Remembrance Day parades face axe

News article filed by BNP news team


BNP members pay their respects in Mirfield - future parades could be axed.

Remembrance Day parades are the latest victims of politically correct red tape. Police and councils have drawn up new health and safety guidelines which mean that the parades will become too expensive to hold.

Parade organisers in Horwich, Lancashire, are believed to be the first to cancel their parade after they were faced with a bill for £18,000. The town has held a parade each year since 1945 to commemorate the 350 local people who died in the wars. Previously, the police had implemented a free "rolling roadblock", but now marshals must be employed and organisers will have to pay for any roads they want closing.

Bolton Council has increased the cost of closing roads by £500 - to £800 and it can cost £50 a day for marshals.

The Royal British Legion said the move could mean the end for parades up and down the country. Others have condemned the moves as a mark of disrespect to those who gave their lives for this country. Several hundred people attend the Remembrance Day parade in Horwich. A former mayor called it "a further erosion of what we hold dear".

Many other traditional events have fallen foul of health and safety legislation in recent times - an Easter duck race in Cheshire and the Christmas lights switch on in Scarborough are just two examples of politically correct lunacy ruining events which have been held without problems for many years.

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