NOT bad for small political party with just two MEPs in the 736-strong European Parliament.

Yesterday in Strasbourg both Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons were able to make their presence felt in the Chamber with speeches which showed that within the very heart of the European Union there are voices of reality and voices of dissent.

The British National Party’s leader stunned MEPs with a hard hitting speech during a debate on tax co-operation across Member States.

Nick told the European Parliament:
“Discussing tax co-operation during the gathering Euro crisis is rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic.

“The southern nations are known in English by the harsh acronym, PIGS, but those being crucified on the Euro are not pigs, but people scourged by Utopian one-size-fits-all dogma.

“Their economies will either die of a thousands cuts, or be bailed out, to the ruin of taxpayers in Britain and elsewhere. There will be very little tax to co-operate over.

“There are two ways out: abolish the Euro and return to the captive nations of this Strawberry Soviet their own currencies; or expel the problem countries from the Euro. That might be the PIGS. More justly it would be Germany and her French collaborator, because running the Euro in the German interest is the root of this shambles.

“This endless crisis will destroy the federal project, tax co-operation and all. The tragedy is that it will grind so many innocent victims into poverty before it does so.”

Four hours later, Andrew Brons had Labour and Conservative Party MEPs squirming in their seats as he once again exposed the sham of Britain’s opt out of the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

He closely questioned Mr. Diego Lopez Garrido, the Spanish Secretary for European Affairs – Spain currently holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union – on the very subject.

“The governments of three member states (including the United Kingdom) told their electorates that they had secured ‘opt-outs’ from the Charter of Fundamental Rights. However, some members of this Committee have argued that these opt-outs are worthless, since the Lisbon Treaty. If these members of the Committee should be right, would you persuade the governments of those countries to tell the truth to their electorates.”

Mr. Lopez did not reply to this question!

Andrew then tackled the Spainish Minister on his opening speech when he declared the European Union being a force for democracy in the world:

“You spoke of democracy as a central principle of the European Union and I agree that it should be. However, democracy cannot exist without freedom of speech but member states of the EU imprison people for non-violent comment and heretical opinion.

Indeed, from November of this year, the European Union plans to extend throughout Europe, the criminalisation, not just of speech and writing, but even of thought – what they call xenophobia – which means fear of foreigners, state of mind. This is a truly Orwellian Thought Crime.

I’m afraid there is an inverse relationship between those who proclaim their belief in democracy and those who practise it. The test of being a true democrat is not whether or not a person defends the rights of himself or somebody with whom he agrees. It is whether or not he is prepared to defend the rights of his opponents.”

Mr. Lopez said he did not agree with the MEP for Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire.

A BRAVE university debating society has finally caved-in to threats from Labour Party thugs and cancelled a debate where two elected British National Party representatives were due to speak.


The Durham Union Society had invited Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire MEP Andrew Brons, and Leeds City Councillor Chris Beverley, to oppose the motion: “This house believes in a multicultural Britain” in the Debating Chamber on the Palace Green in Durham City.

But the Labour Party-funded UAF gang (above) vowed to stop the two British National Party politicians from taking part in the debate and after a series of threatening telephone calls to university staff, along with threats of a violent demonstration outside the venue, the Durham Union Society – one of the world’s oldest student debating societies – reluctantly pulled the plug on the event.

Not only was the news disappointing for Andrew Brons (left) and Chris Beverley, it was also a blow to Kulveer Ranger, an advisor to Boris Johnson, and the Conservative MP Edward Leigh who were due to propose the motion.

Anna Birley, the president of Durham Union Society, told the Northern Echo just two days ago:


“As president, I am responsible for promoting open debate, which means inviting people with opposing points of view.”

While Professor Chris Higgins, the vice-chancellor of Durham University, had backed the society’s stance:

“The university is a strong advocate of freedom of speech, we did not oppose the right of the Durham Union Society to invite British National Party representatives as long as they spoke as part of an open debate.”

But now the enemies of free speech have won the day and the students of Durham University have been denied the opportunity to listen to an important debate and challenge those taking part.

“Labour Party thugs might have won this battle but they are losing the war,” said a BNP spokesman when told of the cancellation.

“Students by their very nature have inquisitive minds and they won’t like the book-burners of the UAF dictating what they can and can not listen too.

“Such actions by Gordon Brown’s bankrupt band of followers only goes to raise the profile of the British National Party as well as helping us to recruit new members.”

THE Church of England has told its clergy to refuse to allow British National Party candidates to take part in election hustings if they are being held in church buildings.

It has also instructed clergy not to talk to British National Party candidates and never get into discussion with them about policy.

The advice comes in new updated guidance from the Archbishops’ Council Mission and Public Affairs Division which has been issued this morning.

It’s the first time that the Church has recommended that British National Party candidates should not be invited to meetings in the run-up to the General Election, a move it acknowledges will deny local people the chance to question BNP candidates on the Party’s policies.

The new guidance also acknowledges that:

“The recent discourse of the far-right has developed in a direction where intolerance is often cloaked in the language of culture and faith.

“Lately the British National Party has sought to promote itself as a guardian of ‘British Christian heritage’ against an increasing ‘Islamification’ of British society.

“BNP supporters and candidates have established a ‘Christian Council of Britain’ which stresses the ‘godly importance of race and nation”.

“Often those elected from such parties will seek to make civic capital through contact with church leaders to increase their local standing. Church leaders need to have thought through how they will react. Local churches may now be faced with deciding how to distance themselves from groups and councillors – whose policies and attitudes they opposed during the elections, while maintaining pastoral engagement with those who voted for them and council officials who continue their work as public servants.”

A BNP spokesman said that the Church of England’s action was not only undemocratic but also showed just how out of touch the Church is with the feelings of its congregations.

“There is a significant number of active Christians within our ranks and they will be making sure that church-goers throughout the country are made aware of what the British National Party really stands for in the run-up to the General Election.

“Time and again the Church seems to be acting against what the vast majority of its followers want. The promotion of homosexuality is a clear example of this.

“It seems that the Archbishops’ Council is opposed to the BNP warning about the danger Britons face from of the growth of Islam on our shores.

“The vast majority of CofE congregations agree with our stance on this and understand the threat posed to Christianity.

“The Church itself, by issuing these undemocratic guidelines, shows that it is prepared to build its own funeral pyre.”

NICK Griffin has responded promptly to a “misinformed” attack on the British National Party by Philip Wedgwood-Brand from the left-wing trade union, Unison.

Wedgwood-Brand from the South West London Mental Health Branch claimed that the British National Party was against the National Health Service and that it has only changed its stance on this in the chase for votes.

The Unison official wrote to the MEP for the North West of England saying:

“I am very much proud of the NHS and I would very much appreciate it if it was not used as a political football by politicians who only use it as a means to further their own careers. That is what the BNP is doing with its new found support for the NHS after a road to Damascus style conversion regarding the issue. They are exploiting concerns over the NHS and its present state after years of Conservative inspired marketisation, not as you claim uncontrolled immigration, and hoping this will win them votes from misguided individuals.

“This is rather a volte-farce (sic) given your earlier assertions that the NHS “stands against everything our party stands for” I wonder what made you change your mind?
Was it perhaps opportunistic political expediency by any chance?

“Please refrain from claiming that the BNP is a friend of the NHS as many who work for the latter know full well that it is not, has never been and never will be . . .”

The attack left Nick Griffin a little bemused:

“I’m afraid Philip is way off beam on this and I can only think that it’s the usual anti-BNP propaganda from Unison.

“I echo his concerns over the present state of the NHS and agree that this has been caused by the Labour Government implementing the Conservative’s privatisation policies.

“The British National Party has a long, proud and very well documented history of supporting the NHS so this attack by Unison is completely unfounded.

“We even have a specially produced national leaflet explaining how we will ensure the survival of the National Health Service.”

The British National Party has certainly been critical of NHS managers looting the Third World of nurses while qualified British nurses and midwives can’t find work.

Four years ago Steve Johnson writing in the BNP’s monthly newspaper Freedom said:

“Like some callous colonial power, the Labour Government is plundering the Third World of its skilled nurses in a last desperate bid to stave off the collapse of the NHS.

“Cut price nursing is needed to keep afloat our once fine National Health Service which is now being abused by over two million people who haven’t paid a penny in contributions, yet whose ever-increasing demands are pushing our hospitals to the brink.”

The report carried a quote from Percy Mahlati, the Deputy Director-General of the South African Department of Health, protesting that Britain’s National Health Service was still stealing his country’s nurses, despite repeatedly promising to stop the practice. Things were even worse in the Philipines where hospitals in Manila had been forced to close because Filipino nurses had been enticed to come to Britain.

“The NHS should be staffed by British doctors and nurses which will enable Third World workers to return home to look after the people who need their help most, concluded Mr Johnson.

The newspaper has on numerous occasions carried articles condemning Labour’s privatisation of the health service.

In a report entitled “Privatisation is destroying our National Health Service”, Tina Wingfield wrote:

“THE CRISIS state of a health system that was once the envy of the world is evident in an analysis of the NHS conducted recently by the British Medical Association.

“The BMA reports that a third of NHS trusts are preparing to reduce services to avoid a debt crisis. 73% of NHS Trusts are facing a funding shortfall in the current year, almost half are proposing a recruitment freeze and a third are considering staff redundancies and bed closures.

“The situation has arisen, despite unprecedented Treasury investment, because Conservative and Labour governments have railroaded market principles into public services. When a system operates according to business values, there has to be winners and losers. In the case of the NHS, crucial funding is being diverted away from patient care to fund bureaucratic administration systems and provide profits for greedy corporations.”

Nick Griffin believes that the Unison official should apologise for his unfair attack on the Party.

“It is important that the public are told the truth about BNP policies especially at election time. I hope Philip will now admit that he got it wrong and do the right thing by setting the record straight.”

Taking a trip down Memory Lane – September 2005: 60,000 copies of the British National Party’s newspaper Freedom, were seized at Dover Docks as the authorities sought legal advice on the front page article “What about showing some solidarity with the British People!”

Below is reprinted the article which was written just three months after the London tube and bus bombings which left 56 people dead and more than 700 injured.

“OUR PEOPLE, our Christian values and our British way of life are under attack from Islamic terrorists living in our very midst.

Fifty-six innocent people making their way to work in our capital city are no longer with us because of bombs planted by the followers of a dangerous, archaic creed that want to take civilisation back to the Middle Ages.

You would have thought that our police forces would be rallying around to show support for the British people and clamping down on the communities from where the suicide bombers came from.

You would have thought that our trade unions would be boosting the morale of the British people, rallying them to stand firm in the face of the followers of a totalitarian religion that is prepared to indiscriminately kill to further their ends.

But you would be wrong. Police in Nottinghamshire are wearing green ribbons to show solidarity with the Muslim community.

Twenty thousand “Good Faith” ribbons will be worn by officers to symbolise belief in Muslims as a people of peace.

Chief Constable Steve Green said: “We have a huge number of Muslim citizens in Nottinghamshire. They feel intimidated and sometimes ostracised by the perception that the white community suspects everybody with a brown face of being a suicide bomber.”

Green’s prompt initiative over Islamic ribbons is in stark contrast to his force’s disappointing clear-up rate for crime in Nottinghamshire. His force is under review by the Home Office after it was revealed that cases had to be “farmed out” to other forces to get them solved.

Bedforshire Police were another force who took prompt action, this time in the hunt for terrorists. They issued an 18-point guide to officers dealing with Muslims who are suspected of terrorism.

The guidelines state that ‘the Muslim community feels victimised and suspicious of counter terrorist police operations’.

Officers were told to follow these rules:
• Community leaders should be consulted before raids into Muslim houses.
• Officers should not search occupied bedrooms and bathrooms before dawn.
• Use of police dogs will be considered serious desecration of the premises.
• Cameras and camcorders should not be used in case capturing women in inappropriate dress.
• If people are praying at home, officers should stand aside and not disrupt the prayer. They should be allowed the opportunity to finish.
• Officers should take their shoes off before raiding a Muslim house.
• The reasons for pre-dawn raids on Muslim houses needs to be clear and transparent.
• Officers must not touch holy books or religious artefacts without permission.
• Muslim prisoners should be allowed to take additional clothing to the station.

A Bedfordshire Police spokesman said: “The guidelines have been issued to all staff as a reminder of the force protocol when entering a Muslim household.”

The National Union of Teachers were also quick off the mark issuing a 4-page A4 brochure to teachers on the terrorist attacks. But despite the traumatic effect of the terrorists attacks being timed to coincide with pupils travelling to schools, the NUT didn’t seem too concerned about the effect of this on children.

NUT advice was in the main about the well-being of pupils and teachers from minority ethnic groups and any negative and stereotyped views of Islam and Muslims being expressed by parents. In fact much of the brochure was given over to challenging Islamophobia, tackling racism and any tensions that might arise between different ethnic groups.

Since the terrorist attacks in July the politically correct brigade within the police, the trade unions and the media have succeded in turning truth and logic on its head. Within a month of innocent British people being slaughtered, apparently it is no longer us who are the victims or Islamic fanatics who are to blame.

Now it is the Muslim community living in Britain who must have our sympathy and it is the British people who are responsible for causing their discomfort.”

After holding the newspapers for 72 hours, they were released after the Department for Public Prosecutions said that there was no case to answer.

Freedom Issue No.64 became one of the paper’s best-selling editions thanks to the publicity surrounding its seizure.

“It is within the power of every individual in this room, of every voter in Salford, to take decisive action to cleanse our political system of these corrupt career politicians.

“The voting public possesses the means to save our country and people from social, cultural and economic collapse and it is at their fingertips . . . if only they could remove the blinkers of spent and out-dated political loyalties that to date, seem to have prevented them from recognising and reacting to the realities of their predicament.

“Put a cross against my name on General Election day and I promise that I will strive to produce a political revolution whereby the true interest and well-being of the British people is put above and beyond any other consideration.”

That was Tina Wingfield speaking at a packed Working Men’s club in Salford last night as she launched her General Election campaign in the city.

Tina received an enthusiastic reception from more than 70 local members and supports as she attacked the arrogance and ignorance of the Old Gang political parties.

A collection at the meeting raised £650 which delighted new Salford Organiser Gary Tumulty:

“We have a dedicated team of local activists who will pull out all the stops to get Tina elected.

“Hazel Blears has lost the confidence of the electorate because of the way she exploited the expenses system and now this constituency has become a real marginal.

“If we can attract additional funding, we have ambitious plans to make sure that the British National Party becomes the main challenger to Labour in Salford,” he told the audience.

*If anyone would like to help fund Tina’s campaign against Hazel Blears please send a donation to: The British National Party, PO Box 16, Salford. M6 7PT. All postal orders and cheques made payable to the British National Party.

You can hear an interview with Tina here.

This was Tina’s speech (in full) to the Salford meeting last night:

“First and foremost, I would like to thank the Salford Branch for nominating me as the prospective parliamentary candidate for the anticipated General Election in May, and for the invitation to this meeting. The local team have placed their faith in me and I hope that I will be able to convince the voters of Salford to do the same.

“I have been asked to come along this evening to introduce myself and to outline my reasons for standing in this election, so I’ll begin by telling you a little bit about my background.

“I currently work as the Constituency Manager for Nick Griffin MEP, based in the Cumbria office. I provide a front-line service to constituents in the North West who need help or advice from their MEP. Since Nick’s election, closely followed by Question Time, the level of correspondence received has been phenomenal. There is evidently a lot of frustration amongst the electorate with the Establishment political parties, and voters are keen to make contact with a politician that they trust.

“Prior to this role, which I have to say is my most exciting and gratifying to date, I have worked in various social welfare fields, including housing, mental health, education and criminal justice. This vocational experience has given me a varying range of skills which I believe are crucial to providing constituents with a professional, efficient and yet empathic service.

“Having been sacked from my post as a mental health counsellor with the National Health Service simply for standing as a candidate for the British National Party, I have personal experience of the injustice of political correctness, and this allows me to fully appreciate the frustration and anger that is felt by many ordinary Britons in today’s topsy turvy democracy. It’s a system that overtly follows different rules for different community groups and one which, as we are all only too aware, relegates us indigenous Brits to the very bottom of the pile.

“I first became aware of the emerging inequalities in our new PC society as a youngster and received my first Party membership card as a 14th birthday present from my family in 1981. My parents had been fooled by Margaret Thatcher’s famous ‘Britain is being swamped by mass immigration’ speech and were deeply disappointed when she promptly discarded her promises to confront the problem the second she was gifted the political power to do something positive about it. Like many voters at the time, they turned instead to the nationalist political Party of the day whose fire Thatcher had stolen with her empty pledges.

“Apart from a brief interlude living abroad in France, I have been involved in nationalist politics ever since. I first stood as a parliamentary candidate back in 1988 and have seen the nationalist vote percentage rise steadily. In the last County County elections in Cumbria, I polled a very respectable 20% of the vote, pushing the Tories into third place behind me. Unfortunately, Labour came in first on that occasion, but we are beginning to provide a real challenge to this arrogant and corrupt breed of career politicians.

“So why am I standing in Salford?

“Most importantly, because the local group believes that I am a credible candidate and kindly asked me to represent the Party in this crucial forthcoming election. Salford has a dedicated team of local activists who have been working diligently in the area for years, building and promoting the Party and taking every opportunity to get the nationalist message across to their fellow voters in the Constituency. Again, I thank them for their faith in me and pledge to do my utmost to justify their choice.

“There are serious local issues which need to be addressed and you do not have to live in Salford to be aware of, and to understand, the issues of importance to people. These problems will be highlighted in my campaign literature and the solutions outlined. Thousands of local leaflets have already been distributed in the area, and by the time voters go to the Polls, they will be fully informed about the British nationalist viewpoint on the major issues of local concern and how we intend to put them right. These issues cannot however, be addressed successfully in isolation from the national political picture.

“There can be no one left in any doubt that there are fundamental national issues to confront which affect not just the people of Salford but the entire electorate. This once proud nation of ours has been in terminal decline for decades and whether you live in Salford or Carlisle, you cannot escape the detrimental impact of social and economic disintegration. I can represent the dispossessed majority regardless of where I currently reside.

“I am, like many of the native inhabitants of this beleaguered isle – effectively – a social refugee. I’m a statistic of the phenomenon of ‘white flight’ – the modern social disease which has seen whole areas of this country ethnically cleansed. I was born and bred in East London, with my extended family resident all around me. The whole of London alas, has changed in recent years beyond all recognition as a result of unrestricted mass immigration. The borough of Newham in London was the first to see white people form the ethnic minority. By 2060, this will apply across the country, so it will not be long before Salford joins the ranks of the fallen cities.

“Thankfully, I, along with thousands of other original Londoners escaped the new ‘diverse’ and ‘vibrant’ city – abandoning my home to what the PC Brigade euphemistically used to refer to as our invited and very essential guests, to whom we should be eternally grateful for their presence. I have left a few members of my family, tied by economic imperative, to face the realities of the multicultural nightmare – my older niece attends a university where she is one of only three White students in her academic faculty and she is consistently made to feel an outsider; a stranger who has no rightful place in the area. My younger niece and nephew attend schools, again as perceived ‘outsiders’ and celebrate a range of ethnic festivals such as Diwali and the Chinese New Year to the detriment of traditional Christian events. These are discouraged as they may cause offence to what the PC cranks now refer to as our fellow ‘Brits’.

“The people of Salford, I’m sure, recognise that unless we stem the tide of white flight, we will eventually reach the outer parameters of this land and be left with little choice but to leap lemming-like off the edge. There is immigration and there is colonisation. When you consider the sheer numbers that have entered this country, it is evident that we are being colonised. If you imagine Britain as a lifeboat, we welcomed some newcomers onboard to share in our steady success, but now the boat is sinking under the enormous pressure resulting from our charitable intentions and we have to say ‘enough is enough’ in order to ensure our own – and our invited guests’ – survival. The British National Party is the only party that has the courage and conviction to say that immigration to these shores must be halted.

“I have two daughters at university and a son in college. They have little prospect of finding sufficiently paid jobs to enable them to sustain a fair standard of living and I fear for their future. Whilst immigration and economic migration has increased year on year – supposedly providing an essential flow of people to do the jobs that British people will not do – unemployment levels have crept ever higher. The true figures are now well camouflaged within various benefits packages, but the people of Salford, know that the reality is that work is hard to find these days. This is not surprising as successive Labour and Conservative governments have done nothing to protect our manufacturing industry from being systematically shipped abroad, the consequence of the global capitalist economic imperative where profit outweighs national interest. Why pay British nationals a decent wage when you can pay a pittance to a Third World worker? Moreover, why pay a British nurse or health-worker a decent salary when you can import an Eastern European economic migrant to do the same job for a fraction of the wage?

“Irrespective of who makes up the workforce of the National Health Service, this essential public service is in terminal decline. Labour and Tory governments have presided over the dismantling and destruction of what was once the envy of the world. While privatisation is taking place by stealth in the health, education and welfare services, and the consequences of this policy yet to be felt in full force, the disastrous effects of privatisation are evident in just about our entire national infrastructure. Our transport and utilities systems are decaying and services retracting as a result of the need for managers to extricate ever fatter profits for greedy shareholders who have no involvement with the service, save to raid the collective pot for their ‘earned’ dividends.

“I’m afraid I paint a rather bleak picture, but I offer no apologies for this. Contrary to what the Labour-Tory-Lib Dem alliance would have us believe, there is a much deeper social malaise within Britain to confront than their pathetic edge-tinkering around the same failed policies can ever hope to achieve.

“All is far from lost however. Recognising the problem brings us half way to solving it. The appalling problems we face are man-made, or to be more precise, they are politician-made. We are not facing an unavoidable doom to which no solution is possible; nor are we facing an omnipotent enemy that should strike fear into our hearts. As the expenses scandal has illustrated well, mainstream politicians are mere facades of decent people; they have no real political, principled substance and are simply playing the career game to gain as much personal wealth and social power as they can grab during their term of office. The less they rock the boat of the political Establishment, and threaten the status quo, the more likely they are to sustain a long-term and very profitable career.

“What these corrupt and arrogant band of bureaucrats seem to have forgotten however – presuming themselves untouchable as a result of their cosy political alliance – is that they are, in fact, wholly answerable to the will of the people. Those individuals who delivered them to their seats of power can so easily remove them by switching their vote to an alternative Party. This, I have no doubt, is a realisation now proving rather unpalatable to the resident MP, Hazel Blears, still desperately trying to formulate excuses for being caught with her hand in the biscuit tin, so to speak… although I do believe she helped herself to a lot more than a few custard creams.

“It is within the power of every individual in this room, every voter in Salford, to take decisive action to cleanse our political system of these corrupt career politicians. The voting public possesses the means to save our country and people from social, cultural and economic collapse and it is at their fingertips . . . , if only they could remove the blinkers of spent and out-dated political loyalties that to date, seem to have prevented them from recognising and reacting to the realities of their predicament.

Put a cross against my name on General Election day, and urge your family, friends and colleagues to do likewise, and I promise that I will strive to produce a political revolution whereby the true interest and well-being of the British people is put above and beyond any other consideration.

Place your faith in the British National Party and I guarantee you will change the destiny of the British people. We can and we will win back our country.”

THE ICONIC British company of Cadbury is no longer British. Like much of British industry over the past thirty years it now has foreign owners.

Decisions effecting the lives of British workers will now be made in boardrooms ‘across the pond’ in America. When this recession bites deeper or the next recession hits even harder, new owners Kraft will be jettisoning jobs in the UK first. That’s because the company’s bosses’ loyalty will be to its American workforce and the company’s balance sheet loyalty will be to sweat-shop labour in Asia and Eastern Europe.

A near-200 year old British tradition has disappeared at the stroke of an accountants pen, and a proud history of innovation, patriotism and sacrifice has been deemed worthless in the scramble for bigger profits and keener margins.

During the First World War, more than 2,000 Cadbury employees joined the Armed Forces. To support the war effort, the company provided clothing, books and chocolate to soldiers in the trenches.

During World War II, parts of the Bournville factory were turned over to war work, producing milling machines and pilot seats. Cadbury workers not fit to fight ploughed football fields in which to plant crops. Cadburys chocolate was regarded as such an essential food that it was placed under government supervision for the entire war.

Cadbury Brothers of Birmingham was founded in 1824, when John and Benjamin Cadbury began vending tea, coffee, and drinking chocolate, which they produced themselves, at Bull Street in Birmingham.

The company received the Royal Warrant as manufacturers of chocolate and cocoa to Queen Victoria in 1854 and in 1879 the factory in Bournville was opened and a model village for its workers (above) built nearby.

Now an integral part of the British economy has gone and the decision on the future of more than 30,000 British jobs handed over to a foreign power.

But the most sickening aspect of the whole sorry story is the betrayal of a British company by its own Government. The takeover of Cadburys by Kraft was funded by the Royal Bank of Scotland – a bank 84% owned by the Government and only in existence because it was bailed out with taxpayers’ money, but without taxpayers’ consent.

The Bournville workers who sacrificed their lives in two world wars must be spinning in their graves at this betrayal.

THE British National Party’s main General Election campaign theme, ‘Bring Our Boys Home’, will provide voters with a clear choice at the ballot box – whether to support the warmongering Old Gang parties or the BNP, the only political party which will recall our troops home from Afghanistan with immediate effect.

That is what the British National Party Chairman Nick Griffin, told a packed meeting of over 200 officials at the January Organisers’ Conference in Hertfordshire yesterday as he unveiled the new General Election ‘Bring our Boys Home’ backdrop.

He told delegates that the British National Party had already ‘won’ our General Election campaign because the Labour Party were channeling funds and full-time activists into seats where they faced a challenge from the BNP.

“What greater compliment can Gordon Brown & Co have paid the British National Party than to provide our party with the credibility of being serious contenders for a parliamentary seat. Whatever the outcome of our election efforts in Barking, Dagenham, Thurrock and Stoke, the fact that Labour are pouring in vital resources to beat us will show the public that the British National Party have arrived centre stage in British politics,” he said.

Eddy Butler (left), the General Election campaign manager not only spoke on the mechanics of our election effort but also on how local BNP groups must use the Government’s Prevent Scheme to help build the Party’s stature within the community.

“When the police and council officials approach our councillors and local representatives to help them meet their requirements under the scheme to prevent the growth of Muslim extremism, we should co-operate fully. The first reaction from most of our people will be “it’s your mess – you clear it up”, but that won’t help our credibility amongst voters. To win locally we must be involved and informed of all that is going on within the community,” he said.

There were other speeches from the Director of Publicity Mark Collett on what election literature would be provided by the Party, from Paul Golding on fundraising and from James North, the chairman of the BNP’s association of councillors, on promoting the work of our local representatives.

There was a warm reception for Richard Barnbrook as he outlined the campaign in Barking for both the General Election and local council elections. He urged activists nationwide to come to Barking whenever possible as these elections will be the one that captures the public’s imagination.

“Please come and play your part in Barking,” Richard told the audience. “I know many of you are fighting your own campaigns, but Barking is where the political earthquake will happen if there is to be one.”

He said that that accommodation would be found for those wanting to stay and that teams are going out every day to ensure that the campaign will be the best one ever fought by the British National Party.

Finally Nick Griffin updated delegates to the latest state of play with regard to the legal action brought against the BNP by the Equality Commission. He told the meeting:

“The relevant sections of the constitution are being sent to court this week and we are asking for a short adjournment on account of the disruption to meetings with lawyers caused by the record snowfalls. I’m hopeful that this will be accepted by the court. The CRE have waited 28 years for this so I’m certain that another fortnight won’t make any difference.”

ETHNIC minority voters will play a more decisive role in the 2010 General Election than in any earlier poll, boasts the Asian Image website which describes itself as the “Voice of the Asian Community”.

According to research by Professor Muhammad Anwar of the University of Warwick, some 25 parliamentary constituencies have more than 40% of their voting population from ethnic minorities. He also claims that voters from the Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Indian communities are more likely to go to the polls and cast their vote than their white neighbours.

He also predicts that Muslim voters will turn out in greater numbers than ever before . . . and that’s not just because there are more Muslims now living in Britain than ever before!

Professor Anwar revealed:

”Our research shows that the higher levels of turn-out among Asians and particularly Muslim groups are likely to continue in future,” said Prof Anwar.

”In recent years, Muslims have become more conscious of their rights, including participation in the electoral process.”

The highest proportions of ethnic minority voters were found in East Harrow (66.3%), Birmingham Ladywood (64.9%), Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath (64.8%), and Brent South (64.6%). In all, nine constituencies had a majority of voters from ethnic minorities.

NINE hundred Welsh workers have woken up this morning to find that they have been mugged by global capitalism.

Their German employer Bosch, is to shut their car parts factory near Cardiff and move production to Hungary to slash the company’s wage bill.

Bosses told workers at the plant at Miskin near Cardiff which makes alternators for the motor industry, that they are pulling the plug on operations because the cheap labour available in Eastern European means that the company can cut costs and maximise profits.

So another foreign-owned firm is upping sticks and deserting Britain. Bosch has no loyalty to Britain – it’s a German firm. So there’s no reason why it should stay on and keep 900 Welsh workers in employment when it can find cheap labour much nearer to home.

And that’s the crux of the global economy – it is not bound by any loyalty to country or sense of responsibility to any national workforce. Profit is the God of the global economy and everyone else can go to hell.

Britain is an island with a high standard of living. The transport difficulties posed by being surrounded by sea and the needs of a workforce, many with mortgages or high rents to pay, means that the United Kingdom can never compete on price with workers in Eastern Europe or Asia within the global economy.

That’s why the British National Party believes in an economy primarily based on the national interest rather than just private profit. An economy where British manufacturing workers are employed in factories in Britain owned by British companies whose loyalty is to the country and to the workforce.

If Bosch had been a British company making alternators for a British-owned car industry, then 900 workers in Wales would still have their jobs this morning.

THE British National Party’s Press Conference in Stoke-on-Trent on Friday will be welcomed by many of the city’s residents who have been upset by recent demonstrations by Muslims in support of a controversial pro-Islamic march through Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire where the British fallen from Afghanistan are returned home.

Potteries-based members of Islam4UK held a demonstration outside the Territorial Army barracks in Waterloo Road in Cobridge holding up banners telling passing motorists that “Islam will dominate the world.”

Stoke is also the city where the British National Party has nine city councillors and where the Party will be pushing to challenge for Westminster seats in the General Election.

At the European Elections the BNP narrowly missed out from taking third place from the Tories.

The votes cast in Stoke-on-Trent on June 4th 2009 were as follows:

UKIP 10,885
Labour 10,144
Conservative 8,719
British National Party 8,706
Liberal Democrats 4,806
Green Party 1,877
English Democrats 1,346

With much of the UKIP and English Democrat votes up for grab, there could well be a political earthquake in Stoke when Gordon Brown finally finds the courage to name the day for Britain to go to the polls.

THE British National Party’s call-centre, which is usually canvassing for membership fees and donations, has taken on a new role during the bitingly cold spell of weather that has a grip on Britain this week.

Instead of asking for money, the team of professional telephonists are inquiring whether British National Party members and supporters, who are senior citizens, need any help!

“Many elderly folk just don’t want to risk going out with the pavements so treacherous. By calling them at home we can see if they need any help or vital supplies,” reports a call-centre spokesman.

“We then contact the local branch or other younger members living nearby and ask them to look in and see what they can do to help.

“It certainly makes a change from the usual sales patter we use, and the people that we have already called have been delighted that the British National Party is taking the trouble to check up on them and see that they are OK.”

Some pensioners have been so pleased at the consideration being showed by the Party as to their welfare, that they have insisted on making a donation to show their appreciation!

“MANY at Westminster believe it, (the BNP), is on the verge of winning its first seat in Parliament with the support of disillusioned former Labour and Tory voters.”

This sentence alone, buried away in mid-text, was the reason behind the Sunday Times publishing its ridiculous report yesterday under the headline – “BNP crisis as Nick Griffin faces jail over whites-only policy.”

The Labour Party is in a state of panic because it believes that the British National Party is going to build on its London Assembly seat won in 2008, and two European Parliament seats won in 2009, by winning a seat in the Westminster Parliament this year.

Exactly 12 months ago Gordon Brown and his cabinet were fretting over the possibility that the BNP could win seats in Brussels. To try to stem the growing support for the British National Party, Brown & Co paid £1 million to American firm Blue State Digital (BSD), which was behind the victory of Barack Obama in the US Presidential Elections.

The goal of Blue State Digital’s campaign was to create a negative image of the British National Party in the minds of the electorate. It was to do this by flooding newspapers with stories and reports about the BNP showing the Party in a less than favourable light.

The US firm acknowledged that it could do little about dedicated BNP supporters, but thought that it could limit the numbers of voters switching allegiance from the Old Gang parties to the BNP. In fact, the purpose of the negative stories was really to keep voters at home – to generate a ‘plague on all their houses’ mentality.

On the Blue State Digital payroll were journalists whose sole job was to bombard British newspapers with anti-BNP stories. The financial crisis within the newspaper industry played into their hands with in-house journalists being laid off to cut costs, stories from BSD’s team, which were ‘free copy’, were snapped up with few questions asked.

Even after the European Elections, this campaign has gone on as Labour desperately try to stop the BNP bandwagon continuing to roll.

If you go to the website of the The Times and search for “BNP” you will provided with over three hundred stories from the past year and many of these have been fabricated by journalists on the BSD payroll.

Any self-respecting editor should have spiked the BNP crisis story that appeared yesterday. Journalist David Leppard should have been asked two questions:

“Who says the BNP is in crisis?”
“Who says Nick Griffin faces prison?”

He claims his source was “Whitehall officials”, but any editor worth their salt would want to know more details for such an important story.

I expect if pressed further, Leppard would have revealed that it was the Equality Commission itself that fed him the story on the direction of the Office of the Prime Minister.

There was a similar report back in October by Fiona Hamilton headlined “BNP supporters call on Nick Griffin to quit as leader.”

The BNP supporters turned out to be posters on a neo-nazi website. The vast majority of these people are enemies of the BNP rather than its supporters, yet editors at The Times still allowed this malicious story to be published.

And that’s real purpose of this report – to mourn the demise of The Times. Once it was Britain’s newspaper of record, but now it is allowing itself to be manipulated by this Labour Government in an attempt to curb the growing support for the British National Party.

It is all a rather sorry state of affairs.

ONE-IN-NINE people thought that the British National Party were the biggest political winners of 2009 according to the readers of the Metro news organisation in its Metro Urban Life Poll.

The BNP’s 11% was nearly double that of the Liberal Democrats who managed just 6% and nearly three times that of the Labour Party, who came bottom of the poll with just 4%.

Not surprisingly most readers – 54% – thought that the Conservative Party had made the biggest inroads during the past 12 months.

“For a small party we did make a big impact,” said BNP spokesman Simon Darby.

“We currently have thousands of new members eagerly waiting to join when the court-imposed freeze on membership is lifted. It is good that we are getting into the public consciousness at this time with the General Election imminent.”

The finding emerged after a Metro Urban Life poll of 2,664 readers in full-time work, aged between 18 and 44, was carried out in the second half of last month.

There was more positive news from the poll for the British National Party as the top issues for public concern were the war in Afghanistan and immigration – two issues at the forefront of the BNP’s General Election campaign.

In fact, the immigration issue saw the second-biggest rise in people’s worry, with 43% seeing it as the most important issue compared to 36% back in 2008.

WITH all the media hype and Government propaganda over the past six months over global warming, it is somewhat surprising to many people that Britain should be experiencing the worst winter freeze for 30 years.

The Met Office has issued more severe weather warnings for the whole country this morning with temperatures remaining well below freezing.

The AA has attended 20,000 breakdowns a day this week compared to less than 9,000 on a normal day, and it says it has been so busy because of the icy conditions on the roads.

So many people have fallen over on icy pavements and broke bones that some hospitals have run out of plaster with which to set them.

The accidents on our roads and pavements have been caused because local authorities have run out of their stocks of grit and salt with which they treat public areas during freezing weather.

It’s surprising that councils should have been caught short this winter because the same thing happened last winter and no lessons seem to have been learnt from the chaos that ensued then.

Once again depots have insufficient salt reserves and the Cheshire mine that produces most of Britain’s supply is now struggling to keep pace with emergency demands and only has a few days’ supply of “surface salt” left.

Salt is mined from deep underground and that is why orders to the company have to be placed well in advance. It is very apparent that it wasn’t done this year so now the British people are paying the price.

The British National Party has made a number of Freedom of Information requests to local authorities regarding the ordering of grit and salt supplies in recent years. It has also asked whether the Government issued any guidelines as to the quantities councils should order.

“In the light of the problems we experience 12 months ago, you would have thought that this time we would have been well prepared for the current cold snap,” a BNP spokesman told the website.

“Our concern is that the Government might have believed its own propaganda about man-made global warming raising temperatures and taken a gamble that this winter wouldn’t be so cold. We need to know whether it advised councils not to stockpile grit and salt.

“Hopefully our FOI requests will shed some light on this.”

THE British National Party’s widely publicised ‘Adopt a Granny’ campaign to help pensioners during this bitter spell of winter weather will have gone down well with Pensioners Rights – a lobby group that calls for better conditions for older people.

Pensioners Rights has written to British National Party chairman Nick Griffin, asking him to take a lead in the campaign to get a better deal for the elderly. The group had asked both Gordon Brown and David Cameron for help, but didn’t receive any response.

It is surprising that the Labour and Tory Party leaders didn’t regard the 15 points of issue raised by Pensioners Rights worth responding to, especially with a General Election being imminent.

Maybe for the Old Gang parties, securing the Grey Vote isn’t so important any more now there is a larger and much more influential block vote that needs to be courted.

But for the British National Party, British pensioners will always be the No.1 priority and that is why Nick Griffin will be pledging his support to Pensioners Rights’ aims of establishing a basic pension of £250 a week, introducing a 25% discount from all utility bills for those over 65, and a £15 television licence fee for pensioners rather than the current £142.50.

SHARON Wilkinson, the leader of the British National Party group on Burnley Council has challenged leading Labour, Tory and Lib-Dem councillors to pay back hundreds of pounds of allowances that they have received in error.

When councillors were given a pay rise this year, senior councillors including Mrs Wilkinson, had their payrise calculated from an incorrect baseline figure which meant there was an overall overpayment of nearly £5,000.

“I have been overpaid and will return the money,” Sharon told the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

“There was an anomaly when calculating certain senior councillors pay because an additional payment for using broadband for conducting public affairs was incorrectly included as ‘basic pay.’ The money has to be paid back, it is as simple as that.”

Unsurprisingly Tory leader Peter Doyle wanted to hang on to his money.

“The council approved the pay rise,” he told the local newspaper, echoing the whines of many of his counterparts at Westminster that they were acting within the rules after being exposed in the expenses’ scandal.

“Too often in recent years the call for a rational debate on mass migration has degenerated into name-calling and charges of racism.”

No, that’s not Nick Griffin speaking, but none other than Lord Carey of Clifton, better known as George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury.

Writing in The Times this morning Lord Carey warns:

“The fact is that a rise in the UK population by ten million in two decades will put our nation’s resources under considerable strain, stretching almost to breaking point the enormous reserves of tolerance and generosity of the British people. Failure to take that action could be seriously damaging to the future harmony of our society.”

He also acknowledges that the million people who voted for the British National Party at the European Elections had genuine concerns about both overpopulation and the ability of this nation to integrate new communities whose values are sometimes very different, even antithetical, to our own.

He then went even further, and predicted that the British National Party could win the parliamentary seat of Dagenham at the General Election.

He told the readers of Britain’s premier newspaper:

“In Dagenham, where I was brought up, the white working-class electorate, alienated by far-reaching social change and largely ignored by the mainstream parties, could vote for a BNP Member of Parliament.”

He said that people were supporting the BNP because it was the only political party echoing the sense of unfairness that many people felt about immigrants, economic migrants and bogus asylum seekers coming to Britain and availing themselves of our social services and our jobs.

“There is a sense of alienation on the part of white working class people who are saying ‘our jobs are being taken by people from abroad’.”

The former Archbishop of Canterbury also expressed concern that Britain’s traditional values were being undermined by immigration.

“The idea that Britain can continue to welcome with open arms immigrants who immediately establish their own tribunals to apply Sharia, rather than make use of British civil law, is deeply socially divisive.

“Democratic institutions such as the monarchy, Parliament, the judiciary, the Church of England, our free press and the BBC also support the liberal democratic values of the nation. Some groups of migrants, however, are ambivalent about or even hostile to such institutions. The proposed antiwar Islamist march in Wootton Bassett is a clear example of the difficulties extremists pose to British society.”

This morning the Labour Party have published a green paper supporting the institution of marriage and conceding that children fare better when parents stay together.

A number of Labour’s proposals can be found in the Family Law White Paper that was presented, debated and accepted by delegates at the British National Party’s Annual Conference in November.

On the right of contact with their children for estranged parents, the BNP pledged to introduce a legal presumption to contact as this would act in the child’s best interest by ensuring a continued relationship with both parents. In addition, all special dates such as birthdays and Christmas would be shared between the parents.

It was agreed by conference that the BNP should recognize the fact that many single parent families are formed by circumstances in which no blame can be attached such as death or the breakup of a formerly stable family unit, but it was also stressed:

“Whilst we affirm that no child should ever be penalised for the actions of a parent, the BNP will seek ways to discourage the formation of single-parent families as a Tax payer funded career option for young women and the closely connected problem of feckless young men fathering children and walking away from their responsibilities. Our school children will be taught through the National Curriculum the moral and practical benefits of the traditional family unit.”

On disputes that end up in court currently both the applicant and the respondent are entitled to apply for Legal Aid funding. In the vast majority of cases the mother gets legal aid as she is normally in receipt of some form of state benefit including Working Families Tax Credit and, as a result, is entitled to Legal Aid. The vast majority of fathers are working and not in receipt of state benefits, so have to fund their application themselves.

The White Paper acknowledged parents or a parent receiving Legal Aid can afford to prolong the proceedings at no expense to themselves. However many working parents are forced to pay thousands of pounds and are still not guaranteed to gain direct or indirect contact with their child.

The BNP called for all disputes should be solved by State funded mediation which should, if necessary, be followed by arbitration without the need for Legal Aid for either party.

The substantial 32 page document was debated on both the Saturday and Sunday of conference and was voted on, and passed, just before Nick Griffin’s closing speech.

THE BNP has proved to be the most efficient of all the political parties in maximising its vote at the European Elections from the funds that it had available.

The British National Party spent £282,843 on the campaign trail and received one vote for every 29p of expenditure.

That was far more economical than UKIP which had to pay out 51p for each vote it received and the Lib-Dems whose votes cost £1.2 million – 57p each.

But it was the discredited Labour and Conservative Parties that had to fork out the most money in their attempt to get voters to support them at the European Elections.

Every Tory vote cost David Cameron and his Eton chums a whopping 59p, but even that was dwarfed by the Labour Party which paid out £2.3 million for its total vote of 2,381,760 which works out at 97p for every vote they managed to poll.