A timely article by Terry Fitzpatrick, the renowed anti-racism campaigner, and Abbas Uddin, a Tower Hamlets councillor, in the East London Advertiser draws attention to the very real danger that the British National Party (BNP) will make significant gains in the coming elections for the London assembly.
The article warns that the BNP have achieved 16 and 28 percent in elections held in London in the last six months and argues that the openly racist party could gain an even larger share of the vote if there is a low turnout in the May elections.
The article notes that "the presence of open racists in the government of our city would be a disaster ... The BNP in City Hall would generate a climate of fear and suspicion doing nothing to solve our problems, only make them worse."
The BNP's determination to make race a central issue in the elections is underlined by a recent article on their website which boasts of how 250 of the party's activists have distributed 100,000 leaflets in London in just one recent weekend.
Alarmingly, the article claims that "the amount of support given to the leafleting teams by the public - even in areas which traditionally would not have been fertile BNP territory, was astonishing."
Comments (5)
At last a pro British party
to represent the British minority in London,we have been waiting about 40 years for this, to late to (reclaim our country)
I hope not, good luck BNP
Posted by Lawrence West | February 12, 2008 3:07 PM
Posted on February 12, 2008 15:07
And it's both sides.
The 'mainstream' parties are as one side on the issue of race and immigration M.Clyde. (and most other issues)
They have been since the 50s when they simultaneously decided that African and Asian peoples had the right to their own countries and the British peoples didn't.
The BNP aren't the racial supremacists MC - they are the ONLY party who think African, Asian, and European peoples, should all have the same right to control their homelands in their own interest.
Next time you hear Brown or Cameron defend Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state call them on their anti-British racism. What about us?
Posted by Anonymous Nick | February 11, 2008 10:43 AM
Posted on February 11, 2008 10:43
Why do the scots have the SNP and we end up with the BNP?!! If only we had a "SNP" for England, politics in this country would be vastly different, and the priorities would be reflected day-by-day. Alas, sensible voices of opposition have no true outlet : how soon before the BNP matures to 10% of the base, using the same tactics as Cameron ??
The tragic destruction of our Nation continues....
Posted by anthony norman | February 7, 2008 11:35 PM
Posted on February 7, 2008 23:35
It is not only in terms of immigration / integration that politicians completely underestimate the strength of feeling. It is also with regard to the real concerns of many with regard to the active agendas (overt or covert) of some non-integrated immigrants, and the danger these hold for the legitimate institutions of our democracy. Example - a recent report by Hafez and Brandon states that 'There is growing evidence that some policeman and councillors of Asian origin have sought to block the activities of women's groups who they see as threatening traditional values'. This is an issue that has been vexing many of us for some time - namely that when you allow immigration in large numbers; give immigrants equal rights in terms of voting and other methods of influencing our democratic system; and encourage unintegrated members of immigrant communities to become active participants in our political and policing establishements; - then of course you will foster a situation in which individuals with no love for our country seek to usurp the system to promote aims, ambitions and ideologies which have nothing to with the benefit of the British, indeed are antipathetic to the British way of life. If people go to the BNP, it is because nobody else offers any recognition of the need to protect British interests against the insidious creep of immigrant agendas.
Posted by anon | February 4, 2008 9:43 AM
Posted on February 4, 2008 09:43
This is all so sad, but predictable.
I actually find modern Britain very confusing and hard to figure out. We're not getting the truth from anyone but this website. Debate is being stifled. Reportage is just not happenning.
My own grasp of reality is that the mainstream political parties and the media are both of them seriously adrift in understanding the popular mood over immigration/integration. The BNP are the only party with any real grasp of how desperately serious this has become for ordinary Britons.
Unfortunately they remain an ugly white supremacist party but are conning ordinary people who are not racists into supporting them. My fear is that, drip, drip, they will succeed in indoctrinating these people over time. On the blogs I read the ordinary people who have joined the BNP in sheer exasperation feel that their weight will rid the BNP of its racist past. Dream on!
The recent appeasement attempts by Jacqi Smith to call militant Islamists 'anti-Islamic' (why not just call them 'anti-British' Jacqi? Isn't this closer to the truth if you want to avoid the M-word? Or is your hatred for your own country that bad?) is just one illustration of how craven and witless the political establishment is.
And it's both sides. Boris Johnston is committed to Turkey's entry into the EU and doesn't see what all the fuss about 'the Muslim threat' is all about. He claims his grandfather was a Turkish journalist called Ali Kemal.
I thought this was a wind up until I found his Telegraph article in which he reveals he is serious.
Posted by M Clyde | February 3, 2008 3:17 PM
Posted on February 3, 2008 15:17