Freedom out this week

THE January issue of Freedom is out this week and it’s an ideal issue with which to start the year.

The front page spells out our hopes for the next 12 months in no uncertain terms: 2009 - The Year of the BNP!

Inside the newspaper is full of the sort of stories that will help show the public what our Party is really all about and the increasing amount of community work that our councillors get done.

Please make sure you get along to your local BNP meeting this month and buy a few extra copies of Freedom to give to your friends and neighbours so that they can see the true face of the British National Party.

Let’s take a more detailed look at the reports inside this latest issue:

Page 2:

Boston turns to the BNP - Our stunning victory in Fenside ward.

Public support BNP councillor who condemned sex education for five year olds - Lawrence Rustem in Barking.

Labour is ‘running scared’ of the BNP - the scrapping of local democracy initiatives because the BNP might get elected.

BNP raises £300 for Downs syndrome charity - Solihull Branch.

Muslim leader would vote BNP - Basildon.

Page 3:

Anger at cost of anti-BNP demo - RWB.

BNP farmer to take on Gordon Brown - Michael Smith.

Police chiefs under fire as rank & file oppose political witch-hunt - Liverpool 13 & Steve Bettley.

BNP councillor wins new roof for boxing club - Mark Logan, Havering.

Police commend “public-spirited” BNP representative - Karl Chappell tackles a mugger in Carlisle.

Page 4:

BNP turn election screw on Labour - the report on three by-elections where Labour and Tory majorities have been slashed to under 16 votes.

Page 5:

Euro Election analysis for the North West Constituency - Break down of the votes needed in 43 local authorities.

Page 6: News to make your blood boil!

Whose side is Labour on? - Their new slogan.

Yet another racist attack the BBC didn’t bother to report.

Britons foot the bill to keep power prices down in France and Germany.

Hypocrisy of animal rights campaigners - Halal slaughter.

News in Brief

Page 7: News to make your blood boil.

Government knew Games would bring no benefits.

Training to help understand Islam.

Amnesty would cost us £4 billion - illegal immigrants.

Don’t say “British” - it might cause anxiety.

Brixton rioters asked to help re-write history.

Foreign aid is hurting our people - football for Africa but no help for our flood victims.

News in Brief - 1

News in Brief - 2

Page 8:

Photographs and brief report from the 2008 Annual Conference.

Page 9:

BNP becoming a force on Dennis Skinner’s patch.

Labour thugs fail to stop Christmas Party - Crawley.

Papersale in Newcastle-Under-Lyme.

Lilian’s put the BNP back on the map - Southampton.

BNP in Welwyn & Hatfield.

Page 10: Your point of view

Cut the tax on a pint and allow smoking-only pubs.

The John Brunt pub gets a new sign.

Landlord arrested over ‘cuttings noticeboard’.

Sally Wood - Straight talking

1 - Phil Woolas Another one of Labour’s snake oil salesmen.

2 - The art of queueing - Why we are going to have to be fighting fit to survive.

Page 11:

BNP saves the day - Tree planting in Leicestershire.

BNP refurbishes RSPCA office despite the Tories saying it wouldn’t happen.

NHS nurse tells BNP councillor that patients are dying from malnutrition.

Excalibur Advert.

Page 12:

Editorial - Worry spawns awareness.

Letters Page.

Photo - South East BNP Organisers.

Page 13:

Pioneer BNP Activist scoops Welsh Award.

Liverpool BNP provide both sides of Conference debate.

Brin’s our new man in Cornwall.

Unit list.

Page 14:

Union helps BNP teacher get fair tribunal panel.

BNP activity catches the eye on St Andrew’s Day in Edinburgh.

Self-Sufficiency call in Rugby.

Labour official is BNP candidate - Darlington.

BNP re-launch in Milton Keynes.

Dining Club hears about Peak Oil - Leicestershire.

BNP vote holds up in Hinckley.

Missed out last issue - Redcar result.

Page 15:

South Shropshire Patriots Dinner.

BNP poll 20% in Bridlington.

Isle of Wight holds BNP meeting.

Leaflet advert.

Page 16:

For our Fallen Heroes - Remembrance Day photographs from around the country.

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Media’s anti-BNP bias is helping us in Cumbria

LABOUR WIN KELLS BY-ELECTION BY JUST 16 VOTES

“LABOUR retained the Kells and Sandwith seat in Whitehaven following yesterday’s by-election.
Mother-of-two Wendy Skillicorn won 418 of the 1,042 votes, beating the British National Party’s candidate Simon Nicholson by just 16 votes. Brigid Anne Whiteside of the Conservative party got 190 votes. Only 26.6 per cent of the ward turned up to cast their votes in polling stations across Kells and Sandwith. The by-election was called to fill the vacant Cumbria County Council position left by Joe McAllister who died in July.”

That’s how our local newspaper the News & Star reported the result of last Thursday’s Kells by-election in Whitehaven!

You can’t help smirking, can you? The understatement is classic. No mention of the Labour majority slashed from 1010. No mention of the 900 votes that the Labour Party had lost. No mention of the British National Party taking 40% of all votes cast, or any suggestion that the 400-plus BNP votes almost certainly came from voters who had directly switched from Labour. It’s as if the newspaper was completely unaware of the significance of the result.

But don’t be fooled, the News & Star is all too well aware of the significance of the result, and that is why the report was so ridiculously low key.

On its website, the newspaper describes itself as thus:

“A fresh, bright and bold daily newspaper that is genuinely ‘part of daily life’ all across North Cumbria. With its vibrant content of hard news, human interest stories, regular columnists, specialist features and supplements and unashamedly partisan football coverage, you can be sure the News & Star is connected to its local community.”

There’s one thing missing from this description. Added to the list should be “unashamedly partisan political coverage”.

That’s because the editor is Neil Hodgkinson, a person carrying so much political baggage that he must have trouble sleeping comfortably at night. Here’s a snapshot of this chap’s thinking, reported in the Press Gazette back in July 2004 when he was editor of the Yorkshire Evening Post.

“Editor Neil Hodgkinson said that The Evening Post has a policy not to publish any BNP statements or allow it right of reply.”

Just Google “Neil Hodgkinson and BNP” and there are many more pages about him and his anti-democratic stance against the BNP.

So my irritation at the inadequate reporting of our sensational result in Whitehaven is tempered by the fact that I know that Neil’s annoyance at having to pass a report for publication in his newspaper that wasn’t openly critical of the BNP “trumps” mine. In fact, I’m quite content with the understatement of the report, because it suits us very well at this time.

Expectation is the demon of politics and unfulfilled expectations demoralise Party campaigners more than anything else I know. I would much rather that we go on churning out solid and consistent results here in Cumbria and building up our voter base for the European Elections and the General Election, by ducking under the media’s radar.

And our votes in Cumbria have been quite spectacular over the past two years.

Average BNP vote in 2 Cumbria Council elections over the past 18 months: 25.5%.
Average BNP vote in 6 Allerdale Council elections over the past 18 months: 20.2%.
Average BNP vote in 3 Barrow Council elections over the past 18 months: 11.5%
Average vote in 15 Carlisle Council elections over the past 18 months: 15.5%
Average vote in 1 Copeland Council election over the past 18 months: 23.5%

In the run-up to June and the next round of County Council elections, our teams across Cumbria will be beavering away signing up new recruits and preparing our candidates for their campaigns. The face of politics in Cumbria is changing beyond recognition with former Labour voters deserting to the BNP every day, and whether a biased editor has a policy not to publish any BNP statements or allow it right of reply, will make no difference whatsoever.

Martin Wingfield’s daily blog can be found here.

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British National Party on course for Euro-seats in June

TWO incredible performances from BNP candidates, just a week before Christmas, shows that the British National Party is in fine fettle after all the drama of the stolen membership list being ‘leaked’, and is well prepared to make 2009 the Year of the BNP.

In Whitehaven in Cumbria, Simon Nicholson came from nowhere to slash a Labour majority of over 1003 to just 16 votes. It’s a performance that even the hostile media are going to marvel at and further establishes the BNP as the main challenger to Labour in West Cumbria. Congratulations to Clive Jefferson and his hard-working team for achieving the Party’s best ever result in the county.

Cumbria County Council
Kells & Sandwith Ward
Wendy Skillicorn (Lab) 434
Simon Nicholson (BNP) 418
Brigid Whiteside (Con)190
BNP Percentage: 40.1%
May 2005: Lab 1367 Ind 357 Con 350

In Ibstock in North West Leicestershire, Ivan Hammonds was just 15 votes from victory as the Tories took the seat from Labour. It was another agonising evening for the brave BNP candidate who was only 64 votes from victory in January when Labour won the seat. Congratulations to Wayne McDermott and his team for achieving another great election result for the British National Party in the East Midlands.

North West Leicestershire District Council
Ibstock & Heather Ward 
Virge Richichi (Con) 660
Ivan Hammonds (BNP) 645
Corinne Male (Lab) 614
David Wyatt (Lib-Dem) 174
BNP Percentage: 30.9%
May 2007: Con 737,731,599. Lab 707,620,559. UKIP 411 Lib-Dem 222
Jan 2008: Lab 699 BNP 637 Con 515 Lib-Dem 411

Last night’s votes prove that the BNP is in great shape in two of its most important regions for the European Elections next June. In the North West and the East Midlands we need to poll around 9% of the vote to gain a seat in the European Parliament. Events yesterday evening show that we might just be on course to achieve that goal.

More later on Martin Wingfield’s blog here

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Two key council by-elections today

THERE are two very interesting council by-elections taking place today in Whitehaven in Cumbria, and Ibstock in North West Leicestershire.

It’s the final election day of a year that has been the most successful in the history of British Nationalism and two strong showings in these contests will provide a fitting end to 2008 for the British National Party.

Cumbria County Council

Kells & Sandwith Ward

Simon Nicholson (BNP)

Wendy Skillicorn (Lab)

Brigid Whiteside (Con)

May 2005: Lab 1367 Ind 357 Con 350

In Whitehaven, the election is for Cumbria County Council in the Kells & Sandwith Ward. It is only the second time the BNP has contested an election in the town and the very first time in this ward.

Kells is a Labour stronghold with over a 1000 majority the last time the county council seat was contested. Both Labour and the Tories have brought up their ‘big-guns’ for the contest, with the Labour candidate a personal assistant to former MP Jack Cunningham, and the Tory candidate the wife of the prospective Conservative candidate for Copeland.

The British National Party’s candidate is 35 year-old Simon Nicholson, a father of four who served eight years in the King’s Own Border Regiment. He was born and has lived all his life in the ward.

Copeland BNP organiser Clive Jefferson, is very pleased with the way the campaign has gone and the hard work put in by his growing team of activists.

“When the other campaigners have gone home, we are still knocking on doors. I’m hopeful we can push the Tories into third place and reduce Labour’s massive majority,” he told the BNP website. 

The election in North West Leicestershire will be a much tighter affair with the four candidates pulling out all the stops in search of votes.

North West Leicestershire District Council

Ibstock & Heather Ward 

Ivan Hammonds (BNP)

Corinne Male (Lab) 

Virge Richichi (Con)

David Wyatt (Lib-Dem)

May 2007: Con 737,731,599. Lab 707,620,559. UKIP 411 Lib-Dem 222

Jan 2008: Lab 699 BNP 637 Con 515 Lib-Dem 411

With BNP candidate Ivan Hammonds just 60-odd votes from victory in a by-election in this very ward at the beginning of the year, the Party is hopeful of a very strong showing. But as always happens when the British National Party is close to victory, the three old-gang parties have banded together in an effort to deter voters from supporting our candidate.

A third-party leaflet from the Labour Party front group ‘Unite Against Fascism‘ (sic) has this time been produced and funded by all three parties, and contains quotes from Tory and Lib-Dem local figures as well as Labour. It’s far superior to what the Labour Party thugs usually put out.

“It’s a close contest as we knew it would be,” says East Midlands Election Officer Wayne McDermott.

“It is a split Labour and Conservative ward in a marginal Labour parliamentary constituency. We have run a very professional campaign with on most occasions up to 15 activists out canvassing. But the Conservatives, Labour, and the Lib-Dems have all put in a huge effort to maximise their votes

“It’s a difficult election to call, and highly likely that the winner will have to poll over 30% . According to our canvas returns we will have to ensure that all our voters turn out today to be near to that figure.”

Martin Wingfield’s blog can be found here.

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Mumbai massacre: We must heed the warning

NO matter how much the media tries to muddy the waters with its array of alleged culprits for the massacre in Mumbai, there is only one defining motivation behind the slaughter - Islamic expansionism.

Television reports have meticulously avoided using the word Islam or Muslim. Instead they have talked about the perpetrators being International terrorists, Al-Qaeda, Mujahideen, Taliban, Jihadists and Pakistan . . . almost as if they are frightened of revealing the truth about those who are responsible. All these have just one clear motivation, Islamic expansionism, and to enlighten the public as to what is going on, the media should be making the situation clearer, not confusing it more. The BBC in particular seems almost desperate to introduce an international element to the tragedy, linking it to its favourite scapegoat Al-Qaeda, the convenient deposit for all the misdeeds of Islam.

Muslims in India make up around 15% of the population and they are constantly pushing for more space and more self-determination from the Hindu majority. These attacks are behind that campaign and that is the important warning that Britain should be heeding from what has taken place in Mumbai.

In Britain, Muslims currently make up 5% of the population and that total is increasing every year. The Islamic lobby here, as in India, is pushing, pushing all the time for more self-determination and our weak-kneed Government gives in every time. To avoid what is happening in India we need to stem the growth of Islam in our country NOW.

We need to stop all immigration into Britain.
Send all illegal immigrants back to their own countries.
Send all migrant workers home.
Oppose all planning applications for new mosques, conversion of buildings into mosques and expansion to existing mosques.

But most importantly, we must encourage through financial incentives Muslims living in Britain legally, to move to an Islamic country where they will be able to celebrate their religion with other Muslims. Britain is a Christian country and if we wish to keep it that way and for our people to be able to live free from fear of attack from within, then we must take steps now to safeguard our future.

Much more this morning on Martin Wingfield’s blog here

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Britons foot the bill to keep power prices down in France and Germany

FOREIGN electricity companies are exploiting British households in order to protect their own country folk from rising prices.

Electricity bills in Britain have increased EIGHT times faster than in other major European countries because here our electricity is provided by the foreign firms who control our power supplies.

Electricity unit prices in Britain have risen by 15% in the 12 months to October 2008 whilst in France electricity bills have risen by just 5.5% over the same period - and that’s despite the fact that many British and French households are receiving their power from the same supplier, EDF.

A clue as to why might lie in what ‘EDF’ stands for - Electricite de France!

In Germany, households have paid just 1.7% more over the last year for electricity sold them by German firm RWE. Now that’s just one-eighth of the price rise the same German firm has demanded from of British families receiving their supplies from Npower, the British arm of RWE.

It is quite natural for French and German companies to want to put the welfare of their own people first, and in France there’s the additional safeguard of the Government regulating the prices that electricity companies can charge the French people.

What a contrast to here in Britain, where successive Labour and Tory Governments have stood by and allowed foreign firms to come here and exploit the British people, by aiding and abetting the privatisation of our power industry and its sell-off to companies overseas.

The British National Party believes that electricity, as well as gas, water, railways and other essential utilities and infrastructure should be taken back under the control of the British people. These services should be run solely for the welfare of British people and not for private profit or to keep energy prices low prices in France and Germany.

 

More on Martin Wingfield’s daily blog here . . .

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Euro Elections - North West Constituency

IN the excellent brochure produced for last weekend’s Annual Conference there were 16 pages dedicated to next year’s European Elections.

It was a briefing for delegates on the D’Hondt voting system, which is used for these elections, as well as the results the last time the elections were contested in 2004 and the changes that have taken place since then.

With the Conference having effectively launched our campaign for June 2009, it is worthwhile taking a closer look at the North West constituency in these elections where BNP chairman Nick Griffin, is our lead candidate and where many political pundits believe the British National Party has its best chance of success.

Nick will give the election in this constituency a certain celebrity status with the media spotlight focussing on the BNP’s high profile chairman, and while this will no doubt help our campaign, it will be the hard work by our election teams in the 43 local authorities that make up the North West Euro constituency which will in the end decide whether we win our first seat in Europe or not.

Back in 2004 we came agonisingly close to winning a seat - 31,727 votes short which was just 1.5% of the total vote. Unfortunately this time around, because of the new countries joining the European Union, Britain has lost a number of its seats in the European Parliament and in the North West we now have just eight up for grabs rather than the nine seats available in 2004. But thankfully, because of the nature of the D’Hondt voting system, that doesn’t make that much difference. It just means that that based on 2004 voting patterns we would need another 33,842 votes (1.6%) to take the last and eighth seat on offer.

But of course, the voting patterns next June will be very different from 2004 because of the collapse of the UK Independence Party which could mean that as much as 90% of UKIP vote will go elsewhere. While we will hope to pick up some of this, the lion’s share will go back to the Tories from where it came, and because the Tories took that 8th seat in 2004 this might raise the percentage needed to win that seat. However this might well be compensated by the fall in the Labour vote, which could once again drop the percentage needed to win the eighth seat back to around 8%.

More analysis on Martin Wingfield blog here  . . .

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A media black-out but we don’t care . . .

YOU would have thought that the Annual Conference of Britain’s fourth most popular political party would have warranted a report of a couple of lines at the very least even if in just one of our national newspapers.

But apparently it wasn’t newsworthy enough, and in years gone by I would have been desperately disappointed at this lack of coverage which would have left the public completely in the dark as to the event taking place. But today I’m not bothered by this deliberate media blackout - it can’t be anything else - because thanks to our website the conference was taken live into the homes of thousands of BNP supporters who didn’t come to Blackpool, and in the months to come any new visitors to our website will be able to see and hear the best speeches, debates and lectures from the Conference thanks to BNPtv.

Nick Griffin’s speech was topical and sharp, linking the recession to the public’s political awakening and realisation that only the British National Party can safeguard our people through these most difficult of times. I think the speech links well with the front page of the latest issue of Freedom which details how only an economy based on national interests, which directly protects the livelihoods of the British working people and the welfare of our most vulnerable and elderly, is the way forward.

The Conference was the best organised one that I’ve attended and that’s down to Micheala Mackensie whose experience and professionalism in this sphere has taken the Party’s political events to a new level over the past 12 months. The debate was also better than anything in previous years and the calibre of our delegates continues to impress. The future looks very, very good for the British National Party and barring any major setbacks, we must be on target for further electoral progress in 2009.

More from Martin Wingfield’s blog today here.

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Media dilemma over BNP coverage

“If we get a national leaflet out in Dunnington, will we get coverage for it?”

That was the chairman of the Green Party in York commenting in a report in the York Press at the weekend. It’s a great quote and sums up the dilemma facing our opponents who try to use the media to denigrate and attack our Party. The full report is below:

York Press

Yesterday on my blog I discussed how Searchlight promotes the British National Party with the media by virtue of its attacks on us and so this is the same case here. Our opponents think by their critical quotes against us in this report that they will influence people away from supporting the BNP. But, of course, attacks on the BNP from Labour, the Tories and the Lib-Dems are just old hat so this is not the news that hits home to the reader. The news value, as underlined in the headline, is that the BNP have been out leafletting in a leafy village in York, and that is all most people will take on board from the article.

The bonus for York BNP is that they probably put out less than 500 leaflets in Dunnington, yet for that hour or so of leafletting, thanks to the York Press, news of the activity reached 30,000 people in York itself.

And this is why, at our stage of development, it is a win/win situation for the British National Party. Of course we would prefer things to be on a level playing field and that like the other political parties we can go about our campaigning without interference from ‘third parties’ at election time and negative reports in the media. But our opponents won’t allow us to do this. No, they prefer to oppose us at every turn, but now, even by doing this, they are helping to raise our profile.

These are difficult times and the British people are hurting. I believe that when many of them read in their newspapers about establishment politicians being “outraged” they are going to say “good!“. It’s the old gang parties that have brought this country to this shocking state of affairs and many people would be quite happy to see them uncomfortably “outraged” and will look sympathetically on the reason that had brought it about . . . in this case the British National Party.

There’s more on today’s Martin Wingfield’s blog here.

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Only the BNP will safeguard British jobs

AS THE latest unemployment figures depressingly indicate, British jobs are going to be at a premium over the next two years as today’s financial crisis turns into tomorrow’s economic recession.

We must safeguard all British jobs and ensure that they are only filled by British workers who are spending their wages in the British economy supporting their families here. Not migrant workers sending the money to dependents in Poland.

All migrants workers should be sent back to their own country and no more should be allowed in. But as long as Britain stays in the European Union, there is nothing that the Government can do to stop this influx of cheap labour from Eastern Europe. That is why the British National Party campaigns to take Britain out of the EU.

We face hard times ahead and to feed and look after our people we need to utilise all the resources we have at our disposal. We must strive for self-sufficiency in the food we produce and that means growing crops in our fields and not concreting them over to build houses for unwanted immigrants. We must also take back the waters around our shores so that British fishermen can once again provide fish for our tables rather than Spanish fishermen provide food for theirs.

We must invest in Britain’s manufacturing industry so that we make the goods that we need ourselves and don’t have to import them from abroad. We should ban all foreign imports and start building new factories and re-opening old ones so that we make the cars and the electrical goods ourselves that we currently buy in from overseas.

This will create new jobs for OUR people and will provide the wages that will keep families fed and warm during the approaching long, cold winter of recession.

The biggest crime of this Labour Government has been its policy of off-shoring British jobs to Asia and Eastern Europe. And what is equally criminal is that our trade unions have stood by and allowed this haemorrhaging of work from Britain. There has never been a more treacherous act than this from a Labour Government and its trade union backers.

The British National Party will not allow one British job to be sent overseas and firms that set up call-centres or factories in other countries will lose their right to operate in Britain.

The recession will hurt everyone and it’s the duty of a government to look after its own people during such hardship - and here in the UK that means safeguarding British jobs for British workers and puting the interests of the British people first.

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Sent to die in a “Tent-on-Wheels”

BRITAIN’S first female soldier to be killed in Afghanistan was sent to her death in an underprotected “tent on wheels”.

Cpl. Sarah Bryant, 26, of the Intelligence Corps. was killed, along with three SAS reservists, when her lightly armoured Snatch Land Rover was blown apart by a roadside bomb last June.

The commander of the SAS reservists who died, Major Sebastian Morley, squadron commander in 23 SAS, has resigned his commission in disgust at the deaths of Sarah and his men. In his bitter resignation letter, the SAS Major slammed Government’s “chronic under-investment” on equipment and an attitude by Ministers to the lives of the soldiers they sent into battle with inadequate equipment which was “cavalier at best, criminal at worst”.

Sarah Bryant’s father, Des Feely, pointed out that Major Morley’s resignation letter gave the lie to what he was told by officials, who said his daughter would have been killed in any vehicle by the force of the bomb. In fact it is clear she might well have survived, along with her comrades, in a properly armoured vehicle.

As the father of the brave British girl who died so far away for so little benefit to our country put it:
“Ministers cruise down Whitehall in bullet-proof limousines. But they send our troops to Afghanistan with nothing better than a tent on wheels to protect them”.

Britain’s involvement in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq is just a waste of British lives, and like in the war that ended 90 years ago today, our finest young men and women are being sent to die in another country on the whim of those in Government.

The British National Party would bring our troops home now. It is not in the interests of Britain or the British people for our troops to be in Afghanistan or Iraq.

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BNP contesting three by-elections on Thursday

THE British National Party are contesting three of the four local council elections taking place this Thursday.

John Hoodless is our candidate in the North Road ward by-election for Darlington Council, Colin Gilmore is standing in Markfield Stanton and Field Head ward for Hinckley and Bosworth Council while David Owens is our representative in the Fenside by-election for Boston Borough Council.

In Darlington, the vacancy comes about after sitting councillor Steve Jones was disqualified for non-attendance of the last six council meetings. Jones was originally a Liberal Democrat but was expelled from the party and became an Independent. Despite his apparent lack of interest in council business, he is standing again, this time as an Independent.

Back in May 2007, BNP candidate Daniel Brown polled a 10.5% share of the vote and local activists are hoping that this can be improved upon in what is a safe Liberal Democrat ward.

Full Details:

DARLINGTON COUNCIL
North Road Ward
Thursday 13th November 2008
Anne Curry (Lib-Dem) 
John Hoodless (BNP)
George Jenkinson (Con)
Stephen Jones (Ind)
John Vasey (Lab)
May 2007: Lib-Dem 930, 861, 836. Lab 401, 381, 296. Con 193. BNP 168.

The most keenly contested ward of the three being fought is in Hinckley & Bosworth where the Liberal Democrats, who actually finished bottom of the poll in May 2007, have fought a parliamentary by-election style campaign putting out and incredible 12 LEAFLETS to date. They claim that the ward is now a three-way marginal and that they can beat both Labour and the Tories.

One of the key issues of the campaign is the building of an incinerator which the BNP first drew attention to and which Conservative have attacked us over claiming that it is not going to happen -although they cannot explain why DEFA have awarded funding of £86 million for the project.

The seat up for grabs is a Conservative one and they are fighting a strong campaign to hold on to it but the Lib-Dems are eating into their vote.

The British National Party’s East Midlands election officer Wayne McDermott, took time out from canvassing to give the website an update on the campaign:

“All four parties were out on the streets of Markfield this weekend. The Lib-Dems are really pulling all the stops out in this one. Like Labour and the Tories, we have put out 3 leaflets including a glossy election address which was as good as anything put out by the other candidates.

“I would not like to call this one, the Lib-Dems have really being attacking the Tories and with 12 leaflets so far and more to come in the final few days they have given it the works.

“We have fought a good campaign, utilising our resources and manpower well, and are looking to improve on the 17% we polled back in in May 2007.

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HINCKLEY & BOSWORTH COUNCIL
Markfield Stanton & Field Head
Thursday 13th November 2008
Andy Furlong (Lab)
Colin Gilmore (BNP)
Sue Sprayson (Con)
Robin Webber-Jones (Lib-Dem)
May 2007: Lab 970, 639. Con 844, 840. BNP 371. Lib-Dem 208, 122.

The British National Party are contesting Fenside Ward in Boston for the very first time and this looks as though it will provide the most open contest of the three. The popularity of the Independent Boston By-pass group seems to be on the decline in the town which has given hope to the Labour, Conservative and UKIP candidates, who all fought the seat last time, that they might win.

But the fly in their ointment might be the BNP, with candidate David Owens receiving increasing support on the doorstep as the campaign has gone on. Immigration and migrant workers are the issues in Boston and it’s only the BNP that many people see as having the answer to the problem.

The Liberal Democrats didn’t contest the ward last time around and they too have worked hard in recent weeks making it a wide-open contest.

“Any one of the six candidates could win this ward,” was the verdict of one BNP campaigner who went on to predict that whoever was the victor, it was highly likely that the BNP and UKIP votes added together would provide a winning total.

Full Details:

BOSTON BOROUGH COUNCIL
Fenside Ward
Thursday 13th November 2008
Gavin Carrington (Lib-Dem)
Norman Hart (Lab)
Paul Mould (Con)
David Owens (BNP)
Carl Smith(BBI)
Cyril Wakefield (UKIP)
May 2007: BBI 317, 315 Lab 174, 160 Con 134. UKIP 107.

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Freedom reaches 100!

WELL the 100th issue of Freedom is out early next week.

It’s a milestone for the newspaper and the British National Party and timely coming in the year when the Party has achieved its greatest success of all - winning a seat on the Greater London Assembly.

I took over at the helm of Freedom in June 2002, just after our breakthrough in Burnley where we won three seats.

The first issue I edited was No.26 and the 74 following newspapers have all had the same over-riding purpose - to nail the lies of our opponents in the media and show the public the true face of the BNP and the actual policies that we advocate.

It has been a rather uneventful six and a half years with not even one solicitor’s letter to complain over the content of the newspaper. This is very different from my time as editor of NF News and The FLAG when I was constantly being bombarded with writs and had a constant stream of visits from the police over the content, in an attempt to close those newspapers down.

The only excitement with Freedom was in September 2005 when 60,000 copies of issue No 64 were seized by police at Dover. No doubt the Government was hoping that there was something in that edition that they could use to bring us to book, but unfortunately for them the Crown Prosecution Service said that everything in the newspaper was “quite acceptable”.

On a personal note, I am pleased to ’see-in’ this 100th issue of Freedom. For ten years I edited and published The FLAG and during that time produced 92 issues. I was disappointed that I never reached the century with that newspaper, so this issue is an extra special one for me.

I hope everyone enjoys it.

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An Everyday story of City folk

WHEN the five thousand British staff of the International City bankers Lehman Brothers, and their colleagues in other branch offices around the world, turned up for work on Monday September 15th they were in for a shock.

For not only did they discover their firm was now out of business and that they were out of a job, they also discovered that their colleagues at Lehmans’ New York head office, having been tipped off as to what was coming, had systematically cleared the accounts of all Lehmans’ other branches around the world of a total of $8 billion on Friday afternoon and transferred the money back to New York.

This was done to ensure that the head office staff in New York received their salaries at the expense of all the other employees around the world who were left with nothing. In London, receivers PricewaterhouseCoopers had to borrow £100 million on the security of Lehmans’ lavish City office buildings to pay the laid off British staff the wages they were owed.

The City slickers back in New York made sure they got paid their basic salaries (somewhat above the national minimum wage, we can be sure!) by thus doing the dirty on their City slicker colleagues back in Britain, although it was still in doubt whether they would they’d get their promised bonuses.

But they needn’t have worried. When British-based multinational bank Barclays asset-stripped any remaining viable accounts of Lehmans’ New York operation, they were forced to put into the pot an extra £1.5 billion in cash to pay the bonuses of the bankers they were taking on. Even though these were supposedly performance bonuses, and the performance they were rewarding was to bankrupt their own bank!

We shouldn’t have any sympathy for those involved in this sordid saga of bankers trying to keep their snouts in the trough, but this episode does go to show just how those in this murky world of International Finance treat their own – with ruthlessness motivated by selfish greed.

But what is important to us is that these are the people that Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats want running our country. All three parties are signed up to the Global Market Economy and that can’t function without the easy credit provided by International Finance.

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Repossessions should become council houses

What a day it was yesterday! I had my radio with me in the office so that I could keep up to date with the latest developments as the global economy came crashing down around us.

I feel little concern that tens of thousands of jobs of have gone in the city. These people have shown no sympathy for the hundreds of thousands of jobs that have been lost in manufacturing over the years, many as a consequence of the greed of the finance industry. I feel no concern that nearly 4% was wiped off the value of the FTSE. The shareholders have had year upon year of a rising index and common sense tells you that this can’t carry on - sooner or later the fall must come. They should have been better prepared.

The global economy is responsible for the destruction of the British manufacturing industry and rising unemployment. Cheap foreign imports have closed our factories and low-paid migrant workers have put British workers on the dole. I am certainly shedding no tears this morning.

With the disappearance of the cheap credit that fuels the global market place, rising transport costs and the unpredictability of foreign exchange, countries will have to retreat within themselves, looking to the home market for both sales and production. In Britain it will be this self-sufficiency that is seen as the only way forward and that, of course, is the basis of the British National Party’s economic policy.

But what of the repercussions for the man in the street from yesterday’s historic events? - and make no mistake that is exactly what they were historic!

Well, the biggest jolt for us is still to come and that’s the collapse of the personal credit market. Those firms that have been lending to all and sundry (you know the ones, where they are willing to lend money to you even if you have a bad credit rating, no equity in your house and even CCJs) will go to the wall. The credit supply will disappear and the credit card time-bomb that Freedom, the BNP’s monthly newspaper, warned of more than three years ago will explode.

And from the wreckage a sound financial system will emerge. Money earned will have a real value once again because there will be no easy money to borrow. Financial prudence and savings will be rewarded once again as rising interest rates due to the credit shortage will benefit savers. People will have to live within their means once again which will provide the stability that the country needs.

A major downside will be the collapse of the housing market and that will hurt every family in the country as we all have our money tied up in our property. Back in the 1990s, the downward spiral in house prices was exacerbated by the repossessions that were coming on to the market. In the very dark days it was only houses that had been repossessed that were being bought because they were the only homes providing value for money amongst those up for sale. This time around there will be many, many more repossessions and something must be done to limit their depressing effect on the price of property.

One answer is to use the repossessions to boost our council housing stock. Any home being repossessed should be viewed by the local authority as to its suitability to provide social housing and then if it is feasible, the Government should make the funding available for the transaction to take place. As many lenders will have little chance of recouping any money from the family that has lost their home, a good deal for the taxpayers could be agreed upon. The council could then offer the family evicted their home back as a council house for which they would pay the going rate in council rent.

This will massively increase our much depleted (thanks to the Tories) social housing stock and also help shore up the fragile property market.

That’s my take on things this morning at around eight o’clock. What do you think?

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