Labour demands "end of 'white male' control of councils"

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Labour demands "end of 'white male' control of councils"

8th February 2007
News article filed by BNP news team

New Labour’s ceaseless quest for the unattainable utopia of equality and diversity ensures that “race” and “culture” are topics never far from the news headlines.
The latest diktat from Blair’s regime emanates from Labour Community Secretary Ruth Kelly who wants to reduce the numbers of aging white males in town halls in a bid to make councils more “representative”.
New figures from the government reveal that the “average councilor” is a 58-year-old white male and Ministers have today unveiled an initiative to attract more young, ethnic minority and female citizens into town halls.
A survey for the government's Improvement & Development Agency (IDA) found that only one in 200 councillors was black, and only 2.7% Asian.
Dismissive of the fundamentally democratic idea that voters in borough and district councils currently cast their mark for the best party and/or the best personality to represent their local concerns, Labour’s latest diktat implies that political parties contesting elections will need to draw up short lists based on the demographics of the borough/ward or constituency.
In so doing Labour is meddling, not only in the internal election procedures of political parties, but the wider issue of local council representation. The proposals can be seen as an attack on all political parties and on the thousands of thoroughly decent and hard working councillors from the Old Gang trio of Labour-Conservative-Liberal Democrats and other smaller parties who are doing what they can for their constituents under circumstances which are made increasingly difficult as a direct consequence of Treasury demands.
Given the current far-reaching review into funding of political parties it is not beyond the bounds of devious Labour thinking that political parties contesting local elections must draw up lists based on gender, age and ethnicity rather than the best person for the job, as a condition of State funding.

Halting the BNP
It is of course possible that this meddling could be another attempt to halt the inexorable rise of the BNP in council chambers the length and breath of Britain because our membership admission policy and therefore our short list of candidates is and will continue to be restricted to members of the indigenous ethnic majority. That is what the Party membership demands and expects under the Party constitution.
The BNP stands to gain many more councillors as we prepare to field at least 400 candidates in the local elections in May.

Over-representation
There is considerable suspicion within the majority community that the investigation will not examine those councils where there happens to be a disproportionate number of councilors from ethnic minority backgrounds.
Take for example Tower Hamlets - a London
borough with a population that is 51% white, 33% Bangladeshi, 6% Afro-Caribbean. The number of Bangladeshi councillors is an astonishing 61% (31 out of 51). But this issue, just like the disproportionate number of Asian – owned petrol stations, mini-marts and taxi cab drivers in a score of cities around Britain, we are sure, will be deliberately ignored.
There is no logical explanation why having a “diverse range” of councillors automatically means an improvement in the quality of services provided by the council, greater accountability or value for money for long-suffering and over-fleeced council tax payers but in these days or Orwellian political correctness rational explanations are never forthcoming by the liberal-leftists in Westminster and Whitehall.
To paraphrase the words first coined by former BBC boss Greg Dyke it will only be those “hideously white” dominated councils which will be subject to New Labour’s latest diktat to further the transformation of Britain which is aimed at reducing the native indigenous majority to second class status. The politically correct bullies of the Labour hierarchy will not flinch at removing the slightly balding, slightly overweight and hideously white aged 50-plus males who, according to the IDA report dominate municipal life (even if those key players are life-long Labour members) to make way for the trendy, young, raceless, sexless new citizens of New Labour’s idea of New Britain.

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