Violent Immigrant Crime: Due to Higher Psychoses Rates?

The violent immigrant crime wave which is flooding Britain - manifesting itself in gun, knife and other bizarre criminal practices - could be linked to far higher rates of psychoses amongst migrant groups.

The problem of bizarre crimes amongst migrants has been highlighted with the most recent case of Algerian Mohamed Boudjenane who was captured on a London Bus CCTV camera carrying his murder victim’s head in a bag (image alongside).

Such behaviour clearly falls outside of ‘normal’ parameters, and is also reflected in the obviously overwhelmingly black-origin knife and gun crime plagues in London, Nottingham and elsewhere.

While there have of course been indigenous British murderers who are obviously mentally unbalanced, their numbers, compared to the entire population, have always been quite small and have attracted media attention precisely because they are exceptions to the norm.

However, new research on psychoses rates amongst migrant groups, published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry on 3rd November, 2008, has shown a raised incidence for all black and ethnic minority subgroups compared with whites. It also reveals that the risk of psychoses for first and second generations varies by ethnicity.

Led by Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Jeremy Coid, and Dr James Kirkbride from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, the research shows that both first and subsequent generation groups in England are at higher risk of schizophrenia and other psychoses (in line with previous literature).

Unknown prior to this study, was whether rates were further elevated in second and later generations (i.e. UK born) ethnic minority groups, than in their first generation counterparts.

Professor Coid’s and Dr Kirkbride’s research suggests that rates are not consistently elevated to a greater extent for later generations (in comparison to the first) but that much depends on the ethnic group in question, and more specifically their age profile.

The study, for example, shows incidence rates of psychoses are significantly (statistically) greater for second compared with first generation black Caribbean immigrants.

Their respective age profiles reveal that this is primarily because the second generation are more likely to be in the peak at-risk ages for psychoses (under 30) and that the first generation, having migrated in the 1950s and 1960s whilst in their 20s and 30s, have now moved out of the critical age period of risk for psychoses into their 50s, 60s and 70s.

For other ethnic — such as Asian — groups, rates are elevated among the first generation, who tend to be younger and have migrated to the UK more recently.

The research, originating with Queen Mary, University of London, goes on to claim  that stress factors such as ‘racism’ and ‘discrimination’ (caused by whites, of course) “could” be a cause of the higher psychoses rates amongst migrants.

This forms part of the continuous ‘blame whites for everything that is wrong in any non-white community’ insanity which grips much of academia. However, in the same breath that Professor Coid makes the obligatory ‘blame whitey’ suggestion, he goes on to say: “But why should some minority groups be at greater risk than others?”

In other words, the report actually says that the presumption that ‘racism’ is the cause is open to question because the psychoses rates are not uniform across all migrant groups. The academics squirm out of this obvious contradiction by saying that “more research is needed on the topic.”

Violent Crime up 22% as Home Office Admits Underreporting

Public trust in crime statistics has been dealt a devastating blow after ministers admitted the figures have been downplaying serious violence for up to a decade.

The Home Office admitted that as many as one in five of the worst attacks have been wrongly classified in published figures. As many as 4,000 serious assaults each year were mistakenly recorded as minor incidents — and officials conceded they “simply do not know how far back it goes.”

The tightening of the rules has seen figures for serious violent crimes rocket by 22 percent compared to last year — and confusion over the figures makes it impossible to say how much of the rise is genuine.

Ministers blamed the blunders on police officers, who were wrongly classifying cases of ‘grievous bodily harm with intent’ as minor assaults.

But if this is the case it is unclear why the practice was allowed to continue for so long unchecked. Police have been placed under severe pressure by ministers to reduce the level of serious violence on the street.

Critics may claim this provided an incentive for officers to downplay the gravity of assaults where — while the intent was grave — the actual injuries suffered were minimal.

In a sign of the chaos the Metropolitan Police yesterday took the unprecedented step of halting publication of its violent crime figures to check whether they meet the guidelines.

Senior police chiefs admitted the problems affected all 43 forces in England and Wales.

In the latest quarterly figures published yesterday the category of ‘most serious violence against the person’ had leapt by 22 percent year on year.

It rose from 4,500 in the second quarter last year to 5,500 in the same period this year, equivalent to around 60 a day.

Figures for serious stabbings rose 29 percent, from 1,253 in the second quarter of 2007 to 1,616 in 2008 — equivalent to an extra 1,500 stabbings each year.

Use of knives in sexual offences was counted separately for the first time, revealing there were 8,610 incidents in the three months to June — equivalent to 34,440 per year, or almost 100 offences per day.

Recorded gun crime was down 6 percent, from 9,862 in the year to June 2007 to 9,306 the following year.

Between 2007 and 2008 recorded drug crimes were up 8 percent, with 59,000 cases logged by police in the second quarter of this year, up from 55,600.

Afghan “People Smuggler” Invader Arrested for Student Rape in Calais

French Police have arrested an Afghan people-smuggler and an Iranian invader on suspicion of raping a London journalism student in a camp in Calais.

Detectives swooped on the pair in the northern French port on Sunday and are now checking fingerprints and DNA against samples taken from the 31-year-old victim.

They are also checking hours of CCTV film from nearby businesses. The victim, who was born in Canada but has lived in Britain most of her life, had helped police create an e-fit photo of the suspect after her ordeal last Tuesday.

The student — who cannot be named for legal reasons — had travelled to the area to interview migrants sleeping rough on their way to Britain.

Deputy prosecutor of Boulogne-sur-Mer Philippe Muller said: “An Afghan man thought to be a people smuggler and an Iranian man have been arrested in connection with the rape of a Canadian student last week. They are being interviewed in custody and charges could be brought.”

One could be charged with rape and the other with assisting him, he added.

The student had been warned by local police not to go to the camp as it was a dangerous place for lone females. As she took photographs of a group of Afghan refugees, she was lured into a makeshift hut in the notorious unofficial camp called The Jungle by the gang leader, who told her he wanted to show her something inside.

There he pinned her down, hit her repeatedly and subjected her to a half-hour rape, police said. Although she screamed for help, no one came to her aid.

There are still around 1,000 mainly Iraq, Afghani, Somali and Indian invaders living rough in Calais, despite the closure of the Sangatte Red Cross hostel in 2002. Most make daily attempts to sneak aboard ferries, lorries and Channel Tunnel trains to Britain.

* Even if found guilty, the Afghan and Iranian invaders cannot be deported because their countries have the death penalty. According to the leftist regime under which we live, these invaders will, if found guilty, spend a few years in prison and then be let out again, doubtless to claim benefits from the taxpayers.

Only the BNP will bring this madness to an end, before it destroys our country forever.

Manchester – Policing Without Pride

On Saturday 23rd August, Manchester witnessed the largest ever gathering of gay police officers during the annual ‘gay pride’ march in the city centre. Officers appeared in public wearing sweatshirts adorned with the slogan ‘Police with Pride’. Regrettably, this bizarre spectacle was just another depressing milestone in the humiliating decline of Greater Manchester police from a once proud force, into little more than a showcase for politically-correct exhibitionism.

The BNP firmly believes that the state should not concern itself with what consenting adults, ‘gay’ or ‘straight’, do in the privacy of their own homes. Equally, state institutions such as the police or prison services should not demean themselves by encouraging their officers to flaunt their private predilections in a public parade. A police officer might be homosexual, but surely he or she should be obliged to present a dignified and smart public persona? Police officers would never be allowed to participate in a ‘white pride’ parade, so why should they be officially encouraged to take part in ‘Gay Pride’?

Unfortunately for Greater Manchester Police (GMP), the ‘Police with Pride’ spectacle coincided with the release of a report showing that GMP missed 13 of its 17 targets between April and June 2008. Burglary, drugs offences and serious violent crime were among the categories where GMP’s results were deemed ‘unacceptable. Greater Manchester Police Authority has also expressed ’serious concerns’ about the force’s performance.

Of course, most ordinary GMP police officers continue to serve their community conscientiously and impartially, just as they have always done. Indeed their ranks have included a fair number of outright heroes, such as DC Stephen Oake, who fell in the line of duty while trying to arrest a Muslim terrorist and was justly awarded a posthumous George Cross. Nonetheless, these fine rank-and-file officers have been increasingly let down by a cadre of senior commanders whose dedication to advancing their politically-correct careers seems to exceed their dedication to upholding law and order.

These senior officers notoriously included the late Chief Constable Todd, whose unexplained death on Mount Snowdon — assumed to be suicide — generated national publicity. Todd was popular with his officers, but the sordid press revelations which accompanied his death cast doubt on his fitness to be a police officer at all, let alone Chief Constable of Britain’s second largest force.

Towards the end of Todd’s tenure as Chief Constable, Greater Manchester Police seemed to lose interest in ordinary policing, in favour of politically-motivated repression. The force adopted an increasingly anti-white stance, and pursued their policy of institutional discrimination against the BNP with an almost missionary zeal.

For example, in May 2007, with massive publicity, GMP launched a prolonged investigation into ludicrous allegations that off-duty police officers had been seen drinking with ‘BNP supporters’ outside a city centre pub on St George’s day. Predictably, the investigation failed to make any headway, but not before vast sums of taxpayers’ money had been wasted. (1)

Greater Manchester Police commanders seem to have a particular problem with Mancunians who dare to celebrate St George’s day. On St George’s day 2008, senior officers saw fit to authorise the baton-charging of exuberant St George’s day revellers in the city centre. The contrast with GMP’s kid glove treatment of overt criminality during Eid celebrations in the Rusholme district of the city has been widely noted.

Senator McCarthy himself would have been proud of Greater Manchester Police’s political witch-hunts. During the local election campaign of 2008, the Manchester Evening News ran a series of stories, seemingly sourced from Greater Manchester Police, describing GMP’s efforts to hound out officers suspected of harbouring political sympathy for the BNP. One officer who supposedly wore a union flag badge was ‘investigated’. Another officer who disclosed that he had purchased a copy of Voice of Freedom for research purposes was disciplined and transferred. The human right of free expression and free access to lawful newspapers obviously ceased to exist a long time ago in GMP! (2)

Most seriously of all, in the city of Manchester itself, Greater Manchester Police attempted to intervene directly in an election campaign. In the district of Blackley, where the BNP always commands more than a quarter of the vote, a senior police officer was quoted in a local newspaper warning about the BNP “latching onto” racism. This unprecedented intervention in party politics was made just three weeks before the local elections. (3)

BNP activists in Manchester suspect that the governing politburo of Greater Manchester Police might be very dismayed indeed if they grasped the true extent of BNP support among GMP officers in general, and sergeants and inspectors in particular. After all, it is these brave officers who deal day and night with the dreadful consequences of Manchester’s failed multicultural experiment, even as they are undermined and betrayed by their own senior commanders.

With Todd’s death, the people of Greater Manchester dared to hope for a return to traditional policing priorities, and a renewed commitment to upholding law and order. Sadly, it seems as if residents’ hopes have now been dashed. Todd’s replacement as the new Chief Constable of Greater Manchester is Peter Fahy, formerly Chief Constable of Cheshire and chair of the Association of Chief Police Officers’ so-called “Race & Diversity” unit.

Fahy’s main contribution to the national policing debate seems to be his call for overt discrimination against white police officers to be legalised. Fahy is reported to have said, “Clearly, if we are going to be held to account on particular targets based on representation, the only way we can meet that is through affirmative action … to take into account somebody’s ethnic background.” (4)

With all this in mind, it is no surprise that few Mancunians feel any sense of pride in their police, ‘gay’ or otherwise.

Tory, Labour, and EU Bully Boys Gang up on Russia for Protecting Its Own

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Policies & Manifesto

British National Party Policies.

Download our 2007 Mini Manifesto here.

IMMIGRATION — time to say ENOUGH!

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

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

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

EUROPE — back to British independence!

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

LAW AND ORDER — crack down on crime!

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

ECONOMY — British workers first!

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

EDUCATION — discipline, standards, achievement!

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

AGRICULTURE — quality before quantity!

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

HEALTH — first-class healthcare for all!

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

TRANSPORT — time to invest!

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

ENVIRONMENT — a cleaner, greener future!

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

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

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

PENSIONERS — pensioners before asylum seekers!

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

NORTHERN IRELAND — an end to sectarianism!

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

DEFENCE — no more cuts!

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

FOREIGN AFFAIRS — Britain’s interests first!

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

DEMOCRACY — letting the people decide!

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

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

PC Gestapo Seek to Outlaw Harmless British Cultural Fun

The Politically Correct Gestapo of the far left have launched yet another attempt to stifle harmless British cultural fun with a fake ‘outrage’ over three binmen in Reading, Berkshire, taping a gollywog to the front of their vehicle.

The refuse truck is owned by Woodend Municipal Services and leased to Reading Borough Council, whose staff used it to collect rubbish from the streets of the Berkshire town.

The Sun, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph have all run large stories on the prank as if it were some major news story (all the while ignoring real issues like crime, immigration, the economy etc.) and attempted to generate ‘outrage’ from residents of the town they have interviewed.

A spokesman for Reading Borough Council has already been browbeaten over the incident and has ‘apologised’ for the incident, adding that action was being taken against the binmen involved.

“The council has investigated this matter and spoken to the lorry driver,” he said. “The employee has been informed of the serious nature of this complaint and his management colleagues are giving further consideration to how the matter will proceed. Reading is an international community and the council celebrates its rich diversity and cultural heritage, working vigorously to combat all forms of discrimination and injustice.”

In May 2007, a greater Manchester shopkeeper was ordered by police to remove golliwogs from her window display — because they were allegedly offensive.

Moira Pickering, 62, was warned that she risked breaching race hate laws if she failed to take them down. Moira has been selling the dolls in her shop, Stalybridge Reproductions, in the town near Manchester for years and said they had never caused offence.

Moira said the action was political correctness gone mad. She said that two women of an ethnic background had reported the incident and that one was a regular customer. “A woman came in and began taking photos. I thought she was taking a photo of the table and chairs, but then she went outside and started taking more photos. The next minute the police were here and said it was an offence to display the gollywog which was sitting in a chair. Golliwogs have been going for years and I’ve always sold them. They sell very well. People are far too politically correct — they go over the top.”

Police confirmed they had spoken to Moira after they had received a complaint that she was selling offensive items. Officers attended the shop and spoke to Moira who said she was not aware the items were deemed offensive. She was asked to remove the item from the window display which she did and no further action was taken.

Greater Manchester Police said it is an offence under the incitement to commit racial hatred act if she put them back on display and someone made a subsequent complaint.

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Army Suffers Personnel Shortage Crisis as Illegal Iraq War Drags On

The Armed Forces are facing a shortfall of almost 6,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen, according to official Ministry of Defence figures. The refusal by qualified British men and women to serve in the Armed Forces is clearly linked to the illegal and immoral war being waged by the government in Iraq.

The latest manning quarterly figures show the total number of full-time, trained military personnel was 173,370 — 5,790 short of the total requirement of 179,160.

The Army had a 3,500 shortfall, the Royal Navy was 1,220 under strength, while the RAF was 1,070 below the required total.

The shortfalls occurred even though the total number of service personnel required has fallen by almost 12,000 since 2005 when the forces were just 3,000 below strength.

Fewer and fewer British people support that criminal activity of waging war against Iraq — a war fully supported by the equally-to-blame Tories — and are simply refusing to put their lives at risk for a cause which is completely unrelated to Britain’s national interest.

BNP policy on Defence is based on a Britain First platform: We will bring our troops back from Germany and withdraw from NATO, since recent political developments make both commitments obsolete. We will close all foreign military bases on British soil, and refuse to risk British lives in meddling ‘peace-keeping’ missions in parts of the world where no British interests are at stake — a position of armed neutrality.

In addition, a BNP government will put the leadership of both the Labour and Tory parties, who all consciously voted to send our troops to war in Iraq in the face of overwhelming evidence that the case was bogus, on trial for war crimes before an international tribunal.

Why Britain’s Benches Are in Urgent Need of a Clean Sweep

More than 60 judges have given ‘unduly lenient’ sentences to offenders convicted of serious crimes, according to official figures.

The Court of Appeal ruled 62 judges across England and Wales let off criminals, including terrorists, murderers and rapists, with light sentences.

The Attorney General Baroness Scotland QC referred 106 criminals to more senior judges last year to seek tougher sentences. Among them were robbery gangs, drug smugglers, paedophiles and terrorists linked to al Qaeda.

Of these, 86 individuals were ruled to have been given ‘unduly lenient’ punishments, with 75 handed harsher terms. Sentences were increased in 12 sex cases, 15 violence cases, 17 robbery cases, 11 drugs cases and one murder. The number of Court of Appeal referrals fell by 38 and the number declared unduly lenient fell by 27 compared with 2006.

Among the cases highlighted were: Internet terrorist Younes Tsouli, of West London, whose ten year jail term for inciting murder overseas was increased to 16 years, and Essex businessman Rohail Spall (illustration), who spiked a woman’s drink at a restaurant and planned to sexually attack her. His sentence was increased by 18 months to three-and-a-half years.

Apocalypse?

It is the worst case scenario anyone can possibly imagine.

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

Stranded

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

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

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

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

Famine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poor

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

War

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pestilence

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

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

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

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

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

Vulnerable

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

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

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

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

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

Conclusion

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

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

 

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