EU Opens First Job Centre in Africa

The European Union has come up with a novel way of tackling illegal immigration from Africa into Europe; they’re going to make all African immigration in Europe legal.

The EU has opened its first immigration centre outside Europe in Bamako, the capital of the West African country of Mali. The EU says that thousands of West Africans die in the attempt to get to Europe illegally each year and they hope that the new centre will help Africans find legal work in Europe.

At present, the EU is stressing that the centre will not be a recruiting agency as such and will offer no specific job vacancies, but in the future European countries may recruit from the Bamako office.

Spain already has a similar scheme and offers seasonal contracts to several hundred people from Senegal each year, who mainly work picking fruit or are employed in hotels.

The opening ceremony for the centre was held on Monday and was attended by Amadou Toumani Toure, the president of Mali, EU development commissioner Louis Michel and French Immigration Minister Brice Hortefeux.

President Toure called on France to take their share of Malian immigrants, saying that France and Mali “will have to find solutions to our common problems.” He continued:

“Let’s be clear, a solution of 100% security is not realistic but neither is a 100% humanitarian solution.

“The trouble is finding work for young people.”

Every year, many thousands of West Africans set off from the north of Mali and go across the Sahara Desert on the way to Europe to find work illegally.

Patrick Taran, a migration expert with the International Labour Organisation applauded the EU initiative and said that it was perfectly logical to make illegal immigrants legal immigrants:

“It makes a lot more sense for people to come through legal channels so that their rights are protected and they can demand and receive fair pay for their work.”

This is not the first time the European Union has looked at extending its influence, and membership, beyond Europe. Last year Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband suggested that the EU should work towards including countries in the Middle East and North Africa as full EU members.  

Britain’s Overpopulation Crisis Is Even Worse than the EU Stated

Britain’s population will hit almost 80 million within two generations — with more people living here per square mile than anywhere else in Europe.

The latest forecast, from the UK’s own statistics office, paints an even more alarming picture than last week’s projections from the European Union.

EU statisticians say Britain’s population — currently 60.9 million — will hit 76.7 million by 2060. Actually it will be over three million more, at 79.8 million, just one year later, says the Office for National Statistics -  enough extra to fill three Birmingham-size cities.

And more than half the growth — 10 million people — will be as a direct consequence of immigration, both people moving here and established migrants having families. This is 30 percent more than the EU calculated.

The new figures mean that in just over 50 years there will be 845 people crammed into every square mile, even though Britain is a smaller country than Germany or France. England will be the most affected, with the population expected to soar by almost 18 million — a 34 percent rise — to 69.2 million.

The population of Wales will rise to 3.4 million (15 percent), Northern Ireland to 2.1 million (19 percent), while Scotland will see a fall by 299,000 to 5.2 million.

Sir Andrew Green, of Migrationwatch UK, said: “The impact on the environment and the quality of life for our children and grandchildren hardly bears thinking about.”

Why the EU Superstate is the Enemy of All European Nations

A ruling by the European Court of Justice may sound the death knell for Denmark’s restrictive immigration policy by forcing it to ease family reunification rules, and could trigger a government crisis down the road.

The July 25 ruling by the EU’s highest legal body stipulated that under a 2004 European Union directive on free circulation of people within the bloc, EU members may not refuse entry or right of residence to non-EU spouses and family.

This means a Danish citizen can bring his or her spouse to Denmark even if the spouse is a failed asylum seeker or previously resided illegally in the EU.

The ruling has gone largely unnoticed in the rest of the bloc, but has sparked a fiery debate in Denmark, where strict immigration laws block family reunification for non-EU citizens residing in the Scandinavian country illegally and in cases where one of the spouses is under the age of 24.

“The Danish government strongly disagrees with this ruling” which undermines its family reunification policy, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.

“Denmark determines its own immigration policy and it remains unchanged,” he stressed. “The government will not tolerate having its family reunification rules hijacked,” he added.

He called the EU court ruling “unreasonable”, and has formally expressed his opposition to the European Commission. He is trying to persuade several other member states that share his point of view, among them Britain, Germany and Italy, to have it changed.

Strict immigration policy is a cornerstone of Denmark’s Liberal-Conservative minority government, which has retained power since 2001 thanks to the informal support of the strongly anti-immigration Danish People’s Party (DPP).

Its immigration legislation, broadly supported by Danes, is among the most restrictive in Europe. The strict rules have led to a sharp drop in the number of people who have immigrated to Denmark as part of family reunifications, from about 13,000 in 2001 to 4,500 in 2007.

Integration Minister Birthe Roenn Hornbech said recently the European court ruling “opens the way for widescale approval of illegal immigration” through marriages of convenience. “I wonder if the European court has been given too much power … and if the EU is not determining a bit too much of Denmark’s immigration policy,” she said.

The head of the DPP, Pia Kjaersgaard, has urged the government to ignore the ruling. “Otherwise, our entire immigration policy will fall apart,” she warned.

Political observers see a major conflict simmering for the Danish government. “A conflict between EU law and Danish immigration policy is lining up to be the biggest crisis on the horizon to date for (Rasmussen’s) government,” a political columnist at daily Jyllands-Posten wrote recently.

Rasmussen, whose government voted in favour of the 2004 directive on free movement within the EU, has already said that while he is opposed to the court ruling his government will comply with it.

Six out of 10 voters support Denmark’s immigration policy and the recent EU court ruling has made 37 percent of Danes more sceptical towards European Union cooperation, perceiving it as an infringement of Denmark’s sovereignty.

According to analyst Thomas Larsen, the court ruling means the prime minister has likely “abandoned all plans of organising a referendum on the Danish EU exemptions in the near future.”

Denmark has four opt-outs to EU membership, granted to make the EU’s Maastricht Treaty more palatable after the country initially rejected the treaty. They allow it to remain outside the eurozone, EU joint defence policy, European citizenship and judicial cooperation, under which immigration issues fall.

Rasmussen has urged scrapping all four, saying they were “incompatible with Danish interests” and kept the country from fully participating in European cooperation. He has said one or several referendums on the exemptions would be held in the near future, though no date was set.

Now, “it would be political suicide” if he went ahead with those plans, Larsen said, noting that polls show 39.4 percent of Danes do not want to join the EU’s joint immigration policy and only 30.1 percent do.

Labour Minister Repeats Disgusting Accusation That Whites Are Responsible for Islamic Terrorism in Britain

Labour Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has repeated the disgustingly untrue allegation, first claimed by the so-called ‘intelligence’ service MI5, that Whites are to blame for Islamic terrorism in Britain.

A letter from Smith to Gordon Brown, leaked to the Daily Mail, contains the allegation that an economic downturn will “increase support for racism”  and that this “presents a threat as there is evidence that grievances based on experiencing racism is one of the factors that can lead to people becoming terrorists.”

In other words, if whites react badly to any of the following:

- car bombs in London’s city centre;

- bus bombs;

- London Underground bombs;

- mosques being built in every town and city;

- the Muslim religion being forced on white kids at school;

- anti-white ‘affirmative action’ government-sponsored programmes;

- countless anti-white racist attacks which have seen hundreds of innocents murdered;

- the supplantment of the the white British people by hordes of invaders;

then it is the whites’ fault that Muslims become terrorists, according to Smith and her MI5 genii.

Well, we beg to disagree.  We believe that there are two primary causes of terrorism in Britain:

1. Mass Third World immigration which has seen millions of people enter this country who do not seek to become British, but to convert this country into another Iran;

2. Biased British foreign policy in the Middle East which has caused this country, along with America and some other European nations, to become the scapegoats for all that is wrong in the Middle East.

The only solution to tackling the question of terrorism in Britain is, therefore, to halt and reverse Third World immigration, and to employ an unbiased foreign policy which puts British interests first.

We, and increasing numbers of the British public, reject with contempt the allegation that whites are responsible for all the world’s problems.

*Important to note was the Tory response to Smith’s letter. Damian Green, the Tory immigration spokesman, said: “This rips the veil off the complacent comments we have been getting from Home Office ministers about how their performance is improving. It is clear that in almost all areas of the Home Office things are going to get worse.”

Readers will note how Green avoids mentioning the main allegation — that whites are somehow responsible for driving Muslims towards terrorism, and also avoids the whole issue of what is to be done to solve the problem.

Given that the Tories were, and still are, enthusiastic supporters of the illegal war in Iraq (one of the primary drivers for terrorism in Europe), it is not surprising that they shy away from addressing any real issue.

Were you thinking that the Tories would be any better? Think again. The BNP is the only party with clear cut solutions to the mess created by years of Tory and Labour misrule.

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.

Slavery Lessons the Anti-White Establishment Will Not Teach Our Children

In the anti-white mania which has gripped modern Britain, the Atlantic Slave Trade is to be given wide prominence in schools from this term onwards — but the million Europeans who were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 will be ignored.

The untold story of the million whites enslaved by non-whites is covered in a new book by Robert Davis, professor of history at Ohio State University. He developed a unique methodology to calculate the number of white Christians who were enslaved along Africa’s Barbary Coast, arriving at much higher slave population estimates than any previous studies had found.

Most other accounts of slavery along the Barbary coast didn’t try to estimate the number of slaves, or only looked at the number of slaves in particular cities, Davis said.

Most previously estimated slave counts have thus tended to be in the thousands, or at most in the tens of thousands. Davis, by contrast, has calculated that between 1 million and 1.25 million European Christians were captured and forced to work in North Africa from the 16th to 18th centuries.

Davis’s new estimates appear in the book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 (Palgrave Macmillan).

“Enslavement was a very real possibility for anyone who travelled in the Mediterranean, or who lived along the shores in places like Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, and even as far north as England and Iceland.”

“Much of what has been written gives the impression that there were not many slaves and minimizes the impact that slavery had on Europe,” Davis said. “Most accounts only look at slavery in one place, or only for a short period of time. But when you take a broader, longer view, the massive scope of this slavery and its powerful impact become clear.”

Davis said it is useful to compare this Mediterranean slavery to the Atlantic slave trade that brought black Africans to the Americas. Over the course of four centuries, the Atlantic slave trade was much larger — about 10 to 12 million black Africans were brought to the Americas.

But from 1500 to 1650, when trans-Atlantic slaving was still in its infancy, more white Christian slaves were probably taken to Barbary than black African slaves to the Americas, according to Davis.

“One of the things that both the public and many scholars have tended to take as given is that slavery was always racial in nature — that only blacks have been slaves. But that is not true,” Davis said. “We cannot think of slavery as something that only white people did to black people.”

During the time period Davis studied, it was religion and ethnicity, as much as race, that determined who became slaves.

Pirates (called corsairs) from cities along the Barbary Coast in north Africa — cities such as Tunis and Algiers — would raid ships in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, as well as seaside villages to capture men, women and children.

The impact of these attacks was devastating — France, England, and Spain each lost thousands of ships, and long stretches of the Spanish and Italian coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants.

Although hundreds of thousands of Christian slaves were taken from Mediterranean countries, Davis noted, the effects of Muslim slave raids was felt much further away: it appears, for example, that through most of the 17th century the English lost at least 400 sailors a year to the slavers.

Even Americans were not immune. For example, one American slave reported that 130 other American seamen had been enslaved by the Algerians in the Mediterranean and Atlantic between 1785 and 1793.

Davis said the vast scope of slavery in North Africa has been ignored and minimized, in large part because it is on no one’s agenda to discuss what happened. “The enslavement of Europeans doesn’t fit the general theme of European world conquest and colonialism that is central to scholarship on the early modern era,” he said.

 Many of the countries that were victims of slavery, such as France and Spain, would later conquer and colonize the areas of North Africa where their citizens were once held as slaves. Maybe because of this history, Western scholars have thought of the Europeans primarily as “evil colonialists” and not as the victims they sometimes were, Davis said.

Davis said another reason that Mediterranean slavery has been ignored or minimized has been that there have not been good estimates of the total number of people enslaved. People of that time — both Europeans and the Barbary Coast slave owners — did not keep detailed, trustworthy records of the number of slaves. In contrast, there are extensive records that document the number of Africans brought to the Americas as slaves.

So Davis developed a new methodology to come up with reasonable estimates of the number of slaves along the Barbary Coast. Davis found the best records available indicating how many slaves were at a particular location at a single time. He then estimated how many new slaves it would take to replace slaves as they died, escaped or were ransomed.

“The only way I could come up with hard numbers is to turn the whole problem upside down — figure out how many slaves they would have to capture to maintain a certain level,” he said. “It is not the best way to make population estimates, but it is the only way with the limited records available.”

Putting together such sources of attrition as deaths, escapes, ransomings, and conversions, Davis calculated that about one-fourth of slaves had to be replaced each year to keep the slave population stable, as it apparently was between 1580 and 1680. That meant about 8,500 new slaves had to be captured each year. Overall, this suggests nearly a million slaves would have been taken captive during this period.

Using the same methodology, Davis has estimated as many as 475,000 additional slaves were taken in the previous and following centuries. The result is that between 1530 and 1780 there were almost certainly 1 million and quite possibly as many as 1.25 million white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the Barbary Coast.

Davis said his research into the treatment of these slaves suggests that, for most of them, their lives were every bit as difficult as that of slaves in America. “As far as daily living conditions, the Mediterranean slaves certainly didn’t have it better,” he said.

While African slaves did grueling labor on sugar and cotton plantations in the Americas, European Christian slaves were often worked just as hard and as lethally — in quarries, heavy construction, and above all rowing the corsair galleys themselves.

Davis said his findings suggest that this invisible slavery of European Christians deserves more attention from scholars.

“We have lost the sense of how large enslavement could loom for those who lived around the Mediterranean and the threat they were under,” he said. “Slaves were still slaves, whether they were black or white, and whether they suffered in America or North Africa.”

Largest circulation Freedom hits the streets this weekend

THIS weekend will see the largest circulation issue ever of Freedom hitting the streets.

100,000 copies of the British National Party’s monthly newspaper will be available to BNP units at attractive bulk rates as the Party launches its European Election campaign for 2009.

Alongside the special issue of Freedom will be the new full colour glossy recruitment leaflets which have been based on the old Where we Stand‘ mini-brochure and together the newspaper and leaflet will get the BNP up and running by mid-September for the most important nine months in nationalist history in Britain.

Issue No 98 of Freedom is a specially designed edition with the main purpose of recruiting new members and activists to our ranks in time for the big push next year.

The front page headline is “People just like you” with the strapline - “This is the REAL BNP” accompanying photographs from this year’s RWB Family Festival. Inside it is more of the same with many of the articles and reports featuring the ordinary, but dedicated, British people who form the bedrock of our Party.

Anyone reading this issue of Freedom will have their eyes opened as to what the BNP is really all about, and to the lies of those in the Labour, Conservative and Liberal-Democrat parties and their friends in the media who try to smear us in a desperate attempt to stem our growth.

Two full pages of “News to make your blood boil” exposes the extent to which our country is being taken away from us by corrupt politicians and will make the reader eager to do something about it, while the reports of the activities of BNP units across the country will show the reader that our Party is the only one prepared to take on those behind this betrayal.

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.

Liberties

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.

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.

Islamic Colonisation

Most assuredly Anne Marie Keenan is not alone in her concern at the politically directed silence in the matter of ascendant Islam in Western society.

By far the most troubling evidence of Islamic colonisation of Britain, and indeed of Western Europe, is the demographic facts of disparate birth rates between indigenous British and Muslim women.

In the latest O.N.S. population report it is stated that ‘foreign’ women, on average, have 2.5 children each, rising to 3.9 for those from Bangladesh and to almost 5 for Pakistani women. Indigenous British women presently have an average of only 1.3 children. It is not difficult to agree with  Col. Muammar Gaddafi when he gave voice to the following, recently on Al Jazeera  TV, “There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe, without guns, without swords, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims in Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent in three decades.”

In Britain the cities of Leicester and Birmingham are contesting candidates for Muslim majority populations within this decade.

The studied unwillingness to discuss the Islamification of Britain is sinister and well merits the concern of so many undisclosed Britons.

Scottish Office Press Officer

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