Yorkshire BNP Area Council Outlines Party Growth Plans

Yorkshire BNP Regional Council Outlines Growth Plans

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The British National Party in Yorkshire completed a positive regional council meeting which dealt with expansion plans, a review of election results, the proposed leadership contents and the work of MEP Andrew Brons, regional organiser Chris Beverley reports.

 “All BNP officials and councillors from the Yorkshire and the Humber region were invited to the meeting where a number of important issues were discussed in a free and open manner,” Mr Beverley, who also works as personal assistant to Mr Brons, said.

“It was made clear to everyone that no subject was taboo or ‘out of bounds’ and if people had concerns then it was important that they were raised at this meeting.

“On the subject of the expected leadership election, which will take place assuming the necessary signatures are successfully gathered by a challenger, those in attendance were reminded that they were perfectly entitled to campaign for one or other or indeed none of the candidates involved as long as this was done in a respectful way,” Mr Beverley said.

“People should refrain from personal attacks on their fellow nationalists, even if they happen to disagree with them over certain issues. Civilised and sensible discussion regarding the future direction of the party is to be welcomed and encouraged, whilst personal attacks and the circulation of damaging and groundless allegations which lead to fall-outs and divisions within our party can cause long term harm and only go to aid our enemies, should therefore be avoided at all cost.”

A full and frank debrief relating to the recent general and local election campaigns followed.

“Local organisers were congratulated on their Herculean effort that resulted in 47 out of our 54 constituencies being fought and paid for by our local units. Were other regions to have fought the same percentage of seats then almost 90 percent of the UK’s constituencies would have included BNP candidates,” Mr Beverley said.

“They were also congratulated on fielding so many local candidates across the region, and it was noted that of the only two surviving BNP councillors who were defending their seats this year, one of them was from our region in the form of Cllr Paul Cromie, who was re-elected to represent the Queensbury ward of Bradford Council.

“A number of problems were discussed such as issues surrounding the handling of the centrally produced local and general election leaflets, and steps were identified that could be taken in future to avoid such problems affecting this region.

“It was also pointed out that despite the overall feeling that we did not perform as well in the elections as some people had hoped, our average vote across Yorkshire and the Humber in the general election was 4.4%, which compares very well with the 2.8% of the Establishment safety-valve of UKIP.

“It was also pointed out that the other small parties all did worse than we did in Yorkshire with, for example, the joke ‘English Democrats Party’, a party who got their Mayor elected in Doncaster in 2009 and hoped to win some local seats, failing to win a thing.

“Andrew Brons MEP and I updated those present on the work of Andrew in the European Parliament and the work carried out through his constituency office in Leeds. We outlined the fantastic response we have seen to Andrew’s constituency newsletters, which have been delivered by activists and also by the Royal Mail to homes across the Yorkshire and the Humber constituency by the hundreds of thousand, and what was being done to keep in touch with those who contact us.

“A number of other exciting plans were discussed which have the potential to hugely increase the profile of our MEP and the good work he is doing throughout the region, which would inevitably have a knock-on effect on the popularity of our party as a whole. We will report more on these plans in due course as they begin to be realised,” he continued.

“I reported on a number of new appointments and the setting up of new units, which includes plans for a group to cover the Richmondshire local authority area. Once this group has been set up, this region will for the first time ever have an organisational presence in every local authority, which is a situation I have been working hard to bring about since becoming regional organiser last year.

“All in all the meeting was a very positive one which went to show that Yorkshire’s officials continue to work together in a positive manner to build our organisation and further our electoral progress in this region.”

Chris Beverley’s blog can be found here.

EU Freedom of Movement Rules Cause Romanian Gypsy Crime Wave in Britain

EU’s Freedom of Movement Rules Caused Romanian Gypsy “Crime Wave” in Britain

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Romanian police were asked by the British authorities to investigate a series of criminal gangs “almost immediately” after Romania’s ascension to the European Union caused a Gypsy “crime wave” in Britain, it has emerged.

News of the massive scale of the Gypsy crime wave became known after a daily newspaper carried a report of a Romanian gypsy gang which had smuggled more than 200 children into Britain to beg, steal and commit petty crimes.

The EU’s “freedom of movement” rules, introduced by the John Major government, allow all EU nationals complete freedom of movement across member state countries.

The Romanian Gypsies — who should not be confused with genuine Romanians who are law-abiding Europeans — are part of an Indian-origin tribe of people who penetrated Eastern Europe in the mists of time.

Romanian nationals have been allowed to settle in Britain since 1 January 2007.

In the first six months of that year, police figures revealed that “Romanian nationals” were responsible for a staggering 1,080 offences.

During the same period in 2006, only 135 such crimes were recorded.

Incredibly, Romanian authorities reported that crime in their country had dropped as the Gypsies exported their activities to Britain.

Stan Bitlan, head of the police force in Ialomita County, Romania, was quoted as saying that there “is a connection between what is happening here and the UK. What they are doing in the UK appears here in Romania in the form of luxury cars and houses.”

The mayor of the town of Tandarei, which was the focus of the most recent Romanain police crackdown, said in 2007 that there had been a drop in crime in his city.

A leaked Home Office memo in 2007 also revealed that an estimated 45,000 potential criminals from Romania and Bulgaria, which also joined the EU at the same time, had entered Britain.

In the latest incident, 26 Gypsies were arrested in Tandarei in connection with the child gangs.

The arrested men face charges of trafficking children, money laundering, membership of an organised crime group and possession of illegal firearms.

According to reports, the children were kept under the control of a gang member in Britain and were used to “earn” money by begging, washing windscreens, pick pocketing and shoplifting.

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National Lottery Fund Blacks-Only Schools

National Lottery Funds Apartheid Blacks-Only Schools

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The National Lottery funds an organisation which is actively involved in co-ordinating Apartheid-style blacks-only schools in Britain, a BNP News investigation has revealed.

The National Association of Black Supplementary Schools (NABSS), which has been set up specifically to support schools from which whites are excluded, boasts of the lottery grant funding on its main website.

In addition, the NABSS will this coming week be holding a conference in Tottenham, North London, on the topic of “National Black Supplementary School Week” which will be a jamboree of speakers who will blame whites for their community’s academic failures.

According to a press release issued by the NABSS, the conference will deal “head on with statistics about the underachievement of black children by challenging terms such as ‘disproportional representation,’ ‘institutional racism,’ ‘failing,’ ‘stereotyping’" and other terms synonymous with young people of African descent.”

There will also be a “series of workshops and events that will specifically look at issues pertaining to education of black children, and black supplementary schools and the role of black parents,” the NABSS statement continued.

The lottery-funding of the blacks-only organisation and schools takes on an even sinister meaning when the “resources” listed on the NABSS website are investigated.

Amongst the resources available is a video which attempts to explain why black children prefer playing with white dolls as opposed to those of their own colour.

The video (of course) blames white people for this phenomen, and quotes radical black American Muslim Malcom X’s speech where he declared that white people had taught black people to hate themselves.

“Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair?” the video shows Mr X saying. “Who taught you to hate the colour of your skin, to such extent that you bleach to get like the white man?

“Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose, and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself, from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?

“Who taught you to hate your own kind—who taught you to hate the race that you belong to, so much so that you don’t wanna be around each other?

“No, before you come around asking Mr. Muhammed does he teach hate, you should ask yourself: who taught you to hate being what God gave you?”

The fact that the NABSS even uses Malcolm X as a role model is equally bizarre. He was born as born Malcolm Little and after his conversion to Islam he called himself El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.

Malcolm X was sentenced to prison in 1946 for a series of violent crimes in Boston and New York and converted to Islam while in prison.

After his release, he changed his surname to “X” because, as he said in his autobiography, "[F]or me, my 'X' replaced the white slavemaster name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed upon my paternal forebears."

He then became leader of the militant black supremacist Nation of Islam organisation which taught that black people were the original people of the world and that “white people were a race of devils.”

* It is about time that someone tested the liberal mindset at the Lottery funds distribution centre and applied for money to set up ‘whites-only’ schools.

The wails of “racism” would come even quicker than the funding for blacks-only schools.

As readers of this website know, there is one law for white British people and another for everyone else. The Lottery funding of the NABSS proves this once again.

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Welsh Police Refuse to Reveal Details of Illegal Immigration Scam

Powys Police Refuse to Reveal Details of Illegal Immigration Scam

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The South Wales British National Party team of super activists have produced yet another powerful video which has revealed Powys police collusion in covering up an illegal immigration swindle because it would “harm commercial interests.”

The video, produced by Roger Phillips and his team of the “colonisation of Wembley” YouTube fame, was made after Freedom of Information (FoI) Act inquiries following a series of UK Border Agency raids on a Muslim-owned takeaway.

The raids took place after the restaurant in question had been caught at least twice employing illegal immigrants as waiters.

The FoI request provoked a response from Powys police in which they refused to supply any details because it would “hurt the commercial interests” of the shop owner.

Mr Phillips also reveals how the business owner has since allegedly fled the country although the takeaway is still run by his family.

ConDem Welfare Reform Plan Ignores Underlying Cause of the Problem

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The ConDem regime’s “plan” to reform the obviously broken welfare system ignores globalisation as the underlying cause of UK unemployment and even more insanely tries to “incentivise” people to work when the system pays them more not to.

Tory Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith announced the “reform” plans by claiming that unemployment is a result of the system, rather than the broader economic disaster which he and his colleagues have created.

Part of Mr Smith’s plan is to “incentivise” the unemployed to get back to work by ensuring that they will get at least 25 pence in the pound more if they start working.

However, as David Green, director of Civitas pointed out, this is “likely to be very costly without achieving its intended effects. Work should be a personal and civic obligation, not something we will only do if we are incentivised by the Government,” Dr Green said.

As long as a system remains in place whereby the unemployed can earn as much, or in some cases, even more, on welfare than they can do by working, the core problem in the system will never be addressed.

Furthermore, the real reason for unemployment lies in the destruction of the British economy and manufacturing base.

This policy has been followed consistently from the time of Margaret Thatcher right through the years of Labour rule and is still enthusiastically endorsed by today’s ConDem regime.

This belief, underlined by David Cameron’s speech this week in India telling young people in search of opportunities to “go east,” argues that Britain does not need its own manufacturing base as globalisation can provide all heavy industry needs.

All that Britain has to do, this twisted ideology says, is become a “service industry economy” where somehow British people can survive by giving each other backrubs for ever more while buying cheap consumer goods made in China.

Until Britain’s economy is restored to a sound basis where our manufacturing, mining and industries have been rescued from the ravages of globalisation, the unemployment situation will never be remedied.

On the contrary, if globalisation is left to run rampant, the end result will be total global economic collapse.

This will occur once the ‘service economies’ inevitably become bankrupt and disposable income dries up, leaving the West unable to continue buying the cheap Far Eastern consumables.

Only once the problem of globalisation and the destruction of the British economy is addressed, can much-needed real welfare reform be implemented.

It is no good punishing those who genuinely cannot get work because of the destroyed economy, and no amount of fake ConDem “incentivising” can create jobs where there are none.

However, once work opportunities which pay a decent living wage actually do exist, the welfare system must be overhauled to prevent scroungers from abusing the well-meant charity of the rest of society.

To this end, the British National Party has argued that the only true reform of the welfare system should be the implementation of a “workfare not welfare” system.

According to the BNP’s 2010 election manifesto, such as system would work as follows: “Originally, benefits were meant to be the state’s obligation to support those who genuinely were not in a position to support themselves. This guiding principle must always remain the guiding light for a just and humane system — and it is the core of the British National Party’s welfare policy.

Decades of Labour and Tory socialist state-induced welfare dependency has utterly distorted this noble ideal. Well-meaning welfare programmes have been exploited, distorted and twisted to become nothing more than a free handout to scroungers, foreign and local.

This has in turn created a welfare dependency culture which has led to in excess of six million people living in homes where no one has a job and where benefits are a way of life.

Not only does this cost the taxpayer in excess of £13 billion per year, but it also has a hugely damaging effect upon the psychology of a nation which once led the world in productivity and technological innovation and which gave birth to the Industrial Revolution. This dire situation must be reversed — urgently.

The BNP proposed to reverse these decades of disastrous Labour and Tory social engineering programmes through a sensible policy of workfare, not welfare.

The principle is simple: those who receive community support incur obligations as well. People who genuinely want to work must be provided with the opportunity to do so in return for training which will put them back into proper full-time employment.

In return for financial support and training for a new career, the benefit recipient must complete a certain number of hours of work per week. Properly implemented, this policy will undermine the benefit dependency culture and bring masses of unemployed back into the formal employment sector.

Ultimately there must be only one category of welfare recipient: those who genuinely deserve or have earned it. The scrounger entitlement mentality must be discarded. Those who can work but refuse to do so, must face the consequences of their actions.

To this extent, we shall require that those who have been out of work for over 18 months participate in local work schemes in return for their taxpayer-funded benefits.

The success of the “workfare not welfare” policy has been proven: these programmes already exist in Australia, America and even in India. Britain has to get back to work: and workfare provides the only path through which this aim will be achieved.”

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Southampton Councils Double Standards on Dress Codes Mini NO! Hijab YES!

WOMEN wearing mini-skirts could be sent home from work, a council has warned staff. In an amazing but not unexpected type of a statement from the Marxist infiltrated councils we now have in the UK. Southampton City Council has banned its female workers from showing off their legs to avoid shocking the public.

A memo sent to 400 staff insists they dress in “appropriate” clothing including trousers, informal dresses or skirts of “reasonable” length – but “not mini-skirts”. The memo was sent to social workers, youth workers, educational welfare officers and others in children’s services.

It said: “Please try to dress smartly, in line with other professionals you come across in your work, and in a way that shows respect to children and families.” 

This just shows the double standards of these out of touch PC riddled morons who have wormed their way to positions of authority at all levels of government via the Liberal Labour and Conservative parties. On one hand they are quite willing to deny any pretty girl the chance to show of a nice pair of legs. Probably because they are over weight lesbian Marxist types , who would only be attractive to a hard up Baboon or a African wanting UK residency? 

And yet on the other hand demand that we have to put up with the offensive sight of a woman forced to wear the hijab that is a offensive 13th century form of oppression, that has no place in any half civilised country, least of all in the UK. if you like me are sick to death of these double standards , just do not sit back and just moan , do what I did join the British National Party now by clicking this secure link  https://www.bnp.org.uk/membership.html 

Obama The Moslem Why is Obama so keen to see the End of White, Christian Europe and USA

Obama The Moslem

  Author: Tim Heydon |  

Obama - A man whose politics are a  function of his psychologically damaging mixed race/ cultural /religious background.

Why is Obama so keen to see the End of White, Christian  Europe  - and USA? 

Why is the USA , and Obama in particular, so keen to push Turkey into the EU? Turkey of course would only be the first major Islamic country in ' Europe .' Once in, what real arguments would there then be to stop the inclusion of others in due course?  First would come more countries bordering the Mediterranean . Then others further afield, even eventually Iraq and Iran . Then on to Pakistan , sub-Saharan Africa and on and on until a huge 'Market State' whose sole function is economic is created, perhaps encompassing everywhere except China , India and the USA   and its economic partners in North and South America . Next stop total Oneness.
 The Roots of Obama's Psychology and Politics
No doubt the USA thinks that the disappearance of the nation states of Europe is in its own strategic and commercial interests. But there are other, highly significant motivations behind Obama's attitudes. It is the (hardly original) opinion of this writer that the world-views of people like Obama, Cameron etc are a product to a great degree of their personal psychology and circumstances. It takes a great deal to convince a person to come round to  ideologies or ways of thinking other than those to which his or her personality is naturally attracted.
David Cameron, for example, exhibits all the  condescension of the guilt-ridden overprivileged.  This manages to include misplaced, patronising pity or concern for ordinary people with an arrogant assumption of all kinds of superiority: social, intellectual, educational, moral...... Ordinary people tend to be viewed as less than fully human by those with Cameron's background. There is too in Cameron's background a dash of minority ethnicity, as well as family connections in the City. This is why he is a Tory, a Wet and a 'Progressive' economic liberal who believes Utopia lies in the freedom to make money.
So what are the circumstances of Obama? We know that he is the son of a Kenyan father who abandoned his 60's- style radical white mother. His mother then traipsed round the globe with her son in tow, living for a time in Moslem Indonsia where Obama had an Indonesian step-father and  went to a moslem school.  This must surely have produced deeply felt attitudes and psychological conflicts in the young Obama, such as feelings of rejection due to the behaviour of his natural father and a sense of confusion, alienation and rootlessness; of not really belonging anywhere, which are being worked out on the stage of USA and world politics.  For example, being only part white,  Obama is considered a black in the USA and it is in blackness that he has found some kind of anchorage, some kind of roots.  His religious roots are as ambiguous as are his racial and cultural ones. He claims that he  is a Christian. But is he? Obama was brought up as a moslem. According to Major General Curry  in the American Magazine 'Guns and Patriots', he is a Moslem. Curry writes;-

Major General Curry

If it looks like a duck, quacks like  a duck, waddles like  a duck and acts like a duck.....

'My mother believed in "common sense" testing. She said if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck and acts like a duck; it's a duck. She believed that actions speak louder than words and that only a liar said one thing and then did the opposite.
Would President Obama pass my mother's "is he a Muslim" test? Let's see. President Obama says there is nothing more beautiful than the Muslim call to prayer in the evening. He says that the United States was not founded as a Christian nation.
Obama's father and step-father were Muslims and he spent his childhood living in a Muslim country where his school enrollment records say his religion is Islam. As President of the United States he genuflects to the Muslim King of Saudi Arabia but not the Christian Queen of England . He thumbs his nose at America 's friends and bows to its enemies. In short, Obama quacks like a Muslim, waddles like a Muslim and acts like a Muslim, so is he a Muslim? My mother would say, "Yes! He's a Muslim through and through."
Growing up as a Muslim, Obama must have learned that according to the Qur'an it is acceptable to lie, deceive and live by a double standard provided in so doing one advances Islamic goals. Muslims only pretend to trust and be friends with non-Muslims; in the deepest of their Muslim hearts they have been taught that all non-Muslims are infidels.
Speaking of double standards, Saudi Arabia is building mosques all over the world and Muslims are hoping to build a 13 story mosque at "Ground Zero" in New York City . At the same time, Islam's double standard mandates that no non-Muslim churches be built in Saudi Arabia or other Islamic countries.
A good example of this double standard principle in action was Yasser Arafat. He could seemingly enter into genuine peace negotiations with the United States and Israel and, at the same time; lie about it with complete sincerity. Routinely he made all sorts of promises and pronouncements in English, and the very next day said the exact opposite to an Arabic audience -- perhaps to him it wasn't really lying, just being faithful to the teachings of the Qur'an.
Is it because President Obama is secretly a Muslim that he can so sincerely pretend, like Arafat, that his actions and policies have never put a strain on U.S. Israeli relations? "If you look at every public statement I have made it has been a constant reaffirmation of the special relationship between the United States and Israel ." This is like President Clinton saying that it depends on what the meaning of is is.
In 2005 the U.S. promised Israel , in writing, that in future negotiations with the Palestinians we would not insist that Israel withdraw to its pre-1967 borders. But last year the Obama Administration said that that promise would no longer be honored.
In the past, both Democrat and Republican Administrations have insisted that negotiations be based on a two-state solution, which means that for Palestinian refugees
there can be no open "right of return" to Israel

With open immigration the number of Palestinians living in Israel would quickly overwhelm the number of Jews, and soon the Jewish state would cease to exist. Candidate Obama, while running for president, made it clear that he did not support a "right of return" for Palestinian refugees. But now that he's president, he has reneged on that promise.
  
Months ago Obama promised to send 1,500 National Guard troops to the Arizona border and to spend at least $500 million on border security. Gov. Brewer is still waiting for the troops and money to arrive.
In a recent Muslim-double-standard speech, President Obama bragged that the southwest American border is as safe as it has ever been. But at the same time his Administration was putting up signs warning American citizens to stay away from the Arizona border area because, "SMUGGLING AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY BE ENCOUNTERED IN THIS AREA."
Is Obama a Muslim? You make the call.

British People Put Last Again as ConDems Launch New Foreign Aid Fund

British People Put Last as ConDem Regime Launches New Foreign Aid Fund

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In the same week that the ConDem regime announced plans to “overhaul” the benefits system for British people, the Department for International Development (DFID) announced a brand new foreign aid scheme designed to “boost employment” in the Third World.

According to a DFID press release, a “new fund that will benefit a range of small to large civil society organisations” will be launched this year.

Apparently the objective of this new fund is to “support poverty-fighting groups who focus on delivering the Millennium Development Goals” and “targets to improve the lives of the world’s poorest, adopted in 2001.”

The fund will give “innovation grants” and “impact grants” for projects aimed at “poverty reduction” in other countries.

These grants will, the DFID informs us, “total £40 million in the first year” alone.

At the same time, deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced in a separate statement that the DFID’s “Structural Reform Plan” will now focus on getting “more girls into primary and secondary education” in the Third world and will also concentrate on “developing new projects on property rights, investment and microfinance.”

Microfinance is economic-speak for personal loans to individuals in the Third World.

Any person who has recently attempted to apply for a loan from a British bank (most of which as allegedly taxpayer-owned) will know how hard it is to raise a personal loan.

In addition, Mr Clegg announced that the DFID would revise “strategies for Afghanistan and Pakistan” which would focus on a “for more integrated post-conflict reconstruction.”

Bizarrely, the conflict in Afghanistan which caused all the damage which they now seek to “reconstruct” was started by the Westminster parties in the first place.

To add insult to injury, Mr Clegg also announced that more British taxpayer money would be spent to “help poor countries to take part in international climate change negotiations.”

Finally, Mr Clegg said that the ConDem regime would “honour the UK’s commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on overseas aid from 2013 and enshrine this commitment in law.”

Mr Clegg’s ConDem regime has yet to announce any such “poverty alleviation” programme for British people, and instead have announced their intention to cut all departmental budgets by 25 percent — except of course, the foreign aid budget.

The British National Party is the only party which demands an end to the foreign aid swindle which sees British taxpayers going into debt in order to hand out cash to foreign aid recipients such as China, India, Pakistan, Russia and South Africa — all of whom have massive military expenditures of their own.

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Blasphemy Legislation Threatens Freedom of Speech, Warns Civitas

Blasphemy Is Back as 'Hate' Legislation Threatens Freedom of Speech, Warns Civitas

From the BNP Newsroom

Legislation and the politically–motivated prosecution of individuals for “religious hatred” is merely the reintroduction of ancient blasphemy laws which threaten freedom of speech, a new publication by independent think tank Civitas has warned.

In a book titled A New Inquisition: Religious Persecution in Britain Today, Jon Gower Davies, formerly the Head of Religious Studies at Newcastle University, reveals the “bizarre and oppressive nature of judicial attempts to prosecute individuals for religious hatred” and of how this “new legal concept has resulted in some singularly worrying court cases,” a Civitas press release said.

“Hate legislation removes an increasing quantity of matters traditionally dealt with in civil society to the domain of the state and the courts,” Civitas continued, adding that this was merely the old Blasphemy Law “by the backdoor.”

Civitas pointed out that the Blasphemy Law was abolished in 2008, but has re-emerged in a new and radically augmented guise.

“Today, individuals are not charged with blasphemy, but with causing 'religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress' under the Public Order Act.

“Jon Davies argues that the growth in accusations of 'hate crime' threatens freedom of speech because they destroy the possibility and practice of open, sociable and critical discussion of religion.

“Whilst the total number of racial and religious hate crimes fell from 13,201 in 2006-7 to 11,845 in 2008-9, the volume of hate legislation has rapidly expanded,” Civitas continued.

“There are now more than 35 Acts of Parliament, 52 Statutory Instruments, 13 Codes of Practice, 3 Codes of Guidance and 16 European Commission Directives which bear on 'discrimination.' And most recently, the Single Equality Act was passed by Parliament in April 2010."

Despite all this legislation, a proper legal definition of 'hatred' remains elusive. According to the new Civitas book, a government action plan states that a “(religious) hate crime is a criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a persons religion or perceived religion.”

Furthermore, Civitas points out, “hatred” is “not only presented as an offence on its own account, but can also be seen as something which aggravates ordinary public order offences. When an ordinary offence is aggravated by 'hatred' based on race, religion, gender, or age, then the sentence too is 'aggravated' (i.e. increased).”

Jon Davies argues that these 'definitions' are without substance, and inevitably result in confusion and silliness in their application.

“The attempt to define a 'hate incident' in terms of 'hostility' results in perilous imprecision: it is not possible to know when individuals have been hated — or, indeed, when they have themselves been hating — and for how long and to what depth and to what effect.

“The essence of the criminal justice system should be justice and impartiality, but turning religious hatred into a criminal offence turns police, the Crown Prosecution Service and judges into surrogate theologians — a kind of theocracy (an uncomfortable theocracy at that) by the backdoor,” the book says.

“To demonstrate the oppressive oddity of judicial attempts to regulate religious hatred, Jon Davies describes the 2009 case of Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang, owners of the Bounty House Hotel in Liverpool.

“Following a discussion between the Vogelenzangs and a guest at their hotel, Mrs Erica Tazi, about the respective merits of her religion (Islam) and theirs (Christianity), Mrs Tazi made a formal complaint to the Merseyside police about what she said were offensive remarks made by the Vogelenzangs.

“They were subject to a grim and prolonged ordeal when they were accused of a religiously aggravated hate crime. For several months they were pursued by the police and the Crown Prosecution Service.

“The Vogelenzangs were prosecuted contrary to the evidence; when the full story came to court, it transpired that a Muslim doctor had also been eating breakfast in the hotel and found nothing objectionable about the couple's conduct. Jon Davies calls the case: '...a hackle-raising demonstration of disquieting changes in the relationship between our history, the citizen, his or her religion, his or her civil society and the state'.

“He argues that hate legislation has demolished several of the traditional defences of the citizen. For example, the 'burden of proof' is effectively reversed under section 66(5) of the Equality Act (2006), because whilst by long-established practice the Vogelenzangs should have been regarded as innocent until proven guilty: '[There was a] public presumption of culpability... the local NHS authority [which provided 80 per cent of the Bounty House income] cancelled their bookings'.

“There is evidence of at best arbitrary, at worst biased, application of the law. In a recent case a Muslim man defaced a war memorial (a Christian and national symbol) in Burton upon Trent.

“He sprayed the words 'Islam will dominate the world-Osama is on his way' and 'Kill Gordon Brown' across the plinth. He was prosecuted for criminal damage, that is for neither a racially nor a religiously aggravated offence.”

Recommended reading:  A New Inquisition: Religious Persecution in Britain Today

By Jon Gower Davies — Open societies in which we try to settle our differences without violence have been a great human achievement. However, because freedom of speech is the prevailing view in Britain, we are not as alert to the risk of its overthrow as we should be.

Jon Gower Davies, former Head of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Newcastle, examines the new legal concept of religious hatred and provides striking examples from recent legal cases to reveal the oppressive and bizarre nature of judicial attempts to regulate such things.

Hate legislation removes an increasing quantity of matters traditionally dealt with in civil society, to the domain of the state and the courts.

Furthermore, the exercise of such legislation seems to create the very atmosphere it was designed to prevent - hatred.

Jon Davies warns against developments which will make traditional public debates about religion and its critics impossible. He hopes for a British culture which validates a public seeking for religious truth and is more or less at ease with jokes and ribaldries, and he is profoundly ill at ease with censorship of them or with threats made against their authors. Jon Davies shows why the liberal majority needs to reassert the convention that the law should be used not as a weapon to suppress unpopular opinions, but rather as the protector of free speech. P/B 77 pp. £8.00 including P&P Click here to purchase online.

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Tonight at 8pm GMT - The VOTBR On Line Radio and the Rev West BNP

Tonight at 8pm GMT - The VOTBR and the Rev West BNP

Created: Sunday, 01 August 2010 12:38 Author: Green Arrow |  

The Reverend West on the Campaign Trail

OK, as a favour for you people who were either still in bed or in Church this morning at 10am, we are going to replay todays release of the Voice of the British Resistance show and the excellent sermon read by the Rev West.

Now by now, you know how good the VOTBR show is but how many have you have had the opportunity to listen to the Rev West?  He reminds me of the Rev Smith made famous in "The defense of Rorke's Drift" painting.

In fact so good a speaker is Rev West that even Roger Phillips delayed going to the pub, so engrossed was he in what the good reverend was saying.

So meet you all tonight in the Home of the Green Arrow - Promoting the BNP paltalk room where Bertie Burt will be hosting the evening.