British National Party Budget 2009/2010
Compiled and Presented by
Councillor Robert Bailey, Mr Chris Forster
Introduction
The British National Party is delivering its budget for 2009/10 when Britain is facing economic meltdown. The Labour Party and Gordon Brown promised an end to boom and bust and this has now been exposed as a lie.
The duty of this council is to provide essential services to the boroughs residents. This Labour council has wasted money on immigrants, employing more middle managers, non jobs, self promotion, and political correctness. The residents of this borough are sick to the back teeth of this mismanagement of their money and demand a return to fiscal prudence and commonsense.
The BNP budget recognizes that this council cannot afford to house and provide services to all sorts of migrants the majority who are only here temporarily and who provide no benefits to the local economy. It also recognizes the failure and poison of political correctness and multiculturalism and the cost of it to local residents. The BNP budget furthermore seeks where possible to do away with agency and contracting services and instead improve service delivery by the council and where possible to employ British people in British jobs.
The BNP budget has identified significant savings of just over £10 million pounds. If implemented the BNP budget would mean a reduction of council tax by nearly 4%. The budget also includes projects which would deliver major savings of tens of millions of pounds for years to come.
Labours budget on the other hand offers a freeze in council tax yet an increase in basic rent and service charges by nearly 7%. Communal heating charges are set to go up by an unprecedented 10%. The idea that you can offer a council tax freeze whilst putting up council rent and communal charges is obscene and underhand. The BNP budget would not only reduce council tax it would freeze council service charges and communal heating charges
The BNP budget proposes as follows:
Adult & Community Services
Passenger Transport Services
We will make £200,000 pounds available for eco vehicles to eliminate the cost of paying for private taxi services.
Older Persons – Commissioned Services
This Labour council will increase the costs of meals delivered to the elderly residents of the borough by private contractors. The BNP will seek to reduce the costs of providing meals on wheels by bringing the service in-house and aim to deliver more meals to the poor and elderly people of this borough. We do not anticipate any extra costs from this change but savings to be made in the long term.
CCTV, Community Safety and Parks Police, Substance Misuse and Youth Offending Service
These functions will be put under the management of the Head of Environmental & Enforcement services bringing an administrative and support saving of £200,000.
Community & Development
Voluntary organisations which are racist and discriminatory in their ethos and operation and not accessible to the entire taxpaying population will be axed.
These include:
- Ethnic Minority Partnership Association
- Barking Muslim & Cultural Society
- London Francophone Programme
- B & D African Welfare Association
- Praxis International Research
- Somali Women’s Association
- Yu Hua Chinese Association
- International Gospel & Health Group
It is anticipated that axing these grants will save in excess of 250,000 pounds to the taxpayer this year and considerable sums in the future.
Community Halls
The running of community halls will be brought back in-house. We will reduce the 700,000 pounds deficit to 350,000 pounds by reducing hourly charges and properly marketing the facilities to commercial and community groups.
Equalities & Diversity
The BNP will not fund activities which are an unnecessary burden on the taxpayer and every other council department. Moving people from these non jobs and removing this politically correct nonsense for council business will save 200,000 pounds.
Children’s Services Department
Family & Targeted Support
The BNP believes that children in Education require discipline, not social workers and, to this end this unit will be scrapped and any residual function will be picked up by other departments. Saving of 750,000 pounds.
Schools (Capital Borrowing – Non Budget Item)
It is proposed by the BNP to build a school catering for all children with special needs on Barking Riverside. The present arrangement of delivering services to these children through a mixture of service providers and in various locations causes upset and distress to children and their parents. It also equates to variable standards. The Council Finance Department has estimated that the sum of 20 million pounds would enable the building of a state of the art facility for the children in this borough. The cost of borrowing would be insignificant with many benefits accruing to the council and the parents of the children. Anticipated annual savings of 5 million pounds can be made. The new school will be placed under the management of Trinity Special Schools who will also be encouraged to make the school profitable in the long term.
Residential Care Providers (Capital Borrowing – Non Budget Item)
We will build a 15 million pounds specialist boarding school on council owned land and with a 2 million pound staff budget and cost of capital, save 10 million pounds per year.
Other Care Providers (Non Budget Item)
Whilst this is not a direct saving to the borough’s taxpayers, as the service is centrally funded, it is in the borough resident’s broader interests not to attract asylum seekers or migrants to come and live here. We will eliminate the asylum service which costs 4 million pounds a year to run.
Catering Services
It is anticipated that savings of 100,000 pounds can be made by chopping the supply of halal meat to all educational facilities.
Customers Services Department
Refuse Collection
It is recognised that the introduction of wheelie bins should reduce the amount of employees in refuse collection. However, it is intended that there should be no redundancies and that the staff surplus should be given other tasks in dealing with refuse and recycling to increase the green credentials of the borough.
Cleansing
We will allow 200,000 pounds to fund the purchase of new sweeping and cleansing vehicles.
Vehicle Fleet
We will make available £1,000,000 to fund the purchase of eco vehicles and 400,000 pounds for staffing and running costs making a saving of 100,000 pounds against taxis and minicabs . We will increase the vehicle pool by including the Mayor’s cars as available for any appropriate council use.
Environmental Health & Trading Standards
We will make 200,000 pounds available to recruit extra Environmental Health Officers to focus on food hygiene standards.
Enforcement
We have detailed earlier that Enforcement will take on some functions from other departments. In line with its new emphasis it will take over the security contract from TAG K9 which is estimated to be worth £2.9 million pounds in 08/09. We would also recruit 12 more street wardens as part of the new Barking and Dagenham Enforcement Section at a cost of 500,000 pounds.
Cemeteries
We will make 300,000 pounds for the construction of visitors’ centers and toilet facilities at the borough’s three cemeteries.
Parks & Open Spaces (Operational)
We will place a freeze on any increases to the charges for sports facilities. This will be a cost of 25,000 pounds.
Arboriculture
We will save 25,000 pounds of agency costs by investing 80,000 pounds in machinery and staff to do the job.
Registration Service
We will balance the books of the Registration Service, making a saving of 50,000 pounds by increasing the charge for Citizenship ceremonies.
National Non-Domestic Rates
We will apply a discretionary 10% discount for existing and new payers of this tax. The BNP understands that in these economic circumstances, the council should help the business community as much as it can.
General Housing (Non Budget Item)
The council currently has 520 families in private landlord rented accommodation as emergency housing. This is costing the borough in the region of 6 million pounds per annum. The BNP will provide a temporary accommodation site based on unused brownfield sites developed with mains drainage and electricity at a cost of 1 million pounds and hard standing and paths at a cost of 1 million pounds and equipped with previously used caravans at a cost of 500,000 pounds. 500,000 pounds will be allowed for management and maintenance of the site producing an annual saving of 3 million pounds. It is anticipated that this site could be in operation within six months delivering savings this budget year.
We will scrap the MCIL Scheme which discriminates against local people and and return to the points based system. The aim is to put local people at the front of the queue for council housing.
Regeneration
Public Conveniences
Management of the public conveniences facilities will be put under Environment, bringing about a saving of 20,000 pounds through rationalisation.
Skills Learning & Enterprise Services
Although the 630,000 pounds costs are reclaimed from agencies, we will cease to operate this unit as it is likely to be an attraction to refugees and to attract them to the borough. It then ultimately leads them to draw on the resources of the borough.
Olympic Unit
We will scrap the Olympic Unit saving 300,000 pounds. We will define the objectives within the general role of sports centres allowing 150,000 pounds to do this, making a net saving of 150,000 pounds.
Events
We will reduce the budget from 400,000 pounds to 200,000 pounds making a saving of 200,000 pounds. We will place a function of presenting free classical concerts at the Barking Festival and at the Dagenham Show on the Leisure, Arts and Events section. There will also be provision for a St George’s Day celebration.
Commercial & Other Properties
To address the economic climate we will reduce new and existing rents to maintain existing tenants and attract new ones. Whilst we would envisage this would not result in any net cost, we would allow for a reduction of 200,000 pounds in income as part of the cost of maintaining the local economy.
Withdrawal from Commercial Rented Premises
The BNP does not believe that the council should be paying private landlords for use of buildings. In line with this philosophy, a BNP council would withdraw from all rented private premises. We would anticipate savings in the commercial rented sector of 500,000 pounds.
Car Parks
We will build a new public car park on the site of Rogers Roaddepot to serve this industrial area and Dagenham stations which will cost 600,00 pounds.
Housing Services (Non Budget Item)
It is not fair that council tenants pick up the bill for Labour’s mismanagement of the economy and Council Housing stock. The BNP unfortunately has no control over rent increases. Labour is putting up basic rent and tenant service charges, an average of 6.78% for 2009/10, which equates to an extra £5 a week council tenants will have to find. The BNP will freeze the services part of the rent increase at its current level. The BNP will not put up communal heating charges which are due to increase by 10 per cent.
Resources Department
Partnerships & Communications
We will make 10,000 pounds available for new machinery for the print unit and 50,000 for additional staff. We will reduce the external print budget by 200,000 pounds by in-house printing of all documents and the elimination of The Citizen, People Matters, Spotlight in hard copy. All Council journals would in the future be available on line. Other necessary information will be compiled by the council for a cheap as possible broadsheet for printing by the print unit. The Council broadsheet would be impartial and restricted to council information matters. It certainly would not aim to replace our excellent local newspapers.
Human Resources
Whilst we appreciate the need to run a Personnel Department, we see no benefit to the public from Gender Equality Schemes or Equality & Diversity Programmes and to account for this, we will slash the budget by 1,000,000 pounds. Although we note from the officers that the 2008/09 service budget is 357,000 pounds we are of the view that this subject, together with celebrating diversity is of such importance to the council that we are inclined to believe that the real figure is much higher.
Marketing and Communications
Marketing and Communications department will make savings of one million pounds. All staff and non staff adverts will be directed towards the Councils Internet website or for inclusion in the new council weekly broadsheet produced in house. Total expected savings £2,000,000.
Strategic Finance & Audit
We will make 150,000 pounds available to the Internal Audit section to recruit staff that will specialize in cost effectiveness studies.
Kestrel Project (Non Budget Item)
The Kestrel Project is to be axed from the Capital Programme saving 139,000 pounds. The money will be used for the renaming of all streets and buildings dedicated to Labour Party activists and members.
Conclusion
If this budget is accepted by the assembly it would mark a return to commonsense and the putting of local people first in the queue for housing and services. This budget is financially sustainable and robust. It would deliver millions of pounds of savings not just this year but in consequent years. It is business friendly, provides jobs opportunities for local people, improves the boroughs green credentials, and puts money back in local people’s pockets. It aims to abolish political correctness and multiculturalism which fosters racism and separatism and which works against the interests of British people. If adopted it will mark a watershed in politics in this country and provide a beacon of hope to the people of this Great nation. Thank You.
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