BNP Councillors Challenge One Wrexham Officials

Taxpayers in Wrexham will be pleased to hear that £100,000 of their Council Tax money has so far been spent by Wrexham Council on a Diversity Initiative called ‘One Wrexham’ - at the insistence of the unelected and publicly unaccountable organisation known as the Race Relations Board.

With virtually all of the gormless and gutless Councillors on Wrexham Council having already meekly signed up to this latest politically correct exercise without the public knowing anything about it, the ‘Race Relations Charter’ initiative by Gill Grainger, Wrexham’s own ‘Community Cohesion Co-ordinator’ seemed to be going so well.

At least, it was going well until they tried to bump the initiative through a poorly attended Community Council meeting where they came up against two local BNP Councillors.

The following outline transcript of the meeting best reports what then happened, and shows what genuine Councillors and Community Representatives everywhere should be questioning and standing up to these Marxist lunatics who are destroying our country.

More disturbing of course, is that if £100,000 of Council Taxes is being spent in Wrexham, how much is being spent in Swansea? and Cardiff? and Newport? and Merthyr? And also, if this initiative is being carried out without any public consultation, who knows about what is being done in your name?

Report from BNP Councillor Mike Whitby, with BNP Councillor Melvin Roberts:

3 October 2008: Here’s the info on the meeting that Mel and I attended yesterday, at the Coedpoeth Community Council (CCC) office. It appears to be a blueprint to stop us and electors from discussing the things that are taking place in our communities.

Two ladies from ‘One Wrexham’ (Gill Grainger & Mo Caldicote) attended the meeting, along with the Clerk of CCC and four CCC Councillors, as well as me and Mel. I recorded the meeting on a Dictaphone.

Here are some extracts from my notes:

Gill Grainger (Wrexham Council’s Community Cohesion Co-ordinator) opened the meeting with the following comments:

”I’ll explain the background to ‘One Wrexham’. It is an initiative to promote harmony and cohesion in Wrexham. There are many new people in Wrexham, and also Wrexham is now a disbursement area for asylum seekers, some of whom stay here or move to other areas, and some are sent back to their own country.

Also, NEWI University, or Glyndwr University, as it is now known, encourages overseas students to come and study in the area . . . We have always been multi-cultural, but as yet, we haven’t addressed diversity. The Race Relations Board has now insisted that we promote diversity.

“All the local statutory agencies, including the Police, Health Service Trust, Benefits Agency, Council Authority etc (around 80 of them) have already signed up to the charter, along with 40 private organisations. Around 120 in total have signed up in the Wrexham area. We want to tackle hate crime, not just on ethnicity grounds, but also for gender, religion and other groups that suffer from hate crime.”

At this point, I felt that I had held my questions for long enough. So I introduced myself, and asked some relevant questions. I asked who protects British National Party members, who have a legitimate right to hold their views, whether they be political, religious or whatever else they choose, when we are abused both verbally and physically by others?

I also asked her the right to call us Far Right, when most of us are actually moderate? I pointed out that, until a few years ago, I was a member of the Labour Party. We are speaking out on behalf of those ordinary people that no longer have a voice in this country? Are you saying that anyone who dislikes immigration is ‘far right?’

Further, I told her that we have not, as she claimed ‘always been multi-cultural’. This was foisted upon us by Wrexham Council, along with central government and our new rulers in Europe.

She was quite taken aback, I don’t think she was expecting such questions, and she said; “You need to take this up with the Community Safety Partnership. Well actually, it’s the Police now, as the person that was running the CSP is retiring, and it will be now dealt with by the Police”.

I pointed out that I and many others have reported incidents to the police, and even when it is blatant they still ignore it. Also, I and my party have been abused by the County Councillor for Coedpoeth, and this Community Council has refused to even discuss it at Council meetings.

Would you say that this is democratic? Equal rights and hatred laws cut both ways, and ignoring the views of a significant proportion of the community does nothing to help matters.

Cllr Roberts (BNP), of Abenbury Ward, also introduced himself and asked; what are you doing to address the fear that people have, of Wrexham turning into another Blackburn, Burnley or Stoke on Trent, where there are huge no-go areas for whites, as those communities are growing rapidly?

In fact, just down the road, in Stoke, people are being killed for their political beliefs and the Police refuse to do anything about it. This can’t be allowed to happen in Wrexham. The rights of the local people should be protected. Also, can you tell us how much all of this is going to cost the Council Tax payers?

She said; “We have a budget of £100,000 to bring it about and run it”.

Cllr Squire (Independent) said; I am the Chairman of Abenbury Community Council, which encompasses parts of Caia Park. You said; “we’ve always been multi-cultural”, but that’s not true. I can remember when I was a little lad, the only black people you saw in Wrexham, were one or two doctors at the Maelor Hospital. But, nowadays areas such as Caia Park are overrun with ethnics.

Also, the problems that you referred to in Caia Park, were not caused by misinformation, they started when the local people heard of the extra benefits that are paid to immigrants.

There are huge areas of deprivation in Caia Park and the Council continues to put immigrants there, and to give them greater benefits than locals. I want to see cohesion, but it needs to be fair to all.

Ms Grainger said; “It’s not true that they are treated any better than local people”.

I asked her if she was familiar with the Secret Tenancy Act of 2004, which was introduced by the then Home Secretary David Blunkett, and she said she was not. I then explained that it is a secret document that is given to participants who have to sign the Official Secrets Act to be given a copy.

It is now in the public domain and I will send you a copy of it, so that you can see in black and white that asylum seekers MUST be given far more than local people. This is not lies or misinformation, it is fact.

Interestingly, she responded by saying; “Ah yes, but THOSE benefits are not paid for by us, they come from central government. They are not paid for out of local funds”. This proved that she had been aware of it all the time, yet earlier she had claimed that it was “not true”.

I said that, it doesn’t matter whether the local authority pays for this, or central government, they are still getting greater benefits than local people and this should not be allowed to continue.
Mel and I both asked what steps had been taken to inform the people of Wrexham about this One Wrexham Charter, and would they arrange public meetings where people can voice their opinions about these matters.

Alternatively, they could write to every person in Wrexham and ask a few questions which could be answered candidly and confidentially.

This approach would tell them EXACTLY what the people of Wrexham think of immigration. And, if you get a mandate for immigration, the people may then be likely to sign up to this charter.

She said; “We have discussed it with all the elected representatives (at County Council level) and they have signed up to it. We are now going out to all the Community and Parish Councils to ask them to sign up to it, but we have no plans to hold public meetings. It hasn’t actually started yet, as this is only the planning stage.”

I said, of course it has started. It started the moment that your department was given a budget of £100,000 to bring this charter about. Also, you have already received signatures from 120 organisations in Wrexham, without any consultation whatsoever with the general public.

How can you say that it hasn’t started, isn’t this just another example of things being foisted on the people?

At this point she said; “I will have to close this meeting, as I was not prepared for these questions and will have to cut the meeting short”.

The meeting was terminated after 50 minutes.