The BNP has continually campaigned for better equipment, yet it is a disgrace that our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, fighting two wars that serve no British interests, are still partly dependent on the ubiquitous Land Rover as a battle vehicle. Many have been destroyed in both Iraq and Afghanistan by ambush with Iran-made roadside bombs, leaving the occupants either dead or crippled for life. It is the pure fighting ability of our troops in Afghanistan overcoming the handicap of shortages of helicopters and other equipment that has enabled them to claim that they have defeated the Taliban militarily: politically is another matter outside the scope of this article.

Our service troops do all this for a salary that is less than that of a traffic warden. But it is not only their pay that should be increased but the medical treatment back home that still does not live up to the promises made. According to a recent British Medical Association report thousands of injured soldiers are not getting the health care they were promised. Many are still on hospital waiting lists despite a pledge over a year ago that they would receive “fast-track” treatment and “priority” health care for conditions likely to have resulted from their service.

Dr Brendan McKeating, chairman of the BMA’s Armed Forces committee, said recently: “Only a minority of veterans are actually receiving priority care. The situation is disgraceful. If we are going to ask people to go out there and put their lives at risk then we have to offer them the best health care when they come back.”

The above appears in John Bean’s Nationalist Notebook in the July issue of Identity.

That it is a myth has been revealed by the figures published by MigrationwatchUK on June lst that of the 2.3 million immigrants arriving in Britain between 1991 and 2006 only 8 per cent were from Europe. We would recognise that this percentage is now higher because immigration from the East European nations did not start until they began to join the EU in 2004. However, as the UK’s credit squeeze and unemployment rises, many Poles and other east Europeans are going back home. This is not the case with the almost one million immigrants from the Indian sub-continent for the period, or the half million from Africa.

Perhaps the above was one of the reasons why a recent parliamentary inquiry let slip that official statistics on the hundreds of thousands of short-term immigrants are “not fit for purpose”. A Treasury Sub-Committee said that the counting system is so unreliable that it is not even possible to know the true population of Britain. It warned that this failure to correctly count the number of foreigners coming into Britain is putting unfair pressure on many local authorities and taxpayers.

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) estimated that there were only 43,000 short-term migrants in England and Wales in the year to June 2005, with just 16,000 of these in Greater London. But MPs pointed out that other measures of the workforce suggest a much higher number. For example, there were 235,640 new national insurance number registrations in Greater London alone during 2005/06.

The above appears in John Bean’s Nationalist Notebook in the July issue of Identity.

This sum would almost match the £15billion hole that has emerged in the accounts of British banks as a result of the sub-prime collapse centred on US housing loans. Yet most of the bonus money has gone to the very investment bankers and hedge fund managers involved in that fiasco! As billionaire investor George Soros said, there will be recrimination. “There is a real problem with incentives for the banking and the hedge fund community.”

Another problem area for “the hedge fund community” must surely be their involvement with the futures market for oil and food. Hedge funds have piled in and many are making vast returns and are seeing the bet as a sure way to make up some of the losses incurred in recent months. However, for some weeks now financial correspondents have been down-playing their affect on the rising price of crude oil in particularly, but also food stuffs. But as Identity goes to press, George Sorus has warned that “speculation is increasingly affecting the price”, and an article in the Sunday Telegraph, May 25th, by Dan Roberts reveals how the hedge fund investors are playing their part in the ever increasing prices we have to pay at the pumps for our petrol and diesel, and also domestic heating oil, apart from this Government’s excessive fuel taxes. He writes:
“Some of the biggest money has been made by the investment banks, who act for hedge fund investors and are allowed special exemptions from rules governing the size of speculative commodity investments. It is no surprise to find that some of the biggest supporters of rising oil prices work in the research departments of such banks.

“Arjun Murti of Goldman Sachs is typical of this more sanguine breed, but at least he has form for getting it right. Last year he shot to fame by correctly predicting the “super spike” that would take oil prices to $100. Now he sees a real chance of $200 in six months to two years.”

Mr Murti is also quoted with the following, which is a good indication of the mindset of global capitalists. “The energy crisis will not be solved by punishing the big, bad speculator. The fact that tight oil (markets) are attracting large amounts of capital is a good thing. Higher oil prices signal to oil companies the need for greater investment and signal to consumers that they need to demand less. This is the point of capitalism”.
So now you know, if you didn’t already. Backing it up is this little gem from the same Dan Roberts article:
“I can tell you that I have made a fortune in the past two months”, says Charles, an oil futures trader. “This is the free market and I’m exploiting the free market, Long live the free market.”

Surely this makes a great case for a Nationalist policy which recognises that although we cannot isolate ourselves completely from the world’s money markets, we can modify its effects by retaining and regaining British control of British industry and resources, including financial resources.

The above appears in John Bean’s Nationalist Notebook in the June issue of Identity.

The following is the editorial by Prafull Goradia in the January 2008 issue of the Indian magazine Jana Sangh Today. Mr Goradia is a former member of the Indian Parliament.

“The Muslim invaders have mysteriously escaped the stamp of an invader in Hindus’ eyes. They stayed for a thousand years; and 60 years ago they took away nearly a third of Hindustan and made it their homeland, called Pakistan. On the other hand, the British ruled for 190 years, did not stay back nor did they take way any territory. Yet, they carry the stigma of an invader. Hindus pat themselves on their back for having waged a freedom struggle and sent back the British in 1947. As a follow up, most of the British street names have been removed; even the names of cities like Bombay, Calcutta and Madras have been changed. But not a single name of a Muslim invader whether Qutbuddin, Tughlaq, Lodhi or Babar has been replaced; nor have cities like Allahabad or Ahmedabad undergone renaming.

“The Muslim invaders exploited the land and its revenue to enjoy luxuries, run harems, acquire jewels and build mausoleums. They hardly took any interest in promoting trade or industry and left no surplus for economic development. Due to their negligence, India missed the industrial revolution till after the British initiated modern mining, textile mills, and other manufactures. Obviously, they did so for profit but their ways of governance were such as to bring incidental benefits to the country: be they the Railways, Post & Telegraph, the Laws, the Universities et al.

“The curiosity of their officers and scholars (British) led to the discovery of what was ancient Indian civilization which the Hindus themselves had largely forgotten. The Muslim invaders destroyed more of the old and created very little new except monuments. Can it not be concluded that the British earned the stigma of being invaders by so governing India as to teach Indians how to aspire for independence? Whereas, the Muslims browbeat Hindus into accepting them as fellow citizens.”

The above appears in John Bean’s Nationalist Notebook in the June issue of Identity.

The alleged £6billion annual benefit of immigration has now been officially exposed in a House of Lords committee report as being untrue. The committee, which includes two former chancellors and several former Cabinet ministers, came to the conclusion that the economic benefits “are small and close to zero in the long run”.

The committee took into account the increase in population, which is 190,000 annual gain after deducting from the immigrant total of some 300,000 those (mainly British) emigrating, and their use of local services such as health, education, and social housing.

David Coleman, a professor of demography at Oxford University, said in his evidence to the committee that the Government had excluded costs from crime, security, the race relations process, health ‘tourism’ and imported ailments such as TB. The real cost of immigration could be in the order of £8.8billion a year.

Richard Pearson, a visiting professor at the University of Sussex’s Centre for Migration Research, said: “While migrants have clearly helped alleviate often long-standing skill shortages, they have also filled many low-skilled jobs, often at very low wages. “

Importantly, he added: “These migrants are likely to be displacing, and reducing the incentive on employers to recruit and train low-skilled, indigenous workers”.

Lord Wakeham, who led the eight-month inquiry, said that high levels of immigration threaten to price millions of Britons out of the housing market over the next 20 years and it would add 10 per cent to the cost of homes.

There are gains from immigration in Britain, but it is for the immigrant himself who earns far more than he/she can in the homeland. Remittances will also help the family of the immigrant and his/her country’s economy. British householders will also benefit when they pay a plumber/carpenter/plasterer or nanny half the wage they would to a British born worker.
So also does the employer whose overheads are cut by using cheap labour and thereby holding down indigenous workers’ wages.

(From my Nationalist Notebook column in the May issue of Identity)

• British Isles: £35.00
• Unsealed air mail Europe: £46.40
• Unsealed air mail, Middle East, Africa, N&S America: £53.70
• Unsealed air mail Australasia, Far East: £53.70

The Met police chiefs told the committee that they needed an extension to the time limit that suspects can be held without charge and that the 28-day limit given by Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, was insufficient.

Interestingly, the former attorney general, Tony Blair’s old chum Lord Goldsmith, said he couldn’t possibly support an extension to the time limit. ”It is also counterproductive because it sends a message to particularly the Muslim communities that we are down on them.” Well, since the IRA dropped terrorism who other than Muslims are practising terrorism in the UK? Sikhs, Hindus, Tibetan’s? I think not! Goldsmith added that young Muslims could use a time extension “as justification for taking up arms”.

Possibly Goldsmith was paying some sort of penance to the Muslim community in view of the fact that it was on his legal advice that Britain went to war with Iraq in 2003 and has incurred the hostility of the Arab world – at one time our friends – ever since.

Lord Goldsmith resigned his former cabinet post just days before Blair left office. Like Blair, he soon found a gravy train to jump aboard, namely a £1m-a-year post with the American law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. His position with the company is “European chair of litigation.” Perhaps if his old mate Tony becomes EU President he can be the chief commissar, or even witch-finder general hunting down unreformed nationalists.

The above is one of the items in my Nationalist Notebook appearing in the May issue of Identity.

• British Isles: £35.00
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• Unsealed air mail, Middle East, Africa, N&S America: £53.70
• Unsealed air mail Australasia, Far East: £53.70

The articles below will help you understand the extent to which immigration is damaging the NHS and placing strain on the UK health facilities.

The time has come to end all immigration into the UK and also to deport all non-UK citizen immigrants who are resident in the UK with chronic medical conditions who have been allowed to stay in the UK and use NHS facilities.

This has to be done on the grounds that their presence in the country threatens the public health and is also diverting resources away from UK citizens who are entitled to use the NHS through their National Insurance contributions, and also due to the contributions of their ancestors whose sacrifices in two world wars led to the creation of the NHS.

AIDS

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n12722823

There were 5,711 new diagnoses of HIV to the end of September last year, the highest since records began in 1987. The rest of the increase, from a total of 41,700 diagnosed cases in 2001, was due to sufferers’ blood being tested without their knowledge.

The number of new cases was 15 per cent up on the 4,982 diagnosed in 2001 and is expected to rise to 6,400 when all the reports are received. The rate of infection has more than doubled since 1997.

Two-thirds of the cases were acquired outside the UK, triggering renewed calls yesterday for immigrants to be screened. The cases’ overseas origin - most from sub-Saharan Africa - has changed the nature of the epidemic, with heterosexual cases now outnumbering homosexual/bisexual infections two to one.

Of the 1,850 cases of HIV acquired in the UK during 2002, about 1,500 - 80 per cent - were among gay and bisexual men and 275 among heterosexuals.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/background_briefings/aids/309025.stm

Heterosexually infected Africans are the second largest group affected by HIV in the country, according to the National Aids Trust.

More than a thousand are thought to have Aids and most children born with HIV are African.

TB

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=563410&in_page_id=1770

The rise in drug-resistant tuberculosis cases in the UK has been linked to immigration and inadequate attempts to control the disease.

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) found more TB cases are now resistant to any of the drugs used for initial treatment.

The incidence of TB in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is rising, with more than 8,000 cases reported in 2006.

Hepatitis B

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article3958418.ece

One in ten of the Chinese immigrant population in Britain is carrying the hepatitis B virus, a survey suggests, leading to calls for all migrants to be screened upon entering the country.

There has been a massive surge in migration to Britain from areas of high HBV prevalence and a report from the Hepatitis B Foundation UK estimates that more than 325,000 people here are chronically infected with the virus – nearly double the Department of Health’s 2002 estimate of 180,000. Most people infected will eventually clear the virus from their bodies, but about 5-10 per cent become chronic hepatitis B carriers, often without even knowing it.

Although the prevalence of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in the resident population is only about 0.3 per cent, 96 per cent of new cases are imported by people who acquired the infection before coming to Britain.

Of 89 Chinese immigrants screened by the Chinese National Healthy Living Centre in London, 10 per cent were found to be hepatitis B positive.

There is a particular risk of transmission between children in playgroups, schools and nurseries as the virus is considered 100 times more infectious than HIV. At present in the NHS there is no requirement for doctors or nurses from overseas to be tested for infection and in 2003 alone, 700 doctors and about 6,000 nurses came to Britain from areas with a high incidence of hepatitis B.

Maternity Services

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6494651.stm

The BBC has been told the influx of eastern Europeans to the UK has led to a massive rise in pregnancies and abortion requests in some areas.

Health professionals warn that some antenatal services are stretched to breaking point.

More than 500,000 eastern Europeans have migrated to the UK following the accession of eight new member states to the EU in 2004.

In one GP practice in Luton in Bedfordshire, 400 new patients register every month - and 80% are eastern European.

A decade ago one baby in eight (12.8%) was delivered to a foreign-born mother, figures from the Office of National Statistics show that in 2006 there were 154,000 births to foreign-born women, making up about one in five (21.9%) of the total births in the UK.

The number of births to European-born mothers other than from the UK and Ireland increased by 87% between 2001 and 2006 to 27,000 - almost 4% of all UK births.

While the number of babies born to British mothers has fallen by 44,000 a year since the mid-nineties, the figure for babies born to foreign mothers has risen by 64,000, the BBC reported.This 77% increase has pushed the overall birthrate to its highest level for 26 years.

The cost to the NHS of providing maternity services for foreign-born mothers has risen to more than £350 million a year, it has been reported. Record levels of immigration have pushed the cost up by £200 million in the past 10 years, according to an analysis by the BBC.

A. They are looking for a viable alternative to the Lib-Lab-Con triumvirate who put on an act of squabbling like ferrets in a sack over the same centre ground multicultural, global capitalist politics.

B. They have seen through the fraud enacted on the voters by the above triumvirate, already vote BNP, and are eager to log on to our policy statements and to read of our continuing progress all over Britain.

C. Marxist masochists and their ilk whose visits to the BNP site are equivalent to a form of self-flagellation.

We would appeal to those in category A above who live in the Greater London area and feel that they must either vote for Boris Johnson or Ken Livingstone, because only they have a real chance of becoming London Mayor on May lst, to read on.

No doubt you are thinking. “OK, I visit the BNP site because I like their stronger line on halting immigration, definitely tougher on crime, and want us out of the EU. Richard Barnbrook seems an excellent candidate, but he can‘t win. So I’m voting Boris/Ken”.

Who says he can’t win ?! Such is the growing level of support that he has a definite outside chance. It is ‘outside’, so we understand your thinking. But the answer is not to give Richard Barnbrook your second vote – and certainly not a second vote for the London Assembly. In the likely run-off between Livingstone and Johnson (both of whom would do precisely nothing about controlling immigration) a second vote given to Richard Barnbrook would just be wasted. Therefore, if you still want to stick by your former voting allegiance merely to keep out Socialist Ken or Tory Boris, BUT would like to see a strong BNP representation on the London Assembly, then give Richard your FIRST vote and your second vote to the Lab-Con of your choice, which would then be taken into account in a run-off.

For the elections taking place elsewhere in Britain, where voters have only the single vote in the traditional first past the post system, for the same reasons we would ask you to lend us your vote.

UKIP and the “Refugee From Haberdashery Department”

The UK Independence Party still has some well-intentioned patriotic people in its ranks – although many have left to join the BNP. It is, of course, a pity about its leadership!

To the voters who might be tempted by UKIP’s traditional election time rhetoric that “we must have some controls over immigration”, we would remind them that the two UKIP members who were elected to the London Assembly in 2004 made even less impact in “controlling immigration” than King Canute in trying to control the waves.

Here are the comments of a fellow London Assembly member, Brian Coleman. Although a Conservative he writes a regular column in the socialist New Statesman magazine (like his boss Dave-boy Cameron still remains a registered supporter of the way-out Marxist Unite Against Fascism organisation).

In the December issue Brian Coleman made an interesting comment on the performance of the two UKIP members of the London Assembly. After less than a year they defected to Robert Kilroy-Silk’s soon forgotten egomaniac and Lib-Lab-Con sponsored Veritas Party (object was to draw support off the BNP). “They now sit as the ‘One London’ Party. One has the look of a refugee from the Haberdashery Department of John Lewis and the other (on the occasions he turns up) plays entirely to the gallery and repeats the views of whoever the last person to knobble him was”.

Whether it is just two BNP members or four who get elected to the London Assembly, the dedication and ability of the whole team will mean that no commentator will ever be able to write the above about them. Of course, they might try to!

“The Greens? The Lib Dems? Think again. The British National Party has a pretty good grasp of peak oil. ‘We are the only political party making this an issue at the moment,’ the party boasts.”

The Times Online continues: “Here’s another quote. ‘When the BNP does win political power, peak oil will not be something we can postpone. 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. 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, bringing it to their awareness and understanding.’”

The above is another sign of the breakthrough the BNP is now making in the media that it is not just a ‘stop immigration and quit the EU’ party. Let us hope that acknowledgement will also be given to us for predicting the virtual collapse of global capitalist expansion. What we are seeing in the world markets is now acknowledged as the worst slump since the 1930s. The US economy is about to be buried by an unstable mountain of debt, with Britain likely to head for the same scenario.

This has all come about because the so-called boom of the global economy was only sustainable with perpetual growth, which meant ever increasing debt for the consumers of its products, whether BMWs from Germany, cheap TVs from China, or mortgages for house buyers.

The origins of this slump can be traced to the United States joining the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA), which accelerated the decline in US manufacturing, including the car industry, with jobs being exported to where labour costs were cheaper. Sounds familiar to British workers? NAFTA also meant that workers from poorer countries, principally Mexico, could come through America’s porous borders and take up jobs in service industries , or even the desperate motor manufacturers looking to cut costs. In Britain, for NAFTA read EU and for Mexicans read east Europeans (apologies to Polish readers for the comparison).

In order to maintain the debt system and to keep the whole show on the road, the hedge fund sector of the global capitalists came up with the bright idea of offering mortgages to American’s poor, including the millions of immigrants, many of whom would soon lose any worthwhile jobs and thus the ability to pay off the mortgage. So, as part of the debt-based system, their debts were sold off round the world to various country’s equivalents of Northern Rock. Their greed overcame common sense.

We would again repeat that although we cannot isolate ourselves completely from the erratic behaviour of the world’s money markets, the way of modifying its effects is to retain and regain British ownership and control of British industry and resources, including financial resources, as well as oil and gas, water and electricity. We must give protection for industry and jobs by selecting tariffs on foreign manufactured goods that we can make competitively ourselves.

We should also take natural monopolies such as electricity, gas, water, the railways, and even the Post Office back into public ownership.

To gain one seat on the GLA will certainly be a victory. Two seats would mean we would be on the verge of a political revolution.
My realism, not pessimism, is based on the fact that Labour is going flat out to motivate the immigrants to get out and vote for Livingstone. Their objective is also to increase the total number of votes recorded so that they can try to get the BNP percentage reduced below the 5% barrier. An example of how many immigrant votes there are for Labour to winkle out comes in an e-mail to me from BNP London activist Bob Gertner. Bob said: “…while collecting nomination signatures for Richard Barnbrook in Lambeth, I came across a two bedroom council flat with 18 Nigerians in it registered to vote!”

Then on March 19th an article in The Times said that postal voting cheats are a threat to the May elections. Judge Richard Mawrey, QC stated that the rules for postal votes were “fatally flawed” and that postal voting on demand was “lethal to the democratic process”. He added that the current system made “wholesale electoral fraud both easy and profitable” and accused politicians of failing to act after past scandals. He urged sweeping reforms to electoral law dealing with corruption.

As The Times reported, his comments came as he found a Conservative councillor guilty of vote rigging by using postal ballots in the names of hundreds of “ghost voters” fraudulently added to the electoral register. Eshaq Khan was stripped of his council seat in Slough and banned from holding office for five years after being found guilty of corrupt practices.

Another hurdle the BNP has had to face in elections in various parts of the country, and London in 2004, is interference with the ballot boxes in transition to the count, where BNP votes mysteriously go missing. This is not paranoia but fact!

We would ask all Identity readers who have relatives or friends in the greater London area to phone or e-mail them and ask them, whatever party they normally support, to take this chance of calling for a halt to mass immigration by voting for Richard Barnbrook, BNP. The worst they can do is to cross you off their Christmas card list.

Away from London, the BNP percentage of votes must surely rise, but realistically it will be a great success to pick up an extra Councillor in Stoke, Burnley, Yorkshire and East and West Midlands, with a possiblity of a breakthrough in Essex.

It was not always like this. Whilst we would not go along with the picture painted by the BBC of a bucolic, tolerant medieval Spain under the rule of Islam, Christians were given some freedom under a late eight century caliph, himself a former Greek from Damascus who had been converted – presumably by the sword. Although this was soon to change under most future Muslim rulers. Then again we should not overlook that the Mughal ruler of India in the 16th century, Akbar the Great, distinguished himself from the slaughter and rapine inflicted upon the Hindu population by most of the other Muslim invaders by allowing all religions to practice freely, and he would enter into discussions with their representatives. Mark you, he was no pussy cat in dealing with anybody who stepped out of line.

In thinking of how we best express the nature of the threat that Islam poses to the West, and the undeniable fact that its Koran clearly states that it tolerates no other religion, I was impressed with a passage quoted on the BNP website by Karl Baxter (who was commenting upon my views on the London mayoral election). They were excerpts from
http://islam-watch.org/MuminSalih/Islam-west-will-lose.htm in an article by an Arab.
“Islam is currently passing through one of its most dynamic times since its rise fourteen hundred years ago. This dynamic period started long before 9/11 as a fierce struggle, mainly against the west, but also against any nation or group that dares to stand in its way. Most Muslims take this resurgence phase very seriously and consider it as a decisive battle between Islam and the Non-Islam, or the kufr, which Mohammed told them they would win. Even though the west, currently, is largely in denial about this makes no difference to the significance to the whole world…

“…It did not take more than one generation for the western nations, which emerged victorious after WWII, to lose their momentum and give up any hope of staying in the lead. I write this part of the article with Britain in mind because it seem to be leading the way.

“The decline of the west is mainly an endogenous problem that neither Islam nor any other external factors can be blamed for. But it is a disturbing observation that the west appears to be doomed with or without Islam, although Islam is taking advantage of the process and is working hard to speed it up. The Islamic predators look at the west as a helpless prey and are closing in waiting for the right moment to make a kill. They are hopeful to inherit the west without even having to fight for it, and they do not make a secret of it. A few years ago, colonel Ghaddafi said that Muslims couldn’t take Europe by force in the past, but now they will take it without force….

“…During the last war, the western nations performance was at its peak. People took no chances; they went through some rough times, suffered hardship, lost lives to secure a good future for their children and grand children. Those children and grand children are today’s westerners who have reaped the fruits of their grandfathers’ hard work. Today’s westerners enjoy a freedom and democracy that they never earned and seem to be reluctant to defend..

“…Instead, the west has opted to taking painkillers in the form of politically correct justifications prescribed to them… I am afraid that is a recipe for disaster.

“The western societies seem to have an inherent serious problem that makes the westerners turn against their own history, heritage, culture and all their past achievements. They happily declare their cultural surrender as they see everything coming from the outside as genuine and honest, and look down at their own as false and corrupt. They are so consumed with post imperial guilt that they are blinded to their countries’ virtues.”

The resultant taxpayers’ exposure to the beleaguered bank has doubled since the beginning of the year and now stands at around £110 billion, which is more than the NHS costs us. Yet the government is keeping remarkably quiet over the fact that all the most profitable aspects of Northern Rock’s business have already been earmarked for the US private equity group JC Flowers and hedge fund Cerebus.

The new executive chairman, Ron Sandler, is well experienced in working with global financial companies. Earning £90,000 a month, Zimbabwe-born Mr Sandler holds a German passport and therefore as a non-domicile does not have to pay any income tax. Nor does his new financial controller, Canadian-born Ann Godbehere who pays her tax in Switzerland. And to underline the fact that it looks as if Northern Rock has been ‘inter-nationalised’ rather than nationalised, as we go to press it looks as if the investment bank NN Rothschild has been appointed to advise Mr Sandler.

The pioneers of the old Labour Party must be spinning in their graves.

One final thought. It is incredible that, when the Government could have invested a few million in Longbridge and kept thousands of car workers jobs, it is now squandering untold billions of our money to put an estimated 2,000 Northern Rock employees out of work.

“This is not a little local credit difficulty for the US financial sector and shareholders in Northern Rock, nor even a replay of the economic weaknesses of the first and final years of the last Tory government; this is going to be an economic crisis of a depth and length unseen since the Great Depression between the wars. This, in a word, is ‘it’”

Since then, the UK stock market has lost some 15% of its value, with several hundred billion pounds being wiped off the value of shares. A similar story .has been repeated in stock markets throughout the globe, with even worse collapses in Asia and Euroland. The conventional method of lowering bank rates has been either ineffective or limited because of its side effect of stoking up further inflation, particularly in rising fuel and food prices. In any case as far as Britain is concerned Government borrowing has already breached official limits, leaving little room to cut taxes or boost public spending to kick start the economy.

For once we will agree with the Conservatives, where their shadow chancellor George Osborne said: “Gordon Brown could have used the boom years to prepare Britain for the lean years. He failed to take the tough long-term choices and so we are not well prepared to deal with the difficult economic times that may lie ahead.”

In the editorial of last year’s September issue of Identity we stated that the global slump that was then beginning was another long term BNP prediction coming home to roost. Although we cannot isolate ourselves completely from the erratic behaviour of the world’s money markets, the way of modifying its effects that we gave then has not changed. We must retain and regain British ownership and control of British industry and resources, including financial resources, as much as is possible. We must give protection for industry and jobs by selective tariffs on foreign manufactured goods that we can make competitively ourselves. We should stop artificially inflating the value of the pound, which makes British workers more expensive and foreign
workers cheaper.

As a footnote to these comments on the financial crisis, on January 10th Tony Blair, not known for his in-depth knowledge of banking, was appointed to the board of Wall Street-owned investment bank JP Morgan Chase at a salary of £2m a year. The following day it was announced that Northern Rock, bailed out by the British taxpayer, had sold its portfolio of lifetime home equity release mortgages for £2.2bn to JP Morgan. What an amazing coincidence.

Now Lee Jasper’s deputy was Rosemary Emodi who with the director of ‘Brixton Base’, Errol Walters, a ‘very close friend’ of Miss Emodi, went on a ‘fact-finding’ mission to Nigeria, staying at a five-star beach resort near Lagos. At first City Hall denied that Miss Emodi went on this jolly with her ‘very close friend’ and said that she was at work in London during the period. Seeing that this fiction would not wash, she was then forced to resign.

Brixton Base has since gone bust, with £535,000 in City Hall money paid into it unaccounted for.

The Channel 4 programme revealed numerous other globe trotting ‘fact-finding’ missions, usually with Red Ken in attendance at the cosmopolitan troughs. More important were the disclosures on his team of unelected advisors, where his connections go way back to when they were all members of Socialist Action, which was the British representative of the old Communist Action Group in Moscow.

In spite of securing the Moslem vote, it would seem that Livingstone is losing votes to all of the Mayoral candidates standing in the May lst election, including to the BNP candidate, backed by a campaign supported by a team of activists from all parts of the country that will have distributed 250,000 special ‘Londoner’ leaflets by the time these words are read.

The BNP’s advance has until recently been a case of three steps forward and two back. Since the New Year it has been more like four steps forward and one back. However, it will take more than that for the BNP Mayoral candidate, Richard Barnbrook, to beat Livingstone and all the Lib-Lab-Cons despite his proven ability to ‘steal a march’ over them.

Richard’s audacity in plonking himself at the head of the 22,500 police protest march through London was inspirational. His reward, which must have been worth another few thousand Londoner’s votes, was to see a report, with a photograph, of his intervention in the London Evening Standard , London TV regional news (until they pulled it), and the Daily Mail, and without a photograph in The Times, Guardian, and the Daily Mirror, plus a scoop for BNPtv who ran the story within two hours of it all happening with full comments from Richard on why he was supporting the police.

The media reports were interlarded with squeals of disgruntlement from the mainly liberal-left at Richard Barnbrook’s attendance. Brian Paddick, a former top cop in the Metropolitan Police and now the Liberal Democrat Mayoral candidate, whinged: “I felt very uncomfortable that there was someone from the BNP. I was aware of him being there and I pointed it out to federation officials but there was nothing more that I could do”. Publisher of Searchlight Gerry Gable, said: “The police federation leaders should have told him to get lost”, splutter, splutter.

Actually Gerry one of the best comments came from the police federation (funnily enough only reported in the Mirror): “He’s a legitimate politician. The BNP isn’t illegal.” Coming from the Mirror that’s real progress for us.

Labour announces with pride that 23,000 failed asylum seekers have been given £4000 each and flown back to their countries of origin. Failed asylum seekers are mostly illegal immigrants. As they have broken our laws the BNP view is that they should be deported to either their homelands, or where not known, to the last of up to ten or more countries they passed through before getting into Britain. The BNP would offer at least £4,000 as a settlement sum for legal migrants in this country, or their descendants, who wished to return to their native lands.

The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, admitted in Parliament that as many as 11,000 foreign nationals could be working illegally in the security industry. There was one, a Nigerian, who was a security guard in her own Home Office.

The following day it was revealed that only 52,000 asylum cases out of a backlog of about 450,000 have been processed by the Home Office since last year – and processing does not mean that more than a handful have been deported. The Daily Mail calculated that it would take 113 years to clear the backlog at the present rate.

Next up came a proposal by Labour’s immigration minister that British families with foreign relatives outside of the EU could have to fork up £1,000 bond for each relative who wanted to come and visit them. It won’t become law because it will be opposed by many Labour and Lib-Dem MPs who are dependent on Indian and Pakistani votes, and if it did its affect on the rate of immigration would be minimal.

It is our young people who are now one of the main sufferers of the effects of mass immigration (see also our comment below). More than 100,000 young Britons may have been pushed into unemployment by the recent waves of economic immigrants from Eastern Europe, according to a new report by leading economic thinktank, Ernst & Young ITEM Club. Over 1.5 million foreign workers have entered the British workplace, with many of these arriving in the past three years and taking jobs “at cut-price rates”. During those three years the number of unemployed British 18 to 24 year-olds has increased by 100,000.

The report says: “There is some evidence that the growth of immigrant employment seen in the last few years may have come at the expense of the domestic workforce.”

This extract is from John Bean’s Nationalist Notebook in the January issue of Identity. To subscribe to Identity, the magazine of the British National Party, go to ‘Resources’ then click on ‘Identity Magazine’.

In refusing to hold the referendum that Labour promised in its last election manifesto, Brown said it is not necessary because the treaty is different from the original draft ‘EU Constitution’, which the voters of France and Holland rejected. Yet most other European leaders have admitted that it is essentially the same. The term ‘constitution’ may have been dropped, but the new treaty will still give more power over foreign policy to unelected officials in Brussels; will have its own permanent president (Tony Blair, god help us?) and foreign secretary. The ‘red lines’ he claimed to have secured in the treaty to protect our interests are illusory.

As the polls show increasing support for the Tories (and 11-12 % for “others”, who are split between BNP and Greens), let us remember that Cameron said that if the Lisbon treaty was ratified then” we can’t go back”. His badgering of Brown to call for a referendum before the treaty was signed was mere play-acting. Because he knew that Brown was going to ignore all calls for a referendum.
As for the Lib-Dems, they have always been fully committed to the EU, and none more so than their new leader Nick Clegg , who looks and talks like a Cameron clone, albeit a slightly younger one.

On the main political issue of today, namely immigration, we would repeat what we said in our December editorial. Under EU law we can do little to restrict the residence of anyone from the other 26 member states. We also have no power to restrict the entry of asylum seekers, since this too is now decided upon by the EU. Under Article 62 the EU now also proposes to abolish any remaining controls “on persons, whatever their nationality, when crossing internal borders.” This means once immigrants from Asia, Africa or anywhere else have landed in Europe, or walked through the completely ineffective ‘borders’ in Poland and Slovakia, they can all come to Britain.

To solve UK immigration problems, we must withdraw from the EU.

This extract is from John Bean’s Nationalist Notebook in the January issue of Identity. To subscribe to Identity, the magazine of the British National Party, go to ‘Resources’ then click on ‘Identity Magazine’.

What I found most interesting was to re-read Nick’s article that was first put up on the BNP website on 21st March 2006: “By Their Friends (Or Lack Of) Shall You Know Them”. It says a lot that this was mysteriously taken off the website.

It is indeed an expose of the internet cockerels of the anti-Semitic new dawn who stand on their virtual reality dung heaps crowing: “We’re in the Middle East for the Jews.”

However, those who did not read the March 2006 article (nearly two years old) should do so for other reasons as well: the prescience Nick Griffin showed in predicting the chaos now afflicting our global capitalist world.

He wrote about a spanner having been dropped into the works of the multi-culti tolerance machine, and of the even bigger debt recycling contraction that passes for the American economy on which it is perched. He added:

“Pieces of the multi-racial genocide machine are already breaking and flying off as a result. Sooner or later, one of these pieces may well in turn foul up something in the workings of the debt-recycling machine, and then opportunity will knock for those who are already organised and positioned to take full advantage of it.”

I repeat, this was said two years ago, long before the first queue was formed outside the local Northern Rock branch office. I would also remind viewers that this is the man who two years prior to that was one of the pioneers in warning of the growing threat posed by “peak oil,” now in common parlance.

Yet (leaving aside the ‘hardliners’) I was approached by a couple of nit-picking barrack-room lawyers who required me to reject Nick Griffin’s leadership - or at least have it put in chains - and whose apparent political priorities centred on their dislike of a couple of leading activists.

Yes Nick, ‘by their fruits (or lack of them) shall you know them’.

John Bean

As some of you know, I have been in Nationalist politics for over 50 years and found through experience that because of the inherent individuality of character among Nationalists and those of the radical right - far removed from the leftist herd runners - they are ready to argue amongst themselves at the drop of a hat.

Someone once said that put any one of us in an empty room and a fight would break out. To which  an old colleague of mind added: “And put John Bean and John Tyndall in an empty room and a Civil War would break out.” I have seen many splits, most of them involving only small numbers of otherwise intelligent people who fail to see that the Party, or political movement, is more important than any differences of opinion, often involving clashes of personality. I saw it happen in the first British National Party, where a strong-minded minority also sought to sow dissension.

Then came the National Front, of which I was one of the three founders (not just founder members), but which within three years was facing its first of many splits. Seeing it become more extreme under the leadership of John Tyndall, I resigned. Having had such great initial promise, the succession  of ‘splits’ left the pathetic rump that has not yet quite expired. The saving grace was that out of the chaotic break-up, today’s British National Party was born.

I re-entered political activity in 1999 in a limited way when I saw that the modern BNP was beginning to attract the support and votes of our people. I could see that this was primarily down to the drive of Nick Griffin and my enthusiasm increased when he took over the Chairmanship from John Tyndall, whose tenacity and loyalty to the cause as he saw it was never in doubt.

We have the chance of a major breakthrough in 2008, and it seems criminal to me to lose this chance through internal squabbling because of personality conflicts. After all, this is not Dateline people have joined but a political party. Argue your concerns  - I do, ask Nick - but don’t throw away our ONLY CHANCE.

Just in case, as some unkind soul has suggested, it is believed that I am only backing Nick because I am able to top up my pension with a “little earner” from editing Identity, this is not so. I  do the job as a labour of love. What is more  I even pay for the bloody stamps when replying to readers letters! Finally, I even have to work with Mark Collett, and somehow, as a team, we produce your magazine every month (if it’s late, it is not Mark’s fault, but usually the Chairman for not sending his article in on time).

John Bean

Editor, Identity

The Swiss People’s Party (SVP) appears to have strengthened its power in last month’s election in spite of having its main election rally in Berne attacked by the far left and anarchists armed with street furniture. The great and the good of the Social Democrats and the bien pensant liberal writers and commentators failed to make much hay with the ‘black sheep’ cartoon, which they said was a shocking example of racism.

The SVP posters showed a white sheep kicking a black sheep off the red pastures of the Swiss flag. They said, rightfully in our opinion, that it was not racist because ‘black sheep’ was a common phrase in German, French and English for an undesirable character who did not play by the rules. In this case the ‘character’ being the illegal immigrant milking the system.

The Guardian of 11.10.07, in an article headed “The Rise of Mosques Becomes Catalyst for Conflict Across Europe”, reported that an SVP MP, Ulrich Schluer, was supporting a campaign to stop more mosques with high minarets being built in Switzerland as he wanted to keep the country culturally Christian. He added: “Unlike other religions, Islam is not only a religion. It’s an ideology aiming to create a different legal system. That’s sharia. That’s a big problem and in a proper democracy it has to be tackled. If the politicians don’t, the people will.”

In Switzerland referendums can be called if 100,000 signatures from the public are obtained. Mr Schluer already had 40,000 signatures.

The Guardian report said that ‘culture clashes’ over Muslim religious buildings have erupted in Italy, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands. This opposition is on a collision course with an Islam, it said, that is now the fastest-growing religion in Europe and which is clamouring for its places of worship to be given what it sees as a rightful and visible place in west European societies.

Anyone whose head is not buried in the sand and who believes it will stop there and not lead to the eventual extinction of all other places of worship - Christian, Jewish, Hindu, or Sikh - is either naive, or a fool, or an obsessive old-school anti-semite who somehow thinks that his enemy’s enemy must be his friend.

The Government’s fiction, eagerly accepted by the Cameroons and the Lib-Dems, was based on the fact that as 12.5% of our work force over the past year is now foreign and average output growth was 2.7 %, therefore immigrants contributed 15 to 20% of this growth which accounts for £6 billion for the year.

What the government brainwashers want you to really believe is that we are all £6 billion better of because we have imported half a million Somalis, 80% of whom do not work; half a million Bangladeshis, 60% of whom do not work; countless thousands of Pakistani peasants, most of whom are unemployable; hundreds of thousands of Africans, who mainly consider work to be beneath their dignity; nearly a million East Europeans, who do work but are paid £5 an hour for picking our fruit and veg or up to £10 an hour as useful tradesmen but undercutting our own people. Even ignoring the drain all these immigrants place upon housing, health, schools and the nation’s infrastructure, are we really supposed to believe their presence gives us an economic surplus!?

The Channel 4 documentary “Immigrants - the Inconvenient Truth” in late September, presented by Jon Snow (certainly no ‘right-winger’) surely disclosed enough evidence to show that most immigrant communities were a “debit on Britain ’s balance sheet’? The programme wasn’t attacked for nothing by all the usual race equality champions and Trevor Phillips and his CRE stormtroopers