http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/swindonnewsheadlines/display.var.1280544.0.0.php

The so called Islamophobia thing will however still remain. The term Islamophobia is of course a misnomer ( a phobia is an irrational fear ).

The suffix -phobia has been applied to prejudice and bigotry for a longer than you have been alive. Presumably those that gay-bash aren’t homophobic as they aren’t afraid of queers? and ofcourse xenophobes don’t irrationally fear foreigners, they just don’t want them over here or anywhere near their wimmin.

So it seems we have 10 immigrants a minute coming into the country not just the one!

The UK has shifted over the past decade from relatively low NET immigration to now quite high levels, averaging 170,000 pa. over the past few years.

Leaving aside the “cultural” issues (which again of course affect the poor not the middle class) that adds up to a big strain on infrastructure, especially as most of the resultant population growth is in London/South East.

Now as a middle class central London house owner I am delighted…

I think there is definitely something to seeing how much a sustained campaign of some clear information could go towards allaying people’s assumptions/fears based on those assumptions. getting to a ‘british passport’ and even indefinite leave is a staged process and everything has conditions based on those stages. For example, i still do not have the right to have “recourse to public funds” and will not do so unless and until I qualify for a British passport.

There is so much misinformation about. And so it’s hard to tell why people are attracted to the BNP. Seems to me there is a need to look into it more – is it about immigration, is it about race, is it mixed up and different for different people ?

Might be an interesting exercise to see to what extent say people here on PP are knowledgeable about all the different things/categories/ etc. that fall into the catchall term ‘immigration’.

Nice working class familymen you get at your meetings Anon+1

Nick Griffin (party chairman) received a two-year suspended sentence in April 1998 for inciting racial hatred.

Scott McLean (deputy chairman) was filmed in October 2003 giving Nazi salutes and singing racist and pro-Nazi songs at a winter camp organised by Glasgow BNP.

Steve Blake (website editor) ran a nazi book club in the 1990s which sold hardline US nazi titles.

Mark Collett (head of publicity) admitted on a Channel 4 documentary in 2002 that Hitler was his hero, that he found images of saluting Nazi soldiers ‘inspiring’ and that he would prefer to live in Nazi Germany than in today’s Bradford or Oldham. ‘Yes, I am a Nazi sympathiser,’ he told the journalist.

Mark Payne (regional treasurer). In the 1990s Payne ran 14 Words Press (UK), a nazi publishing house that sold books and videos about the US nazi terrorist group, The Order. Payne even changed his name to Mark Matthews after The Order’s leader Robert Matthews.

Dave Hannam (director of Great White Records) was imprisoned in 2000 for helping to produce and distribute a deeply offensive antisemitic and racist BNP leaflet.

Kevin Scott (North East regional organiser) was convicted in 1993 for hurling a glass at a black customer in a pub.

Nick Cass (Yorkshire regional organiser) took photographs of anti-racist campaigners which later appeared on the Redwatch website, run by the nazi terror group Combat 18.

Colin Smith (South East London organiser) has amassed 17 convictions for burglary, theft, stealing cars, possession of drugs and assaulting a police officer.

Tony Lecomber (Griffin’s chief lieutenant) was convicted in 1985 on five counts for offences under the Explosives Act, including possession of home-made hand-grenades and electronic timing devices. He was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. In 1991 he received another three-year prison term for unlawful wounding for his part in an attack on a Jewish schoolteacher whom he caught trying to peel off a BNP sticker at an underground station. Lecomber has a total of 12 convictions. He was the BNP’s group development officer until January 2006 when he publicly resigned after suggesting that the BNP should begin a terrorist campaign against establishment figures promoting immigration.

John Tyndall (founder of the BNP) had six convictions. In 1962 he was jailed for organising a paramilitary group. Four years later, he was sent to prison again for possession of a loaded gun. In 1986, he was convicted of incitement to racial hatred under the Public Order Act and sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment. He died in July 2005.

Warren Bennett (former chief steward) was supposed to keep order in the party yet has convictions for football hooliganism. In 1998 he was deported from France with over 50 other Scottish hooligans, including several BNP members.

Robert Bennett, Oldham BNP’s leafletting organiser during the 2002 election campaign, has served five years in prison for the gang rape of a woman. He has also served seven years for armed robbery and has over 30 convictions.

Mick Treacy, deputy organiser of Oldham BNP, has five convictions for violence, theft and handling stolen goods.
Dean Wilson, Barnsley organiser. String of convictions dating back to 1982. In 1994 he was sentenced initially to 12 years’ imprisonment for robbery, kidnapping, false imprisonment and firearms offences, reduced to eight years on appeal.

In 2002 he was sentenced to a further 21 months for assaulting a woman in Nottingham. The previous year he was convicted of threatening behaviour towards a police officer.

there cannot be “unlimited” immigration, for example, which always benefits the middle (property owning, tradesman employing) class

anon+1 – if you want to undermine the stereotypes it helps to spell it correctly!

anon+1, you do realise that you are inviting non-white people to BNP meetings, right?

Why not form a list of con/lab members who have been involved in shady dealings? I bet you couldnt afford the webspace!
Its actually a pity such organisations are setup to tackle a legit, democratic party with such pathetic slander when theres clearly much more important issues people should be putting time towards.

LOL at this list of deadbeat BNP councillors. WTF is wrong with the Jewish one? Is she brain dead or something?