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The British National partytoday voted to scrap its whites-only membership ­policy in a move dismissed by anti-racist campaigners as “cosmetic”.

At an extraordinary general meeting held in Essex, members of the far-right party voted in favour of changes to its constitution that would theoretically allow black and Asian people to join.  Following the result, the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, said he expected a “trickle, rather than a flood” of applications. “Anyone can be a member of this party. We are happy to accept anyone as a member providing they agree with us that this country should remain fundamentally British,” Griffin told Sky News.

BNP spokesman Simon Darby said that of the “300 to 400 people” who attended the meeting, just five voted against the motion.

Rajinder Singh, a Sikh, can’t wait to become a member,

Rajinder Singh is flicking through the Pakistani channels on his Sky box from his sofa in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Dressed in a crimson turban, he sits a metre from the ­enormous screen, translating the odd phrase for my benefit. He’s trying to show me why he’s determined to join the British National Party – the only party he considers “brave” enough to “break out of the burkha called ­political correctness”.  Last year, the Equality and ­Human Rights Commission forced the BNP to change its constitution on the grounds that restricting membership to ­”indigenous Caucasians” broke the Race Relations Act.More

The new constitution, which is not yet publicly available, will be sent to the Equality and Human Rights Commission for final approval. The BNP will give the EHRC seven days to respond, said Darby.

The meeting was hastily arranged after the Central London county court last month told the BNP to amend its constitution to comply with race relations laws or face legal action by the EHRC. After the hearing on 28 January, the BNP rushed out letters to its 14,000 members in order to allow for the 14 days needed to alert them to the proposed changes.

Anti-racism campaigners have said the constitutional change would make no difference to the BNP’s racist ideology. Weyman Bennett, national secretary of Unite Against Fascism,More from source

Labour has let down white working-class people who have suffered from the impact of largescale immigration, a Cabinet minister admitted yesterday.

Communities Secretary John Denham said councils and government bodies had been ‘blind’ to the needs of this section of society.

The backtracking came in the face of the growing threat to Labour’s core vote from the far-right British National Party.

Yesterday Mr Denham said in a speech to union members at the TUC that efforts to tackle inequality ‘must include poorer white working- class communities, as well as disadvantaged minority ethnic communities.

Mr Denham said areas with high immigration levels felt a sense of ‘insecurity and unfairness’ because of the impact of new arrivals on jobs and public services.

Unless councils act, these could lead to tensions and resentment, he said.

He said: ‘Many local agencies have a clear and good commitment to tackling racism and race inequality and are right to do so. But on its own this is not enough.

‘We can only challenge racism and race inequality effectively as part of a strategy that tackles all forms of inequality and disadvantage.

‘This must include poorer white working class communities, as well as disadvantaged minority ethnic communities.

‘Agencies which have been blind to these issues, or thought their only remit was to address minority issues, must re-assess the way they work.’

His comments are the latest attempt by ministers to address fears over immigration in Labour heartlands, and confront the threat from the British National Party.

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Rajinder Singh, an anti-Islam activist in his late seventies who blames Muslims for the death of his father during the Partition of India in 1947, has been sympathetic towards Britain’s far-right party for much of the past decade even though he currently remains barred from becoming a member because of the colour of his skin.

But last weekend the BNP’s leadership took their first steps towards dropping its membership ban on non-whites after the Human Rights Commission threatened the party with legal action. The move will be put to a vote of members soon.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bnp-signs-its-first-nonwhite-member-1824108.html

The boy aged two with Einstein’s IQ, Oscar is Britain’s youngest boy to be accepted into Mensa.

The submission of this news item brought to mind for this editor the spectacle of Micheal Jackson’s all black televised memorial wherein Jamie Foxx alluded in a kind of vicarious group declaration that white people around the world ought to be glad blacks “shared” him with “us.” Without BET’s assistance here’s one of OUR white contributions to the world’s people.–Ed.

While other two-year-olds are discovering the joy of playgrounds, Oscar Wrigley would rather be learning about wildlife or the history of Ancient Rome.

He has recently taken to conducting classical music as he listens in the back of the car and identifies the different instruments.

So his parents were not surprised when, at the ripe old age of two years, five months and 11 days, he became the youngest boy in Britain to be accepted by Mensa.

With an IQ of at least 160, he has the same score as the likes of Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

‘Oscar was recently telling my wife about the reproductive cycle of penguins,’ said his father Joe, 29, an IT specialist from Reading in Berkshire.

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Oscar’s parents say he started talking at nine months and by 18 months he was reciting the alphabet in the bath.

By the time he turned two he had a vocabulary stretching to thousands of words while most children his age would have mastered only 50 or so.

Mr and Mrs Wrigley say they encourage him to follow any activity in which he shows interest.

He is already showing a gift for music and has asked for a saxophone for Christmas despite the fact he is far too small to be able to play.

‘He will sit in the back of the car listening to the Indiana Jones soundtrack and he’ll be conducting with his fingers,’ said Mr Wrigley.

‘Then he’ll say, “Here comes the brass with the French horn” and then “Here come the strings”.’

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LONDON – Archaeologists have discovered a smaller prehistoric site near Britain’s famous circle of standing stones at Stonehenge.

Researchers have dubbed the site “Bluehenge,” after the color of the 27 Welsh stones that were laid to make up a path. The stones have disappeared but the path of holes remains.

The new circle, unearthed over the summer by researchers from Sheffield University, represents an important find, researchers said Saturday. The site is about a mile (2 kilometers) away from Stonehenge.

Bluehenge, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) southwest of London, is believed to date back 5,000 years.

Mike Parker Pearson of Sheffield University said he believed the path and Stonehenge itself were linked to rituals of life and death.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091003/ap_on_sc/eu_britain_stonehenge