steve Garner has worked for 11 years with Rochdale Children's Social Care Services with the last three as service director.#

'Obviously, questions hang over his role in the culture of neglect within social services, which let down so many young girls.

'The council has to explain his part in this and I will also be calling for him to be brought before the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee for questioning.

'While he talks of pursuing new opportunities and going with fond memories of Rochdale the reality is he leaves behind young girls who are still coming to terms with the terrible abuse that his department deliberately turned a blind eye to.'

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Ex-Servicemen homeless because of immigrants?

Is it true that homeless ex-Servicemen cannot get into shelters because these are full of homeless immigrants?

A friend rang me the other day and followed up with an email about care of (or rather, lack of care of) homeless ex-servicemen

This is not a new story, regrettably. I had known that perhaps up to 25% of the homeless were veterans, a disturbing enough statistic. But I had not heard what what my friend went on to tell me.

And I should say that she is a former senior diplomat, who has since worked unpaid for a charity, and no ‘pushover’ when it comes to hard-luck stories or urban myths.



Disgraceful: It is estimated that around a quarter of those currently homeless are ex- servicemen

She had come out of Sloane Square tube station to find a man with a placard declaring he was ex-services and homeless. She interrogated him. He had been with the Royal Artillery for seventeen years, serving with 29 Commando Regiment, he said. His name was Stephen.

He gave her his army number, which she subsequently checked with contacts, and the facts tallied.

He was now homeless and had no source of income, he said: the splendid charity ‘Veterans Aid’, which for years has been struggling to cope as a primary point of help to men like Stephen, could only offer him a bed in ten days’ time, he told her.

He had been to SSAFA, to Citizens Advice etc, who signposted him on, and then to ‘Shelter’. And here’s where the story really begins to disgust – to say the least.

He said that all the civilian shelters were full of Somalis and Poles – which my friend tells me, according to her colleagues in the charity sector, is true, except that in rural areas it is more Somalis than Poles.

And it is, of course, true that until you have an address you cannot receive benefits.

Now, I cannot begin to think how a former soldier who was good enough to serve in the Commando Gunners for seventeen years ends up on the streets, but that’s another issue.

I can understand how the purblind immigration and profligate welfare policies of successive governments have made jobs and housing harder to get for British people (and abhor those policies).

What I simply cannot understand – if it is true – is how we have arrived at a situation where our charities are being overwhelmed by immigrant need to the exclusion of our own, as in the case of Stephen.

Is there really an absolute legal right to come to this country to beg? If there is, has anyone calculated the potential cost? If there isn’t, why are our charities having to work in this way?

The old saying that ‘Charity begins at home’ cannot be used to deny charity to those outside the home; – a destitute Pole or Somali deserves the Samaritan’s charity.

What the saying means, however, is that unless there is true charity within the family there can be none worthwhile beyond it.



A vicious circle: Without an address you can not apply for benefits, or in most cases, get a job

And there is such a thing as a national family – of which ex-servicemen are particularly honoured members.

My friend got in touch with me because of my RightMinds blog, adding, however, that there might not be enough to write about without a lot of research; – ‘But I fear there will be many more such cases.’

Of course there will be many more such cases after the last decade of what servicemen have been through. And - exacerbating the consequences of combat stress - we are about to throw out a lot of soldiers under the recently announced redundancy schemes.

I say "redundancy schemes", but many soldiers will be leaving without a compensatory penny - and for the first time will be made to find somewhere for themselves to live.

Now, you may say that "so does everyone coming of age"; but in many cases we have "institutionalized" our servicemen to a great deal in order to get them to do what they do. In other words, we've made them stop thinking of themselves so that they'll keep going back and doing their duty on operations.

We should not underestimate this factor in the lives of men who have served, say, a dozen years or so.

Which is why it’s worth raising the issue here now – at least to see what sort of perception of a problem there is.

As for the research, I suspect that Mail Online readers may have some facts and figures...

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Thousands of chickens slaughtered for religious custom in 'appalling' conditions on Bovingdon farm

 He was concerned when he saw the chicken slaughter house and some Asian men, not wearing protective clothing or hairnets, killing chickens. There was blood on the floor and between 50 and 100 dead chickens piled up in the open air. Bloody water from a pipe was being discharged into a stream and there were hundreds of rotting feathers and lumps of meat.

 

More than 130,000 chickens a year were being killed on a farm in "appalling conditions" in Bovingdon, a court heard yesterday.

Farmer Robert Skerry, 54, operated an illegal slaughterhouse at Game Farm in Bovingdon where his customers slaughtered the birds without wearing protective clothing, carcases were left in the open air and bloody water was discharged into a stream.

Some of those who bought his birds came from different parts of the country and killed them in his shed according to religious custom.

When questioned by an Environmental Health Officer one man, who said he ran a kebab van, said he was not slaughtering the birds for his business but for his family's personal consumption.

Opening the case at St Albans crown court on Tuesday Richard Heller, prosecuting, said: "This is one of the most serious cases of operating an unlawful slaughter house."

He said an investigation was launched after PC Richard Ballinger called at Game Farm on Maple Road on an unrelated matter on May 4 2010.

He was concerned when he saw the chicken slaughter house and some Asian men, not wearing protective clothing or hairnets, killing chickens. There was blood on the floor and between 50 and 100 dead chickens piled up in the open air. Bloody water from a pipe was being discharged into a stream and there were hundreds of rotting feathers and lumps of meat.

PC Ballinger spoke to Dacorum Council's Environmental Health officers and on May 12 Environmental Health Officer Joanne Lee-Dadd visited the farm and found: "appalling conditions of hygiene".

Mr Heller went on: "There were live crates of chickens in the slaughter shed. Live animals should not witness the slaughter of others. In the shed there was dirt and mould on the ceiling and dirt on the wall.

"There was no hot water basin and no wash basin for hands or equipment. There were two open drains and a crack in the window which would allow flying insects in.

"A portable toilet was filthy and rat hole was discovered between the toilet and the shed."

Environmental Health Officers returned to the farm on May 24 and spoke to the man who ran a kebab van,who said he was slaughtering chickens for his family to eat.

Mr Heller said: "Thousands and thousands of chickens were being processed and it is highly unlikely that none of them were being marketed for general consumption. In excess of 10,000 were being slaughtered a month. The scale of the operation was significant."

On May 26 the Environmental Health Officers put a notice in place ordering the slaughtering to stop.

When questioned the farmer said he was paying 42p for each bird but refused to say how much he was receiving. He said on a bad day he would have three or four customers, but on a good day he could have 100.

Mr Skerry pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to comply with legislation in a prosecution brought by Dacorum council before Watford magistrates court on July 18 last year. The case was sent to St Ablans crown court for sentence.

Defence barrister Jeremy Barton said Mr Skerry's had been born on the farm, had lived there all his life and lived a "frugal existence" with his 90 year old widowed mother.

He said he had always sold live chickens, but in recent years there was a market for the slaughter of chickens on the land which was driving by the Asian community. "Customers would slaughter chickens based on religious beliefs and they were happy, " said Mr Barton.

The farmer had been prosecuted in 2004 for allowing chickens slaughtered on his premises to be sold for commercial purposes, but was not aware that the law had been tightened to prevent people supplying meat from unregistered slaughter houses for private use.

At the time he said he was making a profit of between £20,000 and £25,00 a year from the chicken business and was paying himself between £100 to £150 a week.

With the closing of the slaughter business he said the farmer had suffered financially and was in poor health, having suffered a heart attack.

Judge Stephen Warner asked how much the farm was worth. Mr Skerry replied: "About a million at today's prices. I inherited it from my father."

Sentence was adjourned until 29 June.

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