Fog on the Tyne

The reporting in the Northern Echo was dire. There were only 3 policemen on duty inside the event not for the BNP but because a Labour MEP and several MP's were there.

The police didn't know the BNP were coming. When we arrived they requested more but only two were available. They soon left to do other important work like fighting crime.

It went very well:

The day of Action was the launch of the BNP "Vote for Hope - Not Hate" campaign for the single unitary County Durham elections in May.

A very peaceful protest/presence for an hour greeting the delegates on arrival to the ‘Labour friends of Searchlight’, well not so much a protest but a display of ordinary people trying to make a difference. This was for the benefit of those delegates who have never seen or met a BNP member and rely on the false stereotypical description echoed by Jon Cruddas, Phil Wilson and the other Marxist snipers and faceless non-entities from the gutters and shadows.

At around 10.15 am we set up a stall in Chester-le-Street market place and sold over 100 papers. Teams of leafleters covered 3 large housing estates with 1500 County Durham Patriots and a further 2,500 were distributed in the town centre.

With the added bonus of a news slot on Tyne Tees evening news, showing the now world famous ‘Tyneside BNP banner’ made this a very successful ‘Day of Action’.

Tom Wilde

Cruddas won Dagenham with over 50% of the vote at the last general election. Dagenham was one of the British Anorak Party's most successful efforts; they got a quite impressive 9% of the vote, and came 4th.

However, that was before they won a dozen local council seats in Barking and Dagenham in 2006, and before the flamboyant uselessness of most of those councillors hammered into local voters' minds the utter pointlessness of voting BNP again.

I don't think the BNP candidate there should bother writing any victory speeches for a few elections yet. I'd be amazed if they can even move forward from the vote they got last time.

How so? Did the batteries for the bullshithorn pack up straight after the video was shot?

david H

I'm sorry but calling your campaign "Vote for hope - not hate" is idiotic. why copy the opposition? Did mkpdAvies think that up? He does the opposite of what he says he is.

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Frith

The fact is that there is a huge grassroots or rank and file, whatever you want to call it, membership that has no neo nazi connection, no interest in "thuggery", no SS uniforms from E-bay hidden in the little cupboard under the stairs and no evil intentions regarding the extant population of the country, no matter who these may be. The greater mass of the membership is mostly comprised of ordinary people, many parents, who are fighting for a new kind of Britain. Even if certain people want to attack certain individuals from the leadership or elite section of the party, the fact remains that the rank and file consists of the same ordinary people who live next door or who serve you in shops or who do all those thankless little jobs round your civilization for which they have never been thanked, recognised or appreciated.

I find the constant sniping at these ordinary folk to be quite obscene and very below the belt especially as they are the descendents of those who fought in the wars and who were most certainly not nazis or fascists. Just the same good old boys and girls that were getting a kick then and are getting one now. It isn't fair, and on behalf of people I know who are part of that ordinary faction I have to say that their patriotism, their loyalty to Britain and their kind of nationalism is no different from any other kind that manifests in the smaller parties.

What is nice to see is the permission these apparently dreadful specimens of humanity, your otherwise fellow countrymen and women, are receiving to exercise their democratic right of free speech on a "democracy forum". A small step in the direction of free speech. A giant leap in the name of true liberty.

Unless people can present points of view and beliefs without being oppressed into silence by deliberate hate speech all you have is an oligarchy called liberal democracy whose mask slips to reveal the face of another version of fascism.

david H

I agree. If these people want to attack the leaders so be it but to call people who have had their whole areas changed and have been abondened by the main parties "hitler worshippers" and "nazis", shows what low, imoral scum some posters on here are.
There is a pro-referendum rally in London on the 27th and if it is run by UKIP or the EDP I might go to heckle but I would never vote for either of these worthless parties.

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Frith

When I was young there were Liberals (worthy of the capital letter and practising what they never preached.) These were silent, almost invariably well educated upper class people who never played sport, who read only the classics and who were confined to the upper echelons of academia or the recesses of missionary outreach head offices (the rank and file missionaries being of a far more practical and realistic turn of mind, and far harder working.) Liberals then were also often eccentric beings who wore red cravats or grew their hair over their collars and who greatly admired male Greek statuary. Sometimes they had children with whom they had little in common, or to whom they conveyed the entirely wrong impression turning out radical lefties like Peter Hain instead of potty professors of Social Science or ancient vase painting.

Today there is little liberal in the classical sense about the people who place themselves within this world view. They are mostly all nasty, fash bashers with a predilection for attacking in street wise mode, anyone who vaguely represents their quarry. They believe that even if you are dressed like a hippy and espouse policies way off the fascist definition you are still fair game and may be targeted and abused because for some unaccountable reason, this is liberalism. Or "libertarianism".

You really know when something has passed its sell by date because it starts to smell funny and loses its shape. Today's left wing elites and their liberal alliances are beginning to smell several degrees off mouldy toadstool. I think we are witnessing the death of the left. But first the film awards and the music awards and the drug addicted celebs, the dirty washing and tat magazines and the manufactured "chav" image, all the "reality" TV, and the final coup de filth - the political scandals. Part of the rot.

Toadstools collapse quite quickly once they get started. First a noble spongy dome, then a subtle wrinkling and a bending of the main strut, followed by terrible morphings and a final vanishment into chaos.

Alas, we are witnessing the end of something. But, rejoice -as every door closes so does another open and with every shower of rain, new toadstools and a new fungal order.

blueblood1920

When you consider that the BNP recieved 9% in sedgefield alone and that is in the North East which doesnt have any BNP councillors then I think its fair to say that the BNP will do much better than that in Dagenham. With Barnbrook in Barking could his future wife stand in Dagenham? Its so funny to see those who dislike the BNP saying that the BNP are falling apart and are losing support when its just wishful thinking.

Tom Wilde

A dream ticket, certainly. I note that their engagement will certainly still all the unkind tongues set wagging by Barnbrook having once directed a gay porno video. However, in the gushy coverage of their engagement I also noticed that oddly Barnbrook never explicitly said they were engaged. He only said he had given her a ring and that they would "see how it goes", and that if they married then he would try to be a father to her daughter. Which is fair enough, but it all sounded a bit hypothetical. His ballerina wasn't quoted at all. Nonetheless, I'm probably just an old cynic. Assuming that there really is an engagement then I wish the couple much happiness. Sincerely I hope that Barnbrook gradually leaves racial hatred and neonazi politics behind, and becomes satisfied with his role as artist, husband and family man. He'd probably be much happier that way.

Frith

I hope he gives up racial hatred and nazism too. He might give the BNP ideas.

david H

One of the reasons for the nastiness or fascismfrom the liberal-left is that their ideology is no longer developing but stagnating and they are raising their voices to compensenate. As For England noted on another thread it is the Nationalists who are developing ideas and this is why they are calling ever widening circles of people neo-N

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"You think you are combatting prejudice but you are at war with nature". Edmund Burke.

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