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Eviction of old lady stopped!

Ocoonr | 26.05.2006 01:08

A disabled lady in Salford seeking out an existence on incapacity benefit recently contacted her local BNP community representative after being threatened with legal action and eviction by her landlords – a housing association.

Although the tenancy was only taken out two months ago Sheila received complaints about the state of her garden. Sheila was interested to know how the gardens of two of her neighbours were being maintained by contractors and so contacted the housing association to be asked to be added to any local list of needy residents.

The news that the gardens were being maintained at Home Office expense because the residents in those two properties happen to be asylum seekers came as a shock.

As a housing association accommodating asylum seekers New Prospects receives funding from the Home Office and the JTA requires gardens to be maintained and windows to be cleaned every 12 weeks along with a colour telly and television licence all paid for by the government.

Importing new voters

Our own disadvantaged are neglected by the Labour regime; after all our own disadvantaged no longer bother to vote Labour. Labour needs new voters to prop up its flagging support and keep it in power and those hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and imported Third World workers not only make for a cheap labour pool with which our own army of unskilled men and women cannot compete, but make for happy grateful Labour voters.

Sheila’s garden is now under control – BNP supporters in the community rallied round to help her, the threat of eviction has been lifted and the BNP shows once again that when it comes to the poor, needy and disadvantaged we practice what we preach- “charity begins at home”.

Ocoonr

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the truth about asylum accomodation in salford

26.05.2006 08:17

the accomodation provided to people seeking asylum is not better than that provided to uk nationals. there is a contract between NASS (National Asylum Support Service) and the service provider. the contract between New Prospect Housing and NASS specifies only that housing should be habitable as defined in the Housing Act 1985, that there should be safe electrical equipment (if provided), basic services such as gas, electricity and water should be accessible and furniture provided to a reasonable standard. NASS does not pay for telephones (landlines or mobiles), televisions, television licenses or stereos, new electrical goods, new furniture or cars. Your information is wrong. Do you think New Prospect housing is going to pay for a colour tv and a licence out of the kindness of their business orientated hearts?

in addition, people can only remain in NASS supported housing until their asylum claim is decided. they are living on 70% of income support (a benefit already set at subsistance level for uk nationals).for example a NASS supported couple live on 62.07 a week, hardly enough for a luxury lifestyle is it?

there is a scheme in salford for elderly people to get help with gardening accessible through new prospect housing (which by the way, is not a housing association but an arms length management association wholly owned by salford city council - one of the many inaccuracies in your story). Its sad but predictable that the BNP resorts to using the tale of an old lady with a derelict garden as a way of stirring up racial tension in salford, an area with serious deprivation in parts which needs to be addressed but spreading lies about asylum seekers is ridiculous racist scapegoating.

salford housing worker