--- election_year: 2016 party_id: bnp party_name: British National Party party_leader: David Furness political_spectrum: right victory: false government_outcome: opposition sections: - economy - taxation - housing - immigration - foreign-policy - environment - transport - law-and-order - welfare - energy - science-and-technology - local-government --- # British National Party London Mayoral Manifesto 2016 TAKING BACK OUR COUNTRY STOP IMMIGRATION NOW Denise BNP Activist David Furness BNP London Mayoral Candidate Christine BNP Activist # Putting Londoners first This is the British National Party 2016 London Manifesto and here we set out our core policies to make London great again. The office of London Mayor and the London Assembly make up the Greater London Authority (GLA) which controls huge budgets and has the final say on vital issues and resources that should be used to improve the lives of every Londoner. We will seek to extend the power of the GLA to be able to face the huge challenges ahead in terms of housing and other fundamental issues of urban development. *A new vision for London is needed.* ## Economy * Take Britain out of the European Union * Review all London Mayoral ‘vanity projects’ such as the wasteful London Garden Bridge which will cost at least £175million * End monetary handout in ‘foreign aid’ until the estimated 1.6million children in Britain living in severe poverty are provided for ## Transport * We welcome the introduction of the London Underground ‘Night Tube’ as long as the numerous outstanding issues over pay and conditions have been resolved * No to Heathrow Airport expansion (See ‘Environment’) * Protect the free travel card for Londoners who are over 60 years old * Save up to £1billion by not building a Crossrail2 station in Chelsea. Instead, spend the money on repairing London’s roads. It is estimated that it would cost £700million to bring London’s roads up to an ‘acceptable’ condition * Protect London’s black-cab taxi trade. The BNP supports London’s black-cab trade and will campaign for the enforcement of full criminal record checks for all drivers of black cabs and minicabs * Pressure Transport for London to ensure that foreign nationals for whom background checks cannot be made are automatically denied *Private Hire Licences (minicabs) or London Taxi Licences (black cabs)* * Campaign for restrictions on Uber Apps such as the introduction of a five minute waiting time to enforce the law * Cycle rickshaws will be prohibited * Review the effectiveness of London’s bus lanes. Many areas of London suffer from traffic gridlock when bus lanes are in operation * Crackdown on cyclists who break the law by riding on the pavement and jumping red lights. Explore the possibility of requiring all bicycles to have number plates and all cyclists to have mandatory insurance and training anti-social behaviour, and helping people to feel safer at night Ealing Council has been replacing its old street lights and council data shows that, on average, between April 2013 and February 2015, crimes decreased by 17% across those areas with improved street lighting ## Crime and Policing * Implement zero-tolerance on anti-social behaviour, gang culture and violent crime, and campaign to have five-year minimum prison sentences for knife crime in the capital * Adopt a hands-on approach to police operational matters in Greater London to deal with the current lack of coordination and training which became evident during the August 2011 riots * End politically correct interference in police operations and restore colour blind policing so that everyone is treated equally. We will raise minimum intellectual and physical requirements for police recruitment * Scrap the requirement that all Metropolitan Police Officers should not be a member of ANY political party. It’s absurd that Police and Crime Commissioners in England & Wales and the Mayor of London can be members of any political party but Police Officers cannot * Crackdown on crime, with more police on the streets * Improve street lighting. Replace out-of-date high-pressure sodium lights with new energy-efficient LED (light-emitting diode) lanterns, resulting in improved visibility, a reduction in road accidents and * Seek to expand the power of the GLA to include being London’s primary planning body for both housing and infrastructure, ending the expense, inconvenience and inequality of the present borough-based system * Introduce a Local Connection Assessment test for social housing to ensure priority for local social housing goes to local people * End the disgraceful culture of discrimination which has resulted in a great many native Londoners having been pushed out of their city because of rising rents, and the favouring of foreigners So-called ‘white flight’ from London has not happened by accident, it’s a result of successive governments favouring and putting foreigners first at the expense of native Londoners. The BNP will change all that by introducing Local Connection Assessment tests to ensure qualification for being placed on local housing lists Each applicant must demonstrate historical association with the area by birth, family or employment. Special consideration will be extended to ex-servicemen and their families, and the most vulnerable of our people including those that are homeless and those suffering from domestic abuse. At present, the vast majority of the profit from the sale of council houses under the ‘Right to Buy’ scheme goes direct to the Treasury. ## Environment * Green policy is very important to the BNP. We will improve existing recycling facilities and intensify recycling operations across the city * No building on the Green Belt, except in special instances of genuine local need. An immediate halt to ALL Immigration will relieve the demand for new build homes. We need to give ourselves breathing space – literally! * Make the adoption of alternative energy sources, particularly solar panels, on public and private buildings across London one of our priorities * No to Heathrow Airport expansion. Heathrow is Europe’s largest noise polluter, adding another runaway will make this problem even worse. The proposed extra runway will result in further air pollution, overburdening of the local Underground lines, and greatly increasing road traffic * Plant more trees in London. Not only do trees improve air quality but also they also improve the social surroundings * Ancient woodlands such as the Ruislip Woods National Nature Reserve in the London borough of Hillingdon must be protected as much as possible. Funds will be made available to assist local councils in maintaining these precious and ancient woodlands ## Housing * Take decisive action to provide extra housing Londonwide, without compromising quality and infrastructure * Fight to ensure that this profit goes to the local council to be reinvested in affordable housing developments on ‘brownfield’ sites. * Implement a land tax on hoarded building land to ensure that more ‘brownfield’ land is developed * Create a massive building programme for low-rent social housing that would both create jobs and new homes * Scrap the ‘bedroom tax’ * Prosecute landlords of unlicensed Houses of Multiple ## Occupation (HMOs) and work towards strict licencing. Enforce the law prohibiting so-called ‘beds in sheds’ ## Immigration * London is already overcrowded. All the other political parties will let in more – we’ll shut the door! – No amnesty for illegal immigrants – No refugees Current Immigration policy is determined primarily by the EU (a key reason for our opposition to Britain’s membership) and central government, we will take all measures within the Mayor’s power to protect and advance the interests of indigenous Londoners and members of legally settled minorities who contribute to the common good ## Friend to London Businesses * Preferably, all GLA contracts should be awarded to London businesses. The BNP champions small British businesses * Landlords should be allowed to decide whether their premises are smoking or non-smoking – let’s do things the British way, NOT the European way * Campaign for free parking in commercial areas to support local businesses ## Commonsense Funding * All Londoners, regardless of ethnic background, should benefit from public projects. We will call for equal funding of all communities, instead of implementing projects on an ethnic basis * Review and slash ‘politically correct’ spending on projects instigated by previous Mayors. * Support the principle that everyone who comes to live in London must learn and use English. There are many better uses for taxpayers’ money than translation services ## Islamisation * Defend our traditional Christian faith * Ban Sharia law * Ensure that existing community buildings such as pubs and churches are not turned into mosques * Ban the burqa ## Culture * Campaign to have St George’s Day (23rd April) as a Public Holiday. This Public Holiday will be celebrated every year in Trafalgar Square, London with proper English flags, instead of meaningless and politically correct ‘red flags’ – favoured by Boris Johnson All rights reserved ©2016 British National Party. 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