IT WAS fitting that the first ever question from a British National Party representative in the Greater London Assembly was about looking after Britain’s pensioners.
Richard Barnbrook asked the new London Mayor Boris Johnson:
“During your election campaign you promised all retired Londoners a 24 hour ‘travel freedom’ pass. When will this pledge be honoured?”
The question took the new Mayor by surprise and he stuttered, ” . . . at the new fare review next year sometime, I don’t know exactly when.”
It was an evasive response which surprised even the Conservative representatives in the chamber. It seems now the campaign is over, Boris doesn’t see his election pledge to pensioners as a priority.
In The Guardian today there is extensive coverage of the British National Party’s growth in Stoke on Trent. Patrick Barkham in his excellent analysis of the political situation in the city, acknowledges that the BNP is listening keenly to the people of Stoke and especially the older generation. He spent time with our councillors and reported:
‘Later that day, Alby Walker, the BNP group leader on the council, turns up for his regular pensioner bingo session at the nearby Abbey Hulton community centre. “I’m not a bingo fan myself. You go along and help put the tables out and take the money. It could be described as a surgery because everyone knows we’ll be there,” he says.’
Looking after the interests of Britain’s pensioners would be the priority for any British National Party Government. It is only right that those who have served this country the longest and paid the most in taxes and in national insurance should receive the benefit of this contribution.
Putting pensioners first when it comes to looking after their health and welfare makes commonsense and that is why our old folk would always be put to the front of the NHS queue.
When your working life is over and you are on a limited income, it is vital that the cost of essential services is maintained at a level that does not hurt the most vulnerable. To ensure that our people have access to gas, electricity, water and public transport at a price they can afford, the BNP would bring them back under state control - it is a scandal that Labour and the Tories have allowed private and in some cases foreign owned firms to make a profit out of supplying the essential services that we can not live without.
The British National Party would re-open the Post Offices that this Labour Government has closed, and massively invest in local public transport. We would stop any further immigration and deport all illegal immigrants and migrant workers to relieve the pressure on housing and social services. We would cut red tape and political correctness within our police force and recruit new and re-train existing officers to do the job the public wants them to do - Keep Britain’s Streets Safe.
To implement our radical manifesto, especially with regard to immigration, the police, import controls, state ownership and the re-opening of our Post Offices would breach EU Directives insisted on by Brussels. Hence a BNP Government would leave the European Union at the earliest opportunity.
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The Guardian link doesn’t work.
I sent a rather log email to BNP Enquiries about what we could do for pensioners.
An increase of £50 per week for single people and an increase of £80.00 per week for couples would cost in year one about £26 billion. After that keep pensions in line with pay increases.
The one off increase could be afforded by aboloshing all quangos,which cost over £60 billion a year, and cutting back on the enormous state bureaucracy.
My figures may be a little out but you get the picture.
Excellent work chaps. As a pensioner myself who has foolishly saved a bit in the bank, it is interesting to note that the current systems discriminate against those who try in some way to save for a rainy day.
Council tax rebate? No you have savings in the bank. Pension credit? No, you have savings in the bank.
Given the current situation, my advice to anyone coming up to retirement would be to waste the lot on a fast car or holidays in the sun.
Fascist attacks ‘immigrants’ in UK national newspaper blog
Interesting comment at the bottom of the page.
http://www.the-latest.com/fascist-politician-blogging-for-british-national-newspaper#comment
Lesh is on the money or rather not in his case and indeed mine as well as millions of other English folk that are cheated by Brown.
Back in the 60’s around Mile End and other parts of east London many British worked at Fords of Dagenham but lived in council flats whilst driving new each year Ford vehicles.Their attitude was that of people who never saw exam qualifications as a barrier but worked hard and spent their money saying why save for old age when the system will pick me up as it did and still does.The fact was then and still is now that not everyone can have that attitude as the money does not exist but for those who used the system it works well.
Having been unemplyable since age 53 and now turned 60 I have received the first benefit ever from Govt in the form of a bus pass.
I applied for pension credit but was rejected as my wife has a job.
Why was it that for all those 37 years of paying into the pot it was never made clear that having a spouse was bad for ones financial security in later years.
I therefore get not a penny of the £125 a week my brother receives as he has no wife with a job.The principle seems sound enough spend what you earn and let Govt borrow money to pay for those who benefit.I cannot however like lesh and many others follow the same path of spending as we were always careful with money whilst others were not so get that expensive car and rent not buy the house.Travel to faraway lands and enjoy yourself.
Trouble is I will have to break the habit of a lifetime of living within my means.
Something which Brown should have been doing these last 11 years.
The link to the Guardian article is here :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/28/labour.thefarright
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Thanks for the link, ttm - as Colonel Hannibal Smith in the A-Team used to say “we love it when a plan comes together” and if the Guardian gets rattled by the BNP’s successes, then we know that what we are doing is right. - Ed
aussiebrit, I note he writes,
“Despite the abhorrence with which most Britons viewed the arrival of the BNP on the political scene.”
Yet once again, no mention of all the really nasty policies that the BNP have–they never ever quote any policies. “I” haven’t found any nasty policies–they are just common sense.
Oh dear, I really thought Boris would have made a better effort in his role as Lord Mayor of London. From a lot of hustling and bustling on his first day to….nothing. Where is all the fighting back against knife crime? This weekend’s papers look like a war-zone for goodness sakes and the comments from people living abroad on some of the online papers with regards to the state of England make me ashamed to live here. The next thing is that the government have washed their hands of this crime stating that there is nothing more they can do and it is now up to the people to fend for themselves. Actually there is something you can do, 5 years for carrying a knife, no ifs, no buts, straight to jail…well, that’s if they weren’t full up. That aside, once again, the BNP is the ONLY party looking out for the people who helped make this country great and in their autumn years deserve help and respect.
ps. Ed, I’m having difficulty registering for the London BNP section. It’s saying that my e-mail address is already in use, (which it is for this section). Help!!??
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The London site requires new registration. Log out from here, clear your cookies and try again with a new login name. If this fails, contact letters@bnp.org.uk with your details and reference to Ed (my approval) for attention of WebMonkey. Thanks. - Ed
Martin with respect you are under -estimating the ‘ pensioner ‘ support for the BNP. In a nutshell, it is huge and to date untapped.
Many pensioners look on Nick Griffin as an old fashioned conservative with centre of the road poltics, and he goes down well with them.
Nice to see Richard standing up for pensioners in The London Assembly. Well done and thank you.
Here is a candidate for Hypocrite of the Week:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1022372/Three-weeks-elected-Mayor-pledging-work-flat–Boris-takes-holiday.html
Mr Creepy-Crawly himself on hols at the first opportunity after only a few days in the job. His work must be sooooo demanding.
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Same old liblabcon trick …… people keep voting for it. - Ed
‘We would cut red tape and political correctness within our police force and recruit new and re-train existing officers to do the job the public wants them to do - Keep Britain’s Streets Safe.’
Hopefully, part of keeping Britain’s streets safe would actually involve patrolling them instead of sitting in a control room spying on the general public as they go about their daily business.
Ed: Regarding This is my country: It is the same as the ‘your say’ section but if you use the same user/login name (ie Winston) you can use the same email address and you will be sent a different password for that section of the website.
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Thanks for highlighting that, Winston.
Always good having you aboard. - Ed
This is my country , you might find it is in your spam folder, hence you have already registered , but havent signed in with the details sent in your email from the BNP.
Not many people realise the scale of which we are fleeced. Our pensioners have paid into a pot. at retirement this pot often amounting to hundreds of thousands is used to buy an annuity with the capital, which is basically an investment. The pensioner lives off the interest from this investment until he or she dies. The pension company then pockets the capital. neat huh. That capital belongs to the pensioner or his family. May I suggest that a BNP policy would allow the pensioner to have the capital not just the interest on the capital. The international banking elite, bush brown et al are correct. We do need a new world order, one based on decent British values not theirs.
The money wasted by this shower of a government is at historically obscene levels.
We could afford decent pensions,more police a good NHS and so on if we employed proper fiscal management. However the idiots in power have never had proper jobs so they have no idea how to run a corner shop let alone the fifth largest economy in the world.They don’t even have to balance their own personal finances because we,the taxpayer,fund their lifestyle.
I have just heard the Clown on Sky News jabbering on about how we can,best, manage the North Sea Oil in the future.I know he signed the Lisbon Treaty but I,obviously, he did not read it because after 2009 the management of energy supplies for all nation states is taken over by the EU.
We are being governed by the biggest buffoon in history.
“Despite the abhorrence with which most Britons etc.” I hate such silly, sweeping statements. Did saba7saba7 go knocking on millions upon millions of doors and have the courtesy to ask them? Most real Britons are ‘probably’ (I haven’t asked them yet) ecstatic at the arrival of the BNP as a major force in politics.
The pensioners have been continuously betrayed and kicked in the teeth and crotch by this Lib/Lab/Con Alliance Party. More and more of them are becoming web savvy (and BNP aware) and seeing the gang of three for what they really are. If the BNP get the pensioners on-side and continue to look after them always, the three main parties will eventually wither to a Parliamentary rump and all the BNP will have to worry about is never ever to take their votes for granted like these mainstream swine have.
On a different topic Valentine Gray asked if we could have an October Revolution.This may not be possible but I would love to see a meeting arranged for all the regular contributors to this site.
What a cracking night that would be. Everyone having their say over a few pints of beer. Of course Ed would have to be in the chair to keep things in some sort of control.
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Such a meeting would be great, getting some very good heads together.
Bearing in mind, however, that Ed is a different creature when off duty and likes a pint or two as well ;-)
The RWB this year may offer opportunities for a get-together. - Ed
Slightly off-topic but Nick Clegg is getting a real drubbing on the Telegraph website today after writing an article there.
The BNP is getting some good plugs from readers so get over there and add more power to our elbow - and give that ‘Common Purpose’ traitorous git a good verbal lashing.
http://tinyurl.com/46qumw
Richard Barnbrook is like a breath of fresh air compared to the same stale, old fare served up by the lib/lab/con two-faced liars. In putting the cause of our vulnerable senior citizens up front Richard shows his intention to highlight the plight of the often ignored majority population.
The video of him at Sidcup trying to ascertain the true facts surrounding the murder of young local lad Robert Knox proves he is a man of mettle too, & he will not be cowed by the left-wing Red Fascists.
The election of Richard Barnbrook & the great work being done by BNP councillors in Stoke & throughout the country proves that local democracy driven by the BNP can repair the country bit by bit by bit. I hope the British public contiues to awaken from its slumber & elects more BNP politicians to stop the wilful destruction of our country.
The goal of this misgovernment is to ensure that ordinary people are born with nothing and die with nothing, having been taxed and swindled all their lives. The money that is garnered in and NOT spent on the taxpayer is astronomical - all that money should be devoted to improving our lives, not sent off as tribute to other countries or paid into the accounts of freeloaders of all persuasions.
We are already being treated like dhimmis, only in servitude to the EUSSR instead of to Muslims (that is, until they unite and become one). There are vast heaps of money in the government coffers but it is just being wasted on frivolous quangos, non-jobs and unnecessary building, amongst other things. It’s all being treated as if it’s lottery money rather than the creamed-off skimmings from the earnings of hardworking ordinary people.
Just look at the BNP’s manifesto and think what we could actually do with all that. We are not poor, although we are being made to feel as if we are. It’s because we are supporting so many blood-sucking parasites. Time to bring out the nit-comb and go through those accounts. Once again, it’s not incompetence - it’s embezzlement.
May I suggest that Taxes on pensions for the over 65’s be abolished.
You might think this would reduce revenue but I don’t think it would, after all our Pensioners would have more money to spend and this would be picked up by increased VAT receipts as they spent their increased wealth.
Ie taxing after People spend rather than before.
Well done Richard Barnbrook,out of his corner and into the fight straight away.As for Boris,it is as we all said,’a bag of hot air,nothing else’.Good article from the Guardian,still can’t resist a few knocks though.Our ‘Quite Revolution’I think,is getting a bit noisier,but needs to be a lot louder as time begins to run out.
Rules on how to interpret hostile reports.
#1 when they say 10% against it … you should read 90% for it.
.. for example … The Guardian says, “Some fear that the far-right party could be running the town hall by 2011.”
This really means that the vast majority have finally woke up to the fact that voting for the Lib/Lab/Con-men was not in their best interests.
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And some people fear there will be no meaningful elections after 2009! - Ed
Importance of research and reliable figures
The BNP is unique in collecting details and figures for racist crime against whites.
It only just struck me that another thing that’s needed, possibly more important in view of numbers, is reliable information on benefits. With murders, it’s obvious someone’s been killed. With benefits, the facts are kept secret — for example housing and rent details for ‘asylum seekers’ are covered by the Official Secrets Act! Newspapers have fragments — the Muslim gun runner, loaded with money, was also getting £1000 a month benefits; Abu Hamza had a wife, kids, house, all paid for - hundreds of thousands of pounds; etc. The media are virtually silent on this, and presumably, as with crime, this must be deliberate — it’s simply not possible for bias on such a scale to be chance. I hope we can develop some network of people who understand the fantastic complications of the benefits system with a view to overhauling it properly.
Mr Barnbrook should propose to Doris Johnson that more war memorials to Britains war dead should be built and the abomination that is the Nelson Mandela statue should be REMOVED.
He should also remind him why ‘Lest We Forget’ is engraved on the war memorials across the land. - Ed
From the Guardian article:
[quote] The report, commissioned by John Healey, the minister for local government, urges Stoke to reduce the size of its council and to rediscover its civic pride, while telling political parties they need to re-engage at a local level. In recommending a drastic cutting of councillors and a referendum on whether Stoke should keep its mayor, there is a danger Labour will be seen to be changing the rules to stop a future BNP mayor. But Tappin believes that keeping the system will guarantee a BNP triumph. “If we get the structure wrong and there is an elected mayor, this city will become controlled by the BNP,” he says. [unquote]
Well, there it is, folks - yet more gerrymandering coming our way. The Establishement obiously doesn’t care what the people think and want: if they don’t tow the line then rules WILL BE CHANGED AND BOUNDARIES REALIGNED.
Be on your guard, BNP.
From the “Guardian” report: “Elsewhere, local Labour groups were modernised by POLYTECHNIC LECTURERS or LAWYERS in the 70s and 80s. In Stoke, there was no pool of talent for the party to renew itself.”
That says it all about NuLayabouts.
There are other, more honest pools of talent which Stoke BNP possess. This has now become self evident.
I am a pensioner and my BNP membership card finally dropped through the letter box this morning.
Knuckle dragging morons indeed!
It is they who are the morons.
I’m glad to see Richard ‘The Lionheart’ is keeping Boris the Bozo on his toes ( I can’t say keeping him honest can I, M’lud ).
We wouldn’t know he was still Mayor such is his lack of presence, and I don’t mean physical, he just ain’t at the races.
Read the link to the Guardian. Mr. Walker gets one quote in (brief) and some part quotes, which don’t mean much. There are an awful lot of lengthy quotes from adversaries though. Bearing in mind the popularity of the BNP, as opposed to Labour he should be getting more of the interviewing as a new breath of popular fresh air in the area. Still we can’t start having fair reporting can we, we’re used to getting there the hard way!
It’s good to hear that Richard Barnbrook is already starting to keep Boris on his toes with regard to election promises. Let all of the other assembly members see what a representative of the people is supposed to do once elected. I believe they probably think that all they have to do now is go to sleep and take the money. Richard’s efforts will not go un-noticed by the people (if it is reported in the biased media of course).
Reading comments in the links to newspapers in the comments here, it would seem that people, even Tories, are beginning to realise that they have no choice when voting for the main parties. Some are mentioning the BNP or it’s policies as a viable alternative. Do I sense a great awakening coming on?
As more s*** hits the fan many more will awaken to the stench!
Re Lesh and David Little above, anyone with the values of self-sufficiency and self-help who put a bit by for their retirement and didn’t p**s it all up the wall will now find after retirement that they will still have substantial amounts of money taken off them to support people who did spend their lives wetting the wall. They will not get any of the government handouts that McBroon and cronies are forever telling us are available unless and until their savings and income are whittled away reducing them from being “nearly-poor” to “poor”. Receiving one benefit then opens the door to receiving many other benefits. When you get to be 70, anybody like David, if you’ve still got anything left in the bank and/or a pension that you’ve saved for which is above an arbitrary limit, you will find if the present rules continue, that the personal allowance that should increase to a higher figure when a person becomes 70, will not be increased. Yet another hidden tax.
The welfare state punishes those who have helped themselves and rewards the indolent, those who play the system and those who do not deserve help. Few would begrudge those who justly do deserve help, for instance, those whose company pension has gone bust. (Here is a case where there’s been a crying need since before Maxwell for legislation to “ring-fence” pension pots to prevent company bosses getting their grubby hands on the company contributions to the pension pot. But Government has favoured the soul-less company entity rather than real people - probably because of donations to party funds.)
And Council Tax - well that’s another astronomical abomination for the pensioner if he’s managed to save anything. And that’s a tax levied on money that’s already been taxed. A very great deal of that money is taken to pay somebody else’s pension, council staff, police, etc. Pensioners have been treated abominably for years.
By jove Mr Barnbrook, if you ask Boris about any more of his promises–I mean lies–he may have a heart attack. Do be careful–we wouldn’t want to strain any paramedic’s back from lifting him onto a stretcher now would we?
So when is Boris going to reply as he has gone on holiday to Turkey. So much for all the hard work he told us he was going to put in to his new job!
We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good Earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut our selves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want; our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities all will be lost. Modern technology has brought us closer together, the very nature of which cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood: for the unity of us all.
We are all victims of a system that makes men torture, makes prisoners of innocent people. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. So don’t give your selves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you and regiment your lives, tell you what to do and what to think and what to feel; who drill you, direct you and treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men: you have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate, only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty. In the 17th chapter of St Luke it is written that the Kingdom of God is within man, not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men, in you.
You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let us use that power, let us all unite, let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work; that will give youth a future, and old age a security.
By the promise of these things brutes have risen to power, but they lie, they do not fulfill that promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. now let us fight to fulfill that promise, let us fight to free the world; to do away with greed, hate and intolerance.
Let us fight for a world of reason: a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
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Amen to that. - Ed.
Powerful stuff, Vman. You can find it all on the BNP site - the victories of the past, the mistakes of the present and the hopes of the future. Keep it coming, we need to know what we’re fighting for.
Apropos Boris Johnson, the straw-headed buffoo; I hear that one of his priorities on taking office was to betake himself off to Turkey for a much needed holiday. Is this an example of going back to one’s roots? Or is the job already too much for this outstanding politician?
It seems to me that we,the British, count for little in all political calculations. Time for a change!
Are these the same brain-dead pensioners who have voted Labour and Tory all their lives; failed abysmally to make their voices heard when our government was hijacked by the extreme left and the multiculturalists; and helped create a society so horrific that youngsters today are inheriting a nightmare?
Bah!
Victims of crime being FAILED again..http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/latest/2008/05/28/police-criticise-early-release-from-prison-89520-20432500/
I’m a member because of policies like this! If you are not already a member, is it not time you joined up now?
The fight is only just beginning, I can’t wait nor should you!!!
The way we treat out old folk is one of the many national disgraces in Britain today. Careful ‘prudent’ cutbacks on waste and both national & local level, could easily pay for a £50 pw increase, if not more.
Yes it’s fine saying the BNP will look after the elderly in order to get them on board but how exactly will it be achieved?
Is it not just empty promises, there simply is not enough money to go round……….no wait.
Here’s £100 Billion wasted on Quangos and Non Jobs.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/1982990/andpound100bn-a-year-spent-on-quangos.html
http://tpa.typepad.com/bettergovernment/files/080515_structure_of_government_1_unseen_government_immediate_release.pdf
Oh and here’s £35Billion wasted on the EU.
http://www.brugesgroup.com
Bring the Troops home from the two Illegal wars that Blair Knew the evidence was fixed.
http://www.livevideo.com/video/rclark23/1E8F485B900C44498E90AD06E7088446/-war-criminal-ex-mi6-head-dea.aspx
Shall we say, £150 Billion?
Now let’s say there are 20 Million households in Britain, that’s… 150 Billion / 20 Million = £7500 per household, per annum.
Basically £600 Per Month. I’m sure more money could be found. Yes you’re right BNP, the Money is there, but it is being squandered by our cancerous Government and the EU.
As an OAP myself,who spent forty years on deep water trawlers,and suffer from arthritis in my lower limbs from standing waist,[yes waist] deep in freezing fish and water inside the arctic circle,for weeks at a time,I can assure all the mean spirited people out there that I do not feel in the least overprivileged to draw my pathetic £119 per week.The government put all the fishing industry out of business,just like they’re putting every other industry into non-existence.By the way,in case anyone thinks that ALL fishermen were compensated for the loss of their means of livelihood,I was considered unqualified because I spent a short spell in 1959, in the merchant navy,so I, like lots of other fishermen, were ROBBED of their compensation,and never received a penny.Such are the principles of Nu Labour. NEVER AGAIN!!