Community Affairs
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We understand the importance of local communities, and will make these the root of our fight against Britain's crime epidemic. Together we can make the streets a safer and more pleasant place to be. |
| Increasingly we operate across significant distances (for example via the telephone and the internet) when dealing with financial matters such as banking, shopping and the payment of bills. The various forces linked to globalisation (commodification, marketisation and corporatisation) have led to significant shifts in the focus of power. Governments have become increasingly market driven, with a growing centralisation in key areas of policymaking in Britain. This has hugely increased the presence of commercial enterprises in local services with the obvious consequence of an erosion of democracy and the notion of there being public goods. In a world where market ideologies have become dominant and infused in all areas of life, we have increasingly lost a sense of working together to make change. Our aim is to change all that. |
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| Our Policies 1. Restoring law and order. The key strength of all communities is in working together to forge high standards of safety and harmony. We believe that as a result of government failures many communities have been torn apart, so we are making the reconstruction of our local communities a priority in our vision of a better future for our children. Our primary goal is to 'reclaim the streets' by clamping down on anti-social behaviour, creating safer environments and building public confidence. We will scrap pointless ASBOs and deliver more prison sentences to lawless youths. Young Offenders Institutes will offer offenders education and counseling. We will cut Police paperwork considerably and invest in thousands of new Police and Community Support Officers. This will ensure that there are more Police officers spending more time on our streets, and less time doing paperwork resulting in a more visible deterrent to criminals. We will give Police and local councils the power to evict travellers at 24 hours notice, if they occupy a site illegally. |
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| 2. Creating good community relations. Our secondary goal is to take steps to improve local communities on a useful real world level. We will order a full review of the Parades Commission whose neutrality has been repeatedly questioned by local communities. We will take the necessary actions to end illegal parades which undermine the peace process and glorify terrorism. Such parades will be met with a police presence and arrests will be made to control the situation. We will remove speed cameras positioned purely to make money. Local councils will be instructed to review speed camera sites, and ensure they are necessary for the safety of the community. All school zones and busy pedestrian areas should have them in place. We will reinvest funds saved by immigration and asylum reforms into new shelters for the homeless, new refuges for abused women and children, and more animal shelters. We will pledge millions into building new social and recreational centres for young people in every community. This will help to keep bored youths off the streets and away from crime. |
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| 3. Declaring war on political correctness. We intend to disassemble the foundations of multiculturalism and pave the way for integration. We will cut all government funding for community projects that we believe lead to racial and religious segregation and encourage separatism and breed extremism. Tower Hamlets in London is a perfect example of this. In a classic tale of conflicting policies which began in the seventies, the local government pays for after-hours Bengali classes for the children, taking on the responsibility of nurturing the 'mother-tongue' of immigrants, at a cost of a million pounds a year. Worse still as that made it sound as though the language was 'foreign' - heaven forbid - the name of these classes was changed to 'Community Language Classes'. The same council also questions why the immigrant populations fail to integrate and learn English, where it is rarely, if ever, spoken. Elsewhere in this desperate example of modern politics - which is run by a left-wing council - the same council ditched the traditional Guy Fawkes night celebrations on the 5th of November in favour of a folk tale from the Bengali community which tells the tale of the 'Moghul Emperor, the Wise Man and the Guardian of the Jungle. This cost taxpayers £75,000. The muslim veil is another such symbolic example of imposing separatism and resentment in communities. Therefore we intend to ban the wearing of this garment in public. Signs and application forms nationwide will only carry information in English, to encourage immigrants to learn the native language. We will make Saint Georges day, Saint Andrew's Day, Saint David's Day, and St Patrick's day public holidays in their respective countries, and encourage everyone to join in celebrating. We would also encourage local councils to help in organising celebrations in conjunction with the wishes of their communities. |
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| 4. Listening to local communities. We will listen to the concerns of local communities about issues that are relevant to those communities, especially with regard to the construction, demolition and regeneration of buildings. All too often our children's interests are abandoned in favour of making money, as school playing fields are sold off to developers. We respect the people's rights to religion and will defend their rights to worship in a respectful and unobtrusive manner. We will not however tolerate any form of radical, incitive or treasonous preaching and any organisation found to be guilty of such will be closed, and where possible face criminal prosecution. |
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5. Funding for community projects. 1) £420,000 to the Cusichaca Trust to help Peruvian farmers breed fatter guinea pigs for human consumption. |
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