BNP win Council seat

by cleo Sun Jan 26, 2003 23:08

As national holocaust memorial day approaches, history appears to be repeating itself, with the reemergence and rise of nazis, in europe and worldwide. In britain, asylum seekers/refugees appear to be the new jews, to be despised, degraded, persecuted, looked down on, and ultimately endure the rigours of 'processing'. As millions of people flee warzones in afghanistan and yugoslavia, and impending war in iraq, the refugee problem is set to spiral out of control. Blair and bush are cruelly targetting and focussing attention on the poor and unfortunate fleeing victims of our government's destructive and disastrous military interventionist foreign policies, to distract from the real cause of the refugee problem, Blair and bushes global wars. It is only common sense to flee when the likes of blair and bush are bombing the shit out of your village, destroying social amenities and the economic and social infrastructure of your town etc. When your hospitals, factories, homes and schools are reduced to rubble, there is no option but to flee and get the fuck out of the warzone. A mass exodus of refugees, men, women and children, fleeing all the evils that war brings, poverty, starvation, misery, death and degradation. Whole families torn apart, children left to fend for themselves, trekking for miles, hungry and tired, through hazardous terrain and weather just to escape WAR. Yet blair has the cheek to blame and brand refugees/asylum seekers. Blair's government stance with the help of the media, scaremongering, exploiting ordinary people's fear and ignorance, whipping up xenaphobia, and prejudice against refugees, paved the way for the BNP and nazis to gain a foothold in our countries again. As holocaust memorial day approaches it is sickening to see, that the only lessons that those in power seem to have learnt is to copy the discriminatory social policies and practises of nazis and adolf hitler.

by jedi of european threads. Fri Jan 24, 2003 14:44

Le Pen
Haider
Burlosconi

by Janus Fri Jan 24, 2003 14:40

Sorry for BNP the press release but basically I logged onto Indymedia UK site to see what material there was there, didn't see much after a cursory glance on the newswire and went to the BNP's site to see how they covered it. Just copied and pasted that as was in a rush but in retrospect should have gone to the BBC as Pat C did.

On the other hand I think it important to get across how cocky these people are getting. The BNP might be thugs and Nazis but they're getting too good at election campaigns.

by C. Fri Jan 24, 2003 14:21

For someone who calls the BNP 'Bastards' maybe a better approach would have been to post the news in a form that was not their words.

Maybe This:

NAZIS GRAB FIFTH SEAT
Combat 18 thug snatches Mixenden ward byelection in Halifax
The Nazi BNP won its fifth council seat in the country last night. Adrian Marsden, a violent thug with a history of involvement in Nazi terror group Combat 18, polled 679 votes to take a byelection in the Mixenden ward of Halifax.

Marsden was regional organiser of Combat 18 until 1999 when his home was raided by Special Branch officers. His sick Nazi activities included producing a "newsletter" called the Halifax Patriot that celebrated the deaths local Asians and blacks.

A key factor behind the BNP win in Mixenden was the total collapse of the Conservative vote, which dropped from 700 to 214. This suggests that former Tory voters have shifted en bloc to the BNP.

Mixenden is not the first time that the BNP has picked up votes from former Tory voters. Cliveger, a well-off village on the outskirts of Burnley, elected a Nazi councillor last May. A similar pattern was seen at the Mill Hill byelection in Blackburn last November, which was also snatched by the BNP.

There will be a protest against the BNP this Saturday in Halifax town centre at 12 noon. Come along and join the demonstration. We cannot afford to be complacent. We have to confront the Nazis. It's time to fight back.

Full election results: BNP 679, LibDem 651, Labour 641, Tories 214, Independent 142

http://www.anl.org.uk/campaigns.htm

I mean Come on - even the tabloids did better coverage than this - I call a plant.

by pat c Fri Jan 24, 2003 14:12

From BBC News Website...

BNP take fifth council seat

The BNP has made gains in North-West England

The British National Party has won its fifth council seat by taking a ward
in West Yorkshire.

The BNP won the Mixenden ward at Calderdale Council in a by-election, taking
the seat from Labour.

Adrian Marsden, 42, a father of seven, won by 28 votes, after a recount,
with the Liberal Democrats second and Labour in third.

The result comes after the BNP last year won a seat in Blackburn and three
in Burley, one of several North West towns where racial tensions ended in
rioting.

BBC news correspondent John Thorne said around 150 BNP supporters had led
their candidate "singing and cheering" into Halifax town centre to celebrate
the result.

He added: "The Labour party insist they will win back the seat at the next
election and say this is something that has been whipped up by the BNP."

The by-election was called following the dismissal of former Labour group
leader Andy Metcalfe, who failed to attend the requisite number of council
meetings due to ill health.

The BNP polled 679 votes with the Liberal Democrats coming second with 651.

Labour were beaten into third place with 641 while the Tories polled 214
votes.

The Independent candidate picked up 142 votes.

Ugly people

Alice Mahon, Labour MP for Halifax, said she hoped the result was a temporary
setback for the residents of Mixenden.

"They (BNP) like to prey on people's fears, they attempt to whip up division
against other people.

"These people dress in nice smart suits but underneath them they are the
same ugly human beings trying to bring division wherever they go."

It comes only two months after BNP candidate Robin Evans won the Mill Hill
seat on Darwen Borough Council in Lancashire with a majority of just 16
over Labour.

Among the BNP's policies are "resettlement" of non-whites to their lands
of ethnic origin.

by depp Fri Jan 24, 2003 14:08

I bet Blair & his elite schemers are delighted BNP are rising in popularity.

It's all part of the plan. The plan to turn white against brown. The plan is working.

white people = order
brown people = chaos.

order = "values" = "protecting our interests" (really = rule and plunder).

Bliar quotes:
2/10/01 "Today the threat is chaos," said Mr Blair.

15/10/01 'Usama Bin Laden's real objective is to undermine Muslim Governments who seek world peace and order and replace them with militant regimes who seek chaos," British Prime Minister Tony Blair'

7/4/02 "What brings nations together—what brought them together post 11 September—is the international recognition that the world needs order. Disorder is the enemy of progress"

TUC, Sept 2002: "The key characteristic of today's world is interdependence. Your problem becomes my problem. They have to be tackled collectively. All these problems, in their own different ways, threaten the ability of the world to make progress in an orderly and stable way. If unchecked they will, as September 11 showed, explode into disorder and chaos"

order = white
chaos = brown

Jan 2003: "What does all this mean? It means that the world today has one overriding common interest: to make progress with order; to ensure that change is accompanied by stability. The common threat is chaos"