NICK Griffin has received a sizeable mailbag concerning the Government’s plan to sell-off a Ministry of Defence building in Glasgow and then pay almost 40% more than the asking price to lease it back over 20 years.

Gordon Brown & Co wanted to sell Kentigern House (left) in the Anderston area of the city for £50million to the Canada Life insurance group to try to raise some quick cash to fund its ill-conceived adventure in Afghanistan.

The sale, however would have cost the taxpayer tens of millions of pounds more in the long run as the Government wanted to rent the building back for the next 20 years.

Canada Life would have received £70.2m in rent from the MoD over 20 years with interest adding another £1m-£2m over the period.

The sale-and-leaseback madness had led to employment concerns amongst the 1700 workers based in Argyle Street building where staff store military data and NATO records.

Thankfully, the sale has now been scrapped so Tina Wingfield, the MEP’s constituency office manager, was able to respond positively to worried constituents.

She wrote:

“While common sense has prevailed on this occasion and the sale plans have been abandoned, the fact remains that the MoD is being starved of the resources it needs to operate effectively. The proposal to sell Kentigern House was a desperate, short-sighted act by the MoD to secure essential funding to be spent on other commitments.
 
“This Labour Government has systematically scaled down the financial support given to the MoD, at the same time as continually extending the military’s commitments to unwinnable and wholly unjustifiable overseas conflicts.
 
“As Treasurer in 2004, Gordon Brown refused, for example, to release the funding required to buy new helicopters, which could now be used in service in Afghanistan. Instead, the lack of air support experienced by military personnel is now exposing them to Taliban attack, as they are forced to take dangerous journeys by road.
 
“MoD figures released this morning illustrate well the terrible consequences of the Treasury’s short-sighted penny-pinching. More than 1,000 servicemen and women have suffered combat injuries in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001, and 20% of army infantry personnel are now classified as unfit for frontline combat duties.

“Mr Griffin fully supports our brave armed services and has consistently campaigned for better equipment to be issued to them when they are deployed in combat zones.

“He is however, opposed to the Government’s callous use of British troops in foreign conflicts that do not involve the national interest and is calling for the return of our troops from Afghanistan.”

Something that should concern all the smaller political parties in Scotland has been reported in the press, in a wholly fascistic move some MSP’s have suggested the electoral system for Holyrood should be changed to stop the BNP winning a seat on the top up list.
The top up system was introduced to compensate parties that polled perhaps 20% of votes in constituencies but failed to win first past the post seats. This is democracy in action, which both the Greens and the far left have benefited from in the past. However now that the BNP are in reach of winning a seat the main parties want to change it!
The desperation of these anti democratic forces is staggering, people it would seem can vote for who they like as long as it suits the Lab/SNP/Con tri-party, this can not be tolerated and must be challenged.
The BNP is a completely legal registered political party that has won a mandate from one million people, almost 30,000 here in Scotland voted BNP in the Euros, we beat the Lib-Dems, Greens and all the far left parties in Glasgow recently, we have the absolute right to represent these people, as they have the absolute right to vote for us, do not let them take away this freedom, contact your elected representatives and express your disgust with the Holyrood fascists.

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