King's new clothes nearly disappear in Khartoum

Gordon Brown and his Government were traumatised for just a few moments yesterday evening when the Sharia Court in Khartoum found British teacher Gillian Gibbons, guilty of insulting Islam.

Then, there was that huge sigh of relief when the sentence was announced - 15 days in jail followed by deportation from Sudan. Whitehall had been in a state of sheer panic that the punishment might actually have been 40 lashes and any such degradation of a 54 year-old well-meaning primary school teacher who had just wanted to help the less fortunate children of the Sudan, could well have been a 'nation changing' event for the British people. They would have seen once again with their own eyes, just as they did over the execution of Ken Bigley, that 'the king wasn't wearing any clothes' and that all our Government's spin about Islam being a tolerant and peaceful religion was still just a pack of lies.

Hopefully Gillian will now be able to concentrate her efforts on children nearer to home in her own city of Liverpool.

I was back in the office for a serious day's work yesterday for the first time after a week of being sidelined. There were over 300 emails that needed some sort of response which took up much of the day, and I uploaded last month's issue of Freedom to the website together with a taster for the December issue.

Included in the latest Freedom is a report of the Standards' Board 'clean bill of health' for Colin Auty and Derek Dawson after they were reported by Labour MP Shahid Malik, for singing "Where's it all gone now" outside of his constituency office in Dewsbury. That was reported by the BBC on Wednesday and prompted some interesting feedback from a surprising source.

Dear Martin,

I write to with some hesitation, but feel that if I didn't do so I would be defeating the objective of my role in Ethnic media.

Where I do not wish to make any comment regarding Colin Auty's conduct regarding the incident outside MP Shahid Malik's office, I will say that the lyrics of the 'Auty song', other than the implication of drugs and under aged sexual grooming, are generally, in my personal view, not offensive. I see it as a non-Asian man's wistful views on the changes of his local environment since his childhood.

We are all entitled to reminisce once in a while as long as it's not hurtful to others.

Regards

Ms. Andleeb Hanif
Editor-in-Chief
Asian Express.

I responded to Andleeb Hanif . . .

"Yes, the song is all about a nostalgia for the past and strikes a chord with many of our older supporters. It is not intended to be malicious, but just to ask 'what's happened'? The demographic changes that have taken place in parts of Britain seem to many to have happened so quickly and this is what worries people. Our mainstream politicians seem oblivious to these concerns and hence the growing support for the BNP. I'm pleased you corresponded, let's keep the channel open. Situations need to viewed from different aspects."

I'm starting work on the January edition of Freedom with Nick Griffin's appearance at the Oxford Union the clear frontrunner for the lead story. The media has done its best to try to belittle the importance of the event, but make no mistake the evening was a huge 'credibility step forward' for the British National Party. The antics of those who turned out to try to stop the meeting from going ahead has also played into our hands. Many people, some senior establishment figures, who witnessed Monday night's events where shaken by the ferocity of the rabble opposing free speech and will now have a changed perception of the hero and villain in situations involving the BNP.

Missed Allerdale's BNP meeting last week and Workington Reds excellent 2-1 FA Trophy replay over Nuneation Borough. Hopefully tomorrow I will feel well enough for Hucknall Town's visit to Workington, although my recovery is fragile and I don't want to do anything that might lead to a relapse - so it's a late fitness test and weather check around mid-day.

Media silent on Government thugs

When Robert Mugabe's Government thugs stopped supporters of Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition leader in Zimbabwe from attending a political rally, the media in this country were up in arms. "Democracy under attack" ran all the headlines. There was also an outcry that the police had stood around and done nothing to stop the intimidation.

When Gordon Brown's Government thugs stopped supporters of Nick Griffin attending a British National Party meeting near Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire, the media in this country apparently couldn't care less. Not one national newspaper or television outlet reported this attack on democracy in our own country and no one seemed worried that the police had stood around and done nothing to stop the intimidation.

Thankfully the British National Party has its own media outlets and a report of the disgraceful scenes outside Kimberley Town Hall can be viewed on the BNP website. Also visit the website of Simon Darby, the Deputy Leader of the British National Party, who has posted a telephone conversation with Nick Griffin and Sadie Graham received just after they had got out of the besieged hall.

My gripe is not with those pathetic Labour Party thugs for trying to stop residents of Kimberley listening to the BNP leader and their local BNP councillors. By resorting to such tactics they are as good as admitting defeat. The British people won't tolerate such bullying and the more they use confrontation and violence to stop the message of the BNP being heard the more the British people will want to hear what we have to say. And my gripe is not with the police, no doubt acting under the orders of a politically correct senior officer who knows he will be out of a job once there's a return to proper policing.

No, my gripe is with the media and those editor's and journalists who are deliberately doctoring the news for their own political ends. The treatment the BNP receives at the hands of these individuals is a disgrace. What especially disappoints me is that in this profession there doesn't seem to be a single fair-minded editor or journalist prepared to stand up and say that this orchestrated vilification of the BNP is wrong and the fact that it is allowed to take place serves to undermine democracy in this country.

Yesterday I listened to a member of the NUJ bemoaning the fact that 300 journalists working for BBC News programmes will lose their jobs. He admitted that the actual reporting of news as it happens and as it is delivered by programmes like BBC News 24 won't be affected, but the more detailed and in-depth analysis of news items will suffer. I expect he is talking about reports such as last week's £250,000 giro fraud court case. When the story broke, 'instant' news informed us that the culprits were 'four African asylum seekers'. But by the time the report had made its way on to the BBC News Ceefax pages, 'African asylum seekers' had been removed - probably by one of those NUJ toads whose job is now under threat. I'm afraid I won't be shedding any tears over these particular job losses.

As predicted, they were queuing up yesterday to condemn Dr James Watson, the Nobel prize-winning scientist. Pressure from 'equality campaigners' ensured that his 'sold-out' lecture at the London's Science Museum was cancelled, and his visit to the UK now looks in doubt. The fact that this fellow co-discovered DNA doesn't seem to matter any more. He is now beyond redemption just because he dared to suggest that Africans and Europeans might not share the same brain power.

Nick Griffin's invitation to address the Oxford Union has ruffled feathers in that university city. The BNP leader is taken to task by a columnist in the Oxford Mail who writes:
"Nick Griffin, the largely despised leader of the British National Party, has caused a rumpus - again - by being invited to speak at the Oxford Union next month." So it is the BNP leader who is to blame for receiving an invitation issued by the Oxford Union! What did he do - hold a gun to the head of the Union's president? But the columnist does interestingly reveal that Andrew Smith, the Labour MP for Oxford East, was so worried that Nick Griffin might be allowed to address students uncensored that he wrote to the Parliamentary Labour Party urging them to lobby the student debating body and force a change of heart.

And that is something that should boost every BNP supporter in the country. Labour - the Government Party - in such a state of fright over students being able to hear the British National Party message, that they are forced to lobby the Oxford Union to get the event cancelled.

Labour demolition in Horsham

Brave Donna Bailey. Brian Allan opens the BNP meeting in Carlisle last night.

Congratulations to Donna Bailey and Horsham & Crawley BNP on an excellent result in the Holbrook West By-Election last night.

Full Result:

Belinda Walters (Lib-Dem) 602

Ronald Wimpany (Con) 554

Donna Bailey (BNP) 163

Raymond Chapman (Lab) 52

Turnout 32.2%

BNP Percentage 11.9%

It was the first time the BNP had contested the ward which last night became a Lib-Dem gain from the Tories. What was especially pleasing for the hard-working BNP team, was their comprehensive demolition of Labour. Its candidate devoted the whole of his campaign to attacking the BNP and even held an anti-BNP rally in the ward last Saturday.

Last night I attended a very good meeting in Carlisle. A city centre pub gave over its public bar to the local BNP and an attendance of over 40 made sure that it was a worthwhile exercise for the landlord.

The May elections quite rightly dominated the proceedings and it was very encouraging to hear that campaigns are already underway in the key wards. Last May saw the BNP fight elections for Carlisle City Council for the first time and the results were quite impressive in the six wards contested:
Currock 24%
Botcherby 18%
Harraby 15%
St Aidans 14%
Upperby 12%
Belah 5%

Organiser Brian Allan, who stood in Currock and pushed the Tories into 3rd place, is working hard in his ward to overturn a 262 Labour majority, and both Karl Chappell and Tony Carvell are quietly confident of improving their share of the vote in Botcherby and St Aidans respectively. What was rewarding for me was to see the development of the personnel running the branch. I've known them all for around 18 months now and in that time they have acquired the knowledge of what is expected of them as branch officials and conduct their business in an assured and professional manner.

Daniel Finkelstein writing in the Jewish Chronicle informs us that he got himself into a bit of trouble with 10 Downing Street last week for some posts on his blog about Gordon Brown's speech to the Labour Party conference and the British National Party. Daniel expands on this to his JC readers:

"Brown said he was in favour of 'British Jobs for British Workers'. Rather naughtily, I fished out a British National Party leaflet, created in August, with exactly this slogan and allowed readers to play spot the difference. That was when the phone rang. The problem, an aggrieved adviser informed me, is that I was implying that Mr Brown had copied the words from the BNP. He had done nothing of the sort, I was told. This was a phrase the Prime Minister had used, for instance, in June, weeks before the leaflet was printed. “So you want me to point out,” I asked, trying to suppress my, erm, mild surprise, “that they copied you rather than the other way round?” Apparently, the answer was yes."

It's just further evidence confirming the contempt that Gordon Brown feels for the British people. Thankfully there are a growing number of journalists within the establishment media that will take umbrage at being treated with such disdain. For the record, I have edited over 200 editions of a variety of nationalist newspapers and have used British Jobs for British Workers as a front page headline on at least half-a-dozen issues with probably the first occasion being the launch issue of The Flag in July 1986. Maybe Daniel could mention this the next time Downing Street calls.

Nick Griffin's invitation to a debate at the Oxford Union gets widespread coverage in this morning's newspapers. I see that The Guardian called upon the services of one Duncan Money, a second-year student at the university, to condemn the Oxford Union which he considers "has chosen to promote and legitimise fascism." Now, I do know Duncan, and he really is a strange fish. He was campaigning against my wife Tina and I in Maryport at the local elections in May, and when we held a paper sale in the town, he turned up. At one time during an exchange of views, Duncan spoke for ten minutes without drawing breath on the history of the BNP. It was quite an incredible delivery and left us somewhat speechless. It was as though he had digested the contents of the last 20 years of Searchlight magazine and was able to regurgitate its stories at the push of a button. Second year student? I bet I know what he's studying . . . the history of British Nationalism!

Finally I'm hoping for the result of the Burnley by-election recount today. It's three weeks today that the votes were examined again by court officials and I'm certain this is time enough for justice to be done.