Sunday Is A Day of Rest Unless You are In The BNP

I have always thought of Sunday as being a restful and private day and so any campaigning for the Calne Lickhill Ward by-election has been limited to planning and an afternoon stroll around the ward.

My involvement started back in the 1970's when I was a member of the Ecology Party, prior to it becoming the Green Party. At that time it was a party mainly concerned with the environment but as it became more closely aligned with left-wing politics I became disillusioned and moved on. I have always had an interest in the environment and what we are doing to it and I do have concerns about the seemingly never-ending building we see going on around us, particularly on green field sites and I believe that where possible, building should take place on brown field sites. I was therefore most unhappy at seeing a splendid old house in Lickhill Road in the process of being demolished to allow several other new houses to be built on the plot and in the back gardens of the neighbouring houses. Are we to eventually see this as common place and all of those grand houses with large gardens destroyed and turned into building plots? I am sure that, where people see an opportunity to make a bit of money the environment will come a poor second.

I am not a religious person but loosely class myself as a Christian, having been brought up in the Christian tradition. I have little time for religious leaders of any persuasion, who consider they have a right to dictate to us how we live our lives when most of them have not lived normal and ordinary lives. I was however impressed today by the Bishop of Rochester, the Right Reverend Dr Michael Nazir-Ali. I heard on the national news that he had said Islamic extremism has turned some communities into no-go areas for people of a different faith or race. He said that non-Muslims may find it difficult to live or work in some places and that there was hostility in those areas and described the government's multicultural policies as divisive. This is all the more notable as Dr Nazir-Ali himself is of Asian origin.

Those of us in the British National Party have been saying exactly this for many years with the result that we are called racist and vilified by the liberal-left media, but now Dr Nazir-Ali has said exactly what we have been saying some politicians agree with him saying he had highlighted a real problem! Why don't they say that when the BNP raises these concerns? Perhaps it is simply because they are afraid of the impact that we may have on their cosy existence and that if we are recognised as being correct by addressing the concerns of the majority of the British people, they may lose whatever political powers they may have and the nice income together with the not inconsiderable expenses allowance that goes with it. Simply that. So, when we have the opportunity to make a difference, the obvious answer, to me, is to vote for someone who isn't afraid to speak up about the concerns that the public have.

Not surprisingly Muslims and some politicians (Lib Dem and Labour, no doubt) have accused the bishop of scaremongering. One of those politicians is Nick Clegg, the Tony Blair/David Cameron clone, leader of the Liberal Democrats, who was highly critical of the bishop's claims, describing them as "a gross caricature of reality". So when Dr Nazir-Ali claims there had been attempts to "impose an 'Islamic' character on certain areas", Nick Clegg is calling him a liar. I think that those of us who are awake to what is going on in this country know who is more likely to be correct.

Ibrahim Mogra, of the Muslim Council of Britain's inter-faith relations committee, described the bishop's comments as "alarming" because "there is no evidence he can put forward". Perhaps those living in areas of the type described by Dr Nazir-Ali, should write to Mr Mogra and tell him to take his very convenient blinkers off. I am sure he knows full well what is going on and I for one think that enough is enough - the Islamification of our country should stop now before it takes over!