Parliamentary Probe Launched to Attract More Ethnic Minority MP’s

Riding high on the back of Barak Obama’s US presidential victory, New Labour are now seeking ways of having their very own multicultural Holy Grail for Britain. Gordon Brown will later today announce plans for a “Speaker’s Conference” that will look at ways to boost the number of ethnic minority, women and disabled MPs.

Speaking about the possibility of holding the inquiry last year, Brown suggested that the drop in the number of people voting could be because women and ethnic minorities were not represented in Parliament.

3% of MP’s are black or Asian compared with 10% of the overall UK population (based on the woefully out of date 2001 UK Census). Of the 646 MPs, 125 are women, of whom two are black and none are Asian.

Gordon Brown announced plans for a Speaker’s Conference last year to try and look at ways of making the House of Commons more “representative of the UK as a whole.”

A Speakers Conference is a rare form of Inquiry which last took place 30 years ago. The first conference initiated votes for women in the UK. The aim is achieve a cross-party consensus following secret and confidential talks.

The Conference would be chaired by Commons Speaker Michael Martin who would pick up to 17 MPs to take part in proceedings.

Commons Leader Harriet Harman will open the debate later by saying that Parliament does not reflect the wider society.

Labour MP Tony Wright, chairman of the public administration committee, has tabled an amendment to Harman’s motion, asking that the “under representation of certain groups of citizens” should be addressed. 

He said: “It is most sensible to start off by deciding what under-representation there is before deciding what you are going to tackle. I think there are all kinds to look at. “ 

The Electoral Reform Society’s Chief executive Ken Ritchie welcomed the Conference, saying: “We do not have a voting system designed to produce a Parliament that reflects our society.” 

If the Conference’s findings are approved, it will present its recommendations some time next year. Although there is no obligation for the government of the day to accept recommendations from a Speaker’s Conference, most are usually accepted. 

The findings of the Conference should of course find that the current crop of MPs are indeed not representative of the wider community. But it doubtful that the real reason for politicians being out of touch with the British public will be addressed: the fact that it is only the LibLabCon-census that still believes in the patently absurd idea of a multicultural society. 

What the country needs is politicians that will truly represent the British people and this can only be achieved if people vote for the British National Party.

Manchester BNP Exposes Labour’s Taxpayer-Funded Propaganda Rally

Regular readers of BNP Regional News will be aware of the intense political tussle currently underway in Manchester between a resurgent and energetic British National Party on the one hand, and  the  discredited and moribund Labour establishment on the other. 

Recently, Labour have resorted to blaming the BNP for the intractable local social problems caused entirely by Labour’s own failed policies of mass-immigration and Multiculturalism.   On Saturday 25 October, Labour called a public meeting in the Moston Lane District of Manchester, a meeting characterised by one Labour Councillor as a “great, working together day for everyone in the area”. “We want ideas about how we can improve the Lane”, he said.

North Manchester BNP Organiser Derek Adams, who won 27% of the vote in local elections last May, wrote in advance to the meeting organisers, requesting the right to speak and receive equal democratic treatment at this Council Taxpayer-funded public meeting.  Derek was not accorded the simple courtesy of a reply, but he resolved to attend the meeting with a small BNP delegation to question local Labour councillors on behalf of the one-quarter of the local electorate who vote BNP.

Predictably, Derek and his fellow BNP delegates were immediately ordered to leave the “public” meeting by Labour councillors, on the stated grounds that “Fascists [sic] are not invited”.  Having proved their point, the official BNP party left the meeting, pausing only to note that it was Labour, not the BNP, who were pursuing the archetypal Fascist policy of suppressing free speech and democratic political dissent.

Clearly imagining they had succeeded in purging the meeting of all dissenters, the Labour councillors launched enthusiastically into their propaganda pitch.  One Labour worthy loftily declared that the “public” meeting was open only to people from Moston, Harpurhey and Charlestown.  Referring to the BNP’s Derek Adams, the councillor triumphantly proclaimed that “outsiders from Miles Platting” were not welcome and had all been successfully ejected.  The irony of a Labour councillor objecting to the presence in a “public” meeting of a born-and-bred Mancunian from a neighbouring ward, whilst simultaneously encouraging mass immigration to Manchester from every corner of the world, was not lost on the audience.

With the Labour propaganda speeches mercifully concluded, and with no opportunity afforded for questions from the floor, the meeting format switched clumsily into a celebration of Multiculturalism.  Unfortunately for Labour, events got off to an embarrassing start.   An attractive female singer - clearly intended by Labour to represent the declining local British community - took the microphone and announced, in terms, that she had been asked to sing something typically British, but as it was not clear what “British” meant, she proposed to deliver some jazz songs instead.  The Labour councillors’ acute embarrassment at this gaffe was all too evident; one councillor inspected her shoes intently, another turned an interesting shade of puce, while yet another maintained a tight-lipped rictus grimace.   Clearly, the singer’s frank admission was not on Labour’s script!

There followed a series of dance displays by representatives of various ethnic communities, in which children featured heavily.   While the audience genuinely appreciated the children’s efforts, there was a tangible sense of unease in the room at Labour’s unseemly willingness to use innocent kids for their narrow propaganda purposes.

By now, a steady stream of people were deserting the meeting, dismayed by the absence of the promised opportunity to put forward their ideas for improving Moston.   On the pavement outside, many people expressed their discontent with Labour in strong terms to sympathetic BNP activists, who busily handed out several hundred leaflets explaining the political context of the meeting.  Not one BNP leaflet proffered was rejected or handed back.

The few ordinary local people still lingering inside the rally were outnumbered by a great throng of invited ethnic guests, Labour councillors and their flunkies, and a contingent of local BNP supporters overlooked during Labour’s earlier political purge.  In fact, probably the only thing that united the disparate groups in the room was their enjoyment of the copious free hot food, kindly provided by Manchester Council Taxpayers.

Overall, the Moston Multicultural rally represented a considerable political blunder by the Labour Party.  Their use of public money to fund the event obliged Labour to maintain the fiction that the rally was a public meeting, open to all. By expelling all the BNP supporters they recognised, Labour proved that the rally was, in fact, just a narrow party-political stunt.  By their intolerance of any opposition, Labour demonstrated their habitual contempt for free speech.  By raising expectations of a full and frank debate, and then delivering only Labour propaganda and publicly-funded Multiculturalism, Labour created a groundswell of anger among many of those in attendance.  And finally, by involving children in their propaganda campaign, Labour proved their utter disregard for accepted norms of political discourse.

Labour have now enlisted the support of the local Advertiser newspaper in a desperate attempt to repair the damage by spinning the outcome of the Moston rally to their advantage, but local people will not be convinced.  Labour have already been well and truly rumbled in North Manchester.

BNP’s Manchester Campaign Sets Labour Spinning

The feedback from shoppers in the City Centre squares was positive, but the public reaction in the northern wards has been nothing short of spectacular.  Large quantities of literature are being distributed, with Martin Wingfield’s excellent Voice of Freedom newspaper, and Mark Collett’s smart leaflet designs proving especially popular.  The reception has been so positive that one delighted veteran activist was heard to remark that, whereas five years ago campaigning for the BNP in Manchester was like “beating your head against a brick wall”, now it is more akin to “pushing against an open door.”

Manchester BNP activists have had to grapple with the problems of success, such as rapidly dwindling stocks of literature!  Hyperactive local organiser Derek Adams has even racked up a big mobile phone bill, as he tries to “beg, steal or borrow” surplus literature from other BNP branches all over the North-West of England.

The success of the Manchester campaign can also be gauged from the hysterical reaction of the local Labour Party.  The Advertiser free newspaper of October 14th featured a front page photograph of assorted Labour apparatchiks holding up placards emblazoned with examples of the “racist rumours” which they claim are circulating in the Moston Lane area of the City.  A local PCSO rather unwisely allowed himself to be pictured standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Labour “bigwigs”, presumably as a gesture of fraternal solidarity from Greater Manchester Political Police. 

With typical arrogance, Labour falsely blamed the BNP, rather than their own political failure, for the widespread incidence of these “racist rumours”.  In the accompanying Advertiser news report, Labour Councillor Pat Karney also extolled the virtues of immigration, claiming that “there are only 12 empty properties as new people to the area have set up businesses. This is good news for the Lane.”

Incredibly, just one short week later, readers of the Advertiser were treated to an extraordinary Labour u-turn, with the same Labour councillor suddenly admitting that “We’re focussing on Moston Lane because we know that some local people feel uneasy about where the Lane is going, with a number of the shops going empty. People have brought their concerns to us, that it appears as if it’s deteriorating, and we want to make sure that that’s not the case.”

BNP activists were left speculating about whether the Labour volte-face was the result of a half-time spin doctor substitution, or whether it was merely a defensive reaction to the avalanche of ridicule which local people had heaped upon the earlier Labour assertion that the immigration invasion was “good news” for Moston!

Labour have now called an emergency public meeting at the Simpson Memorial Centre in Moston on Saturday October 25th to discuss the collapse of their Multicultural policies in the area.  All local residents are welcome (apart from BNP members, we’re told!) and the topics for discussion will include Moston’s contribution to a local St. George’s Day festival.   When Labour abruptly announce in October that they want to discuss St George’s Day, you know they are in a flat spin!

Rather like the Communist Party in the last days of the Soviet Union, Manchester Labour are ideologically and morally bankrupt, but they retain a formidable organisational machine, and an intelligence network generously provided at taxpayers’ expense by Greater Manchester Political Police.   So local BNP activists fully appreciate the odds they face and are careful to avoid becoming overconfident.  Nevertheless, it is fair to say that the BNP’s autumn campaign in Manchester has already reaped a rich harvest of success.

Afghanistan – Running Out of Lies

In January 2006, John Reid, the former Defence Secretary, told Parliament that the aim of the British forces being sent to Afghanistan was to secure a “stable, prosperous and democratic Afghanistan, free from terrorist domination.”

Reid said he hoped “not a shot” need be fired, and also that the heroin trade blighting so many young British lives would be destroyed at source in Helmand.

All this was clearly ridiculous from the start but the Government stubbornly kept on with the same message. In June 2007, the Ambassador to Afghanistan, the high-flying Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, declared that Britain should stay in Afghanistan for many years. “It’s a marathon rather than a sprint; we should be thinking in terms of decades,” he said. The BBC reported that the Kabul Embassy was likely to “become the UK’s biggest” symbolising a “huge commitment.”

Even senior officers remained bullish. Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, taking command of British forces in Helmand earlier this year, boasted that “the Taliban have been clobbered.”

But within the last few weeks the grim reality has at last begun to filter out from official sources. In a leaked diplomatic cable Cowper-Coles admitted that: “The current situation is bad, security is worsening, but also corruption, the government has lost all credit…the(military) presence of the Coalition is part of the problem, not the solution…..(without) foreign forces the regime would quickly crumble.”

Now even Brigadier Carleton-Smith has admitted defeat. “Western forces in Afghanistan will never be able to win the war against insurgents and may need to include the Taliban in any long-term solution,” he has now been quoted as saying. “An absolute military victory in Afghanistan is impossible” was how Brig.-Gen. Carleton-Smith described the situation to the Sunday Times.

“We’re not going to win this war. It’s about reducing it to a manageable level of insurgency that’s not a strategic threat and can be managed by the Afghan army,” he said, adding that it was necessary to “lower expectations” — though nobody much out of government ever had any. He talked of negotiating with the Taliban, with them “sitting on the other side of the table talking about a political settlement.”

Excuse us, Brigadier, why should the Taliban negotiate anything but surrender terms when you have admitted that they are on the verge of victory anyway? The Afghan Governor of Helmand Province has said that half the province is already under Taliban control, and there is fighting at Lashkar Gah, less than 10 miles away from Brigade HQ.

At the sharp end Sgt Phil Stout of 2 Para said: “We were getting more contacts every day….when we arrived we could patrol up to the top of our operating  area 8-9km north, but by the end we could go no more than 1 km.”

During the last six months Brigadier Carleton-Smith’s command has lost 32 killed and 170 wounded. 2 Para has been particularly hard hit. For what? More ruling elite lies?

Let no voter in Britain ever forget that the illegal, immoral, and unwinnable wars into which British soldiers have been plunged, were created, endorsed and backed by both Labour and Tory parties — and that they are equally to blame for the disaster. Let them both be punished, first at the polls, and then later in International War Crimes’ trials.

Greater Manchester – Labour’s Political Police Force

On Saturday 4 October, Manchester BNP held a series of campaigning events in the heart of Manchester City Centre. Groups of activists fanned out to hold paper sales in Manchester’s busiest shopping thoroughfares, eliciting an overwhelmingly positive response from passers-by.

There was a time when ‘Red Manchester’ was regarded as something of a ‘no-go area’ for nationalist politics, but that era is long past. Over the last two years, the BNP has regularly won 25-30% of the vote in north Manchester wards such as Higher Blackley and Charlestown, where long-established white British and Irish communities are under severe pressure from the immigration invasion.

Political support for the Labour party is in free fall, as ordinary people at last recognise the extent of Labour’s betrayal of white working class communities. There is a now a tangible sense of despair among Manchester’s local Labour ‘mafia’.

In a last desperate attempt to stave off rising support for the BNP, the Labour Party has enlisted the support of their political fellow-travellers in the ruling politburo of Greater Manchester Police.

Following the humiliating departure of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, Greater Manchester Police, under Chief Constable Peter Fahy, have now taken on the mantle of Britain’s most blatantly political police force.

BNP Regional News has documented the various ludicrous attempts by Greater Manchester Police to ‘investigate’ lawful BNP political activity, culminating in the forced resignation of a heroic local police officer, accused of the ‘crime’ of wearing a BNP badge while off duty. 

If Peter Fahy imagines that his force’s hamfisted attempts to intervene in politics are going to prevent BNP activists carrying out lawful campaigning activity, then he is likely to be sadly disappointed.

Time and time again, such outrageous attempts at repression have backfired spectacularly as the BNP has successfully converted righteous public indignation into success at the ballot box.

Manchester BNP are planning a dramatic escalation of lawful campaigning activity all over the city in the run-up to the European elections. If that offends the delicate leftist sensibilities of the political clique at the head of Greater Manchester Police, that is just too bad!

Manchester BNP would advise Chief Constable Peter Fahy to consider carefully the recent humiliating end to the career of Sir Ian Blair. Sir Ian was a political policeman who nailed his colours firmly to Ken Livingstone’s red Labour mast and found himself isolated when his Labour cronies were swept from office. Many Mancunians hope that a similar fate will one day lie in store for Manchester’s political policemen.

Muslim Youths to Become Personal Advisers to Cabinet Ministers

Twenty young Muslims are to become personal advisors to three cabinet ministers in a new scheme set up by an increasingly desperate Labour Government in an attempt to halt extremism in Muslim youth.

A new group, The Young Muslims Advisory Group, is being set up to give advice to Communities Secretary Hazel Blears, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham and Ed Balls as to how young British Muslims are feeling in the UK.

The group, to be launched in October, will also work with Arts Council England and Sport England to see if cultural and sporting opportunities can reduce tensions in Islamic communities, with such projects as music festivals and football tournaments being touted.

The focus of the new group will be to give cabinet ministers a personal understanding of the issues that affect young Muslims, including employment opportunities and education.

The Young Muslims Advisory Group will also be publicised in the media where it will promote positive role models and “build the capacity of young people, in terms of skills, knowledge and confidence, to counter extremist ideology.”

One of the first tasks of the group will be to organise a National Youth Conference which will address the challenges facing young Muslims in Britain.

Hazel Blears outlined her vision for the group:

“Ensuring young Muslims have access to constructive, democratic channels for dealing with concerns is crucial to our efforts to build communities that are resilient to extremist messages.

“We need to equip young Muslims to take the lead in challenging prejudice and preconceptions both within their own communities and in wider society.

“The Young Muslims Advisory Group is about identifying the next generation of Muslim community leaders and providing a platform to speak out on issues that are important to them.”

In a similar move, Blears announced the establishment of the Young Indigenous Britons’ Forum that will have the ear of cabinet ministers to talk about issues that affect British youth. The group will hold its inaugural meeting in Cloud Cuckoo Land.

The Sacking of Britain Continues: Yet More Industry Moved to India

The sacking of Britain’s manufacturing base — started under the Tories — is continuing apace with the news that more that 200 jobs are going in another massive dual hammer blow to Black Country manufacturing, including the closure of a Tipton foundry with the transfer of production to India.

To add insult to injury, workers at Sigmacast Iron, whose jobs are being sacrificed to the subcontinent, are being flown out to India to teach their Asian colleagues the tricks of the trade.

The Indian-owned factory, which makes crankshafts and was formerly part of the Triplex group, is closing next year with the switch of production to the East by the Amtek group.

Around 169 workers face an uncertain future, but at least 26 have put their names forward to fly out for up to five weeks on an all-expenses trip to India to teach their colleagues UK manufacturing processes.

Meanwhile, another 40 jobs are being cut at Legrand Electric in West Bromwich — with some work switched to Slovakia by the American-owned group.

This, from the country which was cradle to the industrial revolution and which gifted the world the wonders of modern technology — reduced to little more than a pawn shop for the Third World, by decades of Tory and Labour mismanagement, short-sightedness and greed.

No Change Here Then — Mentally Ill Will be Allowed to Sit as MPs

A rule that bans the mentally ill from sitting as Members of Parliament is to be relaxed in a shake-up of mental health laws.

An outright ban on MPs “of unsound mind” will be replaced by a test that allows them to carry on so long as they are able to turn up at Westminster.

The change would allow politicians suffering severe mental illness to remain in the Commons for years, even if they could not understand debates and were undergoing compulsory treatment in the community.

The proposal is part of the draft Mental Health Bill unveiled by Health Secretary John Reid last week.

The new law would extend the recovery period from six months to a year.

The MP’s seat would only then be declared vacant if the illness was judged “likely to affect to a significant extent the member’s ability to attend the legislature.”

Treason: Government Funded Website Tells Invaders How to Get Free Housing and Best Way to Claim Benefits

A government funded website has been set up — with your tax money — explaining to “refugees, migrants and their families, foreign students, Bulgarians, Romanians and victims of domestic violence” how to get free housing and benefits in Britain.

In addition, the website also tells them how to take legal action if they think they have been denied a home on the grounds of their race.

The Housing Rights site also offers advice to “new arrivals” in Britain on what welfare assistance they qualify for and how to claim it.

The website is part of a three-year project called Opening Doors run by the Chartered Institute of Housing and the Housing Associations’ Charitable Trust, which has been given £120,000 by the Department for Communities and Local Government to “help migrants settle in Britain.”

Recent figures show 2.5 million people moved to Britain over the past decade.

John Perry, policy adviser at the Chartered Institute of Housing, said: “One of the commonest problems that housing professionals meet in dealing with housing inquiries from migrants from abroad is knowing whether they have any entitlement to housing or homelessness assistance, and whether they are eligible for housing benefit.”

“This web resource should fill this gap — and we hope that it will help to ensure that migrants get the help to which they are entitled.”

Mark Wallace, campaign director for the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group, said: “This sends out a deplorable message to migrants about Britain as a whole, and also about what we would hope they would contribute to the country. We should be welcoming people with assistance on how to get a job swiftly and join the hard-working majority of people, not on the quickest and easiest way to tap into benefits.”

He added: “I’m not aware of a special website for people who have paid taxes here their whole lives.”

Arten Llazari, Manager of the Refugee & Migrant Centre based in Wolverhampton, said: “This website is easy to use and extremely timesaving. It will prove an essential tool for all agencies providing housing advice and assistance to refugees and new migrants. Our advisers already have it on their PC favorites list!”

Cecilia Ngeze, a refugee based in London, said: “I found the site very straight forward, well arranged and informative. It gave me lots of new information that I didn’t know beforehand. I gave my friend details for the site and it helped her find answers to a difficult housing situation.”

Biting the Hand That Has Fed Them

ISN’T it strange how those immigrants who have become influential within particular fields of our society appear to have a chip on their shoulder.

You would have thought that they would be satisfied to have risen to the top of their trade and done so well in spite of the rampant racism and insurmountable anti-immigrant bias that they tell us infects our society from top to bottom.

Take Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur for example. He’s a Ugandan Muslim immigrant who owes everything to Britain -– his education, his career and his current elevated status. Yet he is not a happy bunny and is suing his employers, the Metropolitan Police, for everything he can get, claiming that inherent racism within the Force has stopped him getting even higher up the promotional ladder.

His self-preening performance at the press conference in central London at which he launched his obscene claim was reminiscent of Yasmin Alibhai-Brown at her very worst. She is another Ugandan Muslim immigrant who has made a career as a ‘social commentator’ with The Independent and BBC by savaging the hand that feeds her and denouncing white British people as workshy, ignorant and, of course, “racist”.

But neither of them can hold a light to the great chieftain of ethnic arrogance himself –- Trevor Phillips, the supremo of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. Before he joined the Gravy Train, Phillips claimed to be a socialist, although by sending his own children to private schools, he somewhat undermined these credentials. Now Trevor is of Guyanese parents and that country today is a cauldron of racial and religious strife, as various ethnic groups battle for supremacy, and is far from an advertisement for the joys of multiculturalism. Rather than trying to suppress the indigenous White folk of our islands, you would have thought a radical campaigner likes Phillips would have relished the challenge of promoting equality and human rights in his country of ethnic origin.

But, of course, we mustn’t blame the likes of Phillips, Ghaffur and Alibhai-Brown for this almost studied hostility towards the country and the people that have allowed them, albeit in many cases reluctantly, to make Britain their home. Their ungrateful attitude is the fault of the liberal intelligentsia and an orchestrated campaign of brainwashing by the media that everything about immigrants is “vibrant” and wonderful and that the boring old British people should be so grateful that these people have chosen to come and live amongst us.

The ethnic minorities and their cultures have been put on a pedestal by successive Labour and Conservative Governments which haven’t allowed a single word of criticism to be said against them. (I was banged up in Pentonville for three months in 1985 for voicing such criticism.)

Even when immigrants were rioting, burning down our inner cities and hacking to death with machetes PC Keith Blakelock, it wasn’t their fault — it was apparently ours — that of British society for not giving them all the opportunities they were entitled to.

The liberal agenda and a fawning media have made Trevor Phillips, Tarique Ghaffur and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown the monsters they are today. Without that help and if they’d been on a level playing field, they wouldn’t have risen through the ranks and wouldn’t have any influence.

The blame, as always, lies with Britain’s politicians of the last fifty years who have betrayed the interests of the British people. They have made us second class citizens in our own country who have to take it on the chin without comment when bullied and denounced by those whom seem to be our new masters.

Read Martin Wingfield’s blog here.

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