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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Calls for Khan to resign

Once again the story of Labour group leader and Councillor for Greenhead in Huddersfield Mehboob Khan dominates the front page of the only local paper worth reading - namely the Press newspaper.

You may remember Councillor Khan ran up a £2000 phone bill courtesy of the Council taxpayer while ringing his fancy woman in Uzbekistan.
And what's followed has amounted to what appears to be a complete cover up by investigators on Kirklees Council.
Despite the theft coming to light in October of last year no action has been taken other than to make Khan pay back the money at £100 a month.
The Press are this week calling for a full investigation by Kirklees Council into the matter and quite rightly too.
A number of questions need answering namely:

1. Why did Khan use the Council telephone and not his own phone?
2. Why did Khan not mention the fact that he made the calls until 7 months after making the calls and only after an investigation proved he was the culprit?
3. Why is Khan paying the sum back at £100 per month at what the Press rightly claim amounts to an interest free loan?
4. Why hasn’t he been reported to the Police for what is quite obviously theft of public funds?
5. Why has there been a cover up?

I think we all know the answers to the questions namely that Councillor Khan had no intention of repaying the money until he was caught and the answer to the last question is that he’s a Labour man like the investigating team.
The whole incident stinks from start to finish and even more so when you realise that despite the story being in the public domain for well over a week the only paper to so far cover it is the Press newspaper. The rest of the local papers simply aren’t interested in reporting on Labour wrong doing, especially when the Labour man concerned is an Asian Muslim.
Although its what we've come to expect from corrupt New Labour and their obvious contempt for the people who put them into office its still time Khan did the honourable thing and resigned although I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Imagine though if the culprit had been a BNP Councillor?
It wouldn’t be a ticking off he’d be facing it’d be jail!
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Raids in Dewsbury

Police this week raided another 2 houses in Dewsbury linked to the 'war on terror'.
The two houses in the Thornhill Lees area of the town were linked to an alleged plot to break Muslim terrorists out of Woodhill prison in Buckinghamshire.
Whats remarkable about this story is not the fact that police are raiding Muslim homes in Dewsbury, in fact there's hardly a week goes by when they don't do just that. But the fact that the police had contacted people in the 'community' - likely to be local Mullahs- to discuss the raids prior to them happening and the fact that these people had accompanied the 'Neighbourhood Policing Team Officers' (or Police as they're known when its none Muslim homes they're raiding) on the raids.
And it's not the first time. And it's happening all over the country.
Since when have white people been afforded the same luxury? The answer as we all know is never.
They're so terrified of upsetting the 'community' they basically do anything the Muslims ask of them.
No-one will be surprised to learn that no arrests were made in the 'raids'. And no wonder when the police are letting them know what they're doing in advance. It's just a joke.
The mind boggles - no wonder they think they're above the law, most of them are!
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Labour Leader caught fiddling.

It's been revealed that Mehboob Khan the Leader of the Labour group on Kirklees council and councillor for Greenhead in Huddersfield has been caught making £2000 worth of personal calls to his girlfriend in Uzbekistan.

Using the Council telephone for personal calls is strictly forbidden except in the event of an emergency and even then the Councillor concerned must report the fact to the Council and pay back the cost of the call.

In this case Councillor Khan conveniently forgot to mention the £2000 worth of personal calls he made and it was only when it was investigated and the calls were found to have come from his office that he came clean and admitted making the calls.

Strangely though the Chief Executive of the Council Rob Vincent has decided to take no action and has only requested that Khan pay back the money, in fact no-one would know about it if it hadn't been for a disgusted member of staff leaking it to the BNP group on Kirklees.
Khan should have been reported to the standards board and the police for theft.
PS It won't surprise you to know that Rob Vincent is a former Labour party member and obviously still a supporter.

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