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BNP votes to scrap whites-only policy

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:09:52 +0000

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

Who in England is a Jew?

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:23:49 +0000

Diversity Mongers Give The World Barbie In A Burkha

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:53:44 +0000

One of the world’s most famous children’s toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover – wearing a burkha.

Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in connection with Sotheby’s for Save The Children.

More than 500 Barbies went on show yesterday at the Salone dei Cinquecento, in Florence, Italy.

Makers Mattel are backing the exhibition which is the work of Italian designer Eliana Lorena.

The auction is part of Barbie celebrations for her 50th anniversary this year. The UK’s biggest Barbie fan Angela Ellis, 35, has a collection of more than 250 dolls.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229760/Its-Barbie-burka-World-famous-doll-gets-makeover-hammer-50th-anniversary.html

‘This Isn’t The Britain We Fought For’

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:41:22 +0000

Sarah Robinson was just a teenager when World War II broke out.

She endured the Blitz, watching for fires during Luftwaffe air raids armed with a bucket of sand.

Often she would walk ten miles home from work in the blackout, with bombs falling around her.

As soon as she turned 18, she joined the Royal Navy to do her bit for the war effort.

Hers was a small part in a huge, history-making enterprise, and her contribution epitomises her generation’s sense of service and sacrifice.

Nearly 400,000 Britons died. Millions more were scarred by the experience, physically and mentally.

But was it worth it? Her answer – and the answer of many of her contemporaries, now in their 80s and 90s – is a resounding No.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229643/This-isnt-Britain-fought-say-unknown-warriors-WWII.html

Britain: White Working Class Have Been Neglected By Government

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:25:52 +0000

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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Non-White Anti-Muslim Activist Joins The BNP

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:50:27 +0000

An elderly Sikh who describes Islam as a “beast” and once provided a character reference for Nick Griffin during his racial hatred trial is set to become the British National Party’s first non-white member.

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

Barack Obama adviser says Sharia Law is misunderstood

admin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:58:29 +0000

President Barack Obama’s adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.

Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was “oversimplified” and the majority of women around the world associate it with “gender justice”.

The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party.

The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world.

Miss Mogahed appeared alongside Hizb ut Tahrir’s national women’s officer, Nazreen Nawaz.

During the 45-minute discussion, on the Islam Channel programme Muslimah Dilemma earlier this week, the two members of the group made repeated attacks on secular “man-made law” and the West’s “lethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism”.

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One Of Ours

admin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:45:49 +0000

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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Ireland: Vote “No” to the Lisbon Treaty

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:41:10 +0000

The Socialist Equality Parties of Britain and Germany call for a “No” vote in the Irish referendum on the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty on Friday, October 2.

Nothing has changed in the Lisbon Treaty since it was last rejected by Irish voters on June 12, 2008. It remains what it always was—the European Union’s contemptuous manoeuvre in response to the 2005 plebiscites that saw French and Dutch voters reject the proposed European Constitution.

Designed to consolidate a political, trade and military bloc to advance the interests of Europe’s imperialist powers worldwide, the constitution promoted the further privatisation of social services and the break-up of residual labour protection across the continent.

It was thrown out by the working populations of France and the Netherlands, who correctly identified it as hostile to their interests. But its essential aims were reintroduced in the guise of a treaty, on which only Ireland is constitutionally obliged to hold a referendum. Outside of Ireland, some 490 million people within the EU have had no say on the treaty, which has been ratified behind their backs by parliamentarians and heads of state. Only last week, while national elections were still underway, German President Horst Koehler signed a law ratifying the treaty.

Ireland’s own ruling elite is no better. Lisbon was rejected by 53 percent to 46 percent in 2008, but its supporters in all the major Irish parties, media and business, have determined that they will keep going until they get the result required.

The entire experience testifies to the fundamentally undemocratic character of the treaty and the EU itself, and confirms the need for the working class to oppose it.More

English archaeologists find new prehistoric site

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:35:50 +0000

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