Somerset BNP First off the Mark with 2009 Meeting Schedule

There is no stopping the BNP in Somerset. Sunday, January 4^th, saw members and supporters from Somerset and the Mid-West hold their first meeting of 2009 in the city of Wells.

Guest speakers were Salisbury organiser Mr Mike Chant, followed by BNP National Treasurer Ms Jennifer Noble.

Ably chaired by North Somerset contact and Euro election candidate, Mr Perry Parsons, the meeting kicked off with Mr Chant’s interesting talk on his role as Salisbury organiser.

He explained how Salisbury BNP has grown very quickly in a short time. This was, he said, due to the hard work his team of activists have put into building the party in South Wiltshire.

After an excellent buffet and music (from the best known British military bands) Mr Parsons introduced Ms Noble. She spoke about her role as national treasurer and gave a detailed account of her responsibilities.

Ms Noble also gave an indication of the financial implications of fighting the upcoming elections, and of how she and her finance team work long hours to make it all possible.

She told the audience of her experiences when she lived in Birmingham, and of how members of her family fought in the great wars to defend our nation and freedom. Finishing off with a rousing call on all present to defend and cherish our way of life, Ms Noble’s speech was met with a well-deserved round of applause.

The substantial collection was given a welcome boost with the auctioning of a framed picture designed by organiser Andy Bamford. Finally a very successful raffle was held to finish off the first of this year’s BNP activities in one of Britain’s most beautiful regions.

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Alby Walker Is the People’s Choice to Lead Stoke Council

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Yet another unofficial public opinion poll conducted by Stoke’s The Sentinel newspaper has shown that BNP councillor Alby Walker is head and shoulders more popular than any other party’s candidate to lead Stoke Council.

In an attempt to guess the outcome of the election of a new leader for Stoke-on-Trent City Council which is due in a few months’ time, The Sentinel put up an online poll to determine the most popular choice. Mr Walker has jumped into the lead with over 81 percent of the vote — way ahead of his nearest challenger, who polled 15 percent.

Following a referendum in October last year, the council will elect a mayor from within its ranks on June 5. An earlier poll by The Sentinel amongst councillors revealed that Mr Walker was also a favourite amongst the council members.

He is, however, taking nothing for granted, and is preparing his manifesto for the contest. “My aims include tearing up the controversial Shelton mosque agreement and reversing the council’s policy of shutting residential care homes,” Mr Walker said.

“I do intend to stand as a candidate for the post of council leader, but I have already been approached by several councillors from another group with a view to forming a coalition with the BNP group. It may be better for the BNP group to get some of what we want rather than nothing.”

The online poll can be found here.

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West Wales BNP Takes Our Message to Boxing Day Shoppers in Llanelli

West Wales BNP never sleeps. The hardworking team in that region took advantage of the Boxing Day crowds in Llanelli to set up a table top stall and bring the party’s message of hope to shoppers.

As soon as the table was set up, interested passers-by surrounded the BNP team, listening to the party’s policies and reading leaflets and papers.

“Throughout the morning residents described how they were disgusted with the way Plaid and Labour treated them as second class citizens,” said Mike Green, editor of West Wales BNP news.

“Without exception locals treated us like a conquering army stating that they would never vote for the traitors again and that we had their vote.

“Many asked where we had been over the years of mass immigration when they had lost their jobs, whilst Plaid and Labour did nothing but make it easier for the incomers,” Mr Green said, adding that two local members joined in to help with the rush.

All in all, 530 Llanelli Patriots, 150 Carmarten Patriots and various other leaflets were distributed on a day that will be remembered as a milestone in the life of the West Wales BNP.

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Northumberland Day of Action 23rd December 2008

Important Update:   Ken Booth would like it made known that the police officer named in his report as the one responsible for the complaint against Mr Peter Mailer, is in fact not the correct person. This was a case of mistaken identity.  Mr Booth apologises unreservedly for any inconvenience caused. All references to that person in this story have been removed.

(Report by Ken Booth, Northeast Regional Organiser) The BNP in the Northeast worked right up to Christmas break this year, holding simultaneous table top stalls in three Northumberland market towns and demonstrating outside Alnwick police station over their harassment of BNP publican Peter Mailer.

Street stalls were held in Ashington, Blyth and Alnwick. What made this day special was the rapid response from Northumbria Police who arrived at each stall within seconds.

In Ashington, Adam Walker was threatened with arrest if he did not pack up and leave within a quarter of an hour. Adam’s response was a classic: “Well, you will have to arrest me then.” Of course, nothing else happened and the would-be Gestapo police thug vanished.

Obviously the Chief Constable needs to send more of his officers on courses covering what registered political parties can do, instead of sending them on diversity courses.

Images: Ken and Lisa manning the stall in Alnwick; Andrew and Adam manning the Ashington stall; and Peter, Kenneth and Martin at Blyth.

At 3.00 pm everyone made their way to Alnwick ready to show support for BNP publican Peter Mailer, who is facing trumped-up charges on account of newspaper cuttings pinned to his pub walls.

 

 

 

At 2.35 pm, however, Mr Mailer received a phone call from Northumbria Police saying that he did not have to attend bail as it had been extended to March 3. The file has now been handed over to the Attorney General, leading to speculation that the Crown Prosecution Service saw no case to answer.

Mr Mailer was not happy with this and went to the police station at 4.00 pm to get some answers in person. The BNP activists felt this was an ideal opportunity to show their disgust at the police harassment and held an impromptu demonstration outside Alnwick police station. (Image alongside.)

So another day of activism in the Northeast came to a close. Ken Booth and his team wish everyone a fabulous New BNP Year.

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Salisbury BNP Celebrates a Year of Progress

Salisbury BNP has celebrated a year of excellent progress in that beautiful Wiltshire town by producing a 23 minute video of the group’s activities in 2008. The video, shown to the last meeting of the year, held on 17 December, will soon be loaded onto YouTube, reports organiser Michael Chant.

The video was followed by an inspiring speech by Mr Chant in which he applauded members for their untiring efforts since the Group’s inception.

He then highlighted a few of the progressive steps planned for 2009, and some of the new measures planned to ensure that all of these aims are met. The revelations were met with great enthusiasm from the assembled crowd.

Recent clarification that Army personnel are freely entitled to become members of the Party is likely to see huge leaps in membership for the Salisbury Group as a number of large military establishments are within a short distance of the city.

This is expected to keep the group very busy and constantly expanding for some time to come as many Service people have expressed a strong desire to join. Local business people have similarly indicated these wishes following this Government’s abysmal failures in running our country with any sense.

The rest of the evening was treated as a festive party, becoming a team-building effect where members could forge stronger friendships in readiness for the coming year. A wonderful buffet, a raffle and a most entertaining auction all markedly raised group funds.

BNP Corsham, Wiltshire, town councillor Michael Simpkins has launched his own blog ‘Confession of a Taxi Driver’ which can be found here.

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Manchester BNP Exposes Labour’s Shocking Neglect of The Elderly

By Derek Adams. The Labour placemen in charge of Manchester City Council may pretend to be the champions of the disadvantaged, but investigations by Manchester BNP have exposed their callous disregard for the welfare of elderly people living in one tower block.

Butler court is a thirteen-storey block of flats situated in Miles Platting, close to Manchester city centre. It was designated as sheltered housing for elderly and vulnerable people within our society, yet for approximately twenty-two weeks, the lift has been out of order.

The first question that springs to mind is who on earth decided to place elderly people, some who are even housebound, into a high-rise block of flats; and indeed what would be the reason behind such a ludicrous idea?

Most people realise that in the event of a fire, you must not use a lift, so given that the flats are mainly inhabited by people who would either have great difficulty, or indeed find it impossible, to use the stairs in the event of such an emergency, then the person who came up with the scheme should have been ridiculed at best, or sacked if they had persisted with the proposals.

Most local residents of Miles Platting, of course, realise why the decision to make our old folk live in such conditions was made: it was purely a monetary one.

Manchester’s champagne socialist-controlled council have been giving away council taxpayer-owned prime land around the area for the past couple of years.

They have been doing this in the name of regeneration, so to build ground floor accommodation would have taken up too much valuable space and possibly lost our councillors whatever incentives they get from giving our land away.

The scam is a simple one: Manchester city council (the landlord) squandered rent money for years until they could not afford to bring their housing stock up to standard by the year 2010, as directed by the government.

They then brought in private developers to do the repairs that they had neglected for so long and in return, they gave away vast swathes of public property to the developers, including the land made vacant by demolishing perfectly good houses.

Almost everyone’s a winner; the private developers get their hands on valuable land in close proximity to the city centre, the remaining residents who have not yet been cleansed from the area get new windows and the councillors get whatever incentives champagne socialists normally get. As a bonus, those trustworthy councillors also get the satisfaction of knowing that they have well and truly conned the good people of Manchester once again.

The only people who seem to have lost out are the council taxpayers of Manchester and, of course, the elderly people who are forced to live in Butler Court with a broken-down lift.

When Manchester British National Party activists heard of the plight of the elderly residents of Butler court, they spent two days finding out who was responsible for repairs to the lifts and demanding that the lifts be put back in service without further delay.

Thanks to the hard work and determination of local BNP activists, the lifts have now been repaired and the old folk no longer need to use the stairs. However, the fact that they were left in that position for so long, and that they must live in a high rise tower at all, is a scandal which is so typical of Manchester city council.

 

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Media Blacks Out BNP Vote Surge in Whitehaven and Ibstock

The controlled commercial media have deliberately blacked out the surge in BNP votes in Whitehaven and Ibstock, despite the fact that the BNP beat all three of the ‘major’ parties in these two by-elections.

The Whitehaven result, announced on Thursday evening, has only been reported in one local paper and on 24dash.com, which carried this interesting comment: “The last 2008 council by-elections produced a night of high drama with mainstream parties holding off the BNP by knife-edge majorities in two contests…”

This obviously important development has been studiously ignored by all other media outlets, particularly the result in Whitehaven which saw the safest Labour council seat in Cumbria nearly fall to the BNP.

In the deliberate absence of media coverage, BNP News is proud to bring readers this first-hand account from Cumbria BNP press officer, Clive Jefferson:

The British National Party took a massive 40.1 percent of the vote in the Kells and Sandwith by-election. Unfortunately for the residents of the ward, it was not quite enough to win outright. Nevertheless, Labour’s massive majority of 1010 was almost completely demolished by Simon Nicholson and his team, leaving Labour with a majority of just 16.

No stone was left unturned in this election and we are now a very efficient, dedicated and professional election unit.

My thanks to everyone who contributed to this campaign and especially to those who put in seriously long hours on election day — our core people simply did not sit down from five am to midnight.

We have stunned the political establishment with this result!

We were the only party to man all the six polling stations, all day. We have precise records of everyone who voted and our polling agents then affixed the BNP seals to each box and followed the boxes to the count.

With our whipping teams still bringing our voters to the polls between 9- 10pm, and the yes voters being ticked off, we knew this one would go right down to the wire.

This knowledge was instantly confirmed when the first boxes were opened and tipped onto the table. The room was absolutely silent; the Conservatives actually left the counting tables well before the end.

Labour were absolutely devastated as it became apparent that they could well lose this, their safest seat in Cumbria, to the BNP.

The votes were then separated into candidate piles as the atmosphere became even more electric. In some areas, we won hands down, some we were level pegging and in just one of the six polling districts was there a large enough Labour vote to save them from defeat.

The votes were banded in piles of twenty fives and taken to another table to be piled into one hundreds. We lost by half a bundle of votes, a handful!

Our election agent called a re-count which uncovered a discrepancy of one vote. Just to be sure, we had one more re-count after that.

The result was announced to a stunned and subdued Labour Party. I went over to the winner, Wendy Skillicorne, and said “Let me be the first to congratulate you,” offering her my hand.

“I think not!” was the sneering reply, as she turned away and refused my proffered hand. “That says it all; you are even a bad winner,” were my final words to her.

We called this election and forced it on the others when they did not want it. We now know why. This election was run by a group of volunteers from Cumbria (apart from Ken Booth and two lads from Sunderland who came over to help us on the day). They took on the ruling powers of the Borough, County and indeed the country, and came within sixteen votes of taking the safest Labour seat in Cumbria which had previously had a 1010 Labour majority.

We were disappointed, but as I said when we left — “See you all again in June when we do it again!” That seat, and indeed all Cumbria County Council seats, are up for re-election next June and we have already started work in the wards.

The outcome of this election has not dented us — it’s electrified us. We had never set foot in that ward before, our only other County Council effort was in January, 2007 and we polled 6.7 percent.

Imagine how our team now feels, going into all out county elections in wards where we are established and have already polled well! It might well be decided to run a full slate of candidates for the whole of Cumbria.

I hope you enjoy your six months, Wendy, and are most relaxed with your 16 vote majority. We will be monitoring every move you make, and those that you don’t make, and we will take that seat in six month’s time.

Photograph: The BNP team at the count. From left to right — Ken, NE Regional Organiser; Bill, Election Agent; Paul, Allerdale Organiser; Clive, Copeland Organiser; Natasha, Youth Leader; Simon, Candidate; Mike, Barrow-in-Furness & South Lakeland Organiser; Alistair, Carlisle Organiser; Brian, Counting Agent.

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Parade of Heroes at Burnley BNP

Burnley BNP’s packed December meeting drew inspiration from a dramatic personal appearance by the heroic “Lancashire 4″ activists, fresh from their recent ordeal of harassment and arrest by Labour’s Political Police.   

Yet another local BNP hero was tragically present only in spirit: Scott Atkinson, the popular Burnley activist, whose sudden and premature death was solemnly announced to the meeting.  In response, the entire audience rose as one to their feet for a minute’s silence in memory of their lost colleague and friend.

Councillor Len Starr, chairing the meeting, introduced the hugely popular Burnley BNP Organiser, Councillor Sharon Wilkinson, who spoke with passion and intensity about her commitment to the cause.   Councillor Starr himself drew attention to the contrast between the honest dedication of BNP activists, and the sly tactics of their opponents, including local Labour councillors who had deliberately misrepresented the excellent attendance record of BNP councillors in interviews with local papers.  

The “Lancashire 4″ martyrs then took the stage to an extraordinary round of applause.  Tony Bamber explained the background to the arrest of the BNP activists, who had done no more than exercise their right to free speech by distributing perfectly lawful leaflets highlighting a connection between the rise of militant Islam and the proliferation of the heroin trade.  The leaflets had already been cleared by the Crown Prosecution Service who seemed to have changed their mind only after a quite disgraceful direct intervention by the Muslim Police Association.

In his moving speech, fellow “Lancashire 4″ political martyr Robin Evans then described the appalling details of how Labour’s state security police had invaded his family home at dawn and seized him as he tried to comfort his baby son. 

Hearing this account, the Burnley audience were genuinely shocked that traditional liberties have been so far undermined that such politically motivated arrests are now possible in England.  But there was also an overwhelming sense of determination and strength of purpose - as one speaker said, when your back is against the wall, you have no choice but to stand tall.  

On the evidence of this defiant Burnley meeting, it is crystal clear that malicious persecution by Labour and their politicised police allies is only serving to elevate the BNP from a mere opposition party, into a principled and peaceful British Resistance movement.

Photograph: the ’Lancashire 4′ at Burnley, from left to right: Cllr Brian Norton Parker of Pendle Borough Council, Lee Karmer from Nelson, Robin Evans from Blackburn & Darwen and Tony Bamber from Preston.  

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Bridgend BNP Has Record Attendance after ‘Leaked List’

If the publication of the ‘leaked membership list’ was an attempt at intimidation, it failed spectacularly at the latest Bridgend BNP meeting, which was one of the largest ever held.

Supporters packed into the function room of a central public house to hear speakers from the Swansea and West Wales groups.

The first speaker was local organiser Adam Lloyd, who gave a short talk on the history of Bridgend and explained the local problems that the town and surrounding areas now face.

This was followed by Clive Bennett from Swansea BNP, who discussed the absurdity of recent ‘politically correct’ laws which have been passed by the Labour government in an attempt to legislate what people can think.

A welcome speaker was the ‘Green Arrow’ who spoke of the different types of activism and how people can stand up for themselves, get involved in the resistance movement and fight back.

Councillor Kevin Edwards from West Wales BNP gave a speech on his experience as a BNP councillor and also talked about national issues such as immigration and the scandalous waste of foreign aid. “This country gives away billions while the shame of high rates of child poverty exist right here on our own doorstep,” he said.

Main speaker of the evening was BNP National Treasurer, Jennie Noble, who spoke about her role within the party and also the importance of Christianity in Britain.

A collection raised over £100 for the Bridgend fighting fund — another successful meeting for Bridgend BNP.

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North Wales Organiser Bill Murray Addresses Last 2008 Shrewsbury Meeting

Thursday 11th December saw Shrewsbury BNP hold their final meeting of 2008 with Bill Murray, North Wales organiser as their main guest speaker.

Speaking in front of more than 60 people, Mr Murray recounted tales from the field, including the politically-motivated arrests of the 13 Liverpool activists, and the resulting day of action in Liverpool on the 29th November.

Mr Murray raised a laugh from the crowd when he revealed that the police had mistakenly penned him in with the Communist protesters from the assorted unwashed groups, including the establishment-supported UAF.

“I managed to get out of that group which was trying to prevent democratic assembly and free speech,” Mr Murray said to applause.

He appealed to supporters to do whatever they could by way of activism, such as writing letters to the papers, cyber-activism, or any of the more frontline activities such as leafleting or knocking on doors.

Phil Reddall, North Shropshire organiser, also encouraged people to get involved and help their local organisers.

“Being a member is one thing, but people need to muck in and take responsibility for advancing the party electorally in any way they are able,” he said.

James Whittall, the South Shropshire and Bridgnorth organiser then took to the floor and continued with the activism theme. He warned that, as a people, we were under attack from a hostile establishment and media, and that it was up to every person in that room to do their bit to save their country.

Mr Whittal spoke about demographics and how ethnic minorities were often voting en-bloc to advance their own agendas. “We as a people must start to do the same. It is up to our people to spread the word as nobody else will do it,” Mr Whittal said.

“The fact that a Bangladeshi Community Centre is now being proposed in Shrewsbury is an example of how rural Britain is under attack from multiculturalism in a way that many people never thought possible,” he said. “This is no longer somebody else’s problem.”

A collection was taken and, as usual, the people of Shropshire were generous, with over £200 being raised before those present tucked into the buffet prepared by Helen, Rayna and Maureen.

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Operation Outreach South Shropshire

South Shropshire BNP has rounded off its year’s activities with a huge leafleting campaign which has run through November and December.

Organiser James Whittall and his team leafleted the area on a daily basis and many members took days off work to offer their time.

The rural towns of Ludlow, Craven Arms, Church Stretton, Cleobury Mortimer and Bishops Castle have all been visited by the team in the past month and the reaction has been quite staggering. Even in the most rural places people stopped them to offer support and complain about the state of Britain today.

The groundwork has been laid, not only for the Unitary Council elections in June, but also for a concerted push towards the aim of getting a West Midlands candidate elected to Brussels.

The leafleting drive followed on from the successful South Shropshire Patriots’ fundraising dinner, where it was announced that South Shropshire BNP planned to contest at least three seats in the coming elections next June.

Pictured is the South Shropshire leafleting team after one of the many days of activism.

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Mike Witchell Wins Southeast Activist of the Year Award at Crawley Christmas Do

Mr Mike Witchell was given the “Activist of the Year” award at the Southeast Christmas party, in recognition of his efforts in building up a Voice of Freedom paper round and standing twice as a candidate, gaining 26 and 30 percent each time.

Mr Witchell, from Bognor Regis, was handed the award by BNP leader Nick Griffin at the Christmas party, which went ahead as planned at a venue near Crawley.

Despite a very cold, wet winter day, all ticket holders arrived in good time to enjoy the evening, which included Mr Griffin telling the story of Father Christmas to the smaller children.

No sooner had Mr Griffin finished his tale, than Father Christmas himself entered the room, to the joy of the youngsters, who all received gifts.

“The party raised a huge amount for the Euro elections,” said Southeast regional organiser Andrew McBride. “We thank all attendees for turning out and giving so generously, especially since the Communist cranks and their Crawley MP friend tried so hard to disrupt the event.”

“I also want to thank Richard Trower who organised the event, and other key personnel for all their hard work in ensuring the cranks were fooled completely and that the event went ahead perfectly as scheduled,” Mr McBride said.

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YBNP’s ‘Billy Brit’ Proves to be a Hit

The Young BNP’s ‘Billy Brit’ video channel on YouTube has proven to be yet another highly successful initiative in engaging with young people, reports Mike Howson, national youth co-ordinator.

“In particular, the latest Billy Brit video, called ‘The Reds Smell’, has proven to be very popular,” Mr Howson said. “By using music and humour, we are able to deliver a powerful message which finds resonance with all those amused at the Communist rabble who oppose the BNP.”

Here follows a selection of Billy Brit videos. Don’t forget to check out the YBNP web site here.

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Birmingham BNP Holds Planning Summit

Birmingham BNP, under its new organiser Richard Lumby, has held its first high level strategy and planning summit.

The meeting, co-chaired by Les Orton, was attended by more than 20 delegates who were all given the opportunity to share their opinions and offer suggestions.

Alwyn Deacon, the West Midlands elections officer, was also in attendance to discuss the finer details regarding the European elections and upcoming by-elections.

A large number of other topics were discussed, all contributing to making the gathering a highly successful event which will greatly improve the operating efficiency of the party in Birmingham.

Some of the initiatives will include a new Birmingham BNP website and blog, a regular pamphlet similar to the successful ‘The Londoner’, a new improved by-election team for national and local campaigns and improved communication systems between all local groups.

The future’s bright, the future’s Red, White and Blue!

Report submitted by Mike Bell.

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Membership List ‘Leak’ Has No Effect on Dorset BNP

The so-called ‘membership list leak’ has only had a positive effect on Dorset BNP and has succeeded in bringing everyone even closer together, reports Barry Bennett, local organiser.

Speaking after the regular Dorset BNP social — held on the first Monday of every month — Mr Bennett said the leakage of the membership list had no effect on the number of members who attended.

“Our usual monthly event was the last social of the year and enjoyed by all who attended,” he said. “It was accompanied by the usual paper and magazine sales, and donations collected to go towards our election funds.”

In addition, the Dorset BNP leafleting teams are still out every weekend with the specially-designed and unique South West ‘Churchill’ leaflets.

“We are looking forward to 2009 with renewed enthusiasm,” Mr Bennett concluded.

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Scott Atkinson: In Memoriam

The death has been announced of Burnley BNP super-activist Scott Atkinson at the shockingly young age of just 37. 

Scott Atkinson had been a BNP member for the past 6 years and had stood as a candidate in the last three local elections, twice in the Gawthorpe ward of Padiham, where he came within 26 votes of winning the seat and most recently in the Coal Clough with Deerplay Ward, where he came second only to the leader of the Council.

Scott openly displayed his pride in his membership of the BNP with his personalised registration plate, V2 BNP, (Victory to the BNP.)

Councillor Sharon Wilkinson, leader of Burnley & Padiham BNP, paid this tribute to her lost friend and colleague:

“Scott was a committed activist who not only gave his time to the cause here in Burnley, but would regularly travel across the country to support other branches when the need arose. His value as an activist was much more than his willingness to distribute literature, or to stand and demonstrate, it was his understanding of the need to build a good and solid reputation in his community. His approach was always polite, with intelligent argument, and for this reason he had been happily accepted into his local neighbourhood action group. They will also miss him.”

“Scott was a real trooper; he had been by my side for the past 5 weeks delivering Voice of Freedom newspapers door to door. He was a very popular figure in Burnley and Padiham and well known by many. His sudden and premature death has deeply saddened us all.”

Cllr Sharon Wilkinson,
on behalf of
Burnley & Padiham Branch,
British National Party.

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