IN May, British National Party councillors in North West Leicestershire took on the Tories over a planning application the Conservative-run council wanted to push through without proper public consultation.
The proposed development was for a 72 acre industrial and distribution development by UK Coal at the South Leicestershire Coal Disposal Point off Beveridge Lane in Ellistown. The largest unit would stand 58ft high and cover seven acres and the site would require more than 800 vehicles a day, most of them heavy vehicles, and all using the already busy Midland and Whitehill Roads.
The matter was first due to go before the planning committee of North West Leicestershire District Council on Wednesday 7th May despite there having been no public consultation on the huge development, so BNP councillors Graham Partner and Ian Meller produced an Ellistown Patriot newsletter which in formed local residents of the Tory Council’s intention.
“Ellistown does not need this development,” said the leaflet. “Think of the pollution and think of the noise and that is 24 hours a day and seven days a week. It won’t contribute anything to the community and will hit already falling house prices even further.”
The Tories tried to claim that the development would create hundreds of job opportunities, but this was rejected by the BNP councillors who said that it wouldn’t be local people that were employed but HGV agency drivers and low paid migrant workers.
The Tories were livid that their best laid plans had been exposed by the British National Party and they launched a bitter attack on the BNP councillors at a full council meeting on Tuesday 13th May 2008 during a discussion about the new Planning Committee proposals.
BNP councillor Graham Partner was then scathing in his criticism of the Conservative Council.
“Still smarting after being publicly chastized for their role in a very dubious committee decision which they pretended was above board and proper, they obviously thought Tuesday would be a good opportunity to gain revenge on the two BNP councillors.
“In a moment of sheer stupidity, they verbally attacked the BNP in an attempt to justify their own culpability in the planning decision. The BNP members sat quietly, content to hear the abuse in the knowledge that right is on their side. Nothing the Tories said or will ever say can cover up the fact that they did not wish the people of Ellistown to know about the application in question and only the BNP had exposed that fraud by leafleting the area just one day before the Parish and two before the Planning Committee meetings.
“We have nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to hide. The public had every right to know what was going on and they can judge us themselves.
“Their words hold no fear for us and neither do their threats. We serve the people, they serve themselves. That is the difference.”
Now, two months down the line. Graham Partner’s words have come back to haunt the Tories who thought they had bulldozed through the planning application.
BNP councillors Ian Meller and Graham Partner at the site of the Conservative Council's intended development
East Midlands Elections Officer Wayne McDermott, who lives in Ellistown, takes up the story:
“We argued then that the consultation was non existent and local people had not been given a fair say. At the planning meeting local BNP Cllr Graham Partner spoke against the development as well as a local Parish Councillor and environmental group, but this was ignored by the Conservative and Labour Party dominated committee.
“After the meeting feelings were still high and everyone said the fight would continue and continue it did. The Ellistown wildlife group supported by Cllr Partner complained about the flawed consultation process in which the local council canvassed the opinion of the owners of local factories and not local residents.
“Now our complaint has been upheld. The Government office for the East Midlands has informed North West Leicestershire District Council it will have to look at the planning application again.
“Last time with just 48 hours notice we still managed to fill the room at the planning meeting. This time we will be filling the whole building and car park with objectors and although we know we have a hard fight on our hands we will be pulling out all the stops.
“The Tories have lied about this issue right from the start. Last year they even put out a local newsletter saying that they were opposed to the development, only to turn full circle and try to push it through without proper consultation.
“The next Ellistown Patriot is printed and will be delivered over the next 2 days again informing local people just what the Tories are doing to our villages.”
Thought for the Day ‘Never give up the fight, because sometimes, battles can be won when they at first seem lost.’
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Oh dear! Have North West Leicestershire BNP upset the Liblabcon Artists? Let us hope the “Indigenous voters” of the area will now increase the support of the BNP. Labour is sinking fast and hopefully the Conservatives will soon follow their example. Just think. It’s logic for you and me to diligently vote BNP!
First of all, congratulations to all concerned. You have taken on a worthwhile but huge task.
The larger picture is worrying to me because the European Community, on its own admission (Official Journal of 27 February 2003), “has become increasingly dependent on its external suppliers of primary energy sources”; 50% is currently imported with the prospect of 70% by 2030. Why? Also troubling is the fact that parts of the British coal industry are being sold out to foreign buyers. For example, Kuzbassrazrezugol (KRU), a large Russian coal producer, will acquire 51% of Powerfuel PLC to develop Hatfield Colliery, which aims to produce 2 million tonnes of coal of 2009. With Russian coalminers? Is this all part of the spider’s web of global interdependency pointed out by David Icke, meant to entrap and prevent nations (and even regions) from going it alone?
Back to Harworth, they have in mind a second phase of 250,000 square feet of small to medium-sized industrial units which are “likely to be undertaken” with further large-scale building to follow, so it looks as if the BNP councillors have got their work cut out for them. I took a swift peek at Harworth’s property developer partners Graftonville and the three directors look like spivs -just my personal opinon, of course. See what you think:
http://www.graftongate.com/
Click on to Personnel. Then compare it with the photo of the Harworth people:
http://www.ukcoal.com/lp-the-people
and see who you think is likely to be getting the better deal!
This is the same council that sent their Chief Exec on an all expenses paid jolly to Tokyo. If memory serves me right, it also hired a number of £70K a year directors most of whom departed (at least one under a cloud)without much benefit being accrued to the taxpayers of North West Leicestershire.
Yet again the current government show their inadequacy at being able to run a gala let alone our country and any of the most important things we need such as energy needs and plan to give us our much needed energy requirements for the future.
If we allow foreigner to gain the majority share in a power company then you may as well give them the country, because we will forever be at their beck and call when we need anything, they have already shown their colours with the gas problems.
Who is to say they won’t just take the coal out of the country? This must be stopped, we have plenty of miners in the country and if we need to fund the industry, our government need to stop funding foreign countries with overwhelmingly generous handouts of British tax payers money and invest in our future … not someone elses.
My hat goes off to you, Ian and Graham.
Once again, you prove that BNP are the People’s true representatives, unlike the generally self-serving approach of LibLabCon councillors.
We will put people first..always!
Brilliant …. Well done Ian and Graham!! Keep up the good work lads.
What a fantastic crusade by the dedicated team. Not only an important issue for the locals in that area but a wonderfully executed PR task in showing the people that the BNP really is a caring, committed and positive influence on British politics. Can’t state my admiration enough.
I cannot give enough praise to this first class team in North West Leicestershire.
I am fortunate to work with them and they are an inspiration to all.
Talk about punching above their weight, they are world class.
And they have not yet started, I can only say this; the ruling Tories on this council will have one of the biggest shocks of their lives when they next come to the ballot box. Enough said.
Sheriff: You’re quite right about the Graftongate (obviously an amalgam of graft-and-corruption and Watergate) personnel. Two of them look like ronkers and the other one looks like a baseball-bat-wielding council estate debt collector incongruously done up in an ill-fitting suit.
With regard to the subject of the article, I cannot adequately express in words my admiration for BNP councillors Meller and Partner.
For two men to succeed in the face of an entire local council organised crime gang is a truly formidable achievement.
If these two gentlemen are respresentative of the quality of people who will make up a BNP government, as I believe they are, then we can all have the greatest confidence that, however monumental may be the task of repairing a Britain so horrendously vandalised in every conceivable department by the Troughminster traitors, a BNP government will undoubtedly succeed, perhaps more rapidly than we might have thought previously, in restoring our country to a self-governing, sovereign nation state, which will become the envy of the continental European slaves living in perpetual fear under the EUSSR tyranny.
What a great party slogan (we serve the people, they serve themselves)
Terrific party slogan, and here it is in action. In all the mess that is now England, hope springs eternal.
It never ceases to amaze me how our many slimy enemies seem to get more and more adept at “putting their foot in it” whilst at the same time,giving the BNP all this free publicity. We really are getting a name as the only political party who tell it as it REALLY is.
With every act of treachery our honest councillors uncover,the liars in the other parties lose their rags and humiliate themselves even further, and don’t the public love to see the truth prevail over lies and deceit.
Surely,all the smears that have been aimed at this party in the past are now being recognised as such by the voting public and our numbers in the council chambers will increase accordingly. Long live the BNP.
@ Noel
I quite agree with you about the great work councillors Meller and Partner (a much better name than Graftongate) are doing on behalf of their area. I just have to ask, though, what is a “ronker”? - I haven’t come across that term before. The shoe is well on the other foot as far as knuckle-dragging ronkers are concerned, it seems to me!
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Ronkers is Dutch for snorers but I think Noel is referring to the book called Bark Staving Ronkers? - Ed