We all know that the establishment puts an enormous amount of effort into destroying the British National Party.
Thus far they have failed, but they will not give up.
We are the only party prepared to address issues that affect a large part of the electorate, one of these issues is housing.
Anyone on the waiting list for council accommodation is well aware that immigrants and asylum seekers are not only at the front of the queue but get the newest and best houses and flats.
The government has not only denied this, but accuses us of incitement to racial hatred for exposing a scandal that has been widely known for a long time.
it seems our efforts are beginning to pay off as the Daily Express reports that town hall chiefs will be given more freedom to put British-born families ahead of immigrants in the queue for council houses under new Government proposals to be unveiled this autumn.
Ministers want local authorities to ease the growing resentment among many white working class voters that newcomers are getting preferential treatment.
They want “local connections” to count in applications for social housing rather than handing out homes simply on the basis of need.
But the plan goes directly against multi-cultural equality programmes that were promoted under Labour, and it is likely to be resisted by many Labour-run councils.
Tory Housing Minister Grant Shapps yesterday acknowledged current rules for allocating social homes were breeding resentment.
He said: “It causes a great deal of concern and is very problematic for social cohesion when people find they aren’t provided with any preference when they are actually in the area they have lived in for a very long time.”
He said councils will be expected to take into account “the desire of local people” when drawing up their housing policies.
Mr Shapps added: “We plan to provide more flexibility to local authorities to judge the proper criteria for the waiting list. Apart from a limited number of prescribed cases — homelessness, for example — there should be the flexibility to write your own housing allocation criteria.”
Resentment over council housing is credited with boosting support in deprived areas for ‘extreme-Right’ organisations such as the British National Party. Recent research suggests that more than one in 10 of the country’s 3.5 million social homes goes to immigrants.
And more than £230million of taxpayers’ money is spent every year providing homes for asylum seekers. Under present rules, councils are expected to allocate council houses on the basis of need. The result is that the homeless, the elderly and families with many children living in cramped conditions tend to come first.
This means that immigrant families, which are frequently larger than their British-born counterparts may take precedence in the queue.
Around five million applicants across the country are currently on the waiting list. The rules state that immigrants must be settled in the UK, or come from an EU country to qualify for housing.
Councillor Edward Lister, Conservative leader of Wandsworth Council in south London said: “If the housing allocation rules are going to be changed, we would welcome that. We want to give a measure of priority to local residents. It builds stability in the community and keeps families together.”
We will wait to see if this proposal becomes law as this coalition government cannot be trusted to return all five of your fingers if you shake hands with them.
There is no doubt that a change in the criteria for allocation of council accommodation is long overdue.
Even if (a bloody big if) there is a sensible case for mass immigration, it doesn’t mean that these newcomers should get council housing as this undermines the weak argument about the (supposedly) economic benefit of mass immigration.
It is not a coincidence that the present and previous governments, rather than trying to defend the indefensible, denied that such discrimination was taking place and accused us of telling lies.
Unfortunately for them the huge number of indigenous Britons on the waiting list for housing means there are the same number of potential BNP supporters, and no amount of smear campaigns will convince the people they can trust the Lib Con alliance. This is why Labour Barking MP Margaret Hodge, a couple of months ago who told BNP activists to “pack up and leave”, wrote an article in the Daily Telegraph claiming that the ‘far-right’ can be defeated for good only if long term residents get priority in the assigning of council houses and benefits.
Hmmmmmm, I think she knows her goose is cooked if this “local connection” law is not passed.
GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS