As I said yesterday, the election of two BNP members has stirred up the political establishment and the media. For most of this week, commentators have exhorted the main parties to fight the BNP by addressing the grievances which lead people to support it. So, we must crack down on immigration to stop the BNP. We must build more houses to stop the BNP. We must create more jobs to stop th...
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PubPhilosopher on 13th Jun 2009 (via pubphilosopher.blogs.com)
A potentially very worrying situation is developing with the rally to stop the BNP’s festival on 16th August. Nottingham Stop the BNP and othe rlocal campaigners have been working to build this event continuously over the last 9 months for this event. See . Over the months with the help of the Searchlight network they
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SocialistUnity on 13th Aug 2008 (via socialistunity.com)
Leafing through some of Pickled Politics' old articles, I found some wonderful examples (from Stop the BNP) of how the BNP behaved once they had got into power: In Sandwell: (my favourite) Last summer Sandwell’s two BNP councillors thought they would outfox their political rivals by proposing a motion to the full council calling on the government to stop sending asylum seekers to the bo...
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PickledPolitics on 3rd Jun 2009 (via pickledpolitics.com)
Tomorrow Hope Not Hate are mobilising to stop the BNP, and we need your help to drop off leaflets in letter boxes across the country. Sign up to volunteer just two hours of your time this weekend to stop the BNP. These are the volunteers in action last weekend: The BNP’s success last year propelled their disgusting
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SocialistUnity on 16th Apr 2010 (via socialistunity.com)
There has been a lot of media coverage this week about the BNP membership list published on the net. In addition, a variety of politicians have been wringing their hands in public as they panic that this truly nasty party might get a grip at local or national elections. I have been on the receiving end of BNP nastiness in the past and the BNP remains active in the Eltham constituency. ...
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DavidGold on 22nd Nov 2008 (via davidgold4eltham.com)
Decent voters do not want to see a BNP breakthrough in the European elections, but there is no inherent conflict between the views of Ian Austin that "the BNP are not a mainstream political party and we won't beat them by saying how many seats they could win" and Peter Hain's national warning about their possible gains (BNP could get £2m EU funds, Hain warns, 29 April). This is...
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Guardian on 1st May 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
The fascist British National Party (BNP) is on the march again – but we can build a mass movement to stop them in their tracks
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SocialistWorker on 9th Sep 2008 (via socialistworker.co.uk)
The Thunderdragon doesn’t care who is a BNP member; I’d like to explain why TD should. TD says, in short, that the BNP is a legitimate political party and membership of a party should, therefore, not impact on what job you can have. I think this is patent rubbish; some jobs have to take account of
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TheWardmanWire on 21st Nov 2008 (via mattwardman.com)
Nationalise to stop closures | 35 hour week with no pay cut | Build council houses
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SocialistWorker on 2nd Dec 2008 (via socialistworker.co.uk)
The BNP Membership List publication affair demonstrates how blogs and internet web sites can be 2 or 3 days ahead of the mainstream media regarding some news stories. We have been getting tens of thousands of visitors to our 21st December 2006 article: Encryption and the BNP membership list - does your political party or campaign group protect your personal details with encryption ? commenting on ...
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SpyBlog on 20th Nov 2008 (via p10.hostingprod.com)
For a political party which, though legal, relies on keeping the identities of its supporters a secret the release of the BNP's membership list was a disaster.
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PhilipJohnston on 20th Nov 2008 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)