posted by: Nick Lowles of Hope Not Hate on: Thursday, 22 October 2009, 22:12

This is what I have received from a HnH supporter in the audience:

Nick Griffin got a political roasting at Question Time this evening. He squirmed, fidgeted and avoided key questions.

The first question was whether it was fair that the BNP hijacked Churchill. Jack Straw answered first by saying that Britain would not have won WW1 and WW2 without the contribution and sacrifice of black and Asian people. He said that Britain defeated a party based on race like the BNP. The BNP defines itself by race – that distinguishes it from every other party. All other parties have a moral compass. Nazism didn’t and neither does the BNP.

Jack Straw talked about a town in France where in the commonwealth war graves are hundreds of Asians from Blackburn.

Nick Griffin then said Churchill would have been in the BNP. He said that his hostility to Islam described Churchill as Islamaphoibic by today’s standards.

Then came one of the best interventions, surprisingly enough from a member of the audience. Griffin was told that immigrants had made massive contribution to this country. “The BNP absolute disgrace. …You are trying to poison politics.. What you stand for is disgusting.”

There were huge applause.

Griffin claimed that many of the quotes attributed to him in the Dominic Carman interview, carried this morning in the Daily Mail, was false. He was pressed by David Dimbleby to explain which were false. Griffin could only say that there was too many to mention.

Griffin lied and lied again. He said that he was never a Nazi. He sidestepped questions about the Holocaust, though he was picked up by Dimbleby for smirking whilst answering the question. “Why are you smirking? It’s not a laughing matter.”

It was at this part that Jack Straw whipped out a copy of Holocaust News and waved it around saying that a leading member of Griffin’s party was behind this.

The audience was strongly against Griffin. One person asked him where he should be sent back to, given that he was born here. He then went on to say that many people in the audience would happily do a whip round to pay for Griffin and his party tickets to travel to the South Pole.

Baroness Warsi quoted the BNP’s Head of Publicity, Mark Collett, saying Churchill led us into pointless wars. Bonnie Greer said that Churchill’s ancestral past meant he could not have joined the BNP.

A member of the audience said that Enoch Powell’s views were identical to those of Griffin. This was echoed by Lib Dem Chris Huhne, who said that the BNP looked for scapegoats. “It’s what Enoch Powell did. We had this in the 1930s against the Jews, in the 1960s against the Blacks and now Griffin against immigrants.

Griffin repeatedly lied. He claimed that it was he who took the BNP away from its anti-semitic and nazi past. He then said “I am the most loathed man among Nazis in Britain.”

Several people made the point that Griffin said one thing in public but another in private. Jack Straw made reference to internal BNP documents about playing down their true views in public. Even Dimbleby mentioned an appearance in the US where Griffin said that “instead of talking about racial purity we talk about identity”

When pressed about the presence at the meeting of former KKK leader David Duke, Griffin replied that “I shared a platform with a non violent member of the KKK.” The audience rightly laughed at his stupidity. Griffin went on to say that Duke also regarded him as a sell out.

Griffin was now getting very nervous. In fact, he was even shaking. He was under full attack from all and the more nervous he got the more he smirked and the more stupid he looked.

Jack Straw summed it up. “We have seen that the moment anyone puts an uncomfortable quote to him he wriggles. I have seen his quotes on You Tube. He wants to wriggle out of it.

“The BNP have a manual to tell them how to speak. The language and concepts displiline manual. They are the only party who have to tell their party not to be racist.

“Griffin is the Dr Strangelove of British politics. (He tries to control his extremist politics but he can’t stop himself like the peter sellers character).”

Everyone was falling about laughing.

A member of the audience asked why Griffin hated Islam. He replied that it treats women as second class citizens. He admitted that it had “good points” but does not fit in with fundamental values of British society. “My policy on Islam is a truce with Islam. We should leave countries alone and ensure if Muslims stay here they do so understanding we are a British country. Britain must always remain a fundamentally Christian country.”

Baroness Warsi said that Griffin is a “confused man”, reminding the audience that he shared platform with Abu Hamza and had visited Colonel Gaddafi. “He is a thoroughly deceptive man. He is here to demonise Islam.”

On a question about immigration Griffin attacked the multicultural programme which he claimed had been imposed by the liberal elite. He spoke of the “indigenous Britons.”

Straw asked him if he meant “white?”

Griffin replied that the English, Scots, Irish and Welsh were “aborigines”. He said that the majority of the British people were ignored, saying that they felt shut out in our country.

The final question was whether it had been a good week for the BNP. Straw was the last to respond, saying that Nick Griffin was a “fantasising conspiracy theorist.”

And an idiot to boot. The audience almost universally laughed and mocked Griffin at the end.

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The most effective opposition comes when people refuse to be intimidated.

There’s something touchingly innocent about the argument put forward by many people that the BNP should be allowed space in the mainstream media as this will “expose their ignorant ideas”. Because history doesn’t necessarily prove this to be the case. I don’t suppose that, in 1941, many people thought: “You see, this is all working to plan. Now he’s invaded Russia everyone will see just what an idiot this Hitler really is.”

The arguments of the far-right groups are already obviously ridiculous. The latest slogan they march under is “Stop the Islamification of England”. But how many people have had their lives Islamified against their will? Is there a single tea shop owner in Dorset who has to tell her customers: “Sorry dear, we’re not allowed to serve a scone until after dark as it’s Ramadan.” Do radio stations have to start the day: “Allaaaaah – ah-aaaah allaaaaaah. Good morning, this is BBC Radio Sussex calling you to prayer.”

The most important government policy in recent years was probably the decision to go to war in Iraq, a move vehemently opposed by almost every Muslim in the country. But the BNP would presumably say: “That proves it – they deliberately ignored the Muslims when they SHOULD be ignoring the BRITISH people.”

The trouble is, the BNP don’t aim to attract support by winning debates, they want to spread fear and then pose as the respectable antidote. The other trouble is they do this because, in my view, they’re fascists, with some of their leadership having a record of supporting Hitler. Leading member Richard Edmonds published “Holocaust News”, which claimed the Holocaust was an “evil hoax”. The publicity manager Mark Collett fudged the Hitler issue when he said: “Hitler will live forever.” Co-founder of the party, the late John Tyndall, managed to surpass that with “Mein Kampf is my Bible”. So the party that appoints itself as the barrier to Britain being taken over by a foreign religion was set up by someone who thought the Bible should be German.

And Nick Griffin wrote a pamphlet in 1997 called “The Mind-Benders”, in which he said of the Holocaust: “The ‘extermination’ tale is a mixture of Allied wartime propaganda and witch-hysteria.”

Griffin usually dismisses these examples by putting them down to excitable youth. Because we’ve all got embarrassing snippets from our teenage days, so it hardly matters which of us wore crazy kipper ties and which wrote pamphlets denying the Holocaust, and the fact that Griffin wrote that when he was 38 only shows how young and full of life he is.

But around 10 years ago the BNP hit a snag, realising that their approach was holding them back. Maybe they had a focus group, with someone reporting that, “OK, if I can share my feedback, some of the policies, such as distrust of Europe, supporting British farmers, I’m hearing lots of positive energy. But, and don’t take this the wrong way, the praising Hitler angle is proving mostly negative, I’m afraid.”

So Griffin set about making them appear respectable. They would deny they were fascist, and claim to be an upstanding legitimate party. This creates another problem with them in the media, as their leaders are determined to conceal what I believe is their real mission, which isn’t just to campaign in elections but to build a force of street-fighters. After a BNP member was elected in 1993 Griffin said: “The electors of Millwall did not back a post-modernist Rightist party, but what they perceived to be a strong, disciplined organisation with the ability to back up its slogan ‘Defend Rights for Whites’, with well directed boots and fists.”

At which point if you thought: “Aha, the trick now is to interview him and expose how he’s misunderstood post-modernism. Then the electors of Millwall will see how ridiculous he is,” you were probably missing the point.

So the most effective opposition comes when communities refuse to be intimidated. Last Friday, when the English Defence League announced a protest against “Islamification” outside a mosque in Harrow, around 2,000 people stood in their way. The “protest” vanished, and the local population has apparently tingled with excitement ever since. As was the case in the 1930s and 1970s, events such as this are the most practical barriers against the far right.

The idea of inviting them into the mainstream in order to expose them is well-meaning, but I doubt whether Griffin thinks: “We can cope with united communities opposing us – but the perfect cutting remark on Newsnight and we’re stuffed.”

m.steel@independent.co.uk

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Please see the message below from Penrith Against Racism regarding leafleting in Penrith next Saturday (26th September). We are asking supporters of Carlisle Against Racism to help with this leafleting. The BNP will be using the by election in Penrith West Ward to try to increase their support and membership throughout the whole of the Penrith area, it is therefore important that we give support to our fellow anti racists in Penrith. It is also important to show that we will continue to campaign against the racists as strongly as ever despite the election of 2 BNP MEPs in June.

If you are able to help out next week please let me know. Please could you also let me know if you need a lift to Penrith.

Thanks
David Niven
Carlisle Against Racism
Tel: 07896 599053

PENRITH AGAINST RACISM

The BNP have put a candidate up in the Penrith West ward for the District Council. The election is on the 8th October and it is vital we ensure that the voters in the ward and the people of Penrith have the opportunity to read and hear some truths about this racist and fascist organisation.

Penrith Against Racism will be joining up with Carlisle Against Racism and you are invited to join us from 11am on Saturday 26th September outside the Alhambra Cinema, Middlegate in Penrith. We will be doing two things. Setting up a stall in the town centre from which we will distribute anti BNP leaflets and also leafleting the 1024 households in the ward of Penrith West. If we can get lots of people there on the day we may get both jobs done at once! So if you would rather do door to door leafleting than leaflet on the street that’s OK.

So invite your friends, if you want you can make your own placard or banner. Obvious messages; Hope Not Hate, Stop the BNP, Stop Fascists Now. Visit the Stop the BNP website for inspiration. If you come along on the day bring your mobile. If the BNP are in town it is very important that you are not provoked by them, they will try! So don’t rise to them…

If people are up for it we will also have a stall in Penrith the following Saturday the 3rd of October.

Carlisle Against Racism are holding two fundraising gigs on the 10th of October and the 31st of October at the Source in Denton Holme in Carlisle from 7.30pm onwards, details to follow.

TELL YOUR FRIENDS ~ TELL THE WORLD

STOP THE RACISTS NOW

The question of how best to deal with the British National Party raised its head again earlier this week with the news BNP leader Nick Griffin will be asked to appear on Question Time in October.

The arguments for and against the BBC’s decision range from giving the BNP enough rope to hang themselves and starving them and their supporters of the oxygen of publicity; the optimum solution, as always, being a combination of the two.

Groups like Searchlight, Hope Not Hate and Unite Against Fascism work tirelessly on the latter, disrupting BNP activity, squaring up to them and campaigning against them on the doorstep, street-by-street and town-by-town, often at great personal risk – some even receiving death threats from the “democratic” BNP.

Forensic analysis of their policies and line-by-line rebuttals of their lies, however, have been less prevalent, enabling the BNP’s racist propaganda to go virtually unchallenged, though steps are, belatedly, being taken to rectify this. Last month Quilliam, the counter-extremism think tank, published a report cataloguing the BNP’s raft of anti-Islamic smears and quashing them.

The third part of the strategy takes us back to the media, and how best they should cover the British National Party. This is probably the most important aspect, with the press in particular conducting many in-depth investigations into the BNP. A recent example of this is News of the World’s exposé of a BNP “family festival” in August which revealed the true face of the BNP.

Among the shocking incidents which took place included gollywogs being thrown onto braziers; people throwing wet sponges at a man in a Barack Obama mask locked in stocks; BNP officers making speeches describing Jadaism and Islam as “cancers”; BNP supporters giving “Sieg Heil” salutes; BNP members threatening an anti-Fascist protester with hammers and axes; skinheads boating of how they’d driven black families out of their villages… the list goes on and on.

The media at its best, but the BBC’s invite to Nick Griffin to take a seat on their flagship news and current affairs programme will be considered by many to be totally unacceptable. The BBC have already given Griffin countless platforms to spout his bile, from Newsnight interviews to radio phone-ins, but Question Time, Question Time, in front of a live studio audience???

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A mysterious group has been leading “anti-Muslim extremism” demonstrations around England this summer – who are they and what do they stand for?

The crowd of men surges forwards from the pub doors and is repelled by the police. The chant goes up in the heart of Birmingham’s shopping centre.
“Muslim bombers off our streets, Muslim bombers off our streets!”
Then comes the response from about 50 equally mobilised people 200 yards away.
“Nazi scum out of Brum, Nazi scum out of Brum!”
Amid the increasingly chaotic scenes, someone throws a bottle – I don’t see who – followed half-an-hour later by a rain of rubble from young Asian men who have turned up to join a stand-off.
This was Birmingham city centre last Saturday afternoon, in what is getting to be a monthly fixture. Over the summer the English Defence League has staged about half a dozen demonstrations around England.

In Birmingham, about 200 pretty fired-up young men came to the city to protest against “Islamic extremism and terrorism”.

Face-off

It looks like the bad old days of pitched battles between skinheads and the Anti Nazi League.

At one point, the English Defence League’s supporters charge down a side-street after the various sides goad each other to “come and have a go”.

The police floor the most troublesome, including one man I speak to as he sits on the kerb, handcuffed.

“I’m from Birmingham, mate, I live here. I’m sick of Muslim extremists slagging down our soldiers, thinking they can build up their mosques and call us scum -”

“Oi! I don’t like racist people,” comes the response from another Brummie, passing by.

“Sit down! Sit down!” shouts a police officer.

“I’ve got a mate who’s just come back from Afghanistan – he’s in the Army – he’s an Asian man,” continues the bystander. “You’re giving me a bad name as a white person.”

The scenes are pretty terrifying for those who’ve popped out for a coffee in a New Street cafe. But despite 90 arrests (not all of whom were EDL supporters), this isn’t anything that the city’s police are unable to contain.

Genesis of protest

But the emergence of the English Defence League is worrying many people – not least because it’s very difficult to work out who they are. The BBC has learned that four specialist national police units are investigating the EDL, including detectives with a background in watching hooliganism – but also extreme violence and terrorism. Those units are building up a picture of what the organisation is doing with the help of the British Transport Police and constabularies who have policed the demonstrations to date.

This week the BBC secured exclusive interviews with some of the organisation’s leaders.

At a building site north of London, we meet “Tommy”. He won’t give his real name because he says he will be targeted by extremists.

Joining Tommy is an older man called Alan, from London. Later, a young man from Luton turns up with a mixed-race teenager from north London, who Tommy says is the head of the “youth wing”.

“There are town centres now that are plagued by Islamic extremists,” he says. “There are women who don’t want to go shopping because there are 20 men in long Islamic dress shouting anti-British stuff and calling for a jihad and stirring up religious and racial hatred. Those are our town centres, and we want them back.

“We want them back, not from the Muslims, but from the jihadist extremists that are operating in the Muslim communities. And the Muslim communities need to deal with their extremists.

“They need to drive them out – we have had enough of it.”

‘Soccer casuals’

The English Defence League emerged from the angry scenes in Luton last March when a group of Muslims protested as the Royal Anglian Regiment paraded through the town on its return from Afghanistan.
An EDL supporter is held at baton-point by a police officer
An EDL supporter in Birmingham

When a counter-demonstration under the name of United People of Luton led to arrests, local football supporters decided something should be done.

They found common cause with other “soccer casuals” and “firms” associated with major clubs. The chatter concluded that this was a national problem and they had to put aside club rivalries.

Things really took off after the same Islamist group “converted” an 11-year-old boy in Birmingham city centre in June. That incident caused a minor tabloid furore – but a greater reaction on the net, particularly on websites and forums associated with football violence and far-right activity.

By the summer there were English Defence League “divisions” run by football supporters in Luton, north London, Bristol, Portsmouth and Southampton, Derby, Cardiff and the West Midlands.

The EDL turned its attention to Birmingham in August with a march, but found itself outmanoeuvred by anti-racist protest groups in ugly scenes that led to 35 arrests. A similar march planned for Luton was banned.

The EDL has now organised around 15 principal figures loosely based around the football firms providing the most support. Not all of those involved are from a football background, and many of the men have yet to meet each other face-to-face. But they are mobilising for each other on trust, using websites including Facebook and YouTube.

The British National Party has distanced itself from the EDL, but anti-racism campaigners have named party activists they have photographed at demonstrations. They add that some demos have included people with a record of football violence.

Each demonstration has led to confrontations. But leaders like Tommy are appealing for demonstrators to avoid drink because they don’t want to be written off as racist thugs.

In Birmingham last week, the BBC filmed black and white men alongside each other on EDL’s lines.

So if it’s not exclusively white, is it just a cover for a wider Islamophobia?

“People aren’t against Islam, they aren’t against anything else other than the funders of terrorism, the sworn enemies of Britain,” says Tommy.

“For 10-15 years these groups have gone unchallenged in our towns and cities. Those days have gone now. We will challenge them. Wherever there are terrorists, we will be there.”

Street army

Nick Lowles is the editor of Searchlight, which campaigns against far-right extremists.

Protesters in Birmingham city centre

He says that the English Defence League should not be written off because it poses two risks.

“What we are seeing is the formation of a street army, people who will travel around the country to fight,” he says.

“Into this mix you can get [far-right] organisations winding them up – let’s go here or there, here’s some money – giving them some organisational support, that kind of thing.

“But the risk is what happens if they go into areas where there are existing tensions. All those places are potential flashpoints. That’s the explosive mix that we have got here.

“I’m not saying that every leader of the EDL is a fascist or hardcore racist but as you have seen with the signs, chanting and actions, it’s anti-Muslim – and that’s incitement.”

Born and bred

Muslim groups are increasingly concerned about the EDL – and they say it’s blatantly Islamophobic. In Birmingham, young Muslim men vow to “defend” the city if the EDL turns up again.

“This is our home – where exactly do they want us to go, we were born here,” says Amjad, a 19-year-old from Alum Rock. “These guys are coming here because they hate us. Well, I’m not going to stand for it, and the police are wrong, the council are wrong, to let this go on.”

As the sun dips beneath the horizon on our building site, Tommy gets fidgety. He wants to leave for the England-Croatia kick-off.

We put Nick Lowles’ accusations – and the fears of Muslims – to Tommy. We also cited EDL supporters’ own words, including a video on YouTube describing them as “the most organised and ruthless street army in the country”.

Tommy says: “We know that the Muslim community may come under some heat from this, but the Muslim community of Britain needs to understand that our community is under heat from these fanatical jihadists.

“The hatred is affecting us. It’s a disease sweeping the country, and it needs stopping.”
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Here are the results:

DISTINGTON & MORESBY – 32.56% turnout
Cam Ross (Lab) 548
Frank Hollowell (Lib Dem) 357
Dorothy Wonnacott (Con) 343
Helen Stevenson (BNP) 165
LABOUR HOLD

MIREHOUSE – 28.03% turnout
John Woolley (Lab) 512
Craig Burns (BNP) 249
Glenn Gray (Con) 240
LABOUR HOLD

HENSINGHAM & ARLECDON – 32.65% turnout
Mike Hawkins (Lab) 730
Marie Simpson (Con) 504
Shaun Hornby (BNP) 254
LABOUR HOLD

BRANSTY – 37.47% turnout
Graham Roberts (Con) 782
Bernard Kirk (Lab) 761
Malcolm Southward (BNP) 243
CONSERVATIVE GAIN

KELLS & SANDWITH – 40.71% turnout
Wendy Skillicorn (Lab) 681
Simon Nicholson (BNP) 491
Brigid Whiteside (Con) 238
Edward Caley-Knowles (UKIP) 180
LABOUR HOLD

HILLCREST, WHITEHAVEN – 39.42% turnout
Andrew Wonnacott (Con) 826
Steve Gibbons (Lab) 706
Bill Pugh (BNP) 229
CONSERVATIVE GAIN

ST BEES & EGREMONT – 39.13% turnout
David Southward (Lab) 635
Jane Micklethwaite (Con) 500
Sam Meteer (Ind) 477
Brian Allan (BNP) 193
LABOUR HOLD

GOSFORTH & ENNERDALE – 41.65% turnout
Norman Clarkson (Con) 1189
Peter Watson (Lab) 473
Lynne Hicks (BNP) 173
CONSERVATIVE HOLD

CLEATOR MOOR NORTH & FRIZINGTON – turnout 34.85%
Tim Knowles (Lab) 844
Clive Jefferson (BNP) 501
Kenneth Simpson (Con) 498
LABOUR HOLD

CLEATOR MOOR SOUTH & EGREMONT – turnout 34.98%
Frank Morgan (Lab) 778
Jean Lewthwaite (Con) 556
Kevin Hurst (BNP) 276
Mike Minogue (Lib Dem) 230
LABOUR HOLD

SEASCALE & WHICHAM – 45.04% turnout
Sue Brown (Con) 1341
Carl Carter (Lab) 366
Nigel Gilligan (Green) 301
Russ Mclean (BNP) 166
CONSERVATIVE HOLD

MILLOM – 37.56% turnout
Ray Cole (Con) 1231
Robin Pitt (Lab) 556
Craig Eaton (BNP) 310
CONSERVATIVE HOLDLABOUR has lost two Copeland wards to the Conservatives in the county council elections. The British National Party came second in four of the 12 wards but failed to take its target seat of Kells & Sandwith.

The total number of people who voted was 20,846 out of 56,317 – 37% of eligible voters. Among wards with the highest turnouts was Kells & Sandwith with 40.71%. In a by-election there in December, a 26.6% turnout saw the BNP narrowly lose by just 16 votes.

This time sitting Labour county councillor Wendy Skillicorn enjoyed a majority over the BNP’s Simon Nicholson of 190.

Labour’s Bernard Kirk was ousted by Graham Roberts at Bransty and in Hillcrest borough councillor Andrew Wonnacott made it a double fighting off the challenge of Labour’s Steve Gibbons, the GMU union regional organiser.

Clive Jefferson, the BNP’s local campaign organiser, polled 501 votes at Cleator Moor North/Frizington but lost out to sitting candidate Tim Knowles who romped home with a majority of 340. “I think of a majority of this size is quite substantial,” said Mr Knowles, latterly Environment & Economic spokesman in the county council cabinet. “I think the Labour Party has done a lot of good work countywide since we took over the administration.”

Clive Jefferson said: “Okay, Labour held but we cut the majority which was over a thousand last time in this Cleator Moor, Frizington area. We came second and beat the Tories. I knew I did not have time to do a full campaign but I will do in the future.”

For the Tories, parliamentary candidate Chris Whiteside said: “It’s been a good day. We’ve won two and lost nothing. Our majorities are up, very steady progress. It is a tribute to the people of Whitehaven that they have not used their legitimate concerns about the bad behaviour of some MPs of all parties but what they have not done is vote for politics of hate.”

Each of us has the responsibility to stop the BNP. The best way we can do that is to not only to vote ourselves but to encourage everyone we know to go out and do the same.

Watch this

The video features Nick Griffin and a women called Marlene Guest – one of the BNP’s lead candidates for a seat in the European Parliament. For once the BNP’s leading figures in this election tell us what they really think.

As a European candidate in Yorkshire and Humberside, Guest questions the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust and claims that the number of victims had been fabricated for “compensation.”

Speaking of the Holocaust, Griffin says, “this nonsense about the gas chambers is exposed as a total lie” and then confirms that he wants every non-white removed from Britain.

Last updated 26 February 2009

BNP councillors have been elected on the promise to be different. Criticising the “old gang”, the BNP has benefited from being considered a “new” party, and one that will look after the interests of “local people”.

But the reality is quite different. In every area that elects BNP councillors voters are let down. The performance of BNP councillors reveals a shocking list of incompetence, absence and general indifference. Most BNP councillors rarely participate in council business, regularly skip meetings and ignore requests for help from local people. When they do attend meetings they vote against policies on which they campaigned for election, vote for cuts to services, or put forward illegal motions.

Many have criminal convictions, including for violence. Several clearly remain uncomfortable with the BNP’s attempts to distance itself from Nazism and antisemitism.

The BNP currently has just 55 councillors out of a national total of over 22,000 on principal local authorities (districts, boroughs etc) in the UK, yet the majority of even this small number have failed.

The BNP regularly claims to have “over 100″ councillors but this figure includes the BNP’s parish, town and community councillors, the lowest tier of local government, most of whom were elected unopposed. To put the BNP’s representation in context, there are nearly 100,000 parish, town and community councillors in England and Wales.

Richard Barnbrook represents the BNP on the London Assembly. Since his election in May 2008 he has distinguished himself only by his gross incompetence.
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Hi,

Tomorrow the BNP might win power at the European Parliament.

They’re a racist party – I’m voting to stop them and you should too. Every person who goes to the polls to vote for any other party makes it harder for the BNP to win a seat.

I watched a short video with Eddie Izzard where he talks about what’s at stake tomorrow. Have a look here

Remember polling stations are open from 7am – 10pm – and you don’t need your polling card to vote.

Thanks.

The BNP are trying harder than ever to gain seats in the upcoming European and UK Council Elections, which will be held on the 4th of June 2009.

It doesn’t matter what political party you support.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t support any particular party.
It doesn’t matter if you’re an Anarchist, Communist, Socialist, Green, Liberal, or Conservative.

We ALL stand to lose out if the Fascist BNP gains more positions of power.

In recent years, turn out among young people has been generally quite low, and turnout for European Elections is always much lower than that for general elections, but this is exactly what the BNP want – for the moderate general public to not bother voting, as they know that they have a better chance of getting the results they want this way.

Students are often accused of being apathetic, but we now have the chance to prove that this isn’t true.
In the past, students have had a massive impact when they have been motivated by a common cause.
This June us the perfect time to make use of this fact.

Please encourage all of the students you know to join the group and click ‘attending’ on the Polling Day event page.

This group won’t tell you who to vote for.
It is for people from all areas of the political spectrum, and whether they align themselves to a particular party or not.

This group is to encourage students to use their voice and vote for anyone other than far-right candidates that preach hatred.
Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Green, Respect, Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru, Independent… we don’t mind.
Every vote against the BNP is a vote towards stopping the intolerance that they promote.

They already have 55 UK council seats, and 1 seat in the Greater London Assembly.

Don’t let them gain any more platforms from which to spread their hate.

Register to vote by clicking here

Then simply turn up to your local polling station on the 4th of June.