Plant Hill School, in the Higher Blackley district of Manchester, formed the venue for a ‘public’ meeting arranged on 29 January by various hard-left groups such as ‘Searchlight’ and ‘Respect’ with the sole intention of spreading lies about the BNP.  ’Searchlight’ delivered thousands of leaflets locally and inserted newspaper advertisements inviting “All who live or work in North Manchester to come along and help turn the tide against racism in the area.”

Local British National Party organiser, Derek Adams, received a leaflet inviting all local residents to attend and decided that he fitted the criteria; he told BNP News that he lives locally, and deplores racism in all its forms including the anti-white racism, which is frequently practised by Manchester City Council.  However, Derek was refused entry to the ‘Searchlight’ event and was even issued with death threats by one of the left-wing thugs who was organising the not-so ‘public’ meeting.

Derek then proceeded to hand out leaflets to the dozen or so members of the public who had decided to attend the event; they were shocked to realise that it had been organised by people affiliated to the Labour Party and vicious street thugs such as the Socialist Non-Workers Party.

The total head count in the room was a mere thirty-eight people, of whom most were the leftist extremist organisers of the event.

The few local people who had come to the meeting out of curiosity, later contacted Derek, who received 27% of the vote in the area last year, to complain about the fact that their local school had been misused in such a manner.

One disgusted attendee even informed Derek Adams, that one of the organisers had boasted about being a history teacher and that he had in fact abused his position to brainwash his pupils to conform to his own left-wing views.

Derek Adams was also shocked to see in attendance his own GP, Dr Kay Phillips, who last year stood as a candidate for the Respect Party.  Since the publishing of the BNP members’ list there have been calls for people to be sacked from such sensitive positions as doctors and teachers if they are BNP members, yet the far-left are seemingly allowed to hold such positions with impunity.  Mr Adams went on to say “I hope Dr. Phillips would not take her politics to work with her, especially if she was treating BNP members such as myself”.

By the end of the night, it was clear that the genuine people of Blackley obviously wanted nothing to do with either the far-left extremists, or their anti-British cause.

SYMPATHY STRIKES NOW!

The grass-roots “British Jobs for British Workers” sympathy strikes campaign is going viral! After years of watching and grumbling as our jobs are taken by foreigners and wages undercut by cheap imported labour, British workers are standing up in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands most at risk of seeing their livelihoods ‘globalised’ away.

The spark which burst into the flames of unofficial and defensive industrial action at the Lindsey Total oil refinery at NORTH KILLINGSHOLME is setting off a chain reaction.

The Immingham refinery workers have come out in sympathy with the construction workers whose jobs are threatened by hundreds of cheaper and less skilled imported European workers. It was announced last night that workers at WILTON on Teesside and at the GRANGEMOUTH refinery in Scotland were walking out this morning in solidarity.

In fact, on top of 400 out in Teesside and 700 in Grangemouth, we are now getting reports of wildcat “British Jobs for British Workers” protests all over the country. While the news reports are still mainly focussed on Humberside, at present Scottish workers are leading the way.

Here’s the list we know of (as at lunchtime on Friday 30th – check our map for later updates):

STAYTHORPE, NOTTS. Hundreds out at the giant power station near Newark.

MILFORD HAVEN, WALES. Work on the giant South Hook and Dragon liquefied natural gas terminals halted by mass walkouts.

WARRINGTON, LANCS. Protests reported at the Fiddlers Ferry power plant, but no picket line visible at 1 p.m..

ABERTHAW, BARRY. Power station walkout.

MOSSMARAN, SCOTLAND. Workers at the terminal north of Edinburgh have downed tools.

St FERGUS, ABERDEENSHIRE. Workers at the giant gas terminal out on protest.

DOUNREAY, THURSO. Reports of workers downing tools to support the call for “British Jobs for British Workers”.

MOTHERWELL BRIDGE, SCOTLAND. Angry workers “on the fence” – ready to walk out but waiting for just a few more signs that the protest is truly national.

SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR PLANT, CUMBRIA. Meeting this morning expresses huge sympathy for construction workers, anger over the growing use of foreign cheap labour, and a readiness to come out in solidarity if workers are victimised or the strike grows.

We are getting repeated reports of workers at other big energy-related plants and construction sites saying that if Gordon Brown sticks to his anti-worker, anti-British “no retreat from globalisation” line and refuses to take the protesters seriously, then they will come out too.

“The use of more than 60 mounted riot police to try to intimidate us was a bad move by the Government,” one group of Total refinery workers told a BNP observer this morning. “They must have known full well that we’re peaceful and intend to remain peaceful. Our problem is with the bosses exploiting foreign labour, rather than with the foreign workers themselves. Bringing in riot cops to make out that we’re about to go on the rampage is typical Labour spin and lies.”

Workers are also angry at the pro-immigration, out-of-touch internationalism of many left-wing union leaders. Derek Simpson, general secretary of Unite is a particular target of well-deserved criticism after his ridiculous statement that “it’s not a question of foreign workers” and his treacherous suggestion that the union doesn’t mind its members being replaced by foreign workers as long as they get a chance to ‘compete’ before being thrown out of work!

We in the BNP, and our comrades in the independent nationalist trade union Solidarity, call on workers to reject Simpson. With an income of more than £200,000 a year and a ‘secret’ £800,000 grace and favour mansion for life – all paid for by his members, who generally take home well below the average wage – he has no right to preach surrender and inaction to angry workers.

No wonder his attempts to stop the protests are failing. Unite are so busy plotting their campaign to try to stop the BNP winning Euro seats in June, that their website isn’t even mentioning the growing wave of protests.

But Solidarity members and BNP activists in places of work all over the country are enjoying the sea-change in popular feeling on the “British Jobs for British Workers” issue. All have been told to raise the matter on their sites and shop floors. We must do whatever we can to spread the protests.

The nationalist message is simple: When the bosses and their foreign scabs come for your job, it may be too late to fight back. We’ve got to draw a line in the sand and force the Government to protect our own people now. These strikes and protests are spreading, but they need to do so further and faster.

Middle management jobs are under threat from the Brown Bust too, so we’re all in this together. Now’s the time to stand up and defend the rights and livelihoods of British workers. Everyone out next week!

The Brown regime is now in a state of panic over the protests- particularly the way they are sweeping Scotland. The Cabinet crisis committee COBRA is watching anxiously to see whether the strikes spread to the terminals, power stations and docks along the Thames estuary, as well as to construction on the huge and high-profile London Olympics site. If that happens then it really will have gone national in a huge way.

But the Labour government has one ace in its hand – its experience in outmanoeuvring the Fuel Protesters. The first fuel protest (as popular as these protests today) had Blair & Co on the ropes; they were just hours from sending in the troops, something that would have led to a General Strike in the refineries and the probable collapse of the Government.

But John Prescott (for all his faults, the only man in the Cabinet who had ever actually had a real job and mixed with real workers) persuaded Blair to stop panicking and to con the protesters into going home by offering a temporary truce.

By the time the hauliers realised they’d been fooled and went back for Round Two, the Government was ready. Protest leaders and their families were deluged with death threats, the police tried to spark confrontations as an excuse to arrest and demonise the ‘ring-leaders’. In addition, a sophisticated operation had been agreed with the BBC and other broadcast companies to spin the line that the protests were collapsing.

Mobile phone signals near key refineries were cut off, and live news feeds showing that picket lines were holding firm were dropped in favour of lying reports that one picket line after another was being withdrawn. Hearing and believing the lie that their colleagues elsewhere had given up, each of the local protest leaders in turn called it a day.

This time needs to be different. The strikers and protesters need to learn the lessons, set up secure lines of communication, come out en masse to resist police intimidation, and use the BNP website as an independent and sympathetic news resource. The use of instant upload video streaming from advanced mobile phones has particular potential to circumvent the mainstream media. Let’s have your footage!

This website is more popular that all the other political party sites in Britain put together. In fact it’s the most popular party political website in the entire world. That gives us a reach and power that patriotic protesters have never had on their side before

So if you’re involved in a “British Jobs” protest, please let us know where it is, how many are out and what you’ve got planned next. We’ll tell the whole world and – most important of all – everyone like you in the “British Jobs for British Workers” grass-roots protest movement elsewhere in the country.

Behind the headlines about the “British Jobs for British Workers” movement is a question of overall government direction. For decades now, the Lab-Lib-Con parties have told us that there is no alternative to globalisation and that the increasing foreign ownership of key British industries and resources is both inevitable and good.

The truth, as hundreds of thousands of hard-pressed workers and their families are now discovering to their cost, is that foreign ownership is bad for them and bad for Britain. Heaven knows, British bosses can be greedy enough (just look at Brown’s crooked friends in the banks) but a French company like Total is in an even better position than a local company would be to bring in large numbers of foreign workers to undercut British wages and employment prospects.

What’s going on right now is the best possible argument for the long-standing BNP policies of bringing our energy supply industry and other natural monopolies and strategic industries back under British control.

It’s proof that decades of internationalist globalism have wrecked our manufacturing and industrial base, left Britain uniquely exposed to the global Bankers’ Bust, and are pushing millions of hard-working Brits to the brink of economic and social disaster.

It’s time to end this madness. It’s time for real change. It’s time for the economic nationalism of the BNP!

A record 2,795 criminals were released up to 18 days before the half way point of their sentences in December of last year, Ministry of Justice figures have revealed.

They were released under a controversial scheme that seeks to ease the problem of prison overcrowding.

The December figures are the highest monthly total since the End of Custody Licence scheme was introduced in June of last year and the latest releases sees the number of criminals freed under the programme totalling an incredible 47,515.

Since the scheme’s inception, almost 10,000 violent offenders have been given early release along with 4,200 burglars.

Over 1,500 of the released criminals have been sent back to prison for breaching the terms of their release whilst hundreds have gone on to commit further crimes. One in ten of those who have been recalled to custody are on the run and at large in the community.

The End of Custody Licence scheme was roundly condemned last year when it was revealed that three alleged murders had been committed by criminals given early release under the scheme.

The Government have claimed that they will end ECL when there is available space in the nation’s prisons but as of yet no timetable has been implemented for the scheme’s end.

Official predictions based on release numbers for last year show that more than 20,000 criminals could be let out of prison early in the next seven years. 

YESTERDAY was a great day for British Nationalism.

In Grimsby, 1000 British construction workers demonstrated in support of “British jobs for British workers” and in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 836 British voters returned their ballot papers marked in support of the British National Party.

Newcastle City Council
Fenham Ward
Thursday 29th January 2009
Mitzi Emery (Lib-Dem) 1049
Helen McStravick (Lab) 1025
Kenneth Booth (BNP) 836
Sarah Armstrong (Con) 186
BNP Percentage: 27.0%
May 2008: Lib-Dem 1491, Lab 1188, BNP 295, Con 290.

At the city’s local council local elections in 2008, when Fenham ward was last fought, the British National Party polled 295 votes which was just 9% of the total vote. Last night BNP candidate Ken Booth, received 836 votes, 27% of the vote, and trebled the level of BNP support in the ward.

“It was another in a string of brilliant results for the British National Party in local elections,” Ken Booth told the BNP website this morning.
“We were the only Party whose vote share went up which shows that our message is getting home and that was in spite of the huge campaign by the trade union, Unison, which put out thousands of leaflets and sent out thousands of letters telling people not to vote BNP. Their campaign was a spectacular and expensive failure and a waste of their members’ money.
“We can clearly win this ward next time, but the next stop for us here in Newcastle is the European Elections where with a few more results like this one we shall be on course for a North East seat in the European Parliament,” he said.

The result has sent shockwaves through the political establishment, and was the main item on BBC Look North news this morning with Labour and Lib-Dem spokesmen clearly stunned by the size of the BNP vote. And this result couldn’t have come at a better time, as on Sunday the BBC’s Politics Show for the North East and Cumbria is charting the rise of the British National Party in the region.

In the past the Old Gang parties have blamed low turnouts for giving the BNP a high percentage of the vote, but last night’s huge 40% turnout, double the norm, blows that theory firmly out of the water. The BNP result is even more noteworthy in the light of a sizeable 11% ethnic minority population in Fenham Ward.

More on Martin Wingfield’s Daily Blog here.

More than 130 people turned out for South Birmingham BNP’s first meeting of the year to hear party leader Nick Griffin.

The record attendance meeting heard first from local activist Mark Harland who announced that the two recent demonstrations and petitions opposed to converting a disused GP surgery into a mosque in Billesley had been successful.

“Confirmation had been received from the owners that they will no longer be selling the venue for use as a mosque,” Mr Harland said to loud applause.

Next speaker was super activist Mike Bell who reviewed all the positive BNP achievements from the previous year. “It is vital to check that everyone is registered to vote, and to make sure that all friends and family are also on the electoral register,” he said. Third speaker up was Michael Mulvihill who as usual delivered a highly humorous speech.

Final speaker was Mr Griffin who took questions from the floor which he answered in depth. Collections and a raffle raised £600 which is a huge boost for the West Midlands Euro fund. The meeting was closed with the whole room rising to sing “Jerusalem”.

This was South Birmingham’s most successful meeting ever. Two new candidates were secured for future elections and a number of new members attended for the first time.

More than 90 percent of asylum seekers registering at Croydon’s Lunar House are given the same date of birth, an article in the Guardian newspaper has claimed.

According to the article, UK Borders Agency figures obtained under the Freedom of Information act showed in 2008, 24,437 visitors to its headquarters on Wellesley Road were given the date of birth as January 1.

The article is astonishing because of its appearance in that normally extremist leftist newspaper. Observers have suggested that it might possibly be an indication that the full extent of the threat to Britain’s existence caused by the immigration invasion has even reached those circles.

“In 2007, of the 23,430 people applying for asylum in Britain, 21,652 — 90 percent — were also given the January 1 birth date,” the article continued.

According to the Home Office, those given the new identical date of birth did not have valid identification which proved their age or were unable to recall when they were born.

The asylum seekers, predominantly Afghan, Iranian, Chinese, Iraqi and Eritrean nationals, either come into the country illegally and seek the right to stay from within or are caught attempting to smuggle themselves through ports.

A police source said: “A lot of the time we pick up guys who are obviously older than their identification says they are.

“They are men with stubble but according to their new British passports they are only 16 or 17-years-old.

“They commit crimes but are only ever convicted as minors, then because they are considered children they can’t be deported. It makes a mockery of the system.”

Of the 23,430 people that applied during 2007, an estimated 6,540 resulted in grants of asylum, humanitarian protection or discretionary leave.

* Another normally extremist leftist organisation, the National Union of Teachers, has also expressed its reservations over the impact of immigration on British schools.

In a press release issued on January 28^th, the NUT said immigration was placing “strain” on England’s schools.

“Approximately one in 30 primary schools in England have 70 percent or more pupils who do not speak English as a first language, according to new statistics,” said the NUT.

“Furthermore, the country is home to ten schools where every single pupil has a foreign language as their mother tongue. In England as a whole, 466,620 children between the ages of four and 11 do not have English as their first language, amounting to one in seven primary pupils.

“A rise in the proportion of pupils in England’s schools who did not speak English as their first language was registered in figures released by the UK Statistics Authority in April last year,” said the NUT.

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A superb BNP campaign in Canvey Island, Essex, saw the party poll 20.2 percent of the vote in a first time ever out by-election in which the Labour Party came last.

The election, held on 22 January, was won, as expected, by a Canvey Island Independent Party candidate with 425 votes (37.5 percent). The BNP candidate polled 229 votes (20.2 percent) to the Tory’s 328 votes (28.9 percent) and Labour’s 151 votes (13.3 percent).

“It was the first time the BNP had contested this ward,” said organiser Barry Harvey. “We came from nowhere to take 20.2 percent of the vote, a very impressive result.”

Mr Harvey compared this with the May 2008 election results, which showed that the Labour vote had actually climbed 3.8 percent. The Conservative vote was down 2.4 percent and the Canvey Island Independent Party lost a huge 21.7 percent, with the BNP being the main beneficiary.

“The Tories blitzed the area for two weeks solid. They even had the mayor out campaigning for them,” Mr Harvey said. “The local rag ran a smear article concerning a photograph of our candidate which was taken outside Canvey Island’s football club. They claimed the photo, which we used on his election address, was taken to make it look as if the club supported the BNP. The real reason was that there was a large St. George’s Cross painted on the entrance gate and we thought it would make a good backdrop with our candidate standing in front of it.”

Vera Partridge, chair of the Castle Point Conservative Association, was quoted as saying that the BNP vote had cost the Tories victory. She said: “We’re very disappointed; if it wasn’t for the BNP I think we would have won. It’s surprising they got so many votes, as the issues they stand for, like immigration, have no relevance locally.”

“My thanks to everyone who contributed to this campaign in what turned out to be several weeks of freezing cold weather, especially Bernadette, Alisdair and Una who did most of the canvassing and to all the others who spent long hours leafleting. A big thank you to John Morgan who stood as our candidate.

“As a result of this campaign we have had a lot of requests for party information packs and two members of the public have come forward to stand as candidates the next time around,” Mr Harvey concluded.

Secret Conservative Party documents have revealed that 40,000 Tory members have left the party since David Cameron became leader three years ago.

And the membership freefall has indeed accelerated over the last year, with constituencies of Tory Shadow Cabinet members being amongst the worst hit.

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has seen membership in his constituency slump by 240 members since Cameron’s ascension, 69 of those coming last year. William Hague, former Tory leader and Shadow Foreign Secretary, was unable to keep 267 of his comrades from deserting the ship in just one year.

One fifth of Conservative Associations across the UK have lost an incredible one in five members and half of them have seen membership drop by 10%. Even the man himself, David Cameron, failed to persuade 19 of his members in his Oxfordshire constituency to fight his corner.

Membership in Conservative constituencies fell by an average of 24 in 2006, rising to 93 in 2007. On average, each Tory Shadow Cabinet member has let an average of 81 members slip through his fingers in the last year. The documents further reveal that 90% of Tory MP’s membership has either declined or stayed the same.

The rapid decline in grass roots support has forced the Tories to take drastic action. Last month saw 10% of Conservative Central Office staff join the dole queue with 24 of its staff at the party’s main Millbank HQ being made redundant.

The beleaguered party has also been forced to close its Constituency Campaigning Services, based in the West Midlands, which provided campaigning services and materials and ran a call centre for constituency parties.

A BNP team under the leadership of well-known super activist Reverend Robert West has joined the approximately one thousand oil refinery workers from the Grimsby area who have protested at the loss of British jobs to EU workers at the Lindsey Oil refinery.

Workers are currently picketing the Lindsey Oil Refinery in North Killingholme in protest over the awarding of a contract to an Italian company. Italian firm IREM have recently been awarded a contract at the site to help build a de-sulphurisastion unit at the plant.

400 foreign contractors have been drafted in to process the crude oil into diesel and gasoline by IREM and this has brought fears for the indigenous workforce that redundancies could be on the cards. A worker summed up the locals’ worries:

“The Italians are putting nothing back into the local economy; the Italian company could have sourced the UK market. By the middle of February, we will be in a position of possible redundancies.

“We need some legislation to protect us but the union’s hands are tied, as legally they cannot sanction the kind of action.”

Unsurprisingly, the Unite union, one of the many internationalist unions who have shamelessly sat back and watched as their members’ wages and work conditions have plummeted thanks to mass-immigration, have not sanctioned the strike.

So it was on behalf of the workers, and not Unite, that shop steward Kenny Wood made the following comments:

“This is going to force thousands of our members onto the dole. To say there is a skills shortage has got absolutely no foundation what so ever.

“We need to exhaust the local labour force first before looking to Europe.”

Other contract workers from across the Humber have joined the protestors at the Lindsey Oil Refinery. A shop steward at PSN, who are contracted to BP on the North Bank said: “We are hoping that the union bosses sit up and pay attention and help us come to some negotiation to ensure a certain percentage of jobs go to British workers” whilst another protestor from PSN demanded “a fair crack of the whip for British workers.”

Humberside Police sent around 60 mounted policemen to the picket this morning and are said to be monitoring the situation. Superintendent Steve Graham has commented: “Police resources will be in attendance at the site as well as the surrounding area throughout the day.”

“I would appeal to those involved in this demonstration to remain peaceful. Whilst respecting the right of demonstration, we will, however, consider any offences that may occur.”

Another nail in the coffin of British free speech was well and truly hammered in today after it was revealed that a proposed screening of the film “Fitna” in the House of Lords was called off after Muslim peer Lord Ahmed threatened to mobilise 10,000 Muslims if the film was shown.

A female member of the Lords had planned to invite the director of the film, Dutch politician Geert Wilders, to the conference room in the House of Lords, where his film “Fitna” would be shown to invited colleagues and the issues the film raised debated.

“Fitna” is of course the short but powerful film that looks at the reality behind the establishment’s espousal of Islam as a “religion of peace.” For daring to challenge current orthodoxy, Wilders is currently facing prison in Holland for his statements about Islam.

The screening of the film was due to take place this Thursday. And it was after the invitations were sent out that Lord Ahmed swung into action. He called a meeting with the government chief whip and the leader of the House, together with representatives of the Muslim Council of Britain and the British Muslim Forum.

At the meeting, Ahmed threatened to mobilise 10,000 Muslims to prevent Wilders from entering the House and said that he would take the organiser of the event to court.

Thanks to Ahmed’s astonishing bully-boy tactics, the decision was taken last Friday to cancel the screening of the film. Ahmed called his campaign of threats and intimidation “a victory for the Muslim community.”

Despite seeming to advocate force to secure his political aims, Lord Ahmed is routinely touted as the face of moderate Islam in the UK. Born Nazir Ahmed in Pakistan, Labour member Lord Ahmed became the first Muslim life peer in 1998, where he took his oath on the Koran instead of the Bible. In 2007, upon hearing of the knighting of Salman Rushdie, he responded by saying that he was appalled and claimed that Rushdie had “blood on his hands.”

Ahmed’s fury that the House of Lords has been used to host an “extremist” event is somewhat ironic as he himself courted controversy in 2005 over his choice of invited guest when he hosted a book launch by anti-Semitic author Israel Shamir.

Ahmed is also one of the founders of The World Forum, an organisation which was set up to “promote world peace in the aftermath of 9/11 with an effort to build bridges of understanding between the Muslim world and the West by reviving a tradition of dialogue between people, cultures and civilizations based on tolerance.”

His notion of understanding and dialogue seem to differ sharply from this flowery prose. It seems that dialogue is to be suppressed if it falls foul of Ahmed’s narrow world view and any understanding seems to be on the proviso that people must understand that he can call in the heavy mob if his demands are not met. 

THERE’S a fascinating by-election in Newcastle this Thursday when British National Party candidate Ken Booth, takes on representatives of the three main parties.

Back in 2007 Labour won the ward by just four votes from the Lib-Dems, but then last year it was the Lib-Dems that topped the poll with a 300-plus majority over Labour. The BNP were back in third, just ahead of the Tories in fourth, with both candidates attracting around 9% of the vote.

This is the line-up this time around:
Newcastle City Council
Fenham Ward
Thursday 29th January 2009
Sarah Armstrong (Con)
Kenneth Booth (BNP)
Mitzi Emery (Lib-Dem)
Helen McStravick (Lab)
May 2008: Lib-Dem 1491, Lab 1188, BNP 295, Con 290.

The campaign has been full of fireworks with the four candidates pulling out all the stops to maximise their votes. Claim and counter claim over canvass returns and a war of words between Labour and the Lib-Dems led to unsightly scenes at a local council meeting where the Labour candidate refused to shake the hand of her Lib-Dem opponent.

Unison put out a poisonous leaflet full of lies about the British National Party. It was a blatant attempt to incite racial hatred and Ken Booth immediately reported it to the police.

The police were called in again, this time by Labour and the Lib-Dems, who demanded that a huge BNP banner be removed from a bridge over a busy road. Campaigners for these two parties spent over three hours standing around waiting for the banner to be removed – one would have thought that they would have had more important tasks to perform.

Ethnic minority voters make up around 11% of the electorate and are mainly located at the top end of the ward. With a huge number of postal votes requested – over 3,000 – there were fears that both Labour and the Lib-Dems were trying to exploit the postal vote to gain an unassailable lead before polling day. But as of yesterday there were still 2000 postal votes unreturned, so it seems this election-winning scam might have fallen a bit flat.

Labour claim that they have a 2% lead over the Lib-Dems with the BNP way back in third, while the Lib-Dems claim they have a 12% lead over Labour but they do acknowledge that the BNP is closing the gap in third.

So what of the British National Party? Well, I managed to catch a few words with Ken Booth this morning shortly after he had returned from taking his children to school and before he went out canvassing.

He said he was very pleased with the way his campaign had gone and that he was confident of achieving the goals that he had set himself when the election was called.

“I want to at least double our vote,” he told me.
“I want to put distance between us and the Tories and close the gap on Labour and the Lib-Dems to put us in a challenging position for the local elections in 2010.
“From our canvass returns I think these targets will be met.
“On the doorstep there has been anger that the Lib-Dem council has closed the 60 year-old West End Boys’ club because it said there was no money available to keep up the running costs, yet it could find £15,000 for a new mosque feasibility study. That has really upset local people and I think the Lib-Dem vote will suffer because of it.”

Ken is a bit of a dry old stick and wanted to keep his cards close to his chest when I pressed him on any prediction. He did say that four leaflets have been put out along with a mail-merge letter and that he had a good team ready for the last two days of the campaign. He also had an interesting story to finish off with, before he left to knock on some more doors.

“The Lib-Dems benefited last time because of a big protest vote – people wanted Labour out at any cost. Well Mitzi (Lib-Dem candidate) knocked on the door of a family that had voted Lib-Dem last time and asked for their continued support. To her shock they said: “No, we’re voting for Ken Booth this time”. You should have seen her face as she did an about turn and stormed back down their path. I think she might have come across quite a few of those in recent days.”

Boy Scouts in Dundee will be able to pledge allegiance to “Allah” and drop the traditional oath to God and Queen.

The announcement, made by the Scout Association in Scotland, is in line with the formation of Dundee’s 45th troop which will specifically target Muslim boys — in other words, exclude non-Muslims.

In the oath Muslim recruits will be able to replace the name “God” with “Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful”, and pledge to honour “the country in which I am now living” instead of the Queen.

A spokesman for the Scout Association Drummond Cox said “There are already Muslim boys in troops around Dundee but until now we do not have one catering for Muslims specifically. It is affirmative action.”

Richard Cook, of the Campaign Against Political Correctness said: “This is a disappointing development and many people will worry about the sad loss of much-loved traditions.”

Mr Cook warns: “Quite apart from the risk of creating a two-tier Scout movement, there is also the question of how helpful it is to set up a group that specifically aims to recruit young Muslims when we are trying to be more inclusive of other communities.”

• Scouting’s history goes back to the turn of the 20th century to a British Army officer, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell. While stationed in India, he discovered that his men did not know basic first aid or the elementary means of survival in the outdoors. Baden-Powell realized he needed to teach his men many frontier skills, so he wrote a small handbook called Aids to Scouting, which emphasized resourcefulness, adaptability, and the qualities of leadership that frontier conditions demanded.

After returning from the Boer War, where he became famous by protecting the small town of Mafeking for 217 days, Baden-Powell was amazed to find that his little handbook had caught the interest of English boys. They were using it to play the game of scouting.

In 1908, the next year, Baden-Powell published his book Scouting for Boys, and Scouting continued to grow. That same year, more than 10,000 Boy Scouts attended a rally held at the Crystal Palace; a mere two years later, membership in Boy Scouts had tripled.

The Tory policy of privatising our national resources, as endorsed by their Tweedledee Tweedledum twins, Labour, has resulted in the situation where British Gas now makes £1 million a day in profit while many Brits struggle to pay their heating bills.

British Gas’s projected profits for last year will be about £380 million. Lat year British Gas raised consumer bills by 35 percent, arguing that it could not afford to absorb cost rises earlier in the year.

British Gas was privatised by the Tories in terms of the 1982 Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act. On 8th December 1986, £9 billion worth of shares were floated on the London stock market and sold around the world.

Financial experts have estimated that about five million people are spending more than 10 percent of their income on fuel bills — the definition of fuel poverty. Many of these are pensioners.

British Gas’s profits for 2008, due out on February 26, will rise from £350million to £370 million. This is a drop of 35 percent on the previous year’s record total of £571 million, but far larger than the more typical £95 million for 2006.

Its parent company Centrica is forecast to make post-tax earnings of £930 million compared to £1.1 billion in 2007.

The former state utility has also come under fire for the size of its senior executives’ pay. In 2007, British Gas managing director Phil Bentley made £1.125 million in salary and bonuses while Centrica chief executive Sam Laidlaw made £1.87 million.

The time has come for all these grievous distortions in British society to be corrected. Only the BNP is fully committed to making sure that British resources are used for the benefit of the British people, and not to feed worldwide private shareholders.

Gordon Brown recently claimed that no-one could have foreseen the current economic crisis – but the BNP did! An editorial in the September 2007 issue of Identity magazine by John Bean spelled it all out:

“The Global Slump – Another BNP Prediction

The decision by America’s Federal Reserve to slash the discount rate had an initial response in halting the virtual collapse of the global financial system. But the story is not over yet and by the time these words appear in print it is likely that several overseas banks will have gone to the wall. As far as Britain is concerned this will affect all future investment and in consequence reduce any more British jobs that might be created, or saved.

 In its opposition to the global capitalist society, our rejection of free trade and call for tariffs on selected imports that can damage our remaining manufacturing base, all necessary steps to give some insulation from the worst aspects of unstable world markets, the BNP has again been proven right.

 Our Party’s prescience in forecasting the current global turmoil matches the same record it holds over the dismal failure of Lib-Lab-Con in seeing that immigration was heading to an almost unstoppable tidal flow; that a European trading agreement was being turned into an anti-European culture Marxist state; that we were reaching ‘peak oil and needed to look at alternative energy sources; that Nick Griffin was right when he said that there were some aspects of Islam that made it “wicked”; that some Muslims were grooming under-age white girls for sex; and that a culmination of laws controlling choice was destroying our freedom. Unlike one or two of the more honest people in the old parties who have suddenly decided to speak out, some of us have been making these points for the last twenty years or more, including when it was not ‘voter friendly’ to do so.

 To return to the global rout in the credit markets, it stemmed from the greed of the hedge fund industry who made mortgages available to people on low income in America – known as ‘sub-prime lending’. The globalists’ drive to seeking ever cheaper labour costs led to many workers finding their jobs being exported and being unable to keep up their mortgage payments. As US unemployment continues to rise this problem will only get worse. The debts of the mortgage companies were flogged off in parcels around the world to other ‘hedgie’ investment bankers. These new masters of the universe began to make big losses, which was then reflected in the global stock markets. For example, Goldman Sachs’ Global Equity Opportunities fund lost nearly 40%. Morgan Stanley’s $1.7bn Highbridge Statistical Opportunities fund lost nearly 20% of its value at one point. This was outdone by Australia’s Basis Capital which said losses of its hedge funds may exceed 80%.

 With all this panic setting in, the US Federal Reserve act of dropping the discount rate to US banks was really nothing more than US state aid for the hedge fund industry. It was a US government bail-out of Wall Street bankers.

 The American finance system supplied the motor for the rise to dominance of global capitalism. A prerequisite of this was for manufacturing to become part of that global system, which led to the decrease in American and European manufacturing as it was increasingly switched to the cheaper labour markets of the East, and China in particular. Subsequently China now has the world’s biggest trade surplus and the largest haul of foreign exchange reserves: £1.3 trillion. America, with shrinking dollar reserves, has the largest trade deficit on the planet, and Britain has the third largest. Interestingly, Russia, which a decade ago was about to collapse economically, has pursued a nationalist policy under Putin and now has the world’s third biggest currency reserves.

The EU Has No Answer

For Britain to enter more fully into the EU and become part of the European Monetary System (i.e. join the Euro) would not give any protection from the global financial free-for-all. Its dedication to free trade has forced open our borders to a torrent of cheap, often substandard imports. Witness the dangerous Chinese toys coated in lead paints from global company Mattel (Fischer Price). Also, look at this comment from Bernard Connolly, a former head of economic research for the European Commission, writing in The Daily Telegraph Business section 20.08.07: “… the EU quite deliberately created the most dangerous credit bubble of all: the EMU. And whereas the mission of the Fed is to avoid a financial crisis, the mission for the European Central Bank is to provoke one. The purpose of the crisis will be, as Prodi, then Commission president, said in 2002, to allow the EU to take more power for itself. The sacrificial victims will be, in the first instance, families and firms (and banks and investors) in countries such as Ireland and Club Med. German savers (or British taxpayers) will bear the burden of bailouts that a newly empowered ‘EU economic government’ will ordain.”

 In essence, the BNP view is that we must retain, and regain, British ownership and control of British industry and resources, including financial resources. We must give protection for industry and jobs by selective tariffs on foreign manufactured goods. We should stop artificially inflating the value of the pound, which makes British workers more expensive and foreign workers cheaper. Although an over-valued pound means cheap foreign holidays and imports in the short run, the resulting trade deficit destroys jobs, depletes our productive industry, increases foreign ownership of our economy, raises our indebtedness to foreigners, and is unsustainable in the long term.”

DON’T you just love John Humphrys. He utterly destroyed BBC Director General Mark Thompson, presumably his boss, on the Today Programme this morning over the Corporation’s decision not to carry the charity appeal for the victims of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza.

I would have liked John to ask him the question that must have been on the mind of everyone who was listening to the interview: “Aren’t you blocking the appeal because you have been instructed to do so by the powerful pro-Israel lobby within the BBC?”

I expect I will be accused of being anti-semitic for just thinking such a thing, but let me tell you that by banning this appeal the BBC are themselves stoking up anti-semitism, especially amongst Muslims living in this country and the supporters of the Palestinians who will wonder just what has to be done for the BBC to say something critical of Israel.

The Metropolitan Police reports that there have been 150 anti-semitic incidents in the capital since the start of the conflict in Gaza, including a suspected arson attack on a north London synagogue, verbal abuse and offensive graffiti. No doubt some of these have come about due to the frustration of protestors at the blanket ban by the Beeb on reporting the anti-Israel demonstrations that have been held in the city. Personally, I don’t believe that this ban is anything to do with protecting Israeli sensibilities, but more to do with the BBC being worried that the sight of 10,000 very angry Muslims on the march will frighten the life out of ordinary Brits and drive them into the arms of the BNP.

Congratulations to Gerry and Sonia Gable and their Searchlight organisation – they have been awarded the golden goose that lays the golden egg. Labour Party and trade union funds will be channelled into their Stop the BNP front in the run-up to the local and European elections in June, while the SWP- run Unite Against Facism (UAF) will have to be satisfied with any crumbs from their table.

I’m happy with this. For the past 30 years, Gerry has been the main torchbearer of those who oppose British Nationalism. The fact that we are now at our most influential position ever, shows that he hasn’t done a very good job. I’m quite content for his Searchlight gang to keep hold of the “anti-BNP” reins, while the virtually untried UAF is kept in the background.

A huge dollop of Labour Party money has already come Gerry’s way enabling him to sign up Barack Obama’s web strategists Blue State Digital (BSD), to try to stem support for the British National Party. The consultancy was behind Obama’s online success and the idea is that they will use the Internet to help Searchlight stop the BNP winning a seat in the European elections.

I’m not particularly concerned about this. There is a huge difference in generating support for something – as BSD did for Obama – and generating opposition against something. Anyone living in Britain who opposes the British National Party so strongly is already involved in campaigns against us. BSD say they will help Searchlight by innovative messaging, which I can only think means targetting recently-arrived immigrants in their own language warning them that the BNP would like to take away their seat on the gravy train.

And finally . . . Nigel Farage. Back in the Summer of 1967, my second favourite group, the Small Faces, made a record called Lazy Sunday, you probably know it. It was a music hall number and nothing like anything the band had done before. Although it was a hit, organist Ian McLagan said it sounded the death knell of the group because they had become a joke band and no one took them seriously any more. Months later Stevie Marriott left for Humble Pie and the Small Faces were no more.

I expect you are getting my drift if you watched the Politics Show yesterday. Although he might have been pleased with the personal publicity, Nigel Farage was seen as a joke politician and the high profile BBC slot showed that his UK Independence Party can’t be taken seriously any more. I shall leave the last word on this to Anthony Butcher, a longstanding administrator of the UKIP-supporting website Democracy Forum. He said:
“I can’t imagine that anyone watching would think that it was his finest hour.
The whole smoking thing doesn’t look good to most people, especially littering fag butts – that’s just annoying.
“Don’t talk to me about money”… “I don’t have any money”… from someone on £100K+ (I believe) isn’t going to connect with many voters especially in a recession. I thought that he looked a little ‘tired and emotional’ at that point too.
The many and varied pictures of UKIP MEPs boozing away wouldn’t be my first choice of image either. Combine that with the interviewer calling them schoolboys engaging in silly games and I can’t honestly think that this will gain UKIP any credibility. It just didn’t come across as a serious venture.”

. . . . but Lazy Sunday was still a great record – have a listen.

There’s more on Martin Wingfield’s blog here

The British National Party’s best electoral asset inside the Labour Party, ‘Equalities’ Minister Harriet Harman, has issued a blood curdling threat of a “vicious door-to-door campaign” against the BNP, according to The Guardian newspaper.  Some other newspapers have reported that Harman used the word “vigorous”.

Ms Harman told the ‘Progressive London Conference’ there was a very real risk that the British National party could make electoral gains at the European elections. 

“Labour will, with a vicious door-to-door campaign, not allow the BNP to peddle their pernicious lies that people have been abandoned by Labour”, said Harman, according to The Guardian and Labour’s Searchlight front organisation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jan/24/harriet-harman-bnp-european-election

Last November, Harman’s colleague, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears mused that shouting “Nazi” was perhaps not a sensible answer to the BNP’s broadbased advance.  At the time, independent commentators interpreted this as a possible indication that Labour intended to move away from their habitual strategy of threats and abuse in favour of a more sophisticated approach, perhaps even including a serious attempt to engage with the pressing issues which have led so many voters to turn to the BNP.   Regrettably, it is now clear that there has been no discernible change in Labour’s anti-BNP strategy; if anything, the threats and abuse from Labour and their allies have intensified as Labour’s own electoral support has dwindled.

The Labour Party usually makes a token effort to keep at arm’s length the dirty tricks, abuse and threats which form the core of its anti-BNP strategy.   Labour prefers to work through a series of third-party organisations such as “UAF” and “Searchlight”, which has the advantage of circumventing statutory spending limits in elections, because each separate Labour front organisation has its own distinct budget to spend on anti-BNP smear propaganda.   While the “Searchlight” organisation concentrates on intelligence-led “black ops” against legitimate BNP political activities, such as their recent attempt to destroy the lawful BNP merchandising operation on Deeside, “UAF” focuses primarily on confrontational street thuggery and intimidation.

As we enter 2009, the intellectual hegemony of democratic nationalist ideas over those of the so-called “Labour Movement” has never been more starkly evident.  The modern Labour Party retains no vestige of ideological belief, other than a visceral hatred of the BNP and a narrow determination to retain power by any means possible.  As Labour has retreated from the battle of ideas, so it has ratcheted up the threats and abuse directed at BNP activists who, unlike Labour, have strong political principles and a coherent vision for the future.

One wonders how the giants of Labour history would regard the foul tactics of their unworthy successors such as Harriet Harman. Would Kier Hardy have threatened opponents with “vicious door-to-door campaigns”?  Would Nye Bevan have drawn up plans to drive opposition party activists from public sector jobs?  Would Clem Attlee have orchestrated Trade Union political witch-hunts against individual workers?  If there are decent people still lingering in the wizened husk of Labour, they should reflect upon the moral and intellectual decline of their movement, and hang their heads in shame at the misdeeds being done in their name.

As democratic nationalists, we in the BNP are firmly committed to free and open debate and indeed we warmly welcome the challenge and stimulation of reasoned opposition to our views.  Such is our confidence in the robustness of BNP arguments, that we are prepared to defend them in any sensible forum, at any time and with any opponent.   The same is demonstrably not true of Labour and its front organisations, nor indeed is it true of the Tories or Liberal Democrats either.   In any fair and impartial assessment, that very asymmetry immediately relegates Labour and its allies to a position of moral inferiority when compared to the British National Party.

The truth is that Labour and its allies have no viable alternative strategy for tackling the BNP; they are boxed into their longstanding habits of ad hominem attack, third-party intimidation, erecting false and preposterous “Nazi BNP” bogeymen, and then using these chimaeras to justify their own street thuggery and their violent rhetoric against the BNP.

Meanwhile, the British National Party will do in 2009 what we did so successfully in 2008.  We shall treat Labour’s “vicious” threats and abuse with disdain and we shall pursue our own strategy of winning the intellectual argument, and convincing the electorate by free and democratic campaigning.  We shall advance our case fearlessly, with dignity, defiance and resolution and we will trust the British people to judge who is right.

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Hot on the news that thousands of British jobs have been handed to EU nationals in terms of the European Union’s ‘free movement’ laws, comes the revelation that the number of work permits granted to non-EU nationals to work in this country is at an all-time high.

More than 151,000 foreigners from outside the EU were handed permission to work, four times the level when Labour took power in 1997.

Over the same period, unemployment increased by 290,000, proving Gordon Brown to be an outright liar with his “British jobs for British workers” pledge.

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch, said: “We can see the impact of the Government’s deliberate policy of increasing the flow of economic migrants from outside the European Union, now four times the level of 1997.

“Each skilled migrant is a British worker who is not being trained. As the recession now takes hold, this policy must be revised.”

Figures show some 151,635 applications to work were granted between December 2007 and November last year. That was a 17 percent increase on the 140,600 handed out throughout the whole of 2007 and almost a four-fold rise on the 42,800 approved in 1997.

Indians were the largest recipient of the permits, at 49,950, followed by 28,835 Americans and 8,090 for workers from China.

More than one in four allowed the migrant to stay for up to five years although 40 percent were for less than a year. Some 85 permits were for more than five years.

The applications were approved for either migrants wanting to come to the UK or extensions for those already working here.

Over the same period, unemployment rose in the UK by 290,000 and the country was plunged into an economic meltdown.

Almost all the growth in new jobs in the past seven years has been accounted for by migrants. There were 1.34 million more people in work than in 2001 but the number of British-born workers had fallen by 62,000 over the same period.

In contrast, there was a surge in the number of migrants in employment, including almost 500,000 more Eastern Europeans.

It emerged earlier this month that at least 170,000 more migrant workers are taking British jobs each year than official figures show because of undercounting in the employment statistics.

The Labour Force Survey (LFS), the main government tool for measuring changes in the workforce, fails to include any foreigners in the country for less than a year.

In addition, migrant workers living in communal properties are also excluded, meaning many thousands more could also be missing from official figures.