BRANDWOOD PAPERS SUBMITTED

The BNP’s nomination papers for the Brandwood by-election in south Birmingham were submitted to elections staff yesterday. We are pleased to announce that the papers were successfully processed and our candidate for the 20th September election has been accepted. Long standing party activist Rob Purcell is that candidate and he is one of our most seasoned campaigners here in Brum.

Rob joined the BNP in 1997 and was a founder member of East Birmingham BNP (2001). Less than a year later he was appointed Birmingham Branch organiser and to date he is the youngest organiser to have graced the West Midlands. Under his management the Birmingham party grew from contesting one council seat in 2001 to 24 just three years later and the branch received the national award for most new members recruited two years running (2004-05). Despite stepping down as organiser in 2005, he continues to take a leading role in our campaigns and is a regular speaker on the local circuit.

Outside the party Rob works for an independent British manufacturer based in Nechells. Having previously worked in the automotive industry Rob has witnessed first-hand the decline in British manufacturing and he actively campaigned against the threats to Longbridge in 2000 and 2005.

Click here for more about the nature of the threat facing Britain’s beleaguered motor industry.

In addition to campaigning on the many issues of concern to him, Rob is a published writer and poet. He has even managed to beat the unspoken (not to mention downright fascist) ban on BNP members writing in the Trinity Mirror press and has headed the letters pages of the Birmingham Mail on several occasions in the last eighteen months. One of the biggest current campaigns of interest to him is the defence of individual freedom and he is steadfastly opposed to ID cards, vehicle tracking and the database state.

Rob has been selected to represent to the party on several occasions, including the 2004 European elections and the 2005 General Election. In the latter he contested the Yardley seat and recorded the highest parliamentary vote for a Birmingham BNP candidate to date. All in all we are pleased with his candidature for Brandwood and hope to have him on board writing for us from the campaign front over the coming weeks.

PEACEFUL WAY FORWARD IN KITTS GREEN

Richard Lumby outside Kitts Green Probation Office

As Rob Purcell drove past the controversial probation office in Kitts Green on Thursday evening he noticed that the graffiti artist had returned to the site, complete with his or hers trademark command of the English language. This educationally challenged individual is not alone in wanting the ‘pedos’ (sic) off their doorstep, for thousands have signed the petition to have the probation office relocated away from the three primary schools in the vicinity.

This isn’t the first time the site has attracted the graffiti artist, a similarly incoherent message appeared in the same place some weeks ago and at least one local protest has turned ugly with missiles being thrown and one person arrested for assault. This is clearly not the way to behave if a legitimate campaign is to continue, after-all what is being protested about is the presence of criminals and to behave like criminals is therefore counter-productive to one’s own argument.

East Birmingham BNP have always supported the peaceful campaign orchestrated by local parents and we remain careful not to be seen to capitalise on or manipulate the ongoing protest. The same cannot be said for Labour who hijacked proceedings in their morally corrupt way (it was they who brought the probation office to Kitts Green in the first place!).

We have also been careful not to say ‘we told you so’ now that the probation office has opened for business. Although some Labour-influenced figures attempted to cover-up the full story, particularly as election time approached, we are happy to relate it here for a wider audience. This is a well documented story, that is why we never had a problem branding specific Labour people ‘liars’ in our campaign literature.

The intended use for the building has been known for almost a year and was brought up by concerned residents at an emergency meeting in Tile Cross back in October 2006. Cllr Ian Ward, deputy Labour leader on Birmingham City Council and senior party figure in Shard End ward, belittled their concerns and downplayed their fears. He would continue to do so for several months and residents questioned him again at the ward committee meeting held in Kitts Green in January. It was here that the Labour councillor denied that the office would have paedophiles or serious sex offenders referred to it. Within weeks he was proven to have lied by the probation service.

As the election approached and it appeared that the BNP might remove Cllr Ward and his fat salary, the Labour man changed tack completely and said he had been opposed to the probation office all along. He subsequently hijacked the residents’ campaign and saved his job, although needless to say little has been seen from him since then as his position is safe for another four years. Such is the contempt with which Labour hold the voters that they opened the probation office two weeks after the election, having mysteriously postponed its original opening from before the election.

This scandalous treatment is not the kind ever likely to befit a BNP councillor, our candidates are good honest folk and not in it for the money. This unique brand means that we have to put up with a lot of lies about us, so before we get accused of any wrongdoing down at the probation office we again re-iterate our support for the peaceful campaign by local residents and say ‘Get this place moved away from vulnerable children’!

Birmingham tops League

Earlier this week we reported on Birmingham appearing near the bottom of a league of British cities for skills, education and employment. However news emerged over the weekend of another league and this time Birmingham is well clear at the top. The West Midlands has, according to MI 5, more terrorist cells than anywhere else in Britain including London.

In simple demographic terms this might come as something of a surprise, Greater London having a population between three and four time larger than the West Midlands. However to those who have been following the sorry story of radical Islam in the region it will only be a confirmation of what we already knew. We have had the plot to behead a British solider leading to arrests in the city. We have had reports that some of the suspects from the recent attempted car bombings in London were from Birmingham. We have had the Channel 4 “undercover Mosque” program revealing the widespread preaching of Jihadist doctrine in the city. We have had the “Tipton Taliban” banged up in camp X-Ray after being captured in Afghanistan (who claim they were attending a wedding, these guys must really, really like wedding cake). We have had wounded soldiers in Selley Oak harangued by Muslims. And on and on and on.

MI5 reckon there to be some EIGHTY terrorist cells of varying effectiveness and professionalism currently in the West Midlands. Fortunately for the people of this region it is likely that any attempted attack from these people will have London, rather than Birmingham, as its target. Islamic terrorism is all about publicity and London is a far more tempting target than Birmingham in these terms. Plus the Islamist terrorist is just bright enough to avoid calling the attention of the authorities to their stronghold here in the Midland’s. However if the terrorists did decide to strike Birmingham though the following is our best guess based on previous attacks as to the most likely targets.

1. Broad Street: Islamic puritan fascists don’t enjoy a drink and a laugh, and they don’t want you to either. Previous attempted attacks in London and Bali on nightclubs plus the lack of more symbolic targets in Birmingham put Broad Street right at the top of our list.

2. New Street Station: Islamic terrorists like attacking transport systems and New Street, at the centre of Britain’s rail network is a tempting target. Similar attacks have been carried out in Madrid and London.

3. The Bull Ring: Although shopping centres have not yet been successfully targeted in the West they are the favoured target in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Bluewater shopping centre in Kent was named as a potential target in one recent terrorist trial. As a symbol of Western infidel decadence Birmingham can offer no better.

4. Birmingham Airport: The attack on Glasgow airport was a failure. However it does represent a move towards attacking secondary provincial targets which are less well protected than those around the capital.

5. Steelhouse Lane Police Station: In Iraq and Afghanistan Police Stations are frequently attacked. As symbols of the State they are attractive targets to the terrorist. Plus there is the chance to settle old scores ….



A London bus after the seven seven sucide bombings

The Birmingham Mail is quick to assure the people of Birmingham that the threat has been over stated. In their judgement. They managed to find a Doctor Steve Hewitt of Birmingham University (what his doctorate was in was unspecified) to offer the opinion that MI5 had mistaken blood thirsty ambitions for a real threat. Personally we would rather trust the judgement of MI5. Perry Barr MP, Khalid Mahmood said he would “be quite surprised if the area was a hotspot”. Khalid’s contempt for the opinion of the security services is of more than academic interest, he is the Chair of All Party Inquiry into Tackling Terrorism. We wonder what could have possibly have been the reason for his appointment to this vital position, his degree in engineering? His stint working in Kuwait? His experience of Kashmir where he was born? If your not convinced that being an Indian engineer who ditched his job as a councillor to work in Kuwait qualifies Khalid to hold such an important position then maybe you might conclude he got the gig simply because he is a Muslim himself. Surely the government wouldn’t play politics with an issue of life and death, would they?

Read the Mail story
Here

Read the News of the World story
Here

Brum bottom of the table

A report released today places Brum in the bottom five cities of the UK. Population decline, poor workforce education and skills, high unemployment and benefit claims placed Birmingham alongside the North East cities of Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough and the notoriously deprived city of Liverpool at the foot of its rankings.

What else could be expected as the most skilled and talented Brummies flee the city to be replaced by anyone who can get themselves to the immigration desk at Birmingham International?

Never fear though because Birmingham City Council have got the problem in hand. Their Spokesperson had this excuse, the figures collected between 1997 and 2004 are out of date and things are better now. Even if this were true, which it isn’t, how does she explain the abject performance of the city over those SEVEN YEARS? She went on to claim “Birmingham’s economy is forecast to grow by at least 21.4% in the period 2005-2015, but this could be as much as 25.3% according to the Birmingham Economic Information Centre” So that a whole 2.14% a year then? About half that of London. And that’s if this BEIC are right, and it sounds as if its their job to make optimistic predictions in the vain hope of attracting investment.

After making some wild claims of what Birmingham City Council is going to achieve over the period she went on to state proudly that Birmingham had the best GCSE result of any of the core cities. The core cities being the biggest of the rust belt provincial cities laid low by the lunatic policies of our elites. So there you have it, Birmingham’s regeneration is being bet on sixteen years old in Birmingham getting better results in Eng Lit than those in Leeds. What better example of the total cluelessness of our politicians can you find than the blithe assumption that frankly poor results in meaningless academic disciplines will lead to this city’s future prosperity. Strangely I don’t recall the CBI demanding more 16 year olds with citizenship GCSE’s to propel our local economy forward.

The responsibility for the sad state of this once great city lies exclusively with the failed politicians of this nation, in particular the jumped up, incompetent, self important, failed politicians in Birmingham Council House. They controlled the L.E.A. which failed generation after generation of Birmingham’s children. They presided over the replacement of Birmingham awesome industrial capability with corrugated iron sheds, like the Bull Ring, full of imported junk. It was these people who stood by and watched as cities like Manchester and Bristol reinvented themselves as cultural and regional capitals while they lavished Taxpayers money on block renovating the private homes of ethnic communities. They are responsible for the ruined state of the Council housing stock which condemns thousands to live in squalor. And what was their solution to that? To try and give it away so that they could get the responsibility for it off their hands, regardless of the cost to the council tenants.

Birmingham will never prosper whilst these second rate clowns are running the show.

Read the Evening Mail's take on the story at icBirmingham
Here

New Labour says "Ve arsk ze questions!"

Peter Hitchens wrote in his Mail on Sunday column just a few weeks ago that passport interrogation centres were covertly being constructed by the government. For such an established mainstream columnist you would think he would be moderately up to speed. The centres to which he was referring are already in place and open for ‘business’, 69 of them across Britain in fact and one of them is right here in Brum.




East Birmingham organiser Denis Adams outside the Identity and Passport interrogation centre in Suffolk Street, Birmingham


Years ago intelligence dossiers were reserved for communists and likeminded dissidents, but the collapse of the left in recent years and the onset of Islamic aggression has given MI5 new groups of individuals on which to focus their attention. As we in the BNP are diametrically opposed to Islam it has undoubtedly led to our own members being catalogued, but all this will be academic soon as each and every citizen becomes part of the New Labour database state.



The 69 interrogation centres will be used to gather information on citizens applying for passports under the guise of ‘passport and identity security’. Initially the centres will target first time applicants, but will later be rolled out across the board to ensure that anyone who renews their existing passport cannot do so without undergoing interrogation at their nearest centre. This can be hugely inconvenient as the timing is dictated by the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) and the nearest centre can be anything up to 50 miles away! That doesn’t apply to us here in Birmingham, but it does mean that hard-working Brummies can lose up to half a day’s work having to undergo the intrusive grilling.



In addition to being questioned about personal details your photograph and fingerprints will also be taken and all the information gleaned will become part of New Labour’s national identity register.



This sinister plan is part of a bigger issue relating to state intrusion and loss of individual freedom. From ID cards and the NHS database to microchips in our bins and black box recorders in our cars (not to mention where we can smoke) – New Labour is in the throes of Orwellian extremism. They will use almost anything to excuse this sustained assault on our freedom, whether it be terrorism, illegal immigration (there’s a joke!) or protecting us from identity theft!



To read more about the growing intrusion of the state into our private lives please visit NO2ID




Meanwhile if anyone has had to visit an interrogation centre like this please contact us and let us know how you found the experience!

Birmingham BNP Blog goes global

This blog is far from the finished article. Nor has it yet been used for the purpose for which it was intended. However after a month or so on line we thought it time to reflect on the project so far.

As of today (5th of July) The Blog has received, according to our tracking software (which you can access in the orange box on the right towards the bottom of the column. Part of our commitment to transparent integrity and the simple unvarnished truth) 1,193 visits from 529 separate individuals who have accessed our articles 2,067 times between them. Thank you all very much.

According to our software we have had people from all five continents view our humble efforts. As well as several hundred of our fellow countrymen we have had the honour of entertaining people from as far afield as Santiago, Buenos Aires, Bombay (*1) Thailand, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Mexico City. We appreciate our foreign guests interest and wish them well in their efforts to resist globalisation and protect their own unique cultures, Best of British one and all. A very special hello must go out to our biggest international fan or group of fans in Islamabad, Pakistan, as salaamum alaikum, who have made Pakistan our second largest international audience.

A special greeting to our brothers and sisters in the former Dominions and the USA (with 130 odd visits our largest international audience) and our European cousins of course.

On the Sceptred Isle itself we had had visitors from across the country from fair Edinburgh in the North to our great Capital City. And finally a fair contingent from Brum itself to which we extend our traditional vernacular greeting “olright”.

*1 We don’t call Prague Praha, Belgrade Beograd, Dublin Baile Atha Cliath or Rome Roma and we’re damned if we’re making an exception for Bombay.

Michael Vaughan

It is with deep sadness that we report the sudden death of long-term supporter Michael Vaughan from south Birmingham. Mike was taken at the early age of 56 and will be buried today (Friday). He was a regular fixture at South Birmingham meetings and local organiser Mike Bell will represent the party at his funeral. Our thoughts are with his family at this time.