EDO (UK) Directors Resign en Mass. Paul Hills LAST One Left

ITTs a Knockout | 17.05.2009 21:58 | Smash EDO | South Coast

Final cracks in EDO MBM appear to be showing as Brighton arms firm EDO MBM's holding company EDO (UK) Ltd loses all but one director.

On 12 May 2009 three directors resigned from EDO (UK) Ltd, the immediate holding company that own all five million shares in EDO MBM and sister company EDO Artisan in the US, and is in turn owned by ITT.

This brings the number of directors that have resigned from EDO (UK) to 10 since June 2008.

Paul Hills remains and is now sole remaining director and secretary of the company, the legal minimum under the Companies Act. He is also one of just three remaining directors of EDO MBM with Anthony Roberts and John Eaton

EDO (UK) has lost Joseph Daniel (assistant controller of ITT Defense USA), James Barber (President of ITT intergrated systems and business development manager ) , and Bruce C Scott (president of ITT Defence International).

Is this a sign? Did the Smash EDO street party of well over 1000 people 6 days earlier decide it for them, or was it Paul Hills public declarations in The Argus that his company had nothing to do with the arms trade, and was in fact only trying to drop bombs 'safely' with their large range of bomb racks, and arming units?

Who can tell? Perhaps another whistleblower will come forward and let us know.

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Previously on imc uk
March 2009
Sir Robert Walmsley, Anne Davidson, Philip Davies resign

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423640.html

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Are the Mod's beating the Rockers?

18.05.2009 01:05

Don't know reasons for actions, but still respect to the people who resigned! Humans do not always act according to Darwinian reductionist motives ( are you listening Dawkins?).
'Happily enough, competition is not the rule either in the animal world or in mankind. It is limited among animals to exceptional periods, and natural selection finds better fields for its activity. Better conditions are created by the elimination of competition by means of mutual aid' (Kropotkin)

Sting

hold on a minute

18.05.2009 16:21

how exactly are dawkins and kropotkin incompatible?

pete

bloody brilliant!

19.05.2009 12:24

It's f**kin fantastic that EDO are trembling in the board room. Even if they'll claim that it's for other reasons or whatever, we know why they're crumbling. Please, I'm sick of you clever d**ks arguing Kropotkin or Goldman, or this or that. They're valid arguments on any side for anyone who gives a shit. But for me, i'm happy that EDO are on their way out. In Nottingham, Shut Down Heckler and Koch are on the campaign against the 2nd biggest small arms makers in the world. Also, a new group that I'm part of, Nottingham Arms Dump, is going to be bringing attention to Heckler and Koch.

These people won't be able to keep hiding away inside factories and warehouses and offices for ever.....Well done to everyone in SMASH EDO and their comrades and their prisoners and their whole approach so far, keep up the pressure.....bloody brilliant. Also good luck to the people on trial for last years carnival against the arms trade.

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