It seems that Gordon Prentice, the BNP and the Conservatives are attacking plans for a new Islam High School in Pendle, I ask why? Clearly if a charity is able to bring community facilities, education and overall new standards to the community why are we stopping them from doing this?
The school is to be set up in a mill that is no longer used, why are we sacrificing education and community facilities for a mill that would never be used and would just sit there abandoned?
Clearly it’s not on, I am all for community cohesion but if we are going to stop faith schools being built, the ethnic minority community is just being singled out which will just add wood to the fire for the BNP.
My message to Gordon Prentice is, put up or shut up. Gordon Prentice has come out firing away alongside the BNP at the plans for a new school and personally I think this is damn out of order and personally I believe Gordon Prentice should hang his head in shame.
What has this Labour government//MP done to bring new community facilities and better education in faith schools into the Borough of Pendle? Nothing, it’s this that gets me wound up with these people. Why stop action taking place, especially if you haven’t done anything yourself.
Faith schools? Yes please, we should allow people to build their own schools; we can’t simply decline a community’s proposal to build a school for themselves, its not on.