Looking Down on Manchester: A Profile of Paul Horrocks
THE Editor of the Manchester Evening News, Paul Horrocks, has recently become the darling of the leftist media Establishment in Manchester, with his unremitting tirades against the British National Party.
In his latest editorial outburst, Horrocks begged “the relevant authorities to investigate” the BNP leader for daring to warn about the need for tough measures to defend Europe from the illegal immigration invasion. Blatantly ignoring Nick Griffin’s clear statement that he was not arguing for migrant boats to be fired upon with African migrants still on board, the Manchester Evening News nevertheless accused Mr Griffin of “advocating murder”.
In view of the residual power that old-fashioned newspapers such as the Manchester Evening News still unfortunately wield, it is only fair that ordinary people should be acquainted with some basic facts about the publicity-shy man who presumes to order them how not to vote.
As editor of the Manchester Evening News since 1997, 55 year old Paul Horrocks has overseen the progressive decline of the paper from a moderately well-respected local journal, to a poorly printed rag, which now has to be given away free to more than half of its readers.
In recent years, the Manchester Evening News has become notorious for the sheer virulence of its multicultural extremist agenda. For example, on the very day in July 2005 when it became clear that Britain had been targeted for the first time by “home grown” Muslim terrorists, the Manchester Evening News editorial perversely focussed on berating the “far-Right” in West Yorkshire for supposedly “attempting to make political capital” – by distributing leaflets!
It is a characteristic hallmark of the most passionate zealots of multiculturalism that, in their own personal lives, they often seem strangely reluctant to enjoy the delights of multicultural enrichment which they are so keen to advocate for others. So it is with Mr Horrocks, who lives, not in some crime-infested and “diverse” district of Manchester, but in the upmarket, and almost exclusively white, rural village of Ainsworth, high on the hills north of Bury.
In lovely Ainsworth village, migrants are rarer than hens’ teeth, which rather undermines Mr Horrocks’ moral authority to lecture the beleaguered British communities of deprived inner-city Manchester about the need to reject the BNP and submit to multiculturalism. A cynic might suspect that if migrant colonists ever start to appear in Ainsworth in significant numbers, the editorial line of the Manchester Evening News may change abruptly in favour of an immediate curb on mass immigration.
Wikipedia describes the Manchester Evening News’ political stance as “left wing populist”, but it is clear from his lifestyle that Mr Horrocks himself is no demotic hero of the working classes. After a hard day at the office penning his anti-BNP tirades, Mr Horrocks can, quite literally, look down on the people of Manchester from the beautiful hillside home he shares with his wife. According to HM Land Registry, his luxury house was purchased in 2007 for more than £963,000.
Not only is Horrocks the editor of the MEN, but he is also a director of MEN Media Ltd and a former director of Bury’s exclusive Greenmount Golf Club. One is tempted to wonder just how many African migrants are to be found teeing off with Mr Horrocks at the 18th hole, or enjoying the country views over a gin and tonic up at the clubhouse.
Mr Horrocks is also a director of the Manchester Investment and Development Agency Service Ltd (MIDAS), where Horrocks shares the boardroom table with three prominent local Labour councillors. In the light of this, it is perhaps unsurprising that the Manchester Evening News has always been so reluctant to hold the Labour Party to account for its gross failures of governance in Manchester.
A truly radical campaigning newspaper would fearlessly speak the truth to the party of power, but the Manchester Evening News prefers to demonise the powerless; it is much less risky to attack Nick Griffin and his working-class grassroots supporters – and it certainly pleases the editor’s boardroom pals!
Paul Horrocks has every qualification for senior membership of the Establishment clique who have failed the city of Manchester and ignored the wishes of ordinary Mancunians for far too long. This is an elite which epitomises everything the British National Party nobly and defiantly stands against. We should be proud to have incurred the hatred of enemies such as this; if they should ever cease to fear and despise us, then we should start to worry!
