A few days ago we reported that Jon Cruddas was worried about Building Schools for the Future (BSF), a government project to build new schools or renovate existing ones.
The Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham South feared that stopping this project would not only increase the shortage of school places at a time when birth-rates increased almost 100% in eight years, but it would not encourage young families to move into the borough (and Labour plans to complete the ethnic cleansing of the borough would be foiled).
Well, nationalists will be delighted to know that the project to rebuild 700 schools will be axed in a new wave of cuts after ministers were ordered to draw up ‘doomsday’ proposals to slash spending by up to 40 per cent.
Education Secretary Michael Gove will announce £5billion of cuts over the next five years by halting the Building Schools For The Future programme to overhaul run-down schools.
The decision will anger parents and teachers and could lead to the loss of thousands of jobs in the construction industry.
It comes as Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander today unveils cuts across government totalling £1.5billion.
In addition to the £1billion that will go from the school building programme this year, a further £265million will be slashed from the Department for Business, £220million from local government and a further £55million will be cut from the Home Office.
But Mr Alexander has also written to the Cabinet telling ministers to prepare for the most swingeing cuts in the history of any Western country when the spending plans are finalised in October. Ministers have been given three weeks to prepare two packages of cuts – one involving 25 per cent, and the other totalling a staggering 40 per cent reduction.
Indeed this is another blow for the Labour party in Barking & Dagenham but very good news for nationalists.
We have said before that this problem was created by the Labour when they decided to swamp the borough with immigrants in order to dilute the electoral base of the British National Party.
Without this influx of third-world colonisers there wouldn’t be a shortage of school places, and there would be no need to build new schools and the people in Barking & Dagenham know this only too well. Life for Labour councillors is going to get very tough indeed and not just because they will be facing the fury of voters.
When Labour took control of the council they planned to bring more immigrants in in order to turn Barking & Dagenham into another Newham.
However, as it is now impossible to build new schools, it will be more difficult to convince young (and larger) families to move into the borough and this means that in 2014 the BNP still has a good chance to get councillors elected.
This is why Jon Cruddas is worried, and now that the BSF project has been scrapped he will have to spend more time and energy on fighting the BNP.
Interestingly the council launched a petition to save the £270m BSF project and the Barking & Dagenham Post invited readers to support it but only 31 people bothered. (against 50 councillors):
http://www.petition.co.uk/save-school-funding-in-barking-and-dagenham
So far the school projects that have been scrapped are:
All Saints
Barking Abbey
Barking Riverside Community (PFI)
Barking Riverside Special (PFI)
Eastbrook
Eastbury
Jo Richardson
Robert Clack
Trinity Special
Warren
Dagenham Park (sample- for discussion-PFI)
Sydney Russell (sample – for discussion)
How I said before the vistory for Labour came with a poisoned chalice.
GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS
*Here there is a link of all the school projects affected in the UK:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/interactive/2010/jul/05/building-schools-for-the-future-michael-gove
Nationalists should look at how their areas have been affected.



