LIKE A CORNERED RAT

As I said yesterday I was disappointed at how little the Panorama programme exposed.
This programme was nothing to do with politics but was only concerned with allegations of financial misdemeanours. Thus any questions asked had a validity to the State and especially to members whose hard earned cash had been use to finance the party.

Mention of the massive amount of money that Jim Dowson has allegedly gathered for the Party was there, but no indication of how it was spent was elucidated, just a statement that the General Election cost it a lot of money.
How much? We have never been told.
Yes I know there were over 100 lost deposits which would have cost over £50,000 but what about the rest.
The local parties were billed and paid for their leaflets so where was the rest of this huge amount spent?

I agree with Simon Darby that the programme was a bit of a damp squib but why in that case were there six articles attacking the programme and the BBC for creating it?
If it had no effect and all the allegations wrong why keep going on about it.This obsession with a not very informative programme and their reaction to it tends to make me believe there is much more hidden under the carpet.

Perhaps some is sub judice, I expect there is and much more will be revealed later.
In that case the BBC in its mission to close down the Party(which I agree it has) has acted prematurely. Why I can only guess. Is it inefficiency or by design?
Only time will tell but one thing is certain Griffin is unsettled by it.

The truth will come out sooner or later but in the meantime Nationalists have to move the cause forward.

The politics of the BNP are broadly correct and more a reflection of member's opimions than those of any other party.

IT IS THE LEADERSHIP WHICH IS WRONG AND WHICH PUTS THE VOTERS OFF.

Nick Griffin must realise that HE IS NOT THE PARTY.The Party belongs to its members.
I wonder whether he will hang on in his bunker until the end as did Hitler in the hope of eventual victory.
If so he will find himself with a tiny rump of incompetents still believing as did Hitler in the bunker.

We nationalists must not allow him to take our movement down with him.
We must forge a new movement and unite with other patriots in honest and common cause to save our country, even if that means a new party amalgamated with other patriots.

It can be done.
IT MUST BE DONE.

I expect a start to be made next week at Andrew Brons's meeting. I hope so for all our sakes..

P S Do you know there is a clause in the BNP constitution that guarantees Nick Griffin a generous pension paid out of Party funds? It was pushed through by him at the EGM in Codnor three years ago.
If you have forgotten I bet he hasn't, but it's still there.

So the few of you who remain loyal to the man who has deceived you will find yourselves liable for another bill. Of course if there is no BNP where does the money come from?

I neither know nor care.
I just know I will not be paying it.

IT WILL BE YOU.

CRIMINAL NEGLECT

Now for some news of local incompetence.

Haigh Hall gifted to the then Wigan council by Lord Crawford and described as "The Jewel of The Town" with its attendant country park close to the town centre has been found to have a leaking roof.

Well that is a surprise. I went on a conducted tour of the building over ten years ago and was shocked by its condition.

The rooms open to the public seemed in good repair but the back of the building and the attics were in a state of disrepair.
The attic formerly housing the nursery room and servants quarters was a shambles. There were leaks in the roof, but they had at least put buckets under these leaks (big deal) and "acro" supports holding some of the joists up.

I asked why repairs could not be done and was told that a covenant prevented it as the building belonged to the people of Wigan.

One room at the back WAS used as a Social Services office as this was allowed as helping the people of Wigan though why a Portacabin in the town centre would not serve better I do not know.
The famous original staircase was decorated with posters warning of AIDS and other PC nonsense, given that few people would see them. For the "people of Wigan you see"

I wrote letters about this and I believe did an article on this blog about this degredation of our premier building but I heard nothing afterwards. I assumed the urgent and necessary repairs had been done.

Surprise, surprise, only a temporary fix had been done and the building is still at risk unless an estimated £2 million is spent.
Why is this still so? Why have the well remunerated councillors not insisted on the repairs before? or did they even know? Or care?
If they did not is that not a dereliction of duty.

If I knew about the state of the building all those years ago and I am not a councillor why did our councillors not know about our town's best building ?
This neglect of our heritage is nothing less than cultural vandalism and a disgrace to all involved.

Now I know that at a time of financial stringency cost is a problem, but it did not seem to be an insuperable problem for new offices for the overpaid and underworked staff of Wigan Metro which were erected recently.

I was further shocked to hear last night that the stables at the hall were in better shape having been equipped as offices replete with computers and other necessary equipment, for the Metro of course. A nice country setting for these "workers"
Another case of all talk and no action.

Some of the comments in the Evening Post have even suggested demolition.
I am appalled.

So go on Wigan Metro. Try for lottery money. Sack a few of your inspectors and diversity and equality officers (like Elliot? BTW have you not sacked him yet?).Pay your senior staff less. You can find the money if you want to.
How many hundreds of millions do you rake in in Council Tax? This is peanuts in comparison.
A project such as saving Haigh Hall would be doubly advantageous. It would save our heritage for future generations and give employment to the local building industry.

Wigan has suffered much in the past as its inhabitants toiled to play such a prominent part in our country's wealth.

Those parts unravaged by industry and their historic buildings MUST BE SAVED.
The wealth was syphoned out of our town in the past.

IT'S TIME TO GIVE A BIT BACK, YOU OWE IT US.