The BNP have moved Big Ben

One of my colleagues on Gateshead Council got his hands on a copy today of a glossy mailing posted out by the BNP to people who, it can only be summised, were regarded by the BNP as supporters. Complete with begging letter was a magazine, issue 1 of “Hope and Glory”.

When I looked at it, something did not appear to be quite right on the front page which was filled by a hugh picture of the Houses of Parliament. And then it struck me, Big Ben had been moved and airbrushed into a different place. For some reason it is now where the St Stephen’s entrance is.

Quite why the BNP should wish to redesign one of our great British buildings in this way is not clear.

Thumbing through the pages reveals no surprises. The usual BNP rants about foreigners, asylum seekers and immigrants. And an awful lot about Nick Griffin, the BNP chairman. The sheer weight of promotion of the chairman would almost suggest that he had been having difficulties within his party recently!

The back page is devoted to BNP must-have mercandise from “Excalibur”. Indeed, Chairman Nick in one of his articles writes, “A big restocking is now under way at Excalibur, which aims to provide a much bigger selection of attractive gifts showcasing our wonderful Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Norse heritage…”

Mmmmm, now let me just consider this a moment…… I seem to recall from my study of history that the Anglo-Saxons and Norsemen (better known as the Vikings) were all immigrants who forcibly made their way into Britannia. Interesting to know that BNP are exhibiting a significant degree of inconsistency on immigration!

Or perhaps this is all a bluff to make the great British public think the BNP actually like immigration and that the nation can benefit from the movement of people to our shores who can bring skills and new cultures. Or perhaps the BNP has a secret policy to remove all immigrants and their descendents. Quite where all the Anglo-Saxons and Norsemen (and women) will go is not clear!

Jonathan Wallace’s blog

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Billy Bragg lends a hand in Camden Town

Billy Bragg at Buck Street Church, Camden Town

Billy Bragg played to a crowd on anti-BNP activists on Saturday afternoon, after locals had leafleted residents highlighting the danger of a large BNP vote in the London elections this May.

In 2004, the BNP narrowly missed out on a seat on the Assembly, getting only 4.6% of the vote. This time, with no UKIP vote to split the right, the BNP are in with a stronger shout.

Find out more about what you can do to combat the BNP menace.

Theo’s Blog

Is Girvan unhinged? Updated

Here we have more garbage from the BNPs very own “Walter Mitty”
Remember this was just a year before Girvan helped George Bush and the USA save the world.

Newsgroups: alt.destroy.the.earth
From: “Alan Girvan” …@freenetname.co.uk>

Date: 2000/04/19

Subject: Smash it to a pulp

I hope to float a dot.com called byebyetalkingmonkeys.com
with the money from the IPO I want to buy some large nuclear weapons
and detonate them also ebola to clean up what is left.
Humans are such a sad species just take a look in the local newsagents
and you will see….stamp collecting, joinery, model railways…come on

PS Alan,we don’t reply to emails from local Nazis,even ones that tell us they like the site.
Feel free to keep sending them though.

UPDATE

IS GIRVAN A SECRET LIBERAL (or just a bullshitter) ?

In response to the story about Girvan and the BNPs failure in Bradford County court yesterday when the BNP tried to stop Kirklees council from issuing postal votes.
Girvan left this comment on our good friends Lancaster Unity website.

Now I would imagine this sort of thing wouldn’t go down too well with The Cass family.

The action was taken out by me not the BNP and it makes no difference to me whether you vote Labour, Lib-Dem, Tory, UKIP or even BNP a vote is yours alone to make or throw away.

I actually told the Judge and Kirklees I would be happy to pay the costs, its rife with fraud and everyone knows it, so let me ask are you happy to watch elections being stolen while we preach democracy to Iraq, Burma, Tibet, China, Iraq, Zimbabwe?

For your info in my humble opinion the biggest stain on the Human Race in the recent past was doing nothing in Rwanda when Hutus and Tutsis were killing each other and I was discussing with a “Kashmiri” friend about going to Pakistan just after the Earthquake (he actually told me not to because it was too dangerous being Caucasian).

So let me reiterate I don’t care who you are, colour religion, creed or political ideology if you are in need you are in need, I’ve helped Pakistanis with Employment tribunals, I’ve sat in Houses in Mostar with Bosnian Muslims sharing food in a house with shell holes in the windows, I’ve helped Costa Ricans & Brazilians in the US to fight deportation.

If you fled a war zone and lost everything (and I know many who have) you could sit at my table, share my food and have a roof over your head, whether you were from Sierra Leone, Haiti, Iraq or anywhere else.

You have freedom of speech, but if you would put as much work into fighting to stop forced marriages, stop exploitation of child workers and women, promoting true democracy not the type bought by big business, stop selling Arms to countries whose people are starving, stop the use of animals for testing healthcare products among many other issues out there then I would give you more credit.

Of course its easier just to be a blog warrior I at least give Kirklees Unity credit for putting the work in even where its critical of me because he at least stands by his principals despite everything.

Alan Girvan

BNP fail in bid to stop postal votes

THE British National Party has failed in its bid to stop postal voting in Kirklees.

The BNP has three members on Kirklees Council but their supporter’s bid to halt the postal vote at the forthcoming May elections was rejected.

The action by the BNP member was turned down at Bradford County Court.

At the hearing yesterday the application for an injunction to stop the Returning Officer from issuing postal ballot papers was refused by the judge, who also made the BNP pay the council’s costs.

The BNP’s application was later condemned by council leader Clr Robert Light, who said it had been a futile waste of time and a cheap publicity stunt.

Clr Light said: “This was simply a gimmick by the BNP to get cheap publicity.

“Postal voting is part of electoral law that all councils follow.

“All the BNP has done is waste the time of council officers by going through the process of addressing what was always going to be a futile action by the perpetrators of this bogus case.

“The judge clearly considered that the application was ill-conceived by not only rejecting the application but also in awarding the council its costs against the BNP.

“It is an absolute waste of time to challenge statute in this way.”

BNP group chairman Clr Roger Roberts said it was a move made by an individual member, not a councillor.

But he added: “I would personally support the idea.

“Postal voting is fine for the disabled and the elderly but it is very open to fraud.

“When you get 20 votes coming out of a one-bedroom flat, it is patently wrong.”

Huddersfield Examiner

Now here is a good one….

Alan Girvan-Saviour of the USA……..tit!!

We are all accustomed to the fact that the idiots in the BNP tell some of the biggest whoppers around.

However some tell bigger whoppers than others.

Take Alan Girvan for instance,Dewsbury East BNP candidate.

Can you spot the lie in this coverage on Alan from 2005?

Just to help any fascists who might be reading we’ve marked it in red.

Bush’s man makes Independent bid for Yorkshire seat

A FORMER advisor to American president George W Bush is fighting the Dewsbury seat as an independent.

Alan Girvan said today he thought he could be the right man in the right place for fed-up voters.
Father-of-two Mr Girvan, 36, was born and educated in Heckmondwike.
He is a film director, writer and producer and recently left his job as IT sales account manager at AA Training, Batley, to fight the election.

He was immediately involved in the United State’s response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 when he was called on by Mr Bush’s former cyber security chief, Richard Clarke, to create a secure airport computer system.

Mr Girvan said he had been previously been invited to the US to create an alternative to the Internet.
“It was when I was working on that, the 9/11 attacks took place and I was one of the people they called in to ask about setting up a secure computer system for airports.” The idea was rejected by Congress because of the cost.

Mr Girvan said of his decision to stand in Dewsbury: “I think there is a sense of apathy and despair but you don’t have to vote for the same old parties.
“I am standing on a number of issues, important to Dewsbury, chief among which is the state of the hospital. Taxpayers are paying a lot of money, yet they still might have to spend £40 on a taxi to get to Pinderfields, or get six buses.

“I am also concerned about the future of Dewsbury Market and our estates, which need funding. The people have long lost out to a Huddersfield-centred Kirklees.”
He added that the politicians had over-estimated people’s feelings about Iraq.
“It might be a bigger issue down south but in this area I think people are more bothered about heroin addicts shooting up in the street, or burgling to feed their habit.”

Other candidates are Shahid Malik (Lab); Sayeeda Warsi (Tory); Kingsley Hill (Lib Dem); Brenda Smithson (Green); Alan Girvan (IND) and David Exley (BNP).

Yorkshire Post

And yet another Yorkshire BNP criminal

It is getting hard to keep up with the felons that call themselves the BNP.

On March 17th at Leeds Magistrates Court John Powell was found guilty of assault by beating/battery of it is believed his wife.
Powell who stood as a BNP candidate in Beeston & Holbeck in 2004,Garforth and Swillington in 2006 and Killingbeck and Seacroft in 2007 received a 12 months community order.
It isn’t known if the BNP in Leeds intend to stand Powell again in this Mays council elections.

Of course Powell isn’t the first BNP member to raise his hand to his wife. Brian Turner from Burnley was convicted of attacking his wife and a police officer whilst a councillor yet the BNP refused to disown him. In fact they even defended him by issuing a statement saying: “we are not in the business of persecuting our members because the state considers someone guilty.”

Don’t forget David Enderby, the BNP’s councillor in Redditch, who was found guilty of three counts of assault by beating in January 2007 at Kidderminster Magistrates’ Court. Enderby had entered his mother-in-law’s house during a birthday party despite his estranged wife and her mother telling him not to.

Mrs Enderby said he swore and glared at her, then grabbed her mother by the arms and pushed her aside to get inside. He then pushed Mrs Enderby into the wall saying, “I have had enough of you, I am going to get you”. Three people suffered bruises in the ensuing struggle before Enderby, a former soldier, was thrown out.

Brave patriots attacking women.

Nick Cass sends threatening email to councillor

Here is an email Mama Cass sent to local Labour councillor David Sheard

From: kirklees BNP

To: Cllr David Sheard

Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 7:45 AM

Your a traitor to your own people David.

I will never forget your childish behaviour in the Old Hall last year when you made a complete prick of yourself pissed out of your head. If we had been half as bad as you and your pathetic leaflets make out I would have kicked you down those steps and not just asked you to leave when you gate crashed our party looking for trouble..

Still time will tell wont it and this area under you and the other traitors in the 3 ‘main’ parties is not going to get any better that is for sure. And you can continue kissing the arses of the local Muslims and do deals with your fellow traitors in the Lib-Dems and Greens to try and win the ward for all we care.

That just shows the contempt you have for the real local folk.

This country is falling apart because of the likes of you, but its not finished yet, and let me assure you that like the rest of the people who have sold our people and way of life down the drain for a few shekels, in time when we take control, you and the rest will be facing trial for treason and ultimately the rope.

Nick Cass

Rat alert London

The rats will be out of sewers this weekend 29-30 March. The BNP is holding a national weekend of action as part of its campaign to get members elected to the London Assembly.

This time the fascists are targeting two areas on both days. In the west they are meeting up at Hillingdon tube station at 11am. On the east side of London they are meeting at the Express Holiday Inn car park off junction 1A southbound on the M25 near Dartford between 11.00 and 11.30am.

South of the river they are likely to fan out in Bexley, Eltham and parts of Greenwich. In Eltham no doubt they will be hoping for some foot-slogging from the wannabe gunman Ellis Hammond, the disgraced former Police Community Support Officer, whose beat took in the site of the murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993.

Dennis Pearce will be running the show for them in Hillingdon and Richard Barnbrook will probably be making his usual balls-up of such events in southeast London.

The four-page glossy Londoner leaflet the BNP is handing out and similar leaflets in other areas are under investigation by the a number of police forces, so if one drops on your doormat hand it in to the police with a complaint.

Hope not Hate

Udo Voigt, leader of German far-right party, charged with defamation

Udo Voigt (second from left) at a neo-nazi conference with a bunch of friends.
Regular readers may recognise Nick Griffin’s old mate Roberto Fiore (centre)

The head of the main German far-right party was charged Tuesday with incitement and defamation for allegedly publishing a pamphlet before the 2006 soccer World Cup that prosecutors said called into question whether non white players should be on the national team.

A prosecutor, Simone Herbeth, said in a statement that Udo Voigt, head of the National Democratic Party, had been charged with incitement and defamation over the pamphlets. The party spokesman, Klaus Beier, and a prominent member, Frank Schwerdt, have also been charged, Herbeth said.

“The indictment charges that the accused are responsible for publishing pamphlets ahead of the 2006 soccer World Cup which, through a picture of the No. 25″ – a number that was worn by a black player at the time – “called into question whether this player, as well as other non white-skinned players, were worthy of representing Germany as national players,” Herbeth said in a statement.

The pamphlets showed the traditional white German jersey with the No. 25, worn at the time by the defender Patrick Owomoyela. They read: “White, not just a jersey color! For a real NATIONAL team!”

Owomoyela, who has a German mother and a Nigerian father, plays for Werder Bremen but is no longer a member of the German national squad.

The National Democratic Party called the charges “absurd” and “political” in a statement issued on its Web site.

“The German justice authorities are ever more zealous when it comes to pursuing and persecuting the national opposition,” the statement read.

Beier said in an interview by telephone that the use of No. 25 was “pure chance” and insisted that the quality of the printing was unclear, meaning that the number could be interpreted as a 26 or even a 23. “Everyone can see their own favorite number in it,” Beier said.

Backed by the German soccer federation, Owomoyela filed suit against the party in 2006 over the pamphlets, some 70,000 of which were confiscated by the authorities during a search at the party’s national headquarters.

Prosecutors charge that the party then printed another series of pamphlets showing 10 white and one black player in German national jerseys under the question, “German National Team 2010?”

International Herald Tribune

National Democratic Party (NPD). Germany’s leading nazi group. NPD leaders deny the Holocaust took place and revere Adolf Hitler. The NPD shares many of its activists with the outlawed Blood and Honour skinhead movement. In August 2002 Griffin attended a festival put on by the NPD’s newspaper Deutsche Stimme (German Voice), where he was photographed with Voigt and the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Later that month he took part in an NPD summer school with Mahler and Voigt. In May 2003 Griffin was billed to speak alongside Voigt, Fiore and the NPD’s lawyer Jürgen Rieger, but failed to turn up.

Griffin organised a BNP demonstration outside the German embassy when the German government tried unsuccessfully to ban the NPD. When Griffin and other BNP officers were arrested in December 2006 on suspicion of causing race hate, the NPD website called for support for them.