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The BNPtv team were on hand in Liverpool yesterday to capture the spirit and camaraderie of all those hard working and loyal members, activists and supporters that turned out to make this event such a success.
When the annals of British nationalism come to be written, the events of November 29th will surely merit their own page in that history.
Every one of the hundred and fifty BNP men and women who set out for Liverpool in the pre-dawn fog of freezing morning knew full-well that they faced arrest and ill-treatment at the hands of a British police force out of control.
These were one hundred and fifty people with families, jobs and mortgages, who said tearful goodbyes to their loved-ones that morning in the expectation that they would not return in the evening, and that their homes might be invaded and searched, just as Tory Damian Green’s home was violated, by Labour’s political police.
There are other political parties, for sure, who could turn out one hundred and fifty activists, even on a chill wintery day. But perhaps only the British National Party boasts one hundred and fifty stout hearts willing to risk all they hold dear in the cause of freedom.
Thankfully, all our dark fears proved ill-founded. As we arrived in Liverpool, the jubilant “Liverpool 13″ greeted us with news that the police and Crown Prosecution Service had backed down, the triumph was won and the enemy had already fled the field. The mood changed abruptly from silent and grim-faced determination, to celebratory smiles and back-slapping congratulations.
Few doubted that if the authorities had persisted with their pretence that the “Racism Cuts Both Ways” leaflets were illegal, then Nick Griffin and his followers would all be arrested for distributing them that day. The media would undoubtedly have linked Nick’s arrest to that of Tory Damian Green and drawn adverse conclusions about the malevolence of Labour. But ultimately, Labour’s nerve failed them and they clearly decided that political martyrdom was a gift to the BNP which they could not afford to give.
So the one hundred and fifty carried their flags proudly to the appointed place and made their stand, armed with the truth and with BNP leaflets by the thousand. And the fine reception they received from the warm-hearted people of Liverpool was just reward in itself for their efforts.
The BNP activists at Liverpool seemed a distillation of all that is still Great about Britain. The public saw ex-servicemen with medals worn proudly on their chests. There were professional men in suits, accountants and businessmen, whose briefcases bulged with BNP leaflets. There were middle-class ladies with the accents of Somerset and Surrey, and working-class lads from the Lancashire mill towns. Here stood fashion-conscious young girls in their high-heeled boots, and frail grey-haired old men, who fought for their country long ago and were prepared to do so again, just one last time.
All of them conducted themselves with exemplary restraint and good-humour, ignoring the distant moronic chants of the Labour mob, and they stuck to their purpose of handing out leaflets with quiet British resolution. The BNP is proud of them all, and one day soon, our nation will be proud of them too.
On this day of triumph, even Merseyside police seemed utterly transformed. The courteous and impartial police officers of yesteryear, who inspired and deserved our respect, unexpectedly reappeared. Smart and professional officers committed to protecting the peaceful and innocent, and arresting the violent and guilty, seem so rare these days that, in truth, the transformation came as a shock. Our thanks and “three cheers” for the ordinary Merseyside police officers who did their duty so creditably that day were both genuine and well-deserved.
There are many lessons of Liverpool, but the greatest of all is this: men and women of stout heart can still prevail against the powers-that-be. We may face an Establishment enemy of daunting might, but he is an enemy too with a nervous twitch in his cheek, a quaver in his voice and sweat on his brow.
With the “Liverpool 13″ now happily free to enjoy an untroubled Christmas with their families, we may look back on our remarkable day out in Liverpool as the moment the tide of fortune turned in our favour.
The sole surviving terrorist of the Mumbai attacks has told interrogators that he was instructed to “kill whites, especially British and American tourists” before taking hostages.
Azam Amir Kasab, 21, from Pakistan, said the attacks were planned six months ago and were intended to kill 5,000 people. Surviving the massacre after trying to flee, the Pakistani-born terrorist has made a full confession to police.
He revealed that the ten terrorists, who were highly trained in marine assault and crept into the city by boat, had planned to blow up the Taj Mahal Palace hotel after first executing British and American tourists and then taking hostages.
He described how its mastermind briefed the group to “target whites, preferably Americans and British.”
Kasab described how he and an accomplice sprayed machine-gun fire around a busy railway station, killing dozens of people, before intending to move to the exclusive district of Malabar Hill, where they planned to “take VIPs hostage.”
Four men went to the Taj hotel, two to the Jewish centre of Nariman House, Kasab and another man set off by taxi towards the railway station, and two headed for the Leopold restaurant.
While his colleagues were executing hostages at the Taj, Kasab and Ismail first opened fire with their assault rifles at around 10.20pm, killing dozens of people standing at Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station.
Then they hijacked a police 4×4, killing the two officers inside. Kasab told investigators they continued their killing spree by attacking a petrol station and blowing up a taxi before being stopped.
“I have done right,” he told investigators. “I have no regrets.”
At least 22 foreigners are known to have died, including victims from Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, Italy, Singapore, Thailand and France. It is expected that the final death toll will be over 300.
Claims that up to seven of the terrorists could have been British men of Pakistani origin, who had connections to West Yorkshire, were being widely discounted.
A top Indian official, Maharashtra state chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, said that there was “no authentic information” to suggest that any British citizens were involved, contradicting an earlier claim he had made.
An earlier news report said that one of the terrorists had been working at the Taj hotel as a kitchen porter for up to eight months before the attacks and had produced a British passport during his job interview. This was strongly denied by the hotel management.
* A banned Islamic terrorist group funded with cash raised in British mosques is believed to be behind the Mumbai attacks.
Kashmiri separatists Lashkar-e-Taiba, ‘The Army of the Righteous’, which has strong links to Al Qaeda, is accused of previous terrorist outrages in India.
Intercepted telephone and radio communications before and during the latest attacks apparently suggest a link. Indian officials say at least one of the gunmen captured after the attacks is part of a Lashkar network.
Lashkar-e-Taiba has been blamed for violence throughout India, including the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament building in New Delhi and a strike at an amusement park in Hyderabad in 2007. It is accused of being behind a series of train bombings in Mumbai in 2006, which claimed almost 200 lives.
In 2006, a Coventry-based Muslim was sentenced to nine years in jail for conspiring to provide funds for its terrorist activities.
*It has also been reported that British Intelligence (the same ones who blame whites for Islamic extremism) bosses are set to launch a probe into suspected links between Birmingham-born militant Rashid Rauf and the Mumbai terror attack.
Security forces in India will examine connections between two Islamist Kashmiri groups thought to be behind the Mumbai assault, which has claimed almost 200 lives, and Rauf, who was known to be a member of both terror groups.
Rauf, 27, from Ward End, Birmingham — an Al Qaeda suspect said to be the “key player” behind the alleged liquid bomb plot to blow up transatlantic airliners — was killed in a missile strike last Saturday in North Western Pakistan by an unmanned US drone.
Sources have now revealed that he was planning a major attack at the time of his death, and that the Mumbai murders show all the hallmarks of one of Rauf’s “terror spectacular” plots.
The Indian Mujahidin, which carried out a blast in Delhi in September and warned that they would strike next in Mumbai, is understood to have been behind this week’s terror outrage.
The group is made up of several different militant organisations, the most dangerous of which are the Pakistani-based Kashmiri “freedom” movements Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM). Rauf was known to have strong links to both organisations.
He married a relative of JEM’s founder and worked with LET to train British jihadis who travelled to Pakistan. London 7/7 bombers Shehzad Tanweer and Mohammed Siddique Khan both studied at an LET madrassa near Lahore in 2004.
An Italian town has proposed giving jobless immigrants a one-off €2,000 euro payment as long as they agree to live elsewhere.
The town council is controlled by the Northern League, which has previously called on the Italian navy to sink boats trying to smuggle in illegal immigrants from North Africa.
“We’re ready to give 2,000 Euros to each family as long they go and live elsewhere,” said Manola Spolverato, 39, a councillor in the town of Spresiano, north of Venice in the north-east Veneto region.
“It would cost less than supporting families who are in difficulty. It’s not right that the council should be compelled to support, at its own expense, immigrants who have lost their jobs.”
The Northern League’s leaders have welcomed the idea and have suggested extending it to other towns.
The party — La Lega Nord in Italian — wants greater autonomy for the wealthy regions of Italy’s north, including the Veneto.
It attracted eight percent of the national vote at April’s general election, doubling its support base, and was made a key part of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s conservative coalition.
One of its campaign posters featured a picture of a Native American with the slogan: “They were subjected to immigration and now they live on reserves!”
A story one could not make up: A Kurdish asylum invader who had his private parts measured in a bid to establish his age — at the cost of the taxpayer — has won a key victory in his bid to be declared a child.
The Kurdish teenager, who arrived in the UK from Iraq in the back of a lorry in February this year and can only be named as A, insists that he is just 16 and was born in November 1992.
However the London Borough of Croydon, the local authority in whose care he is, say he is 18. The boy’s age is crucial, because if he is 16 he will be entitled to welfare payments because he is considered a vulnerable child. It could also have an impact on his claim for asylum.
During a judicial review challenge against a Croydon Council ruling that he is 18, lawyers for the legally-aided youngster said that medical evidence supports his claim that he is 16. Barrister Christopher Buttler, for A, said the local authority were wrong to ignore a medical report filed on his behalf by an experienced paediatrician, Diana Birch.
In June this year, the expert said that A was around 15-and-a-half years, basing her conclusions on his sexual, physical and mental development, his physical growth and his teeth. Among the factors which Dr Birch took into account was how hairy A is, how deep his voice is — and the size of his genitalia.
However, in October 2008, Croydon ruled that A was 17 — meaning that they believe he turned 18 earlier this month — and rejected Dr Birch’s findings. At London’s High Court, Judge Stephen Morris QC said Croydon had acted “unreasonably” in coming to the conclusion it did.
“The reasons given by the local authority were unsound,” said Judge Morris, stating its rejection of Dr Birch’s report was “irrational. Had Croydon given proper consideration to Dr Birch’s report, the outcome of the decision may well have been different,” added the judge.
Judge Morris said that Croydon had relied on a March assessment of A, but the reasoning in that report was “relatively superficial” and its conclusion “vague.” Granting the application for judicial review, Judge Morris said Croydon should now reconsider A’s claim to be a vulnerable child.
Liverpool, previously one of the most militant leftist cities in Britain, today gave a rapturous welcome to a 150-strong BNP demonstration in support of free speech.
Thousands of ‘Racism Cuts Both Ways’ booklets and other BNP leaflets were distributed in a co-ordinated day of campaigning in the city centre, which saw the Truth Truck and three other A-frame advertising vehicles sweep through large parts of the surrounding suburbs, all proudly carrying the party’s message to thousands of well wishers.
The BNP activists on foot – which included party chairman Nick Griffin, deputy leader Simon Darby, Greater London Assembly member Richard Barnbrook – then converged on the city centre at around midday, occupying one of the major pedestrianised intersections.
There, with flags flying, the BNP activists, which included an age range spread from pensioners to youngsters, continued distributing leaflets and recruiting from members of the public. A small crowd of bussed-in leftists were kept at bay by a police presence.
After an hour and half, the BNP crowd moved to the steps of St. George’s Hall in the city centre, where Mr Griffin gave a short address, pointing out that it was the preparedness of the BNP activists to be arrested en masse which had driven the police to withdraw all charges against the ‘Liverpool 13′ earlier in the day.
“Those charges would have hung over our people’s families until February if it had not been for the fact that hundreds of BNP activists were quite prepared to be arrested today,” Mr Griffin said.
“We hope that we have now established a sensible working basis with the police in Liverpool, and we welcome the appointment of a liaison officer for the BNP to ensure that there are no future incidents,” he continued.
Later, Mr Griffin spoke from the back of the Truth Truck at the post-demonstration social event, in which he called upon BNP activists to rally once again for protests in Blackburn, Colne and then converging on Burnley police station.
“This must happen on 11 February, as we still have people in Lancashire under threat of prosecution for the same freedom of speech laws for which the Liverpool 13 were held,” Mr Griffin said.
* Police have claimed that three people were arrested during the event. The BNP has ascertained that two of the three were pro-Labour demonstrators, and the third was another individual unconnected to the BNP.
A Tory shadow minister, Damian Green, is arrested for allegedly receiving leaked documents. 13 BNP members are arrested for distributing a perfectly reasonable leaflets. There are similarities between the two events: both documents and leaflets related to immigration or immigrant related matters. Both events were probably devices by which the police could gain access to the homes of those arrested so that they could be searched. Both actions were without doubt known about and approved by this New Labour Government which hopes to crush, by any means possible, any opposition to its ‘Project’ to destroy Britain and to disposses its people.
There though the similarities end. When Damian Green was arrested, there was an immediate uproar in sections of the Media, condemning the infringement of Parliamentary rights, the assault on the democratic process, the Stasi-like methods of a government with totalitarian instincts, and so on. But when the BNP members were arrested, there was no noticeable mention of the event whatsoever in those same sections of the Media.
It can be argued that the treatment of the BNP members is even more sinister than that of a Shadow Cabinet minister. For while anger should rightly be shown in both cases at the police-state methods indulged in by the police and this government, Parliament is nowadays regarded with a contempt which it has brought on itself. It is treated by the Political Class as its personal possession. It has allowed its power and prestige to be given away to Europe and is nowadays little better than a rubber stamp for Brussels. Who respects a rubber stamp or a tool of the political class? Why should a rubber stamp claim any special consideration? And who respects the self-interested greed and careerism of MPs and their lack of interest in the concerns of ordinary people which it is their duty to represent? If MPs and Parliament are despised, they have only themselves to blame.
The heart of our democracy is not Parliament any more, if it ever was; it is now with the ordinary people of this country. When the government authorised the arrest of those BNP supporters, it arrested ordinary people exercising their hard -won democratic rights. To strike at that, now our Parliament is a despised nothing which has sold us out to foreigners, really is a blow at the heart of our democracy.
Bob McConnell
Police have dropped all charges against the BNP’s ‘Liverpool 13′, admitting that there is no evidence to substantiate any of the allegations of ‘racism.’
The remarkable move came early this morning, when all thirteen men were hand delivered letters by members of the Liverpool constabulary. The letters, which formally advised the men that there was ‘insufficient evidence’ to pursue charges, were pushed through their doors by policemen, who then quickly left before being forced to talk to anybody to explain.
“The looming BNP demonstration in the city centre, set for this morning, was clearly too much for the political chiefs of the Liverpool police,” said Nick Griffin, BNP chairman.
“We knew all along that there was nothing wrong with the ‘Racism Cuts Both Ways’ booklets, but the rapidity of the police climbdown is testament to the boldness and dedication of BNP activists,” Mr Griffin said.
“The realisation that their Gestapo-like tactics had engendered a broad public revulsion and had energised the BNP, is probably the primary reason for their decision to drop all charges,” he continued.
“The final straw must have come when they realised there was nothing racist in the BNP’s material. In fact, the booklet in question is an anti-racist publication.”
Mr Griffin praised the dedication of all the BNP activists who had sworn to attend this morning’s protest meeting in Liverpool city centre, saying that this was obviously a factor in forcing the police’s hand as well.
“We are still going ahead with an activity today in Liverpool, even if it might be something slightly different,” Mr Griffin said.
Bury BNP’s last formal meeting of the year was also its largest and most successful, with several fine speeches and a record-breaking £500 collection.
There was a palpable sense of anger in the room about the leaked membership list, and Labour’s other assorted attacks on the Party over the previous week, but also a clear-sighted determination to carry on the political fight with defiance and resolution. If there were any in Bury BNP who were cowed, or whose courage was waning, then there was certainly no evidence of it here! In fact, a number of members suffering from heavy colds and flu had even made the extra effort to attend the meeting, simply as a demonstration of solidarity.
The meeting was treated to fine speeches from North West Regional Secretary Duncan Warner and guest of honour Arthur Kemp.
In his speech, Mr Warner briefed the audience with a witty and factual account of the events of this most bizarre ‘week in politics’, featuring the stolen Membership List, the demonstration in support of arrested Lancashire activists, and plans for a protest rally in Merseyside in support of the ‘Liverpool 13’. The Bury group members sincerely appreciated his consideration in taking the trouble to travel to Bury and keep them apprised of all these startling developments.
Mr Kemp’s eagerly awaited speech rapidly developed into an oratorical tour de force, probably the best ever delivered to Bury BNP. Arthur reminded the meeting that the burden of saving the British nation fell on the people in that room; the task could not be left to our descendants, for within just two and a half short generations, white British people would already have become an ethnic minority in their own land.
His remarkable performance engendered a rare fervour among the normally rather reserved Bury BNP members, certainly this was the first time anyone could remember a prolonged and rapturous standing ovation for a speaker in Bury. The announcement of the extraordinary £500 collection, sufficient in itself to fund the deposit of a General Election candidate in the Borough of Bury, also elicited an enthusiastic round of applause.
As the meeting broke up, news broke of Labour’s politically-motivated arrest of Tory immigration spokesman Damian Green and several more Bury BNP members came forward as volunteers to stand up against Labour’s scandalous political repression by attending the “Liverpool 13” Freedom Demonstration in Merseyside.
The appalling arrest of Tory frontbench immigration spokesman Damian Green for the heinous crime of sincerely trying – however inadequately – to do his job, has highlighted the growing threat from politicised senior police officers, who are willing to attack opposition political parties at Labour’s behest.
The protestations of Labour ministers that they were not informed about Mr Green’s arrest in advance, and that the Metropolitan police acted autonomously, can of course be discounted; Labour’s claims are no more convincing than any of the other rank falsehoods Labour have peddled over the past eleven years.
Free speech and democracy can thrive only when the police are scrupulous in maintaining a rigorous political non-alignment, both in appearance and in reality. Tragically, there is every indication that we are now moving back into the era of the 1930s Mussolini-style corporate state, where the police, the unions, the press and a whole slew of non-governmental organisations act as the thinly-disguised puppets of the ruling Party.
The 280 men and women who comprise the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) seem increasingly to be turning away from their traditional role of upholding the law and fighting serious crime, in favour of increasingly blatant attempts to curry favour with Labour by aligning themselves firmly with the Government’s political agenda. A cynic might deem it no coincidence that these attacks on opposition political parties are taking place just as ACPO members are jostling to replace Sir Ian Blair as Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Britain’s most lucrative policing role.
While ACPO senior police officers confined themselves to harassing, intimidating and, in one case, torturing members of the British National Party, the media stood by and said nothing. Now that Labour’s political police have extended their attack to another major opposition party, it is surely high time the British media and the British public sat bolt-upright and took cognisance of the grave significance of what is going on.
Fortunately, there is little prospect of the Tories’ Damian Green being charged, far less convicted, of any offence. As we saw with the triumphant acquittal of Nick Griffin in 2006, few English juries are prepared to convict a freeborn Englishman, simply for unmasking the abuses of our rulers. As with the recent detention of BNP activists in Burnley and Liverpool, the intent of senior police officers is to merely to instil a sense of fear and trepidation in anyone who might seek to expose Labour misdeeds in general, and their policies of Mass Immigration and Multiculturalism in particular.
British Nationalists now find themselves in the unprecedented position of agreeing with Tony Benn that the arrest of Damian Green is nothing less than a police attack on Parliament itself. It is high time that everyone who believes in British parliamentary democracy, takes a firm stand against Labour and their ACPO puppets. We must resolutely say no, this shall not stand!
The British National Party believes that the likes of Mr Damian Green should be free to fulfil their role on the opposition front bench, holding the British government – preferably a future BNP Government – democratically to account. It is the dysfunctional and politicised Labour senior police officers of our day who richly deserve to find themselves in the cells.
Proving once again that events of the past few days have had no effect on the BNP’s rise in popularity, the party’s candidates polled over 20 percent in two East Yorkshire by-elections yesterday.
In Bridlington North Ward, the BNP’s Gary Pudsey polled 198 votes (20.5 percent) to the winning Independent’s 369 (38.1 percent). In the Old Town ward, where two seats were up for grabs, the BNP’s Sarah Jacques and James Cornell polled 143 and 114 votes respectively (23.9 percent) to the winning candidates’ 183 and 172 votes (30.6 percent).
Despite one of the seats being previously held by Labour, that party did not put up an official candidate. The Tories were also suspiciously absent from the poll.
Full results:
Bridlington TC, Old Town
SDP 183/172 (30.6)
LD Keith Chambers 147 (24.6)
BNP 143/114 (23.9)
Ind 125 (20.9)
Majorities 36/25
Bridlington TC, North
Ind 369 (38.1)
LD Mike Heslop-Mullens 275 (28.4)
BNP 198 (20.5)
SDP 126 (13.0)
Majority 94
The BNP in the southeast has continued its expansion drive and is proud to announce the launch of the Isle of Wight group at its inaugural meeting this week.
New organiser for the island is Mr Geof Clynch, who was the first speaker at the launch meeting which was attended by more than 40 people.
“I am amazed at the level of support for the BNP here on the island,” he said. “We are going from strength to strength. Our first priority is twofold: get councillors elected and assist in the Hants Euro campaign.
Southeast regional organiser Mr Andrew McBride informed the islanders that “it may have taken 800 years for Christianity to reach the Isle of Wight, but it’s taken less than six months for the British National Party to get here!”
A topical local issue is popular outrage over government plans to build ten thousand houses on farmland in an effort to ‘enrich’ the island’s culture. BNP members on the island had already determined to launch a campaign against the project, and were delighted when Mr McBride gave them 6,000 BNP ‘Stop the Building’ leaflets as a head start to their activities.
Milton Keynes BNP has relaunched in grand style, joining the procession of BNP branches to bounce back after attempts to intimidate the party over the past week.
In a well organised mid-week event orchestrated by Councillor Mark Burke, the deputy southeast regional organiser, over 50 members and activists listen to a rousing speech by Mr Tim Rait, the party’s ever popular personality who won fame for beating Labour in the Henley by-election.
Mr Rait spoke of the Henley campaign and reminded everyone that it had been done in just three weeks of campaigning. “Looking towards the Euro elections, we have six months of campaigning ahead, so just think of what we can achieve,” he said.
Cllr Burke told the meeting that Milton Keynes BNP had arisen because of demand from the public to stand in council elections in the area.
Next speaker was Mr Andrew McBride, the seemingly omnipresent southeast regional organiser. He announced that the regional BNP office will support the new group on a full time basis to ensure its growth continues unabated.
“All new personnel will undergo an intensive training schedule that the BNP now operates,” he said. “We have to work hard to ensure the defeat of this treacherous Labour Government. The working men and women of our country demand high standards and we will deliver them!”
The Indian government and news media have claimed that British-born Islamists are amongst the terrorists who have struck in Mumbai, leaving at least 130 dead and hundreds wounded.
Indian news channel NDTV reported that “British citizens of Pakistani origin” were among the attackers.
* Latest reports say that as many as seven of the terrorists have British connections and some could be from Leeds and Bradford where London’s Juy 7 bombers lived. Two British-born Muslims were among eight gunmen arrested, according to Mumbai’s chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh. At least nine others are reportedly dead.
One Indian security official has been quoted as saying that “There is growing concern about British involvement in the attacks.”
Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee has publicly blamed elements in Pakistan for the series of co-ordinated attacks.
“According to preliminary information, some elements in Pakistan are responsible,” he said.
It was the first time the Indian government had specifically named Pakistan as having a role in the attacks. Officials had previously talked of the militant gunmen coming from “outside the country.”
Vilasrao Deshmukh, the chief minister of Mumbai, was reported to have said that two British-born Pakistanis were among eight gunmen seized by Indian commandos who stormed buildings to free hostages.
A 2005 Daily Telegraph poll showed that about a quarter of British Muslims sympathised with the motives of the London train bombers. The polls also showed that one-third of British Muslims believe Western society is immoral.
The poll asked Muslims if they felt the July 7th suicide attacks in which 56 people died were justified, and six percent said they were.
* A 2007 poll found that almost a third of British Muslim students believe killing in the name of Islam can be justified. Hannah Stuart, one of the report’s authors for the YouGov Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC) poll said it raised concerns about the extent of campus radicalism. “Significant numbers appear to hold beliefs which contravene democratic values,” she said.
Yet another 10,000 Iraqi refugees — whose plight was caused by the illegal and immoral war waged by the Tory/Labour regime in that country — are on their way to Europe in terms of a new plan devised by the European Union.
Britain, as a member of the EU, will not be allowed to prevent these refugees from entering this country and adding to the already staggering burden — estimated by Professor John Coleman from Oxford, to cost the British taxpayers in excess of £8 billion per year — caused by mass immigration.
The agreement to flood Europe with even more refuges came at an EU meeting in Brussels on Thursday, where interior ministers received a new report on conditions at refugee camps in Jordan and Syria. Germany said it would take in about 2,500 of the refugees. Priority will be given to those with medical needs, torture victims, single mothers and religious minorities.
The UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, welcomed the EU pledge as a “positive step”, saying it had been pressing the EU for 18 months to offer more protection to vulnerable Iraqi refugees. Sweden has a well-established Iraqi community totalling about 100,000 but says other EU countries should take in a bigger share of Iraqis, who have mostly fled violence and poverty.
A UK Home Office spokesperson said the UK had “already shown its clear determination to support Iraqi refugees through the Gateway Programme, with over 200 people resettled in the UK since April and more arriving in the coming months.”
According to UNHCR figures, Britain held three percent of the world’s refugees as at the end of 2004. Its share of the world’s population is under one percent. Most of the people counted as refugees by the UNHCR are fleeing wars and famines and are not seeking asylum under the terms of 1951 Convention. They naturally flee to the nearest safe country until they can return home. The benefit of dealing with them near to their country of origin is demonstrated by the fact that over 400,000 Afghans were able to move back to their home country from Pakistan (and over 900,000 returned in total) in 2004 alone. By contrast, of approximately 40,000 Afghan refugees in Britain, only about 40 are known to have returned home.
Despite being allegedly ‘nationalised,’ the banksters running Northern Rock have announced that they are increasing the cost of a number of their fixed-rate mortgage deals, defying orders from the Bank of England not to make their mortgages even more expensive for new customers.
The move comes as Bank of England Governor Mervyn King warned that nationalisation of the entire banking system would not be ruled out if lending does not pick up. What this actually means is that taxpayers will once again be called upon to pay for Labour’s dictum of “nationalise the losses and privatise the profits.”
Northern Rock, which was the first bank to be nationalised in February, is increasing some of its fixed rate mortgage deals by up to 0.3 percentage points. HSBC is increasing its popular lifetime tracker mortgage from 0.99 percentage points above the base rate to 1.64 points above it.
The two banks insisted the increases were entirely justified because the deals were so cheap compared with the competition. The rises fly in the face of calls from the Bank of England for banks to boost lending and cut rates in line with falling interest rates.
Before the changes, Northern Rock had been offering a two year fixed-rate mortgage for 4.99 percent to someone with a 25 percent deposit who paid a £995 fee.
This was the second best deal on the market. However, now it has been increased to 5.19 percent.
NO matter how much the media tries to muddy the waters with its array of alleged culprits for the massacre in Mumbai, there is only one defining motivation behind the slaughter – Islamic expansionism.
Television reports have meticulously avoided using the word Islam or Muslim. Instead they have talked about the perpetrators being International terrorists, Al-Qaeda, Mujahideen, Taliban, Jihadists and Pakistan . . . almost as if they are frightened of revealing the truth about those who are responsible. All these have just one clear motivation, Islamic expansionism, and to enlighten the public as to what is going on, the media should be making the situation clearer, not confusing it more. The BBC in particular seems almost desperate to introduce an international element to the tragedy, linking it to its favourite scapegoat Al-Qaeda, the convenient deposit for all the misdeeds of Islam.
Muslims in India make up around 15% of the population and they are constantly pushing for more space and more self-determination from the Hindu majority. These attacks are behind that campaign and that is the important warning that Britain should be heeding from what has taken place in Mumbai.
In Britain, Muslims currently make up 5% of the population and that total is increasing every year. The Islamic lobby here, as in India, is pushing, pushing all the time for more self-determination and our weak-kneed Government gives in every time. To avoid what is happening in India we need to stem the growth of Islam in our country NOW.
We need to stop all immigration into Britain.
Send all illegal immigrants back to their own countries.
Send all migrant workers home.
Oppose all planning applications for new mosques, conversion of buildings into mosques and expansion to existing mosques.
But most importantly, we must encourage through financial incentives Muslims living in Britain legally, to move to an Islamic country where they will be able to celebrate their religion with other Muslims. Britain is a Christian country and if we wish to keep it that way and for our people to be able to live free from fear of attack from within, then we must take steps now to safeguard our future.
Much more this morning on Martin Wingfield’s blog here
All freedom-loving people in Britain have an obligation to support Tory immigration spokesman Damian Green, arrested yesterday in yet another display of the viciousness of the liberal-fascist state – in spite of the fact that both Conservatives and Labour have had a hand in creating the witch-hunt atmosphere, BNP Chairman Nick Griffin has said.
Reacting to the heavy-handed arrest — by counter terrorism police — of Mr Green yesterday, Mr Griffin said the top Tory had now learned the hard way of the anti-white and anti-British nature of the state apparatus. “This has been created by successive governments, both Tory and Labour, which have actively encouraged the persecution of anyone who dares to speak out on immigration,” Mr Griffin said.
“Despite the fact that the Tories have actively backed recent attempts to silence the BNP on the immigration issue, we are prepared to come out and support Mr Green – in the hope that increased numbers of Tories will be awakened to the exact nature of Frankenstein’s monster which their party has helped create.
“Furthermore we note the government’s willingness to use the police to silence opposition of any sort,” Mr Griffin continued. “I would now like to challenge the Tories to support our right to put out the ‘Racism Cuts Both Ways’ booklet, as I am going to do in Liverpool on Saturday.
“If they don’t, they will only have themselves to blame when Labour’s storm troopers come for them,” he said.
Mr Green was released late last night after being questioned on suspicion of ‘conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office’. A Whitehall official, who had allegedly leaked four documents to Mr Green, who in turn passed them to the press, was also arrested.
None of the information in the leaks could possibly be construed as not being in the public interest. They were:
Mr Green would do well to remember the words of Pastor Niemoller:
“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . and by that time there was no one left to speak up.”
Anyone who wants to challenge the anti-British and anti-free speech establishment through peaceful and democratic means should join the BNP’s determined freedom protest against the arrest of the Liverpool 13 in Merseyside this coming Saturday morning.
Official figures have proven that immigration, particularly from Africa, is driving up the UK’s AIDS rate. More than 77,400 people have HIV in Britain, official figures released by the Health Protection Agency have revealed.
The record total is up 4,400 — or six percent — in a year. Over half of new cases were in heterosexuals linked to Africa, and 40 percent were African migrants.
More than 21,000 people — 28 percent of the total — are unaware they have the virus, which can lead to AIDS. Lisa Power, of the Terrence Higgins Trust, said: “Not only is this dangerous to their own health, but they are more likely to pass the virus on than someone who has been diagnosed.
“Gay men and African people are most likely to have undiagnosed HIV so we would urge people in those groups in particular to get tested regularly.”
The HPA figures show that there were 7,734 new diagnoses of HIV in the UK in 2007. Of those, 3,160 (41%) were among gay men with the majority acquiring their infections in the UK.
Some 4,260 (55%) were acquired through heterosexual contact — with the majority of cases probably infected abroad and among those with links to Africa. A total of 180 acquired the infection through injecting drug use while 110 acquired it through mother-to-child transmission.
Although the bulk of the 4,260 new infections diagnosed in this country last year were acquired abroad, the sharp increase contracted in the UK has taken them from one in 10 to almost one in four of all heterosexual cases.
A spokesman for the HPA said the UK heterosexual cases were concentrated in the African community, and most were infected by partners infected abroad. “They are quite small numbers and although they were acquired in the UK they are linked with people who have travelled,” he said.
The graph alongside shows, by region of the world, the number of HIV infections diagnosed in the UK, presumed to have been acquired heterosexually from partners abroad, from 1993-2002. The dominance of Africa in new diagnoses, already very marked in 1993, took off in 1997 and has been extended considerably in every subsequent year. Since 1999, infections acquired in South Eastern Africa, and in particular Zimbabwe, have dominated.
According to the National Association of NHS Providers of AIDS care and Treatment (PACT), the cost of managing a patient with HIV is £15,000 per year. The total cost of treatment and care in 2002-03 will be £345 million.
It is estimated that the average lifetime treatment cost for an HIV-positive person is between £135,000 and £181,000. From 1998-2002 there were 7,706 diagnoses in the UK of HIV thought to have been heterosexually acquired in Africa. On the Department of Health’s cost estimates, the cost of treating just this one group will be between £1.04 billion and £1.39 billion.
In what has clearly become an attempt to outmanoeuvre the BNP on the immigration issue, a cross party ‘study group’ on the topic admitted that the much vaunted ‘points system’ is nothing but a smokescreen which will not stop Third World immigration.
Labour MP Frank Field MP and Tory MP Nicholas Soames, co-chairmen of the ‘Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration,’ (also known as the ‘establishment’s last ditch attempt to try and prevent the rise of the BNP’) warned that today’s introduction of a points-based immigration system “will not stop tens of thousands of non-EU migrants coming to the UK.”
The Government has quite falsely claimed that the change in the law will narrow the list of occupations which companies can fill with workers from outside the European Economic Area.
“No amount of spin can hide the fact that the points-based system will not stop tens of thousands of non-EU migrants coming to the UK and competing with the British unemployed for work; and will not stop our population from reaching 70 million by 2028,” said the Cross Party Group.
“The Government admits that at best last year it might have cut 12,000 from net immigration of 237,000. This is a finger in the dyke — not the radical action that we urgently need to bring migration into balance, and stabilise the size of our population.”
Figures released earlier this month by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the estimated number of people arriving to live in the UK for 12 months or more was 577,000 in 2007, compared with 591,000 in 2006.
The Cross Party group is quite obviously an attempt to introduce discussion on the immigration invasion into the other parties’ manifestoes. This is being done because it has dawned on a small number of the establishment’s ruling elite that the rise in support for the BNP is directly linked to the failure of the other parties to address immigration.
The Cross Party Group’s attempts will fail, because none of the other parties will ever tackle the issue in the way that is should be tackled — by declaring Britain as a non-immigrant country and by strictly enforcing existing laws on illegal immigrants, asylum scroungers and the like.
The reason they will not do is this is because the other parties have already completely bought into the entire multicultural experiment, and have became pawns of the monster they have created. Only the BNP has the political will and common sense policies to set right the mess.
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