Thursday, 5 July 2007
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.
Wednesday, 4 July 2007
VICTORY IN STECHFORD
Last month we carried a story on the disgusting condition in five Stechford tower blocks which Birmingham City Council (BCC) had allowed to deteriorate through their appalling mismanagement and negligence. Several hundred residents in the Poolway flats have been faced with health and safety problems that could threaten life and limb as a result of this failure on the part of BCC. This has been especially worrying given the scores young families and elderly people who are forced to live there and who are particularly vulnerable to the risks generated by the conditions in the flats.
This situation did not arise overnight, it is the result of decades of incompetence and the Councils policy of prioritisation none indigenous communities for council allocated resources over indigenous Brits. However suddenly, after years of indifference, the City Council has sprung into ‘action’. They agreed to undertake what the residents had been demanding for years - the demolition of all five blocks and the re-housing of the council tenants in accommodation fit for human habitation. Although, obviously this being Birmingham City Council no firm commitments as to a time scale have been revealed as yet.
Local BNP activists were instrumental in the residents’ campaign, establishing a residents’ group, initially involving them in public ward meetings and later advising them on tactics, as well as designing and producing the leaflets to promote their cause. In addition we also produced a short film documenting the appalling situation in the flats to bring the issue to wider public attention. ‘Slum House’ can be viewed via this blog or at GoogleVideo (sidebar).
The advent of elections interfered to some extent with the BNP’s involvement in the Poolway campaign in May, but such community work is something that we endeavour to do more of in future. The BNP is more than just a political party, we aim is to be active within the community helping to improve the quality of life for our people who have been increasingly sidelined and discriminated against over the years. We are actively encouraging people to work with us to such an end and want YOU to get in touch if you know of any issues with which we might be of some assistance. (See "Contact Us" panel on the right)
Our greatest weapon, as in this case, is the electrifying effect the magic letters “B.N.P.” have on councillors and the council itself. No sooner are we on the scene than money suddenly becomes available. Following the election of a BNP councillor in the Chelmsley Wood ward in Solihull last year a multi-million pound redevelopment plan was unveiled for the town centre. In Barking and Dagenham the election of twelve BNP councillors produced a frenzy of government initiatives backed with untold amounts of cash. This is part of a tactic the “old gang” politicians have developed to try and halt the progress of the BNP. In the event of the BNP intervening in a local issue the establishment will stop at nothing to rectify the problem and thus deny the BNP any electoral advantage. This suits us fine as we are able to use this to improve the lot of the people we seek to represent and champion. Ironically the “old gangs” terror of the BNP gives us more power than we could hope to wield in the Council House with a handful of councillors and we have used, and will continue to use, this to get our people their fare share of the Councils’ resources. Which after all are derived from the taxes paid by those same indigenous British people Birmingham City Council have ignored and neglected for decades.
This situation did not arise overnight, it is the result of decades of incompetence and the Councils policy of prioritisation none indigenous communities for council allocated resources over indigenous Brits. However suddenly, after years of indifference, the City Council has sprung into ‘action’. They agreed to undertake what the residents had been demanding for years - the demolition of all five blocks and the re-housing of the council tenants in accommodation fit for human habitation. Although, obviously this being Birmingham City Council no firm commitments as to a time scale have been revealed as yet.
Local BNP activists were instrumental in the residents’ campaign, establishing a residents’ group, initially involving them in public ward meetings and later advising them on tactics, as well as designing and producing the leaflets to promote their cause. In addition we also produced a short film documenting the appalling situation in the flats to bring the issue to wider public attention. ‘Slum House’ can be viewed via this blog or at GoogleVideo (sidebar).
The advent of elections interfered to some extent with the BNP’s involvement in the Poolway campaign in May, but such community work is something that we endeavour to do more of in future. The BNP is more than just a political party, we aim is to be active within the community helping to improve the quality of life for our people who have been increasingly sidelined and discriminated against over the years. We are actively encouraging people to work with us to such an end and want YOU to get in touch if you know of any issues with which we might be of some assistance. (See "Contact Us" panel on the right)
Our greatest weapon, as in this case, is the electrifying effect the magic letters “B.N.P.” have on councillors and the council itself. No sooner are we on the scene than money suddenly becomes available. Following the election of a BNP councillor in the Chelmsley Wood ward in Solihull last year a multi-million pound redevelopment plan was unveiled for the town centre. In Barking and Dagenham the election of twelve BNP councillors produced a frenzy of government initiatives backed with untold amounts of cash. This is part of a tactic the “old gang” politicians have developed to try and halt the progress of the BNP. In the event of the BNP intervening in a local issue the establishment will stop at nothing to rectify the problem and thus deny the BNP any electoral advantage. This suits us fine as we are able to use this to improve the lot of the people we seek to represent and champion. Ironically the “old gangs” terror of the BNP gives us more power than we could hope to wield in the Council House with a handful of councillors and we have used, and will continue to use, this to get our people their fare share of the Councils’ resources. Which after all are derived from the taxes paid by those same indigenous British people Birmingham City Council have ignored and neglected for decades.
Tuesday, 3 July 2007
END OF THE END FOR HP
This week sees another famous British manufacturer disappear from the Birmingham skyline. HP Sauce has been produced in Aston since 1903, but in May 2006 its current owners Heinz – having only purchased the company less than a year earlier – decided it would be cheaper to produce the sauce abroad. A campaign to save the 125 jobs and preserve a great British breakfast favourite failed to persuade the global giant to reconsider and production at the factory ceased last March. On Monday 2nd July the bulldozers moved in on the Aston site and demolition commenced. The famous HP tower, a prominent fixture on the skyline north-east of the city centre, will not be exempt from the destruction and will be demolished in place of another lifeless business park.
HP Sauce was created by a Nottingham grocer called Frederick Gibson Garton and he gave it its name in 1896 after he had been told it was being served up in the Houses of Parliament. The Palace of Westminster subsequently appeared on every bottle, yet despite this intrinsically British design the famous brown sauce will continue to bear the image whilst it is produced in the Netherlands and then imported to Britain! Our message is simple – hit Heinz where it hurts and boycott their products!
Denis Adams (East Birmingham BNP organizer) gives a sombre message outside the HP factory
HP Sauce was created by a Nottingham grocer called Frederick Gibson Garton and he gave it its name in 1896 after he had been told it was being served up in the Houses of Parliament. The Palace of Westminster subsequently appeared on every bottle, yet despite this intrinsically British design the famous brown sauce will continue to bear the image whilst it is produced in the Netherlands and then imported to Britain! Our message is simple – hit Heinz where it hurts and boycott their products!
Denis Adams (East Birmingham BNP organizer) gives a sombre message outside the HP factory
Sunday, 1 July 2007
One of the most pertinent cultural strands that combine us Britons is the communal surroundings of a public house. For centuries the pub has been a remedy to a hard day’s graft or a stressful day in the office.
As with so many other quintessentially British institutions the pub is being systematically dismantled in the same way as the post office, the armed forces and the Anglican church. The BNP’s Shard End candidate in last May’s elections, Richard Lumby, highlighted the issue at the June meeting of East Birmingham BNP. Ahead of the ban Richard described how it had affected other parts of the British Isles, in particular southern Ireland where he has relatives. Whilst many pubs had learnt to cope with the ban or work round it, many others had been forced to close. This effect has undoubtedly hit Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in a similar way, now New Labour is to strike menacingly across the largest constituent in these islands – as from Sunday 1st July 2007 there will be a carpet ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces and work places across England.
Where will this assault on individual freedoms end? Will drinking be next?
“24-hour drinking to keep us all off the streets”.
That was the angle that rock band the Kaiser Chiefs took on their latest album and perhaps they are right, except only a handful of drinking establishments applied for such a licence. Is this part of a sustained effort to drive us off the streets and dump us at home to live like hermits in front of that key propaganda tool of the state – the TV, aka the ‘idiot box’ – that is creating a generation of apathetic morons as we speak. The gradual dismantling of the post office fits in nicely with this idea. The post office has long been a source of social interaction, particularly for the older generation, likewise the public house.
In addition to Labour’s assault on our British pubs, the changing demographics of our towns and cities is seeing an escalation in the decline of the ‘boozer’. Where trade is already in freefall many pubs are being sold off and converted into Chinese restaurants – for example the Navigation in Erdington, the King George V in Northfield and the Stockland Green. The pub is also disappearing fast from the inner cities where an influx of new arrivals from a non-drinking culture has displaced the indigenous population and led to a fall in trade. Other pubs have been forced out by acts of aggression.
This all serves to assist the establishment plot and as Richard stated, the smoking ban is only an opening act for the oppressive state under which we will all increasingly be forced to live. ID cards, tracking devices, biometric databases, universal CCTV – welcome to New Britain.
The burnt out ruin of the Wagon and Horses pub, Coventry Road, Sheldon. A pub had stood on this site for a century before this one closed due to lack of custom. Typically it was then burnt down by arsonists. Just one of hundreds of Birmingham pubs closed, burnt down and demolished over the last few years. The survival of the few remaining traditional community pubs is seriously doubtful thanks to Labour's smoking ban.
As with so many other quintessentially British institutions the pub is being systematically dismantled in the same way as the post office, the armed forces and the Anglican church. The BNP’s Shard End candidate in last May’s elections, Richard Lumby, highlighted the issue at the June meeting of East Birmingham BNP. Ahead of the ban Richard described how it had affected other parts of the British Isles, in particular southern Ireland where he has relatives. Whilst many pubs had learnt to cope with the ban or work round it, many others had been forced to close. This effect has undoubtedly hit Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in a similar way, now New Labour is to strike menacingly across the largest constituent in these islands – as from Sunday 1st July 2007 there will be a carpet ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces and work places across England.
Where will this assault on individual freedoms end? Will drinking be next?
“24-hour drinking to keep us all off the streets”.
That was the angle that rock band the Kaiser Chiefs took on their latest album and perhaps they are right, except only a handful of drinking establishments applied for such a licence. Is this part of a sustained effort to drive us off the streets and dump us at home to live like hermits in front of that key propaganda tool of the state – the TV, aka the ‘idiot box’ – that is creating a generation of apathetic morons as we speak. The gradual dismantling of the post office fits in nicely with this idea. The post office has long been a source of social interaction, particularly for the older generation, likewise the public house.
In addition to Labour’s assault on our British pubs, the changing demographics of our towns and cities is seeing an escalation in the decline of the ‘boozer’. Where trade is already in freefall many pubs are being sold off and converted into Chinese restaurants – for example the Navigation in Erdington, the King George V in Northfield and the Stockland Green. The pub is also disappearing fast from the inner cities where an influx of new arrivals from a non-drinking culture has displaced the indigenous population and led to a fall in trade. Other pubs have been forced out by acts of aggression.
This all serves to assist the establishment plot and as Richard stated, the smoking ban is only an opening act for the oppressive state under which we will all increasingly be forced to live. ID cards, tracking devices, biometric databases, universal CCTV – welcome to New Britain.
The burnt out ruin of the Wagon and Horses pub, Coventry Road, Sheldon. A pub had stood on this site for a century before this one closed due to lack of custom. Typically it was then burnt down by arsonists. Just one of hundreds of Birmingham pubs closed, burnt down and demolished over the last few years. The survival of the few remaining traditional community pubs is seriously doubtful thanks to Labour's smoking ban.
A SIMPLE MESSAGE FOR PM BROWN
Just a day after your coronation Mr Brown one of your own constituents was blown up in Basra. The loss of Private Jamie Kerr and his two colleagues has brought the British military death toll to 156 and this is not just three too many it is 156 too many. Surely you must realise that one simple shift in policy would dissociate you from your predecessor on a seismic scale – bring our boys home Mr Brown, bring them home now. Their presence isn’t achieving anything, they are merely patrolling the streets of Basra and providing targets for militants. One drop of their blood is worth more than all the oil in the world to their parents, some of whom are now very close to home for you. Bring our lads home – for whatever reason you deem fit to name – just bring them home.
Sergeant John Jones was the first Brummie to be killed in the Iraq war and lived in Castle Bromwich. He was killed by a roadside bomb in Basra in November 2005 and was inscribed in the Book of Remembrance at Birmingham’s Hall of Memory on Wednesday along with a comrade killed in Afghanistan last year.
Sergeant John Jones was the first Brummie to be killed in the Iraq war and lived in Castle Bromwich. He was killed by a roadside bomb in Basra in November 2005 and was inscribed in the Book of Remembrance at Birmingham’s Hall of Memory on Wednesday along with a comrade killed in Afghanistan last year.
Thursday, 28 June 2007
Birmingham Muslim has a message for you.......
A charming little video was recently posted on YouTube. It appears the creative little fellow responsible may live in Birmingham. This was the first place he mentions in his inspirational speech referring to it as “Brumistan”. No further comment from us is necessary on this one…..
Remember viewers that not all Muslims are extremists like our friend here. A 2006 Populus poll of British Muslims found only 7% of them were prepared to admit to supporting suicide attacks on the UK. So with two million Muslims in the UK that’s a mere 140,000 terrorist sympathisers. 16% thought that suicide bombings on British military targets are OK, that would be 320,000, a third of a million. So nothing to worry about then. Phew
Remember viewers that not all Muslims are extremists like our friend here. A 2006 Populus poll of British Muslims found only 7% of them were prepared to admit to supporting suicide attacks on the UK. So with two million Muslims in the UK that’s a mere 140,000 terrorist sympathisers. 16% thought that suicide bombings on British military targets are OK, that would be 320,000, a third of a million. So nothing to worry about then. Phew
See the full Populus poll results
Here
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Racial Violence in Birmingham, The Media and The Law
Last August 47-year-old Brian May was sitting on a train at Snow Hill station minding his own business when he was viciously assaulted by two Asian men. As the two men kicked and punched their defenceless victim they screamed racist abuse at him. The prolonged assault was so violent that witnesses feared for Mr May’s life, but fortunately he escaped with extensive bruising and a substantial loss of blood.
The most significant aspect of this incident is the unprecedented news coverage it received. Local and national media routinely maintain a deafening silence on racist attacks against white people, whilst at the same time dedicating maximum exposure to anything where there is even a hint of racism towards ethnic minorities. This is despite the fact that attacks on white people by ethnic minorities are commonplace in the multicultural utopia of the West Midlands. They are ignored, swept under the carpet at all cost by an establishment hell-bent on maintaining the mythical notion that we all live in harmonious co-existence.
Surely, to adopt such an attitude towards certain victims and not others on account of their skin colour is, using their own term, ‘institutionally racist’.
A second significant factor about the train attack is the media reaction. The two thugs who assaulted Mr May were both Sikhs and although Sikh-on-white violence is not unheard of, it is rare. Perhaps the media picked up on this incident simply because the perpetrators were NOT Muslims.
Clearly the media has no option but to cover acts of terrorism/terrorist plots, but this must be immensely troubling for many newspaper editors who simply do not wish to undermine the official line that their multi-cultural society is an unalloyed good. Therefore, racial crimes committed by Muslims are deliberately concealed – there can be no other explanation. Everyone has heard the case of Zahid Mubarek, the Muslim criminal murdered for purely racial motives by his white cellmate in Feltham young offender’s institute. Yet can you name a single murder victim of an indigenous Briton by Muslim racists? Thought not, but it’s not for the lack of examples – Ross Parker, Lee Martin, Gavin Hopley, Ashley Hedger and Kriss Donald were all killed by Muslims in racist attacks. The reaction in the media in each case? Silence.
Furthermore, if a crime has been committed where the racial profile of the suspect suggests he may be a Muslim the description of the attacker is frequently omitted from the report altogether. In instances where the perpetrator is described, the victim is often not referred to as this would also identify a racial pattern. Of course we abhor and condemn all racial violence in the strongest possible terms, however we feel that such bias in the reporting of certain attacks is unacceptable.
The third and final injustice of the whole sorry episode is the most eye-opening and concerns the sentences handed down to Mr May’s attackers. The youngest, Balvinder Hunjan Singh, was sent to a young offenders institute for 18 months and his accomplice was sent to prison for the same period. They had been charged with racially aggravated assault, possession of a controlled substance and, in the case of Hunjan Singh, common assault as well. The assault on its own, and the violence with which it was carried out, make these punishments paltry to say the least. However, the victim wasn’t the only person who found the sentencing repugnant.
Those who have followed the case of West Midland BNP activist Kevin Hughes will find the parallels disturbing, although not surprising. Kevin was charged with the same crime (minus the possession/common assault) having allegedly been involved in an altercation with an Iraqi asylum seeker in Worcester (there were no witnesses). Kevin received a two and a half year sentence – that’s a whole year on top of what the two Sikhs received. This judicial imbalance is compounded by the fact that the Sikhs were convicted of two additional charges and as opposed to Kevin’s case where the Iraqi received no injuries, Mr May suffered substantial physical damage. This is to take no account of the mental distress caused both to Mr May and the witnesses forced to watch this sickening act of barbarity.
The racial aspect of Kevin’s conviction was later dropped on appeal and he was freed last month. Click Here for further examples of racial injustice.
Click Here for CCTV footage of the attack on Mr May.
The most significant aspect of this incident is the unprecedented news coverage it received. Local and national media routinely maintain a deafening silence on racist attacks against white people, whilst at the same time dedicating maximum exposure to anything where there is even a hint of racism towards ethnic minorities. This is despite the fact that attacks on white people by ethnic minorities are commonplace in the multicultural utopia of the West Midlands. They are ignored, swept under the carpet at all cost by an establishment hell-bent on maintaining the mythical notion that we all live in harmonious co-existence.
Surely, to adopt such an attitude towards certain victims and not others on account of their skin colour is, using their own term, ‘institutionally racist’.
A second significant factor about the train attack is the media reaction. The two thugs who assaulted Mr May were both Sikhs and although Sikh-on-white violence is not unheard of, it is rare. Perhaps the media picked up on this incident simply because the perpetrators were NOT Muslims.
Clearly the media has no option but to cover acts of terrorism/terrorist plots, but this must be immensely troubling for many newspaper editors who simply do not wish to undermine the official line that their multi-cultural society is an unalloyed good. Therefore, racial crimes committed by Muslims are deliberately concealed – there can be no other explanation. Everyone has heard the case of Zahid Mubarek, the Muslim criminal murdered for purely racial motives by his white cellmate in Feltham young offender’s institute. Yet can you name a single murder victim of an indigenous Briton by Muslim racists? Thought not, but it’s not for the lack of examples – Ross Parker, Lee Martin, Gavin Hopley, Ashley Hedger and Kriss Donald were all killed by Muslims in racist attacks. The reaction in the media in each case? Silence.
Furthermore, if a crime has been committed where the racial profile of the suspect suggests he may be a Muslim the description of the attacker is frequently omitted from the report altogether. In instances where the perpetrator is described, the victim is often not referred to as this would also identify a racial pattern. Of course we abhor and condemn all racial violence in the strongest possible terms, however we feel that such bias in the reporting of certain attacks is unacceptable.
The third and final injustice of the whole sorry episode is the most eye-opening and concerns the sentences handed down to Mr May’s attackers. The youngest, Balvinder Hunjan Singh, was sent to a young offenders institute for 18 months and his accomplice was sent to prison for the same period. They had been charged with racially aggravated assault, possession of a controlled substance and, in the case of Hunjan Singh, common assault as well. The assault on its own, and the violence with which it was carried out, make these punishments paltry to say the least. However, the victim wasn’t the only person who found the sentencing repugnant.
Those who have followed the case of West Midland BNP activist Kevin Hughes will find the parallels disturbing, although not surprising. Kevin was charged with the same crime (minus the possession/common assault) having allegedly been involved in an altercation with an Iraqi asylum seeker in Worcester (there were no witnesses). Kevin received a two and a half year sentence – that’s a whole year on top of what the two Sikhs received. This judicial imbalance is compounded by the fact that the Sikhs were convicted of two additional charges and as opposed to Kevin’s case where the Iraqi received no injuries, Mr May suffered substantial physical damage. This is to take no account of the mental distress caused both to Mr May and the witnesses forced to watch this sickening act of barbarity.
The racial aspect of Kevin’s conviction was later dropped on appeal and he was freed last month. Click Here for further examples of racial injustice.
Click Here for CCTV footage of the attack on Mr May.
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