THE British National Party is proving more adept at using email as part of its digital election strategy than its rivals according to new research.

A study conducted by Return Path over a two month period (November to January) showed the three main parties missing out on opportunities to influence voters in the run-up to the General Election, which is expected to be held in May.

The study found that the British National Party sent the most emails, underscoring its use of digital media to fight the election. The Party sent a total of 20 messages and waited only 24-hours before sending its welcome message.

The Tories were best of the rest, sending 12 email messages over the period while Labour sent only one and the Liberal Democrats none at all.

The three parties also failed to send immediate welcome messages after people signed up to receive updates. It took the Tories six days to send email message and Labour 58 days.

While many companies are increasingly exploiting the integration of social media and email the UK’s political parties are not. They are still failing to make the best use of this.
The same is true of the two main parties and their websites. Neither displays its social media presence on the homepage with no invitations to “Become a fan” or to “Follow us on Twitter”.

Consultants are telling companies to integrate social media with their email marketing and to be sure to include links to their social media websites and blogs.
Yet according to the research only the Conservatives and the BNP have incorporated social media links into their email.

Unlike the British National Party, the three main parties are also failing on a most basic level of social media sharing with none of the parties including a send to a friend button in their email either or a donate button.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is all a rather sorry state of affairs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing in The Times this morning Lord Carey warns:

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

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

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

He told the readers of Britain’s premier newspaper:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THERE were horrified gasps and shouts of “outrageous” from the Far Left and Communist MEPs as Nick Griffin addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg this morning on climate change.

However, the British National Party’s MEP for the North West of England earned the plaudits of some Conservative Party and UK Independence Party MEPs for what was a hard-hitting speech on the liberal elite’s ’sacred cow’.

This is what the BNP leader told Parliament.

“Everyone agrees that climate change is the biggest challenge facing humanity.”

That`s the constant claim of the political elite – and it’s a lie!

Everyone does NOT agree. Thousands of scientists dispute the very existence of man made global warming, citing natural cyclical changes that saw vineyards in Roman northern England and a Swedish army march over the frozen Baltic at the height of the Little Ice Age in 1658 to Copenhagen.

As an army of global warming zealots marches to Copenhagen, the truth is that their Orwellian ‘consensus’ is based, not on scientific agreement but on bullying, censorship and fraudulent statistics.

In the words of leading climatologist Professor Richard Lindzen:

“Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early twenty-first century`s developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections contemplated a roll back of the industrial age.”

In fact, there will be no ‘bemused amazement’, for the reason for this hysteria is clear: It is designed to provide the excuse for the political project of the globalists to replace national democracy with New World Order global governance.

It has nothing to do with science and everything to do with a globalist common purpose to tax and control us, while making Billions for corporations in the Green-Industrial complex.

The anti-Western intellectual cranks of the Left suffered a collective breakdown when Communism collapsed. Climate change is their new theology, a secular religious hysteria complete with Pope Al Gore, Carbon Credit indulgences and the persecution of heretics.

But the heretics will have a voice in Copenhagen, and the truth will out: Climate change is being used to impose an anti-human Utopia as deadly as anything conceived by Stalin or Mao.

Explanatory Note – for information

There has been an absence of informed debate on the issue of ´global warming´. This may be demonstrated briefly by reference to the following points:

1 There has occurred global warming (shown by the disappearance of surface ice) on Mars and at least one of Jupiter´s moons. There are neither factories nor SUVs on either.
2 Satellites have detected nett ice formation over the North Pole since 2006.
3 The Earth has been subjected to cyclical warming and cooling for billions of years. Over the past two millennia, vines have been grown by the Romans in the North of England; the climate was warmer during the Middle Ages but there then occurred a period of cooling, which saw the River Thames freeze during the 17th and 19th centuries, for example.
4 Contrary to the message communicated by the advocates of global warming and the Al Gore film, Co2 emissions follow global warming; they do not precede it. This is a perfectly natural cyclical phenomenon but it disproves the link between man-made Co2 emissions and ´global warming´.
5 There has been global cooling since 1998 – a fact that is not credibly debated.
6 Sea levels rise and decline as part of the cyclical pattern, per point 3, above. In former times, the South of England was joined to the Continent but at a time when much of Britain was subjected to glaciation – an undesirable consequence of global cooling.

´Global warming´ sceptics are treated as politically-incorrect ´deniers´. There has been limited debate, with only one side of the argument vented but in strident and alarmist tones. Well qualified scientists who dispute global warming are condemned aggressively – an occurrence that discourages open debate.

DESPITE a week of newspaper headlines and television reports on the British National Party, there has been one glaring omission from all the coverage. At no time has BNP policy come under the spotlight.

Journalists in the Sunday newspapers were queuing up to condemn the British National Party stance on immigration as “vile”, but never explained why, in their eyes, it was “vile”.

It is unclear which BNP immigration policy the likes of the News of the World, The People and Sunday Mirror were referring to, but it must have been one that was in place in the early 1990s before Nick Griffin became chairman and completely modernised the Party. That is because the British National Party’s policy today is what the majority of British people, according to the polls, say they want – a complete stop to any further immigration.

In the British National Party’s mini-manifesto published in 2007 our policy is very clear.

* Stop all new immigration except for in exceptional cases.
* Deport all illegal immigrants.
* Reject all asylum seekers who have passed through a safe country to come Britain.

Britain’s population is now racing towards 70 million and spiraling out of control. This is down to immigration. It has put unbearable pressure on our social services and the very fabric of our country.

Britain is full and continued mass immigration is unfair, not only on indigenous Britons but also on all the law-abiding ethnic minorities who are here legally, who pay taxes like the rest of us, and with whom we are happy to share this island as long as they support the values that made this country such a great place.

This is a policy the majority of British people would agree with should they ever get the chance to be told about it – and that is why the media deliberately hides it from them.

There’s nothing ‘vile’ about the British National Party’s immigration policy – it’s just common sense.

THERE was North West Regional Council meeting yesterday in Wigan.

It was a day long affair run by North West Regional officials Clive Jefferson, Alistair Barbour and Susan Mather.

Security training, working a Risograph printer, designing a leaflet, preparing local accounts and other essential aspects of running a local British National Party branch were covered.

After the training, the meeting itself took place with top of the agenda our motions for the the Annual Conference. Discussions on these went on for a couple of hours, and two of the resolutions were struck out because they were deemed already to be BNP policy.

In the end our two resolutions to go forward to the Advisory Council from which one will be selected, concerned there being no exemptions from British law on religious grounds and the over-turning of the smoking ban in pubs.

IN the European Parliament yesterday it was only the two British National Party MEPs and a handful of other more enlightened delegates that saw an ulterior motive in a resolution calling for more co-operation between member states to fight forest fires.

But the motion was not really about forest fires at all, but more about exploiting the sympathy felt for the Greeks and other southern Europeans who have suffered so much from this problem this summer, to provide cover for a further advance of the federal superstate project.

In a briefing with other nationalist MEPs before the debate, Nick Griffin warned:

“This is a typical EU Trojan Horse proposal. Under the guise of dealing with terrible forest fires, it essentially pushes forward the creation of the uniformed European Civil Protection Force (ECPF).

“This proposal goes way beyond forest fires and sets the context for the creation of the ECPF.

“It provides for the European Union to mobilise all the instruments at its disposal, including military resources, to protect democratic institutions and the civilian population in the event of terrorist attack or natural or man-made disaster.

“It is clear that the ECPF would not only involve the loss of sovereignty by putting our national firefighting forces increasingly under EU control. It is also the embryo of a paramilitary force which would intervene to deal with man-made ‘disasters’ such as civil unrest threatening pro-EU governments.”

The hopelessly naive and ill-informed Tory group joined the socialists to vote in favour and the resolution was carried by 647 votes to 31. So supposedly Euro-realist British MPs voted in favour of speeding up the creating of the European Civil Protection Force – the latest step on the road to a United Europe. It’s something that would be rejected by British voters if they were given the chance to have their say on the issue.

In his debut speech to the European Parliament Andrew Brons, the British National Party MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, explained his reasons for voting against the motion:

“I voted to oppose this Joint Motion for Resolution, despite the fact that I agree with European countries co-operating voluntarily to prevent, fight and repair the appalling damage caused by forest fires.

“However, I object to the creation of European Union bodies that would exercise power over member states in areas that are wider than necessary to deal with this problem.

“This proposal is exploiting admirable humanitarian responses to the appalling tragedies that we have seen, in order to take further steps towards the creation of the European Protection Force.”

THE latest edition of the Constitution of the British National Party, the 11th updated Constitution in the BNP’s history, will be available on the website shortly.

This current edition has been amended to accommodate the new membership category of Life Member – Section 2(10), as well as including all the changes passed by last year’s EGMs which were held at the Red, White and Blue Family Festival in August and then at the Annual Conference in Blackpool last November.

BNP members voting on constitutional changes in Blackpool.

The political objectives of the British National Party are set out clearly in its Statement of Principles, as follows:

(a) The British National Party is a party of British Nationalism committed to the principle of national sovereignty in all British affairs. It is pledged to the restoration of the unity and integrity of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It believes that the indigenous peoples of the entire British Isles, and their descendants overseas, form a single brotherhood of peoples, and is pledged therefore to adapt or create political, cultural, economic and military institutions with the aim of fostering the closest possible partnership between these peoples.

(b) The British National Party stands for the preservation of the national and ethnic character of the British people and is wholly opposed to any form of racial integration between British and non-European peoples. It is therefore committed to stemming and reversing the tide of non-white immigration and to restoring, by legal changes, negotiation and consent, the overwhelmingly white make up of the British population that existed prior to 1948.

(c) The British National Party is pledged to the maintenance of a private-enterprise economy operating within a broad framework of national economic policy. It is opposed to international monopoly capitalism and to laissez-faire free trade and free movement of plant and capital. Social stability and contentment is best achieved by the many enjoying a personal stake in our society. Accordingly, we believe that private property should be encouraged and spread to as many individual members of our nation as possible. We recognise that finance exists to serve the nation and its industries, rather than the other way around.

(d) The British National Party is implacably opposed to Marxism and liberal-capitalist globalism, which undermine our standard of living, human and ecological welfare, freedom and national identity.

(e) The British National Party stands for a policy of armed neutrality in international and military affairs. We are pledged to ensure that the lives of British servicemen are not risked in international quarrels in which no national interest of our own is at stake.

(f) The British National Party will introduce a Bill of Rights, establishing as absolute the right of all British people to effective freedom of speech, assembly and worship. The undemocratic power of the mass media and vested interest groups will be curbed by the introduction of a statutory right of reply and tougher penalties for corruption in public affairs. We favour a devolved, democratic system in which political decisions are made by ordinary citizens at the most local level of government possible. We are pledged to extend and rejuvenate democratic government by means of electronic media and Citizens’ Initiative referenda, and by returning to Parliament the powers that have been appropriated by the EU.

THE leaders of the Conservative and Labour groups on Redbridge Council are in uproar after BNP councillor Julian Leppert, was made vice-chairman of a committee.



At a meeting of the cycling liaison group, Labour councillor Filly Maravala and Liberal Democrat Gary Staight, named British National Party member Julian Leppert as vice-chairman.


But the nomination left Conservative council leader Keith Prince, fuming while the Labour Party’s group leader Elaine Norman rounded on her colleague for breaking their Party’s ‘No platform for the BNP’ policy.



Prince told the Ilford Recorder: “I am shocked and worried about the message this sends out, as the British National Party should not be given any platform.



“A lot of people will be angered by this and I would be interested to see what is thought of this nationally.



“They should have postponed the appointments, no-one need have nominated him.”



The embarrassed Labour group leader told the newspaper:

“Labour’s position is not to share a platform with these people and it is not our policy to nominate them for anything.”



But the two councillors under fire hit back accusing their colleagues of over reaction and political opportunism.



“Keith Prince would be better off using his energies to run this authority properly,” was the response from Filly Maravala while Gary Straight accused the council leader of being childish.

“A decision had to be made on the night and that’s what we did,” he told the Recorder.



Julian Leppert (left) admitted to being surprised by all the fuss adding: “Filly and Gary are good blokes and I am happy to work with them and the group as a whole.”



BOTH the British National Party’s MEPs have set out their stall in their first month in office to show how they will be using their authority and influence to help their constituents.

Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons have each received big mailbags in the weeks since they took their seats in the European Parliament and with the help of their constituency office teams have already been able to assist those seeking advice their MEPS.

In these early days, it has been very much a case of the MEPs coming to the aid of the ’small man’ facing difficulties at the hands of red tape and big business. Conservation has been a key word too as both MEPs have sought to help a range of organisations seeking to preserve or improve the quality of life of people and animals within their communities.

Andrew Brons is crossing swords with Northern Rail in trying to keep stations on the Barton Line open to service the small communities in this part of North Lincolnshire. Nick Griffin has pledged his support for the Three Owls Bird Sanctuary with its battle against red tape emanating from Rochdale council.

There are a host of interesting stories on the websites of both MEPs, from helping those with housing problems to assisting British companies facing difficulties over new European Union laws.

As well as all the constituency office news from the North West and Yorkshire and the Humber, there’s also reports from Brussels and Strasbourg as the first ever British National Party MEPs seek to make their mark in the European Parliament.

There’s history being made as Nick makes his maiden speech, while Andrew tables the first ever question to the European Parliament from an elected BNP representative.

You can keep up-to-date with all the news of our MEPs at nickgriffin.eu and andrewbrons.eu

There are still a few MEP’s Commemorative Cards left from the limited edition print-run especially commissioned for the Red, White and Blue Family Festival.
You can get your two cards, personalised with your name, by sending a cheque for £4.50, made payable to English Fair Fund, to The Secretary, PO Box 107, Wigton, Cumbria CA7 0YA. Please make sure the name to go on the card is printed clearly.

ALTHOUGH Nick Griffin MEP and Andrew Brons MEP have been in post for less than a month, their mailbags are already bulging with correspondence from their constituents.

Constituency Office Managers, Tina Wingfield in the North West Region and Chris Beverley in Yorkshire and the Humber, have been dealing with numerous queries every day and both MEPs have already intervened on behalf of those seeking their help.

By the end of this month the primary offices in each constituency will be up and running and the job of appointing caseworkers to cover all areas will begin in earnest.

“We are in a transition period and as the jobs are new to everyone, we are taking each step a time so that the procedures that are set in place will be capable of seeing us through the next 5 years,” says Tina Wingfield.

“Our IT technicians are well advanced in developing our new customised Casework Database which will link both Nick and Andrew’s constituency workload enabling our caseworkers to build up a comprehensive archive of the procedures necessary to deal with the variety of issues that MEPs have to deal with.”

Nick and Andrew are in their constituencies for most of August with just one meeting of their non-aligned European Parliament group scheduled for the end of the month in Brussels.

Both MEPs will be at next week’s tenth anniversary Red, White & Blue Family Festival in Derbyshire where special, limited edition and personal, Commemorative Cards celebrating their famous victories in the North West and Yorkshire will be on sale. The proceeds from the cards will go to each MEPs English Fair Fund to give financial help to patriotic good causes in each region.

Keep up-to-date with all the constituency news of our two MEPs on their special European parliament websites which can be found below.

Nick Griffin – Andrew Brons

LABOUR has quietly postponed the introduction of its much-publicised legislation designed to stop wealthy tax exiles bankrolling political parties.

It won’t now become law until the summer of 2010 which will be after the General Election.

This means that foreign businessmen who are key Labour donors will still be able to pump millions of pounds into the forthcoming election campaign so the Party will be able to compete with the cash-rich Tories on the hustings.

The Political Parties and Elections Act was given Royal Assent two weeks ago. It included an amendment which was supposed to limit donations from individuals who are domiciled abroad for tax purposes, the so called “non-doms”, to no more than £7,500 a year.

It was finally voted through after pressure from ‘old Labour’ backbenchers, who wanted to limit the power of donors such as Indian businessman Lashri Mittal, Brown confiant Lord Paul, and the packaged food tycoon Sir Gulam Noon in dictating Labour Party policy by threatening to withhold their significant financial backing.

But the Electoral Commission, the political watchdog charged with implementing the law, revealed over the weekend that the law is not expected to be enforced until late next year because of the delay by Justice Minister Jack Straw in laying an order before parliament so the law can be implemented.

Until this happens the rules will stay as before so that someone who is non-domiciled abroad can still donate.

A Treasury spokesman has revealed that there are around 116,000 residents with non-domiciled status including top of the Rich List, Lakshmi Mittal, the global steel and sweat shop tycoon who has given more than £1m to Labour, while other wealthy non-doms have donated more than £3m since the last General Election.

The Tories too will benefit through Lord Ashcroft, the Tory deputy chairman, who has directed millions of pounds to help his Party, and Lord Laidlaw, one of the Tory party’s biggest backers. He lives in Switzerland and has been described as a tax exile.

The Liberal Democrats have also received funds from donors domiciled abroad. Bhanu and Dhruv Choudhrie, businessmen who originate from India, have given more than £475,000 through their companies while Bhanu’s father, Sudhir Choudhrie, who is also domiciled abroad and has given the party £95,000.

Even UKIP and the Greens have their “non-dom” backers leaving just the British National Party as the only one of the mainstream parties who will be funding its General Election effort next Spring thanks solely to donations made by its rapidly growing membership of true Brits.