“We have an identity; we are proud of it and we are entitled to preserve it.” That was the message from West Midlands Deputy Regional Organiser James Whittall to a packed crowd of 60 members and supporters in Shrewsbury this week.

Mr Whittall compared the colonisation of Britain to places such as Tibet, which was being colonised by China. In Tibet’s case, celebrities, politicians and the media queue up to protest.

“The Tibetans have every right to preserve their culture and territory, but so do the British people, as the indigenous folk of these lands,” Mr Whittall said. “These same liberals who have so much to say about the Tibetan peoples’ dispossession of their lands simply ignore the colonisation of Britain.

“The liberal elite display arrogance and hypocrisy. They claim to condemn all forms of racism, but when whites are the victims, they look the other way.”

Mr Whittall also told the crowd how the establishment’s attempt to bully the party was failing abysmally and the BNP was growing at a phenomenal rate. “Since Question Time was broadcast, the party has received more than 25,000 new enquiries and the future looks bright,” he said.

While speaking about Question Time, Mr Whittall made those in attendance aware of a special guest in their midst. He was Mr Edgar Griffin, father of the party chairman, who had also been in the news after his military service was compared to that of Jack Straw’s father on Question Time.

Mr Griffin senior received a well-deserved standing ovation from those gathered as Mr Whittall told the meeting that “it was plain to see who the real patriots were.”

Second speaker for the evening was BNP foreign affairs spokesman Arthur Kemp, who alternatively entertained and shocked the crowd with a recounting of the dreadful waste of taxpayers’ cash in the foreign aid scandal.

Shrewsbury Fundholder Rayna Milner announced the collection had raised £250 towards the General Election fund.