By Jonathan B

EU Bureaucrats often pride themselves over their ‘brilliant’ Common Fisheries Policy, yet fail to recognize that the whole system just isn’t working.

Currently, the Common Fisheries Policy allows any member state of the European Union (EU) the right to fish the waters of any coastal state of the EU, whether that country is landlocked or not.

The influx of trawlers from these EU states in waters such as the North Sea adds immense pressure on an already over-fished area. This over-fishing means that the prices are kept low, and the profits are very much lower.

You’d think that over-fishing was the only problem with the Common Fisheries Policy… You’re wrong; There is another bit of legislation which means that trawlers fishing the sea’s around Europe are only allowed to take a certain amount of each species of fish, which is increasing the very endangerment of some of Britain’s well loved varieties of fish.

It is shown that 40% of all fish caught off the coast of Europe are dumped overboard in an attempt to avoid fines for breaking EU law, so you can imagine why we are losing vast stocks of fish.

It is time that we left the ludicrous undemocratic governance of the EU and got on with our own prosperous nation?

About eight million, or nearly half of Algeria’s young men, want to migrate illegally to Europe and specifically Britain, a poll published Wednesday said.

The poll, published by the independent daily Liberte, showed that 49.5 percent of Algerian men aged 15 to 34 wanted to immigrate illegally. Most respondents said Britain would be their favourite final destination because, they claimed, residence permits are easiest to get there.

Half of these said they were “certain” they’d try to leave. The second half said it was “likely” they would attempt to reach Europe, despite the risks linked to crossing the Mediterranean Sea in a flimsy boat.

More than 80 percent of those wanting out cited “fleeing the country” and “building a future” as their motive to migrate, the newspaper said.

It reported that four out of five Algerians knew of someone who had already left without the required passports or visas, or was soon planning to do so.

The poll was conducted in early November by two experts who previously worked for the National Office of Statistics. It was based on face-to-face interviews with 1,364 young men across 14 regions that make up Algeria’s Mediterranean coastline – the most populous zone in the country. No margin of error was given, but it would be plus or minus three percentage points for a poll of that size.

There are no exact figures of how many people migrate illegally from Africa to Europe, but tens of thousands are thought to attempt the journey each year. Most observers consider the trend to be on the rise, but the poll published Wednesday was one of the first to try to quantify the phenomenon.

The tiny island of Lampedusa off Sicily’s coast, for instance, received 12,169 migrants last year and more than 28,000 so far this year. Six hundred people arrived in Lampedusa on last Friday alone. (Image: Algerians in a street in Paris.)

The European Union has come up with a novel way of tackling illegal immigration from Africa into Europe; they’re going to make all African immigration in Europe legal.

The EU has opened its first immigration centre outside Europe in Bamako, the capital of the West African country of Mali. The EU says that thousands of West Africans die in the attempt to get to Europe illegally each year and they hope that the new centre will help Africans find legal work in Europe.

At present, the EU is stressing that the centre will not be a recruiting agency as such and will offer no specific job vacancies, but in the future European countries may recruit from the Bamako office.

Spain already has a similar scheme and offers seasonal contracts to several hundred people from Senegal each year, who mainly work picking fruit or are employed in hotels.

The opening ceremony for the centre was held on Monday and was attended by Amadou Toumani Toure, the president of Mali, EU development commissioner Louis Michel and French Immigration Minister Brice Hortefeux.

President Toure called on France to take their share of Malian immigrants, saying that France and Mali “will have to find solutions to our common problems.” He continued:

“Let’s be clear, a solution of 100% security is not realistic but neither is a 100% humanitarian solution.

“The trouble is finding work for young people.”

Every year, many thousands of West Africans set off from the north of Mali and go across the Sahara Desert on the way to Europe to find work illegally.

Patrick Taran, a migration expert with the International Labour Organisation applauded the EU initiative and said that it was perfectly logical to make illegal immigrants legal immigrants:

“It makes a lot more sense for people to come through legal channels so that their rights are protected and they can demand and receive fair pay for their work.”

This is not the first time the European Union has looked at extending its influence, and membership, beyond Europe. Last year Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband suggested that the EU should work towards including countries in the Middle East and North Africa as full EU members.  

Britain’s population will hit almost 80 million within two generations — with more people living here per square mile than anywhere else in Europe.

The latest forecast, from the UK’s own statistics office, paints an even more alarming picture than last week’s projections from the European Union.

EU statisticians say Britain’s population — currently 60.9 million — will hit 76.7 million by 2060. Actually it will be over three million more, at 79.8 million, just one year later, says the Office for National Statistics –  enough extra to fill three Birmingham-size cities.

And more than half the growth — 10 million people — will be as a direct consequence of immigration, both people moving here and established migrants having families. This is 30 percent more than the EU calculated.

The new figures mean that in just over 50 years there will be 845 people crammed into every square mile, even though Britain is a smaller country than Germany or France. England will be the most affected, with the population expected to soar by almost 18 million — a 34 percent rise — to 69.2 million.

The population of Wales will rise to 3.4 million (15 percent), Northern Ireland to 2.1 million (19 percent), while Scotland will see a fall by 299,000 to 5.2 million.

Sir Andrew Green, of Migrationwatch UK, said: “The impact on the environment and the quality of life for our children and grandchildren hardly bears thinking about.”

A ruling by the European Court of Justice may sound the death knell for Denmark’s restrictive immigration policy by forcing it to ease family reunification rules, and could trigger a government crisis down the road.

The July 25 ruling by the EU’s highest legal body stipulated that under a 2004 European Union directive on free circulation of people within the bloc, EU members may not refuse entry or right of residence to non-EU spouses and family.

This means a Danish citizen can bring his or her spouse to Denmark even if the spouse is a failed asylum seeker or previously resided illegally in the EU.

The ruling has gone largely unnoticed in the rest of the bloc, but has sparked a fiery debate in Denmark, where strict immigration laws block family reunification for non-EU citizens residing in the Scandinavian country illegally and in cases where one of the spouses is under the age of 24.

“The Danish government strongly disagrees with this ruling” which undermines its family reunification policy, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.

“Denmark determines its own immigration policy and it remains unchanged,” he stressed. “The government will not tolerate having its family reunification rules hijacked,” he added.

He called the EU court ruling “unreasonable”, and has formally expressed his opposition to the European Commission. He is trying to persuade several other member states that share his point of view, among them Britain, Germany and Italy, to have it changed.

Strict immigration policy is a cornerstone of Denmark’s Liberal-Conservative minority government, which has retained power since 2001 thanks to the informal support of the strongly anti-immigration Danish People’s Party (DPP).

Its immigration legislation, broadly supported by Danes, is among the most restrictive in Europe. The strict rules have led to a sharp drop in the number of people who have immigrated to Denmark as part of family reunifications, from about 13,000 in 2001 to 4,500 in 2007.

Integration Minister Birthe Roenn Hornbech said recently the European court ruling “opens the way for widescale approval of illegal immigration” through marriages of convenience. “I wonder if the European court has been given too much power … and if the EU is not determining a bit too much of Denmark’s immigration policy,” she said.

The head of the DPP, Pia Kjaersgaard, has urged the government to ignore the ruling. “Otherwise, our entire immigration policy will fall apart,” she warned.

Political observers see a major conflict simmering for the Danish government. “A conflict between EU law and Danish immigration policy is lining up to be the biggest crisis on the horizon to date for (Rasmussen’s) government,” a political columnist at daily Jyllands-Posten wrote recently.

Rasmussen, whose government voted in favour of the 2004 directive on free movement within the EU, has already said that while he is opposed to the court ruling his government will comply with it.

Six out of 10 voters support Denmark’s immigration policy and the recent EU court ruling has made 37 percent of Danes more sceptical towards European Union cooperation, perceiving it as an infringement of Denmark’s sovereignty.

According to analyst Thomas Larsen, the court ruling means the prime minister has likely “abandoned all plans of organising a referendum on the Danish EU exemptions in the near future.”

Denmark has four opt-outs to EU membership, granted to make the EU’s Maastricht Treaty more palatable after the country initially rejected the treaty. They allow it to remain outside the eurozone, EU joint defence policy, European citizenship and judicial cooperation, under which immigration issues fall.

Rasmussen has urged scrapping all four, saying they were “incompatible with Danish interests” and kept the country from fully participating in European cooperation. He has said one or several referendums on the exemptions would be held in the near future, though no date was set.

Now, “it would be political suicide” if he went ahead with those plans, Larsen said, noting that polls show 39.4 percent of Danes do not want to join the EU’s joint immigration policy and only 30.1 percent do.

Labour Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has repeated the disgustingly untrue allegation, first claimed by the so-called ‘intelligence’ service MI5, that Whites are to blame for Islamic terrorism in Britain.

A letter from Smith to Gordon Brown, leaked to the Daily Mail, contains the allegation that an economic downturn will “increase support for racism”  and that this “presents a threat as there is evidence that grievances based on experiencing racism is one of the factors that can lead to people becoming terrorists.”

In other words, if whites react badly to any of the following:

- car bombs in London’s city centre;

- bus bombs;

- London Underground bombs;

- mosques being built in every town and city;

- the Muslim religion being forced on white kids at school;

- anti-white ‘affirmative action’ government-sponsored programmes;

- countless anti-white racist attacks which have seen hundreds of innocents murdered;

- the supplantment of the the white British people by hordes of invaders;

then it is the whites’ fault that Muslims become terrorists, according to Smith and her MI5 genii.

Well, we beg to disagree.  We believe that there are two primary causes of terrorism in Britain:

1. Mass Third World immigration which has seen millions of people enter this country who do not seek to become British, but to convert this country into another Iran;

2. Biased British foreign policy in the Middle East which has caused this country, along with America and some other European nations, to become the scapegoats for all that is wrong in the Middle East.

The only solution to tackling the question of terrorism in Britain is, therefore, to halt and reverse Third World immigration, and to employ an unbiased foreign policy which puts British interests first.

We, and increasing numbers of the British public, reject with contempt the allegation that whites are responsible for all the world’s problems.

*Important to note was the Tory response to Smith’s letter. Damian Green, the Tory immigration spokesman, said: “This rips the veil off the complacent comments we have been getting from Home Office ministers about how their performance is improving. It is clear that in almost all areas of the Home Office things are going to get worse.”

Readers will note how Green avoids mentioning the main allegation — that whites are somehow responsible for driving Muslims towards terrorism, and also avoids the whole issue of what is to be done to solve the problem.

Given that the Tories were, and still are, enthusiastic supporters of the illegal war in Iraq (one of the primary drivers for terrorism in Europe), it is not surprising that they shy away from addressing any real issue.

Were you thinking that the Tories would be any better? Think again. The BNP is the only party with clear cut solutions to the mess created by years of Tory and Labour misrule.

Tories, Labour and the EU Gestapo have decided to gang up and try and impose sanctions on Russia — which has committed the dastardly crime of protecting its own citizens.

Tweedledum Tory leader David Cameron has called for EU leaders meeting today to impose ‘tough sanctions’ on Russia for intervening in the conflict in Georgia to protect its citizens.

In this he has been echoed by TweedleDee Labour leader Gordon Brown who said that: “In the light of Russian actions, the EU should review — root and branch — our relationship with Russia, whose unilateral action in recognising the independence of Georgia’s two breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia was dangerous and unacceptable.”

The western media has whipped up condemnation of Russia for intervening militarily in Georgia following the outbreak of fighting between Ossetian separatists and the Georgian state. The rest of the EU has blindly followed suit, without once giving consideration to the facts, which are as follows:

- South Ossetia, which is 80% Russian, broke away from Georgia in the 1991-1992 war. In a 2006 South Ossetian independence referendum, held by the secessionist government, full independence was supported by 99% of the voters.

- Restoring South Ossetia and Abkhazia (a region with a similar separatist movement) to Georgian control has been a goal of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.

- The current crisis escalated in August when intense fighting began between Georgian troops and the forces of South Ossetia. On 2 August, large numbers of South Ossetians started to flee into Russia, and

- Russian ambassador Yuri Popov warned that Russia would intervene if conflict erupted.

- On 7 August, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili vowed to restore control by force over what he called the ‘criminal regime’ in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

- During the night and early morning of 8 August, Georgia launched a military offensive to surround and capture the capital of separatist Republic of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, thus breaking the terms of the 1992 ceasefire and crossing into the security zone established therein.

- Ten Russian peacekeepers were killed during the attack. The heavy shelling, which included Georgian rockets being fired into South Ossetia left parts of the capital city in ruins.

- Russia then finally responded in what they called the “defence of South Ossetians against a genocide by Georgian forces,” saying that some 2,000 Russian citizens had been killed in the shelling of Tskhinvali by the Georgian army.

- At Russia’s request, the United Nations Security Council held consultations on 7 August at 11pm, followed by an open meeting at 1.15am, on 8 August, with Georgia attending. During consultations, Council members discussed a press statement that called for an end to hostilities. They were unable, however, to come to a consensus.

- In the morning, Georgia announced that it had surrounded the city and captured eight South Ossetian villages. An independent Georgian TV station announced that Georgian military took control of the capital city.

- In the face of UN inaction, the murder of thousands of its citizens and the blatant aggression by the Georgian army, the Russians finally intervened, sending troops into South Ossetia.

- A second front was opened by the military of the Georgia’s separatist Republic of Abkhazia in the Kodori Valley, the only region of Abkhazia that was, before the war began, still in effective control of Georgian loyalists.

- On August 11, Russia ruled out peace talks with Georgia until the latter withdrew from South Ossetia and signed a legally binding pact renouncing the use of force against South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

- On August 12, happy that Russian forces had secured the safety of their citizens, that country’s President ordered an end to military operations in Georgia. Later the same day, the Russian president Medvedev approved a six-point peace plan brokered by President-in-Office of the European Union, Nicolas Sarkozy, in Moscow; both sides were to sign it by the 17th.

- On 23 August, Russia declared the withdrawal of its forces to lines it asserted fulfilled the six points: into Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and the ’security corridor’ around South Ossetia. The bulk of its forces left Georgian soil altogether.

Now, the EU, Brown and Cameron wish to impose sanctions on Russia, when the facts clearly show that all it was doing was protecting its own citizens.

A parallel might be the EU declaring sanctions on Britain for protecting its citizens in the Falklands War!

BNP foreign policy is very clear: We have no direct interest in the Ossetian claim to independence, and should not involve ourselves in the internal affairs of other nations where our interests are not affected.

In the anti-white mania which has gripped modern Britain, the Atlantic Slave Trade is to be given wide prominence in schools from this term onwards — but the million Europeans who were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 will be ignored.

The untold story of the million whites enslaved by non-whites is covered in a new book by Robert Davis, professor of history at Ohio State University. He developed a unique methodology to calculate the number of white Christians who were enslaved along Africa’s Barbary Coast, arriving at much higher slave population estimates than any previous studies had found.

Most other accounts of slavery along the Barbary coast didn’t try to estimate the number of slaves, or only looked at the number of slaves in particular cities, Davis said.

Most previously estimated slave counts have thus tended to be in the thousands, or at most in the tens of thousands. Davis, by contrast, has calculated that between 1 million and 1.25 million European Christians were captured and forced to work in North Africa from the 16th to 18th centuries.

Davis’s new estimates appear in the book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 (Palgrave Macmillan).

“Enslavement was a very real possibility for anyone who travelled in the Mediterranean, or who lived along the shores in places like Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, and even as far north as England and Iceland.”

“Much of what has been written gives the impression that there were not many slaves and minimizes the impact that slavery had on Europe,” Davis said. “Most accounts only look at slavery in one place, or only for a short period of time. But when you take a broader, longer view, the massive scope of this slavery and its powerful impact become clear.”

Davis said it is useful to compare this Mediterranean slavery to the Atlantic slave trade that brought black Africans to the Americas. Over the course of four centuries, the Atlantic slave trade was much larger — about 10 to 12 million black Africans were brought to the Americas.

But from 1500 to 1650, when trans-Atlantic slaving was still in its infancy, more white Christian slaves were probably taken to Barbary than black African slaves to the Americas, according to Davis.

“One of the things that both the public and many scholars have tended to take as given is that slavery was always racial in nature — that only blacks have been slaves. But that is not true,” Davis said. “We cannot think of slavery as something that only white people did to black people.”

During the time period Davis studied, it was religion and ethnicity, as much as race, that determined who became slaves.

Pirates (called corsairs) from cities along the Barbary Coast in north Africa — cities such as Tunis and Algiers — would raid ships in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, as well as seaside villages to capture men, women and children.

The impact of these attacks was devastating — France, England, and Spain each lost thousands of ships, and long stretches of the Spanish and Italian coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants.

Although hundreds of thousands of Christian slaves were taken from Mediterranean countries, Davis noted, the effects of Muslim slave raids was felt much further away: it appears, for example, that through most of the 17th century the English lost at least 400 sailors a year to the slavers.

Even Americans were not immune. For example, one American slave reported that 130 other American seamen had been enslaved by the Algerians in the Mediterranean and Atlantic between 1785 and 1793.

Davis said the vast scope of slavery in North Africa has been ignored and minimized, in large part because it is on no one’s agenda to discuss what happened. “The enslavement of Europeans doesn’t fit the general theme of European world conquest and colonialism that is central to scholarship on the early modern era,” he said.

 Many of the countries that were victims of slavery, such as France and Spain, would later conquer and colonize the areas of North Africa where their citizens were once held as slaves. Maybe because of this history, Western scholars have thought of the Europeans primarily as “evil colonialists” and not as the victims they sometimes were, Davis said.

Davis said another reason that Mediterranean slavery has been ignored or minimized has been that there have not been good estimates of the total number of people enslaved. People of that time — both Europeans and the Barbary Coast slave owners — did not keep detailed, trustworthy records of the number of slaves. In contrast, there are extensive records that document the number of Africans brought to the Americas as slaves.

So Davis developed a new methodology to come up with reasonable estimates of the number of slaves along the Barbary Coast. Davis found the best records available indicating how many slaves were at a particular location at a single time. He then estimated how many new slaves it would take to replace slaves as they died, escaped or were ransomed.

“The only way I could come up with hard numbers is to turn the whole problem upside down — figure out how many slaves they would have to capture to maintain a certain level,” he said. “It is not the best way to make population estimates, but it is the only way with the limited records available.”

Putting together such sources of attrition as deaths, escapes, ransomings, and conversions, Davis calculated that about one-fourth of slaves had to be replaced each year to keep the slave population stable, as it apparently was between 1580 and 1680. That meant about 8,500 new slaves had to be captured each year. Overall, this suggests nearly a million slaves would have been taken captive during this period.

Using the same methodology, Davis has estimated as many as 475,000 additional slaves were taken in the previous and following centuries. The result is that between 1530 and 1780 there were almost certainly 1 million and quite possibly as many as 1.25 million white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the Barbary Coast.

Davis said his research into the treatment of these slaves suggests that, for most of them, their lives were every bit as difficult as that of slaves in America. “As far as daily living conditions, the Mediterranean slaves certainly didn’t have it better,” he said.

While African slaves did grueling labor on sugar and cotton plantations in the Americas, European Christian slaves were often worked just as hard and as lethally — in quarries, heavy construction, and above all rowing the corsair galleys themselves.

Davis said his findings suggest that this invisible slavery of European Christians deserves more attention from scholars.

“We have lost the sense of how large enslavement could loom for those who lived around the Mediterranean and the threat they were under,” he said. “Slaves were still slaves, whether they were black or white, and whether they suffered in America or North Africa.”

THIS weekend will see the largest circulation issue ever of Freedom hitting the streets.

100,000 copies of the British National Party’s monthly newspaper will be available to BNP units at attractive bulk rates as the Party launches its European Election campaign for 2009.

Alongside the special issue of Freedom will be the new full colour glossy recruitment leaflets which have been based on the old Where we Stand‘ mini-brochure and together the newspaper and leaflet will get the BNP up and running by mid-September for the most important nine months in nationalist history in Britain.

Issue No 98 of Freedom is a specially designed edition with the main purpose of recruiting new members and activists to our ranks in time for the big push next year.

The front page headline is “People just like you” with the strapline – “This is the REAL BNP” accompanying photographs from this year’s RWB Family Festival. Inside it is more of the same with many of the articles and reports featuring the ordinary, but dedicated, British people who form the bedrock of our Party.

Anyone reading this issue of Freedom will have their eyes opened as to what the BNP is really all about, and to the lies of those in the Labour, Conservative and Liberal-Democrat parties and their friends in the media who try to smear us in a desperate attempt to stem our growth.

Two full pages of “News to make your blood boil” exposes the extent to which our country is being taken away from us by corrupt politicians and will make the reader eager to do something about it, while the reports of the activities of BNP units across the country will show the reader that our Party is the only one prepared to take on those behind this betrayal.

The British National Party exists to secure a future for the indigenous peoples of these islands in the North Atlantic which have been our homeland for millennia.

We use the term indigenous to describe the people whose ancestors were the earliest settlers here after the last great Ice Age and who have been complemented by the historic migrations from mainland Europe.

The migrations of the Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Norse and closely related kindred peoples have been, over the past few thousand years, instrumental in defining the character of our family of nations.

While we recognise the United Kingdom as a political entity, the BNP does not arrogantly seek to impose one set of Westminster dominated decisions across these nations. We embrace and cherish the native cultural diversity within the British Isles and wish to extend the concept of democracy to the lowest possible level, where those that are affected by a decision are the ones who influence and make the decision.

Political battle

The struggle to secure our future is being waged on many fronts. The need for political power is crucial to bring about our goals. Without effective political representation the majority of Britons, who are deeply concerned about the future, have no voice in the chambers where decisions are made. Increasingly numbers of voters are expressing apathy and discontent with the endless incompetence, lies, false promises and sleaze coming from the three parties that make up the Old Gang. The BNP will contest and win elections at council, parliamentary, Assembly or European level in order to achieve political power to bring about the changes needed.

Torch bearers of culture

The rich legacy of tradition, legend, myth and very real wealth of landscape and man-made structures are our island’s richest treasures. The men and women of the British National Party are motivated by love and admiration of the outpouring of culture, art, literature and the pattern of living through the ages that has left its mark on our very landscape. We value the folkways and customs which have been passed down through countless generations. We enthuse with pride at the marvels of architecture and engineering that have been completed on these islands since the construction of the great megaliths 7,000 years ago.

Liberties

Above and beyond our activities in the political world, we daily work with our people in their homes and communities addressing the fundamental issues of civil liberties and reverse discrimination. Increasingly our people are facing denial of service provision, failure to secure business contracts as well as poor job prospects as reverse discrimination excludes our people from the school room, workplace and boardroom. A key role of the British National Party is to provide legal advice and support to victims of repression and those denied their fundamental civil rights.

British National Party Policies.

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IMMIGRATION — time to say ENOUGH!

On current demographic trends, we, the native British people, will be an ethnic minority in our own country within sixty years.

To ensure that this does not happen, and that the British people retain their homeland and identity, we call for an immediate halt to all further immigration, the immediate deportation of criminal and illegal immigrants, and the introduction of a system of voluntary resettlement whereby those immigrants who are legally here will be afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin assisted by generous financial incentives both for individuals and for the countries in question.

We will abolish the ‘positive discrimination’ schemes that have made white Britons second-class citizens. We will also clamp down on the flood of ‘asylum seekers’, all of whom are either bogus or can find refuge much nearer their home countries.

EUROPE — back to British independence!

We are opposed to the Single European Currency, and support the overwhelming majority of the British people in their desire to keep the Pound and our traditional weights and measures. At the same time, we are for the best possible relationship with our European neighbours and believe that the nations of Europe should be free to trade and cooperate whenever it is mutually beneficial, though without being forced into a political and economic straitjacket – political unification. Accordingly, we stand for British withdrawal from the European Union. In place of the EU, we intend to aim towards greater national self-sufficiency, and to work to restore Britain’s family and trading ties with Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and to trade with the rest of the world as it suits us. Following our withdrawal from the EU, the BNP will use the £43 million per day net contribution Britain at present makes to the European Union to fund many far more useful projects at home.

LAW AND ORDER — crack down on crime!

The BNP will crack down on crime and restore public safety and confidence. We will free the police and courts from the politically correct straitjacket that is stopping them from doing their job properly. The liberal fixation with the ‘rights’ of criminals must be replaced by concern for the rights of victims, and the right of innocent people not to become victims. We support the re-introduction of corporal punishment for petty criminals and vandals, and the restoration of capital punishment for paedophiles, terrorists and murderers as an option for judges in cases where their guilt is proven beyond dispute, as by DNA evidence or being caught red-handed.

ECONOMY — British workers first!

Globalisation, with its export of jobs to the Third World, is bringing ruin and unemployment to British industries and the communities that depend on them. Accordingly, the BNP calls for the selective exclusion of foreign-made goods from British markets and the reduction of foreign imports. We will ensure that our manufactured goods are, wherever possible, produced in British factories, employing British workers. When this is done, unemployment in this country will be brought to an end, and secure, well-paid employment will flourish, at last getting our people back to work and ending the waste and injustice of having more than 4 million people in a hidden army of the unemployed concealed by Labour’s statistical fiddles. We further believe that British industry, commerce, land and other economic and natural assets belong in the final analysis to the British nation and people. To that end we will restore our economy and land to British ownership. We also call for preference in the job market to be given to native Britons. We will take active steps to break up the socially, economically and politically damaging monopolies now being established by the supermarket giants. Finally we will seek to give British workers a stake in the success and prosperity of the enterprises whose profits their labour creates by encouraging worker shareholder and co-operative schemes

EDUCATION — discipline, standards, achievement!

We are against the ‘trendy’ teaching methods that have made Britain one of the most poorly educated nations in Europe. We will end the practice of politically correct indoctrination in all its guises and we will restore discipline in the classroom, give authority back to teachers and put far greater emphasis on training young people in the industrial and technological skills necessary in the modern world. We will also seek to instill in our young people knowledge of and pride in the history, cultures and heritage of the native peoples of Britain.

AGRICULTURE — quality before quantity!

We see a strong, healthy agriculture sector as vital to the country. Britain’s farming industry will be encouraged to produce a much greater part of the nation’s need in food products. Priority will be switched from quantity to quality, as we move from competing in a global economy to maximum self-sufficiency for Britain. We will ensure a major shift to healthier and more sustainable organic farming. We are pledged to ensure the restoration of Britain’s once great fishing industry with the reimposition of the former exclusion zones around our coast.

HEALTH — first-class healthcare for all!

We are wholly committed to a free, fully funded National Health Service for all British citizens. We will revitalise the Health Service by boosting staff and bed numbers, slashing unnecessary bureaucracy and by addressing the root cause of low recruitment and retention — low pay. We will see to it that no money is given in foreign aid while our own hospitals are short of beds and the staff to run them. More emphasis must be placed on healthy living with greater understanding of sickness prevention through physical exercise, a healthier environment and improved diets.

TRANSPORT — time to invest!

Increased investment is needed in Britain’s public transport system to bring it up to the highest standards in the world. The fiasco of rail privatisation with different companies running services and track leading to higher fares and lower safety also needs to be resolved. Congestion of our towns and cities must be eased by the provision of greater incentives to use rail and bus transport instead of private cars. The first step is to end the crime and squalor that puts so many people off public transport. Motorists must not be made the scapegoats for government failure. Fuel tax should be cut, motorway speed limits raised, and hidden speed cameras should be banned. Far more must be done to encourage the development and use of cleaner fuels.

ENVIRONMENT — a cleaner, greener future!

Our ideal for Britain is that of a clean, beautiful country, free of pollution in all its forms. We will enforce standards to curb those practices, whether by business or the individual, which cause environmental damage. “The polluter pays to clean up the mess” must become a fact of life, not an electioneering slogan. In towns we would work to replace the brutalist modernism of 1960s-style-architecture with a blend of traditional local styles and materials and ensure that developments take place on a more human scale.

FOREIGN AID — time to spend our money on our own people!

We reject the idea that Britain must forever be obliged to subsidise the incompetence and corruption of Third World states by supplying them with financial aid. We will link foreign aid with our voluntary resettlement policy, whereby those nations taking significant numbers of people back to their homelands will need cash to help absorb those returning. The billions of pounds saved every year by this policy will also be reallocated to vital services in Britain.

PENSIONERS — pensioners before asylum seekers!

The conditions in which many of Britain’s old people are forced to live are a national disgrace. We are pledged to ensure that all our old folk are able to live in comfortable homes, and will restore the earnings link with pensions. Elderly people who have paid a lifetime of taxes and reared families should not have to sell their homes to pay for care.

NORTHERN IRELAND — an end to sectarianism!

Britain has shamefully allowed the terrorists in Northern Ireland to come close to winning when the IRA could have been destroyed years ago. Government weakness has led to hundreds of deaths and given those same terrorists a share in government. We would end all attempts to force the people of Northern Ireland to accept foreign interference in their affairs and deal with terrorism — from whatever side — once and for all. No one with links to a terrorist organisation that refuses to lay down its arms should be allowed to enter government. We would abolish state-supported segregation in education. In the long run, we wish to end the conflict in Ireland by welcoming Eire as well as Ulster as equal partners in a federation of the nations of the British Isles.

DEFENCE — no more cuts!

Successive cuts in defence spending have left Britain’s armed forces perilously weak. We will boost Britain’s armed forces to ensure that they are able to deal with any emergency, and defend our homeland and our independence. We will bring our troops back from Germany and withdraw from NATO, since recent political developments make both commitments obsolete. We will close all foreign military bases on British soil, and refuse to risk British lives in meddling ‘peace-keeping’ missions in parts of the world where no British interests are at stake — a position of armed neutrality. We will also restore national service for our young with the option of civil or military service.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS — Britain’s interests first!

Britain’s foreign relations should be determined by the protection of our own national interest and not by our like or dislike of other nations’ internal politics. We would have no quarrel with any nation that does not threaten British interests. We will maintain an independent foreign policy of our own, and not a spineless subservience to the USA, the ‘international community’, or any other country.

DEMOCRACY — letting the people decide!

The British people invented modern Parliamentary democracy. Yet in recent years the British people have been denied their democratic rights. On issue after issue, the views of the majority of British people have been ignored and overridden by a Politically Correct ‘elite’ which thinks it knows best. On immigration, on Capital Punishment, on the surrender of British sovereignty to the EU and in numerous other areas, democracy has been absent as Labour, Tories and Lib-Dems conspire in election after election to offer the British people no real choice on such vital issues. The BNP exists to give the British people that choice, and thus to restore and defend the basic democratic rights we have all been denied. We favour more democracy, not less, not just at national but at regional and local level.

Power should be devolved to the lowest level possible so that local communities can make decisions which affect them. We will remove legal curbs on freedom of speech imposed by successive Governments over the last 40 years. We will implement a Bill of Rights guaranteeing fundamental freedoms to the British people. We will ensure that ordinary British people have real democratic power over their own lives and that Government, local and national, is truly accountable to the people who elect it.

Most assuredly Anne Marie Keenan is not alone in her concern at the politically directed silence in the matter of ascendant Islam in Western society.

By far the most troubling evidence of Islamic colonisation of Britain, and indeed of Western Europe, is the demographic facts of disparate birth rates between indigenous British and Muslim women.

In the latest O.N.S. population report it is stated that ‘foreign’ women, on average, have 2.5 children each, rising to 3.9 for those from Bangladesh and to almost 5 for Pakistani women. Indigenous British women presently have an average of only 1.3 children. It is not difficult to agree with  Col. Muammar Gaddafi when he gave voice to the following, recently on Al Jazeera  TV, “There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe, without guns, without swords, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims in Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent in three decades.”

In Britain the cities of Leicester and Birmingham are contesting candidates for Muslim majority populations within this decade.

The studied unwillingness to discuss the Islamification of Britain is sinister and well merits the concern of so many undisclosed Britons.

Scottish Office Press Officer

The most talked about alternative and one which is being rolled out across the British countryside.

Proponents of wind turbines claim that wind represents a free, unlimited source of energy. It does have its attractions.

Advantages

It’s clean. Wind power does not produce dangerous waste, nor does it contribute to global warming because it generates no carbon dioxide.

It’s abundant and reliable. The UK is the windiest country in Europe and the resource is much greater during the colder months of the year, when energy demand is at its highest. Technology is being developed to store wind power as hydrogen which can then be used to power fuel cells in power stations and in vehicles.

It’s affordable. The first offshore wind turbines in the UK are producing power more cheaply than our newest nuclear power station.

It works. Denmark already gets 20% of its electricity from wind power. A turbine can turn when wind speeds are just 9mph.

It creates jobs. The wind industry could bring thousands of new jobs to the UK, many of them using offshore engineering skills used by the declining oil and gas industry. If offshore wind were developed to supply just 10% of the UK’s electricity, then 36,000 jobs could be created.

It’s safe. Unlike nuclear power stations, wind turbines are unlikely terrorist targets. The rotors are automatically shut down when wind speeds reach in excess of about 60mph.

Opposition to wind turbines on Britain’s hills and coastlines on the basis of “spoiling the view” is subjective. What some might see as brutish industrialisation of the hilltops, others see elegant, graceful and powerful monuments to Man’s ingenuity and harnessing of nature’s bountiful gifts. A study by the RSPB also debunked the myth that wind turbines kill large numbers of birds. The available evidence suggests that appropriately positioned wind farms do not pose a significant hazard for birds. However, evidence from the US and Spain confirms that poorly sited wind farms can cause severe problems for birds, through disturbance, habitat loss/damage or collision with turbines.

Wind and likewise solar energy suffer from four fundamental physical issues which prevent them from ever being able to replace more than a tiny fraction of the energy we get from oil. These issues are:

a. lack of energy density,
b. inappropriateness as transportation fuels,
c. energy intermittency,
d. inability to scale.

Energy Density

Density refers to the amount of energy per unit of volume of an energy source. Oil is a very, very dense energy source. Coal is quite dense per unit of energy, but much more bulky than oil. Unfortunately, solar power has very low relative energy density. Density, is often, but not always, associated with the energy profit ratio, the ratio between how much energy you get for how much you expend to get it. Generally, speaking, the higher the density, the higher the energy profit ratio. Oil energy profit ratios were well over a 100 to 1 in the early days of the oil age, that is 100 units of energy gained for every unit expended to get it. Oil has slipped to about 20 to 1 for most old discoveries now and to around 8 to 1 for new discoveries which are getting harder and harder to extract and are of lower quality (i.e., lower energy density). Compare this to 4 for nuclear power, 2.5 for biodiesel, 2 or more for wind, and slightly more than 1 for solar. Oil and coal (about 10 to 1) continue to be favoured because of this ratio.

To put this into perspective, the Rye House power station at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, generates 715 MW of electricity from natural gas coming in from the North Sea. Built in the early 1990s it is a very efficient producer of electricity. Output from the station is enough to meet the daily power needs of nearly a million people – almost the population of Hertfordshire. To produce the same amount can you guess how many wind turbines might be needed. 50? 100? 1000? Based on a typical turbine output of 0.70MW the actual answer is 1020! According to Scottish Power the Black Law turbine farm in South Lanarkshire will be the biggest onshore project in the UK. It will contain 62 individual turbines and cover an area of 24.5 square kilometres. Our theoretical 1020 turbine farm would need an area of 403 square kilometres or roughly an area 11 miles by 11 miles – 25% of the land area of the entire county of Hertfordshire!

Transportation

Over ninety percent of our transportation fuel comes from petroleum fuels (gasoline, diesel, jet-fuel).

Unfortunately, solar and wind cannot be used as industrial-scale transportation fuels unless they are used to crack hydrogen from water via electrolysis. The electrolysis process is a simple one, but unfortunately it consumes 1.3 units of energy for every 1 unit of energy it produces . In other words, it results in a net loss of energy. You can’t replace oil – which has a positive EROEI of about 30/1 – with an energy source that actually carries a negative EROEI.

Assuming away this not-so-minor problem, where are we going to get the energy, capital, and time necessary to replace a significant portion of the following:

1. 700 million oil-powered cars traversing the world’s roads;

2. Millions of oil-powered airplanes crisscrossing the world’s
skies;

3. Millions of oil-powered boats circumnavigating the world’s
oceans?

On top of that, we need to completely overhaul/retrofit the multi-trillion dollar infrastructure responsible for the fuelling and maintenance of numbers one through three.

Intermittency

Unlike oil and gas, which can be used at anytime of the day or night, solar and wind are dependent on weather conditions. This may not be that big of a deal if you simply want to power your household appliances or a small scale, decentralized economy, but if you want to run an industrial economy that relies on airports, airplanes, millions of miles of highways, huge skyscrapers, 24/7 availability of fuel, etc., an intermittent source of energy will not suffice.

The energy produced from solar, wind, and other green alternatives can be stored in batteries, but battery technology is woefully inadequate for the scale of our problem.

Scalability

The problems of using a low density energy source such as wind was demonstrated above. Not even the most enthusiastic wind turbine proponent claims that all of the UK’s electricity requirements will be satisfied by wind, but by way of illustration, we showed above that the electricity requirements of 1million households and businesses in Hertfordshire could be met by turbines covering a 11 by 11 mile plot. What of the UK’s 60 million residents? What size farm would we need? A 24,180 square kilometre plot equivalent to the combined size of Cumbria, Northumbria, Co Durham and North Yorkshire!

Conclusion

Great for powering the electricity requirements of caravans, isolated homes and small communities but its low energy density makes it impossible to provide anything other than a tiny fraction of the UK’s generating capacity.

We are faced with a situation in less than a decade, of rising oil prices which will rise so high that many of us will be forced to abandon our petrol and diesel fuelled vehicles.

Transportation of all goods and freight will be effected. The cost of everything from groceries to imported clothes and toys and medicines will be higher, in some cases prohibitively so. Electricity generation will likewise be effected as natural gas becomes an expensive and unattractive fuel for electricity consumption. Some aspects of the lives of all of us are going to change.

It might be a time of apocalyptic events but if there is enough awareness of the issue, certain preparations made and a psychological adjustment to a world without oil, then such a change in world events may be a time for tremendous opportunities. These are just some of the situations which might arise and which present themselves as new opportunities.

Travel and transport

It will be travel and transport that see the biggest likely upheavals. Oil accounts for 90% of UK transport, the remaining 10% is accounted for by electric trains, trams and underground trains.

A daily commuting trip of 100 miles will be prohibitively expensive, even filling up a car for a cross city trip of 5-6 miles will no longer be cost effective. Things will change.

Commuters will initially be inclined towards greater use of public transport but as even the cost of using trains and buses starts to rise then individuals will be forced to make key life changing decisions. Working from home or working closer to home will be options. Walking or cycling to work with the knock on health benefits of keeping fit may be appropriate for some. There is much talk of fuel cells replacing petrol driven engines.

Centralised society

A society which feeds information and power down from the top is an energy intensive arrangement. It requires a large bureaucracy, huge databases and all the technology that is needed to keep those databases up to date. It requires efficient communication between executive, legislative and judicial branches. It requires streamlining and standardising everything from police procedures to the national curriculum. Remove the energy powering these complex centralised behemoths and they cease to function just as flicking the power switch on a computer stops it working.

Power is returned to the end user, the consumer and the citizen. Town councils which throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries ran efficient and effective administrations with considerably less influence from Westminster and Whitehall will be the decision making bodies of the future.

Wider still, a centralised Euro empire with its hub in Brussels will never be able to function. The bigger the empire, the greater the infrastructure, the greater the usage of energy to maintain that infrastructure. The project to enslave all sovereign peoples of Europe in a Soviet style European Union will never come to fruition. The peak oil crisis will be welcomed by all patriotic people of Europe and decision making will be repatriated to the lowest appropriate level

Environment

One thing is for sure, the countryside, the wildlife and human health should benefit enormously from an oil crisis. Most of the UK’s 31 million vehicles will not be going anywhere. As the price of crude rises, pump prices will follow suit, pricing all but the very wealthy or very determined or very criminal off the roads. There will be no need for new motorways, no new town by-passes, saving for prosperity our native woodlands, meadows, heaths and downland. Agri-businesses will not be spreading artificial fertiliser on our farms, nor will they be applying pesticides. Water courses will be improved and all manner of flora and fauna will once again thrive. Endangered species of butterfly, newts, orchids and birds will have a reprieve following years of decline, a consequence of industrialised farming which has destroyed habitats, killed with pesticides and fouled the waterways. Human health will benefit as well.

Health

People will still die, suffer from ailments and contagious illnesses and even if energy demanding organ transplants may not be possible, overall human health should improve. Those diseases and conditions that have resulted from decades of conspicuous consumption will become a thing of the past. Obesity resulting from the mass consumption of junk food and factory processed food will yield to healthier eating habits and more exercise as consumers walk and cycle rather than depend on cars.

Cancer has been seen as a scourge of modern living. Those chemicals which have given us fizzy drinks in plastic bottles, banana flavoured milk shakes without ever have been within a mile of a real banana, barbeque flavours and provided industry with lubricants, catalysts and feedstocks for the past 60 years have left their legacy in the food chain and the environment.

Post-oil more people will know exactly what they are eating. They will either be growing food themselves in their gardens, allotments or they will see the market gardener, the orchard grower, and the pig farmer tending to their crops and animals. They will be buying from a butcher or a greengrocer who has seen the items from farmgate to shop shelf. They will once again be involved in the natural cycle of planting and harvesting, birth, maturity and death. Without pesticides and artificial fertiliser, all food will be by default “organic” putting an end to the duality of food marketing. Organic food will quite rightly be available to all on a level economic playing field unlike the current situation where foods labelled as organic are paradoxically more costly than non-organic foodstuff.

Stress- the modern psychological condition resulting from overwork, commuting, dealing with deadlines and never ending demands for improvement will give way to a slower pace of life, a lifestyle more in keeping with the human mind and human time scale.

Family life

Post-oil means post mass production of processed foods. Someone, male or female will need to cook a family meal. Instant microwave TV dinners will give way to properly prepared and cooked meals mostly using ingredients locally grown and harvested with the minimal of processing. Dinner will be a family experience, just as it was throughout our nation’s history before the advent of cheap oil. Sitting around the evening dinner families will be doing what families have always done since Man began to use fire to cook the kill.

Instead of being dependent on a centralised State bureaucracy and a Nanny State parents will take more interest in bringing up their own children and children might be inclined to take more care of their elderly parents and grandparents. Without the same degree of reliance on complex health and rescue services individuals will assume self-responsibility for their own actions. The extended family will once again assume its place as the foundations and building bricks of a healthy functioning society.

The new economy

Big financial institutions will try and keep a lid on things but the cycle of economic growth fuelled by debt will come to a crashing devastating halt. The fall out will be of world shattering consequences but change will make available new opportunities and human needs will necessitate new forms of economic activity.

The Danes are well in the lead with their wind technology and a radical approach to ownership has been adopted. The first turbines were erected by guilds or co-operatives, which required member-owners to live within 3 kilometres of the site. The guilds eventually organized as the Danish Wind Turbine Owners Association, which became a powerful political force. Today, 100,000 Danish families own wind turbines or shares in wind co-operatives. Although the rules have been relaxed following pressure from the big utility companies a stakeholder in a wind turbine or wind farm is allow ownership of up to 30,000 kWh per year by any person who lives or works in the borough or who owns a house or other property there.

If Denmark can lead the way with wind farms then there is no logical reason for such co-operative enterprises to exist in other areas of activity; food production, manufacturer of bicycles, printing presses, house building, craft workshops and countless other goods and services.

Small businesses benefit

People will still need to eat, drink, clothe themselves, fill their homes with both the essentials and the nice things that make a house a home. People will still need attend to their personal hygiene and amuse themselves when not working. But the things that people will buy will need to be sourced, manufactured and sold locally. Mass transportation of Chinese made cotton T-shirts will not be possible. In fact unless we return to using sail or steam (coal driven) ships, cotton from the US, Egypt, India will not reach Albion’s shores, so alternatives will be needed.

Massive new business opportunities will exist for small enterprises, individually owned, family run and co-operative ventures. Mass production will be unfeasible and businesses will source primary raw materials locally, turn those materials into finished products locally, sell locally and employ local people.

A massive renaissance of traditional crafts and cottage industries may take place. Wood turners, leather workers, blacksmiths and stone workers may be struggling to keep up with demand. A restructuring of the education system will be necessary to provide training in new skills and old crafts as demand for graduates in sociology, media studies and peace studies will be even more unemployable than they are now.

Differences

Because mass transport of goods will not be possible and because local raw materials will be sought for various activities, there will be an end towards the trend of standardisation.

Recent news stories bemoaned look-a-like Britain. Market towns from Falkirk to Exeter have town centres that are virtually indistinguishable from one another. 10 years post-oil, we will see the end of the dominance of High Street chains; goodbye to the golden arches of McDonalds, goodbye to Gap, so long to Starbucks and cheerio to Comet and Currys.

Houses will be built using materials locally sourced. Bricks and mortar will not longer be appropriate or possible in all of these islands. East Anglian houses may see brick walls with Norfolk reed thatch while while Welsh builders opt for slate roofs and stone walls.

No new skyscrapers and towering office blocks will be built. Everything will be conducted at a more human level and in a more human time scale. Because flying will be next to impossible people seeking to recharge their proverbial batteries will look to holiday closer to home. Parks will be seen as valued places of retreat, even if only for a few hours; their pavillions and monuments restored and plots carefully tendered.

Global warming stops.

If global warming is caused directly by the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which has been generated by the burning of fossil fuels, and there are strong arguments which assign the blame to carbon dioxide and equally strong arguments which disprove this conclusion then the release of carbon dioxide by burning oil and gas will reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as renewable alternatives are sought and used. It may be too late to undo the damage which some have attributed to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels over the past few decades, but the process will be brought to a halt. As more land around the planet gradually returns to natural vegetation over a period of centuries the carbon dioxide levels will return to a pre-oil boom level. Readers of this page will not reap the benefits but our great great grandchildren probably will.

Conclusion

Change is inevitable but one person’s apocalyptic view of the same situation could be interpreted as an opportunity by another. Britons are resourceful, innovative and can be pretty bloody minded in a crisis. We can knuckle down, roll up our sleeves and get on with life even without all the labour saving devices, the shopping malls and the twice year trips to the Med or Florida.

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It is the worst case scenario anyone can possibly imagine.

The extraction and processing of the finite fuels, oil and gas, are at the root of our industrialised and technological advanced society. Take the cheap oil and gas away and everything that is built on the availability of cheap, unlimited fuel collapses. Our complex, highly structured, regimented society depends ever more on the use of technology on complex logistics to ship goods around the world to meet consumer demands. Take away the power for that new technology and the world falls apart. What can we expect when we can no longer afford oil, when we can no longer run natural gas burning power stations, when the wheels of the UK economy literally grind to a halt.

Stranded

90% of all today’s transportation systems depend on oil. There is no other commodity which could replace oil (in the form of petrol or diesel) as a fuel to drive the millions of cars, freight vehicles and trains on Britain’s roads and railtracks. In fact the very roads themselves actually come from oil. 26 million tonnes of asphalt were produced in the UK in 1998 for use on British roads. Asphalt is not employed to make all road surfaces look dark grey but has been widely adopted as it is easily laid and rolled to give a smooth surface, enables easy drainage/run off, minimising skid risks, acts as a noise dampener and allows for coloured paints to be applied as road markings. No oil – no asphalt; no asphalt – no smooth water-proof road surfaces.

Perhaps more importantly aviation cannot be fuelled by any other source. Given the time and the money electric trains could replace all the diesel fleet of trains, given the time and money electric trams could replace conventional diesel driven buses, but no commercial aeroplane can possibly be run on any alternative fuel. So as oil becomes more expensive, budget airlines will cease to exist. Those two foreign holidays so many Britons consider as their “right” will become much more expensive.

Shipping all that food, all those electronic consumer goods from Korea and Taiwan, those cheap T-shirts and toys from China depends on oil. While shipping is far less energy consuming than aviation, those giant container ships are diesel and fuel oil guzzlers. Without a cheap supply of diesel and marine fuel oil Johnny doesn’t get his latest animated piece of plastic at Christmas but then millions of food aid recipients in the Third World will literally go without their daily bread and butter.

How will you get to work? In fact will you have a job to get to? What happens when there is a fire in your home, office, factory? Will the local authority have the money to put fuel in the tanks of the fire tenders, will the health board have the money to pay the exorbitant cost of what small amount of diesel or unleaded to fill up the tanks of the ambulances, the GP’s cars and the motorbikes of the paramedics? Will the police arrive in time to catch the burglars who have broken into your house while you were asleep? It is not like the “old days” when a patrol car could be dispatched but in a world where a gallon of petrol costs more than a weekly wage, the constables have a fair distance to walk or cycle from the station.

Famine

Every nation on the planet benefits from the advances made in dramatically boosting crop yields. Wheat and barley harvests in East Anglia are now nearly double what they were 50 years ago. Western nations have a food surplus which are used to either trade with other nations or given away to the starving of Africa, parts of Asia and Latin America. While some increase in crop yield can be attributed to selective breeding and fluctuations in climate, most of the increase in crop yield has arisen from the use of oil! Oil is not of course used directly on crops but pesticides are and many pesticides are derived from the processing of crude oil. Those pesticides are sprayed from booms attached to tractors and tractors use diesel which comes from the processing of crude oil.

The other major input in the crop production process is artificial fertiliser. This is made from ammonia which in turn comes from petroleum or natural gas. This artificial fertiliser is applied to Britain’s fields using the same diesel burning tractors mentioned above.

The bags of fertiliser and the chemical drums of pesticides are likely to be made of plastic and again plastic packaging needs oil.

The UK remains one of the leading chemical producing countries and exports millions of tonnes of both fertiliser and pesticide around the world – aboard diesel driven ships!

Away from the farm, the contents of the typical British/American/Western European larder are likely to have been harvested, distributed, processed, packaged and redistributed through supply chains of wholesalers, supermarkets and delivered to one’s nearest retailer by gas guzzling vans, artics or train. Keeping those perishable items chilled requires expensive refrigeration. Refrigeration units are energy demanding pieces of kit and depend upon oil or gas to generate the electricity to power them. What’s more the source of the refrigerant; the chemical mixture that is pumped around and around the coils in the refrigeration kit, is also derived from either oil or gas.

Without oil there would be considerably less inorganic fertiliser production, almost no pesticide production and a radical change in the distribution of those types of fertiliser and pesticide that are not dependent on crude oil. It means an end to cheap processed foods, an end to apples being shipped in from Chile and South Africa during a British winter, an end to Egyptian strawberries being available for Christmas desserts.

More significantly it means a drop in crop yields, which will lead to higher food prices in the west and less food aid to donate to the Third World.

Poor

The world’s wealth in the 20th century and opening years of the 21st century has been created by debt. A business with a good idea and which could show growth would seek a loan from a bank. That the bank never had the cash to lend to the customer but merely extended credit to the customer is not the point. The customer could get the credit needed to buy the equipment, rent the factiry unit, pay his wages and as long as his sales grew he was happy, the banks were happy, the staff were happy and his own customers were happy. But when growth stops and show no signs of recovering, the banks pull the credit, the customer cannot pay his suppliers, pay his rent, pay his wages and his business suffers. A simplistic overview but it does show that in modern economics growth is needed for businesses to survive. It should not have to be like that. After all we can all think of the self-employed window cleaner who does say 20 houses a day at £5 a time and takes £100 in cash a day. He cannot grow, he might have to work the extra hour or take someone else on to assist but he makes a reasonable living from doing what he does. That is human scale economics. The same applies to most self-employed people, small businesses and others who do not need to resort to the banks for credit. The big businesses need growth to satisfy firstly the big banks and secondly the other element in this the instituional investors, speculators, pension funds and insurance funds.

War

President Bush lies when he says he has sent teenage recruits from Iowa and Idaho to Iraq in order to create a safe democratic country now devoid of the tyranny of Dictator Saddam Hussein. Bush is not planning a war with Iran just so that the home of the once great Persian Empire will embrace American style democracy. Bush’s Troops do not continue to occupy Afghanistan just so the people there can grow opium poppies without being troubled by the Taliban. These three countries are key players in the oil based geo-political landscape.

“We now have the second largest oil reserves in the world, after Saudi Arabia,” Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh announced last July (2004).

He said that discoveries in the country’s south western deserts showed the Islamic Republic sitting on 132 billion barrels of proven reserves, a jump of 17 billion barrels.

BP puts Iraq in 3rd place for proven crude reserves with 115 billion barrels.

America is currently blackmailing nations to support its continued occupation of Iraq. Non American troops are being dispatched to the troubled region in exchange for oil deals.

Afghanistan has very little oil, it has some gas worth having but its great wealth lies in its strategic position, capable of carrying a much debated pipeline from central Asia to the Indian Ocean via Pakistan. America’s foreign policy does seem to indicate that the Whitehouse knows fine well about “Peak Oil” and that American troops are being deployed to safeguard the world’s oilfields. China’s current demand of 7 million barrels of crude a day, rising to 8 million barrels a day by the end of the decade is likely to spark off hostilities with competitive countries, principally America. Tensions are rising in Nigeria and noises are coming from the Oval Office about fighting the war on terrorism in the region.

Strange is it not that the places where “terrorism” abounds are precisely those places which have bountiful amounts of crude! Perhaps Uncle Sam will descend on Africa’s largest oilfields to protect the Nigerian infrastructure from “terrorism”. America is facing a sustained backlash from angry Muslims in Iraq. It will likewise face the same challenge in the more populous Iran and if it tries to take on the emerging superpower of China the backlash might lead to full scale military activity.

When the smaller poorer nations of the world cannot get their hands on the black stuff to help feed, clothe, transport and employ their own burgeoning populations are they going to wait for aid to come, wait for outside assistance and hope the price of crude falls once more, are they going to remain quiet and just on with things or are they going to fight their neighbours to seize whatever energy resources it can?

Pestilence

We quite rightly place great pride in the advances in medical science in the past 50 years. The risk of catching a deadly disease in a dirty hospital aside, which is more a political issue than a health issue, in the UK we have greater longevity, are less likely to succumb to the diseases that plagued our grandparents and can rely on our medical services to rescue us, treat us and give us all the medicines money can buy to prolong our active lives. How do you keep the donor organs at the right temperature? How do you power the magnetic scanners which are used to detect tumours, keep an eye on growing babes in the womb?

And what of those petrochemically derived pills and medicines, the analgesics, antihistamines, antibiotics, antibacterials, sedatives, tranquillisers and those plastics in all disposables used for maintaining sterile conditions; specialised plastics used in heart valves; common items such as isopropanol (rubbing alcohol); polyethylene and poly-vinyl acetate used in tubing, sheeting, splints, prostheses, blood bags, disposable syringes and catheters?

We take our water supplies for granted. Fresh clean potable water comes out of the tap whenever we ask for it. An awful lot of oil went into getting that water to the tap. Reservoirs need to be maintained, pumps need electricity, the water treatment works need a lot of electricity, to get the water in the first place needs concrete pipes, concrete is manfacutred using a lot of oil. The pipes have to be delivered by truck to the building sites, the trenches are dug using oil fuelled diggers and so it goes on. Water isn’t just for drinking. It is used to flush the loos in milions of homes, offices, schools and hospitals. Unflushed human waste is pretty unpleasant, not just the stench. Can you imagine the huge potential for the spread of some pretty nasty diseases; there is going to be a big demand for treatment of cholera, dysentry, gastro-enteritis, hepatitis.

Oh and the rats…with crumbling sewers and a lack of “fresh” human waste passing through the sewers yes the rats will have a wonderful time as the emerge from the sewers looking for the titbits that keep them breeding. Rats carry Weil’s disease which gives rise to flu like symptoms and leads to heart failure if not treated. It wasn’t the rats that caused the outbreaks of bubonic plague in the middle ages, it was the fleas that the rats carried, but when you are dying in agony as the lymph nodes in your neck, armpits and groin have swollen to the size of a walnut you will not be too interested in the method of carrying the disease! A good strong cat might be a useful pet and possible life-saver!

Without oil we all go back to a time of greater hardships; uncontainable epidemics, hospitals which cannot be heated or air conditioned, no rescue helicopters or airlifts, no mass produced vaccines or painkillers. Death comes closer to those without oil. How are we going to cope?

Vulnerable

The entire complex centralised societies of the west are wholly dependent on cheap fuel. Those surveillance cameras on every High Street, inside every rail station and public building are there to help deter criminals, make commuters and everyday shoppers feel safe and in the worst case scenario, if someone is attacked, mugged or murdered then well there is the camera footage to help identify the culprit and provide evidence in any trial. A database of fingerprint images and DNA samples of hundreds of thousands of criminals exists, easily accessible by any authorised police officer. Well perhaps….

Apart from the token bobby pounding the beat (in pairs of course…21st century society is far too dangerous for a lone police officer to go out on patrol) those police cars – from the humble patrol Astra to the gas guzzling Range Rovers, the favoured vehicle of traffic cops, they need oil and lots of it. Starve a constabulary of petrol and diesel and how are the officers going to deal with the local teenage louts…..the corporate fraudsters…the drug barons whose fortunes will increase as society falls apart and the weak, lonely, the redundant, the business failures and atomised seek solace in bootleg alcohol and whatever mind numbing substances they can lay their hands on? Of course there is always the Army, but an army these days drives rather than marches, can a few score thousand professional soldiers keep the peace on British streets?

A mass attempt by the populace to storm a food distribution depot close to the M62 might be dealt with by a few hundred armed infantrymen, but if the scene is multiplied across two hundred depots in twenty counties and a further hundred High Streets and a score of coastal ports as desperate, genuinely desperate fathers, older brothers and husbands try and grab whatever food, medicines, drugs, alcohol for their crying, malnourished offspring siblings and family members. What if the working class storming the food distribution depots are the brothers, sisters, cousins of the twenty-something infantrymen armed with SA80s? Will the well trained British squaddie really fire on his neighbours, friends and family?

The cities will be dangerous places, conventional policing will be unable to contain the armed gangs who will control “their” areas. The wealthy can try and hide behind armoured gates and security systems, can establish their own armed gangs or buy protection from an armed gang. What of the rest of society? Even in today’s oil booming consumerist society there are no go areas for unarmed police officers, housing schemes who are in thrall to the local “Mr. Big” often a pimp, a drug dealer and fence. If the police are not there to help, just who is going to look after the law abiding residents? Do we take the law into our own hands or do we all become easy prey to the armed gangs of pimps, drug barons and organised crime rings?

The nights will of course be darker, the local councils will not be able to afford the cost of electricity to power street lamps. The nights will be quieter too, as millions of exhausts are silenced, lying rusting in driveways and gardens across the country. Fewer people will frequent the city centres, those that do risk assault, attack and even murder. Living in a city is a real health hazard in a world without oil.

Conclusion

A darker, hunger filled, more dangerous existence. That is one possible view of life after oil, but does it really have to be this bad? Could there be some upside, some silver lining on this particularly gloomy looking cloud?

It might be apocalyptic but it might just be a time of opportunity for those that are aware, those that are prepared and those that can adapt. Don’t have nightmares and see for yourself just what opportunities might open up.

If peak oil is an issue surely it is best left for the energy experts to resolve and the BNP can concentrate on more immediate matters?

Such a question is commonly heard at branch meetings and read in emails and letters sent into the web team and other office holders.

In response we need to be clear about some basic issues. The BNP is not going to achieve political power in Westminster or elsewhere, beyond perhaps a few town or district councils in the next 10-15 years. The current corrupt system will not allow the BNP to win anything more than a token presence in councils and perhaps one or two other elected chambers around the country. However the corrupt system is not going to manage to silence the growing number of Britons who are rightly concerned, fed up and disillusioned by the betrayal of our economy, our communities, our culture and our way of life.

That disillusionment sometimes turns to anger as we saw in the hauliers dispute back in 2000. With petrol prices due to rise yet again, and politicians working behind the scenes to stop the cost going over the psychological £4 a gallon mark, there will be much more manifestations of disillusionment and anger in the years to come. It will not just be hauliers and farmers, but legions of others; employees who are on short working weeks, self-employed tradesmen finding it hard to pay for their fuel, the mums who cannot get a doctor to call on their sick children, the young couples facing repossession of their houses because the cost of living is spiraling out of control. As oil prices rise, it will be millions who suffer, millions of ordinary people who are just trying to get on with their lives, millions of ordinary decent people will be forced into states of anxiety, depression, fear and anger.

The BNP is making peak oil a high profile issue for a number of reasons.

1. The press have portrayed the BNP membership as knuckle draggers, poorly educated, unsuccessful losers who blame minority groups such as blacks/asians/gays/communists (delete as appropriate) for their situation. The fact that our current Chairman, Nick Griffin received a degree from Cambridge University and that more than two-thirds of the Advisory Council have university degrees seems to have missed the assorted hacks, editors and broadcasters who rail against us. We are a party of clever, resourceful and deeply motivated and committed individuals.

We have to work harder than our political opponents to convey the reality that the BNP is made up of thoroughly decent Britons who have a great deal of combined grey matter, are highly resourceful, successful people in their own lives and that we can be trusted to generate some stunning policy ideas to regenerate this country and demonstrate responsible leadership on this and other issues.

2. We are the only political party making this an issue at the moment. We are leaders in this issue just as we have been the ones leading the debate on immigration and asylum. It is because the BNP exists and because the BNP has been seen to win votes from Labour because of our tough stand on immigration and asylum that Labour are now trying to be seen to be tough on asylum, even to the extent this month of ensuring the high profile deportations of distressed asylum seekers back to the murderous hands of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe. When we were talking about immigration, 15 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago we were ignored, pilloried and condemned. We still are polloried and condemned but not ignored. Immigration is high on the list of voters’ concerns and the other parties are now playing “catch up” to the BNP.

3. We are not a single-issue party. While immigration and asylum are important issues, we have no desire to be seen only as the “anti-immigration” pressure group. The BNP has a serious mission to undertake – we have to secure political power in this country within the next 40 years otherwise there will not be a Britain. We must have policies that will work, policies that will cover every aspect of human activity and the complex society that we will be running. We need to find, recruit, train and assist spokesmen and women to develop, to refine and to disseminate these policies on health, education, energy, transport, governance, law and order as well as immigration, Europe, and defence.

4. When the BNP does win political power Peak Oil will not be something that we can postpone. It will be happening at the very time that we come to power. In fact it may well be an important catalyst that helps us to win political power because we are the ones talking about it now, the voters might not like us pointing out that the wolf is approaching the chicken coop but they will identify us as the ones who kept speaking about it back in 2005, bringing it to their awareness and understanding.

Voters take to new ideas, even radically new ideas when the system that they have trusted, worked with, admired and felt comfortable with falls apart. We are going to make a lot of noise about Peak Oil because it is yet another example of how the current political process has failed the people of this country, how the short-sightedness of most of our corrupt, incompetent and downright traitorous politicians is very shortly going to create one awful mess and we rightly identify those individuals, those systems, those institutions that have been responsible for that collapse.

The leading Labour Party ‘think tank’, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has issued a report saying that the government needs to employ even more `migrants’ to `boost the economy’.

The IPPR — which has a history of helping to shape government policy — says in its latest report that the government must do more to encourage local authorities to “encourage migrants to stay.”

The Communities and Local Government said it tried to maximise benefits and ‘mitigate’ the impact of migrants. Previous IPPR analysis of immigration statistics showed that more than a million migrants came to the UK from the eight Eastern European countries that joined the European Union in May 2004, but about half of those have already returned home.

MigrationWatch UK Chairman Andrew Green responded by saying that the last thing Britain needed was more immigrants.

“Our population is increasing by a third of a million every year, mainly due to immigration. We will have to build the equivalent of the city of Birmingham every three years just to cope with this. The public are, rightly, deeply opposed to the present massive levels of immigration without encouraging yet more.”

Last month a report by the Commons communities and local government committee said rapid immigration had damaged community relations in parts of England.

In three areas with high immigration: Peterborough, Burnley, and Barking and Dagenham; community cohesion was among the lowest in the country, the MPs said. The report said there was “significant public anxiety” over issues such as pressure on public services.

The IPPR is best known for its Commission on Social Justice, which provided the basis for many of the policies of the New Labour government that came to power in 1997.

Young, white and being a Londoner is getting to be a dangerous combination these days.  Amazingly, the majority of young people are still indigenous British of European descent. However, the current growth of London’s ethnic minority groups will mean that this situation will not continue for much longer. In 2026 it is predicted that the UK population will be 50 percent immigrant and London’s population will be overwhelmingly made up of immigrants. These are however only predictions based on current trends. We do not have to except this as fate. One way of ensuring that this does not happen is to increase racial awareness within the young white population and strengthen our identity. 

Growing up in our great city is far from easy or safe; it’s full of risk. One in four young Londoners have or are carrying some type of weapon which can be lethal. The main reason for carrying such weapons is for ‘protection’, young people just don’t feel safe. Young Londoners are then increasingly dying as a result of shootings and stabbings. Many more are horrifically injured and scarred for life. Young people look to gang culture as a means of protection and belonging. It’s here they are easy prey for drugs and a life of crime.

It’s not just on the streets that our young people are targeted or suffer. Our schools and other places of learning are increasingly less safe havens for young people. There British history and identity along with Christian values are targeted and trashed. Curriculum’s now include Black History month and Britain’s involvement in the Slave trade. There’s no denying Britain played a part in Slavery but the history text books young people read won’t include key facts like it was a small minority of merchants and businessmen who were responsible for slave trading and who profited. Or the fact that the British were the ones who stopped the Atlantic slave trade altogether. Nor will they mention that slavery was an Arab custom introduced from the east and still exists in many parts in the world where the white man has departed from. No slavery is taught in the context of the British Empire and it is used to denigrate our Imperial past, our heritage and culture. Similarily, primary school children are sent to mosques and Hindu temples, not to Churches of Cathedrals.  They are not taught about a Christian Identity to respect and look up to. They are forced to learn about other cultures and religions that have no intention of respecting our British culture and way of life. 

Is it any wonder that getting out of London or Britain altogether is on the mind of so many of our young people? We are increasingly made to feel like 2^nd class citizens within our own city. One we leave education job opportunities are diminished by off shoring and political correctness and quotas. One prime example is the long waiting lists for the police forces for young white people. Everyone knows a person of an ethnic minority background may encounter no such waiting list. It’s not just within the police force that we may encounter bias or discrimination. It can also be found within the wider public and private sectors. Labour has forced bodies to take candidates for employment from ehtnic minority backgrounds even if the white British candidate is better educated and qualified. This is the life of a young white person growing up in London no matter what background. It’s hard to imagine what life will be like in the coming decades if things carry on like this. 

However, we must not fall to fatalisism it is never too late and we must fight for our birthright. We need to educate ourselves and then other young people that our history and culture in London and Britain is not lost or forgotten and is something to be proud of. Our identity is strong and we must fight for it and protect it. Maybe in turn this pride in our British Identity will give young people a beeter sense of well being and act to deter the young from joining gangs and celebrating other cultures, drugs and crime. Let’s turn our ambitions into diplomas and degrees rather than ASBO’s and criminal records.

By Matt YBNP London

A second Irish vote may be necessary on the EU’s key reform treaty, the country’s Europe Minister, Dick Roche, said on Monday. Ireland sent shockwaves through the European Union when 53 percent of voters rejected the Lisbon Treaty in the only popular vote on the text anywhere in the 27-nation bloc.

Opponents of the treaty say no new vote is necessary following the June referendum result and claim it is little more than a mildly tweaked version of the previous EU constitution, torpedoed by French and Dutch voters in referendums in 2005.

“‘Not an inch’ is not a policy that has much to commend it in a dynamic Europe that wants to move forward,” Roche told the Irish Independent newspaper. “We have to explore all possible solutions. We cannot exclude the possibility that, at some stage, and in the right circumstances, it may be necessary to consult the people once again.”

“My personal view is that a referendum is the appropriate response to the position we are in; this is very much a personal view at this stage,” Roche said.

The newspaper says Roche is the first minister to publicly suggest an eventual re-run of the treaty referendum. Roche said that if Ireland wants to retain its position as a constructive EU member state, “we cannot simply sit on our hands, as some would have us do, and keep saying that ‘No’ means ‘No’.”

“We have to recognise, however, that all other member states — 26 sovereign, democratic parliaments — are likely to have ratified the treaty by the end of the year. This will leave Ireland in an isolated position,” he said, ignoring the fact that almost none of the other states will have dared let the population actually vote on the issue. Britain, having been promised a vote, was subsequently denied it by Brown’s cabal.

The Irish government is awaiting a specially commissioned analysis of why the people voted ‘No’. It is due next month.

Prime Minister Brian Cowen is due to travel to Paris next month for talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on a possible way out of the crisis that has left the bloc in limbo.

EU leaders are set to discuss the Irish rejection again at an October summit in an effort to overcome the impasse ahead of elections next year to the European Parliament.

Council workers in Southwark, London, are getting free rides on a private, taxpayer-funded bus service because they are too frightened to walk home past black suburbs next to their offices.

Staff in Southwark Council’s regeneration department in South London are ferried to the nearest train station every night after work to prevent them having to walk through three areas with large non-white and immigrant populations. (Image alongside: Aylesbury Estate residents.)

The first private hire bus pulls up at 4pm outside the council offices to take workers the half-mile to Elephant and Castle Underground station.

The half-hourly shuttle service continues — at £130 per day to the taxpayer — until the last workers are dropped off at the station around 7pm.

A total of six journeys are made each day, at a cost of £910 a week, to ensure the workers do not have to cross the notorious Aylesbury Estate, where, according to official figures, more than 70% of residents are from black and ‘ethnic minority’ communities.

The area is part of the constituency of Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman, who caused controversy in April when she walked around nearby Peckham wearing a stab-proof vest. Her decision to wear body armour came weeks after Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she would not walk the streets of London at night.

The private bus service ferries staff across two of the country’s most dangerous areas, including the Camberwell and Peckham borough wards of Faraday and East Walworth, where the number of robberies is much higher than the national average. Crime is highly prevalent in parts of the estate with police figures reporting a crime taking place every four hours. The population is very racially diverse with two thirds of residents being of black and minority ethnic heritage.

The 2001 Census shows that the borough of Southwark is home to a number of communities which include a high proportion of ‘refugees’. These include Sierra Leone, Cyprus, Somalia, Yugoslavia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Money sent from Southwark indicates the African communities which make up Southwark’s large African population: 27% to Nigeria; 26% to Ghana; and 24% to Somalia. The number of Nigerian-born people alone is close to 8,000; the number of people of Nigerian ethnicity (that is, both Nigerian-born people and the British-born population of Nigerian descent) is likely to be around twice that figure and there is also a similar number of people of Sierra Leonean descent.

In Camberwell, people of black African origin make up 41% of the local population, and in the ward of West Camberwell 24% of the population are black African, 12% are black Caribbean and 31% of the population in West Camberwell were born outside the European Union.