Burnley & Pendle British National PartyPolicy Briefing for May's Local Council Elections
At the 1991 Census the ethnic minority population in Burnley was 5,041. This represented 5.53% of the total population.
The majority of this community was Pakistani and Bangladeshi in origin.
New figures for the ethnic make-up of Burnley will be published later this year.
In September 2001 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published a report which informed us that the ethnic minority population in Britain had grown 15 times faster than the white population during the five years 1993-1998. Over the same period the ONS reported that the Bangladeshi community had grown by 30%, while the white population had increased by less than 1%.
Until the new figures are released we can only estimate how the ethnic minority population in Burnley has grown over the last ten years. A conservative calculation would be that the total figure could be 7,160 which would be 7.87% of the total population.
Of course this figure does not take into account additional new settlement in the town, but
for the sake of this briefing we shall assume that the ethnic minority population in Burnley stands at 8%.
THE NEED FOR STABILITY?
Although the disturbances last June were primarily criminal or yob culture orchestrated, there was a strong racial element to them.
The settlement of substantial numbers of asylum seekers in Nelson, and not an insignificant number in Burnley itself, has caused concern amongst the indigenous population.
Race relations in the town are strained. The BNP believes the key to a peaceful co-existence between the two communities is stability within those communities.
When one community is constantly growing, there will always be disquiet and unease within the other.
POLICY OBJECTIVE
Apart from offering family planning advice, there is little that can be done to change established birth-rates within a community.
However Burnley Council could ensure that there is no further new settlement in the town. This would be the objective of our population stability policy.
THE POLICY
Success for BNP candidates in the May elections would provide the clearest signal that the indigenous population of Burnley regarded the stabilising of the ethnic minority population as the priority for the town.
The election of BNP councillors and the ensuing publicity this might attract, would be a deterrent in itself to new minority settlement. New immigrants would not wish to settle in a town with a high BNP profile.
National Asylum Support Service (NASS)
Burnley and Padiham Community Housing (BPCH)
The Shah Jalal Mosque
BME Specific Housing Strategy
SUMMARY
For the last ten years Burnley's Labour Council have positively discriminated in favour of the town's ethnic minorities. This has been done at the expense of the idigenous population.
BNP councillors will end this preferential funding. We will seek to redress the balance of the Labour era by focussing all our efforts on the most needy areas of our town.
Daneshouse has now become a very presentable district and Labour must be given credit for their regeneration of the area. The Pakistani and Bangladeshi populations now have their living space and it is of a high standard. As long as the size of this population stays stable, race relations within Burnley will not deteriorate.
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