The truth behind Marks and Spencers move from Dewsbury

As anyone who lives locally will be aware Marks and Spencer are to close their Dewsbury store after 100 years of trading. Here we print in full an excellent piece submitted by a regular contributor to this blog that analyses the reasons behind Marks and Spencer's 'relocation' and the deterioration of a once proud town. Thanks to JP.

A phoney war of words has erupted between two establishment politicians, Dewsbury's Labour MP Shahid Malik and Kirklees Conservative Council Leader Robert Light (pictured)

Prompted by the news that after 100 years Marks and Spencer is to close its Dewsbury store, MP Malik has implied that the fault lies with Kirklees Council for its failure to invest in the town. Eager to shore up his rapidly diminishing support, Malik has jumped on the 'Dewsbury is going to the dogs' bandwagon that blames Kirklees for favouring Huddersfield over Dewsbury.

Leader Light has reacted with feigned outrage: "What has he (i.e. Malik) ever done for the town?" he shrieked. Light went on to say that the Council had secured over £80 million investment for Dewsbury and he urged everyone to "...talk up Dewsbury" rather than criticise it.

In typical politician's self-congratulatory style, Light shamelessly blows his own trumpet, "We are supporting investments in a children's centre, playground improvements, road and traffic programmes - all aimed at rejuvenating, regenerating, and transforming the fortunes of Dewsbury."

Oh really? And where is this children's centre to be situated, and which children will benefit from it? And which schools will benefit from improved playground facilities, and which roads will benefit from the new traffic programmes? Of course Light doesn't specify - but then he wouldn't, would he?

Let's cut to the quick. Dewsbury is a dump - and its most fitting monument is the clock tower on the Pioneer building where trees take root in the mortar and where the weather vane sits at an appropriately drunken angle.

What's that Councillor Light, we should be talking Dewsbury up? Isn't that like expecting passengers on a sinking ship to say what a wonderful sea voyage they're having?

Light boasts, "The council's continued investment in Dewsbury market resulted in it being judged the best in the UK this year." Out of curiosity, does anyone know who was doing the judging? It certainly wasn't the woman who wrote to the Press recently (17/08/07): "Dewsbury was such a lovely town; now we have a market resembling Bangladesh, women in burkhas and men in pyjamas."

Yes, Dewsbury was a lovely town - past tense. But it's not lovely now, certainly not for its original inhabitants who are in the process of being ethnically cleansed: Dewsbury is being Asianised with the connivance of the likes of Malik and Light. How long before the Minster is converted into a mosque? How long before the mill lass iron sculpture under the railway arches is dressed in a burkha? Surely it's only a matter of time.

Malik blames Kirklees Council for its indifference; Light blames those who aren't talking Dewsbury up.

Both are more concerned with their seats on the gravy train than they are with the truth of what is happening to Dewsbury.

Light is a selfish coward who has no qualms about betraying his fellow ethnic Britons to further his pathetic political 'career'. A better man wouldn't shy away from the real problems of Dewsbury and pretend it can all be made better by 'investment'. But Light isn't a better man, he's afraid of the truth and he hates the BNP because we stand by the truth.

And as you'd expect, Malik has his own agenda.

But no matter how much the politicians wriggle and squirm, there's no getting away from it - Britain's plight is a direct result of the insane immigration policies that Labour and Conservative governments have been employing these past fifty years or so. And they can invest in Dewsbury all they like but they won't put a halt to its deterioration. Labour wants immigrants as voters and the Tories want them as cheap labour. It's called treachery, and when the BNP eventually takes power as it inevitably will, these traitors in parliament and in the council chambers will be introduced to the business end of the rope - after a fair trial of course.

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