Trades council raps London missiles plan

London’s trade unionists joined the campaign to keep missiles off private flats’ rooftops, after residents in the private gated flats in Bow, east London, received a leaflet warning them that a team of 10 soldiers and police will be stationed during the Olympics at the building, which is home to 700 people.

Greenwich and Bexley Trades Council spokesman Dave Putson said while the missiles themselves make the flats potential targets for a terrorist attack, the British defence officials haven’t talked to locals about it and treated the project as nothing more than “a great PR [public relations] exercise.”

“It is fair to say that (Greenwich and Bexley and Bow Quarter residents) are both opposed to this ridiculous ‘boys and their big toys’ plan from a bunch of gung-ho halfwits,” he said.

The MoD has confirmed that six sites, including two residential blocks of flats, would be tested as launch pads for missile systems in order to combat air threats during the 2012 Olympic Games.

Potential sites include the Lexington Building in Tower Hamlets and the Fred Wigg Tower in Waltham Forest, both in east London, Blackheath Common and Oxleas Wood, both in south east London, William Girling Reservoir in the Lea Valley Reservoir Chain in Enfield and Barn Hill at Netherhouse Farm in Epping Forest.

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