Redcar result just in . . .

Good result from Redcar last night.
Redcar & Cleveland
South Bank Ward
Thursday 16th October 2008
Marilyn Bramley (Labour) 652
Toni Meir (Liberal Democrat) 288
Bernard Collinson (British National Party) 206
Oz Sadiq (Independent) 101
Joan Bolton (Conservative) 59
BNP Percentage: 15.8%

Let Northern Rock (The Bank of Great Britain) lead the way

Just a one line posting today because I have a huge Freedom workload and there are already deadlines looming.

The BBC's resident financial expert Robert Peston, was asked this morning to describe in a nutshell why there was still a financial crisis after £2 trillion had been poured into the world's stock markets and here in Britain around £400 billion of taxpayers money had been used to bail out private banks based in Britain.

He said that the simple reason was that private banks were refusing to lower their interest rates so credit was still unavailable or at best ridiculously expensive.

Well, Northern Rock isn't a private bank any more, it is now Government owned because taxpayers' money was used to rescue it from collapse. It is now, in effect our bank, the country's bank - the Bank of Great Britain.

Northern Rock should lower its interest rates and start lending to UK business (except any private banks) and individuals.

Northern Rock, as such, would then have a less attractive rate for savers, but one the plus side those saving would be secure. The Government should withdraw any guarantees for savings with the higher interest private banks and this will encourage savers to transfer their money to the Bank of Great Britain in the certainty that their savings would be safe.

Clive is making his mark in St John's Ward

I HOPE you all regularly visit Clive Jefferson's excellent blog. He's currently our candidate in a local council by-election in Workington and is creating quite a stir in the town.

I was at football last night to see Workington Reds beat Gateshead 4-2. It was an atrocious night and only 250 hardy souls braved the conditions, yet even so two people, who I only know by sight, remarked to me that they had received a copy of Freedom and seen the BNP team out and about.
Then, when I got home, I checked out a website that carries news of the Reds and there was a rant on there from some Labour Party bod - http://www.getnoticedonline.co.uk/football/workington-reds/door-slammed-shut-on-bnp-and-then-on-gateshead-too.html - who had been canvassed that very day by Clive. These people think they are being so clever by trying to belittle the British National Party when in reality the fact that they have to talk about us, even on a sports website, just underlines how important we are, and all goes to generate even more public interest in the Party.

More news from Cumbria and a story with a 'shock, horror' headline. Of course, the report fails to mention that Carlisle has the highest number of incidents in every category of crime, simply because it's a city whose population dwarfs the rest of Cumbria. But the Cumberland News never lets common sense get in the way of a good headline. It seems that the only purpose of the report was to provide a platform for some derogatory remarks about the BNP. Once again they can't stop talking about us, which is a big improvement on not being talked about.

Spoke with Nick yesterday and he was very excited about how things are going. He was especially pleased with the public's reaction to the bail out of the banks in their contact with the BNP. The previous evening he had spoken specifically on the banking crisis to a packed meeting at St Helens and had received a standing ovation. Any worries that the man in the street would 'switch off' to what is taking place in the financial markets has thankfully been misplaced and most people are very much aware of the consequences of these huge sums of money being taken out of the public purse and handed over to private banks.

And finally The Guardian has had to change its advertising procedures on its website after it was found to be promoting the British National Party - www.brandrepublic.com/News/853140/Guardian-axes-poll-ads-BNP-link/" - what a great story to finish up on.

Some links don't seem to be working, so that's why I have published the full web address.

Building up the BNP

MORALE boosting comment in The Guardian this morning. The more columnists harp on about this, the more it's going to become set in the public psyche and must benefit us come election time.

I normally switch off 'Thought for the Day' on Radio 4 Today programme but there was quite a good one this morning from Canon Dr Alan Billings, an Anglican priest. I suppose it's the nostalgia content that got me hooked.

There was a very good election result for us in Herne Bay on Thursday.
Kent County Council
Herne Bay ward
Thursday, 9 October 2008
Con 2474 47.7% (+7.6%)
LD 1524 29.4% (-3.3%)
Lab 537 10.4% (-13.1%)
BNP 399 7.7% (N/A) 1st time standing
UKIP 252 4.9% (+1.3%)
Swing 5.6% Lib Dem to Con. T/O: 23.21%

It was especially pleasing because I know that our candidate Dennis Whiting has in the main been the lone BNP voice in the area and had been feeling a bit depressed that the BNP hadn't been making progress.
The result will certainly provide an incentive for the Party to now go on and grow. South East Regional Organiser Andy McBride told me briefly about the campaign
"Dennis a ran a good campaign at very short notice in an area never visited by the British National Party before. We gained good support and a foothold in yet another Tory controlled area of Kent. The British National Party once again pushed UKIP into last place by attracting a much better than expected 399 votes."

Own goal by The Sun

SIX and a half hours on the M6 for a three and a half hour staff meeting yesterday.

Driving is a worry at the moment as when we get into our car we are taking a gamble that it will get us to our destination and back. Everything about it is erratic. The heater and radio have minds of their own, coming on and going off when they see fit and the water temperature guage surges into the red if I dare to go over sixty. Thankfully we have a BNP member and local councillor who has his own garage and he has given it a good going over and says as long as it's not 'thrashed' (going over sixty), there will a couple of more years of use for us.

It was a good meeting yesterday with each staff member giving an upbeat report on their department. There are lots of interesting projects in the pipeline and, despite the difficult times, the Party continues to move forward.

Nick did give a warning on finances though which was a bit of a worry. I haven't had a pay rise for three years now, and as we have to tighten our belts because of the current economic climate, there's apparently not one on the horizon, which at a time when the big SIX O is rapidly approaching, makes one very depressed indeed.

That depression was temporarily lifted yesterday evening when I got home and checked my BNP searches and email.

How The Sun can believe that reporting on the lovely Cathy Duffy and her trip to Welbeck is a smear story and going to put people off supporting the BNP, just goes to show how they have lost the plot with regards to their attacks on the British National Party.

The Sun is always telling its readers that the BNP is a bunch of skinhead thugs, yet then it carries a story and includes a photo, about one of our lady councillors - and a former celebrity of TV's Airline series at that - being wined and dined by British Army chiefs. All rather dents that tattooed, shaven head image don't you think?

The appalling Matthew Collins was used as the anti-BNP source in the report. Stop me if I have told you this before, but I first came across this creep at a by-election meeting in Portsmouth in the late 1980s when he was meant to be a rising star of the National Front. At the meeting, which was held in a local school, he poured bleach into a fish tank in one of the classrooms being used by the children obviously for some project. Needless to say the fish were all killed and the story made local headlines a couple of days later as a front page smear story against the NF. This wasn't an early indication of his anti-nationalists credentials or an act to discredit the NF by him. Later, he just said he did it because he was bored. No wonder the NF never got anywhere if people like him were the 'Young Turks' coming through the ranks.

If you live in the North West and are free on Wednesday morning, 15th October, please get to Tameside Magistrates Court and support the BNP's Roy West who has been charged with race hate for saying “Remember Dunkirk” to his German neighbour.

He said the words during an exchange over the garden fence about the Cornish flag Roy was flying, and within hours of making the remark, he was arrested and his house ransacked by police searching for “evidence” of his “racism.”

The anti-British Crown Prosecution Service, acting under orders from their political masters, have decided to press ahead with the charges, irrespective of his neighbour's desire to drop the matter.

Nick Griffin told the BNP website:
“Roy is scheduled to appear on Wednesday morning, and we need as many people as possible to demonstrate outside the courtroom to pressure the authorities into dropping these outrageous charges.
“We will get leaflets printed and will be having a day of action on this topic as well, and we need decent people to come out from all over the country and show their opposition to the treasonous behaviour of the ruling elite.
"The BNP has it on good authority that the political masters of the Manchester Police and the CPS in the North West have been told to find anything at all to try and destroy the BNP in that city and the region because it had become clear from an in-depth analysis of the proportional representation system used in Euro elections, that the BNP stood a very good chance of winning at least one seat in the North West."

Gale force winds and torrential rain here in West Cumbria at the moment, I hope it's better where you are.

Good morning fellow shareholders!

WELL, as I am now a proud shareholder in our High Street banks, I shall be writing to my bank later this morning and demanding that my overdraft limit be extended. I shall also be suggesting that because of my help in trying to bail them out of their current difficulties, it would be a nice gesture in return to cut the interest rate I have to pay on that overdraft.


So the Government is providing £50 billion now, and another £250 billion over the next few years just to prop up private banks. It's a scandal. The Government has refused to help British industry on numerous occasions when it needed a tiny fraction of this amount of funding, and it has even allowed people to die because they said they couldn't afford the drugs they needed to survive. Yet it can provide an unlimited supply of OUR money to keep private banks afloat.

Brown should have let them go to the wall and only offered security on pension funds and personal savings. As I said earlier, it should then set up the Bank of Great Britain, a bank run by the Government in the interests of the British people and British industry only. But it has taken the worst option of all - pay with no say - just underwriting the past mistakes of private banks and letting them carry on regardless.

The Daily Star this morning has Jon Cruddas warning that the financial crisis will channel voters towards the British National Party and he is right. When under threat, people close ranks and look to their own for support. When you face a bleak future you don't want the influence of outsiders making it worse. Migrant workers have been unpopular even during the time of plenty of work and easy credit. When jobs are in short supply and there are no more 0% balance transfer deals for escapism shopping and holidays, the British people are going to looking at them in an even more unfavourable light.

A special George Orwell 1984 Newspeak award should be presented to Radio 4's Today programme this morning for it's five minute report on tackling extremism in schools. In the whole report they only mentioned 'Islamic' once and didn't even mention 'Muslim' at all. So according to the BBC report, every child in the country is a potential terrorist and there is no particular community that we should be especially concerned about.