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Comment 1 | From: hepworth | Date: 4 September 2009, 13:17

Good for him. He obviously sees the truth.

Comment 2 | From: Nick B | Date: 4 September 2009, 16:16

Well out of 120 councillors this solitary idiot shows that very few are convinced by the argument of the EDL(BNP) that they are not racist. I hope the police do contact you - be sure to tell them about the group of football hooligans and racists that plan to cause a riot on the streets of the city tomorrow. Let them know that they could do a bit more than cancelling peacefull concerts, such as the one organised by Birmingham united, and should ban any assembly in Birmingham city centre by groups of thugs.

Comment 3 | From: harry coney | Date: 4 September 2009, 16:58

"Good for him. He obviously sees the truth" What truth, I might ask, but I should not feed the trolls from Stormfront. Thanks for trolling Hope Not Hate, you neo-nazi loser! I hope Hope Not Hate approach David Cameron complaining about this councillor, since the Conservative Party leader claims to oppose racism.

Comment 4 | From: David S | Date: 4 September 2009, 17:10

I've just looked up Cllr Osborn. He represents the mostly white lower class Weoley ward (the next ward to me) which is a BNP threatened ward and the address he has given is in one of Brum's most multiracial suburbs! How ironic. What a misguided fool and a stuck in the past misguided fool at that!

Comment 5 | From: Paul | Date: 4 September 2009, 21:00

It is both bizarre and worrying that Birmingham City Council council would ban a peaceful music concert that would have attracted tourists into the town, increasing local business in the cafés, bars and shops, while allowing a gang of football hooligans, some of whom will inevitably arrive armed with weapons, shouting illegal racist slogans, which will scare off shoppers and cause up to 70% loss of trade for this one day, plus will put the lives of shoppers and the police themselves at risk. Allowing racist soccer thugs itching for a fight to arrive freely without arrest in the city of Birmingham while banning locals from celebrating diversity through music, seems to suggest that the local authority don't care less about community cohesion, trade, public safety, or common sense for that matter. They're violent racist football hooligans for god-sake, the same sort of scumbags who caused havoc and devestation at the West Ham versus Millwall match. After this match, fingers were pointed at how this was allowed to happen, and yet, unless the council, police and government reach stringently at the last minute with a banning order, far worse trouble could happen in Birmingham. Trouble that could so easily have been avoided! I hope any businesses who report loss of trade because of violence and disorder will sue the council and their insurers, if possible. Presumably the racist hooligans will be drinking all day in local pubs before trashing them, like what happened outside the West Ham ground, but there are no plans to shut pubs early. Licensing bodies could have forced pubs bad reputations to close early, but this once again hasn't been done, which means once again there are more questions than answers. Whatever happened to the British Transport Police's Football Intelligence Unit, and why are they not going to be monitoring the trains between Luton and Birmingham to arrest known trouble makers? Nor are there plans to check trains arriving at the station for bail-jumping banned soccer criminals, who last time were permitted to shield their faces from cameras with ski-masks and the like, to stop them being identified in-front of camera for breaking ASBOS. This fiasco is extremely farsical, and makes a mockery of modern, tolerant twenth-first century Britain. Convicted soccer criminal lowlifes shouldn't be allowed to arrive where they wish, willy-nilly, inciting race riots. What indeed is the world coming to??? The police, the government, and most of all, Birmingham City Council have a lot to answer for, and if a riot happens, and there is another Scarman-style enquiry, nobody in positions of authority can childishly play dumb and claim they didn't see a riot happening. It just won't wash, not after 2500 plus letters of petition. Hope Not Hate have campaigned and petitioned the authorities to ban the EDL Casuals march on grounds of racial and religious incitement, and public safety 'til they are blue in the face, and yet, all complaints have met a brick wall of silence. I have no truck with conspiracy theories as most are absolutely useless, but it makes you wander whether state-approved Islamophobia is an integral part of shoring-up the War on Terror, while the body count for the Afganistan conflict continues to rise...

Comment 6 | From: Harry Coney | Date: 5 September 2009, 17:46

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/8239818.stm It's no surprise that the BBC are helping the EDL Casuals propaganda by repeating stupid claims that they urged their supporters not to use violence. Nowhere did the fash-friendly BBC admit that the group contained a large number of football hooligans. This must be because the EDL has close ties to their neo-Nazi darlings the BNP. Why are the BBC running scared of the BNP? Is it because lots of BBC journalists are on Redwatch, by any chance?

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