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.

Mission Statement

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

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

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

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

Political battle

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

Torch bearers of culture

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

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

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BNP’s Dennis Pearce Unbowed as Media Try to Character Assassinate Him

Proud BNP member, activist and candidate, Dennis Pearce has shrugged off a People newspaper attempt to character assassinate him after it emerged that he is the brother of England soccer legend and under-21 England team manager Stuart Pearce.

Dennis, 56, told the People newspaper: “I back the BNP’s manifesto completely. The country is full up. There’s too many people here. It’s time to shut the door on immigrants. Immigration isn’t helping crime rates drop, that’s for sure. I served in the Army. It was about fighting communism, because communists stopped freedom of speech. I’m fighting for the same with the BNP. This is a Christian country. Islam is not compatible with this country.”

Dennis is a passionate campaigner for the BNP. He stood for the party at the London Assembly elections in May and hopes to be a general election candidate.

Recently he was at the BNP’s Red, White and Blue rally with Nick Griffin.

He said: “I’ve met Nick about half-a-dozen times. At Red, White and Blue I complimented him on the hog roast. He’d brought a pig from his farm for us to eat. His wife Jackie cooked us a roast dinner.”

Stuart, Dennis and their brother Ray grew up in North London. Dennis went on: “Stuart and I are very close and I see him regularly. I’ve always supported his football career and I’m proud of what he’s achieved. I’ve been to his house in Wiltshire to see him and his wife many times. The last time I saw him was at a concert by The Police in Hyde Park a few months ago. It was a great day out.”

The former engineer lives with his wife and two of his three children in Brent, North West London. He was in the Territorial Army, as a colour sergeant in the Royal Green Jackets.

The People newspaper invented a batch of derogatory quotes from the usual ‘unnamed sources’ (i.e. made up in the newsroom) but nothing will sway Dennis from his mission to help save Britain.

Hounslow Branch Meeting Weds 27th August 2008

Recently formed Hounslow Branch will be holding a meeting at 730pm on Wednesday the 27th of August 2008.Hounslow Branch has already hit the ground running giving much assistance to Hillingdon Branch in a recent local by-election.

The Hounslow Branch was formed out of a dedicated team of activists from Richmond and Kingston BNP Branches. The London elections showed there is much latent support in West London which new branches will be able to capitalise on during the Euro Elections in June  next year and the Generals when they are called.

If you would like to support Hounslow Branch please attend this meeting. More details can be obtained by emailing hounslow@bnp.org.uk

Labour are the Real Nazis

IT was quite an incredible scene. People dressed in black, with their faces masked by scarves, using car tyres to barricade a road and then stoning the police as they tried to remove the obstruction. There was the sound of sirens as police reinforcements arrived. There were the scuffles as 33 arrests were made. There was the beat of the blades of the police helicopter as this ‘eye in the sky’ tracked another breakaway group of troublemakers hellbent on causing disruption.

And all the while, a queue of law-abiding British men and women, many with their children, waited patiently in their cars for the road to be cleared so that they could attend the annual gathering of the political party they support.

Labour Party thugs, goaded on by Labour MP Judy Mallaber and trade union boss Bob Crow, and transported from all corners of the country thanks to trade union and Labour Party funding, were trying to deny the right of assembly to members and supporters of an opposition political party by violence and intimidation.

Thankfully our television news bulletins and newspapers captured the scenes and, with just a couple of exceptions, reported accurately what had taken place. It will be a wake-up call for many, to see the sort of violent confrontation our Government not only sanctions but actively encourages.

For over five years the British National Party has had to bear the brunt of a series of attacks from this Labour Government. There have been the blatant frontal assaults such as the scenes just described and the campaign of intimidation and hate, including death threats, directed against our elected councillors.

There has been the attempt to imprison our Party’s leadership as seen by the trumped up ‘race hate’ charges filed against Nick Griffin and Mark Collett, which were thrown out by the jury at Leeds Crown Court.

There has been the more subtle persecution of individual members who have lost their jobs as teachers, in the health service and working for local councils. There has been the targeting of those seeking employment within the police and prison service, who have been blacklisted, even if they have outstanding credentials for the job, solely because of their membership of the BNP.

At election time, our candidates have their campaigns interfered with by thousands of illegal leaflets - full of lies about the BNP - that are openly delivered by members of the Labour Party. And even when the time comes for the votes to be counted, ballot boxes have been broken into by Labour Party officials and BNP votes have been defaced to make them invalid as was seen at the London Assembly elections in June 2004.

When the history of these times comes to be written, many of those people with influence within our society today will have to hang their heads in shame. That is because they have stood by and allowed, without one word of criticism, a Government Party to act like a Third World dictatorship in its persecution of an opposition party and its members.

And the greatest irony of it all is that Gordon Brown and his bullyboys have the cheek to call us ‘nazis and fascists’, when all the while it is they that are denying freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of political choice by implementing the methods of the stormtroopers Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

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

Red White and Blue 2008 Ends on High Note with Nick Griffin’s Closing Address and Constitutional Changes

The BNP’s Red, White and Blue Family Festival 2008 has come to an end, with highlights being party chairman Nick Griffin’s closing speech and an Extraordinary General Members’ meeting held to ratify several important constitutional changes.

Here is a short video clip of Nick Griffin speaking from the back of the Truth Truck, thanking Mr. and Mrs Allan Warner, the hosts upon whose land the RWB was held, the ending of his speech and an excerpt from the singing of Jerusalem by the crowd. 

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The EGM held immediately after the official end of the RWB, showed that democracy is alive and well in the party. The constitutional changes discussed during a lively debate, were, in summary form, the following:

- Elections held to the post of party leader every year. Candidates seeking to stand for the position of party leader would fulfil all the requirements as before (5 years’ unbroken membership etc.) and must be able to gather 5% of the party’s membership as of 1 July each year.

To this end the following would apply:

- only party members with an unbroken membership of more than two years would be counted as the total figure from which the 5% must be made up;

- the membership department must make available on or before 1 July each year, the total party membership as of that date, so that potential candidates are aware precisely how many signatures they must obtain.

- A strict procedure for how any election must be run, including advertising, manifestos etc. etc. has been spelled out in detail in order to remove any allegations of manipulation of the process;

- A legal requirement (required by labour law) for severance pay for an outgoing chairman has been added to the constitituion;

- The Advisory Council will now officially and legally consist of the Regional Organisers of all regions, and not just the four strongest regions as per the previous consitution;

- The proposed postal ballot amendment was dropped.

Those motions accepted (some with amendments to conform with the above changes) were passed with overwhelming majorities, far in excess of the two thirds required.

The RWB, Garlic and the Need for a Horse’s Skull

My apologies to everyone who’s missed my blog in recent months. As former regulars will know, my entries tend to be long, and I just haven’t had the time to sit down and get them done.

Of all the things which I would have covered but missed, the one that most needs belated recognition is the moving humanist funeral held for Bill Walker, father of John and Rob Walker and, like those two, a BNP stalwart. This was well attended not just by our people but also by Bill’s former comrades from the Forces, including a standard party from the Royal Air Force Association.

Here’s a photo of Bill and his son John (at present driving round the country on various RWB set-up errands) at the Queensferry Remembrance Sunday parade in Deeside less than a year ago. It was an honour to know him, and a privilege to be a pall bearer for the last journey of a man who took Lancashire decency, commonsense and true grit to every corner of the globe during his time as a gunner on Merchant Marine ships throughout World War Two.

Bill survived being torpedoed and sunk five times, both by the Germans and by the Japanese, several times being picked up from a life-raft containing more dead men than survivors. For the rabid leftists fuming over this site, your crew were merrily allied to Hitler in 1941 when Bill was clinging to a sunken ship’s hatch in the cold, oily waves of the North Atlantic. Now that’s a REAL ‘anti-Nazi’, and he gave the BNP £1,000 for the Welsh Assembly elections last year alone, as well as standing up for the party in the local club whenever the question of politics came up.

Picked up the 18 pint polypin of beer for the prize for the RWB Folk Song competition. The micro-brewery near Oswestry is part way through another mash and it smells wonderful. It’s such a shame that the spite of the Powers That Be means that people will have to bring their own, generally canned and mass produced capitalist beer to the weekend, instead of being allowed to help support our traditions by buying barrels of real ale from a small independent brewery.

I was on site delivering a vanload of catering equipment and assorted decorations yesterday. There’s a great build-up team there, with most of the real heavy work already done. I’m pleased to be able to report that the North West (my region for next year’s European elections) is playing a huge part in this. The team is led by Burnley’s Dave Shapcott, fed by a catering duo from Liverpool, and includes our regional secretary Duncan Warner, as well as activists from the Wirral and other NW units. Several East Midlanders and BNP locals are also there, with Wendy Russell on a seemingly never-ending round of van pick-ups and deliveries.

The weather forecast remains unsettled, although the promise last night was of a dry day for Friday. If that will stretch through Saturday so the later arrivals can get their tents set up in the dry then, by the standards of this summer, we’d have nothing to grumble about.

I do urge anyone thinking of being put off by a bit of rain to grow a backbone and bring an umbrella though. The second RWB ever, held here in mid-Wales back in 2001, was hit by the worst summer storm in more than thirty years. It rained non-stop for two days, and back then we only had one large marquee, but the rain-soaked spirit was amazing. Everyone was brought together by the slight adversity and we had one of the best RWB times ever. Nowadays we’re far better equipped, so come along for a ball come rain or shine!

Despite the rotten summer so far I’ve just harvested a record amount of garlic. It’s mainly due, I reckon, to the fact that it’s in one of the raised beds I built last year. Without that the bulbs would probably have rotted away. The huge, albeit mild, Isle of Wight-supplied elephant garlic is particularly good. John Ryde from Leicestershire gave me a bulb grown from a greengrocer’s clove the other week. I shall take a bulb of the elephant garlic with me to the RWB so anyone wanting to try it next year can have a couple of cloves. Perhaps we could have a competition in future years for the largest bulb?

Here’s a (not very good) picture of Boswell in the garlic bed when the sun came out earlier this summer.

And another of the moon over the stone gatepost that I put up to end the dry stone wall Richard and I built the other year. There’s a full moon this weekend of course, let’s hope we get to see a lot of it.

Now a strange request, related by tenuous link to thoughts of the moon and standing stones - can anyone bring to the Red-White-and-Blue a clean horse’s skull, preferably complete with jaw? The Morris team want to be accompanied by a Mari Llwyd, the ghastly grey clad ‘horse’ from the Welsh folk tradition, but so far we’ve drawn a complete blank in trying to find a skull. Please bring one along if you can help, but no killing poor Dobbin just to please me!

Also, we need half-a-dozen old black or dark suit jackets in various sizes. Anyone who fancies a go Morris Dancing should bring their own (bearing in mind it will never be any use as a normal suit jacket once it’s been converted for Morris purposes), but if anyone else can bring any dark suit jackets to donate that would be much appreciated. Please bring all such offerings to the Traditional Food Hall (and come and meet the Czechs, who are the latest addition to the fun there and who will be cooking their national dish goulash).

One final picture: Another from Cresswell Crags in the hope of inspiring a few more people to take Monday off work and spend a bit of time enjoying the history and scenery of Derbyshire. Another reminder of what a wonderful country we’ve inherited from our ancestors - and of what we hold in trust for future generations of our people.

Chippenham Constituency on the Up

It was nice to welcome new faces to the Chippenham Constituency Group British National Party meeting, which is held in Corsham on a monthly basis.  The meeting was well attended and the audience was lively, to say the least.

Councillor Simpkins mentioned the election where we beat Labour and the Green PPC, despite the dirty tricks of the opposition. The FSID video was shown and there was a question and answer session as well. Main topic outside of the video show was the party manifesto which was distributed and discussed.

The meeting looked forward to an increased presence in the county from September and increased co-operation between groups in preparation for the unitary authority elections.

The meeting finished in good humour, having heard of the failure of Labour and the UAF/Searchlight bullies.

Members can now look forward to the social and games evening on the 16th September where Chippenham British National Party has invited Salisbury British National Party to enjoy a night out with their friends.– Team Wiltshire

Broxtowe BNP Holds Best Ever Meeting

BNP Party Chairman Nick Griffin was warmly welcomed back to Broxtowe on Thursday night, 7 August, to an enthusiastic audience of over 100. 

Broxtowe organiser Nina Brown opened the meeting with a report detailing plans for the group in the run up to the County and Euro elections next year. 

It had been rumoured that after the recent problems the Broxtowe BNP Group no longer existed, this was convenient for us as we were able to quietly concentrate on fundraising, increasing the sale of the party literature, which has more than doubled since this time last year, and holding several social evenings with our members throughout the Broxtowe borough. 

East Midlands Regional Organiser, Geoff Dickens then reported how he has seen many attempted splits during his many years involvement with Nationalist Parties and had not been surprised when it failed. 

Maurice Collett made an announcement that although he was still in the process of collecting funds raised for his sponsored bike ride from Leicestershire to Skegness recently. The total so far is just over £2,000.

After a break for tea, coffee and biscuits, the Party Chairman held a question and answer session with questions from the audience on a range of hot topics such as crime, the energy crisis, immigration and the EU.  No politician from any of the parties would attempt this without carefully filtered questions and delicately worded answers.

A collection of £375, along with money from the sale of Excalibur merchandise, totalled well over £588.  

Nina thanked everyone that had made the meeting possible, Dave Brown, Martyn and Kim Page, Adey and Caroline Woods, Wendy Russell, Linda Moore and not forgetting the security team who had travelled from outside the area to ensure the safety of everyone attending the meeting.

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