British National Party councillors will seek to bring the town's social housing back under council control. The BNP fundamentally opposes the transferring out of 'council housing' to Housing Associations, Registered Social Landlords, Arms Lengths Companies or Private Finance Initatives, because it all means exactly the same thing - PRIVATISATION! We believe that council housing is a fundamental part of the British welfare state and must be sustained as just that. Council housing is a service provided by the council for the residents of the borough. It is not a means to provide a large salary for a chief executive or profits for the likes of the National Westminster Bank or Nationwide Building Society. Burnley and Padiham Community Housing Limited has sought to maximise its profits by filling it's empty properties with ethnic minorities from East London via its "London Borough Initiative". The very nature of this scheme shows how acutely out of touch the BPCH is with the majority population in Burnley.






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