A group of voluntary organisations made an emergency decision today to save books and materials that would definitely have been destroyed by Tower Hamlets Council.

This come sin the wake of East End wide programme of cut backs and reductions of the formerly public resources.

The irony is that the cutbacks are not being caused by any lack of resources. Tower Hamlets Council is being seen increasingly as a brazen tool for the destruction of everything decent in society.

The Council is already embroiled in the huge confrontation, ironically very near the site of the now-closed Whitechapel public library - with the community opposing the Crossrail holes in the area.

Then there is ongoing discourse about how the Council brought the Crossrail problem to the area.

Then there is the row over Tower Hamlets Council's dubious programme of transferring of Council housing stock to practically private conglomerates of housing stock controllers.

Then there are the very poor results by a very large numbers of pupils attending Tower Hamlets Council-controlled Schools.

The closure of the Whitechapel Library is being interpreted as the inevitable consequence of Tower Hamlets Council become an agency for profiteering, looting outsiders, Big Business, who have been eyeing the properties in the East End that is worth much more than their ordinary occupants n long term, leaseholders can afford.

This is the latest episode in the saga of the social destrcion of the East End under the Tony Blair regime.