The importance of Parish Councillors
The recent announcement by the British National Party, that they have recently had ten new BNP Councillors elected unopposed, is excellent news and a big moral booster for their activists in the run up to the May elections. Well done those people.
Now the fact that these ten councillors were elected unopposed actually tells us quite a lot about both the British National Party and the Marxist alliance of the Lib/Lab/con parties.
Unlike the Tri-Axis parties, the members of the BNP who seek office as councillors, do it for love of country and community and so do not expect financial rewards for their efforts. Tri-Axis local politicians, however, tend to do things for themselves first with love of the community coming in a long way behind, second.
Now Parish councillors, up until 2004 were unpaid positions but because of lack of people prepared to serve their communities, councils were granted the right to make allowance schemes. However many councils still choose to maintain a strictly unpaid status. These councils are the ones that believe that their councillors should stand for the love of the parish or town and not for any financial reason. People like the BNP, in fact.
Many of you will have seen statements from other parties, making statements, on hearing of the BNP victorys (and they are), that they either did not know about the elections or that, big deal it is only the Parish Council. Both shameful statements for any political party that supposedly cares about the people to make.
If they did not know about the elections, they should be ashamed for not knowing what is going on in their local communities and if the second reason, then they should be ashamed for ignoring the issues of those communities because there would be no real financial benefit for themselves as individuals.
But the responsibilities of a Parish Council are not as limited as some might think. They wield incredible powers to improve the lot of the people who live within their sphere of influence as this list shows:
- Allotments
- Burial Grounds, Cemeteries, Churchyards and Crematoria
- Bus Shelters
- Bye-laws – the power to make bye-laws concerning:baths and washhouses (swimming pools), cycle parks, mortuaries and pleasure grounds
- Clocks – public clocks can be provided and must be maintained
- Community Centres, Conference Centres, Halls, Public Buildings
- Drainage – of ditches and ponds
- Entertainment and the Arts
- Footpaths
- General Spending – parish councils can spend a limited amount of money on anything they deem of benefit to the community that is not covered by the other specific responsibilities described in this list
- Gifts – parish councils may accept gifts
- Highways – lighting, parking places, right to enter into discussions about new roads and road widening, consent of parish council required for diversion or discontinuation of highway, traffic signs and other notices, tree planting and verge maintenance
- Land – acquisition and sale of
- Legal proceedings – power to prosecute and defend any legal proceedings in the interests of the community, power to take part in any public enquiry
- Litter - provision of litter-bins and support for any anti-litter campaigns
- Planning – parish councils must be notified of, and display for residents, any planning applications for the area. Any comments submitted to the planning authority by the parish council must be taken into account
- Postal and Telecommunication Facilities – power to pay a public telecommunications operator any loss sustained in providing services in that area
- Public conveniences – provision and maintenance of public toilets
- Recreation – provision of recreation grounds, public walkways, pleasure grounds, open spaces, village greens, gymnasiums, playing fields, holiday camps and boating ponds
- Rights of Way – footpath and bridleway maintenance
- Seats (public)
- Signs – danger signs, place names and bus stops signs
- Tourism – financial contributions to any local tourist organisations allowed
- Traffic Calming
- War Memorials
- Water Supply – power to utilise stream, well or spring water and to provide facilities for general use
But the success of the British National Party, is that it is a party of the people, for the people. Their Councillors have chosen to serve because they care for their country and their children's future not for financial rewards. In a decently run country, the BNP would never have even existed. Thankfully, in these desperate times, it does.
They are not "professional" politicians and do not need to be - yet. Becoming a BNP Parish Councillor will be their training camp for their future roles. They will learn how to chair and conduct themselves at meetings. They will learn to interact with the paid civil servants who carry out their decisions and they will lean to speak in public whilst building their confidence.
For many of the BNP Parish Councillors will become the future County Councillors and Members of Parliament that Our Country needs to replace the traitors who have thrown away the chance to make Our Country a land fit for heroes that the True British People deserve.
You can learn more about becoming a Parish Councillor here.
