BY a quirk of fate, at half past two this morning we were sitting around a table at Manchester’s City Hall waiting for the result from Oldham.
The result system had broken down around an hour earlier and it was only by manual calculations that we had any idea of where we stood and whether we were still in with chance of winning that final North West seat.
We knew that the Tories had more than three times our vote, so they would take one of the final two seats. The Greens and us were neck and neck and UKIP were ready to pounce and pip us both on the line.
Everything depended on the Oldham vote, which although declared hours earlier, the figures had not been sent through to Manchester.
It was back in Oldham at the 2001 General Election that the British National Party, and Nick Griffin in particular, hit the headlines when we polled 16% in one of the town’s two parliamentary constituencies. For the next few years Oldham was a flagship town for the BNP with a string of excellent local council election results and a growing local BNP branch.
But in recent years our activity in the town had dwindled somewhat, yet it was in the hands of Oldhammers whether Nick Griffin would be elected to the European Parliament.
It was a tense wait while this final result sheet was delivered. We were 6,000 odd votes short of our 132,900 target and were desperate for at least an 8% vote. The mood around the BNP table was not optimistic.
O us of little faith.
Oldham did us proud with over 11% - a 5,435 vote, nearly 3,000 votes more than the Greens, and close enough to the UKIP vote to ensure that Nick took his seat in Brussels.
It’s ironic that it should be the votes from the people of Oldham that should take the BNP up another rung of the political ladder. Our opponents have always showcased Oldham as “the town where the British National Party were defeated.”
The reality is something quite different. Oldhammers are still very much supporters of the BNP as they proved last night.
Martin Wingfield is the editor of the British National Party’s newspaper Freedom, and there’s more on his personal blog at martinwingfield.blogspot.com.
IT’S just what the doctor ordered to soothe frayed election nerves.
An actual election result after real people had been down to their polling station and put a cross on a ballot paper and placed it in the ballot box.
In Irwell & Riverside ward for Salford City Council, British National Party candidate Gary Tumulty, secured a 17.1% vote share and in the process beat the Tories and polled more than double the number of votes given to the media-puffed UK Independence Party.
Salford City Council
Irwell & Riverside ward
21st May 2009
Salford Council
Irwell Riverside
Matt MOLD (Labour Party) 606
Steven MIDDLETON (Liberal Democrats)293 Gary TUMULTY(British National Party) 276
Chris BATES (Conservative Party)189
Rob MITCHELL (Green Party) 125
Duran O’DWYER (UK Independence Party) 123 BNP Percentage: 17.1%
May 2008: Lab 888, LibDem 337, Con 286, BNP 233.
Change in vote share since 2008:
Lab -13.3%
Lib-Dem -1.1%
Con -4.7% BNP +3.8%
UKIP (n/a)
Green (n/a)
The British National Party was the only one of the four main parties to increase its share of the vote and to also attract more actual votes, no mean feat on a turn-out of just 17.5% which was 4% down on May 2008.
It was a solid BNP performance in a ward with over 2000 students registered on the electoral role. The National Union of Students lobbied via the internet to get the student vote out to oppose the British National Party, but their efforts met with only a lukewarm response.
The result was a big blow to the Tories who not only worked hard in the ward and also had their campaign boosted by the arrival of the Party’s hugely expensive European Election address dropping on to doormats just 24 hours before the polls opened.
Martin Wingfield is the editor of Freedom, the British National Party’s monthly newspaper, and you can read his personal daily blog here.
A local activist leaflet has been produced to highlight the depth of which UKIP’s snouts are buried in the EU Trough. It can bedownloaded and distributed here >>
THE corrupt and discredited ‘Old Gang’ political parties are campaigning hard to promote the chances of the UK Independence Party at the European Election poll on June 4th.
This staggering revelation came to light in an article in the New Statesman by the respected political columnist Andrew Grice.
He wrote:
“Senior Labour and Tory figures hope privately that the main beneficiary of the anti-politics mood sweeping the country will be the UK Independence Party.
That tells us just how deep is the crisis facing mainstream politics after the disclosures that many MPs abused the system of parliamentary expenses.
Investing their hopes in an anti-European party that David Cameron once described as mostly “fruit cakes, loonies and closet racists” is code for saying they hope the British National Party will not win its first seats in the election for the European Parliament on 4 June.
The opinion polls, which show growing support for the minority parties, suggest Ukip is breathing down Labour’s neck and could push it into fourth place, and put a rejuvenated Green Party ahead of the BNP. Despite that, Tory and Labour officials fear many voters who tell pollsters they will back Ukip will put their cross next to the BNP in the polling booth. They suspect the furore over expenses will help the far-right party to win three or four seats in the European Parliament.”
You can read this article and some other interesting reports from the same magazine which are linked to from my blog here.
IF Andrews Brons, the British National Party’s lead candidate in the Yorkshire and Humber Euro Constituency, is doing a bit of Bank Holiday shopping in Harrogate tomorrow, it might be worthwhile for him to pop into WH Smiths and pick up a street map of Strasbourg.
That’s because Strasbourg is where the European Parliament is based and that’s where Andrew will be going if the BNP vote in Sheffield last night is anything to go by.
Full result:
Sheffield Council
East Ecclesfield ward
Thursday 30th April 2009
Colin TAYLOR (Lib-Dem) 2239
Zoe SYKES (Lab) 1420 John SHELDON (BNP) 716 John HATTERSLEY (Con) 564
Mia SAFIR (Green) 107
BNP Percentage: 14.2%
May 2008: LibDem 2314, Lab 1622, BNP 677, Con 582, Gre 181.
Last year, the BNP vote share was 12.6%, so our 14.2% vote share last night was not only an improvement, but it also puts the British National Party on the road to winning a seat in Yorkshire where we need 10% of the vote.
Securing a solid base of support in the cities of Sheffield and Leeds is key to our chances of success on June 4th and that is exactly what we have done in the last two election contests we have fought in each city.
THE May issue of Freedom is out today and it’s the ideal newspaper to deliver to postal voters over the next three weeks.
“Take care of our old folk” is the front page headline above a report which says that it’s wrong for private companies to be making a profit out of providing care for people who have given a lifetime of service to this country AND paid tax and National Insurance whilst they have been working. Looking after the frail and elderly should be the responsibility of the State.
Inside there’s a double page photo spread of our candidates standing in the European Elections.
In Cumbria, we are delivering the newspaper to postal voters together with letter from Nick Griffin about his candidature for the North West region in the European Elections. There is also another A5 leaflet from the local county council candidate, introducing themselves with their photograph under the heading “Please make up your OWN mind”
The leaflet reads:
“I’m standing as your British National Party candidate in the Cumbria County Council Elections on June 4th.
You will have heard a lot about the British National Party from our opponents, but not from the Party itself, so I hope that you will read this complimentary copy of our newspaper Freedom, and make up your own mind about our policies before you cast your postal vote.
The British National Party is Britain’s fastest growing political party because it speaks up on behalf of the British people.
The Old Gang political parties seem more interested in looking after the needs of immigrants and migrant workers who have just arrived in Britain than people who have given a lifetime of service to this country, and that’s why voters are turning to us in massive numbers.
The people who put out leaflets telling you not to vote for the British National Party might call themselves a variety of different names but in reality it is just the Labour Party working under a different name.
Labour has betrayed its grass roots because it now follows the same sort of policies as the Tories. It attacks the BNP with such hatred because we are providing a political home for those traditional supporters it has abandoned.”
The April issue of Freedom is now in the reading room on this website and can be found here.
Last month saw the record broken for the number of new Freedom subscriptions taken with any four week period. The total number of subscribers to the newspaper is now at an all time high.
There more on Martin Wingfield’s popular personal blog which can be found here.
LAST night, the British National Party pulled off one of its best results of 2009 when it came from nowhere to take second place in Manchester’s Moston by-election, winning a 23.3% vote share and trouncing both the Tories and the Liberal Democrats.
The 815 vote exceeded most of our expectations and certainly puts Nick Griffin on course to becoming the British National Party’s first MEP in the North West of England. Nick needs an 8% vote share to win his seat and the small but hard-hardworking team of BNP activists in North Manchester delivered THREE TIMES that level of support.
In the early hours of this morning, BNP activists were still on ‘cloud nine’. One told the BNP website:
“We designed our strategy many months ago. We decided from the outset that the number of campaigners that we had at our disposal would be insufficient to support a full canvass of the Moston ward, so we used the same carefully-planned approach which has consistently delivered strong second places in neighbouring north Manchester wards in recent years.
“We put out four high quality leaflets and a personal letter to all postal voters. Of course, we know that a full canvassing campaign is highly effective in smaller wards with large numbers of activists available, but not in areas like north Manchester with big wards and not that many activists on hand. I think we have shown that flexibility of tactics is as important as applying a prescriptive approach to every situation and expecting it always to work.
“All the opposition parties were out in force during the campaign and last Sunday an anti-BNP group had 17 activists out in Moston distributing their poisonous lies. The size of our vote shows, once again, that this third party intervention at elections by people not campaigning for a specific candidate or party, in reality helps boost our vote by motivating our supporters to come out and make their voice heard.”
And this was the parting shot before everyone went off for a well deserved night’s sleep . . .
“The abject dismay on the faces of the Tory activists as they watched Cameron’s march on the great northern cities dissolve before their very eyes made all the (considerable) hard work worthwhile.”
The Tory vote crashed by a huge 14%, while Labour’s was down 11%. The night was a disaster too for the media-puffed Green Party which saw its vote down by 6%. Yet for the BNP there was a huge 23.3% vote share in a ward that the Party had never fought before.
Congratulations to the North Manchester election team. The Moston result provides a great Easter morale boost for BNP campaigners across the UK as the countdown to June 4th begins. In The Independent newspaper this morning the Labour Party’s Deputy Leader Harriet Harman, warns that the British National Party could be on course to win “one to three seats” in the European Parliament. Many BNP supporters this morning will be thinking . . . . “and the rest!”
MANCHESTER Council
Moston ward
Thursday 9th April 2009
Rita Tavernor (Labour) 1,353 Derek Adams (British National Party) 815
Timothy Hartley (Liberal-Democrat) 696
Phil Donohue (Conservative) 558
Karl Wardlaw (Green Party) 74 BNP Percentage 23.3%
There’s more BNP news and views on Martin Wingfield’s popular personal blog which can be found here.
TOM REDMOND, the British National Party’s candidate in the Temple Newsam by-election for Leeds City Council, took second place from Labour in a keenly contested marginal where the three main parties were all predicting victory.
The BNP’s vote share was up on last time and more than double the 10% needed to get an MEP elected for the Yorkshire and Humberside Euro Constituency.
In Skircoat ward for Calderdale Council, we fell short of this target when our vote was squeezed as the Tories held off a strong Lib-Dem challenge by just 120 votes.
There was a highly encouraging result down in Sussex where Mike Witchell polled over 13% at the first time of asking in Felpham West, just outside of Bognor Regis. Not only did Mike comfortably out-poll the UKIP candidate, he also received more than doubled the 6.5% vote share needed in the South East to get an MEP elected.
Rounding off a very satisfactory night for the British National Party, Lynn Payne polled 305 votes in Redcar. This 16% vote share would be enough to return a BNP MEP for the North East, and the result is even more commendable as it was achieved despite THREE different anti-BNP leaflets being put out by organisations not even contesting the election.
Well done to all our brave candidates.
Leeds MBC
Temple Newsam Ward
Thursday 2nd April 2009
David SCHOFIELD (Conservatives) 1785 Tom REDMOND (BNP) 1502
Danny ADILYPOUR (Labour) 1476
Ian DOWLING (Lib Dems) 1468
Christopher FOREN (Greens) 137 BNP Percentage: 23.6%
May 2008: Con 2386, Lab 2083, BNP 1560, LibDem 521, Ind 487.
Calderdale MBC
Skircoat Ward
Thursday 2nd April 2009
John HARDY (Conservative)1277
Pauline NASH (Liberal Democrat) 1259
Anne COLLINS (Labour) 274
Paul BRANNIGAN (Independent) 238 Chris GODRIDGE (British National Party) 235
Phillip CROSSLEY (Independent) 229
Viv SMITH (Green Party) 92 BNP Percentage: 6.5%
May 2008: Con 2132, LibDem 1305, Lab 308, Green 202.
Arun DC
Felpham West
Thursday 2nd April 2009
Gill MADELEY (Conservative) 630
Martin LURY (Liberal Democrat) 269 Mike WITCHELL (BNP) 167
John PHILLIPS (UKIP) 89
Michelle WHITE (Labour) 56 BNP Percentage: 13.7%
May 2007% Con 810 / 726, Ind 585, UKIP 333, LibDem 330.
Redcar/Cleveland UA
Dormanstown Ward
Thursday 2nd April 2009
Ken LUCAS (Lib-Dem) 809
Marian FAIRLEY (Lab) 667 Lynn PAYNE (BNP) 305
Brian HUGHES-MUNDY (Con) 125 BNP Percentage: 16.0%
May 2007: Lab 858 / 805 / 758, LibDem 414 / 412 / 386, Con 374.
The March issue of Freedom has now been uploaded to the newspaper’s reading room which can be found by clicking on The Voice of Freedom Newspaper button above.
The April issue of Freedom goes to the printers at the end of the week. It is the quantity ordered by BNP units of this issue which will be multiplied by five for the all-important big print-run May issue which is the European Election Special edition of Freedom.
Freedom is edited by Martin Wingfield whose popular personal daily blog can be found here.
OUR Quiet Revolution swept stealthily through North East Lincolnshire and Melton last night, securing the necessary support from voters to return British National Party MEPs to Strasbourg for both the Yorkshire and East Midlands Euro Constituencies.
Andrew Brons is the lead candidate on the BNP List for the Yorkshire & Humberside Euro-Consistency for the European Elections on June 4th and the Yarborough Ward comes into that constituency.
The British National Party’s candidate there, Stephen Fyfe, polled 17.4% of the vote, well above the 11% vote share needed across the Euro Constituency to get Andrew elected to the European Parliament.
It was the first time that the BNP have fought the ward which was held by the Lib-Dems with an increased majority. It was a very good effort from Stephen and his team in the face of some particularly hostile campaigning from our opponents.
North East Lincs Council
Yarborough Ward
26th March 2009
Peter BAILEY (Lib-Dem) 763
Kath NORTON (Con)513
Michael TAYLOR (Lab) 437 Steve FYFE (BNP) 370
Martin GRANT (Ind) 49 BNP Percentage: 17.4%
May 2008: Lib-Dem 698, Con 543, Ind 476, Lab 400, Ind 104.
Next week there will be two more local council by-elections in Yorkshire, in Leeds and Calderdale, which will provide more pointers as to how our Quiet Revolution is prgressing in the county.
The Reverend Robert West is the lead candidate on the BNP List for the East Midlands Euro-Consistency for the European Elections on June 4th which includes the Long Clawson & Stathern ward.
Here the British National Party’s Lawence Perkins was bang on the button in polling the 13% vote share that is required across the Euro Constituency to keep Robert on target for the European Parliament.
As with Yarborough, it was the first time that the BNP had fought the seat which was easily held by the Conservatives from an established Independent candidate.
East Midlands Election Officer Wayne McDermott, was more than satisfied with the result:
“This was a tough rural ward and our target had been a 10% vote share. To poll over 13% and beat Labour in the bargain is certainly a bonus,” he told the website this morning.
Melton Borough Council
Long Clawson & Stathern ward
26th March 2009
Pam Baguley (Con) 463
Lisa Jane Neale (Ind) 231 Lawrence Perkins (BNP) 120
Lin Machin (Lab) 100
BNP Percentage 13.1%
May 2007: Con 850/756, Ind 626.
Next Thursday, as well as the two contests in Yorkshire, there are also by-elections in Redcar and Felpham in Sussex.
Martin Wingfield also has a popular daily blog which can be found here.
BOTH Andrew Brons and the Reverend Robert West will be taking a keen interest in the two local council by-elections taking place on Thursday where there are British National Party candidates standing.
Andrew Brons is the lead candidate on the BNP list for the Yorkshire & Humberside Euro-Consistency for the European Elections on June 4th and the Yarborough Ward comes into that constituency.
It seems as though the British National Party will need around an 11% vote share across the Euro Constituency to get Andrew elected to the European Parliament so that will be our target for Thursday.
It’s the first time that the BNP have fought the ward which has been won by the Lib-Dems for the past three years.
North East Lincs Council
Yarborough Ward 26th March 2009
Peter BAILEY (Lib-Dem) Steve FYFE (BNP)
Martin GRANT (Ind)
Kath NORTON (Con)
Michael TAYLOR (Lab) May 2008: Lib-Dem 698, Con 543, Ind 476, Lab 400, Ind 104.
The Reverend Robert West is the lead candidate on the BNP list for the East Midlands Euro-Consistency for the European Elections on June 4th which includes the Long Clawson & Stathern ward.
Here the British National Party will be looking for a 13% vote share across the Euro Constituency to keep Robert on target for the European Parliament, so again that’s our target for Thursday.
As with Yarborough, it’s the first time that the BNP have fought the ward which returned two Conservative councillors when last contested back in May 2007.
Melton Borough Council
Long Clawson & Stathern ward
26th March 2009
Pam Baguley (Con)
Lin Machin (Lab)
Lisa Jane Neale (Ind) Lawrence Perkins (BNP) May 2007: Con 850/756, Ind 626
Martin Wingfield also has a daily blog which can be found here.
THIRTY years ago Britain’s pit towns and villages were thriving communities. There was near full employment for a workforce that had the essential skills to get the nation’s energy resources out of the ground.
The miners and their families took great pride in what they did, feeling they were directly contributing to the welfare of the British people. It was a very dangerous industry but this helped to build tremendous comradeship and support for one another. Support not only at work, but also within the community.
But this fine spirit, and great worth to our country was destroyed as a result of the pit closure programme. This way of life is no longer, even though our mining towns and villages are still sitting on considerable reserves of coal.
Now there is just unemployment. There’s been very little regeneration, so for today’s school leavers there are few job prospects and an uncertain future, whereas once there would always have been a job and a livelihood to be earned.
The Tories are to blame for the destruction of Britain’s mining industry and that is something the people of this country must never forget and never forgive them for.
Margaret Thatcher knew that strong trade unions, looking after the welfare of their members, were a block on the move towards free trade and globalisation, so she took on the strongest one, the National Union of Mineworkers, determined to break it and leave the British coal industry vulnerable and ready to dismantle.
Now Britain imports coal from Eastern Europe while our miners sit idle at home on top of quantities of coal that could help to meet this country’s energy needs.
A Tory Government destroyed the pits, the communities and the values those communities stood for, and for the last 12 years a Labour Government has done nothing to breathe life back into the industry.
This a shocking betrayal. In 1997 when it came to power, Labour promised to halt the decline of the British coal industry but then did nothing of the sort - the pit closures have continued, more miners have lost their jobs and most of our coal is still being imported.
The British National Party believes that British coal has a major role to play in meeting our future energy needs and that is why we are the only political party pledged to revitalise Britain’s coal mining industry. But as well as looking to the future, we must remember the past.
Back in 2005, the British National Party launched a campaign to call for a Miners’ Memorial Day. The Labour Government had just given the Police their own Memorial Day for officers killed in the line of duty, and the BNP lobbied for a similar day of remembrance for our miners. Needless to say our efforts were ignored by the Government but the campaign continues and has gained renewed impetus in this 25th anniversary year of the Miners’ Strike.
No one knows how many men and boys have died doing their duty for their country in our coal mines. 90,000 died in mine disasters alone in the sixty years before WW1 and including coal dust related diseases such as chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis the total casualty figure is well over one million.
The British National Party believes there should be a special occasion when the country remembers all those miners who lost their lives miles under ground, hewing out the coal that was the vital energy source in the Britain of the nineteenth and twentieth century.
On the BNP’s Campaign for a Miners Memorial Day leaflet, the following poem by Ian Winstanley was included. Its title Britain’s Forgotten Army sums up so well our miners’ plight, both past and present.
There is a large forgotten army,
Who for their country have bled and died,
Leaving behind them wives and children,
Brothers and sisters who cried.
No bugle marks the passing of these men,
No beating drum or fusillade,
No flying colours, measured tread,
Or monuments of stone are made.
No day when flowers are strewn,
At the foot of an inscribed stone,
When men march proudly
With their comrades and memories, alone.
This forgotten army of the dead
Have served their country well.
It’s fitting that we remember them,
And their proud story tell.
Martin Wingfield also has a daily blog which can be found here.
CONGRATULATIONS are due this morning to Eddy O’Sullivan and his hard-working campaigners in Salford for a very good vote in the Pendlebury Ward by-election.
It was very much a ‘job done’ result for the local group with all their targets met.
Target One - Poll over 8%. That’s the vote share needed across the North West Euro Constituency to get the BNP’s lead candidate Nick Griffin elected to the European Parliament. Mission Accomplished!
Target Two - Poll over 12%. That’s the BNP’s Election Department baseline set to keep the Party on course for that European seat. This figure incorporates a “buffer zone” to compensate for those wards where the BNP could fall short of the required level of support. Mission Accomplished!
Eddy’s 13.5% vote share was not only an improvement on the BNP vote last time around, it was also enough for him to overtake the Lib-Dems and push them into fourth place - something which we are doing with increasing regularity in the run-up to the all important Euro vote on June 4th.
But what made this result so good for the British National Party was that it was achieved in the face of full blown campaigns from the three main parties. The ward is a Labour and Tory marginal and both parties flooded the area with full-time party workers and an array of MPs, prospective MPs, MEPs and councillors, all battling for every last vote.
This is what the Conservative agent Iain Lindley, had to say last night about the election:
“It’s really disappointing given all the effort we’ve put in.
“This time Labour have pretty much phoned every house and knocked on every door in addition to their literature delivery, and we’ve also had to fight off a spoiler Liberal Democrat campaign . . .”
The quote gives an indication as to the intensity with which the main parties fought the election, so to increase our vote and even finish ahead of one of them is no mean achievement.
Last night’s full result:
SALFORD CITY COUNCIL
Pendlebury Ward
Thursday 19th March 2009
John Ferguson (Lab) 1005
Jillian Collinson (Con) 874 Eddy O’Sullivan (BNP) 373
Paul Gregory (Lib-Dem) 368
Stuart Cremins (Ind) 49
Diana Battersby (Green) 43 BNP Percentage: 13.5%
Martin Wingfield also has a daily blog which can be found here.
AS unemployment in Britain soared past two million, the Finance Ministers of the world’s 20 biggest economies (G20), which make up 85% of the world economy between them, gathered in a plush Sussex hotel to ponder on the current crisis.
The meeting was in preparation for the summit of the leaders of the G20 countries in London in April, but anyone expecting the very people who got us all into this mess, to get us out of it, will have been disappointed by the outcome. All they could offer was just more of the same - increased global trade dictated by market forces - the very combination whose catastrophic failure is now dragging Britain into depression.
Next month, the G20 leaders will be posing for photographs and spinning the line that their Titanic isn’t sinking and that the lifeboat of protectionism isn’t needed.
It is as if they are in denial about the floundering of their global market economy. Their Titanic has hit the iceberg and is sinking fast yet they are calling for the passengers to stay calm, while they shovel on more coal to maintain their speed through the berg-infested waters.
The lifeboat of protectionism is there, ready and waiting to save us from the impending disaster, but the likes of Brown and Darling say we mustn’t use it.
They won’t allow Britain to protect our industries from cheap Third World imports which will give British manufacturers a breathing space to recover behind secure tariff walls.
They won’t allow us to protect our currency from the international speculators that have driven Sterling down to the level of the Euro.
They won’t allow us to protect of our workforce from cheap imported labour, protection which is the only way to make the slogan “British Jobs for British Workers” become a reality.
But worst of all, the Government have wasted our money bailing out incompetent bankers when they should have just nationalised the banks.
Those billions could then have been invested in our national economy. Safeguarding jobs in order to keep the nation working to provide the goods and services that the British people need.
Research by Steve Johnson.
Martin Wingfield also has a daily blog which can be found here.
VOTERS in Salford get their chance to vote for the British National Party tomorrow where local BNP organiser Eddy O’Sullivan, is standing in the Pendlebury Ward by-election.
Salford BNP contested the ward back in May 2008 and polled a very respectable 13% of the vote and Eddy and his team will be hoping to maintain that sort of level of support.
The ward is a Labour and Tory marginal and both parties have flooded the area with full-time party workers and an array of MPs, prospective MPs, MEPs and councillors all battling for every last vote.
Eddy has also worked the patch hard and the ex-serviceman says he has received a positive response on the doorstep.
As with every local council election from now until June, British National Party votes are all about percentages. The Pendlebury ward is in the North West Euro Constituency where lead BNP candidate Nick Griffin needs just over 8% of the vote to get elected to the European Parliament.
For contests like this one in Salford, the Party’s Election Department has set a target of 12% to keep on target for that European seat. This figure incorporates a “buffer zone” to compensate for those wards where the BNP could fall short of the required level of support.
Eddy, himself, has an extra incentive to pull out all the stops to maximise BNP support as he is the fourth Euro candidate on the British National Party’s list for the North West.
Every single vote cast for the BNP is vitally important, so if you are able to get to Salford tomorrow and give Eddy a hand, your help will be greatly appreciated.
SALFORD CITY COUNCIL
Pendlebury Ward
Thursday 19th March 2009
Diana Battersby (Green)
Jillian Collinson (Con)
Stuart Cremins (Ind)
John Ferguson (Lab)
Paul Gregory (Lib-Dem) Eddy O’Sullivan (BNP)
MAY 2008: Lab 975, Con 826, Lib-Dem 375, BNP 352, Ind 117.
Martin Wingfield also has a daily blog which can be found here.
OUR neediest children are facing further hardship because the money allocated to fund their welfare is being used up on foreign children sent to Britain by parents cynically exploiting Britain’s benefits system.
Middle-class families in some Third World countries are using Britain’s soft touch asylum policy to get their children a secondary and university education by sending them unaccompanied to Britain and forcing the British taxpayer to foot the bill.
Children are put on a plane by their parents and sent to Britain where they claim asylum. They are then housed, cared for and educated at our expense which is taking away vital and scarce resources from our own neediest children.
And Britain’s children in need are facing desperate problems.
The British Association for Adoption and Fostering estimates that there is now a shortfall of over ten thousand foster carers.
Three-quarters of local authorities have used up all their childrens’ services budgets.
Councils have been forced to “tighten eligibility further” according to the Local Government Association “so that only the most needy and vulnerable children can be helped”.
Yet included amongst those “needy and vulnerable children” are foreign youths who are neither needy nor vulnerable but who have been cynically sent to our country for their upbringing. As long ago as 2004, a quarter of all children in care in the London Borougfhs of Brent and Fulham were Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASCs). In Croydon it was almost half - 330 out of 680, and in Newham 231 out of 675. In Hillingdon, the London Borough unfortunate enough to include Heathrow Airport, it is 120 out of 300.
And British taxpayers are still paying for these children five years down the line with Hillingdon Council now looking after 600 UASCs aged between 18 and 23.
The cost is also still mounting, as one local councillor pointed out “they are largely middle-class and expect to go to university” . . . and you don’t win any prizes for guessing who has to pay their tuition fees?
It is no longer the priority for our Social Services to provide for OUR young people in care. Instead their time and money is taken up dealing with problems particular to Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children including lengthy and expensive legal arguments about their status.
This is at the expense of our own vulnerable children leaving care for the first time. Unlike the UASCs they are not middle class. British children brought up in care don’t usually go on to university. Of 6000 leaving care this year, three-quarters have no educational qualifications and within two years, half will be unemployed and a quarter will be sleeping on the streets.
That’s because the resources that should have been devoted to their upbringing have been spent on the children of middle class families from the Third World who are playing the system and ripping off the British taxpayer.
Asylum seekers see Britain as the soft touch of Europe and that’s why they travel from the other side of the world to get to our shores. Now the asylum racket is directly hurting those British children in need who have already suffered enough in their lives.
It’s time to send the Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children back to their families and tell their parents to pay for their own children’s upbringing. Then, perhaps, we will be able to afford to give the most deprived of our own children the care they deserve.
Research by Steve Johnson.
Martin Wingfield also has a daily blog which can be found here.
WHEN Gordon Brown called for “British Jobs for British Workers” at the GMB trade union conference back in June 2007 he had no intention of implementing any such policy. It was just a cheap con-trick to try to hoodwink traditional Labour voters into believing that there was something of Old Labour values still left in his Party.
Brown had hoped that he could stem the tide of growing support for the British National Party by mouthing a few platitudes to Britain’s working folk but now, nearly two years on, he knows that this strategy hasn’t worked.
Today, Hazel Blears the Communities Secretary, will broach the subject again unveiling a new “migrant tax,” to be levied on immigrants applying for work visas from non-EU states. She plans to say: “While many migrants play an important role in our community, we need an honest debate about the local pressures that migration can create on our public services.”
The Tories too are getting in on the act with Damian Green, the shadow immigration minister, calling on the French Government to take action to stop “mini-Sangatte” welcome centres for illegal immigrants seeking to enter the UK. What weasel words from this colleague of Boris Johnson, the Conservative Mayor of London, whose call for an illegal immigrant amnesty has done more than anything else to encourage illegal immigration into Britain.
This latest spell of anti-immigration rhetoric from Labour and the Tories has been prompted by one thing only, and we are grateful to today’s Daily Telegraph for explaining it so succinctly: “Ministers hope that acknowledging the strain caused by immigration in some areas will stop voters being tempted by the British National Party at the European Elections in June.”
The Financial Times this morning also lifts the lid on the worries of the Establishment. “There is widespread concern at Westminster that recessionary pressures on jobs and housing could help the BNP to exploit disaffection with Labour among manual workers in order to build an electoral base.”
And the Tories openly admit that its recent call for an annual cap on immigration has been prompted as “the best way to address the threat from the BNP.”
So there you have it. Further evidence that there is only one thing that can stir Government and Opposition politicians into action on immigration, and that is the growing electoral support for the British National Party.
Every voter in Britain has this power in their hand. Casting your vote for a British National Party candidate in any election where there is one standing is the only way to make the ‘Old Gang’ politicians listen. And if they don’t heed the wishes of the British people on this most important of issues, they know that there is one political party which will!
Martin Wingfield also has a daily blog which can be found here.
A GROWING number of migrant workers no longer think of themselves as ‘migrants’ and are planning to stay permanently in Britain.
That’s according to a study by the Centre for Cities think tank which found that immigrants from Eastern Europe felt it was easier to find a job in Britain, even during the recession, than in their own countries, so had decided to stay on in the UK.
Based on a study of job markets in Bristol and Hull, the Centre for Cities found no evidence to support the Government’s claim that Eastern European migrant workers were leaving Britain.
In fact, it found that the opposite that was true, with national insurance number allocations revealing record numbers of Eastern European workers in Bristol (9,500) and Hull (6,700).
In Bristol, the immigrants have settled into established, mostly Polish communities, with many sending for their partner and children to come and join them. In Hull, the immigrants are predominantly employed in factory work, initially channelled there through agencies, but with the recession now taking hold they were in direct competition with the local workforce for a dwindling number of jobs.
But probably the most worrying aspect of the Centre for Cities study was that it found that the majority of migrant workers no longer regarded themselves as transient short term labour and had indicated that they had no intention of returning to their own countries.
UNCONTROLLED immigration has sent our population soaring and that is why the Government is removing planning controls. The safeguards protecting rural and greenbelt land from housing sprawl are being abandoned to let developers build over what is left of the British countryside in a bid to meet a “housing shortage”.
The Tories and the Lib-Dems agree with Labour that we “need” to build three million new homes - a city bigger than Birmingham - within the next 11 years to cope with the expected increase in population.
The Government wants to build a quarter of a million new homes a year, a target supported by both Tories and Lib-Dems. It plans to take away protection from greenfield sites, allowing an estimated 16,000 small towns, villages and hamlets across Britain to be blighted by more sprawling housing estates.
There are two reasons why these new houses are supposed to be needed. The first is the genuine problem that many local people in rural Britain can no longer afford to live in their own towns and villages. The cause of this isn’t that there aren’t enough houses for everyone, it’s that second homes bought by wealthy outsiders have pushed up prices in some areas to over 13.5 times average local income.
The result is that young villagers have to leave communities their forebears have built up over hundreds of years because they have nowhere to live. Whilst their villages die as living communities, turning into ghost towns peopled only at weekends and during school holidays by incomers who live and work elsewhere for the rest of the time.
The answer here isn’t to build more houses. It’s to put local people first in their own communities. A local version of the BNP’s policy of putting our people first in our own country. Local people should have the right through parish and village councils of vetoing house sales to outsiders and deciding who they let move into their areas. The Government should also target economic development to ensure there are jobs for young rural people, instead of letting “the Market” shift jobs to cities or indeed countries far away. That way - without building any more houses - British people would be able to live in the areas in which they grew up.
As for the second issue - the supposed ever-rising total number of houses needed in Britain - that is mainly caused by an increase in a population that is expected to soar to over 70 million from its current 60 million by 2030. A rise greater than the entire population of Greater London plus Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds put together! As the native British birth-rate has been far below replacement levels for over 25 years, it’s obvious where all these extra people will be coming from: immigrants and their growing families. Migrant groups for the most part have birth-rates far higher than those of our own people.
We don’t need these extra people. In fact, we can’t take them. With climate change, soaring world population and resource exhaustion, together with the increasing instabilities in global markets as the Capitalist system shakes itself to bits, we’re going to find it ever harder in the coming decades to feed and fuel the number of people we’ve already got.
The BNP is the only party which actually faces up to this issue of sustainable population - the Greens are paralysed by political correctness on this and many other issues from following the logic of their often worthy ideals. The Tories, Labour and the Lib-Dems just seem to think the more people, the better!
It is only the British National Party which will protect the beauty and productivity of the British countryside and the integrity and viability of our ancient traditional communities.
We alone say we don’t want more people and so we don’t need more houses. Britain is full up and indeed bursting at the seams already!
We just need to make sure the houses we have are shared out more fairly.
That is the verdict on last night’s local by-election results from the British National Party’s election department this morning.
Three votes of around 20% in wards the BNP were contesting for the first time and a doubling of our vote in the only ward that we had fought before, shows a Party that is enjoying an increasing level of popularity with the public.
The contests were a ‘temperature gauge’ for the level of support for the British National Party in the two key areas of the North West and West Midlands just three months before voters go to the polls for the European and County Council elections on June 4th. On last night’s results the BNP came through with flying colours, securing a vote share that is on course to win two seats in the European Parliament.
In the North West, Alistair Barbour fought a text book campaign in Castle ward for a seat on Carlisle City Council. The BNP had never fought the Lib-Dem held ward before but took a near-20% share of the vote at this first time of asking. In a second seat in Carlisle, Tony Carvell doubled the BNP vote in the Tory stronghold of Belah ward from when the Party fought the ward two years ago, gaining a respectable 9.4% of the vote.
In the North West, the BNP needs just over 8% to get an MEP elected. In Carlisle in the Euro Election of 2004, the BNP polled 5% of the vote and the Party’s total vote share across the whole Euro-constituency was 6.4%.
It was a very strong showing by the British National Party in Carlisle last night and has ensured that the BNP’s campaign in the North West Euro-Constituency is on track to return the Party’s Chairman, Nick Griffin, to the European Parliament.
CARLISLE COUNCIl
Thursday 5th March 2009
Belah Ward
Gareth ELLIS (Con) 700
Paul IM THURN (Lab) 307
David Miller (Ind) 221 Tony CARVELL (BNP) 142
James OSLER (Lib-Dem) 79
Hazel BOWMAKER (Green) 61 BNP Percentage: 9.5%
May 2008: CON 1212, LAB 431, ED 176.
CARLISLE COUNCIL
Thursday 5th March 2009
Castle Ward
Colin FARMER (Lib-Dem) 465
Steven BOWDITCH (Lab) 304 Alistair BARBOUR (BNP) 255
Allan STEVENSON (Con) 143
John REARDON (Green) 125 BNP Percentage: 19.7%
May 2008: LD 652, LAB 299, CON 206, IND 202.
In the West Midlands, Sarah Barnes polled 20% of the vote for the British National Party in Ravenscliffe Ward for Newcastle-under-Lyme Council and in Atherstone Central Ward for North Warwickshire Council, Matthew Mason polled the BNP’s best vote of the night securing a vote share of 21.6%.
The target vote share for the West Midlands Euro-constituency to get an MEP elected is 11.5%. Back in 2004 the BNP vote across the whole West Midlands was 7.4%, but in Newcastle-under-Lyme it was 8.4% and in North Warwickshire it was 9%.
The vote of over 20% in both these wards last night has ensured that the BNP’s campaign in the West Midlands Euro-Constituency is on track to return the BNP’s Deputy Chairman, Simon Darby, to the European Parliament.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME COUNCIL
Thursday 5th March 2009
Ravenscliffe Ward
Stephen BLAIR (Con) 229
Gillian BURNETT (Lab) 213 Sarah BARNES (BNP) 180
John PARSONS (Lib-Dem) 149
Geoffrey LOCKE (UKIP) 131 BNP Percentage 20.0%
May 2008: CON 399, LAB 224, LD 189, UKIP 189.
NORTH WARWICKSHIRE COUNCIL
Thursday 5th March 2009
Atherstone Central Ward
Neil DIRVEIKS (Lab) 320
Gill DAVIS (Con) 221 Matthew MASON (BNP) 186
Ray JARVIS (Ind) 136 BNP Percentage: 21.6%
May 2007: CON 449/386, LAB 433/331, LD 151.
There is more on Martin Wingfield’s blog which can be found here.
JUST as it was a fortnight ago, the British National Party is contesting four local council by-elections on Thursday.
Once again the results will provide a ‘temperature gauge’ for the level of support for the British National Party in two key areas just three months before voters go to the polls for the European and County Councils elections on June 4th.
Political commentators believe that the BNP’s best chances of securing representation in the European Parliament are in the huge Euro-constituencies of the North West and West Midlands, and it is in these two constituencies that these latest round of elections are being fought.
Let’s take a closer look at the contests.
NORTH-WEST:
Alistair Barbour and Tony Carvell are our candidates in Castle ward and Belah ward for seats on Carlisle City Council. The BNP has never fought the Lib-Dem held Castle Ward before, but did contest Belah ward two years ago when our candidate polled 95 votes in the Tory stronghold which was just 5% of the vote.
Both elections have been extremely hard-fought and coming after the BNP’s sensational result in Whitehaven - just 30 miles away, when a Labour majority of over 1000 votes was reduced to just 16 votes, they have attracted a considerable amount of media attention.
The Independent newspaper even sent up a journalist to shadow the BNP candidates for two days and the report, published on Saturday, recorded solid support for the British National Party on the doorstep.
In the North West, the BNP needs just over 8% to get an MEP elected. In Carlisle in the Euro Election of 2004, the BNP polled 5% of the vote and the Party’s total vote share across the whole Euro-constituency was 6.4%. A strong showing in both Carlisle wards on Thursday would give the BNP’s campaign in the North West Euro-constituency a timely boost.
CARLISLE COUNCIL
Thursday 5th March 2008
Belah Ward
Hazel BOWMAKER (Green) Tony CARVELL (BNP)
Gareth ELLIS (Con)
Paul IM THURN (Lab)
David Miller (Ind)
James OSLER (Lib-Dem)
May 2008: CON 1212, LAB 431, ED 176.
CARLISLE COUNCIL
Thursday 5th March 2008
Castle Ward Alistair BARBOUR (BNP)
Steven BOWDITCH (Lab)
Colin FARMER (Lib-Dem)
John REARDON (Green)
Allan STEVENSON (Con)
May 2008: LD 652, LAB 299, CON 206, IND 202.
WEST MIDLANDS:
Sarah Barnes and Matthew Mason are the British National Party candidates in Ravenscliffe Ward for Newcastle-under-Lyme Council and Atherstone Central Ward for North Warwickshire Council.
Although both elections are being fought for the first time, a strong showing is expected in each wards. The target vote share for the West Midlands Euro-constituency to get an MEP elected is 11.5%. Back in 2004 the BNP vote across the whole West Midlands was 7.4%, but in Newcastle-under-Lyme it was 8.4% and in North Warwickshire it was 9.0%.
A vote in the region of 15% in both these wards on Thursday would ensure that the BNP’s campaign in the West Midlands Euro-Constituency is on track to return a BNP member to the European Parliament.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME COUNCIL
Thursday 5th March 2008
Ravenscliffe Ward Sarah BARNES (BNP)
Stephen BLAIR (Con)
Gillian BURNETT (Lab)
Geoffrey LOCKE (UKIP)
John PARSONS (Lib-Dem)
May 2008: CON 399, LAB 224, LD 189, UKIP 189.
NORTH WARWICKSHIRE COUNCIL
Thursday 5th March 2008
Atherstone Central Ward
Gill DAVIS (Con)
Neil DIRVEIKS (Lab)
Ray JARVIS (Ind) Matthew MASON (BNP)
May 2007: CON 449/386, LAB 433/331, LD 151.
The latest news on the two Carlisle by-elections can be found here.
BY a quirk of fate, at half past two this morning we were sitting around a table at Manchester’s City Hall waiting for the result from Oldham.
IT’S just what the doctor ordered to soothe frayed election nerves.
THE corrupt and discredited ‘Old Gang’ political parties are campaigning hard to promote the chances of the UK Independence Party at the European Election poll on June 4th.
IF Andrews Brons, the British National Party’s lead candidate in the Yorkshire and Humber Euro Constituency, is doing a bit of Bank Holiday shopping in Harrogate tomorrow, it might be worthwhile for him to pop into WH Smiths and pick up a street map of Strasbourg.
THE May issue of Freedom is out today and it’s the ideal newspaper to deliver to postal voters over the next three weeks.
LAST night, the British National Party pulled off one of its best results of 2009 when it came from nowhere to take second place in Manchester’s Moston by-election, winning a 23.3% vote share and trouncing both the Tories and the Liberal Democrats.
TOM REDMOND, the British National Party’s candidate in the Temple Newsam by-election for Leeds City Council, took second place from Labour in a keenly contested marginal where the three main parties were all predicting victory.
OUR Quiet Revolution swept stealthily through North East Lincolnshire and Melton last night, securing the necessary support from voters to return British National Party MEPs to Strasbourg for both the Yorkshire and East Midlands Euro Constituencies.
BOTH Andrew Brons and the Reverend Robert West will be taking a keen interest in the two local council by-elections taking place on Thursday where there are British National Party candidates standing.
THIRTY years ago Britain’s pit towns and villages were thriving communities. There was near full employment for a workforce that had the essential skills to get the nation’s energy resources out of the ground.
CONGRATULATIONS are due this morning to Eddy O’Sullivan and his hard-working campaigners in Salford for a very good vote in the Pendlebury Ward by-election.
AS unemployment in Britain soared past two million, the Finance Ministers of the world’s 20 biggest economies (G20), which make up 85% of the world economy between them, gathered in a plush Sussex hotel to ponder on the current crisis.
VOTERS in Salford get their chance to vote for the British National Party tomorrow where local BNP organiser Eddy O’Sullivan, is standing in the Pendlebury Ward by-election.
OUR neediest children are facing further hardship because the money allocated to fund their welfare is being used up on foreign children sent to Britain by parents cynically exploiting Britain’s benefits system.
WHEN Gordon Brown called for “British Jobs for British Workers” at the GMB trade union conference back in June 2007 he had no intention of implementing any such policy. It was just a cheap con-trick to try to hoodwink traditional Labour voters into believing that there was something of Old Labour values still left in his Party.
A GROWING number of migrant workers no longer think of themselves as ‘migrants’ and are planning to stay permanently in Britain.
UNCONTROLLED immigration has sent our population soaring and that is why the Government is removing planning controls. The safeguards protecting rural and greenbelt land from housing sprawl are being abandoned to let developers build over what is left of the British countryside in a bid to meet a “housing shortage”.
“Mission Accomplished!”
JUST as it was a fortnight ago, the British National Party is contesting four local council by-elections on Thursday.
