The British Government, with its invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and unequivocal support for Israel in its suppression of the Palestinians, is a clear-cut enemy of Islam. The idea that a group of Muslims, lured no doubt by a lucrative financial arrangement paid by this very enemy of Islam, will hold any credibility within the mosques of Britain shows that Labour is just as out of touch with the Muslim Community as it is with the aspirations of the public in general. Islam is by far the most powerful religion in the world. Its strength comes from its no-compromise approach and rigid adherence to the Koran in its fundamental form. Christianity’s collapse has come about because it has tried to accommodate society’s latest fads and trends which has ended up alienating vast numbers of its followers. There’s no such nonsense with Islam. You are either a Muslim following the Koran or you are a non-believer. There is no such thing as a moderate Muslim. When Muslims want advice they go to their local mosque, they certainly won’t be waiting for a Government pronouncement from its Muslim Committee.

The fact that the Government has launched this desperate initiative indicates that Gordon Brown and his cabinet have information that there is a very real threat from Muslim extremists to the public. If this is the case, then it’s not another tame-Muslim committee that is needed but swift action to tackle the problem. We have got to stop this appeasement of Islam that is being spearheaded by our own Archbishop of Canterbury, senior judges and politicians with a vested interest. They are encouraging Muslims living here to believe that one day Britain may well become an Islamic state.

We must make it very clear that this will never be the case by confronting the spread of Islam head on with measures that start immediately to reduce its influence within Britain.

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He wants a financial levy placed on every single television programme produced, and if that production meets its ethnic minority quota and diversity targets it would get the levy re-funded - if it doesn’t, it is fined by losing that levy.

This is tantamount to blackmail and Trevor Phillips is quite open in acknowledging this:
“What we need is a mechanism to bend resources and action in the direction of making things happen. I believe the best way to do this is to use the industry’s own market mechanism, the commissioning process, and to tilt the playing field decisively in favour of rewarding diversity,” he said.

In a report to Channel 4, the former television presenter accuses mainstream broadcasters of tokenism and stereotyping, screening exaggerated and extreme representations of minority communities, failing to reflect modern ethnic minority culture, and of fostering a lack of black and Asian people in positions of power within the media.

However, in his report he did admit that in a survey most British people said that they found that television more than reflected the make-up of Britain’s population, with its 10% of ethnic minority communities. Apparently it was only the ethnic minorities themselves that didn’t feel that this was the case.

Now I’m 57 years-old and I have seen huge changes in television programming. Ethnic minorities are now clearly over represented in the field of presentation with there being far more than the one-in-ten that would reflect their number within the population. And this over-representation has come at a cost. Much better qualified White newsreaders, reporters, weather forecasters and programme presenters have been cast a side to make way for less competent applicants from the ethnic minorities.

The BBC’s over compensation to the ethnic minorities doesn’t stop there. With its news reporting, especially with the film footage accompanying reports, sometimes you could be mistaken for thinking that it was White people who are in the minority in Britain today. When the news item concerns education in particular, in many instances the school shown to accompany the report doesn’t have a single White pupil!

Last week, the BBC’s new drama series, Bonekickers, not only has a plethoria of ethnic minority actors but the first storyline was about nasty White Christians forming underground cells in the UK to murder poor innocent Muslims. I know drama programmes are in the main make-believe to provide the viewer with an escape from the hum-drum of day to day living, but surely that plot turned reality on its head to such an extent that it was nonsensical.

No doubt Bonekickers ticked all Trevor Phillips boxes for it to have its levy returned . . . I expect the cheque in the post!
]]> http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/07/broadcasters-told-employ-more-ethnic-minorities-or-get-fined/feed/ http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/07/labour-brings-zimbabwe-politics-to-sheffield/ http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/07/labour-brings-zimbabwe-politics-to-sheffield/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:00:02 +0000 Martin Wingfield http://www.bnp.org.uk/?p=2994 THE TRUE anti-democratic face of New Labour has been exposed for all to see in Sheffield.

Labour Party thugs have intimidated the committee of a local social club into cancelling a meeting of the British National Party due to be held in the city tonight.

The meeting was set to be held at Southey Social Club, but following a barrage of threatening and abusive telephone calls, the club steward called in the police and on their advice cancelled the booking.

Talking exclusively to the BNP website, an insider at the club revealed the level of intimidation that had come from Sheffield Labour Party.

“If the public knew what had taken place, they would be appalled. A legal and democratic political party have been denied the right to hold a meeting because another political party, the Government party, have used threats and intimidation to get it cancelled. Sheffield has seen Mugabe and Zimbabwe politics at its worst this week, without a doubt.
“Labour MPs have been involved. Labour City councillors have been involved. But the final straw has been the threat by partisan licensing officials concerning the future of the club. There was no option but to cancel the event if the club wished to carry on in business.”

And the Labour Party thugs even bragged about how they had got the meeting called off and denied the people of Sheffield the chance to hear a BNP spokesman.

Sheffield councillor Jackie Drayton told the Sheffield Star newspaper:
“The first battle is over and we won – I’m sure there will be more.”

The British National Party warned back in 2002 of the threat immigration posed to the environment through the carbon footprint caused by the large scale movement of people and the demand for accommodation once the immigrants got here. Now, our warning has finally been heeded, and a report from the Commission for Rural Communities (CRC), which has analysed the state of the countryside, has acknowledged that the character of “large parts of England’s countryside is changing”.

Since 2002, the number of immigrants living in rural areas has tripled, even dwarfing the staggering 86% rise in those living in our towns and cities.

The average house in the countryside now costs £257,600 compared to £212,823 in urban areas, a rise fueled by White Flight as Brits flee the inner cities to escape the knife crime epidemic and an increase in the number of second homes being used as weekend retreats.

The report also found that the sharp rise in immigration in rural areas had put pressure on services and pushed local residents to the back of the queue.

Dr Stuart Burgess, the Chairman of the CRC, said:
“The character of large parts of England’s countryside is changing as a result of new build developments.
“The decline in services in rural areas continues to concern rural communities. Each year we have found there are fewer outlets for many services and poorer accessibility to services for people without cars.”

A separate report published by the Parliamentary Committee for Communities and Local Government also echoed what the British National Party has been saying, warning that public concerns about the effects of migration arise from anxieties about practical issues on housing and other local services.

“Local services are unable to respond to rapid population changes and are left under-funded as a result of the current funding system. This situation is putting local public services under pressure,” said Dr Phyllis Starkey, the chair of the Committee.

The Government’s knee-jerk reaction to the problem is to ask immigrants pay a new levy to help fund public services.

The British National Party’s policy to protect our countryside is to stop any further immigration and return all migrant workers and illegal immigrants to their country of origin.

]]> http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/07/report-echoes-bnps-warning-on-threat-to-the-environment-posed-by-immigration/feed/ http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/07/a-coal-miner-speaks-out-over-labours-betrayal-of-his-industry/ http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/07/a-coal-miner-speaks-out-over-labours-betrayal-of-his-industry/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:30:23 +0000 Martin Wingfield http://www.bnp.org.uk/?p=2948 YOU WOULD have thought that a Labour Government would have taken great pride in rebuilding Britain’s coal industry after it had been devastated by the Tories, but nothing could be further from the truth.

In 1997 when it came to power, Labour promised to halt the decline of the coal industry but the following list of closures bears testament to a catalogue of betrayal.

Pits closed in 1998
Silverdale, Staffordshire
Monktonhall, Mid Lothian

Pits closed in 1999
Calverton, Nottinghamshire
North Selby, Yorkshire

Pits closed in 2000
Annesley / Bentinck, Nottinghamshire
Blaenant, South Wales

Pits closed in 2002
Longannet complex, Fife
Prince of Wales, Yorkshire

Pits closed since 2003
Riccall, Selby Complex, Yorkshire
Stillingfleet , Selby Complex, Yorkshire
Wistow, Selby Complex, Yorkshire
Ellington, Northumberland
Rossington, Yorkshire.

A miner working at Thoresby Colliery, wrote to the British National Party’s newspaper, Freedom, providing an insight into what it’s like to work in the coal industry today.

“Having grown up in the mining community of Sutton-in-Ashfield I saw first hand what damage a Conservative government can do. I served in the Army before getting an apprenticeship at Thoresby Colliery at the age of 23.

“When Labour came into power I really thought things would get better. But now everyone in the industry is worried about the security of their jobs.

“Labour have refused to step in, in any contracts between power generators and UK coal to help secure a better price for indigenous coal closer to the market value. Foreign coal is being imported for over £10 a tonne more, but the Government have subsidised the cost of its transport which is in fact subsidising imported coal at a time our mines are fighting for survival. That’s hardly the help they promised.

“Harworth colliery is now due to re-open, but this is no thanks to the Government. It is purely down to the rising cost of fuels making coal investment more attractable. UK coal has also had to sell off land for yet more housing developments to part finance the project.

“Recently, Thoresby and Welbeck collieries have had large numbers of Polish miners working at them on short term contracts (16 weeks) and due to this, and the lack of English mine contractors, Polish contractors are now being imported. Hardly in accordance with Gordon Brown’s 2007 conference call of “British Jobs for British people”.
]]> http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/07/a-coal-miner-speaks-out-over-labours-betrayal-of-his-industry/feed/ http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/07/nuclear-policy-on-the-hoof-threatens-future-generations/ http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/07/nuclear-policy-on-the-hoof-threatens-future-generations/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:01:12 +0000 Martin Wingfield http://www.bnp.org.uk/?p=2946 LABOUR has lost its grip on government and is running around like a headless chicken. It is making up policy on the hoof in a desperate attempt to show the public that it is still in charge, but this is a dangerous road to go down and decisions made now, in panic, could have a long-lasting effect on future generations.

None more so than Gordon Brown’s announcement that Britain is to build EIGHT new nuclear power stations and will fast-track through new reforms to allow planning approval for plants without public consultation.

The British National Party acknowledges that Britain needs nuclear power. In our integrated energy policy we see nuclear energy providing up to 20% of the country’s needs and with this coming from our existing ten nuclear power stations after they have undergone a structured programme of upgrading and refurbishment.

But it must be renewable energy and a revitalised coal industry that provide the country with the bulk of its energy needs because of nuclear power’s deadly legacy - radioactive waste. Energy Secretary John Hutton talks of protecting taxpayers from the cost of decommissioning the waste, which the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority says will be £73billion over 100 years, but there is nothing forthcoming from the Government on protecting the British people from nuclear waste itself.

Our coal industry, overhauled throughout to clean coal technology, has a major role to play in providing our electricity in the future. Clean Coal is the perfect complement to nuclear, gas and renewables, ensuring that Britain isn’t relying on a single source of power.

Coal is something we have in abundance. The British Geological Survey, in a report to the Department of Trade and Industry for its review on the suitability of the UK coal resource for new technologies, found that the volume of our coal reserves represents 200 years supply based on the current UK coal consumption of 64 million tons per annum.

A thriving British coal industry will ensure our country can’t be held to ransom by imported gas. It will also close the UK’s energy gap and secure future energy supply because coal it always readily available and can be stockpiled.
]]> http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/07/nuclear-policy-on-the-hoof-threatens-future-generations/feed/ http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/07/bnp-contesting-three-elections-this-thursday/ http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/07/bnp-contesting-three-elections-this-thursday/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:03:06 +0000 Martin Wingfield http://www.bnp.org.uk/?p=2935 THREE out of the four local council by-elections taking place on Thursday give the electorate the chance to vote for a British National Party candidate.

In Worcestershire, following the death of Labour councillor Betty Passingham who held a seat on both the county council and Redditch Borough Council, there are two contests in Arrow Valley East Ward for the former and Batchley ward for the latter.

Maurice Field is our candidate in both elections, but it is in Batchley ward on which our attention is focussed the most as two years ago the BNP polled a creditable 424 votes there, which was 20% of the votes cast.

We didn’t contest the ward in May, so it will be a test of our voter loyalty to see if that level of support holds up after 24 months.

Arrow Valley East is a huge county council ward consisting of the Church Hill, Matchborough and Winyates wards of the borough council. It is the inclusion of the last ward which makes it quite an interesting contest for us as this is the BNP’s best ward in Redditch. In May this year we polled 549 votes which was 22% of the total vote.

BNP Deputy Chairman Simon Darby, has been out canvassing in the ward, and in between the downpours reported that there was a favourable reception on the doorstep.

Here are the details of these two elections.
Redditch Council
Batchley Ward
Greg Chance (Lab)
Maurice Field (BNP)
Brenda Quinney (Con)
Russell Taylor (Lib-Dem)
May 2008: Con 968, Lab 709, Lib-Dem 205.
May 2007: Labour 837, Con 639, BNP 424, Lib-Dem, 175 Ind 34.

Worcestershire CC, Arrow Valley East
Juliet Brunner (Con)
Maurice Field (BNP)
Debbie Taylor (Lab)
Diane Thomas (Lib-Dem)
May 2005: Lab 4584, 4458. Con 3185, 2679. Lib-Dem 2103, 1853.

The other election is in the London Borough of Hillingdon where our new BNP group is contesting its first election. Townfield ward is a Labour seat and when it was contested the last time, back in May 2006, Labour had a big majority.

This lead has dwindled over the past two years and taking the results from the London Assembly election and breaking them down into ward returns we can see that in Townfield Ward, Labour’s lead has been whittled down from 700 to 400 by the Tories. The BNP’s vote in the ward from the GLA election was an encouraging 221 and that level of support was enough to push the Lib-Dems back into fourth place.

It is hoped that our candidate Denis MacDonald and his small campaign team can encourage those BNP voters of two months ago to turn out again and cast their votes for the British National Party.
Here are the candidates.

Hillingdon Council
Townfield Ward
Roy Chamdal (Lib-Dem)
Catriona Corfield (Green)
Andrew Cripps (NF)
Tony Eginton (Lab)
Denis MacDonald (BNP)
Kashmir Pahal (Con)
May 2008: Lab 1042, Con 663, BNP 221. Lib-Dem 124.
May 2006: Lab 1503, 1379, 1358. Con 743,657,637. Lib-Dem 352,334,323.

The Rutherford Laboratory in Harwell, Oxfordshire, is to be the home of HiPer, which will use high-energy lasers to cause hydrogen to fuse into helium.

The aim is to destroy matter by turning it into pure energy, the same process that powers the stars, and to control it to offer humanity a new source of energy.

Given that oil supplies are not infinite, and that conventional fission nuclear power has serious safety and waste disposal issues, controlled hydrogen fusion offers one of the few possible ways of sustaining an advanced technological civilization in the long term.

Britain is not the only country launching a new programme to try to harness fusion. The French are trying a different technique, using magnets rather than lasers, at their £8billion ITER project, aiming to achieve controlled fusion power by 2022. The Americans are trying a third way at their National Ignition Facility in California.

Internationalists are not happy that three different countries are trying three different approaches to the problem like this.

The European Union is trying to get the French and British to merge their projects into one Euro-fusion programme, but they would do well to consider why it was Western, not Eastern, civilization that cracked a similar huge challenge 500 years ago - discovering and settling the New World of the Americas.

Back then the Chinese had a headstart and by 1430 their giant exploration fleets had got as far as East Africa, and could easily have gone on to discover Australia and the American West Coast. But all the efforts of their civilization were controlled by the one Chinese superstate that made it up. When the leadership of that state changed, a single decision on their part in 1433 scrapped the oceangoing fleet, sacked its commander Zheng Ho, and shut down the whole programme.

Western civilization, on the other hand, was made up of lots of independent nation states. Some weren’t interested in exploration - Columbus got a frosty reception from governments in his native Italy. Some backed the wrong horse including Portugal which started exploring East instead of West.
But others such as Spain and then England and France were free to back independent ideas which succeeded. So Americans North and South now speak English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, not Mandarin or Cantonese.

Similarly, in the struggle to control and harness the star fire, lots of separate independent national programmes, each trying a separate angle, is a strength, not a weakness. One big European or UN programme might choose the wrong tack, or simply be cancelled by a single decision.

Some of the separate national programmes will doubtless fail, or be scrapped, but the more separate, free nations try independently, the more likely humanity as a whole is likely to succeed.

This article by Steve Johnson appears in the July issue of Freedom.

Yoy can subscribe to Freedom, the newspaper of the British National Party, here.

THE British National Party are involved in three local council elections today, in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Essex.

The three contests are very much ‘looking to improve our vote‘ contests as the Party seeks to build up its foundations of support in preparation for next year’s all-important European Elections.

In Cranbrook Ward for Redbridge Council, our candidate Anthony Young has something of a mountain to climb. You only have to take a look at the names of the candidates standing for the three main parties back in 2006 to understand the reasons why . . . Ashok Kumar (Con), Muhammad Asif Niaz (Lib-Dem), Surinder Pahl (Lab), Shushila Patel (Lab) and Satnam Singh (Lab).

But after the London Assembly elections in May of this year, we do have a benchmark as to our support and something to build on. The BNP share of the vote in Cranbrook ward was just 2.2% and we were even beaten by the Respect candidate so, hopefully, there’s only one way our vote can go and that is up!

The ward should be a keenly contested marginal but with the Labour vote in freefall it looks a safe Tory seat.

Redbridge LBC
Cranbrook Ward
Thursday 10th July 2008
Matthew Chaudhary (Con)
Helen Duffett (Lib-Dem)
Barbara White (Lab)
Anthony Young (BNP)
London Assembly -May 2008: Con 1153, Lab 1151, Lib-Dem 227, Res 212, BNP 62.
May 2006: Con 1778, 1625, 1500 Lab 1070, 1013, 961. Lib-Dem 551, 514, 495.

In Dalton Ward for Kirklees Council, Jonathan Wright is standing once again for the BNP. He was our candidate just two months ago when he polled 460 votes which was 10.7% of the vote.

Here again, Labour was a main player and the interest lies in whether or not its vote will hold up and if it doesn’t, where will it go. Hopefully the BNP will attract some of it and our vote will improve on May’s tally.

Kirklees MBC
Dalton Ward
Thursday 10th July 2008
David Hargreaves (Green)
Martin Leonard (Con)
Peter McBride (Lab)
Alison Munro (Lib-Dem)
Colin Walder (Ind)
Jonathan Wright (BNP)
May 2008: Lib-Dem 1467, Lab 1303, Con 830, BNP 460, Green 212.

By far the most interesting contest for us today is in Wigan West where BNP candidate Christopher Hilton will be hoping to increase our share of the vote from the 14.5% polled in May.

This is a Labour stronghold and it is difficult to see it ever being anything else, but if disillusioned Labour voters are looking for an alternative then the BNP might just fit the bill.

No doubt the Labour candidate is hoping that with UKIP deciding to enter the fray, their candidate will syphon off a few possible BNP voters.

Wigan BC
Wigan West Ward
Thursday 10th July 2008
Trevor Beswick (Lib-Dem)
Jonathan Cartwright (Con)
Steve Dawber (Lab)
Sandy Franzen (CAP)
Christopher Hilton (BNP)
Keith Jones (UKIP)
May 2008: Lab 1089, Con 471, Lib-Dem 462, BNP 360, Ind 104.

Thames Water, Britain’s biggest water company with 8.5million customers, saw its profits jump by more than a third to £419.2million.

Water companies in Britain today are solely driven by the need to post a profit for shareholders and the service it provides to its customers is of secondary concern and must be tailored by whatever means necessary to ensure that maximum return.

In April, Severn Trent was fined £35.8m by the regulator, Ofwat, for “deliberately misreporting” some key customer service data and using them to justify increases in household bills and yesterday that punishment was upheld after regulators spent three months consulting on the fine.

This came just 24 hours after the company, the fourth largest privately owned water supplier in the world, was fined another £2million for lying about water leaks.

Ofwat has stipulated the cost of the fine must be borne by shareholders and not passed on to customers but quite how it will regulate this demand remains to be seen as Severn Trent customers already face the prospect of higher water bills from 2010 when soaring energy costs are factored into the next pricing round.

Despite the £38.5 million fine, Severn Trent’s share price rose 28p to £13 yesterday as investors breathed a sigh of relief because the £2million fine for lying about water leaks was significantly below the £56 million valuation of the charge in the company’s accounts.

It’s all a sordid state of affairs and illustrates just why the British National Party would bring the provision of water to our people back under Government control. That is because it is an essential service and supplying it to every household in Britain at the lowest possible cost is the duty of any elected Government. It is what we pay our taxes for - not for bailing our failing banks like Northern Rock.

There’s a great deal of competition for the seat in Corsham ward where the BNP’s National Youth Officer, Mike Howson, takes on the might of all the major parties for a place on Corsham Town Council. The seat was vacated by Jazvir Singh who was was forced to resign after only a meagre 46% attendance record last year.

There are eight candidates standing and it’s a wide open contest.

“Our canvassing returns are showing 20% support which we feel, if opposition is evenly spread, could take us to a top 3 finish at least,” Mike told the BNP website.

CORSHAM TOWN COUNCIL
Corsham Ward
Thursday 3rd July 2008
Maxine Eveleigh (Lib-Dem)
Judy Hible (Lab)
Mike Howson (BNP)
Chris Kelly (Ind)
Isabel Langford (Ind)
Kenneth Mellor (Con)
Lorraine Roberts-Rance (Green)
John Whitleton (Ind)

South Hornchurch ward for Havering Council returned councillors from Labour, the Conservatives and the Havering Residents Association back in May 2006, so it’s anyone’s guess who will take the seat this time around.
The Tories are firm favourites with the bookies only because they will be capitalising on Labour’s unpopularity. The Havering Residents Association have been discredited in recent years and labelled Conservative stooges for their antics in the council chamber. Voters might well be thinking why vote for them, when we can have the real thing.
As for the BNP . . . who knows. We have fought a good campaign and have polled strongly in other wards in the borough. One thing is for sure, once again we want to beat UKIP out of sight to speed the demise of the establishment’s bogus nationalist ’safety valve’.
Havering Council
South Hornchurch Ward
Malvin Brown (Res Ass)
Michael Burton (Ind)
Graham Carr (Lab)
Craig Litwin (UKIP)
Christopher Ryan (Con)
Antony Steff (BNP)
Peter Thorogood (ED)
Mark Whitehead(Ind)
Reg Whitney (Hav Res)
May 2006: Lab 821, 741, 733. Con 812, 742, 620. Hav Res 878, 788, 757. Ind 687,656, 623. Green 204, 191. RA 186.

If the voters of Christchurch ward were voting on the quality of the candidates standing then the BNP’s Michael Barnbrook would win hands down. A police officer of 30 years standing, Michael has been responsible for exposing the sleaze surrounding MPs expenses and it was only his diligence that brought about the investigations into the corrupt practices of Conservative MP Derek Conway.
The ward is Tory heartland but support for the BNP across the borough is growing by the day and we are very hopeful for a strong showing here.
Bexley Council
Christchurch Ward
Ursula Ayliffe (Lab)
Michael Barnbrook (BNP)
Oliver Brooks (Lib-Dem)
James Spencer (Con)
May 2006: Con 2205, 2188, 2098. Lab 733,633, 621. Lib-Dem 513, 501, 433.

The fourth by-election is a county council seat in a region never contested before by the British National Party. Eckington ward is very much a ‘test the water’ exercise to see what support we have in the area and to try to build on it in preparation for the European Elections next year.
Derbyshire County Council
Eckington Ward
Lewis Allsebrook (BNP)
Frank Higgins (Lib-Dem)
James Jesson (Ind)
Steve Pickering (Lab)
Carolyn Renwick (Con)
David Walpole (Ind)
May 2005: Lab 2573, Con 885, Lib-Dem 702. Ind 453, Ind 410.

Over 200 delegates registered on Saturday morning to hear welcoming address from Simon Darby, the Party’s Deputy Chairman, before separating into six different groups to attend lectures on a variety of topics including setting-up community groups, positive propaganda, targeted recruitment, good communications, work of a councillor and the Student BNP.

Saturday evening there was a speech by GLA member Richard Barnbrook before a hog roast super followed by entertainment provided by Joey Smith of Great White Records.

It was an early start on Sunday morning with another round of lectures on the more technical side of electioneering, using the internet to promote the BNP and dealing with the media, as well as briefings of regional treasury accounting and membership administration. After lunch there was a closing speech from Nick Griffin who reported that in every sphere the British National Party was becoming more sophisticated and professional as each day went by.

The morale of the delegates was naturally sky high after all the favourable publicity concerning the Henley by-election result, and everyone enthusiastically reported that the weekend had been the best Summer School ever. This was praise indeed and much deserved by Events Manager Michaela Mackenzie, whose hard work over the last few weeks, with David Shapcott’s RWB team, had ensured that everything had ran smoothly.

All the photos from the 2008 Summer School will be in the July issue of the British National Party’s monthly newspaper, Freedom.

You can take out a 12 month subscription to Freedom here.

This morning Harriet Harman introduced a new “Equality” Bill and that bill directly discriminates against a person if they are White and discriminates against them again if they are male. Thankfully the injustice of it all has not been lost on our tabloid press and both the Daily Mail and Daily Express expose the legislation for exactly what it is - nothing to do with equality but all to do with giving ethnic minorities living in Britain an advantage over the indigenous population.

Interestingly enough ITN, when reporting the item, forgot to mention the main beneficiaries of the new Bill. They mentioned that women would benefit and that older people would benefit, but it just slipped their minds to tell the public that it was the ethnic minorities who would benefit more than anyone else.

Our criticism of the BBC has been proved correct, and confirmation that the ethnic minorities are over represented within the Corporation has come from none other than Dr Samir Shah, a non-executive director and the former head of current affairs at the BBC.

He said that said the politically correct antics of broadcasters were creating an ‘ inauthentic representation of who we are’ and blamed a ‘metropolitan, largely liberal, white, middle-class elite’ for ensuring ethnic minority presence on-screen ‘regardless of editorial imperatives’.

Dr Shah, who also runs his own production company, said one of the ‘odder and plain daft outcomes’ of equal opportunities was over-compensation.

“I don’t know if there is any systematic data on this but I think we can all agree that there is no shortage of black and Asian reporters and presenters around these days - especially on news programmes,” said Dr Shah.
“I suspect there is a goodly presence of them even in areas where Black and Asian faces are pretty thin on the ground.
“Let’s not forget the UK is still 90 per cent white - not everyone lives in London or the West Midlands.’
“I don’t think that such over-representation is a brilliant idea,’ he added.

Let’s just hope that Dr Shah’s comments get the publicity they deserve.

Henley today, and elections in Blackpool and Hatfield, so here’s wishing the very best of luck to our three brave candidates.

This comes from Martin Wingfield’s blog which can be found here.

She has been backed by British Airports Authority chief executive Colin Matthews, who said that if Heathrow did not get a third runway it risked being reduced to a “regional airport on the margins of Europe”.
He says that Heathrow needs direct and regular connections to cities such as Bangalore and Chennai (formerly Madras) because these are now the important global IT centres.

The British National Party says that Heathrow doesn’t need a third runway. One third of Heathrow’s traffic, which makes the airport so busy, is transfer passengers who contribute nothing, either to Heathrow, or to London, or to the UK economy.

Under a BNP Government there would be no need for direct flights to Bangalore and Chennai, because the IT centre that were vital to Britain would be based in Britain.

For environmental and security reasons we need to dramatically cut the number of flights in and out of Britain that do not directly benefit Britain and the British people. Much of the air traffic between Britain and the Indian sub-continent is generated by immigrants returning home for holidays and to visit families. Such a large scale exodus and influx, two or three times a year for each family, leaves a huge carbon footprint, facilitates illegal immigration and encourages a dual citizenship mentality which is not beneficial to community cohesion.

The BNP would also bring the BAA, which is currently owned by the Spanish Ferrovial Group, back under State control to ensure that our airports are serving the best interests of the British people and not being used to make a profit for a foreign company.
]]> http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/06/cut-flights-to-asia-and-bring-the-baa-back-under-state-control/feed/ http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/06/our-troops-should-be-back-in-britain-guarding-our-ports-and-airports/ http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/06/our-troops-should-be-back-in-britain-guarding-our-ports-and-airports/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:00:04 +0000 Martin Wingfield http://www.bnp.org.uk/?p=2732 A BRITISH soldier killed in an explosion while clearing for mines in the Upper Sangin Valley in Helmand province yesterday afternoon brings the overall death toll for British troops in Afghanistan to 108 since operations started in 2001.

The casualty is the 11th service personnel, including the first female victim, to have died in Afghanistan in little over two weeks.

It’s a tragic waste of life - Britain’s brightest and best picked off one-by-one in a meaningless war that provides no benefit to Britain and no benefit to the British people.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, the Chief of the Defence Staff, yesterday admitted the Armed Forces were “stretched beyond the capabilities we have” and could not go on fighting two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He said that while the military would need to be in the country for “some years” to ensure security, the civilian reconstruction effort would take much longer.

In a speech to journalists at Westminster, he said:
“We are talking about a country that is essentially medieval, that has very little in the way of infrastructure, very little in the way of human resource, that has an endemic culture of corruption. In terms of developing the country, that has to be an enterprise of decades.”

Anyone familiar with the history of Afghanistan will know that outside forces can never bring stability to the region, it is only the indigenous tribes that can do that. Any British life lost there is a life sacrificed for nothing.

It was wrong to invade Afghanistan and it was wrong to invade Iraq. The British National Party would withdraw our troops from both countries immediately.

The poppy fields of Afghanistan do threaten the British people because much of the drugs traffic they generate ends up in Britain. We must stop this trade by ensuring that the drugs don’t get into our country. We are an island and this should make the policing of our frontiers a straightforward operation given sufficient manpower.

Our armed forces are for the defence of Britain. Today our people and our country face a very real threat from the Islamic extremists now embedded within our society because of the Government’s open door immigration policy. Our troops should be back in Britain, guarding our ports and airports and providing the protection that British people pay their taxes to receive and which our Government should makes its priority.
]]> http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/06/our-troops-should-be-back-in-britain-guarding-our-ports-and-airports/feed/ http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/06/its-not-just-henley-on-thursday/ http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/06/its-not-just-henley-on-thursday/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:27:23 +0000 Martin Wingfield http://www.bnp.org.uk/?p=2722 THE Henley parliamentary by-election is not the only election involving the British National Party that is taking place on Thursday. We also have candidates standing for local council in Blackpool and Hatfield.

Les Joy is the BNP representative in Park Ward for Blackpool Council. He fought the seat for us in May 2007 when he polled 339 votes which was a very respectable 17.2% of the total vote for the Party. Les will be hoping to improve on that vote share but faces a difficult task as the Labour-held ward is a marginal and the Tories have treated the campaign with the importance of a national contest and bussed in party workers to support their candidate, local postmaster Peter Collins.

Les Joy lives in Park Ward and has launched the Friends of Boundary Park Group which is pressing for the necessary funds to improve amenities. He pledges in his election address to work with police to tackle vandalism and drug abuse in the park.

The Labour candidate is the ex-council leader Roy Fisher, who said in the run-up to the May 2007 elections that “the BNP are not welcome in Blackpool.”

It then turned out that Roy promptly lost his seat, lost his position as leader of the Labour group on the council and lost the leadership of the council. As Les Joy told the election website Votewise:
“Now who do you really think isn’t wanted in Blackpool!”

Political pundits are predicting a big swing to the Tories and a convincing win, while the BNP will be seeking to build on the result of 14 months ago and to close the gap on Labour.

Blackpool
Park Ward
Susan Close (Lib-Dem)
Peter Collins (Con)
Roy Fisher (Lab)
Les Joy (BNP)
Colin Porter (UKIP)
May 2007: Lab 661, 631, Con 536, 517, BNP 339, Lib-Dem 276, UKIP 166.

The other election is for the Hatfield Central Ward of Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council. The BNP candidate is Mark Fuller and he faces a very difficult task to make an impact in what is a keenly fought Conservative and Liberal Democrat marginal. Rather like the contest in Henley, Labour here are decided also-rans and the target of the hard-working British National Party campaign team is to try to push them into fourth place.

Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
Hatfield Central ward
Timothy Butler (Ind)
Maureen Cook (Lab)
Mark Fuller (BNP)
Hazel Laming (Lib-Dem)
Stan Laver-Walton (Con)
May 2008: Con 1385, 1370, 1221, Lib-Dem 1338, 1283, 1278, Lab 167, 159.

In Croydon, the Labour Party and the Tories are working together to try to stem the growth of the BNP in New Addington.

Councillor Mike Fisher, leader of the Tory-run Croydon Council, and the Labour leader Cllr Tony Newman, have pledged to unite in a bid to persuade residents a not to give the BNP their vote.

The move has come after a cross-party analysis of the capital-wide Greater London Assembly elections in May when 713 residents from New Addington and Fieldway voted for the British National Party, a near 50% increase in the BNP vote compared with the 2004 London mayoral elections and indication the party has emerged as the third most popular behind the Tories and Labour in the area.

The results from the 2006 local elections also worried the old gang parties. In the Fieldway ward, the BNP beat the Tories securing 692 votes, and were just 134 votes away from taking the seat won by Labour councillor Carole Bonner.

In the New Addington ward, the BNP scored 772 votes - making the party the third most popular choice behind the two leading parties.

While the next local elections in Croydon are not until 2010, Cllr Fisher and Cllr Newman said this week they would meet to discuss a plan of action.

Fisher said: “I would be very happy to enter into any sort of work with the Labour Party to try to undermine the BNP position in New Addington and Fieldway.
“I’d rather see people voting Labour than BNP.

Newman also said he’d rather residents vote for the Conservative Party than the BNP.

He said: “I will be happy to work with Mike Fisher and other political parties such as the Liberal Democrats, to send out a strong anti-BNP message.”

Croydon BNP organiser Bob Gertner, is not surprised that Labour and the Tories are now working together against the BNP.

“Both parties are in trouble and totally discredited in Croydon. On the doorstep it is the immigration and economic policies of this Labour Government that voters are angry about as well as the way the Tories are running the council. We are working very hard in New Addington and Fieldway, with regular door-to-door sales of our newspaper, Freedom, and targeted campaigning.
“The local BNP representative and candidate for New Addington is Cliff Le May and he liaises with many local groups and people in order to keep in touch with the issues that concern residents.”

The Tories telling voters they can vote for Labour?
Labour telling voters they can vote for the Conservatives.?

All further evidence that there is no difference between the old gang politicians and old gang parties and that even if David Cameron became Britain’s next Prime Minister, nothing would change.

BRITAIN’S Merchant Navy has a proud history from the days of armed merchantmen to the invaluable support they provided in the wars of the last century.

Britain used to have one of the greatest merchant fleets in the world, with vessels plying their trade all over the globe. Sadly this is no longer the case because new international laws have changed the Merchant Navy beyond recognition.

Successive British governments have accepted these laws with no regard for the consequences to British jobs in the industry and the reduced merchant tonnage now operating with British crews.
It is the International Maritime Organisation which is behind the changes, introducing new legislation which favours Third World tonnage and seafarers.

Initially, training and certification was governed by the Standards of Training and Certification of Watch Keepers which came into force in 1978. This laid down the minimum qualifications required for the certification of marine professionals. These rules served our fleet well and allowed the certification of officers and men in accordance with our trade requirements.

The British fleet had three areas of operation, namely Home Trade (coastal areas including the Irish Sea, North Sea and local trading areas), Middle Trade which covered to the Mediterranean and Black Sea and Foreign Going.

Under the regulations it was possible for people to train and obtain qualifications which would allow them to sail in their relevant level in whichever area of operation they chose. But then the International Maritime Organisation decreed that revisions were needed to harmonise the certificate structures worldwide.

The tonnage limit of coastal vessels was reduced from the original 5000 and 1500 limits to a paltry 500, which has no practical use at all. The limited European Trading Area was revised to Near Coastal which limits people qualified in this area to 150 nautical miles off the UK coast and 30 nautical miles off Eire, where previously it allowed people to navigate vessels across the whole North Sea.

The changes have led to a shortage of qualified personnel and this gap is now being filled by mariners from Third World countries. They benefit from lower costs, reduced college fees and adaptations to the current legislation which favour their naval organisations. These people often have limited English which presents a danger in itself.

Our Merchant fleet is coming to the end of its days because the Government is not standing up and defending the industry.

In the not too distant future, all seafarer, shore-based ship pilot and associated jobs will be filled by foreigners, and one of Britain’s great institutions and the skills that go with it will have been lost forever.

This report appears in the June issue of the British National Party’s monthly newspaper, Freedom.

You can take out an annual subscription to Freedom here.

“ECO-TOWNS: what an oxymoron is that! How can a new town be ecologically friendly when it is built on a green field site which entails concreting over large areas of the countryside and destroying natural habitat?” asks Sally Wood in her Straight Talking column in the June issue of Freedom, the British National Party’s monthly newspaper.

Sally continues:

You only have to think of all the additional traffic and congestion it will generate, free to spew pollutants into the air.

Take the small village of Micheldever in the North Hampshire Downs. Here in this delightful rural landscape of rolling hills and wooded copse: home to owls, bats and a rare pair of stone curlews, Eagle Star Insurance have plans to concrete over it and construct one of these new eco-towns.

Another eco-town is proposed near Couldwell and Roslington in South Derbyshire. Bank Development are planning a 5,700 unit settlement which will entail the felling of national forest trees and a new road to feed its new eco-town of ‘Grovewood’. How eco-friendly is that!

It appears that 40% of these homes are to be affordable housing, but for whom?

The English are simply not replacing themselves, but they are now fleeing our ever increasingly crime-ridden cities to be replaced there by economic migrants. Surely if these economic migrants were told to stay in their own countries their carbon footprint would be lower, and that has to be good for the planet.

From every angle these eco-towns can only be an eco-disaster.

ALLOTMENT WANTED!

ONE of my earliest memories is of peering through railings at an elderly neighbour tending his plot in the allotments at the end of my road in South London.

I still think of that today when I flash passed in the train and spot the same site. The allotments have long since disappeared only to be replaced by an ugly block of flats with a garish mural which adorns the entire flank wall. It seems like something from another country.

Where I live now there was much consternation when the Liberal Democrats, who ran the Council at that time and who are always keen to proclaim their green credentials, decided to allow a Housing  Association development on the nearby allotments. Since then many of the council houses in our area have become occupied by Eastern Europeans and others from overseas. When I recently tried to put my name down for an allotment on the sole remaining site I was told there was a waiting list of at least forty people before me and I could be given no indication as to when I was likely to reach the top of the list. Prepare to put your name down when young if you wish to get one in this lifetime!

With the United States now converting a fifth of its corn to ethanol to provide approximately 3-4% of the fuel needed to run its cars and trucks, the price of food worldwide has rocketed.  Coupled with that, the droughts in Australia and China have resulted in a shortage of rice which has caused some countries to cease exporting rice completely for fear of food riots.

Britain was last self sufficient in grain, meat and dairy in the 1830’s and today self-sufficiency stands at only 60%, which makes us particularly vulnerable to a decline in food imports. During the last war when this was of concern, ten percent of our food was produced from gardens and allotments. It is hard to imagine such a figure could be reached today especially as many gardens in urban areas are now housing developments having been designated as ‘brownfield sites’.

As for that allotment . . . look around for one and you could well look in vain, for where it used to be you may find instead an ugly block of flats housing people from other lands and giving us the responsibility of all those additional mouths to feed.

Read Sally Wood’s Straight-Talking every month. Take out a subscription to Freedom here

Freedom is edited by Martin Wingfield. His blog can be found here.