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Monday 14 November 2011

REMEMBERANCE SUNDAY

On Sunday i attended the Rememberance Sunday march and the ceremony at the cenotaph in Halifax. As the March passed the Courtyard pub, the Halifax Town fans all stood outside and applauded the procession, which was warmly welcomed by the huge turnout. Once again i was humbled and honoured to lay a wreath on behalf of myself, my family and friends.

ARMISTICE DAY AT HEATHY HOUSE

On Friday 11/11/11 i attended a Armistice day celebration at Heathy House, respite home in Holmfield. There was a musician who sang wartime songs, and the residents and staff alike joined in with the singing, a pie and pea supper and raffles galore, all added up to make a great evening. Calderdale mayor Nader Fekri was among the many who turned up to support a fantastic amenity in my ward, i took along my daughter, who really enjoyed it too, thanks to all the staff, who did a fantastic job.

Monday 26 September 2011

BEECHWOOD PARK BMX TRACK

Work has begun today on the BMX track at Beechwood park and should be completed within the next 2 weeks. The track drawing that we were shown at tonights meeting looks fantastic and i think it will prove to be a major asset to a vastly improved park. Some people will moan that there are too many kids around, but this is the reason that we, as ward cllrs backed this idea. We can get the kids off the streets and get them involved in something that interests them, rather than moan there is nothing for them to do. Carillion who are building the new Academy and North Halifax Green Action Project are the real heroes behind this, with Carillion giving over a Thousand tonnes of earth and sending men and machinery to aid the project. The ponds and footpaths in Beechwood park will also recieve a boost, with the help of a £8500 grant recently obtained.

Friday 23 September 2011

TRINITY ACADEMY FUN DAY

Saturday 24th September sees the second annual Family Fun Day at Trinity Academy 11am until 3pm. Free Entry, with something for all the family including Climbing Wall, Archery, Water Zorbing, Arabian Derby, Dance Mats, Fairground Carousels and Stalls, Caving, Zip Wire, Street Surfing, Sport Competitions, Donkey Rides, Inflatable Fun House and much more, with many of the activities free of charge! Meet Mickey & Minnie Mouse, Peppa Pig, Iggle Piggle and Oopsy Daisy, Buzz Lightyear and Spongebob Squarepants.
Refreshments available throughout the day in our Bistro style restaurant.
Further information from Janet Dunn on 01422 232042.
Come along and have some fun.

Saturday 17 September 2011

BEECHWOOD PARK BMX TRACK

Last night i attended a meeting with the other 2 ward councillors and council officers, to discuss the results of the consultation around building a BMX track in Beechwood Park, Holmfield. The feedback was, that people saw this as a great idea and around 90% of the returns were in favour of the scheme. Myself and the other cllrs were 100% behind the scheme. It will not cost the council anything as the earth required to shape the track is being given free of charge by Carillion, who are building the new Trinity Academy. They are also sending a JCB down to make the track, which has been designed by a local BMX expert. The work should be completed by the end of October at the latest and it is another addition to a vast improved local park.
The track will look something like the photo included.

Friday 16 September 2011

I AM NOW A INDEPENDENT COUNCILLOR.

On Monday 19 September, I will be resigning the whip of the British National Party and will sit as an Independent representing the Illingworth and Mixenden ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale. Recently, a close family member has had a serious illness which has had a huge impact on me and I will no longer have the time to travel the country, speaking and promoting the party at meetings. I have always endeavoured to put the residents in the Illingworth and Mixenden ward  at the top of my priority and I feel that breaking my ties with the British National Party will give me the chance to devote even more time to my ward and continue with the community work that I am held in high regard for. I am assured that this move will have the support of the wider community and I believe that working as an Independent councillor I can re-engage the disillusioned voting public by promoting the cause of local people and local communities first! Too many councillors make decisions they know are not the right choice but do so simply because they have been ordered to by the political parties they happen to represent. I firmly believe local councillors have a duty to put the interests of local residents  before the interests of political parties. As well as being an elected councillor, I work full-time and have two young children.I am currently a school governor (Parent Governor for the last 6 years) and I am a FA qualified coach working with the Crossley Junior football teams in North Halifax. I have worked tirelessly for residents for the last ten years - sadly a lot of the good work has been ignored by a virtual media blackout. However I remain fully committed to continuing my work as a ward councillor and I fully intend to  stand for re-election in next year’s local elections in May, where I hope to increase on the 300 majority I received in May 2008 by ensuring local people and their needs are kept at the top of my priorities. Thankyou to all those people who have helped me over the years and i hope i can still rely on your continued support.  Councillor Tom Bates, Independent Councillor for the Illingworth and Mixenden ward. 34 Beechwood Drive, Holmfield, Halifax HX2 9AS  Tel: 01422 250774  Mob: 07514 347295

Wednesday 17 August 2011

MIGRANTS WILL COST BRITAIN £1 BILLION A YEAR

The cost of providing social housing for migrants who come to Britain will hit £1 billion a year for the next 25 years, campaigners say.
MigrationWatch UK said 45 extra homes would need to be built every day, the equivalent of 1,400 a month, with each one funded by a public sector grant of around £60,000.
As waiting lists for social housing have increased in England over the last eight years, the campaigners also found that migrants from outside the EU were more likely to live in social housing than those born in the UK.
Just 17% of those born in the UK require social housing, compared with 80% of migrants from Somalia, 49% of those from Turkey and 41% of those from Bangladesh.
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of MigrationWatch UK, said: "The impact of immigration on the availability of social housing for British people has been airbrushed out for too long.
"Either the Government must cut immigration very substantially as they have promised or they must invest very large sums in the construction of extra social housing."
Its report found the Government projected that the number of households in England would increase by 232,000 each year to 2033, but would be just 149,000 with no net migration.
This "implies that net immigration over this period will lead to 83,000 additional households each year", the campaign group said.
In its calculation, the report authors assumed that 20% of migrant households will need social housing, "in line with the proportion of migrants who already have social housing tenures now after living for five or more years in the UK" - the equivalent of 16,600 a year or 45 every day.
It also found that social housing units are currently funded "on average with around £60,000 of public sector grant", taking the total cost to about £1 billion a year.

Wednesday 10 August 2011

ILLINGWORTH SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB

 One of the hardest working clubs in Calderdale, has once again been targetted by lowlife who just do not care about the local community. Crossley football teams and Illingworth rugby teams both try their best to offer young people in North Halifax something to do and both are totally committed to helping the area. We as a community cannot afford to lose such an asset for our area. If anyone knows anything about this or previous break ins, then please get in touch with the police and help them catch these scumbags.

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Yobs trash club changing rooms and steal radiators

editorial image Radiators and copper pipes were stolen from this bathroom then it was flooded at Illingworth Sports and Social Club after several break-ins over the last few weeks.

VANDALS have wreaked havoc at a sports club by hitting it six times in as many weeks.

Changing rooms have been flooded and copper piping has been stolen from Illingworth Sports and Social Club on Keighley Road in Illingworth, Halifax.
In one week alone, the building was attacked four times.
Officials at the club, which is the base for several rugby and football teams, say they keep having to fork out of their funds for the repairs.
Secretary Peter Laheney said; “We’re in danger of going under,” he said.
“It’s hard enough raising money for amateur sport without someone doing this.”
In one-break in, yobs took spirits from the bar in the function room. In another, they switched on all the taps in the changing room so it flooded.
Then last week the changing rooms flooded again when thieves broke in and took copper piping.
Mr Laheney urged residents to help police catch the culprits.
Sergeant Dionne Stratford, from Halifax North and East neighbourhood policing team, said they are making extra patrols in the area and have been in touch with the club offering crime prevention advice.
“All the officers that cover Halifax North and East know about this and we are doing targeted patrols around there,” she said.
“We are appealing for anyone who knows anything about what has happened to contact us.
“If you have seen anyone acting suspiciously or have heard anybody talking about it then get in touch.”
Anyone who can help with the police’s investigation should call the Halifax North and East neighbourhood policing team on 01422 337300 or 0845 6060606.

SCUM

A couple of photos that you won't see in the national media.

Tuesday 19 July 2011

BEECHWOOD PARK BMX DIRT TRACK

This is what it could look like! Struggling to get the text in order, while i'm on another computer.
BMX Zone proposals Please complete this questionnaire with your thoughts and opinions of the possibility of installing BMX park facilities into Beechwood Park.
Please complete and return the enclosed
Questionnaire in the FREEPOST self
addressed envelope.
Beechwood Park REF :- BMX Zone proposals
Dear Resident / Park user,
There is the opportunity to create some BMX track facilities at Beechwood Park. The need for some BMX dirt track facilities within the Beechwood park area has been identified by the local group, Friends of Beechwood Park. The facility will be made from imported material and can be removed if necessary. It will form a dirt track for BMX and mountain bikes.
As part of the consultation process for the potential BMX zone, we are seeking your views and ideas to consider the way forward. Attached is a questionnaire for you to complete and return (and stamp addressed envelope), your response is extremely important to the outcome. If you would like to know any more information or have any questions, please get in touch.
Regards
Safer Cleaner Greener Team
North East Halifax - parks@calderdale.gov.uk
Friends of Beechwood Park 1. Do you use Beechwood Park at the moment? YES / NO Please delete as appropriate Beechwood Park BMX proposals 2. If you answered YES to Question 1, in what way do you currently use the space?
Dog walking
Playing football / other sports
Meeting friends
Walking
Picnics
Exercise
Use Green Gym / Trim trail equipment
Use Skate Zone
Other (please specify) ____________________
3. Would you support BMX dirt track facilities at the proposed location?
YES / NO
(Please delete as appropriate) See map below: Optional information:
NAME ?…………………………………………………………………………………………..
ADDRESS? ............................................................................................
Age? 0-12 13-17 18-24
25-34 35-44 44-54
55-64 65+
Please tick if you would like to receive the ‘Friday flyer’ local newsletter? This includes local community information and upcoming events.
Please tick if you would like to be involved with the Friends of Beechwood Park.
4. What effects do you think the BMX Zone will have on the local area ?
5. How would you currently rate Beechwood Park?
(from 1—10. 1 being poor and 10 being outstanding)
Any other comments.
Examples of how the BMX Zone could look:

This questionnaire should be going out to local residents very soon, local children and parents attended the last Friends of Beechwood Park meeting and asked if this track could become a reality. Myself and another Councillor attended the meeting and i am fully supportive of the proposals. As the text below explains, if the track causes too much Anti Social Behaviour, it can,  and will be removed within days. Apart from the printing of the questionnaire, there is no other cost to ratepayers, as the topsoil is to be donated free and local parents and children will make the track themselves.
Telephone: 01422 393215 or 01422 323824 (Answer phone outside office areas)
Email: Parks@Calderdale.gov.uk
Website: www.calderdale.gov.uk

Friday 15 July 2011

ZUMBA IN BEECHWOOD PARK

 Due to the six week school holidays a excellent chance has arisen for six weeks of Summer Zumba in the Park, The first session is Thursday 28 July at Beechwood Park, Holmfield  at 6pm. Adults £2, children are free with a paying adult or £1 without an adult. Proceeds will be reinvested back into the park for improvement. Book on the day.

Tuesday 28 June 2011

CROSSLEY'S DRIVEWAY

After year's of pot holes, Crossley's driveway has been re-surfaced, which make's it a much more welcoming entrance for home and away team's alike.

ABBEY PARK PLAYGROUND

A major refurbishment of Abbey park playground has now been completed, it has taken almost seven year's to spend the section 106 monies that were promised to the area from Magellan homes. The site is well worth a visit and looks really good. Bollard's have been erected at the bottom aswell, which make's it much safer.

Friday 24 June 2011

NEWS FLASH, EDL TO MARCH IN HALIFAX

“The English Defence League (EDL) has announced an intention to hold a demonstration in Halifax on Saturday July 9th. They are currently in negotiation with West Yorkshire Police regarding the event which, on our early assessment it is likely to involve around 500 people. There will be counter demonstrations by other groups, numbering, again on current estimates, about 150 people. West Yorkshire Police and Calderdale Council are working with other agencies, communities and protest groups to plan for the event with the key focus being the safety of local residents and minimum disruption to visitors, businesses and other events in the town. The right to peacefully protest is a democratic right which we (Calderdale Council and West Yorkshire Police) have a legal duty to facilitate, even though the views of protest groups may be something which some people strongly disagree. The police have no powers to ban a peaceful protest but may, if absolutely necessary, impose conditions to safeguard the public. Any criminal offences will be robustly dealt with. West Yorkshire Police and Calderdale Council have a great deal of experience in managing large scale public events and we expect this to be a relatively low key event. As such, we are planning for an increased, visible police presence on the day, with the emphasis on a reassuring, neighbourhood policing presence. We ask anyone planning to take part, to behave responsibly, respect other people's views and cause as little disruption to the local community as possible. This is an important family day for Halifax, with the start of the Halifax Festival and West Yorkshire Police and Calderdale Council want to ensure that anyone attending the Festival can have an enjoyable day out.”

Wednesday 15 June 2011

BEECHWOOD PARK

The new mini skate zone and trimtrail (outdoor gym) have now been completed and are already being used by many local folk. Money for this has come from, Healthy Towns and Section 106 monies. Congratulation's must also go to Calderdale's Safer Cleaner Greener dept and the Green Action Project, who have done a massive amount of work over the previous month's. As your local Councillor, i have been involved in this since the beginning, and i am so proud that our local park is now up there with the best. Come along and try these new addition's out.

Wednesday 1 June 2011

RESPONSE FROM TRINITY ACADEMY

Mr Bates,


I e-mailed Trinity Academy to see if they would employ a security guard on the site of the new build, after vandalism and break ins at properties to the rear of Heathy Lane, this is their response.

 Dear Councillor,
I'm sorry to hear that there have been  several 'break in's' on Heathy Lane. At present the Academy is in discussion with Carillion to install bollard lighting to the pathway to ensure the PRoW  is adequately illuminated. There is also a programme of woodland planting due to start in season (November), which will further shield the gardens facing the PRoW.

The hiring of a security guard is something we could not consider as the security of a private residence and gardens is the property owners responsibility and not the responsibility of the Academy or agents we might employ. We of course, as I have stated above will do all we can to ensure the PRoW is safe, and I'm happy to meet with the local Police to ensure that local residents and students are safe and secure.

Regards

Steve Evans
Senior Vice Principal

Trinity Academy HalifaxHoldsworth Road, Holmfield, Halifax, HX2 9TD
Tel:  01422 244890
Fax:  01422 240033
Email: info@trinityacademyhalifax.orgWebhttp://www.trinityacademyhalifax.org/

TUESDAY'S COURIER STORY

School struggling on in old buildings


A SCHOOL governor claims Ovenden pupils are being neglected at the expense of others in Halifax where the birth rate is higher.

Moorside Community Primary School, Keighley Road, operates from a Victorian building which needs replacing.
It was created in September 2004 from two former schools on the site – Moorside Infant and Nursery and Moorside Junior –when Calderdale Council said the school was a priority for a new build.
Two sets of building plans have since been drawn up but show no signs of getting off the drawing board. Councillor Tom Bates criticised the delays following a survey which highlighted difficulties in the management of the premises.
School business manager Sue Davison outlined concerns in a recent letter. “The survey is particularly worrying. The school’s two main boilers exceed 40 years of age and replacement costs are estimated between £150,000 to £180,000.
“As the school is an amalgamation of two school buildings, heating and hot water systems are not coherent and in many cases not fit for purpose.”
Councillor Bates (BNP Illingworth/Mixenden) said it was a ridiculous situation.
“I have been a parent-governor for six years and the council have always promised our school would be next for a new school,” he said.
“But, because birth rates are higher elsewhere, others will get schools built before ours.”
He contacted David Whalley, head of learning in Calderdale, asking for an update on the Moorside situation.
Mr Whalley wrote back saying future development would depend on available capital funding and priorities would change in light of funding and need.
“There are a number of pressures regarding the provision of school places in parts of the borough where unexpectedly the birth rates are increasing and therefore a capital programme will need to take account of these particular issues,” he said.
“We are reviewing the capital programme and when we have available capital the Moorside project will be further developed.”

Friday 22 April 2011

LATEST LEAFLET

Superb day today leafletting down Mixenden, great response from the public, things are looking good, back leafletting at 0900 in the morning, then out to celebrate St Georges day.

KEEP YOUR GUARD UP TOMMY

This is a picture from my Thai boxing fight in March, it does remind me to keep my guard up.

Thursday 21 April 2011

HOLIDAY WASTE COLLECTION

Dear Councillor

I thought I would drop you a quick courtesy email regarding waste collections over the forthcoming week or so when Bank Holidays, like buses, will be arriving all at once. 

Our Waste Collection contractor, SITA, will be working all Friday’s including Good Friday this week and the Royal Wedding Bank Holiday next Friday the 29th April.  There will be no collections on the Bank Holiday Monday’s : the 25th of April and the Monday the 2nd May, which is the May Bank Holiday.

In order that the collection rota does not fall behind, SITA will be working Saturday’s that is Saturday the 30th of April and Saturday the 7th May.  These details are already outlined on the collection calendars which have been distributed to every household( with the exception of the royal wedding arrangements)  and are publicised on our website.  However, I thought it would be useful for you to be appraised of this regime in any event.

With best wishes for Easter.

Friday 15 April 2011

11,000 LEAFLETS DELIVERED

In just 7 day's we have delivered over 11,000 election leaflets to householder's in the Illingworth & Mixenden ward. We also have our team of canvasser's working 7 day's a week, and they are getting a fantastic response, from a public who has had enough of Liebour and Con/Dem. If all those who have pledged their support to us on the doorstep over the last eight month's, come out to vote, we will have another British National Party councillor in our ward on may 6.

Thursday 7 April 2011

Grooming of white girls.

Police 'hid' abuse of 60 girls by Asian takeaway workers linked to murder of 14-year-old







At least 60 schoolgirls were groomed for sex by workers at seedy takeaways linked to the murder of a 14-year-old girl.
Children as young as 11 were targeted by mainly Asian staff at fast food outlets in Blackpool. They were offered food, alcohol and cigarettes in return for sexual favours.
An unpublicised police report produced after 14-year-old Charlene Downes vanished in 2003 found the girls, most if not all white, had been victims of the ‘honey pot’ premises. There were claims last night that the report was suppressed for reasons of political correctness.
Seedy: The takeaway linked to Charlene Downes and Paige Chivers, who are both missing
Seedy: The takeaway linked to Charlene Downes and Paige Chivers, who are both missing
Four years later another girl, 15-year-old Paige Chivers, also went missing. Detectives believe she was killed like Charlene, whose body has never been found.
Two Middle Eastern restaurant owners were acquitted over Charlene’s murder in 2007 and the crime remains unsolved.
The pair still run a kebab shop in Blackpool which was also linked to Paige, and she too was identified as a victim of sexual exploitation. Last year police reported that the takeaway was attracting young girls who were being supplied with alcohol and cocaine.
Charlene Downes
Paige Chivers, 15, has been missing from Blackpool since August 26, 2007
Victims: Charlene Downes (left) is believed to have been murdered while Paige Chivers has been missing since 2007
The revelations about the scale of grooming centred around the downmarket cafes comes amid growing concern at disturbing cases involving mainly Asian gangs exploiting young white girls for sex in the Midlands and North of England.
The girls, often from vulnerable homes or in the care system, were befriended by men who showered them with gifts and affection before using them for sex.
Former Home Secretary Jack Straw has said the girls were seen as ‘easy meat’, while David Cameron called on police to follow criminal acts ‘without fear or favour’ wherever the evidence leads.
The Home Office commissioned a nationwide investigation into the problem, which has long been considered taboo by police officers fearful of being branded racist.
Challenging the taboo
Indeed, a former senior detective at Lancashire Police yesterday blamed political correctness for its failure to highlight its 2003 findings in Blackpool.
But the force denied this, saying the report had been available online since 2007 but had never been intended for publication.
Senior officers insisted an intensive programme to break the cycle of exploitation had been a success and that in the last six months 50 of 54 grooming suspects were white.
Shocking claims made in court over Charlene’s murder revealed fears that her body had been put through a mincing machine, with takeaway staff said to have joked that her remains had ‘gone into the kebabs’.
A jury failed to reach a verdict on charges that Jordanian immigrant Iyad Albattikhi had murdered her while his Iranian landlord Mohammed Reveshi had disposed of her body.
A retrial collapsed in 2008 amid failings in the police investigation and the men were paid almost £250,000 each in compensation.
The kebab shop run by Mr Albattikhi and Mr Reveshi has changed its name from Funny Boyz to Mr Beanz. It was refused a hot food licence  last year amid fears about ‘sexual activity’ linked to the premises, but the pair blame a ‘police vendetta’ and have appealed.
Following Charlene’s disappearance in 2003, police found more than 60 girls were being groomed for sex by non-white men centred around 11 Blackpool takeaways.
They were mainly aged between 13 and 15, but some were as young as 11. Yesterday former Detective Superintendent Mick Gradwell warned that research into the problem was being hampered by ‘political correctness and concerns about upsetting community cohesion’.
But Lancashire police denied a cover-up. Assistant Chief Constable Andy Rhodes said his officers were making significant progress in tackling child sex exploitation across Lancashire, regardless of the background of the culprits.
He added: ‘We recognise that in some areas the number of Asian offenders is disproportionate to the population and far from ignoring this, have been tackling the issue head on by working with the local communities, giving presentations to community forums and visiting mosques to raise awareness.’
It was reported yesterday that while most British sex offenders are lone white men, details of court cases in 13 towns showed that out of 56 men convicted of multiple offences of grooming girls for sex, 50 were Muslim, mostly of Pakistani heritage.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374443/More-60-teenage-girls-groomed-sex-gangs-men-Blackpool.html#ixzz1IsFmNYdO

Wednesday 6 April 2011

£650M TO PAKISTAN.

Education Budget Slashed but ConDems Give £650m to Pakistani Schools

 Dhimmi Dave Cameron is giving £650 million to fund Pakistani schools despite slashing England’s higher education budget by £449 million this year.

The move is being made by Cameron in order to make up for supposedly “offending” Muslims last year, when he accused Pakistan of “looking both ways” on terror.
The amount exceeds the previously promised doubling of British aid to Pakistan, which was already set to rise to £446 million a year, making the country the biggest beneficiary of British taxpayers.
Britain will have no control over which schools the money will go to, raising fears that it will be sent to madrasas to teach terrorist doctrines.
David Cameron defended the payments, saying it was “in our interest” to help Pakistan.
“If Pakistan is a success, we’ll have a good friend to trade and invest and deal with. If we fail, we’ll have all the problems of migration, of extremism, problems that we don’t want to see. So it’s in our interest that Pakistan succeeds,” he said, presumably suggesting that we are now somehow going to see a decrease in Pakistani immigration despite the Tories’ open-doors border policy.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said he believed a “root cause” of terrorism was illiteracy, rather than the extremist nature of Islam.
As well as the huge cash gift, Britain is also to give Pakistan highly sensitive technology to help combat roadside bombs to the Pakistani intelligence service (ISI), despite the widely held belief that they are funding and arming the Taliban.
Cameron will also be spending millions on a training centre for Pakistan’s soldiers and spies near Peshawar, a hotbed of militancy. The prime minister avoided questions asking whether he could guarantee that the technology wouldn’t be handed over to the Taliban by the ISI.
During his visit to an Islamabad university, Cameron compounded the situation by blaming Britain for the ongoing conflict between Pakistan and India. Speaking about the disputed Kashmir province, he said, “As with so many of the world’s problems, we are responsible for the issue in the first place.”
The news of the huge payment comes as it is revealed that more British universities intend to charge the maximum £9,000-a-year tuition fees in order to combat cuts in funding.
More than two-thirds of universities now setting fees for 2012 intend to charge a £9,000 flat rate for all courses. Most others, including some of the lowest-ranked universities in the country, want to charge undergraduates more than £8,000 per year.
The higher education budget is set so be slashed by a staggering 40 per cent over the next four years, which will see funding plummet from £7.1 billion to £4.2 billion, a third of the amount currently given away to other countries in foreign aid.

SKATEPARK GROUP ON TRACK

Just attended a meeting of the North Halifax Skatepark Group, of which i have been involved in since the first meeting last October. Tonight the constitution was formally adopted and four officers have been selected for the committee, this is great news and it now means we can start applying for funding, to give the youth of Illingworth, a skatepark they can be proud of. Cogratulations to all involved.

Sunday 3 April 2011

Bradshaw Tennis Courts

Last year Calderdale council stated that they would be putting new fencing around the Bradshaw tennis court's, and repairing the playing surface. This has not been done and i will be asking why not, for a town that has one of the highest obesity rates in the country and promotes healthy living, you would think, that  upgrading the excisting sports facility would be high on the agenda.

British National Party Candidates.

At next month's local elections, the Halifax branch of the British National Party will be fielding Six candidates. We will be standing in Illingworth & Mixenden ( Jane Shooter ), Ovenden ( Katie Gill ), Town ( Richard Armstrong ), Northowram & Shelf ( Simon Gill ), Sowerby Bridge ( Emma Haldenby ) and Warley ( Paul Wadsworth ). Good luck to these brave Nationalists, who are giving the electorate a real alternative to the other establishment parties.

BRADSHAW BOWLING GREEN

I was contacted by a member of Bradshaw bowling club the other week, and was asked if i could sort something out with Calderdale's Safer cleaner greener department, to get the green re-seeded. After many phone calls and e-mails, i am happy to say, that the work has been carried out and the green will be ready for Wednesday's first fixture of the season.

Thursday 31 March 2011

Beechwood park barrier

After a phone call from a Holmfield resident, complaining about parking at the Beechwood drive/Grange avenue side of the park, the safer cleaner greener dept decided to look at re-opening the barrier to the car park. Everyone who lives around this area will know what problems we, as local residents, had in the past, when the car park was open 24/7. Speeding cars, drug dealing, threats of violence to dog walkers and many other sorts of Anti Social Behaviour. For the last 3 years since we got the barrier erected, local folks and their childrens lives have been much happier and safer. Myself and Jane Shooter, handed in a petition last Friday to Calderdale council, which was signed by every single resident on Beechwood drive and Grange avenue, that answered their doors. The council has now made it clear that the barrier will remain locked at all times, unless there is a activity going on that needs extra car parking, i believe this is a commensense approach, and thanks to everyone who signed the petition.

DO I SCREAM ALONE?

Do sufficient numbers of our English people fully grasp the terrible damage inflicted on Mother England by mass immigration legal or illegal and the vicious, anti-white racist cult of multiculturalism? Will we, as a people, find the will to act to defend ourselves from this invasion and the sickness within or will we as a people just perish in shame?
Does a nation deserve to survive if it will not take the necessary steps for its own survival? What is it about a people that were so resolute and determined to resist Hitler in the summer of the Spitfire and Hurricane yet have allowed themselves to be overrun by aliens from without and traitors from within?
There used to be men and women of honour, moral and intellectual courage in the Mother of Parliaments. What do we have now? Our political class are parasites and Quislings who have betrayed England who see no point in protecting and nurturing that which has been created and forged over the centuries. Our politicians do not serve England: they serve those who hate us and would enslave us.
My English heart beats faster, more urgently when I recall Nelson’s words before Trafalgar or Churchill’s as we bore the brunt of the Luftwaffe. Yet when I see what is happening to England I am cast into a pit of despair and loneliness. Yet in this despair and loneliness I am conscious that there is something greater than I; that England, my land, my people, my history, the shame and the glory must be defended from her violators.
The land of my birth is not a brothel for the world. She is my holy Mother. On a cold, wind-swept Yorkshire moor or in a soft Kentish meadow on a summer’s day I feel her love for me, her strength. I crave her love. I cannot live without it. I cannot bear to see her mocked, derided and treated like a whore. And through the trees and leaves, in the singing of the trout stream and in the silent frost of winter she calls out to me, her wayward son, still the little English boy, with a message for England’s men and women: “Do not abandon me to whoredom dishonour and slavery. Remember you are come of a great people. The sternest tests are still before you. So use, my sons and daughters, your hearts and minds and fight the great evil and pestilence which have fallen upon us.
And if you are true to the spirit and soul of our ancestors, victory in this struggle will be ours. God bless you”.

Tuesday 29 March 2011

FIRST MUAY THAI FIGHT (THAI BOXING) MARCH 27 2011

ROUNDS 1,2 AND 3 WILL FOLLOW

This was my first Muay Thai fight, at the tender age of 41, thanks to all those who helped me train for the fight and respect goes to my opponent from Sheffield. It was a great day, and one that my legs will remember forever.

Monday 21 March 2011

North Halifax bowling green rent increase

Below is the council response to my e-mail, asking why bowling club rents will double this year. Many members are elderly and will find it difficult to meet this rise.
Good Morning Cllr Bates

I apologise for the delay in responding to your emails of last week. 

With regards the increase in the bowls season ticket price I have the following information, which I would also be happy for you to distribute.  The bowls season ticket has undergone such a substantial increase for the 2011/12 season due to  ticket prices being maintained at an artificially low price for a number of years.  Regular maintenance of a bowling green is demanding of both labour and materials, over a twelve month period but particularly between March and October, last year bowling green maintenance cost the council £7,000 per green.  Whilst the council are able to provide a subsidised facility for our residents, we are unable to maintain such a significant difference between the cost of maintenance against the revenue received. To ensure that ticket prices remain good value to our customers we have completed research in to other local private club costs and also those of our neighbouring authorities, we established the following:

Private Clubs
Booth Town £25.00
Thrumhall £40.00
Hipperholme & Lightcliffe £20.00

Neighbouring Local Authorities
Kirklees Community Bowling is £15.00 membership.
Bradford 2011 ( outdoor prices):- £50.21 per season or £37.66

We do however appreciate that this is a significant increase at relatively short notice to our bowls clubs, if there are clubs that are experiencing difficulty in meeting the full cost, we would be happy to offer an option to pay over two instalments.  If you are aware of any clubs who would like to take up this offer please ask them to contact Diane Atha on 01422 393255.

Sunday 20 March 2011

Excellent Video.

Hate-Filled Poppy Burners Laugh at £50 Fine – An Appeal from Nick Griffin

As most of the country is now no doubt aware, a Muslim fanatic has been fined a mere £50 for burning poppies and chanting hate slogans on Armistice Day.
Emdadur Choudhury, 26, was part of a demonstration by members of Muslims Against Crusaders who protested at the end of a march celebrating the UK's armed forces.
The group chanted through a two-minute silence with slogans such as "British soldiers, burn in hell." Choudhury waved a protest flag and then set fire to two large plastic poppies. Choudhury was convicted of actions "likely to cause harassment, harm or distress".
He did not even bother to attend court to hear his sentence. When asked why he had not attended the hearing, Choudhury said: "I did not want to waste my time on something which is really insignificant. This fine, I will wear it as a badge on my shoulder. I did it for Allah. I did it to raise awareness that these so-called soldiers are the criminals. They are the ones who should be tried for war crimes."

Choudhury himself boasted: "It's £10 less than a parking ticket."

His £50 fine was means tested after his lawyer said he earned £480 a month from part-time work and got £792 a month in benefits. The maximum fine for his offence – the least serious of public order crimes – is £1,000.
As this Muslim nut is happy to take benefits from our Welfare State, it will be the hard-pressed British taxpayer who pays his fine in reality. You really couldn't make it up! Words can scarcely express how angry this makes me.

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Friday 11 March 2011

Council Response To Non English Speaking Taxi Drivers E-mail

Below, is a the e-mail response of Calderdale council's licensing department, i also visited their office today and they told me that the taxi driver involved in last weeks death, did not have any problems with his English. If that's the case, then why did he need a interpreter in court? I will continue to look into this and find out what is going on, i still find it so hard to believe though, that there is no requirement to undergo tests for speaking English, in such a customer first environment.


Dear Councillor Bates

I apologise for the delay in responding to your email enquiry of 8th March 2011.

I am attaching for your information a copy of the Guidance Notes which are sent to any new applicant for either a Hackney Carriage or Private Hire Driver licence.

In summary you will note that any new driver must:

Be over 21
Have held a full DVLA licence for at least 2 years
Have had a medical examination to show they are fit to hold a licence
Have had a Criminal Records Bureau Check (CRB)
Passed a Driving Standards Agency (DSA) driving test, including wheelchair test if Hackney Carriage driver
Passed a Calderdale knowledge test

If anything is revealed on a CRB check that may bring into question the applicants fitness to hold a licence then that person is interviewed to establish the details of any convictions/cautions and a decision is made as to whether they are considered fit a proper to hold a licence.

The requirements for applicants to pass a DSA test and knowledge test were introduced in 2005 and 2008 respectively and were not applied to existing drivers, unless substantiated complaints about their driving or knowledge of the area were made.

There is no requirement to undergo a test of an applicants spoken English.  However if the applicants understanding of English is very poor, and likely to cause difficulties when dealing with customers, then we have advised them to delay their application until such time as they have undertaken an English speaking course.

If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact me.

Tuesday 8 March 2011

Non English Speaking Taxi Drivers

I have had dozens of phone calls and e-mails today, regarding the non English speaking taxi driver, who was arrested in Halifax at the weekend, on suspicion of causing the death of a young Halifax girl. Everyone want's to know how someone who does not speak English, get employed as a taxi driver, and the truth is i have no idea. I have already e-mailed the licensing department at Calderdale council and hope to put some answers on this blog tomorrow.

Tuesday 1 March 2011

Budget council

Last night i attended the Town Hall, for the setting of this year's budget. It was a eventful evening, the public gallery was packed with union repesentation, and the police were called in to eject one angry man who refused to listen to the Mayor and continued shouting out against the cuts. This forced a 10 minute recess, until the police, had brought the situation, back under control. For the first time in many year's, the opposition Conservatives, failed to table a budget, stating, very childishly, " there was no point, because it would not get voted through ". The tories, did put 3 amendments to the cabinet proposal's though, which were, (1) To stop a increase in leisure and sports charges, (2) To take less money off the Health & Social Care budget, (3) To stop a increase in parking charges, i voted in favour of these amendments, but the Lib/Lab coalition voted against them, so that was that.  I believe, that the Government is cutting too much, too fast, but i agree, that after year's of Labour bankrupting Britain, something needs to be done to get out of this massive debt.

Sunday 27 February 2011

Barnsley by-election

I spent the full day leafletting in Barnsley yesterday, on behalf of Enis Dalton, who is the candidate, for the Parliamentary by-election, which will take place this Thursday. It was great to see and meet Nationalists from all over the country, people had come to help from, Derby, Chester, Hartlepool, Newcastle and many other area's. At lunchtime we went and joined our two MEP'S, Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons at the Barnsley branch, town centre stall, which was very well recieved by the Barnsley public. Good luck on Thursday, Enis.

Sunday 20 February 2011

Abbey Park Clean Up






Despite yesterday's horrendous conditions, i and a few other British National Party members, still managed to turn out, as promised and clean up certain area's of the Abbey Park estate. As you can tell by the pic's, we had a lot to do, and in around 3 hours we collected over 400 bags of rubbish, and filled 3 large skips. A big thanks, to John, Michael, my wife Amanda and local resident Josh and his 2 mates. Many residents came out and thanked us, and we proved, that once again, when it comes to local grass roots action, there is nobody better, than the British National Party.