Stretton by-election 14th February - Results
Well done to Clive and his fellow activists. This was our first time standing there and to get over 18% is an excellent result. The results were as follows;
- Con 661 (36.89)
- Lab 366 (20.42)
- BNP 327 (18.25)
- PA 233 (13.00)
- LibD 205 (11.44)
Total 1792 (28% turnout).
- AMBROSE Bryan Edwin Liberal Democrat
- BUXTON Brian Gerald Popular Alliance
- JONES Clive Francis British National Party
- McKIERNAN John The Labour Party
- MILNER Len The Conservative Party
The popular alliance is a breakaway from veritas the leader is the candidate in this election he polled well in may so tonight will be interesting comparing his vote tothat of the BNP he did ask the BNP not to stand but we need to contest such elections as we prepare for the euro elections.
result from May 2007
Frank Bather The Conservative Party Candidate 1261 Elected
Maggie Fowkes The Conservative Party Candidate 1221 Elected
Ian Richard Bradley The Conservative Party Candidate 1059 Elected
Peter Robert Davies The Labour Party Candidate 717
Brian Gerald Buxton Popular Alliance 621
John McKiernan The Labour Party Candidate 536
Paul Andrew Walker The Labour Party Candidate 496
Electorate 6274 Seats 3 Ballot Papers 2310 Poll 36.82%
Hat tip Leicesterminority/Green Arrow Forum(GAF)
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2 MILLION FOREIGNERS IN WORK WHILE WE PAY OUR OWN BENEFITS FOR THE LOSS OF THEIR JOBS.
ECONOMICS OF TOY-TOWN OR A GOVERNMENT HELL BENT ON DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY?
Government's defence for migration 'illiterate'
By Christopher Hope, Home Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:55pm GMT 13/02/2008
One of the Gordon Brown most senior advisers has ripped apart the Government’s defence for more migration, claiming that if there were less immigrants then the poorest would get paid more.
Lord Turner said ministers could not ignore congestion and housing shortages
The news comes days after The Daily Telegraph revealed that the number of foreigners in the workforce was more than two million for the first time - while the numbers of Britons in paid employment fell.
Lord Turner of Ecchinswell launched a scathing attack on claims by ministers and business chiefs that large-scale immigration can be justified on economic grounds.
Lord Turner accused them of knowing that such arguments do not stack up and using them to justify an inevitable influx of newcomers and avoid a “racist backlash”.
Former CBI director general Lord Turner, who headed up the Pension Commission and is now chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, submitted his analysis to a Lords inquiry on immigration.
In his paper entitled “Do we need more immigrants and babies?”, Lord Turner rejects arguments that without immigrants Britain would face a shortage of workers as mostly “economically illiterate".
A stable population was more favourable to the well-being of people in Britain, he said, before concluding starkly: “The simple answer to the question 'Do we need more immigrants and babies?’ is 'No’.”
Lord Turner told peers on the Lord’s Economic Affairs Committee that if there were fewer immigrants then people in the lowest paid jobs might get paid better for carrying out menial tasks.
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Some unskilled workers had been disadvantaged with wages kept lower, and overall the benefit to the UK had been small, he argued.
He said: “If we had fewer immigrants, the average wage rate of an office cleaner might be a bit higher, and businesses would pay the extra charge, clean the office less frequently, or use more efficient vacuum cleaners, but we would not have some offices cleaned just as now and others not cleaned at all.”
Lord Turner said that ministers could not ignore the disappearing green spaces, housing shortages and transport congestion which will have a significantly greater impact than the economic benefits of immigration.
But the peer was not in favour of a total clampdown on immigration, which he believes can be partially justified on moral grounds, mainly because it helps newcomers, especially asylum seekers.
The peer also dismissed claims that immigrants and more babies are needed to support an ageing population as “woefully inadequate”.
He argued that half the additional economic burden of supporting more elderly people will be addressed by the state pension age rising to 68 by 2045.
The other half will be met by increasing public expenditure as a percentage of GDP, cutting government spending and further state pension age increases, possibly to 72 by 2050.
These were “tradeoffs” facing society rather than proof that more immigration is needed.
Warning the English population could rise by 30 per cent by 2050, he said: “These are significant changes over just half a typical lifespan, with major implications for how crowded an already highly populated region will feel.”
The Tories seized on the remarks. David Davis, the shadow Home Secretary, said: “This is yet another authoritative argument for a policy of controlling immigration much more effectively. Lord Turner is right to point out the serious dangers of following the Government’s current path.”
“There should be an explicit annual limit on economic immigration from outside the UK, so that we admit the right people for our economy and also the right number of people to reduce the strains on our public services.”
NO DICKHEAD! WE SHOULD TRAIN UP OUR OWN PEOPLE IT'S THEY THAT KEEP BRITAIN BRITISH NOT BOATLOADS OF THIRD WORLDERS.
RIOTING IN DENMARK YET AGAIN UNREPORTED IN THE MSM.
The riots which started six nights ago (Feb. 9th) in Nørrebro have spread out to the rest of Copenhagen and other cities around the country (see Google map of the fires). Witnesses in one case described the rioters as "second genreation immigrants". The riots included burning cars and trash containers, throwing molotov cocktails at schools and municipal buildings, and throwing stones at police and emergency services. I will not be listing every car set aflame, but I try here to give a general overview of what's been happening, as reported in Denmark's major newspapers.
Schools in and around Copenhagen were the target of molotov cocktails Thursday night. The worst hit was the Værebroskolen in the Copenhagen suburb of Bagsværd, where ten classrooms were burned down. The fire brigade was called in to deal with at least 20 fires in the city. Berlingske Tidende offers a picture gallery of the fires in Greater Copenhagen.
Police are being accused of using racist language against immigrant-background youth during the recent nights of unrest in inner Nørrebro. There are complaints of needless ID checks. Social workers were also accosted by the police and treated harshly. One of them reported that though he showed his ID, he was searched and forced to take down his pants.
There were disturbances in other parts of Denmark as well. North-Zealand police received reports of 7-8 cars burning in Kokkedal in the evening. Later the situation escalated with container and car fires in Farum and Birkerød, all in North-Zealand. The police don't know the motive behind the attacks but say the rioters are clearly inspired by the exposure in the media.
In Aarhus there were also riots, concentrated around Brabrand, but there also cases of container fires in Risskov and Viby. One person was arrested for throwing stones at the police.
During the Friday prayers imams in Aarhus and Copenhagen will be urging young Muslims to stop the violence and riots.
Sources: Berlingske 1, 2, 3; Politiken 1, 2, 3; Nyhedsavisen (Danish)
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