Letter to the Editor Published in the Newton News

One in Three voted BNP

Dear Sir,

The British National Party scored an impressive 28.2% in the Simpasture Ward Bye Election.

What makes the result all the more credible is that Newton Aycliffe is Labour Party central - the town which kept Tony Blair in a safe seat for several years.

The Simpasture Ward was keenly fought by all involved because both the Independents & Labour hold a seat each. Independent received the most votes last time the ward was contested in 2007 with 315 votes, New Labour scoring 279 & 185, so there was a very real possibility that our candidate would get squeezed and poll an embarrassing amount in a tightly fought battle between the two controlling parties. Quite the opposite as BNP candidate “Honest” John pushed the Aycliffe Independents into last place and came within 96 votes of victory.

A clearly worried local MP, prospective MEP, Councillors, a Mayor were seen desperately trying to keep the BNP vote down. They are now all too aware how well organised the BNP is becoming in the area.

This all chiefs and no Indians outfit highlights that New Labour are short of activists. In contrast the BNP picked up many new enquiries several of whom want to become active.

Newton Aycliffe is a new area for the BNP and is just starting to find its feet so these new activists will be much appreciated. Prior to this election the British National Party lagged behind other parts of Sedgefield. In the May 2008 elections Sedgefield BNP were only four candidates (two wards) short of a full slate. All the uncontested seats were in Aycliffe. Simpasture was seen as low priority so it wasn’t contested, yet at this election one in three voters chose BNP.

The whole campaign has helped normalise the BNP in Aycliffe.

Our immaculately dressed and well mannered team of canvassers were the first contact many voters had had with the British National Party with many commenting that they were surprised we were nothing like what they imagined.

Congratulations to Candidate Honest John for his fantastic result. A real gentleman with not a bad bone in his body.

Trevor Agnew

Another Establishment Party MEP Caught with his Fingers in the Till

A Member of the European Parliament, elected for UKIP in the Eastern region, has been caught with his fingers in the till and is under investigation by police accused of obtaining money by deception.

Tom Wise, whose constituency office is in Leighton Buzzard, has been arrested on suspicion of making a false instrument, obtaining money by deception by transfer, and converting criminal property. He has been released on police bail until October 29.

Wise was elected in 2004 as a UKIP representative for the Eastern region.

His arrest follows the earlier news that the Tory leader in the European Parliament, Giles Chichester, was forced to resign after admitting he broke Brussels rules in channelling more than £440,000 in political expenses to his own company.

Chichester tried to brush off the payment of taxpayers’ money to a firm of which he was a paid director as a ‘whoops-a-daisy’ moment. Tory leader David Cameron had appointed Chichester as his ’sleazebuster’ in Europe.

The Contempt With Which Taxpayers are Treated: Tory Conman Given a Year to Pay Back Stolen Cash

Disgraced Tory MP Derek “the con” Conway has been given a year to repay taxpayers’ cash he wrongly used to bankroll his family.

Conway was ordered to hand back £13,160 from wages he paid to son Freddie after an inquiry found no evidence the student had done any work as a researcher.

But Commons officials are letting the MP repay the cash in 12 instalments of £1,096 taken from his monthly pay. The easy repayment terms, only made public after a long battle with the Parliamentary authorities, has led to fresh anger.

Pressure group the Taxpayers’ Alliance said Conway should have been forced to hand the money straight back - and pay interest.

Spokesman Mark Wallace said: “Why on earth is this man being given so long to pay back the money he wrongly took from taxpayers?

“If all this time his family has had the benefit of this money, there should be interest that, if gathered up, can be given back to us all.

“It is crazy that he is still being paid by the taxpayer.”

Conway was suspended from the Commons and stripped of the Tory party whip after he was condemned by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner.

The Tories are, of course, well known for their ability to draw financial conmen to their ranks, in the same way that the Lib-Dems have an unusually high proportion of underage sex-offenders in their ranks.

Recent Tory financial scandals have included Shadow Chancellor George Osborne and ex-Shadow Home Secretary David Davis cashing in on their jobs by wrongly taking money for speeches, the leader of the Tory bloc in the European parliament quitting after swindling Euro money, and the deputy to London Mayor Boris Johnson being fired under a cloud of similar allegations.

Davis breached rules by pocketing up to £15,000 for a 2007 speech on terror to a right-wing US think-tank, and Osborne raked in up to £10,000 for addressing the Institute of Directors at a Jersey conference.

Tory London Mayor Boris Johnson recently stopped an inquiry into his former deputy, Ray Lewis, who quit after being exposed as having a string of sordid claims, including one of sexual harassment and a 2000 arrest on suspicion of a £29,000 fraud. The money was repaid and he has never been charged.

Lat month, the Tory leader in the European Parliament quit the post in shame after he was embroiled in a sleaze scandal. Giles Chichester stepped down after admitting he broke Brussels rules. He had channelled more than £440,000 in political expenses to his own company.

The MEP had tried to brush off the payment of taxpayers’ money to a firm of which he was a paid director as a ‘whoops-a-daisy’ moment.

Symbolically, Tory leader David Cameron had appointed Chichester as his ’sleazebuster’ in Europe in the wake of the Conway scandal.

Newton Aycliff By-Election: An Insider’s Report

The following article first appeared on the site of the BNP’s Cumbria group, Cumbrian Patriots. It gives an interesting insider’s view on the work which goes into running the BNP’s “Silent Revolution” which sees the BNP vote steadily rising in all parts of the country.

“Report on the by-election in the North East - BNP 28.2%  By Clive Jefferson

The BNP, standing for the first time for the town council in Newton Aycliff , on Thursday 24 July, polled 28.2%.  Result: Lab - 251; BNP -155; Ind - 143.

I have been following this by-election very closely and was more than happy to go over and stay with my good friend Adam Walker and assist with the complexities of polling day. Complex? Yes, very much so when you are running a full - text book - campaign, with polling tellers, canvas returns, polling whips etc.

This process is clearly more difficult when, as was the case, we were training up a lot of people who, as well as doing the tasks needed, were also learning the whole concept to roll out in their own campaigns in the future.

The hysteria of the opposition, both Labour and Independents, who between themselves run the council, mounted as this by-election unfolded as they realised that the BNP had upped the bar.

Faced with our dedicated team and an organisational level that, in all truth, was far superior than anything of theirs, they literally panicked. Not only was Sedgefield’s MP going door to door canvassing and leafleting - in a town council election - but they also dragged in the Mayor, a MEP and dozens of local councillors from the surrounding area.

This was a by-election that has sent shock waves right through the political establishment in the North East to the very highest level, even though it was for us really only a training exercise. Our people performed brilliantly and the professionalism, politeness, work rate and presentation of all the activists who took part was great to see and be part of.

 I knew that Labour started the day well ahead of us in the postal votes and we needed a large turnout to overturn that advantage. Everyone worked hard to get our voters out, and the Labour team where truly astonished when in the last hour, our whips were still brining voters to the polling booth, literally to the last five 5 minutes.

The count itself was a first for me (and the Northern Echo reporter) in that you could literally hear a pin drop, with the full room literally hanging over every vote being counted.

Labour won but the victory was very hollow for them, their relief painful to behold. We have upped our game big time and when this new level of campaign is rolled out, in the many seats over the North East, were we came agonisingly close to victory . . . we all know what the results will be, none more so than the Labour Party!”

Read Cumbrian Patriots here.

South of the Border: Inroads Made into Another Labour Stronghold

WHILE the result of the Glasgow East by-election quite rightly attracts all the headlines this morning, the British National Party’s Quiet Revolution continued apace in the traditional Labour Party heartlands south of the border.

Last night, Sedgefield British National Party scored an impressive 28.2% in the Simpasture ward in Newton Aycliffe, a seat the BNP had never contested before.

Newton Aycliffe has always provided the Labour Party with its core vote, it was support which always kept Tony Blair safe in his Sedgefield seat.

Trevor Agnew filed this report late last night to the BNP website.
“The Simpasture ward by-election was keenly fought by all involved because both the Independents and Labour each hold a ward seat on the local town council. The Independents won the last time the ward was contested in 2007 with 315 votes against Labour’s 279 & 185, and our opponents were convinced that any BNP candidate would be completely squeezed out and receive a derisory vote as the two controlling parties battled for the spoils.
“But how wrong could they be. Quite the opposite in fact happened. BNP candidate “Honest” John Hilton pushed the Aycliffe Independents into last place and came within 96 votes of victory. And he did this in the face of a particularly nasty smear campaign by the Labour Party which saw 3 anti-BNP leaflets put out.
“The Labour MP, the prospective Labour MEP, Labour councillors, a Labour mayor and a Labour internet team were all brought in to campaign after canvassing returns showed the BNP making inroads into the Labour vote.
“What a shock they got as they saw first hand how well organised the BNP is becoming in County Durham under the superb leadership of Adam Walker and his team.
“Newton Aycliffe is a new area for the BNP and is just starting to find its feet so the new activists, signed up during this campaign, will be much appreciated. Prior to this election our party lagged behind here compared to other parts of Sedgefield. This was reflected by the fact that in the all out May 2008 elections, Sedgefield BNP were only four candidates (two wards) short of a full slate. All the uncontested seats were in Aycliffe. Simpasture was seen as such a low priority that it wasn’t even contested, yet last night’s shows the BNP’s Quiet Revolution is even taking a hold here.”

It was ‘mission accomplished’ in the only district council election the BNP contested yesterday when David Owens polled over 10% of the vote and beat the UK Independence Party candidate in the Coastal ward by-election for Boston Council.

UKIP video humiliates one of its own - Why?

A video posted on UTube provides a fascinating insight into the duplicitous world of UKIP. The video clip in question features a mock interview with a UKIP MEP candidate, a Mr John West, that was ostensibly made in order to judge Mr West’s suitability for selection as a prospective MEP.

The unfortunate Mr West was far from pleased, to put it politely, when he discovered that his ‘confidential’ interview had been posted on UTube together with the humiliating title of, ‘How not to do Politics’!

Asked to respond Mr West said, ‘I have been told by the Eastern Counties Regional Chairman that I came across badly and was not competent to represent UKIP. This mock TV interview was the basis for my rejection.’, says Mr West, ‘However, I am appalled that I had to find out in an email from a non member (sent to god knows how many) that this private and confidential interview has been posted on the internet. This video was posted without my permission.’

All most odd, especially as the video is alleged to have been filmed by two people very close to Nigel Farage MEP, namely Clive Page (ex BBC, and Common Purpose Instructor to BBC personnel), and an assistant to Nigel Farage, Annabelle Fuller.  Most cruelly the clip was entitled, ‘How not to do Politics’,  clearly showing that the video was posted with the intention of causing Mr West maximum embarrassment!  And they wonder why so many activists are walking away from the Nigel Farage Party, alias UKIP and joining the BNP!

Another aspect of this very public humiliation of one of their own members that is more than a little puzzling is this: In the process of asking his questions, Clive Page, does a marvellous hatchet job on UKIP’s claimed position within the political hierarchy. His demolition of the familiar UKIP claim to be the 4th largest party in Britain is especially damaging.

What is going on here? Why has this interview been posted into the public domain? Clearly it is something of a gift for UKIP’s political opponents to exploit, but that will not have been the prime purpose. No, this was part of something much bigger!

UKIP’s remaining members are being systematically demoralised by their own leaders. They need to think long and hard about why that is happening. They need to join the BNP, the only party that has a pledge to leave the EU written into its manifesto!

Gang Tried to Hack off Mans Head with Samurai Sword

An immigrant gang have been jailed for a total of 63 years after being convicted at the Old Bailey of attempted murder and violent disorder.

During the trial the jury heard that the mob shouted “Slash him, Psycho, kill him,” as encouragement to the Sri Lankan Tamil gang’s leader Senthurrajah Thavapalasingham. to attack a man with a Samurai sword.

Gang violence in Britain has now reached epidemic proportions, while the government offers no clear solutions to its incidence or cause.

A report on this terrifying gang violence may be read - Here

Ombudsman raps MEPs over allowances

Who could disagree with the EU’s Ombudsman when he says: ‘Europarl continues to fail to comply with transparency rules. Nobody?

Well not exactly, for theLib/Dem MEP ,Diana Wallis, who happens, so it would appear, to be Vice President of that pseudo  parliament responded by saying:

“publishing complete details of individual payment expenses and allowances would breach [Parliament's] duty to protect personal data […] and could compromise the free and independent exercise of the mandate of an MEP,”

So it’s official.  It’s more important for MEP’s to keep their ill gotten gains hidden, than it is for those  extravagances to be revealed to those who pay for the feeding troughs!

Ombudsman raps MEPs over allowances

Published: Wednesday 16 July 2008

EU Ombudsman P. Nikiforos Diamandouros has stressed that the European Parliament is continuing to fail to comply with transparency rules regarding the allowances its members receive. But the institution’s Vice President Diana Wallis yesterday (15 July) insisted that reforms are already underway to address the bulk of his concerns.

But British ALDE MEP Diana Wallis, who is responsible for transparency, yesterday stressed that recently adopted “major reforms” to its allowances system “amount to a substantial increase in transparency and will largely address the spirit of the Ombudsman’s remarks”.

Transparency issues rose to prominence recently following last month’s resignations by UK Conservative MEPs Giles Chichester and Den Dover following allegations that they broke the European Parliament’s rules by making payments to companies linked to family members from their expenses.

In response, UK Conservative leader David Cameron announced a “deep clean” of “unacceptable” European expenses, launching a new code of conduct for his party’s MEPs which requires more detailed disclosure of how they spend their allowances. The new measures, which will only affect Tory members, come into force on September 1 2008.

Meanwhile, the changes being introduced by Parliament include:

* The entry into force of a new MEPs’ statute after the 2009 elections with a common salary, coupled with a new system for travel expenses based directly on reimbursement of ticket prices.
* MEPs’ assistants employed in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg must be employed within the EU staffing system from after the 2009 elections.
* No close family members will be given new contracts as assistants with immediate effect, but existing contracts can be extended if this is noted in the member’s declaration of interests.
* The publication of information on the expenses and allowances of MEPs on the Parliament’s website.

Accordingly, Diamandouros welcomed the Parliament’s announcement that it “plans to re-assess its position after the entry into force of the new statute for MEPs in 2009″. “But that cannot excuse its failure to comply […] now,” he stressed.

The Ombudsman stressed that his role in the Maltese affair “concerned the principle of transparency and not the principle of financial accountability, which is the responsibility of the budget control authorities”. “I maintain my finding of maladministration, but unlike the Court [of First Instance], I have no power to annul Parliament’s decision,” he added, closing the case.
Positions:

Responding to the Ombudsman’s latest pronouncement, European Parliament Vice President responsible for transparency Diana Wallis (ALDE, UK) said “Parliament has noted with interest the comments of the European Ombudsman in his decision on a complaint from a Maltese journalist”. “The report comes at a time when major changes to the expenses and allowances system are being introduced,” she added.

Nevertheless, “publishing complete details of individual payment expenses and allowances would breach [Parliament's] duty to protect personal data […] and could compromise the free and independent exercise of the mandate of an MEP,” read a European Parliament press release yesterday.

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UKIP and the question of one man’s £122,103 in ACA

In recent times your news team has devoted much space to the issue of MPs and their claiming of public money in Parliamentary expenses and allowances. During that time we have taken to task leading members of both the Tory and Labour parties and asked the sort of questions they just don’t like being asked.

Today we turn our attention to the Europhile BBC promoted United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP).

Regular visitors to this site will know that we have already, on at least one previous occasion, asked why UKIP’s MEPs are so unwilling, apparently, to place the full details of their EU allowances and expenses claiming into the public domain. We ask because it is our tax money and the sums said to be involved are huge – certainly amounting to £ millions between them since the European Elections!

We have also previously described our failure in obtaining from UKIP any figures relating to the claims on the public purse made by their MEPs – a situation we believe to be nothing short of hypocritical. This being particularly so as opposition to the EU “Gravy Train” and a demand for transparency in the matter of MEPs allowances and expenses, being one of their leading policy stances prior to the 2004 European Elections. Yet, here we are now, just four short years on, with one UKIP-elected MEP having completed a jail sentence for fraud and another UKIP-elected MEP recently reported in the media as assisting police with their enquiries in relation to alleged fraud!

But it is not the subject of UKIP’s MEPs that we concern ourselves with today – but rather the expenses and allowances claiming of their sole MP, Bob Spink. Now Mr. Spink was elected as the Conservative MP for Castle Point in Essex in 2001 but, following a difference of opinion with that party, he decided to cross the floor to UKIP earlier this year.

What we find particularly interesting about Mr. Spink is his claiming of Parliament’s Additional Claims Allowance (ACA) and his travel claims.

And, why is that you ask?

Well, it’s because since being elected Mr. Spink is recorded as having claimed at least £120,000 in ACA and over £60,000 in travel costs – despite representing a constituency, the centre of which is a little over 30 miles by road from The House!

To be precise the record shows that between Q1 2001 and Q1 2007 Mr. Spink claimed £122,103 in ACA. And when the figures for the financial year 2007/8 are added in (when available later this year) it is possible that this total may increase to around £140,000!

Similarly, he is recorded as claiming no less than £60,740 in travel costs between Q1 2001 and Q1 2007 – a figure that could conceivably reach around £70,000 when the 2007/8 figures are available! This being a considerable amount - considering, according to your news team’s online route-planner, the distance between South Benfleet (in the middle of the Castle Point constituency) and Westminster tube station, by road, is a mere 34.4 miles!

We should stress, as far as we are aware, Mr. Spink has done nothing unlawful and has acted entirely within the rules laid down by our legislators in Parliament. Nonetheless, we do question why he needs to claim any ACA at all! After all, as the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia states:

“Situated just 30 miles (48 km) from the heart of London, Castle Point is well placed by road, rail and air. The borough is crossed by the A13 and bordered to the north by the A127, providing direct links to both Southend and London. The M25 is just 20 minutes drive away. Frequent train services run through Benfleet on the London Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness line. Operated by C2C, the line offers a high quality and reliable service.”

Indeed, certainly hundreds, if not thousands, of commuters use that very service from Benfleet and even further afield, to travel in to central London every day – meaning that London is clearly commutable from Castle Point! This being particularly the case as Parliament only sits for around 100 days in any given year – unlike standard employment which normally requires employees attendance on a five days per week, fifty weeks a year, basis.

And that’s our point. ACA was introduced to reimburse the expenses of MPs whose constituencies are so geographically distant from The House that daily commuting is not a viable option! With that thought in mind we are understandably left wondering where in Castle Point such remote parts are to be found! Is the Dogger Bank, far out in the North Sea, now regarded as an extension of the constituency perhaps? If so, we can fully appreciate Mr. Spink’s claiming of our tax money in the form of ACA.

One further point which, perhaps, may be helpful to UKIP’s Westminster representative, is this:

According to the records, Mr. Spink claimed for £6,732 during the financial year 2006/7 for car travel – yet only £8 for rail travel. Bearing in mind the “high quality and reliable” rail service that operates through his constituency, could he not save himself a considerable amount of quality time and the taxpayer a considerable amount of money - by taking a train to work like thousands of other commuters? You know - the people who ultimately pay his wages!

We wonder what the taxpaying Castle Point electorate will make of all this?

UKIP – a chip off the old Tory block?

Jailed paedophile + Racial riot at Prison

Sex menace ignored mum’s plea

An Asian paedophile was today given an indefinite prison sentence by Leeds Crown court. The man, Ziad Patel, had been grooming at least 7 young girls for many weeks, before he abducted one 13 yr old girl!

At least this paedophile is behind bars, but sadly he is not the only one - far from it!

So if you have young girls in your family, and they have access to the Internet, do please be very aware of the dangers. There have been victims enough already.

The story was reported in a local newspaper, and we copy it below for your information.

A PAEDOPHILE ignored a frantic mum’s plea to leave her daughter alone before abducting and abusing the schoolgirl he groomed in an internet chat room.
Married dad Ziad Patel, 29, pestered his 13-year-old victim on the highfive website and bombarded her mobile phone with calls, Leeds Crown Court heard.

The girl’s mother answered one call on January 20 and told him to go away. She then warned her daughter about the dangers she faced.

Prosecutor, Helen Hendry, said later the same night the girl disappeared and her mother called police, who traced the youngster to Patel’s home early next day.

Patel, of West Street, Batley, had encouraged the girl to perform a string of sordid sex acts on him.

Jailing Patel indefinitely for the public protection, Judge Shaun Spencer, QC, told him: “You placed a profile of yourself on a website intending to attract the attention of girls of this age. It’s clear to me the profile was put there as a baited hook. It’s clear you groomed this complainant.”

Judge Spencer said Patel will not be considered for parole for two-and-a-half years and will only be freed when he is no longer deemed a danger.

Patel’s name will be on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life.

The court heard Patel had been messaging the girl in the highfive chat room up to eight times a day for a number of weeks.

He told police he had been chatting to six other underage girls on the same website.

Mark McKone, for Patel, said the sexual acts were consensual, adding: “He has expressed considerable remorse.”

The girl’s mother had bought her daughter a computer to help with homework and warned her about the potential dangers of using chat rooms and messaging services.

Patel admitted abducting a child, causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and three charges of sexual activity with a child.

Meanwhile, in HM Prison Frankland there have been vicious riots between Asian and White prisoners.  The incidents took place last Friday, according to various press reports, only published today!

This report is from the Sun

A RIOT between British and Muslim inmates broke out in a high-security prison after an al-Qaeda terrorist’s cell was torched.

Algerian Kamel Bourgass, 34 – serving life for murdering Special Branch detective Stephen Oake, 40 – escaped injury in the blaze.

But then, in retaliation, a British prisoner was slashed across the cheek with a home-made knife as he walked along a corridor.

When pals heard, fighting between around 60 British and Muslim prisoners broke out at Frankland Prison, Co Durham.

Staff used batons as they tried to separate cons exchanging blows and kicks.

More officers raced from other wings to help and the riot was eventually brought under control.

Four staff – one with a broken arm – and two lags needed hospital treatment.

A prison source said: “It was a free-for-all. They were really going at it, dozens and dozens of them pummelling each other. That place is a powder keg, this has been brewing for ages and officers fear it will kick off again.”

Steve Cox, of the Prison Officers’ Association, said: “There is an ongoing problem at Frankland borne out of the fact that terrorist prisoners are housed with other prisoners.”

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