Baillieston Report
Report Baillieston 31-8-08 from Max Dunbar
During the past week Glasgow and West BNP have carried out a well organised campaign of leafleting and newspaper distribution in the Baillieston Council Ward. This is in anticipation of the forthcoming by-election which takes place on the 18th September 2008.
We have considered that leafleting, although a very important part of the campaign can be enhanced by door to door canvassing. This has the undoubted added benefit of giving the BNP a human face, and making the work of activists much more interesting.
Although it may be argued that this technique is slow, in practice this proves not to be the case. In a short period of time, hundreds of households can be covered. A percentage of people are not in and the remaining households are simply leafleted.
By and large, we have had a most favourable response and the general public have treated us with courtesy and have shown interest in what we have to say. They have drawn our attention to the local issue of a complete lack of sports facilities for children and young adults. This is a matter of high priority to us as we consider that young people be given every opportunity to exercise and enjoy themselves in a positive and constructive way. We fully intend to continue with this essential work and the local BNP activists are determined to do their utmost for the people of Baillieston.
If you wish to assist, please telephone 07960 714931
Mission Statement
August 31, 2008 by News Team
Filed under The Quiet Revolution
The British National Party exists to secure a future for the indigenous peoples of these islands in the North Atlantic which have been our homeland for millennia.
We use the term indigenous to describe the people whose ancestors were the earliest settlers here after the last great Ice Age and who have been complemented by the historic migrations from mainland Europe.
The migrations of the Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Norse and closely related kindred peoples have been, over the past few thousand years, instrumental in defining the character of our family of nations.
While we recognise the United Kingdom as a political entity, the BNP does not arrogantly seek to impose one set of Westminster dominated decisions across these nations. We embrace and cherish the native cultural diversity within the British Isles and wish to extend the concept of democracy to the lowest possible level, where those that are affected by a decision are the ones who influence and make the decision.
Political battle
The struggle to secure our future is being waged on many fronts. The need for political power is crucial to bring about our goals. Without effective political representation the majority of Britons, who are deeply concerned about the future, have no voice in the chambers where decisions are made. Increasingly numbers of voters are expressing apathy and discontent with the endless incompetence, lies, false promises and sleaze coming from the three parties that make up the Old Gang. The BNP will contest and win elections at council, parliamentary, Assembly or European level in order to achieve political power to bring about the changes needed.
Torch bearers of culture
The rich legacy of tradition, legend, myth and very real wealth of landscape and man-made structures are our island’s richest treasures. The men and women of the British National Party are motivated by love and admiration of the outpouring of culture, art, literature and the pattern of living through the ages that has left its mark on our very landscape. We value the folkways and customs which have been passed down through countless generations. We enthuse with pride at the marvels of architecture and engineering that have been completed on these islands since the construction of the great megaliths 7,000 years ago.
Liberties
Above and beyond our activities in the political world, we daily work with our people in their homes and communities addressing the fundamental issues of civil liberties and reverse discrimination. Increasingly our people are facing denial of service provision, failure to secure business contracts as well as poor job prospects as reverse discrimination excludes our people from the school room, workplace and boardroom. A key role of the British National Party is to provide legal advice and support to victims of repression and those denied their fundamental civil rights.
Policies & Manifesto
August 31, 2008 by News Team
Filed under The Quiet Revolution
British National Party Policies.
Download our 2007 Mini Manifesto here.
IMMIGRATION — time to say ENOUGH!
On current demographic trends, we, the native British people, will be an ethnic minority in our own country within sixty years.
To ensure that this does not happen, and that the British people retain their homeland and identity, we call for an immediate halt to all further immigration, the immediate deportation of criminal and illegal immigrants, and the introduction of a system of voluntary resettlement whereby those immigrants who are legally here will be afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin assisted by generous financial incentives both for individuals and for the countries in question.
We will abolish the ‘positive discrimination’ schemes that have made white Britons second-class citizens. We will also clamp down on the flood of ‘asylum seekers’, all of whom are either bogus or can find refuge much nearer their home countries.
EUROPE — back to British independence!
We are opposed to the Single European Currency, and support the overwhelming majority of the British people in their desire to keep the Pound and our traditional weights and measures. At the same time, we are for the best possible relationship with our European neighbours and believe that the nations of Europe should be free to trade and cooperate whenever it is mutually beneficial, though without being forced into a political and economic straitjacket – political unification. Accordingly, we stand for British withdrawal from the European Union. In place of the EU, we intend to aim towards greater national self-sufficiency, and to work to restore Britain’s family and trading ties with Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and to trade with the rest of the world as it suits us. Following our withdrawal from the EU, the BNP will use the £43 million per day net contribution Britain at present makes to the European Union to fund many far more useful projects at home.
LAW AND ORDER — crack down on crime!
The BNP will crack down on crime and restore public safety and confidence. We will free the police and courts from the politically correct straitjacket that is stopping them from doing their job properly. The liberal fixation with the ‘rights’ of criminals must be replaced by concern for the rights of victims, and the right of innocent people not to become victims. We support the re-introduction of corporal punishment for petty criminals and vandals, and the restoration of capital punishment for paedophiles, terrorists and murderers as an option for judges in cases where their guilt is proven beyond dispute, as by DNA evidence or being caught red-handed.
ECONOMY — British workers first!
Globalisation, with its export of jobs to the Third World, is bringing ruin and unemployment to British industries and the communities that depend on them. Accordingly, the BNP calls for the selective exclusion of foreign-made goods from British markets and the reduction of foreign imports. We will ensure that our manufactured goods are, wherever possible, produced in British factories, employing British workers. When this is done, unemployment in this country will be brought to an end, and secure, well-paid employment will flourish, at last getting our people back to work and ending the waste and injustice of having more than 4 million people in a hidden army of the unemployed concealed by Labour’s statistical fiddles. We further believe that British industry, commerce, land and other economic and natural assets belong in the final analysis to the British nation and people. To that end we will restore our economy and land to British ownership. We also call for preference in the job market to be given to native Britons. We will take active steps to break up the socially, economically and politically damaging monopolies now being established by the supermarket giants. Finally we will seek to give British workers a stake in the success and prosperity of the enterprises whose profits their labour creates by encouraging worker shareholder and co-operative schemes
EDUCATION — discipline, standards, achievement!
We are against the ‘trendy’ teaching methods that have made Britain one of the most poorly educated nations in Europe. We will end the practice of politically correct indoctrination in all its guises and we will restore discipline in the classroom, give authority back to teachers and put far greater emphasis on training young people in the industrial and technological skills necessary in the modern world. We will also seek to instill in our young people knowledge of and pride in the history, cultures and heritage of the native peoples of Britain.
AGRICULTURE — quality before quantity!
We see a strong, healthy agriculture sector as vital to the country. Britain’s farming industry will be encouraged to produce a much greater part of the nation’s need in food products. Priority will be switched from quantity to quality, as we move from competing in a global economy to maximum self-sufficiency for Britain. We will ensure a major shift to healthier and more sustainable organic farming. We are pledged to ensure the restoration of Britain’s once great fishing industry with the reimposition of the former exclusion zones around our coast.
HEALTH — first-class healthcare for all!
We are wholly committed to a free, fully funded National Health Service for all British citizens. We will revitalise the Health Service by boosting staff and bed numbers, slashing unnecessary bureaucracy and by addressing the root cause of low recruitment and retention — low pay. We will see to it that no money is given in foreign aid while our own hospitals are short of beds and the staff to run them. More emphasis must be placed on healthy living with greater understanding of sickness prevention through physical exercise, a healthier environment and improved diets.
TRANSPORT — time to invest!
Increased investment is needed in Britain’s public transport system to bring it up to the highest standards in the world. The fiasco of rail privatisation with different companies running services and track leading to higher fares and lower safety also needs to be resolved. Congestion of our towns and cities must be eased by the provision of greater incentives to use rail and bus transport instead of private cars. The first step is to end the crime and squalor that puts so many people off public transport. Motorists must not be made the scapegoats for government failure. Fuel tax should be cut, motorway speed limits raised, and hidden speed cameras should be banned. Far more must be done to encourage the development and use of cleaner fuels.
ENVIRONMENT — a cleaner, greener future!
Our ideal for Britain is that of a clean, beautiful country, free of pollution in all its forms. We will enforce standards to curb those practices, whether by business or the individual, which cause environmental damage. “The polluter pays to clean up the mess” must become a fact of life, not an electioneering slogan. In towns we would work to replace the brutalist modernism of 1960s-style-architecture with a blend of traditional local styles and materials and ensure that developments take place on a more human scale.
FOREIGN AID — time to spend our money on our own people!
We reject the idea that Britain must forever be obliged to subsidise the incompetence and corruption of Third World states by supplying them with financial aid. We will link foreign aid with our voluntary resettlement policy, whereby those nations taking significant numbers of people back to their homelands will need cash to help absorb those returning. The billions of pounds saved every year by this policy will also be reallocated to vital services in Britain.
PENSIONERS — pensioners before asylum seekers!
The conditions in which many of Britain’s old people are forced to live are a national disgrace. We are pledged to ensure that all our old folk are able to live in comfortable homes, and will restore the earnings link with pensions. Elderly people who have paid a lifetime of taxes and reared families should not have to sell their homes to pay for care.
NORTHERN IRELAND — an end to sectarianism!
Britain has shamefully allowed the terrorists in Northern Ireland to come close to winning when the IRA could have been destroyed years ago. Government weakness has led to hundreds of deaths and given those same terrorists a share in government. We would end all attempts to force the people of Northern Ireland to accept foreign interference in their affairs and deal with terrorism — from whatever side — once and for all. No one with links to a terrorist organisation that refuses to lay down its arms should be allowed to enter government. We would abolish state-supported segregation in education. In the long run, we wish to end the conflict in Ireland by welcoming Eire as well as Ulster as equal partners in a federation of the nations of the British Isles.
DEFENCE — no more cuts!
Successive cuts in defence spending have left Britain’s armed forces perilously weak. We will boost Britain’s armed forces to ensure that they are able to deal with any emergency, and defend our homeland and our independence. We will bring our troops back from Germany and withdraw from NATO, since recent political developments make both commitments obsolete. We will close all foreign military bases on British soil, and refuse to risk British lives in meddling ‘peace-keeping’ missions in parts of the world where no British interests are at stake — a position of armed neutrality. We will also restore national service for our young with the option of civil or military service.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS — Britain’s interests first!
Britain’s foreign relations should be determined by the protection of our own national interest and not by our like or dislike of other nations’ internal politics. We would have no quarrel with any nation that does not threaten British interests. We will maintain an independent foreign policy of our own, and not a spineless subservience to the USA, the ‘international community’, or any other country.
DEMOCRACY — letting the people decide!
The British people invented modern Parliamentary democracy. Yet in recent years the British people have been denied their democratic rights. On issue after issue, the views of the majority of British people have been ignored and overridden by a Politically Correct ‘elite’ which thinks it knows best. On immigration, on Capital Punishment, on the surrender of British sovereignty to the EU and in numerous other areas, democracy has been absent as Labour, Tories and Lib-Dems conspire in election after election to offer the British people no real choice on such vital issues. The BNP exists to give the British people that choice, and thus to restore and defend the basic democratic rights we have all been denied. We favour more democracy, not less, not just at national but at regional and local level.
Power should be devolved to the lowest level possible so that local communities can make decisions which affect them. We will remove legal curbs on freedom of speech imposed by successive Governments over the last 40 years. We will implement a Bill of Rights guaranteeing fundamental freedoms to the British people. We will ensure that ordinary British people have real democratic power over their own lives and that Government, local and national, is truly accountable to the people who elect it.
What Do I Get for Joining the British National Party?
August 31, 2008 by News Team
Filed under The Quiet Revolution
What do I get for joining the British National Party?
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Make a Donation to the British National Party
August 31, 2008 by News Team
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The Union Flag
On January 1st 2001 it was the 200th Anniversary of the UK.’s most visible symbol, the Union Flag. Unveiled to coincide with the Union of the British and Irish Parliaments, it combines the flags of St Andrew, St George and St Patrick. Unique in its inclusive design, the Union Flag has symbolised our British heritage and traditions throughout the world. As a national emblem it has proudly flown on every continent. People of every race, creed and colour have been privileged to become citizens of our nation and to claim the Union Flag as their own. They have done so because of the democratic principles enshrined within it and because it champions freedom. Countless men and women have been proud to serve under the flag in armed forces, which have played a major part in safeguarding our world during two World Wars, and countless other wars and conflicts. The Union Flag has been prominent at the formation of major international organisations such as the United Nations, NATO and the Commonwealth. Within the Commonwealth there are several national flags which incorporate the Union Flag into their design to maintain the link within their heritage whilst moving forward into a new mature national independence.
The Union Flag is a truly outstanding, internationally recognised symbol of our national heritage. It is a priceless logo in the promotion of the U.K. Yet we are now being asked to believe that in our multicultural, post imperial, Euro-centred nation that we should no longer take pride in our national flag. Travelling abroad it is refreshing to see public and commercial buildings as well as private homes “flying” their national flag. In every nation in the world citizens take pride in their national flag. At all sorts of gatherings, both national and international, flags are flown to greet and to identify the participants whether these are individual athletes or Heads of State.
At sporting events, trade gatherings, political summits and on official visits as well as important historical dates people throughout the world take a pleasure and pride in displaying their national banners. In the U.S.A the citizens pledge their allegiance to the flag and although this is a very large and diverse nation, wherever you travel you will find the stars and stripes proudly flying often alongside the national flags from the immigrant Americans’ mother countries.
In many parts of the world it is an offence to show disrespect to the national flag and yet in the U.K., the home of democracy, we are being encouraged to believe that the Union Flag is outdated or that it is divisive because it has been hijacked by extremists and therefore should be replaced.
During the visit of the Irish Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern to the Scottish Parliament, veteran Nationalist Winnie Ewing was so enraged by the sight of the Union Flag, displayed alongside the Saltire and the Irish Tricolour, that she described the flag of the United Kingdom as “an insult” to Mr. Ahern and both the Scottish and Irish peoples.
Such fanatical outbursts and hatred of the Union Flag echo the similar bigoted rantings from Republican Nationalists in Ireland. Her outrageous comments are without doubt offensive to the vast majority of Scots but are never the less the norm from the mouthpieces of the S.N.P.
Remember November 1999 when the leader of that party, Alex Salmond, got himself all agitated by the sight of the Union Flag on the flag pole of Inverness Castle and refused to pose for a photograph in front of the castle.
Again on the very next day, the finance spokesman, Andrew Wilson, said “the Union Flag is an offensive symbol which doesnít refer to anything other than colonialism and the worst aspects of what is happening in Northern Ireland.”
He was backed by the party treasurer, Ian Blackford, who stated that “Britain has little relevance for the people of this country.” Many thousands of Scots fought and died under the Union Flag in two World Wars to secure the freedoms that allow Ewing, Salmon and Wilson to spew out their bile and extreme divisiveness.
With thanks to the Scottish Unionist Party with who, apart from immigration, we have much in common.
Islamic Colonisation
Most assuredly Anne Marie Keenan is not alone in her concern at the politically directed silence in the matter of ascendant Islam in Western society.
By far the most troubling evidence of Islamic colonisation of Britain, and indeed of Western Europe, is the demographic facts of disparate birth rates between indigenous British and Muslim women.
In the latest O.N.S. population report it is stated that ‘foreign’ women, on average, have 2.5 children each, rising to 3.9 for those from Bangladesh and to almost 5 for Pakistani women. Indigenous British women presently have an average of only 1.3 children. It is not difficult to agree with Col. Muammar Gaddafi when he gave voice to the following, recently on Al Jazeera TV, “There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe, without guns, without swords, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims in Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent in three decades.”
In Britain the cities of Leicester and Birmingham are contesting candidates for Muslim majority populations within this decade.
The studied unwillingness to discuss the Islamification of Britain is sinister and well merits the concern of so many undisclosed Britons.
Scottish Office Press Officer
Battle of Birth Rates
The report, “Two in every three babies now listed as White British” makes grim reading for those of us who are realists and who love our nation for what it was.
Not only have we a situation where the present Government has little idea how many people are entering the country, particularly from the Third World, but a new demographic dynamic is emerging with the alarming evidence that the coloured population of Britain is powering rapid population growth.
These foreboding statistics are made worse if we add the multiplier effect of disparate ethnic birth rates. Whilst indigenous British women have presently a total fertility rate of around 1.3 offspring, Bangladeshi women parade a rate of 3.9 and Pakistani women 5. It is little wonder that cities like Leicester and Birmingham are contesting candidates for White minority status within this decade.
One need not digest the gloomy statistics on disparate ethnic birth rates to see that the physical appearance of our British populations is changing markedly. A recent car journey from London Kings Cross to Beckenham, Kent bore out the evidence. In some of the districts through which I passed the entire population, particularly the young, seemed to be coloured. Harking back to similar journeys in the 60s and 70s the population seems to have had a complete racial transformation.
Evidence from the Human Genome Project and from human geneticists like Professors Sykes and Oppenheimer of Oxford University makes it clear that the indigenous natives of the four nations comprising Britain are of closely related human stock dating back to the end of the Ice Age c. 7000 years ago.
We in Britain have now entered the first phase of the Battle of the Birth Rates. With so many of our indigenous people either blissfully unaware of the consequences of this geopolitical struggle or actually encouraging, for sinister reasons, the majority procreation of alien human stocks the future for the British peoples as they have historically been known is very dark indeed.
Alastair Harper
Mid Scotland and Fife BNP
Taxpayers Cough up Another £1.3m to ‘Fight Islamic Extremism’ in London’s East End
August 31, 2008 by BNP News
Filed under National News
Tower Hamlets council — which recently tried to force its non-Muslim members to observe the Ramadan fast — has been given £1.3 million of taxpayers’ money to “help tackle violent (Islamic) extremism being promoted in London’s East End.”
The £1.3 million has been allocated over the next three years to help Tower Hamlets council deal with extremism and get “disparate communities back into mainstream society.”
Now they are looking for proposals from voluntary and community groups to run projects to build “One Tower Hamlets” — an idea which has emerged from a series of public meetings which began last week.
The first consultation for the development of the East End’s new Community Plan for an integrated single community was held on Wednesday at the London Muslim Centre in Whitechapel.
The authority is keen to jump on board the Government’s ‘Prevent’ agenda, which aims to promote cohesive communities and tackle violent extremism in invader-dominated inner city areas like the East End.
Community groups are being told by Tower Hamlets council how to bid for the cash if they can show how they would contribute to the five objectives laid out in the Government programme.
The five principles are: “Disrupting those who promote violent extremism; Backing vulnerable groups and individuals; Supporting ‘mainstream’ voices; Building community cohesion; and Addressing real grievances effectively” – whatever any of that actually means.
A Prevent Programme manager has been appointed, Assan Ali, to coordinate the campaign. We are sure Ali will be well compensated for this latest made-up fake ‘job’.
PC Gestapo Seek to Outlaw Harmless British Cultural Fun
August 31, 2008 by BNP News
Filed under National News
The Politically Correct Gestapo of the far left have launched yet another attempt to stifle harmless British cultural fun with a fake ‘outrage’ over three binmen in Reading, Berkshire, taping a gollywog to the front of their vehicle.
The refuse truck is owned by Woodend Municipal Services and leased to Reading Borough Council, whose staff used it to collect rubbish from the streets of the Berkshire town.
The Sun, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph have all run large stories on the prank as if it were some major news story (all the while ignoring real issues like crime, immigration, the economy etc.) and attempted to generate ‘outrage’ from residents of the town they have interviewed.
A spokesman for Reading Borough Council has already been browbeaten over the incident and has ‘apologised’ for the incident, adding that action was being taken against the binmen involved.
“The council has investigated this matter and spoken to the lorry driver,” he said. “The employee has been informed of the serious nature of this complaint and his management colleagues are giving further consideration to how the matter will proceed. Reading is an international community and the council celebrates its rich diversity and cultural heritage, working vigorously to combat all forms of discrimination and injustice.”
In May 2007, a greater Manchester shopkeeper was ordered by police to remove golliwogs from her window display — because they were allegedly offensive.
Moira Pickering, 62, was warned that she risked breaching race hate laws if she failed to take them down. Moira has been selling the dolls in her shop, Stalybridge Reproductions, in the town near Manchester for years and said they had never caused offence.
Moira said the action was political correctness gone mad. She said that two women of an ethnic background had reported the incident and that one was a regular customer. “A woman came in and began taking photos. I thought she was taking a photo of the table and chairs, but then she went outside and started taking more photos. The next minute the police were here and said it was an offence to display the gollywog which was sitting in a chair. Golliwogs have been going for years and I’ve always sold them. They sell very well. People are far too politically correct — they go over the top.”
Police confirmed they had spoken to Moira after they had received a complaint that she was selling offensive items. Officers attended the shop and spoke to Moira who said she was not aware the items were deemed offensive. She was asked to remove the item from the window display which she did and no further action was taken.
Greater Manchester Police said it is an offence under the incitement to commit racial hatred act if she put them back on display and someone made a subsequent complaint.
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Army Suffers Personnel Shortage Crisis as Illegal Iraq War Drags On
August 31, 2008 by BNP News
Filed under National News
The Armed Forces are facing a shortfall of almost 6,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen, according to official Ministry of Defence figures. The refusal by qualified British men and women to serve in the Armed Forces is clearly linked to the illegal and immoral war being waged by the government in Iraq.
The latest manning quarterly figures show the total number of full-time, trained military personnel was 173,370 — 5,790 short of the total requirement of 179,160.
The Army had a 3,500 shortfall, the Royal Navy was 1,220 under strength, while the RAF was 1,070 below the required total.
The shortfalls occurred even though the total number of service personnel required has fallen by almost 12,000 since 2005 when the forces were just 3,000 below strength.
Fewer and fewer British people support that criminal activity of waging war against Iraq — a war fully supported by the equally-to-blame Tories — and are simply refusing to put their lives at risk for a cause which is completely unrelated to Britain’s national interest.
BNP policy on Defence is based on a Britain First platform: We will bring our troops back from Germany and withdraw from NATO, since recent political developments make both commitments obsolete. We will close all foreign military bases on British soil, and refuse to risk British lives in meddling ‘peace-keeping’ missions in parts of the world where no British interests are at stake — a position of armed neutrality.
In addition, a BNP government will put the leadership of both the Labour and Tory parties, who all consciously voted to send our troops to war in Iraq in the face of overwhelming evidence that the case was bogus, on trial for war crimes before an international tribunal.
Why Britain’s Benches Are in Urgent Need of a Clean Sweep
August 31, 2008 by BNP News
Filed under National News
More than 60 judges have given ‘unduly lenient’ sentences to offenders convicted of serious crimes, according to official figures.
The Court of Appeal ruled 62 judges across England and Wales let off criminals, including terrorists, murderers and rapists, with light sentences.
The Attorney General Baroness Scotland QC referred 106 criminals to more senior judges last year to seek tougher sentences. Among them were robbery gangs, drug smugglers, paedophiles and terrorists linked to al Qaeda.
Of these, 86 individuals were ruled to have been given ‘unduly lenient’ punishments, with 75 handed harsher terms. Sentences were increased in 12 sex cases, 15 violence cases, 17 robbery cases, 11 drugs cases and one murder. The number of Court of Appeal referrals fell by 38 and the number declared unduly lenient fell by 27 compared with 2006.
Among the cases highlighted were: Internet terrorist Younes Tsouli, of West London, whose ten year jail term for inciting murder overseas was increased to 16 years, and Essex businessman Rohail Spall (illustration), who spiked a woman’s drink at a restaurant and planned to sexually attack her. His sentence was increased by 18 months to three-and-a-half years.
From Monday, Faith Schools are Legally Allowed to Discriminate on Basis of Religion
August 31, 2008 by BNP News
Filed under National News
When the new school term starts on Monday, faith based schools — even those funded by the state — will be legally allowed to discriminate against students and staff based on their religion.
This means that a Muslim school will legally be allowed to give employment preference to Muslims; Jewish schools will be allowed to give preference to Jews, and Christian schools will be allowed to give preference to Christians. So much for the vaunted ‘integrated society’ proposed by the Labour/Tory mass immigration con-trick.
In some schools this will expand to include the headteacher while in others this would apply to non-teaching jobs, such as classroom assistants and cooks.
In 2006 faith schools were handed new powers to discriminate when Lord Adonis, the schools minister, brought forward an amendment to the education bill allowing them to favour members of the same religion when choosing support staff.
Shortly afterwards the education secretary, Alan Johnson, said he would no longer try to force faith schools to accept up to a quarter of their pupils from other faiths or with no religion.
Earlier this year the National Union of Teachers unveiled plans to rival faith schools, proposing that all schools should become practising multi-faith institutions.
Headteachers would bring in imams, rabbis and priests to instruct religious pupils as part of the curriculum in an attempt to satisfy parental demand for religion in schools.
The Worst Crisis in 60 Years?
The word here is sustainability and Alistair Darling has plainly and candidly said that the so called quality of life based on rising debt because of Labour’s mismanagement is blatantly unsustainable.
From Labour’s myths like ‘the economy is in safe hands’ to the realities of today, there has been one shock after another. Labour has little to offer and all it has done, again and again, is to accept the fait accompli.
But beware. Both the Conservative Party and the Lib Dems have been very quiet about what is on offer to put the economy back on track. They want to defeat Labour in the polls and in fact the Conservatives are taking it for granted that they will win the next General Election and so they might, but what then?
At local level and coming back to London, is the idea of converting Local Authorities into mortgage lenders. What is more, there is talk about Local Authorities buying properties that are about to be repossessed. With what money? How do they plan to acquire the said resources? Are we going to see once again Local Authorities crushed by the burden of debt and having to cut local services or are we going to see taxation levels sky-rocketing?
What happens at national level also happens at local level. If we want to spend, the monies must come from somewhere and this is something that they are not talking about acting like a hunter that waits until the last second to strike its victim.