Monday, 11 April 2011
The Londonderry Air
A beautiful tune which has a beautiful lyric.
The Red Hand of Ulster
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Red Hand of Ulster (in Irish: Lámh Dhearg Uladh) is a symbol used in heraldry[1] to denote the Irish province of Ulster. It is less commonly known as the Red Hand of O'Neill[2]. Its origins are said to be attributed to the mythical Irish figure Labraid Lámh Dhearg[1] (Labraid of the Red Hand), and appear in other mythical tales passed down from generation to generation in the oral tradition. The symbol is strongly rooted in Irish Gaelic culture and is particularly associated with the Uí Néill clan of Ulster. In some versions, a left hand is used and/or the thumb is opened (such as Tyrone GAA's crest).
[edit] Mythical originsIt is generally accepted that this Irish Gaelic symbol originated in pagan times and was first associated with the mythical figure Labraid Lámh Dhearg or Labraid Lámderg (Labraid of the Red Hand).[1]
According to one myth, the kingdom of Ulster had at one time no rightful heir. Because of this it was agreed that a boat race should take place (possibly in Strangford Lough) and that "whosoever's hand is the first to touch the shore of Ulster, so shall he be made the king".
One potential king so desired the kingship that, upon seeing that he was losing the race, he cut off his hand and threw it to the shore — thus winning the kingship. The hand is most likely red to represent the fact that it would have been covered in blood. According to some versions of the story, the king who cut off his hand belonged to the Uí Néill clan, which apparently explains its association with them. Another variation of this story concludes that it was none other than Niall of the Nine Hostages who severed his own hand in order to win his crown from his brother, the contest was initiated by their Viking father who could not chose between his two sons.
Another story concerns two giants engaged in battle, one of whom had his hand cut off by the other, and a red imprint of the hand was left on the rocks.
[edit] UsageThe Red Hand symbol is believed to have been used by the Uí Néill clan during its Nine Years' War (1594–1603) against the spread of English control. The war cry Lámh Dhearg Abú! (Red Hand to victory!) was also associated with the Uí Néill.[3]
Gaelic-Irish clan coats of arms and insignia were first officially listed by the Ulster King of Arms, established in Dublin from 1552, and granted to those clans who had gone through the "Surrender and regrant" process.[citation needed]
Coats of arms used by those whose surnames are of Uí Néill descent – Ó Donnghile, Ó Cathain, Ó Máeilsheáchlainn and Ó Catharnaigh, to name just a few – all feature the Red Hand in some form, recalling their common descent. On the Ó Néill coat of arms featuring the Red Hand, the motto is Lámh Dhearg Éireann (Red Hand of Ireland).[4] Clan MacNeil of Barra, Scotland also use the Red Hand in the coat of arms of their chief.
After Walter de Burgh became Earl of Ulster in 1243 the de Burgh cross was combined with the Red Hand to create the modern Flag of Ulster.
Numerous other families have used the hand to denote an Ulster ancestry. The head of the Guinness family, the Earl of Iveagh, has three red hands on his arms granted as recently as 1891.[5]
The Red Hand was later included in the Northern Ireland flag and on the shields of counties Cavan, Tyrone, Londonderry, Antrim and Monaghan. It is also used by many other official and non-official organisations throughout the province of Ulster.
The Red Hand can be regarded as one of the very few cross-community symbols used in Northern Ireland. Due to its roots as a Gaelic Irish symbol, nationalist/republican groups have used (and continue to use) it often – for example the republican Irish Citizen Army, the republican National Graves Association, Belfast, the Irish Transport and General Workers Union and numerous GAA clubs in Ulster. However, after the creation of Northern Ireland, loyalist groups began to use it widely – for example the Red Hand Commandos, Red Hand Defenders and Ulster Defence Association, among others.
Due to its usage by loyalist paramilitaries, those unfamiliar with Irish history have believed it to be a solely loyalist symbol.[6] In 2005 former Miss Northern Ireland, Zöe Salmon, caused controversy when she selected the Red Hand as a symbol to represent Northern Ireland in a competition for Blue Peter. David Miller, a sociology professor from Strathclyde University in Scotland, complained to the BBC, saying that "like the swastika the Red Hand has been misappropriated ... it is the symbol of the unionists".[7] Michael Copeland, an Ulster Unionist party assembly member, described the row as “political correctness gone mad”.
It is also the badge of baronets other than those of Scotland or Nova Scotia. In the flags, the red hand is a right hand; for baronets and the Irish Society, it is a left hand.
"The Red Hand of Ulster's a paradox quite,
To Baronets 'tis said to belong;
If they use the left hand, they're sure to be right,
And to use the right hand would be wrong.
For the Province, a different custom applies,
And just the reverse is the rule;
If you use the right hand you'll be right, safe and wise,
If you use the left hand you're a fool."[8]
An Asian who believes he is English?
This is an 'English' Democrats campaign video. This is the kind of politically 'correct' brainwashing you will have to sit still for if you leave the British National Party, and join this gang of multiculturalist quislings. Eddy Butler believes the 'English' Democrats are the best alternative to the BNP for nationalists. So much the worse for Eddy Butler's reputation as a nationalist and for his political judgement.
I supported Eddy's leadership challenge in 2010 because he represented the lesser of two evils. He would have been an improvement on Griffin with all of his corruption and incompetence. Having more personal ambition than principle, Eddy now appears to be pursuing a barely hidden, open 'secret', agenda with and for the English Democrats. It saddens me to have to say this as, on a personal level, I have always liked, and got on well with Eddy. However, one's loyalty to the party, and to the cause it champions must, necessarily, come before personal considerations.
Eddy Butler has a small personal following of politically unsophisticated cultists, just as Griffin has. Neither men are genuine ethno-nationalists, and neither has what it takes to lead the BNP into parliament.
There will be a leadership election this summer. Eddy Butler will not be a candidate, at least not for the leadership of the BNP. He has made himself into an embarrassing irrelevance with his cranky promotion of the 'English' Democrats, which is a great pity because his blog has served a necessary purpose by exposing Griffin's wrongdoing.
We should gratefully acknowledge Eddy's contribution of the last ten months but we need to move on, in the sense of distancing ourselves, the party loyalists (as distinct from the Griffin cultists) from the treacherous liability and loose cannon Mr Butler has shown himself to be in the last couple of weeks. That was then and this is now. No one man is bigger than the party. Forgetting that fact has been Griffin's greatest mistake. It should perhaps not surprise us too much that one of his closest associates for many years, Eddy Butler, should make the same mistake.
Softly, softly, catchee griffin
Mr Griffin has had many years to burrow into the British National Party, and to entrench his position. He can and will be removed but this will take time, effort, and perseverance. My advice to those members of the British National Party who are losing patience, and defecting to other parties is to stay put, and sit tight. There will be a leadership challenge this summer. That will be interesting. Whatever the outcome we shall learn much from it, as we have already learnt much from the 2010 leadership challenge.
Here are a couple of sayings which point up the indispensability of patience.
"Patience and perseverance made a bishop of his reverence".
Anon
"No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant."
Warren Buffett
Here are a couple of sayings which point up the indispensability of patience.
"Patience and perseverance made a bishop of his reverence".
Anon
"No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant."
Warren Buffett
Sunday, 10 April 2011
Rip Van Winkle wakes up
Mr Andrew Brons MEP has just favoured us with another of his, very belated, pronouncements on the state of the British National Party. It seems that it has just dawned on Mr Brons that the right to natural justice and to free speech cannot be optional extras for members of the BNP, to which lip service is paid provided no-one has the temerity to attempt to exercise them, but instead must be at the very heart of the way the party operates, at least if it is to have any hope at all of being regarded by the electorate as a serious contender for office, rather than some kind of bizarre secular cult of Griffin worship.
Am I expressing my concerns well (in your opinion) Mr Brons? Or have I simply (in your opinion) decided I do not like our chairman?
Here's a concern for you, Mr Brons: why have you waited until now to express these thoughts? Why did you not speak up when the esteemed chairman's Stalinist 'reign of terror' began? When Mr Griffin rigged the nomination process for a leadership election, the only democratic means of calling the leadership to account to the members, under the present dictator's charter of a constitution, where were you? Why did you remain silent, Mr Brons? Out of fear? Fear of what? What could the chairman have done to you? Withdrawn the party whip from you in the European 'parliament'? Suspended you from the party? He would have been cutting off his nose to spite his face. He would have had to have been a fool to have done any such thing.
By speaking out and censuring Mr Griffin's insane victimization of his challenger for the leadership, and that challenger's supporters, of whom I am justifiably proud to have been one, you might have halted the trail of destruction, over which you now wring your hands. You personally might have made and been the difference. As well as having the inestimable satisfaction of knowing that you had saved the party from untold misery and misfortune, you would have assured yourself an honourable place in the annals of nationalist history.
Instead you chose to wash your hands of the whole affair. Until very recently, that is. Now it has become clear that the dissidents are no longer a small, weak, and persecuted sect but are, on the contrary the growing wave, soon to be the tsunami, of the future, you wake up with a start, like Rip Van Winkle, look about you, and start to speak sententiously of the need to tolerate dissent, and the rights of the grass-roots.
I could say much more in this vein, but I fear to cause offence. Oh yes, I fear it. You see I know that you believe criticism of leaders should be made in measured terms. Well, as a leader (of sorts) yourself perhaps that should not surprise us too much.
I have, in an earlier article "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" explained to BNP members that, unlike us, our esteemed chairman does not love the BNP. That for him it has only ever represented a source of easy money, and of avoiding having to work for a living. That provided he can cling to its back like a monkey as it shrinks in size with each passing month, he does not care how small it becomes, as he at least remains the all-powerful leader of a party rump and in sole control of its revenue stream, since this is all politics means, or has ever meant to him.
I have gone further and explained to BNP members that Mr Griffin, our esteemed chairman, actually wants any member who is not prepared to bow down and worship his magnificent ineptitude to walk away from the party, and yes, preferably, to join another party, since it is only if his critics walk away rather than stay to fight that he is able to maintain his petty tyranny over the party.
There will be another leadership challenge this year. If it is unsuccessful there will be one next year and the year after that, until we succeed in ousting our esteemed chairman, and returning the BNP to its rightful owners, the members.
Mr Butler has stated on his blog that the party still has approximately 8,500 members, and he says that his sources are good. Very highly placed sources. Sources close to our esteemed chairman. It seems likely that as the fair-weather patriots, and the weaker brethren, bid us adieu, on their way to join the self-parodying, civic 'nationalist', 'English' Democrats, of whom the sadly misguided Mr Butler seems to think so highly, we shall before many more months have elapsed get down to a hard core of a few thousand members who are much more likely to stick with the party through thick and thin. Then the rate of decrease will bottom out, and the membership will stabilize.
I suggest that by the time we have arrived at that point Mr Griffin's supporters will be in a small minority within the party, and that it will finally have dawned upon even the most dog-like of cult followers of our highly esteemed chairman that he has got to go.
The recent BBC Daily Politics interview of BNP deputy leader Simon Darby, drew attention to the enormous gulf between the massive support for the BNP's policies, and the level of support the party receives at the polls. Mr Darby struggled manfully with this question, suggesting unconvincingly that it could be explained by the media's demonization of the party's policies, and studiously avoiding the real answer: that the electorate will not have our esteemed chairman at any price. Well, who can blame them?
For anyone but a Griffin cultist, however, this is highly encouraging. Once the esteemed one is ousted, the party's prospects look bright indeed. Even the party's debts begin to look more manageable against a backdrop of large and growing electoral support.
What kind of leader should we have to replace Mr Griffin? Well, of course, one important qualification is that he should be of a democratic, rather than a dictatorial temperament. Another, and related, qualification is that he should be a genuine team player, rather than a prima donna. Above all he should be trustworthy, a man of honour and integrity.
The party has many able men and women with these good qualities, and more.
The party's turbulent adolescence is now almost behind it. Soon it will come of age.
Mr Brons' article now follows.
Keeping Our Membership – Saving The Party
At the last General Election, we had a party membership of fourteen thousand members, of which perhaps a thousand or more were regular activists of some sort or another. Those figures were sufficient to enable us to run a credible campaign as a serious minor party. We contested 339 seats (just ahead of the Green Party) and our average vote per contested seat was just ahead of UKIP and nearly double that of the Green Party. We could not have fought such a campaign with significantly fewer members or significantly fewer activists. I warned members of this at the counting of nominations in August.
Since then I have always tried to encourage members to renew and discourage members from leaving - whether to join other genuine but tiny nationalist parties or multi-racialist civic nationalist parties or simply to drop out of politics. It has been an uphill struggle because of the level of discontent, especially among activists.
Some of that discontent (about the General Election result) was unwarranted, whilst some (about the need for greater financial accountability and constitutional reform) was (in my opinion) justified. Some concerns were expressed reasonably, whilst others were expressed less well. Some people simply decided that they did not like our Chairman. I did not share their antipathy but their attitude did not concern me greatly.
Political parties are not mutual admiration societies and nor should they be. We have to work with people, we do not much like, in politics as in our ordinary places of work.
When I tried to keep people within the Party, I thought that I was doing something that was self-evidently for its benefit. There could be no argument about whether or not I was doing the right thing. I was clearly wrong.
A member of the Yorkshire Surveillance Squad told one of our key organisers that it did not matter if we lost five hundred members out of every thousand, as long as the remaining five hundred were loyal (to the Chairman remaining Chairman). When I heard this, I presumed that he was speaking on his own account or that he was expressing his own opinion in exaggerated terms. I was wrong yet again. One of our assistants, in Strasbourg, informed our Chairman that the Kirklees (Huddersfield & Dewsbury) Branch had defected to the multi-racial English Democratic Party and suggested that we should reveal the appalling truth about the EDP. “No,” he said, “Not yet. There are others I would like to get out of the Party too. I want them to join the EDP and get rid of them all”. It would appear that the Yorkshire Surveillance Squad member was speaking His Master’s Voice. This disastrous policy must be reversed. Members must be encouraged to stay and they, in turn, must exercise their judgement by rejecting safety valve parties like the EDP, which has been described as UKIP without that party’s electoral success.
It would seem that we all have a lot of growing up to do. Members and leaderships of other parties do not behave like this. Leaders who lose substantial support try to satisfy the demands of the disaffected. Members who dislike current leaders stay within their parties. Attending meetings of dissentient members is not a disciplinary offence in other parties. Criticisms are made of leaders in other parties but they are made in measured terms.
We must turn our Party into one that is tolerant of dissent and open to free discussion. We must turn it into a democratic model that we can follow, if we should ever be entrusted with power. We must treat each other with respect and tolerance to demonstrate how we would manage the state if we were ever given the opportunity. If we behave like hyenas with PMT and run our Party as though it were Enver Hoxha’s Albania, we should not blame the British people for failing to elect us.
Am I expressing my concerns well (in your opinion) Mr Brons? Or have I simply (in your opinion) decided I do not like our chairman?
Here's a concern for you, Mr Brons: why have you waited until now to express these thoughts? Why did you not speak up when the esteemed chairman's Stalinist 'reign of terror' began? When Mr Griffin rigged the nomination process for a leadership election, the only democratic means of calling the leadership to account to the members, under the present dictator's charter of a constitution, where were you? Why did you remain silent, Mr Brons? Out of fear? Fear of what? What could the chairman have done to you? Withdrawn the party whip from you in the European 'parliament'? Suspended you from the party? He would have been cutting off his nose to spite his face. He would have had to have been a fool to have done any such thing.
By speaking out and censuring Mr Griffin's insane victimization of his challenger for the leadership, and that challenger's supporters, of whom I am justifiably proud to have been one, you might have halted the trail of destruction, over which you now wring your hands. You personally might have made and been the difference. As well as having the inestimable satisfaction of knowing that you had saved the party from untold misery and misfortune, you would have assured yourself an honourable place in the annals of nationalist history.
Instead you chose to wash your hands of the whole affair. Until very recently, that is. Now it has become clear that the dissidents are no longer a small, weak, and persecuted sect but are, on the contrary the growing wave, soon to be the tsunami, of the future, you wake up with a start, like Rip Van Winkle, look about you, and start to speak sententiously of the need to tolerate dissent, and the rights of the grass-roots.
I could say much more in this vein, but I fear to cause offence. Oh yes, I fear it. You see I know that you believe criticism of leaders should be made in measured terms. Well, as a leader (of sorts) yourself perhaps that should not surprise us too much.
I have, in an earlier article "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" explained to BNP members that, unlike us, our esteemed chairman does not love the BNP. That for him it has only ever represented a source of easy money, and of avoiding having to work for a living. That provided he can cling to its back like a monkey as it shrinks in size with each passing month, he does not care how small it becomes, as he at least remains the all-powerful leader of a party rump and in sole control of its revenue stream, since this is all politics means, or has ever meant to him.
I have gone further and explained to BNP members that Mr Griffin, our esteemed chairman, actually wants any member who is not prepared to bow down and worship his magnificent ineptitude to walk away from the party, and yes, preferably, to join another party, since it is only if his critics walk away rather than stay to fight that he is able to maintain his petty tyranny over the party.
There will be another leadership challenge this year. If it is unsuccessful there will be one next year and the year after that, until we succeed in ousting our esteemed chairman, and returning the BNP to its rightful owners, the members.
Mr Butler has stated on his blog that the party still has approximately 8,500 members, and he says that his sources are good. Very highly placed sources. Sources close to our esteemed chairman. It seems likely that as the fair-weather patriots, and the weaker brethren, bid us adieu, on their way to join the self-parodying, civic 'nationalist', 'English' Democrats, of whom the sadly misguided Mr Butler seems to think so highly, we shall before many more months have elapsed get down to a hard core of a few thousand members who are much more likely to stick with the party through thick and thin. Then the rate of decrease will bottom out, and the membership will stabilize.
I suggest that by the time we have arrived at that point Mr Griffin's supporters will be in a small minority within the party, and that it will finally have dawned upon even the most dog-like of cult followers of our highly esteemed chairman that he has got to go.
The recent BBC Daily Politics interview of BNP deputy leader Simon Darby, drew attention to the enormous gulf between the massive support for the BNP's policies, and the level of support the party receives at the polls. Mr Darby struggled manfully with this question, suggesting unconvincingly that it could be explained by the media's demonization of the party's policies, and studiously avoiding the real answer: that the electorate will not have our esteemed chairman at any price. Well, who can blame them?
For anyone but a Griffin cultist, however, this is highly encouraging. Once the esteemed one is ousted, the party's prospects look bright indeed. Even the party's debts begin to look more manageable against a backdrop of large and growing electoral support.
What kind of leader should we have to replace Mr Griffin? Well, of course, one important qualification is that he should be of a democratic, rather than a dictatorial temperament. Another, and related, qualification is that he should be a genuine team player, rather than a prima donna. Above all he should be trustworthy, a man of honour and integrity.
The party has many able men and women with these good qualities, and more.
The party's turbulent adolescence is now almost behind it. Soon it will come of age.
Mr Brons' article now follows.
Keeping Our Membership – Saving The Party
At the last General Election, we had a party membership of fourteen thousand members, of which perhaps a thousand or more were regular activists of some sort or another. Those figures were sufficient to enable us to run a credible campaign as a serious minor party. We contested 339 seats (just ahead of the Green Party) and our average vote per contested seat was just ahead of UKIP and nearly double that of the Green Party. We could not have fought such a campaign with significantly fewer members or significantly fewer activists. I warned members of this at the counting of nominations in August.
Since then I have always tried to encourage members to renew and discourage members from leaving - whether to join other genuine but tiny nationalist parties or multi-racialist civic nationalist parties or simply to drop out of politics. It has been an uphill struggle because of the level of discontent, especially among activists.
Some of that discontent (about the General Election result) was unwarranted, whilst some (about the need for greater financial accountability and constitutional reform) was (in my opinion) justified. Some concerns were expressed reasonably, whilst others were expressed less well. Some people simply decided that they did not like our Chairman. I did not share their antipathy but their attitude did not concern me greatly.
Political parties are not mutual admiration societies and nor should they be. We have to work with people, we do not much like, in politics as in our ordinary places of work.
When I tried to keep people within the Party, I thought that I was doing something that was self-evidently for its benefit. There could be no argument about whether or not I was doing the right thing. I was clearly wrong.
A member of the Yorkshire Surveillance Squad told one of our key organisers that it did not matter if we lost five hundred members out of every thousand, as long as the remaining five hundred were loyal (to the Chairman remaining Chairman). When I heard this, I presumed that he was speaking on his own account or that he was expressing his own opinion in exaggerated terms. I was wrong yet again. One of our assistants, in Strasbourg, informed our Chairman that the Kirklees (Huddersfield & Dewsbury) Branch had defected to the multi-racial English Democratic Party and suggested that we should reveal the appalling truth about the EDP. “No,” he said, “Not yet. There are others I would like to get out of the Party too. I want them to join the EDP and get rid of them all”. It would appear that the Yorkshire Surveillance Squad member was speaking His Master’s Voice. This disastrous policy must be reversed. Members must be encouraged to stay and they, in turn, must exercise their judgement by rejecting safety valve parties like the EDP, which has been described as UKIP without that party’s electoral success.
It would seem that we all have a lot of growing up to do. Members and leaderships of other parties do not behave like this. Leaders who lose substantial support try to satisfy the demands of the disaffected. Members who dislike current leaders stay within their parties. Attending meetings of dissentient members is not a disciplinary offence in other parties. Criticisms are made of leaders in other parties but they are made in measured terms.
We must turn our Party into one that is tolerant of dissent and open to free discussion. We must turn it into a democratic model that we can follow, if we should ever be entrusted with power. We must treat each other with respect and tolerance to demonstrate how we would manage the state if we were ever given the opportunity. If we behave like hyenas with PMT and run our Party as though it were Enver Hoxha’s Albania, we should not blame the British people for failing to elect us.
Saturday, 9 April 2011
They make a desert and call it "upping our game"
April 09, 2011
EPPING FOREST: BNP fielding no candidates in election
IN a dramatic turn of fortune the British National Party will be fielding no candidates in the forthcoming local elections.
Only four years ago the BNP had seven members on Epping District Council, more than at any other time in their recent history.
But this year none of the 18 seats that are up for re-election on May 5 will be contested by the far-right organisation.
Many of the seats are in Epping and Waltham Abbey, and the Liberal Democrats are looking to use the opportunity strengthen their position and oust Loughton Residents Association as opposition to the dominant Conservatives.
District Councillor Stephen Murray, who is an independent, said: “I was pleasantly surprised to see that the BNP are putting forward no candidates this year. It can only be a sign of weakness. Only four years ago there was talk of them being a majority, now their membership on the council is down to one.
He said that internal divisions and campaigning by ant-fascist organisations were the root of the the collapse.
“Eddie [sic] Butler, who is married to a former BNP councillor from the area, stood against Nick Griffin in a recent leadership contest which has caused fratricidal disputes", said Councillor Murray.
[Emphasis mine, AE]
“I also think that Searchlight have done valuable work in the area in waking people up to the true nature of the BNP as a racist organisation.
“However it is very important for people not to become complacent and for us to keep an eye on them.”
Councillor Murray was sceptical about the Lib Dem's chances of becoming district's second most powerful party, saying that their centre-left support could collapse having formed a coalition government with the Conservatives.
The BNP's one remaining District Councillor, Pat Richardson, said: “Sometimes it is hard to find candidates. Most parties are going through difficult times.
“None of the seats in Debden and Alderton where we have most of our support are up for re-election so that is another factor.
“I think at the minute people are more interested in their home lives than in politics.
“It is swings and roundabouts, the game of politics. Recently Labour had strong support now they only have one district councillor.”
Epping Forest News
EPPING FOREST: BNP fielding no candidates in election
IN a dramatic turn of fortune the British National Party will be fielding no candidates in the forthcoming local elections.
Only four years ago the BNP had seven members on Epping District Council, more than at any other time in their recent history.
But this year none of the 18 seats that are up for re-election on May 5 will be contested by the far-right organisation.
Many of the seats are in Epping and Waltham Abbey, and the Liberal Democrats are looking to use the opportunity strengthen their position and oust Loughton Residents Association as opposition to the dominant Conservatives.
District Councillor Stephen Murray, who is an independent, said: “I was pleasantly surprised to see that the BNP are putting forward no candidates this year. It can only be a sign of weakness. Only four years ago there was talk of them being a majority, now their membership on the council is down to one.
He said that internal divisions and campaigning by ant-fascist organisations were the root of the the collapse.
“Eddie [sic] Butler, who is married to a former BNP councillor from the area, stood against Nick Griffin in a recent leadership contest which has caused fratricidal disputes", said Councillor Murray.
[Emphasis mine, AE]
“I also think that Searchlight have done valuable work in the area in waking people up to the true nature of the BNP as a racist organisation.
“However it is very important for people not to become complacent and for us to keep an eye on them.”
Councillor Murray was sceptical about the Lib Dem's chances of becoming district's second most powerful party, saying that their centre-left support could collapse having formed a coalition government with the Conservatives.
The BNP's one remaining District Councillor, Pat Richardson, said: “Sometimes it is hard to find candidates. Most parties are going through difficult times.
“None of the seats in Debden and Alderton where we have most of our support are up for re-election so that is another factor.
“I think at the minute people are more interested in their home lives than in politics.
“It is swings and roundabouts, the game of politics. Recently Labour had strong support now they only have one district councillor.”
Epping Forest News
'Mr Mogadon' holds the fort
British National Party deputy leader, Simon Darby, performs better than I have ever seen him perform before with the 'mainstream media', and does his best to finesse a poor hand. But where is the card-sharper who dealt him this terrible "Dead man's hand", "Riverboat" Nick Griffin? Still sunning himself in Muslim North Cyprus, checking out a future bolt-hole? Never mind that Fort BNP is surrounded by Red Indians, led by Chief Crazy Horse (I wonder how he got that name?) and provided with the latest rifles by a scheming, profiteering, renegade white man.
Mr Darby's allegation that Eddy Butler has aligned himself with a rival political party, the English Democrats, is one which Mr Butler, while busily pluming and preening himself on his blog (the BBC read my blog - "gasp") seems to be in no hurry to deny. Could there be something in the allegation? Has the "Back Room Boy" Butler been going "a-whoring after strange gods?"
Eddy Butler's suggestion that anyone who finds his promotion of a rival, and cultural 'nationalist', political party, the 'English' Democrats, unacceptable, is in some unspecified way "...jealous..." of him is laughable, and reminiscent of Griffin's tactics of smear and innuendo. It would be surprising indeed if Mr Butler, having spent so many years at Griffin's side had failed to "learn from the master". But really, it is as if Judas were to have claimed that Jesus' other disciples were jealous of his business acumen.
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Stand by the party steady
Out of the frying pan and into the fire, is an old English saying which sums up very well the actions of those members of the British National Party who have jumped ship to the English Democrats.
While naturally I have every sympathy with their disgust at Mr Griffin's betrayal of the BNP, I wish they could have understood that Mr Griffin is not the BNP, nor is the BNP Mr Griffin.
The departure of good BNP activists merely serves to assist Mr Griffin to cling on to his usurped position of national chairman of the BNP that little bit longer. The BNP needs every member who has seen through the fraud Griffin to remain at their post in order to assist in the vital task of educating those members who are still unaware of his wrongdoing, corruption and incompetence. Every one of us is needed within the party right now to help to spread the message of hope: that there will be a leadership challenge this summer; and to lay the groundwork for the campaign to free our party from the clutches of the anti-nationalist traitor, and petty tyrant, Griffin.
To those good nationalists, such as Chris Beverley, who have, perhaps against their own better judgement, and under the influence of a man who ought to know better, turned their back on the BNP in its hour of need, I say: once we have ousted Griffin, as we shall, you will be welcomed back into the party with open arms, and with no recriminations whatsoever, should you wish to return, as I hope you would.
Griffin is to blame for all of this misery and misfortune. He it is who shall be held responsible, and answer for his transgressions at the bar of history.
April 07, 2011
Kirklees BNP members defect to English Democrats after comparing Nick Griffin to Robert Mugabe
Activists in Huddersfield last night announced they have left the British National Party (BNP) – and compared leader Nick Griffin with Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe.
A group of former Kirklees Council candidates yesterday told the Examiner they had joined the English Democrats because of their “cleaner” image. Former BNP Colne Valley Parliamentary candidate Barry Fowler and ex-Heckmondwike councillor Roger Roberts issued a statement announcing their breakaway.
They said: “The BNP has been in turmoil for the last 12-plus months with the majority of active members seeking a change of leader and a new cleaner less confrontational approach to getting our ideas across.
“This has been met with contempt by leader Nick Griffin who has gone out of his way to bring the party into disrepute. He has suspended some of the best local activists simply for asking legitimate questions over finance.
“The BNP is currently well over £500,000 in debt and its submitted accounts for the last two years have been classed as poor and incomplete by the Electoral Commission. We believe it is a member’s right to ask legitimate questions about party finance, yet Mr Griffin has met people’s concerns by suspending and expelling them.
“These are not the actions of a leader of a democratic party, but that of a dictator.
“In Kirklees we have worked very hard to improve our image as a party and dispel any negative stereotypes of the party. But the BNP has been held back by Nick Griffin for so long and the new constitution, which could have been written by Mr Mugabe, ensures Mr Griffin will be leader for as long as he chooses.”
The BNP is running just four candidates in this year’s Kirklees Council election – compared with 21 last year. Rachel Firth, the party’s new organiser in south Kirklees, will stand in Denby Dale.
“In every party you get people disagreeing with things,” she said yesterday. “Quite a few of our members in south Kirklees have left. People are going their separate ways, and that’s fair enough, but I’m concentrating on the future not the past.”
Mr Fowler and Mr Roberts said most of the party’s top activists in Kirklees will join the English Democrats.
They said: “The majority of ex-candidates and local BNP officials will be taking our ideas, talents and energy into a new party. We are working to help establish a new hope for England with a party with a good clean image, good policies and sensible decent people at the heart promoting them.
“The English Democrats are a democratic party, concerned with the way English identity and culture is being eroded. But unlike the BNP, which has a terrible image, it has a very clean image and is based on promoting our way of life as opposed to the BNP’s obsession on race.”
Paul McEnhill is the only English Democrat standing in the Kirklees elections on May 5. The Denby Dale candidate welcomed the ex-BNP members yesterday.
“I’ve met Barry Fowler and Roger Roberts and they seem like decent people,” he said. “We are a broad church, we have former members from Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberals.”
But Mr McEnhill added: “We won’t just let in any Tom, Dick or Harry in off the street, new members will be vetted extremely well.”
University of Huddersfield politics lecturer Dr Andrew Mycock predicted that former BNP members may have some problems in the English Democrats.
He said yesterday: “In one sense it’s a logical move because the two parties have a very similar position in many areas like Europe and political correctness. But the English Democrats have accepted that multi-cultural Britain has some value, a view which the BNP has never held.”
VOTERS in Huddersfield have moved away from the British National Party in the past five years.
The party took one in five votes in the Kirklees Council election of 2006, gaining two seats. But by last year’s poll the BNP won just 7.6% and lost its only councillor.
Five years ago the party secured 22,914 votes – 18.5% – across the 23 wards of Kirklees. The party won in Heckmondwike and Dewsbury East, to add to the seat it took at the 2003 Heckmondwike by-election. The BNP also polled strongly in Mirfield and Cleckheaton. Robert Walker won 1,100 votes in Golcar, just 300 behind the winning Lib Dem candidate.
The BNP also performed well in the 2007 election, taking 19,891 votes, which equals 16.2%. The party failed to win any seats that year, but finished a strong second in Dewsbury East and Heckmondwike.
However, the following year the party went into steep decline, taking 15,090 votes – some 12.6% of the total.
David Exley lost his seat in Heckmondwike, finishing nearly 200 votes behind Labour. A few months later Colin Auty resigned his Dewsbury East seat after a disagreement with party leader Nick Griffin. Labour won the by-election.
Last year the BNP’s support in Kirklees slumped to just 7.6%, with the party’s only remaining councillor Roger Roberts losing his seat in Heckmondwike.
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
While naturally I have every sympathy with their disgust at Mr Griffin's betrayal of the BNP, I wish they could have understood that Mr Griffin is not the BNP, nor is the BNP Mr Griffin.
The departure of good BNP activists merely serves to assist Mr Griffin to cling on to his usurped position of national chairman of the BNP that little bit longer. The BNP needs every member who has seen through the fraud Griffin to remain at their post in order to assist in the vital task of educating those members who are still unaware of his wrongdoing, corruption and incompetence. Every one of us is needed within the party right now to help to spread the message of hope: that there will be a leadership challenge this summer; and to lay the groundwork for the campaign to free our party from the clutches of the anti-nationalist traitor, and petty tyrant, Griffin.
To those good nationalists, such as Chris Beverley, who have, perhaps against their own better judgement, and under the influence of a man who ought to know better, turned their back on the BNP in its hour of need, I say: once we have ousted Griffin, as we shall, you will be welcomed back into the party with open arms, and with no recriminations whatsoever, should you wish to return, as I hope you would.
Griffin is to blame for all of this misery and misfortune. He it is who shall be held responsible, and answer for his transgressions at the bar of history.
April 07, 2011
Kirklees BNP members defect to English Democrats after comparing Nick Griffin to Robert Mugabe
Activists in Huddersfield last night announced they have left the British National Party (BNP) – and compared leader Nick Griffin with Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe.
A group of former Kirklees Council candidates yesterday told the Examiner they had joined the English Democrats because of their “cleaner” image. Former BNP Colne Valley Parliamentary candidate Barry Fowler and ex-Heckmondwike councillor Roger Roberts issued a statement announcing their breakaway.
They said: “The BNP has been in turmoil for the last 12-plus months with the majority of active members seeking a change of leader and a new cleaner less confrontational approach to getting our ideas across.
“This has been met with contempt by leader Nick Griffin who has gone out of his way to bring the party into disrepute. He has suspended some of the best local activists simply for asking legitimate questions over finance.
“The BNP is currently well over £500,000 in debt and its submitted accounts for the last two years have been classed as poor and incomplete by the Electoral Commission. We believe it is a member’s right to ask legitimate questions about party finance, yet Mr Griffin has met people’s concerns by suspending and expelling them.
“These are not the actions of a leader of a democratic party, but that of a dictator.
“In Kirklees we have worked very hard to improve our image as a party and dispel any negative stereotypes of the party. But the BNP has been held back by Nick Griffin for so long and the new constitution, which could have been written by Mr Mugabe, ensures Mr Griffin will be leader for as long as he chooses.”
The BNP is running just four candidates in this year’s Kirklees Council election – compared with 21 last year. Rachel Firth, the party’s new organiser in south Kirklees, will stand in Denby Dale.
“In every party you get people disagreeing with things,” she said yesterday. “Quite a few of our members in south Kirklees have left. People are going their separate ways, and that’s fair enough, but I’m concentrating on the future not the past.”
Mr Fowler and Mr Roberts said most of the party’s top activists in Kirklees will join the English Democrats.
They said: “The majority of ex-candidates and local BNP officials will be taking our ideas, talents and energy into a new party. We are working to help establish a new hope for England with a party with a good clean image, good policies and sensible decent people at the heart promoting them.
“The English Democrats are a democratic party, concerned with the way English identity and culture is being eroded. But unlike the BNP, which has a terrible image, it has a very clean image and is based on promoting our way of life as opposed to the BNP’s obsession on race.”
Paul McEnhill is the only English Democrat standing in the Kirklees elections on May 5. The Denby Dale candidate welcomed the ex-BNP members yesterday.
“I’ve met Barry Fowler and Roger Roberts and they seem like decent people,” he said. “We are a broad church, we have former members from Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberals.”
But Mr McEnhill added: “We won’t just let in any Tom, Dick or Harry in off the street, new members will be vetted extremely well.”
University of Huddersfield politics lecturer Dr Andrew Mycock predicted that former BNP members may have some problems in the English Democrats.
He said yesterday: “In one sense it’s a logical move because the two parties have a very similar position in many areas like Europe and political correctness. But the English Democrats have accepted that multi-cultural Britain has some value, a view which the BNP has never held.”
VOTERS in Huddersfield have moved away from the British National Party in the past five years.
The party took one in five votes in the Kirklees Council election of 2006, gaining two seats. But by last year’s poll the BNP won just 7.6% and lost its only councillor.
Five years ago the party secured 22,914 votes – 18.5% – across the 23 wards of Kirklees. The party won in Heckmondwike and Dewsbury East, to add to the seat it took at the 2003 Heckmondwike by-election. The BNP also polled strongly in Mirfield and Cleckheaton. Robert Walker won 1,100 votes in Golcar, just 300 behind the winning Lib Dem candidate.
The BNP also performed well in the 2007 election, taking 19,891 votes, which equals 16.2%. The party failed to win any seats that year, but finished a strong second in Dewsbury East and Heckmondwike.
However, the following year the party went into steep decline, taking 15,090 votes – some 12.6% of the total.
David Exley lost his seat in Heckmondwike, finishing nearly 200 votes behind Labour. A few months later Colin Auty resigned his Dewsbury East seat after a disagreement with party leader Nick Griffin. Labour won the by-election.
Last year the BNP’s support in Kirklees slumped to just 7.6%, with the party’s only remaining councillor Roger Roberts losing his seat in Heckmondwike.
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
The 'English' Democrats: clowns, cowards, hypocrites plc
The video above, made before the 2010 general election, still appears on the web site of the English Democrats Party.
I defy any Englishman to watch this video of the clown Garry Bushell, spouting his cliche-ridden, 'cultural', civic 'nationalist', claptrap about the English, and Englishness, and still regard the English Democrats as a serious political party.
Bushell recites the names of several famous Englishmen but then ends his list with Kelly Holmes, who is neither English nor ethnically British. He recites a number of supposedly significant cultural artefacts, places and practices, which he claims are typically English, but ends the list with "Vindaloo". The Negro boxer Frank Bruno is mentioned, as someone of whom the English should be proud. This is all designed, of course, to demonstrate his political 'correctness' and multicultural credentials, despite his, and the English Democrats' ostensible opposition to the anti-English racism inherent in the ideology of political 'correctness' and of multiculturalism.
This hypocrisy, born out of fear of the "racist" accusation which they rightly anticipate will be made against any political party that stands up for the interests of any of the down-trodden indigenous peoples of these islands, effectively neutralizes the English Democrats as an agent of political change. It restricts them to emphasizing the 'safe', but secondary, issues of an English parliament, and making Saint George's Day a public holiday, rather than the crucial ones of ending immigration, and withdrawing from the European Union. The English Democrats cannot be taken seriously by any genuinely patriotic Englishman.
Like the foul-mouthed professional proletarian Garry Bushell himself, they are a comic turn, and though much of what they do dare to say is true, they hide their light under a Bushell.
You don't have to be squalid to work here - but it helps
The following article was first published on the Solidarity Truth blog.
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
The National Liberal Party led by Pat Harrington
Whilst hundreds of BNP candidates face losing their jobs, their marriages, and face ostracism because they were brave enough to put their head above the parapet as BNP members, Nick Griffin instead prefers to employ the leader of a rival political party that stands candidates against the BNP.
Pat Harrington is one of the leaders of a political party called the "National Liberal Party" (also known as the Third Way). Their ideology is not British Nationalism, it is "National Liberalism", a kind of wishy-washy multicultural patriotism, if such a thing can exist.
Formed on 17 March 1990, the National Liberal Party is a home of sorts for all manner of oddballs, weirdoes and crackpots. According to Wikipedia: "According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission, in 2006 Third Way had 20 members and cashflow of approximately £1,400."
The National Liberal Party is another of Pat Harrington's micro-organisations, along with the Third Way "Think Tank" and Solidarity trade union. Pat's entire history is replete with endless examples of miniature groups of which he is the world-bestriding international president/general secretary/chairman.
The National Liberal Party stood its first Asian candidate in local elections in 2006. In total, fourteen Third Way candidates contested six wards in Havering in the 2006 local elections. They polled an average of 9.1% of the vote with the best result obtained in Elm Park where they polled 27% which resulted in the first Asian Third Way councillor, Nakkeeran Arasaratnam, in Hacton Ward.
When Harrington's National Liberals are not getting foreigners elected as politicians in the UK, they stand with regularity against the genuinely nationalist British National Party.
Luckily for us, the BNP usually beats the National Liberals hands down. In a by-election held on 14 June 2007, in the St Andrew's ward of Havering, National Liberal Party candidate David Durant polled 184 votes, 396 votes behind the BNP.
In another by-election in the same ward on 5 June 2009, Durant polled 291 votes, 480 votes behind the BNP, gaining 6.6% of the vote.
Likewise, in the London borough of Havering (Gooshays) by-election on March 20th 2008, the BNP once again defeated the National Liberal interlopers: BNP 865 votes to National Liberal Party 62 (2.7%).
Despite standing against the BNP and being a rival political party, Chairman Nick Griffin actually forced the BNP branch in Havering NOT to stand against the National Liberal Party in a particular ward in Havering in the 2010 local elections.
Wikipedia even claims that: "[The] Third Way's activity in Havering is claimed to have resulted in a relatively small BNP presence in the borough when compared to neighbouring areas such as the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Epping Forest and Thurrock." Thanks, Mr Harrington, for that.
The National Liberal Party/Third Way, sprang out of the Political Soldiers' faction of the 1980s National Front, often referred to as the "Loony Front".
National Liberal Party policies are, as expected whenever Pat Harrington is involved, a mixture of lunatic left wing nonsense. For example, the National Liberals want the de-criminalisation of activities related to prostitution and cannabis.
Despite all the crankery mentioned above, despite the National Liberal Party standing against the BNP, BNP Chairman Nick Griffin still forced BNP admin workers during the 2010 elections to help stuff and distribute tens of thousands of Solidarity newspapers.
We are at a total loss why BNP Chairman Nick Griffin has such a soft spot for Harrington and his National Liberal/Solidarity cronies. Collectively, the Solidarity mob are employed by the BNP, and/or its MEPs, at a cost of over £100,000 per year, and all the BNP can claim to receive in return is a boost to a rival political party that has no compunction about standing against the BNP in local elections.
Pat Harrington, a leader of this rival political party, a party that stands candidates against the BNP, a party that fields black and Asian candidates, is comfortably residing on a BNP MEP payroll, along with his wife, who, between them, rake in around £57,000 per annum, whilst former BNP candidates can go jump. Absolutely disgraceful.
BNP candidates and activists, it's time to sort this nonsense out once and for all. Show Harrington the door, but more importantly: show Griffin the door.
Anon
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
The National Liberal Party led by Pat Harrington
Whilst hundreds of BNP candidates face losing their jobs, their marriages, and face ostracism because they were brave enough to put their head above the parapet as BNP members, Nick Griffin instead prefers to employ the leader of a rival political party that stands candidates against the BNP.
Pat Harrington is one of the leaders of a political party called the "National Liberal Party" (also known as the Third Way). Their ideology is not British Nationalism, it is "National Liberalism", a kind of wishy-washy multicultural patriotism, if such a thing can exist.
Formed on 17 March 1990, the National Liberal Party is a home of sorts for all manner of oddballs, weirdoes and crackpots. According to Wikipedia: "According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission, in 2006 Third Way had 20 members and cashflow of approximately £1,400."
The National Liberal Party is another of Pat Harrington's micro-organisations, along with the Third Way "Think Tank" and Solidarity trade union. Pat's entire history is replete with endless examples of miniature groups of which he is the world-bestriding international president/general secretary/chairman.
The National Liberal Party stood its first Asian candidate in local elections in 2006. In total, fourteen Third Way candidates contested six wards in Havering in the 2006 local elections. They polled an average of 9.1% of the vote with the best result obtained in Elm Park where they polled 27% which resulted in the first Asian Third Way councillor, Nakkeeran Arasaratnam, in Hacton Ward.
When Harrington's National Liberals are not getting foreigners elected as politicians in the UK, they stand with regularity against the genuinely nationalist British National Party.
Luckily for us, the BNP usually beats the National Liberals hands down. In a by-election held on 14 June 2007, in the St Andrew's ward of Havering, National Liberal Party candidate David Durant polled 184 votes, 396 votes behind the BNP.
In another by-election in the same ward on 5 June 2009, Durant polled 291 votes, 480 votes behind the BNP, gaining 6.6% of the vote.
Likewise, in the London borough of Havering (Gooshays) by-election on March 20th 2008, the BNP once again defeated the National Liberal interlopers: BNP 865 votes to National Liberal Party 62 (2.7%).
Despite standing against the BNP and being a rival political party, Chairman Nick Griffin actually forced the BNP branch in Havering NOT to stand against the National Liberal Party in a particular ward in Havering in the 2010 local elections.
Wikipedia even claims that: "[The] Third Way's activity in Havering is claimed to have resulted in a relatively small BNP presence in the borough when compared to neighbouring areas such as the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Epping Forest and Thurrock." Thanks, Mr Harrington, for that.
The National Liberal Party/Third Way, sprang out of the Political Soldiers' faction of the 1980s National Front, often referred to as the "Loony Front".
National Liberal Party policies are, as expected whenever Pat Harrington is involved, a mixture of lunatic left wing nonsense. For example, the National Liberals want the de-criminalisation of activities related to prostitution and cannabis.
Despite all the crankery mentioned above, despite the National Liberal Party standing against the BNP, BNP Chairman Nick Griffin still forced BNP admin workers during the 2010 elections to help stuff and distribute tens of thousands of Solidarity newspapers.
We are at a total loss why BNP Chairman Nick Griffin has such a soft spot for Harrington and his National Liberal/Solidarity cronies. Collectively, the Solidarity mob are employed by the BNP, and/or its MEPs, at a cost of over £100,000 per year, and all the BNP can claim to receive in return is a boost to a rival political party that has no compunction about standing against the BNP in local elections.
Pat Harrington, a leader of this rival political party, a party that stands candidates against the BNP, a party that fields black and Asian candidates, is comfortably residing on a BNP MEP payroll, along with his wife, who, between them, rake in around £57,000 per annum, whilst former BNP candidates can go jump. Absolutely disgraceful.
BNP candidates and activists, it's time to sort this nonsense out once and for all. Show Harrington the door, but more importantly: show Griffin the door.
Anon
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