Labour Councillor Colleen Harwood plays game on phone whilst £83M budget cuts were being discussed.

A LABOUR councillor in Notts has been criticised for playing a game on her mobile phone – while £83 million of budget cuts were being discussed.

Colleen Harwood was spotted from the public gallery but defended her actions by suggesting that she could multi-task as she was a woman.

This took place during Notts County Council’s budget meeting when cuts to services and more than 750 job losses were passed.

Councillor Harwood, a branch secretary for the GMB union, and was elected to serve Mansfield East at the last election in May.

Tweeting from the meeting on Thursday, Councillor Harwood said: “As a woman, I can do many things including listen, write stuff and even play on my phone.

“If I had not paid attention, then fair enough but was fully up to speed with everything that occurred today.”

But Liberal Democrat leader Jason Zadrozny – who was speaking while councillor Harwood was caught – was not impressed.

He said: “This was one of the most important meetings that I have been to at this council and it’s disgraceful that councillors can sit there and play on their phones.

“We were talking about services that will impact on people’s lives and we have a councillor who may well have been trying to get a high score in Flappy Bird.

“I know that people use their phones and iPads during meetings, but this is meant to check agenda items, e-mails or send out tweets – not for playing games.

“She made a mistake and I’m sure the people in the area she represents will be outraged that she wasn’t listening to the debate.”

And Conservative leader Kay Cutts said: “It is easier to see what is happening from high up in the public gallery than when you are in the council chamber, but if this is the case I am shocked and outraged that a councillor would be playing a game on their mobile phone during a serious budget debate directly affecting the lives of everyone in Nottinghamshire.

“We were discussing Labour’s proposals to close children’s centres, youth clubs, day centres, respite care accommodation and waste tips. Surely this was worthy of her attention, or does she not care?”

We contacted councillor Harwood for comment but she declined.

Vote BNP to get rid of this scum.

Hobbycraft staff told 'speak English or be punished'. At last someone makes a stand!

Workers at a major distribution hub in Burton have been told that they can only speak English while at work – or face disciplinary action.

Bosses at Hobbycraft, based in Centrum 100, hauled staff in for a meeting on yesterday morning after difficulties arose with a host of nationalities conversing only in their native tongue.

Staff were warned that the firm’s policy was that they should only use English during work hours.

Chris Fenlon, people director for Hobbycraft, told the Mail: “Having the ability to speak English is part of the recruitment criteria in our distribution centre.

“Therefore, we do ask that during working hours in the warehouse colleagues speak English.

“This is to create a good working environment where all colleagues can communicate effectively.”

The Mail was alerted to the situation after several members of staff got in touch after being spoken to by their bosses.

One Polish worker, who asked not to be named due to fear of repercussions, told the Mail that she thought the move was ‘silly’.

She said: “I have worked for the firm for a number of months and everything was all right until a few months ago when things started going wrong.

“Our managers forbid us from speaking to others in any language but English.

“The first few months were not that bad and, if they spotted someone using any other language, the person would basically get told off.

“But then all staff were called to the canteen to be told that we were only allowed to speak English while working and, if we do not, we will face punishment.

“I know it sounds silly but I think it is something that is important and needs raising.”

The BNP wholly support Hobbycraft's policy and hope it will be adopted by other firms - having the whole workforce speaking a common language is a major factor in improving productivity and quality.

Low Life Immigrants - The BNP will address the problem because no-one else will

On the basis that we have quite sufficient of our own low-life to deal with, thank-you-very-much, the number of unpronounceable, Eastern European names reported by the news in connection with crime of every conceivable hue, from Benefit Fraud to Child Abuse, is totally unacceptable to the British people – and I just hope they remember that in Wythenshawe later this month, and across the Country in May.

There is nothing we can do about it until we withdraw from the EU and tear-up the treasonous treaties that have turned Britain into the rubbish-tip of Europe – and I hope they remember that in Wythenshawe and beyond as well.

But that is a waiting game, and the British National Party clock is ticking in the ears of every old-guard politician in the land – Ukippers, with their distinctly fishy agenda, included.

What could be addressed right now – as in ‘today’ – is the dross flowing ashore in waves of pestilence from everywhere else on the Planet. But we are, apparently incapable (or unwilling) to address it.

Like the delightful Baksim Bushati, a drug-dealing thug from Albania – who has ABSOLUTELY no right to be in this Country at all, yet comes and goes as he pleases despite having been deported. Twice. So far.

It’s not clear when this unpleasant piece of social pollution first took advantage of UK Border Agency ineptitude, but in 2005 he was jailed for three-and-a-half years for violent assault and deported back to Albania. (Who paid for his ticket do you think . . . ?)

In September 2010 he was sent to prison again, courtesy of false ID, and deported again.

In January 2013 Bushati was jailed yet again (violence) with the recommendation that he be deported once his holiday – sorry, I meant to say ‘prison sentence’ – had been completed

December 2013 – arrested again; Bushati, holed-up in Weedon, Northamptonshire, jumped out of a moving car to try and evade capture before being brought down by police dogs – so they at least appear to be worth a biscuit.

On February 5th he was sentenced to seven years in prison for possessing Class ‘A’ drugs with intent to supply.

Last year it was revealed that the now defunct UK Border Agency (renamed the ‘Border Force’ - more manly) was dealing with a backlog of 320,000 cases, which was expected to take MORE THAN 20 YEARS to clear.

The ‘problem’, according to their former chief, was “an influx of illegal immigrants who arrived in the UK between 2000 and 2003, many of whom have since changed their names and become untraceable”.

The ‘problem’ is the lack of will displayed by successive governments to address the problem at all.

The British National Party WILL address the problem.

The British National Party will NOT take “20 years” to solve the problem.

The British National Party is the CURE to the problem.

Whose streets? OUR STREETS.





Article reprinted from bnp.org.uk