'AMAZING DOLE FIDDLE' screamed the Mail. 'Amazing dole swoop' echoed the Sun. Tory ministers for smashing a 'f1.5m racket' in Oxford last week.
172 of the 286 arrested were kept in jail, denied the right solicitor and 'treated as if they were guilty before being tried.' They were handed summary sentences of 30 and 60 days after a huge police operation which included setting up and staffing a complete fake DHSS office.
There is a small question. Why does it take half of Thames Valley police to discover that three hundred people are signing on from the same house? The answer is that the alleged 'racket' was not the reason for this James Bond-style operation.
Homeless people, people forced to sleep rough, had been using a hostel address to get a few extra pounds. DHSS and police knew this for years. They turned council failed to provide night shelter facilities, and prosecutions would have brought light on this embarrasing fact But the last few months were different. union was actually doing something for the unemployed of Oxford. didn't have the nerve to take on the claimants as a whole - so they picked on the section of the community - homeless people. As the claimants' union said 'the real crime these people have committed is to be homeless and unemployed.' Doesn't it make you proud of the boys in blue?
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Responding Jewish minorities, the local labour movement called for a meeting of all those against racism in the Borough. A march was organised - the biggest in Brick Lane since 1978.
claiming that it cannot revoke a permission for the stall, hide behind legalities so the racist abuse continues.
Somehow Tory Councils can always find a way of banging the left, irrespective of the legal niceties.
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