Wednesday, December 03, 2008

You can't sack BNP members

Firms warned against knee–jerk response to BNP employees
Small Business News- 3rd December 2008
Employers have been warned not to act in haste against staff who have been exposed as British National Party (BNP) members, following the recent publication of a leaked BNP membership list on the internet.

The list includes the names, addresses and job details of around 12,000 people in the UK. Some members of the far–Right party have reported fears of a backlash at work, including the possibility of disciplinary action.

However, legal experts have cautioned against a knee–jerk response, and warned employers to tread carefully to avoid the risk of unfair dismissal or discrimination claims. Mark Higgins, employment law partner at law firm Ralli said:

“The starting point is that there is no automatic right to dismiss an employee for membership of a political party, in most occupations at least,”
Higgins added that different employers were likely to have different priorities when considering a course of action such as company reputation, customer reaction and potential damage to client relationships.

“The firm’s workforce will also be relevant if there are objections to working alongside the BNP member. In the interest of employee relations, the employer may need to determine whether or not the BNP member can continue working for them.” he said
Adele Aspden, associate practice lawyer at legal firm Eversheds warned that employers needed to be aware that staff with a year’s service or more would be protected against being unfairly dismissed.

“If an employee’s political activities have an impact on colleagues, customers or the local community, then it could be reasonable for an employer to take action.”
“But dismissing someone simply because they are a member of a political party such as the BNP is likely to be much more difficult to justify. An employer will be on firmer ground if membership of certain organisations is incompatible with the individual’s job and there is a clear policy spelling this out.”

“Even so, this is an extremely tricky legal area. Legislation prohibiting discrimination on grounds of belief could also catch employers out, and even data protection laws mean there could well be restrictions on how employers use any information taken from the BNP list. Before action is taken, it would be advisable to seek professional legal advice so that the risk of a claim is minimised.” said Aspden
Read about discrimination and how it may affect you.

http://www.is4profit.com/news/small-business-news/20081203_firms-knee-jerk-bnp-employees.html

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Immigration Immigration Immigration

Community life in Britain has weakened substantially over the past 30 years, according to research commissioned by the BBC.
Analysis of census data reveals how neighbourhoods in every part of the UK have become more socially fragmented.
The study assesses the health of a community by looking at how rooted people are in their neighbourhood.
Academics created "loneliness indices", to identify where people had a "feeling of not belonging".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7755641.stm



Voting apathy 'among worst in UK'

It was the birthplace of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and played a pivotal role in the fight for voting rights for women and the working classes.
But it seems the people of Greater Manchester are losing their taste for politics.
In the last three general elections - in 1997, 2001 and 2005 - an average of 41% of the electorate across the region did not vote.
That represents the second highest level of absenteeism in the UK, according to the University of Sheffield's Changing UK study.
The report was commissioned by the BBC to look at the ways in which the nation's communities have changed over the past 40 years.
Researchers found neighbourhoods becoming polarised, with people increasingly living among others similar to them in terms of age, class and wealth, leading to feelings of isolation and - significantly for Greater Manchester - political apathy.
In the 1945, 1950 and 1951 elections the area was in the top 10 most politically engaged - with an average abstention rate of 18%.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7758434.stm



" from the late 1960s, British society has been slowly and steadily segregating geographically in many ways, including by where old and young live. Since 2001 the rate of that “demographic segregation” has accelerated and the latest 2006 official population estimates show us more segregated now than at any time since the computerisation of census data (1966)"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/01_12_08_changinguk.pdf

ANTIFA drop Searchlight and UAF

On Saturday, 29th November, Merseyside Police protected around one hundred and fifty British National Party members from the people of Liverpool and other anti-fascists. In doing so, they allowed racist material to be openly distributed in Liverpool city centre on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. However, Alec McFadden of Merseyside Coalition Against Racism and Fascism and Weyman Bennett of Unite Against Fascism must shoulder some of the responsibility for this horrifying turn of events.

The previous Saturday, cops arrested thirteen members of the British National Party in Whitechapel, Liverpool city centre, on suspicion of distributing racist material, namely their 'Racism Cuts Both Ways' pamphlets. This came only a few days after it was revealed that Constable Steve Bettley of Prenton, Birkenhead was a member of the far-right party, an organisation that serving police are barred from. Immediately following the arrests, BNP websites started claiming that their members had been "tortured", and linking Merseyside "thought police" to "Stalinist Communism". They then began planning a "mass mobilisation" of BNP activists to protest the arrests. A counter-demonstration was called by Unite Against Fascism and Merseyside Coalition Against Racism and Fascism, which spread quickly across several websites, including 'non-political' forums.
With the BNP expected at 11am, the counter demonstration rally began an hour earlier, on the corner of Bold Street and Renshaw Street. One of the first announcements was that the Attorney General had decided that 'Racism Cuts Both Ways' is not racist, and therefore the BNP are allowed to distribute it. This prompted Merseyside Police's decision that the thirteen arrestees were not to be charged, which Alec McFadden loudly condemned as "fucking disgusting".
There is no doubt that 'Racism Cuts Both Ways' is itself racist. The reason for this is not its title (of course it does!), but the way the text condemns specific alleged attacks by ethnic minority British residents on white people (including a majority where no racist motive has been found), offers no explanation of the behaviour, then claims this proves "there are serious problems festering at the heart of the ‘multi-racial experiment’". In other words, if some non-white people attack white people, this proves ALL non-white people are unable to co-exist peacefully with white people. Subtle maybe, racist definitely!
There then followed appeals to stop BNP chairman Nick Griffin being elected as North West Member of the European Parliament next June, a speech from Kirkdale Labour councillor Beatrice Fraenkel (a 'regeneration' bigwig and property developer who in her former life as a Lib Dem headed their Capital of Culture bid team), and some music, which McFadden interrupted by telling the crowd that "At the moment we're not doing anything", which apparently meant people should step away from the Co-operative Bank entrance. Police then moved in to get protesters onto the Bold Street pavement. "We've been given the freedom to stand on Bold Street", claimed McFadden, as if it were some kind of gain.
Shortly after 11am, police informed the organisers that the BNP had not shown up in Liverpool. McFadden bizarrely declared this "Liverpool anti-fascists 23, BNP 0", and announced a "victory parade". In practice, many of the approximately two hundred and fifty anti-fascists wandered off, as did McFadden himself, who was bound for a Trades Union Congress conference in Manchester, in his capacity as local TUC president.
The police would later protect the one hundred and fifty strong BNP contingent at St George's Plateau in Lime Street - where Griffin gave a short speech, and one anti-fascist was taken away by cops for interrupting Belle Vale candidate Pete Molloy. But at that moment they were either at or on their way to Whitechapel, the very same spot where the self-styled 'Liverpool 13' had been arrested on the previous Saturday. There they began handing out the very same racist lies, damned lies and statistics.
Very soon, the word got out, and anti-fascists came streaming back. For about half an hour, the crowd chanted slogans such as "Smash the BNP", "We are black, white, Asian and we're Jews", and "We know where you live", a reference to the leaked BNP membership list. Throughout this time, two lines of police separated the two demonstrations, and despite the best efforts of police, anti-fascist numbers were swelled by people who had been Christmas shopping.
Then, armed with a megaphone on the frontline, Weyman Bennett of Unite Against Fascism began negotiating with police. He made some shambling comments about people having to disperse, but these were very quickly drowned out by hecklers, and chants of "No pasaran" (Spanish for 'they shall not pass') went up. Bennett seemed shaken by this indignant response, but he had another word with the senior police officer and negotiated "five more minutes". This was met with more anger from protesters, one of whom shouted "We didn't give them five more minutes in Madrid" (another Spanish revolution reference), while others denounced him as a "traitor" for holding such discussions with cops. But some began to leave, and the police's push down Church Street and back into Bold Street was inevitable.
So what lessons can we learn? Well, for a start, the police are not neutral upholders of democratically-determined laws. They lie. They cannot be trusted. They have their own interests, but they mostly follow what their government paymasters tell them to do. The Labour hierarchy has apparently decided that the BNP must be treated as a legitimate party, just like the Weimar governments did in 1920s and 30s Germany. 'Keep out the BNP' is a convenient way of mobilising people to vote Labour, even those who hate their anti-working class, pro-war policies.
To stay in his role as local TUC president, Alec McFadden has to retain the confidence of those he negotiates with. That means he must maintain a commitment to legalism, and a friendly working relationship with the police.
Weyman Bennett is a member of the Socialist Workers Party's central committee. This group claims it is in favour of revolution, but its methods are reformist, and it has a track record of taking over genuine grassroots movements and turning them into recruitment drives and paper sales. Similarly, Unite Against Fascism like to work within the system. A look at their extremely out of date and badly spelled supporters list shows many MPs (including prospective Tory Prime Minister David Cameron), and even former chief of the Metropolitan Black Police Association Leroy Logan.
No doubt this article will be posted on nationalist websites, and some nationalists will gain courage from the idea that anti-fascists are fighting amongst themselves. But the truth remains that this 'national mobilisation' drew only a very small percentage of their ten thousand members. They were outnumbered.
However, people like McFadden and Bennett are the enemies within. Because of the way their organisations are structured in relation to the working class, they ultimately uphold the profit system that breeds conflict between people of different ethnicities and nationalities.
The solution will not be applauded by politicians or establishment figures. The solution will not kowtow to hired agents of the capitalist state. The solution is working class internationalism and solidarity.

Antifascist

Sunday, November 30, 2008

The Curry King

Close UK borders, says 'curry king'

Britain should close its borders to all immigrants for up to 10 years to prevent potential racial unrest, says one of the country's highest-profile Indian-born businessmen.
Sir Gulam Noon, known as the "curry king" because of his ready-meals firm, said a ban was required to prevent extremists such as the British National Party exploiting tensions.
"I strongly feel that whoever are the immigrants here, we better give them jobs and give them dignity to live here before we import some more," he told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show.
"I do not want a situation whereby a party like the BNP say that 'listen, all your jobs are being taken away by immigrants'. We have to be extremely careful. Some sort of a ban should be there."
The suggestion that the ban could last up to a decade comes from a forthcoming autobiography, the Mail on Sunday reported.
It said that Mr Noon writes in the book: "We should wait for five or ten years, until all the newcomers have been properly integrated and assimilated into the country. Until then we should just shut the door.
"We can only accommodate so many. If the room will only hold ten people, hold a meeting for ten people and not 20. It is simple logic. There is always a danger that for the sake of political correctness, or a party's political advantage, we find ourselves filling up the country with too many immigrants who will disturb the balance and upset the people, particularly the young people, of the host community."
Mr Noon escaped from the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai during the recent terror attacks.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hZP2W6VWEfknjmv0xQ1HLdY-sMTg

Three arrested after city marches

Three men have been arrested for public order offences during marches held by British National Party members and anti-racism supporters in Liverpool.
The men are aged 20, 22 and 32 years, and from Prenton, Wallasey and Liverpool, Merseyside police said.
About 100 people from each campaign group were kept apart by police as they marched through the city centre.
Extra officers had been drafted in to cover the events, a police spokesman said.
Ch Supt Tony Doherty said: "The force liaised with both groups earlier in the week in a bid to minimise disruption to members of the public and to ensure that congestion was avoided where possible.
"Extra officers were brought in to ensure that everything ran smoothly and to reassure the public through highly visible policing."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7756628.stm

Three men arrested as hundreds take to the streets of Liverpool in opposing marches

THREE men were arrested for public order offences during two opposing marches which took place in the city today.
Hundreds of people took part in British National Party and anti-racism marches in the city centre. There was a huge police presence throughout the day as BNP supporters and their opponents took to the streets of Liverpool. Three men, a 20-year-old from Prenton, a 22-year-old from Wallasey and a 32-year-old from Liverpool, were arrested. Nick Griffin, BNP chairman, flanked by at least six burly bodyguards, made a speech to a crowd of hundreds on the steps of St George’s Hall at lunchtime. The two groups were kept apart by Merseyside Police officers on foot, on horseback and in CCTV vans. Last weekend 13 British National Party (BNP) members were arrested on suspicion of giving out racist material near Whitechapel, Liverpool. On Saturday Merseyside Police said they had been released without charge after consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/11/29/three-men-arrested-as-hundreds-take-to-the-streets-of-liverpool-in-opposing-marches-100252-22368562/

Saturday, November 29, 2008

BNP Infiltrator?

Saturday, 29 November 2008

Facebook BNP Supporter Linked To Party Officials Was Among Those In Plot To Fireball BNP Members

FURY erupted last week after vigilantes launched a website to plot firebomb attacks on BNP members’ homes. Police were called in to investigate after 52 apparently willing arsonists signed up to “Let’s Firebomb Every BNP Household In Britain” on Facebook.

The website included a link to 12,000 names and addresses on a leaked BNP membership list.
It called for bomb attacks on followers of the far right party, who were branded “racists, fascists, thugs and Nazis”.

The website declared: “Let’s show these scumbags that they will not be tolerated!’’ The site administrator, using the name Camilo Cienfuegos, ranted:

“I have attended ‘secret’ BNP meetings in the past and have heard their opinions and the things they would try to enact once they gain power – and let me tell you they are evil!

“By the way racist scum, I am as English as fish’n’chips and a pint of Bulldog.“ It doesn’t matter how many of you come on here and whine like scared little bitches about the terrible Red Army coming to firebomb you out of your houses like fleas in an old rug, it won’t change anything.

“F*** off and wait patiently for your houses to get fire-stormed, you scum.”

The internet rallying cry came only 48 hours after bungling vigilantes firebombed a car outside the home of a man whose name appeared on the leaked list.But the motor blown up in Liversedge, West Yorks, belonged to a neighbour of a former BNP member.

Last night horrified Facebook members called for the group to be axed. One calling himself Rob Darwin, from Wales, left a message on the website saying: “Come and get me, Camilo, you gutless idiot. Egging on other people because you can’t do the dirty work yourself.“ “What a pathetic excuse for a man.” Last night a spokesman for Facebook said the website was investigating and was likely to shut down the group.

And a senior detective told the Daily Star:

“This would certainly be considered an incitement to violence.’’ Daily Star

Here are some of the members of the group including one BNP supporter, Epona Vals, who lists Mark Collett and Simon Darby as friends.
Epona Vals, Bristol
Ian Mays, London
John Richard, Calgary
Richard Will Harrison, Nottingham
Guy Avni, Israel
Levski BorussiaAmanda Arnold, London
Panagiotis Mavros Johan SpitenSteven Singh Leil, West Midlands
Bal Singh, West Midlands
Callum McCord, Leeds
Dodge Palmer, West Midlands

http://thurrockpatriots.blogspot.com/2008/11/facebook-bnp-supporter-linked-to.html

Friday, November 28, 2008

MUMBAI KILLERS


Were seven Britons in the terror gang? Security chiefs probe Yorkshire link to Mumbai attacks

Up to seven of the Islamic militants who brought carnage to Mumbai could have been British, it was claimed yesterday.
The security services are investigating whether British men of Pakistani origin were among the terrorists.
The reports came as Indian commandos were last night still fighting gun battles with the insurgents. The violence has left at least 150 people dead, including one Briton.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1090373/Were-seven-Britons-terror-gang-Security-chiefs-probe-Yorkshire-link-Mumbai-attacks.html


NWN:
The press is declaring 7 of the Mumbai killers are from Yorkshire on this evenings news.

'Patriot Platform' out in Basingstoke now, 1925hrs, 24th September 2026. To protest arrest of leading member.