As London tribunal finds Tower Hamlets Council guilty, how many other cases DO exist of the Council's callousness?

CRASS act by Crossrail hole plot-inviting clique on Tower Hamlets Council, EXPOSED in a tribunal case verdict today...

The crassness of the controlling clique on Tower Hamlets Council is a theme that the Khoodeelaar! campaign against Crossrail hole plot has pointed out right from the start of our campaign in January 2004.

We have said that Tower Hamlets Council is controlled by a clique that is corrupt. That the Council has been in the corrupt clique's control for most of the time. That decisions made by the corrupt clique are by definition corrupt and or inappropriate and or wasteful;.

This we have said all along and despite the fact that the so-called ‘local’ newspaper, the East London IDIOTISER keeps claiming to be publishing accurate reports about the behaviour of the council when the truth is that the Idiotiser is suppressing the true behaviour of the clique. And of the totally plaint ‘opposition’.


The Conservatives are NOt being treated here as ‘Opposition’. More on the Tower Hamlets Council 'Conservatives' shortly.


Here we publish an item from 24.dash web site which is self explanatory:-



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Council worker in line for £1 million pay out in pension claim battle

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com
in Local Government

Wednesday 2nd July 2008 - 3:54pm

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Council worker in line for £1 million pay out in pension claim battle

A council worker made redundant six months before qualifying for a pension payout could receive £1 million compensation after victory at an employment tribunal today.

John Wooster, 50, from Chigwell, Essex, worked for Tower Hamlets council in east London for 33 years from the age of 16.

He was made redundant months before becoming eligible for a lump sum and pension payments.

Today Stratford Employment Tribunal found that he was unfairly dismissed and a victim of age discrimination.

Mr Wooster said: "This is a great victory. I really hope that this will stop the council from treating anyone else in the appalling way that it has treated me.

"I devoted 33 years of my working life to the council and it repaid me by dismissing me so that it would save money by not paying me my pension entitlements."

The council had claimed that Mr Wooster was a temporary employee while he worked as a senior consultation officer on secondment at East End Homes, a registered social landlord.

The firm offered to pay his salary until he reached the age of 50, but Tower Hamlets refused and he was dismissed on December 29 2006.

Solicitor Helen Murphie said: "Mr Wooster started work with the council when he was 16 and continued to work his way up the ladder until he was 49 and a half. Knowing that he would be entitled to his pension and a lump sum if he were made redundant upon reaching the age of 50, the council deliberately refused to redeploy him and dismissed him immediately."

Judge Pritchard-Witts said the tribunal had "no doubt" that it was Mr Wooster's age that had caused his dismissal.

Mr Wooster followed in the footsteps of his father, Tom, and grandfather, also John, in working for the council.

Wooster Gardens in Poplar, east London, are named after Mr Wooster's grandfather, who was once mayor of Poplar.

The 50-year-old is now claiming £1 million in compensation for loss of employment until his age of retirement at 65, loss of pension, and injury to feelings.

The amount he will be awarded will be decided at a later hearing.

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