A TOP counter terrorism cop has warned a Manchester conference `the aim of the game now is mass murder'. Chief Supt Tony Porter, head of the GMP-based Counter Terrorism Unit, painted a bleak picture of the threat from Muslim extremists when he addressed business leaders at a security conference.
But he also spoke of his `optimism for the future' and his desire to make the region `the most hostile environment you can imagine' for terrorists.
He warned delegates at the start of his speech he would outline `the scary bits' of the terror threat. "Al-Qaida have re-written the manual of attack," he said, explaining that the historic threat from the IRA was `somewhat easier to manage' because its targets were focused, warnings were issued before bombings and Republicans wanted to escape alive afterwards.
"They didn't want to commit suicide. The aim of the game now is mass murder," he said. The current threat level is graded as `severe', which means an attack is `highly likely'.
Please go and read it all:
http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/1044507_top_cops_terror_warning
Morg
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Sunday, 6 April 2008
In defence of the British people and culture
From the desk of Robert Fjordman (a Norwegian writing in a Belgian web journal).
These are extracts (emphases mine); follow the link at the end to read it all (recommended - and especially recommended for the Elliot Browns amongst us). Do take the time to follow the links posted within the original article.
We in the BNP are not anti-European. What we are is anti-EU. Despite what our politicians and the media might like you to think, these two are not the same thing.
Neither are we anti anyone else. We fully support the right of all nations and cultures to exist and thrive within their own secure borders - and it isn't the BNP that sends our army to invade other peoples' lands, and for our young people to kill and die for no discernible British interest. What we are is pro-British, and we demand for ourselves that same right to exist and thrive within our own secure borders. We have two issues over immigration: culture - if you wish to immigrate into Britain you must wholly and unconditionally adopt the culture you find here; and numbers: this land is already overcrowded, and the number of people living here is unsustainable. To be allowed in on a permanent basis you must provably be able to contribute to the well-being of our nation in ways that we cannot provide from our own indigenous resources.
Fjordman (Norwegian, remember - but from everything he says, he could well be British; or Dutch, German, French, Danish ... etc. Ironic, isn't it: Wigan BNP using an article written by a Norwegian and published in a Belgian web publication, in order to lay out a defence of British culture):-
" ... in more and more European cities, the native population is being pushed out of their own neighborhoods by immigrant gangs. The natives receive little or no aid from their authorities, sometimes blatant hostility [are you still with us, young Elliot?], when faced with immigrant violence. In an age where the global population increases with billions of people in a few decades, it is entirely plausible, indeed likely, that the West could soon become demographically overwhelmed. Not a few of our intellectuals seem to derive pleasure from this thought.
[...]
In decadent societies of the past, the authorities didn't open the gates to hostile nations and ban opposition to this as intolerance and barbarophobia. What we are dealing with in the modern West is not merely decadence; it's one of the greatest betrayals in history. Our so-called leaders pass laws banning the opposition to our dispossession as "racism and hate speech." To native Europeans, when listening to our media and our leaders, it's as if we don't even exist, as if it were normal for them to put the interests of other nations over their own.
[...]
At the Daily Telegraph, Simon Heffer suggests that the mass immigration encouraged in particular by the Labour governments of Blair and Brown in Britain is not happening out of incompetence, but is part of "a doctrinally driven determination by the new Government in 1997 to destroy our national identity and to advance multiculturalism." I agree, but this policy of state-sponsored population replacement is far from limited to Britain.
[...]
... a Scottish councillor, Sandy Aitchison, was chastised for using the term "indigenous" about native Brits. Why is it considered ridiculous or evil if Europeans assert our rights? Is it because we are white?
[...]
Western Europeans have in recent years accepted more immigration in a shorter period of time than any society has ever done peacefully in human history. If we want a break we have the right to do so. What we are dealing with is not "immigration" but colonization, and in the case of Muslims, internationally organized attempts to conquer our countries. ... There are hardly any Britons in Pakistan today, so why should the Brits allow huge numbers of Pakistanis to settle in Britain?
[...]
For simply suggesting that I would not enjoy being turned into a persecuted minority in my own country, I have been accused of being a "white nationalist," which says a great deal about how demonized people of European ancestry have become. What about Koreans or Japanese? If they were gradually being displaced by, say, Nigerians and Pakistanis and were harassed in their cities by people who moved there out of their own free will, would they be denounced as yellow nationalists if they objected to this? In fact, why do the terms yellow nationalist, brown nationalist and black nationalist hardly exist, whereas the term white nationalist does? Isn't that by itself an indication of a double standard?
[...]
The one thing I will not do is surrender my land, which is not mine to give. I do not see anybody else quietly accept being turned into a minority in the country where their ancestors have lived since the end of the last Ice Age, and I cannot see why I should have to do so, either. I don't care if white Westerners are "scared of being called a racist." I will not leave a ruined land behind to my descendants because I was afraid of being called bad names. If you think it is "racist" for Europeans to preserve their heritage and protect their children from abuse, then I'm not the bigot here. You are.
[...]
We do not wish harm or ill-feeling toward any other peoples on earth, but we assert the right to maintain our own majorities in our own lands without being accused of "racism." We reject current trends which preach that we have no right to oppose, control or lessen unlimited immigration from non-indigenous cultures.
[...]
We reject educational trends which encourage our children to forget or despise their culture, traditions, religious practices and history in order to avoid offense to non-indigenous European residents or citizens.
[...]
We reject out of hand current trends which preach that traditional indigenous European religious or cultural celebrations such as Christmas are somehow "racist" or "non-inclusive" and therefore must be "downgraded," "renamed" or otherwise de-emphasized or eliminated in order to avoid offending non-indigenous European residents or citizens. We reject current policies which establish that our indigenous cultures are somehow deficient and therefore are not complete until they are "enriched" by other, non-indigenous cultures.
[...]
We reject out of hand current trends or policies which preach that our national flags or ethnic symbols of centuries standing are somehow "racist" or "non-inclusive" in order to avoid offense to non-indigenous European residents or citizens.
[...]
We reject out of hand current trends or policies which preach that indigenous European cultural expressions such as statues of boars, folkloric tales about pigs or dogs, paintings with Christian or Classical pagan themes, war memorials with a Christian theme, etc., should be removed from public view, banned, destroyed, modified or otherwise threatened in order to avoid offense to non-indigenous European residents or citizens.
[...]
Mr. Franco Frattini of the EU Commission, the unelected and unaccountable government for nearly half a billion people, has stated that Europeans should accept further tens of millions of immigrants within a generation. The British Foreign Minister Milliband stated late in 2007 that the EU should expand to include Muslim nations in North Africa and the Middle East. The French President Sarkozy and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel confirmed this early in 2008. This is part of an organized attempt to surrender Europe to Islamization that has been going on for decades. Since the European Union involves the free movement of people across borders, European leaders are opening the floodgates to tens of millions of Muslims and other non-indigenous peoples at a time when native Europeans fear for the survival of their civilization and feel like aliens in their own cities. Meanwhile, Ernst Uhrlau, the president of Germany's foreign intelligence agency, warned about the rising assertiveness of violent Jihadist organizations in North Africa.
Based on this evidence, the European Union can hardly be seen as anything other than a criminal organization dedicated to the demographic dispossession and cultural marginalization of the indigenous peoples of an entire continent. Consequently, the EU should be immediately and totally dissolved. Native Europeans should demand that we have an interim period with public de-Eurabification, where the lies propagated by pro-Islamic Multiculturalists should be removed from our history books, and a proper respect for European cultural traditions should be restored. Those officials on senior levels who have participated in the creation of Eurabia should stand trial for crimes against their civilization. "
Read it all.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3153
Is this a "Hate Crime" Mr Elliot Brown? If so, send your heavies around to get me; you know where I live. It wont make any difference though: we are not going to stop.
These are extracts (emphases mine); follow the link at the end to read it all (recommended - and especially recommended for the Elliot Browns amongst us). Do take the time to follow the links posted within the original article.
We in the BNP are not anti-European. What we are is anti-EU. Despite what our politicians and the media might like you to think, these two are not the same thing.
Neither are we anti anyone else. We fully support the right of all nations and cultures to exist and thrive within their own secure borders - and it isn't the BNP that sends our army to invade other peoples' lands, and for our young people to kill and die for no discernible British interest. What we are is pro-British, and we demand for ourselves that same right to exist and thrive within our own secure borders. We have two issues over immigration: culture - if you wish to immigrate into Britain you must wholly and unconditionally adopt the culture you find here; and numbers: this land is already overcrowded, and the number of people living here is unsustainable. To be allowed in on a permanent basis you must provably be able to contribute to the well-being of our nation in ways that we cannot provide from our own indigenous resources.
Fjordman (Norwegian, remember - but from everything he says, he could well be British; or Dutch, German, French, Danish ... etc. Ironic, isn't it: Wigan BNP using an article written by a Norwegian and published in a Belgian web publication, in order to lay out a defence of British culture):-
" ... in more and more European cities, the native population is being pushed out of their own neighborhoods by immigrant gangs. The natives receive little or no aid from their authorities, sometimes blatant hostility [are you still with us, young Elliot?], when faced with immigrant violence. In an age where the global population increases with billions of people in a few decades, it is entirely plausible, indeed likely, that the West could soon become demographically overwhelmed. Not a few of our intellectuals seem to derive pleasure from this thought.
[...]
In decadent societies of the past, the authorities didn't open the gates to hostile nations and ban opposition to this as intolerance and barbarophobia. What we are dealing with in the modern West is not merely decadence; it's one of the greatest betrayals in history. Our so-called leaders pass laws banning the opposition to our dispossession as "racism and hate speech." To native Europeans, when listening to our media and our leaders, it's as if we don't even exist, as if it were normal for them to put the interests of other nations over their own.
[...]
At the Daily Telegraph, Simon Heffer suggests that the mass immigration encouraged in particular by the Labour governments of Blair and Brown in Britain is not happening out of incompetence, but is part of "a doctrinally driven determination by the new Government in 1997 to destroy our national identity and to advance multiculturalism." I agree, but this policy of state-sponsored population replacement is far from limited to Britain.
[...]
... a Scottish councillor, Sandy Aitchison, was chastised for using the term "indigenous" about native Brits. Why is it considered ridiculous or evil if Europeans assert our rights? Is it because we are white?
[...]
Western Europeans have in recent years accepted more immigration in a shorter period of time than any society has ever done peacefully in human history. If we want a break we have the right to do so. What we are dealing with is not "immigration" but colonization, and in the case of Muslims, internationally organized attempts to conquer our countries. ... There are hardly any Britons in Pakistan today, so why should the Brits allow huge numbers of Pakistanis to settle in Britain?
[...]
For simply suggesting that I would not enjoy being turned into a persecuted minority in my own country, I have been accused of being a "white nationalist," which says a great deal about how demonized people of European ancestry have become. What about Koreans or Japanese? If they were gradually being displaced by, say, Nigerians and Pakistanis and were harassed in their cities by people who moved there out of their own free will, would they be denounced as yellow nationalists if they objected to this? In fact, why do the terms yellow nationalist, brown nationalist and black nationalist hardly exist, whereas the term white nationalist does? Isn't that by itself an indication of a double standard?
[...]
The one thing I will not do is surrender my land, which is not mine to give. I do not see anybody else quietly accept being turned into a minority in the country where their ancestors have lived since the end of the last Ice Age, and I cannot see why I should have to do so, either. I don't care if white Westerners are "scared of being called a racist." I will not leave a ruined land behind to my descendants because I was afraid of being called bad names. If you think it is "racist" for Europeans to preserve their heritage and protect their children from abuse, then I'm not the bigot here. You are.
[...]
We do not wish harm or ill-feeling toward any other peoples on earth, but we assert the right to maintain our own majorities in our own lands without being accused of "racism." We reject current trends which preach that we have no right to oppose, control or lessen unlimited immigration from non-indigenous cultures.
[...]
We reject educational trends which encourage our children to forget or despise their culture, traditions, religious practices and history in order to avoid offense to non-indigenous European residents or citizens.
[...]
We reject out of hand current trends which preach that traditional indigenous European religious or cultural celebrations such as Christmas are somehow "racist" or "non-inclusive" and therefore must be "downgraded," "renamed" or otherwise de-emphasized or eliminated in order to avoid offending non-indigenous European residents or citizens. We reject current policies which establish that our indigenous cultures are somehow deficient and therefore are not complete until they are "enriched" by other, non-indigenous cultures.
[...]
We reject out of hand current trends or policies which preach that our national flags or ethnic symbols of centuries standing are somehow "racist" or "non-inclusive" in order to avoid offense to non-indigenous European residents or citizens.
[...]
We reject out of hand current trends or policies which preach that indigenous European cultural expressions such as statues of boars, folkloric tales about pigs or dogs, paintings with Christian or Classical pagan themes, war memorials with a Christian theme, etc., should be removed from public view, banned, destroyed, modified or otherwise threatened in order to avoid offense to non-indigenous European residents or citizens.
[...]
Mr. Franco Frattini of the EU Commission, the unelected and unaccountable government for nearly half a billion people, has stated that Europeans should accept further tens of millions of immigrants within a generation. The British Foreign Minister Milliband stated late in 2007 that the EU should expand to include Muslim nations in North Africa and the Middle East. The French President Sarkozy and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel confirmed this early in 2008. This is part of an organized attempt to surrender Europe to Islamization that has been going on for decades. Since the European Union involves the free movement of people across borders, European leaders are opening the floodgates to tens of millions of Muslims and other non-indigenous peoples at a time when native Europeans fear for the survival of their civilization and feel like aliens in their own cities. Meanwhile, Ernst Uhrlau, the president of Germany's foreign intelligence agency, warned about the rising assertiveness of violent Jihadist organizations in North Africa.
Based on this evidence, the European Union can hardly be seen as anything other than a criminal organization dedicated to the demographic dispossession and cultural marginalization of the indigenous peoples of an entire continent. Consequently, the EU should be immediately and totally dissolved. Native Europeans should demand that we have an interim period with public de-Eurabification, where the lies propagated by pro-Islamic Multiculturalists should be removed from our history books, and a proper respect for European cultural traditions should be restored. Those officials on senior levels who have participated in the creation of Eurabia should stand trial for crimes against their civilization. "
Read it all.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3153
Is this a "Hate Crime" Mr Elliot Brown? If so, send your heavies around to get me; you know where I live. It wont make any difference though: we are not going to stop.
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
ALL THE NOMINATIONS ACCEPTED
All our nominations have been accepted. Perhaps not as many as we would have liked but owing to activists moving and being away on holiday not as many as we would have liked.
Getting the nomination papers I was cheered by the enthusiasm I received from everybody.
The increasing decline of our country and the governments insistence that all is well is having an effect and the people are realising that they are being lied to almost daily, while our British institutions are being consigned to history (or until we have more influence)
Britannia on our coinage is disappearing after hundreds of years. Why? to downplay anything that is British and to turn us into an unrelated mass of disunited people who inhabit this tiny island. The powers that be seem intent on destroying the unity we had in World War 2 when we united to save our nation and the world from Fascism.
Now we have it by stealth,---so far.
At last the people are awakening and realising it is not a waste of time to vote.
A vote for the BNP is worth 10 for any other party as we are the only party dedicated to a change from the rapid decline of our culture and the corruption of government at all levels.
The other parties will note our increasing support and who knows will start reflecting the will of the people and put BRITISH people first.
Getting the nomination papers I was cheered by the enthusiasm I received from everybody.
The increasing decline of our country and the governments insistence that all is well is having an effect and the people are realising that they are being lied to almost daily, while our British institutions are being consigned to history (or until we have more influence)
Britannia on our coinage is disappearing after hundreds of years. Why? to downplay anything that is British and to turn us into an unrelated mass of disunited people who inhabit this tiny island. The powers that be seem intent on destroying the unity we had in World War 2 when we united to save our nation and the world from Fascism.
Now we have it by stealth,---so far.
At last the people are awakening and realising it is not a waste of time to vote.
A vote for the BNP is worth 10 for any other party as we are the only party dedicated to a change from the rapid decline of our culture and the corruption of government at all levels.
The other parties will note our increasing support and who knows will start reflecting the will of the people and put BRITISH people first.
WE WILL LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE , ROOT OUT CORRUPTION, AND RESTORE THE GREAT IN GREAT BRITAIN
Monday, 31 March 2008
The Times on the BNP
I am posting this article in its entirety as a public service to ensure it doesn’t disappear. It will be interesting for you if you go to the actual Times article and also read the comments attached to it. It has a larger number of comments than any other article in today’s Times, and is one of the
“Times recommends” articles for today.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/tim_hames/article3648815.ece
The BNP has increased its average vote per candidate at every election it has stood in since 1982. It will do so again this May. The big story of the upcoming elections in May will be the BNP performance in London. As a provincial town we may slightly resent that, but that’s the country as it is, not as we might like to see it. The media is almost entirely London based, so to the media, that’s where the big story is.
You will read in the article below that wherever the BNP stands candidates it averages 10% - 20%. Here in Wigan we last year averaged a little over 15% across all the candidates we stood. Do vote to increase that. It would be even better if you gave the Labour, Conservative and Liberal-Democrat parties a real shock to the system by electing some or all of our candidates. Contrary to the story put out by the other political parties and by the mainstream media, you will not be placing yourselves in any danger by doing this. Even if all our candidates in May were elected to the council, you would still be electing only seven councillors. That is hardly a controlling bloc. But my goodness me you would be sending out a powerful message of discontent to the major parties; and to the Elliot Browns of Wigan that their game is up, and it’s only a matter of time before they are out on their ear.
Our vote increases election after election not because of anything we do, but because of what is done by the major parties – and they are all essentially the same; you all know that. You will never change them other than by voting for us. We know you want THEM to change; to do that you must vote for US. They are in need of a severe shock. And you may even find that you actually like us.
And you may get a pleasant surprise if you elect us: you just might find that we are not monsters, not the knuckle-dragging Nazis we are made out to be: just ordinary people like you. In the Wigan BNP we have six former Labour Party members and activists (that would be the old Labour Party, of course); Three former Conservative Party members (again, the old Conservative Party); and one former member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
_________________________________________________________________
From The Times
March 31, 2008
Prepare for a shock BNP victory
Forget Ken vs Boris - the real action is on the far Right
Tim Hames
I cannot claim to have been to Redwell in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, although on paper it would seem a pretty pleasant place, rather more prosperous than average. I have been through Yapton, in Arun, West Sussex, and that is distinctly desirable territory. I think I have cut across Lawford and New Bilton, in Warwickshire, too and while it was not quite the Cotswolds it was hardly a centre of deprivation or tense race relations either.
All of which makes a recent pattern in local council by-elections more unexpected. A by-election was held in Redwell West last Thursday. The Conservatives easily retained the seat but there in second place, eight votes ahead of Labour and with four times the strength of the Liberal Democrats was the British National Party candidate. At Yapton, seven days beforehand, the BNP had come third, a mere seven votes behind the Liberal Democrats, and with almost a fifth of the vote. A fortnight earlier Lawford and New Bilton had witnessed a cracking contest with Labour hanging on by a single vote over the Tories and with the BNP securely third on 15 per cent, well ahead of Nick Clegg's contender.
It is being said that the local elections on May 1 are a rather boring affair with the obvious exception of the battle between Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson to be the mayor of London. The BNP, however, will be more interested in the Greater London Assembly than whether Red Ken or the Blue Blond wins control of the capital city. For the complex electoral method - the additional member system - used for the assembly means that any political party has a decent chance of winning one of the 25 seats at stake if it can accumulate 6 per cent or so of the vote in the party list section of the ballot paper.
This is far from an impossible target for the BNP. The last local by-election conducted in London was on March 20 at Gooshays in the Borough of Havering. The BNP had narrowly won it in May 2006 in something close to a statistical fluke but now had to defend it after the departure of its councillor. It was assumed that this might be a challenge for the BNP. Far from it. Its share of the vote went up from 28 per cent to 38 per cent. The Liberal Democrats, for the record, managed the singularly strange feat of finishing sixth.
The ward of Gooshays is striking for the lack of immigrants who live there. The ward is 96.4 per cent white, making it one of the least ethnically diverse in London. The place, however, is polarised by age (disproportionately large numbers of very young and very old voters), has comparatively high unemployment and very low levels of educational attainment. It is ideal terrain for the BNP and there are other Gooshays in London. That being so, the stealth success of the BNP could be the real story of the local elections.
This is surprising in many ways. Not least because the BNP has been through a period of fratricidal factionalism. There have been purges, resignations and attempts to establish rival nationalist parties. Some within its ranks have accused the leader, Nick Griffin, of “dictatorial tendencies” (fancy joining a neo-fascist party and then discovering that the führerprinzip reigns there) while others consider him a bit of a pinko for wanting to play down race in an effort to become more respectable.
None of this internal anguish appears to matter much at polling stations. Stick a BNP champion up in a local by-election and he will accomplish 10-20 per cent in swaths of England. On that evidence, the BNP will have its triumph in London.
So why do I expect the BNP to do well? There seem to me to be three factors that might prove important.
The first relates specifically to the forthcoming local elections. The last time that this set of seats were fought was in June 2004 when the tussle in London and councils elsewhere were combined with elections for the European Parliament vote in an attempt to raise the turnout. It did, but it was the UK Independence Party that benefited from these joint elections, not only doing very well in the battle for the European Parliament but in the locals too - it seized two Greater London Assembly seats, for example. The typical UKIP and BNP supporters are by no means identical but there is a degree of overlap between them and the surge for the former did diminish the prospects of the latter. On May 1 there will be no European Parliament poll to help UKIP - which too has suffered from schisms of late - by pushing Europe towards the top of the agenda.
The second factor is that the BNP has improved its organisation. The in-house feuding has not prevented the BNP from honing a much more sophisticated approach to campaigning. The quality of its leaflets has improved, there have been instances of it engaging in telephone canvassing and reports of more “mystery shopping” where its activists blitz an area to market test the public reaction to the party and then determine whether it is worth fielding a candidate.
The final dimension is the most significant. The optimal conditions for the BNP are where there are substantial numbers of disillusioned ex-Labour supporters and a Conservative Party that is wary of concentrating on subjects such as asylum-seekers because it wants to appeal to mainstream metropolitan opinion. It is also a bonus for the BNP if the Liberal Democrats look more centrist and are not indulging in populism to chase the protest vote. These are precisely the political circumstances that will be at play in the local elections of 2008, especially in London.
The main constraint on the BNP in London is how well it can stretch its limited resources. It won 4.8 per cent of the assembly vote in 2004 even with UKIP in the frame. If it can win anything close to double that this time, then regardless of whether it is Mayor Ken or Mayor Boris, it will be the BNP that provides the shock of this election.
Morg
“Times recommends” articles for today.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/tim_hames/article3648815.ece
The BNP has increased its average vote per candidate at every election it has stood in since 1982. It will do so again this May. The big story of the upcoming elections in May will be the BNP performance in London. As a provincial town we may slightly resent that, but that’s the country as it is, not as we might like to see it. The media is almost entirely London based, so to the media, that’s where the big story is.
You will read in the article below that wherever the BNP stands candidates it averages 10% - 20%. Here in Wigan we last year averaged a little over 15% across all the candidates we stood. Do vote to increase that. It would be even better if you gave the Labour, Conservative and Liberal-Democrat parties a real shock to the system by electing some or all of our candidates. Contrary to the story put out by the other political parties and by the mainstream media, you will not be placing yourselves in any danger by doing this. Even if all our candidates in May were elected to the council, you would still be electing only seven councillors. That is hardly a controlling bloc. But my goodness me you would be sending out a powerful message of discontent to the major parties; and to the Elliot Browns of Wigan that their game is up, and it’s only a matter of time before they are out on their ear.
Our vote increases election after election not because of anything we do, but because of what is done by the major parties – and they are all essentially the same; you all know that. You will never change them other than by voting for us. We know you want THEM to change; to do that you must vote for US. They are in need of a severe shock. And you may even find that you actually like us.
And you may get a pleasant surprise if you elect us: you just might find that we are not monsters, not the knuckle-dragging Nazis we are made out to be: just ordinary people like you. In the Wigan BNP we have six former Labour Party members and activists (that would be the old Labour Party, of course); Three former Conservative Party members (again, the old Conservative Party); and one former member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
_________________________________________________________________
From The Times
March 31, 2008
Prepare for a shock BNP victory
Forget Ken vs Boris - the real action is on the far Right
Tim Hames
I cannot claim to have been to Redwell in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, although on paper it would seem a pretty pleasant place, rather more prosperous than average. I have been through Yapton, in Arun, West Sussex, and that is distinctly desirable territory. I think I have cut across Lawford and New Bilton, in Warwickshire, too and while it was not quite the Cotswolds it was hardly a centre of deprivation or tense race relations either.
All of which makes a recent pattern in local council by-elections more unexpected. A by-election was held in Redwell West last Thursday. The Conservatives easily retained the seat but there in second place, eight votes ahead of Labour and with four times the strength of the Liberal Democrats was the British National Party candidate. At Yapton, seven days beforehand, the BNP had come third, a mere seven votes behind the Liberal Democrats, and with almost a fifth of the vote. A fortnight earlier Lawford and New Bilton had witnessed a cracking contest with Labour hanging on by a single vote over the Tories and with the BNP securely third on 15 per cent, well ahead of Nick Clegg's contender.
It is being said that the local elections on May 1 are a rather boring affair with the obvious exception of the battle between Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson to be the mayor of London. The BNP, however, will be more interested in the Greater London Assembly than whether Red Ken or the Blue Blond wins control of the capital city. For the complex electoral method - the additional member system - used for the assembly means that any political party has a decent chance of winning one of the 25 seats at stake if it can accumulate 6 per cent or so of the vote in the party list section of the ballot paper.
This is far from an impossible target for the BNP. The last local by-election conducted in London was on March 20 at Gooshays in the Borough of Havering. The BNP had narrowly won it in May 2006 in something close to a statistical fluke but now had to defend it after the departure of its councillor. It was assumed that this might be a challenge for the BNP. Far from it. Its share of the vote went up from 28 per cent to 38 per cent. The Liberal Democrats, for the record, managed the singularly strange feat of finishing sixth.
The ward of Gooshays is striking for the lack of immigrants who live there. The ward is 96.4 per cent white, making it one of the least ethnically diverse in London. The place, however, is polarised by age (disproportionately large numbers of very young and very old voters), has comparatively high unemployment and very low levels of educational attainment. It is ideal terrain for the BNP and there are other Gooshays in London. That being so, the stealth success of the BNP could be the real story of the local elections.
This is surprising in many ways. Not least because the BNP has been through a period of fratricidal factionalism. There have been purges, resignations and attempts to establish rival nationalist parties. Some within its ranks have accused the leader, Nick Griffin, of “dictatorial tendencies” (fancy joining a neo-fascist party and then discovering that the führerprinzip reigns there) while others consider him a bit of a pinko for wanting to play down race in an effort to become more respectable.
None of this internal anguish appears to matter much at polling stations. Stick a BNP champion up in a local by-election and he will accomplish 10-20 per cent in swaths of England. On that evidence, the BNP will have its triumph in London.
So why do I expect the BNP to do well? There seem to me to be three factors that might prove important.
The first relates specifically to the forthcoming local elections. The last time that this set of seats were fought was in June 2004 when the tussle in London and councils elsewhere were combined with elections for the European Parliament vote in an attempt to raise the turnout. It did, but it was the UK Independence Party that benefited from these joint elections, not only doing very well in the battle for the European Parliament but in the locals too - it seized two Greater London Assembly seats, for example. The typical UKIP and BNP supporters are by no means identical but there is a degree of overlap between them and the surge for the former did diminish the prospects of the latter. On May 1 there will be no European Parliament poll to help UKIP - which too has suffered from schisms of late - by pushing Europe towards the top of the agenda.
The second factor is that the BNP has improved its organisation. The in-house feuding has not prevented the BNP from honing a much more sophisticated approach to campaigning. The quality of its leaflets has improved, there have been instances of it engaging in telephone canvassing and reports of more “mystery shopping” where its activists blitz an area to market test the public reaction to the party and then determine whether it is worth fielding a candidate.
The final dimension is the most significant. The optimal conditions for the BNP are where there are substantial numbers of disillusioned ex-Labour supporters and a Conservative Party that is wary of concentrating on subjects such as asylum-seekers because it wants to appeal to mainstream metropolitan opinion. It is also a bonus for the BNP if the Liberal Democrats look more centrist and are not indulging in populism to chase the protest vote. These are precisely the political circumstances that will be at play in the local elections of 2008, especially in London.
The main constraint on the BNP in London is how well it can stretch its limited resources. It won 4.8 per cent of the assembly vote in 2004 even with UKIP in the frame. If it can win anything close to double that this time, then regardless of whether it is Mayor Ken or Mayor Boris, it will be the BNP that provides the shock of this election.
Morg
Letter to Mr. Ian McCartney M.P.
My Lanky colleague is currently having connection difficulties with Blogger, and has asked me to post this on his behalf. It is an email he has sent to Ian McCartney MP via the Write to Them website. Apparently, emails written directly to Mr McCartney are being returned unopened.The advantage of using Write to Them as your route for emailing your MP is that Write to Them keeps files - and publishes the data - on which MPs do and don't reply promptly to their electors. MPs are aware of this and so are more likely to respond to you. Here again is the address for Write to Them:
http://www.writetothem.com/
And here is the address for They Work for You, which provides information about your MP:
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/
Here is Lanky Patriots letter to Mr McCartney
Mr Mc Cartney,
Below is the address of the new Wigan BNP weblog. I know you will not agree with much or anything we say but I assure you it represents the views of thousands of Wiganers. I thought it right to let you know about it, although up to now you have declined my invitation to a public debate on issues worrying many people.
I am prepared to put my reputation on the line to further and defend my point of view in a debate. I hope as our democratically elected representative you will accept this invitation to a civilised debate.
The Internet is affording us a vehicle to disseminate our point of view which has until now been controlled by the media barons and the government. Rest assured we shall use it!
This letter and invitation will be published on our Wigan BNP blog.
http://wiganbnp.blogspot.com/
Morg
http://www.writetothem.com/
And here is the address for They Work for You, which provides information about your MP:
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/
Here is Lanky Patriots letter to Mr McCartney
Mr Mc Cartney,
Below is the address of the new Wigan BNP weblog. I know you will not agree with much or anything we say but I assure you it represents the views of thousands of Wiganers. I thought it right to let you know about it, although up to now you have declined my invitation to a public debate on issues worrying many people.
I am prepared to put my reputation on the line to further and defend my point of view in a debate. I hope as our democratically elected representative you will accept this invitation to a civilised debate.
The Internet is affording us a vehicle to disseminate our point of view which has until now been controlled by the media barons and the government. Rest assured we shall use it!
This letter and invitation will be published on our Wigan BNP blog.
http://wiganbnp.blogspot.com/
Morg
Saturday, 29 March 2008
MY RESPONSE TO Mr ELLIOT BROWN
Possibly a few facts are in order to correct Mr Elliot brown's scurrilous comments about Wiganer's intelligence and sexual habits.
The first steam locomotive in North West England was made in Wigan and ran in the area.
In 1850 pits were 1500 feet deep, the coal being wound by engines made Wiganers at the famous Haigh foundry.
The development of Liverpool depended on coal mined in Wigan often mined by children whose conditions were described by a contemporary as "worse than the very slaves"
A short history of my inbred family may illustrate a few points. My family goes back 400 years but I will speak only of the last 160 years.
My Great Grandfather started work as a blacksmith at a coal pit and later became an engine driver and then a contractor.His brother was killed in a railway accident. In the late 19th century my grandfather installed a water supply to parts of Ashton.
His wife was born the illegitemate daughter of a kitchen servant but through hard work built a business, first as a shopkeeper (she had the first Post Office in the village) and later an hotel. She borrowed money to send her eldest son to university and who became a doctor.
Other members of my family fought in two world wars for freedom against the dictatorship and Fascism which your job seems to embody.
My wife's family is similarly composed of "inbred "Wiganers. Her Great Grandfather was killed in the pit but as he was a so called free man his death was of less consequence to the mine owner as his death did not involve losing an "asset" such as a slave.
My "inbred" step daughter holds down a prestigious job in the telecoms industry, her Wigan work ethic and intelligence being much appreciated in the South of England.
This town has been created by the sweat, death and yes intelligence of our "inbred" ancestors who often received a pittance for their hard work.
You should be able to see therefore Mr Brown the offence your remarks have caused.
While we do not condone discourtesy to anyone, we do resent our town becoming increasingly overcrowded, preference in housing being given to outsiders, our wages reduced and our hard earned taxes paying for seemingly resentful people who we never invited in the first place, and to pay for people such as you whose job is to curtail our free speech and prosecute us.
If we do need new blood( which I dispute) it should not come from countries which have not reached the standards of Wigan in the late 19th century.
Incest! I have never seen any evidence of it.
Imbeciles, yes we have them--in Wigan Metro and the people who employed you and who are giving our country and town away.
People such as you Mr Brown will never understand. To us Wigan is not just a place, a dot on the map.
It is a FEELING deep rooted in the continuity with our past and a unity with our fellow Wiganers upon whose ancestor's backs this town's prosperity was built.
The first steam locomotive in North West England was made in Wigan and ran in the area.
In 1850 pits were 1500 feet deep, the coal being wound by engines made Wiganers at the famous Haigh foundry.
The development of Liverpool depended on coal mined in Wigan often mined by children whose conditions were described by a contemporary as "worse than the very slaves"
A short history of my inbred family may illustrate a few points. My family goes back 400 years but I will speak only of the last 160 years.
My Great Grandfather started work as a blacksmith at a coal pit and later became an engine driver and then a contractor.His brother was killed in a railway accident. In the late 19th century my grandfather installed a water supply to parts of Ashton.
His wife was born the illegitemate daughter of a kitchen servant but through hard work built a business, first as a shopkeeper (she had the first Post Office in the village) and later an hotel. She borrowed money to send her eldest son to university and who became a doctor.
Other members of my family fought in two world wars for freedom against the dictatorship and Fascism which your job seems to embody.
My wife's family is similarly composed of "inbred "Wiganers. Her Great Grandfather was killed in the pit but as he was a so called free man his death was of less consequence to the mine owner as his death did not involve losing an "asset" such as a slave.
My "inbred" step daughter holds down a prestigious job in the telecoms industry, her Wigan work ethic and intelligence being much appreciated in the South of England.
This town has been created by the sweat, death and yes intelligence of our "inbred" ancestors who often received a pittance for their hard work.
You should be able to see therefore Mr Brown the offence your remarks have caused.
While we do not condone discourtesy to anyone, we do resent our town becoming increasingly overcrowded, preference in housing being given to outsiders, our wages reduced and our hard earned taxes paying for seemingly resentful people who we never invited in the first place, and to pay for people such as you whose job is to curtail our free speech and prosecute us.
If we do need new blood( which I dispute) it should not come from countries which have not reached the standards of Wigan in the late 19th century.
Incest! I have never seen any evidence of it.
Imbeciles, yes we have them--in Wigan Metro and the people who employed you and who are giving our country and town away.
People such as you Mr Brown will never understand. To us Wigan is not just a place, a dot on the map.
It is a FEELING deep rooted in the continuity with our past and a unity with our fellow Wiganers upon whose ancestor's backs this town's prosperity was built.
IT IS OUR HERITAGE
AND WE WILL NOT LIGHTLY GIVE IT AWAY
Friday, 28 March 2008
FEAR STALKS DEMOCRATS
Got the remaining signatures for our local election nomination forms. People very enthusiastic but some fearful of signing in case they lose their jobs as they work for the State .
This indicates the undemocratic state of this country. On the one hand we have "Operation Black Vote" to encourage ethnic minorities to excercise the democratic rights given to them by the state (even if they are in jail) while on the other hand those who only want to protect their way of life and culture are intimidated into keping silent.
The vote however is secret (we hope) and people will be able to vent their spleen on thisFASCIST council and state.
UNTIL WE PREVAIL AND RESTORE TRUE DEMOCRACY IN ENGLAND
This indicates the undemocratic state of this country. On the one hand we have "Operation Black Vote" to encourage ethnic minorities to excercise the democratic rights given to them by the state (even if they are in jail) while on the other hand those who only want to protect their way of life and culture are intimidated into keping silent.
The vote however is secret (we hope) and people will be able to vent their spleen on thisFASCIST council and state.
UNTIL WE PREVAIL AND RESTORE TRUE DEMOCRACY IN ENGLAND
FASCISM WILL PERSIST.
MAKE SURE YOU USE YOUR VOTE--FOR FREEDOM
VOTE BNP
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