1:49pm Tuesday 1st July 2008
A BNP councillor will stand against a policy to promote equality within Markyate Parish Council at a council meeting tonight.
Simon Deacon, BNP councillor and former leading National Front activist, called the Equal Opportunities Policy a waste of time and vowed not to support it.
Speaking before the meeting he said: "I'm totally against it.
"Why do we have to have all this bureaucracy? "People come here with work permits and they are supposed to be put on an equal footing.
Therefore somebody goes for a job and those other people who have been here for a matter of months can apply for the same job - that is what the Equal Opportunities Policy is all about. It is unfair.
"I have gone against things before with the council - that is democracy, that is politics. "I have to do what I think is right. I am sorry if that offends others but I have to go with my gut instinct and go with what I believe in, otherwise I'm a hypocrite."
But campaigners argue Deacon should resign from the council if he does not agree with the policy.
Jon Berry, of Three Counties Unite Against Facism, said: "He purports to be a representative of the community and it is absolutely clear that he regards some members of the community more important than others."
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BILL, London says...
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Wayne wrote:You havent been paying attention to reality much have you ?
So, if you happen to be non white, you are liable to commit MORE CRIME??? Hmm, somehow, I don\\\'t think that equates. Where are your figures for this \\\'fact\\\'? Can you back them up with HARD EVIDENCE? Where are you getting your \\\'facts\\\' from to come out with a statement so obviously untrue that it borders on laughable? Hmm, I seem to recall Hitler coming out the self-same statements about the Jews. Only this time, the target has changed. My my, how you racists never learn. The 2nd World War was fought on this agenda alone. People fought AND DIED for FREEDOM. Yet, you want democracy for some, and not for all?? Hmm, a strange kind of democracy that is. And, as for sending people \\\'back to their lands of birth\\\', well my friend, it would mean having to \\\'send back\\\' virtually the whole population of the UK,as we are ALL MIXED in some form or other. It would be a wonder that there would be anyone left to work within the country, if you lot had your own way. And, furthermore, if the BNP actually gained power, it would mean you were all for the pogrom of entire men, women and children? People who, although they were born here, would be murdered like animals if they refused to go? Hmm, strange kind of democracy my friend. And believe me, THAT WOULD HAPPEN.
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