Fifth terror-related conviction for a Blackburn muslim in recent years

Fifth terror-related conviction for a Blackburn muslim in recent years

Created: Wednesday, May 2010 07:38 Author: News Reporter |

A BLACKBURN man who posed as the head of al Qaeda in Britain and called for the deaths of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair has pleaded guilty to a string of terrorist offences.
Ishaq Kanmi, 23, of Cromwell Street, posted messages on a jihadi website which declared the Prime Minister and his predecessor would be sought by 'martyrdom seekers' if his demands were not met.
Pretending to be Umar Rabie - the head of 'al Qaeda in Britain' - he issued a two-month deadline in January 2008 calling for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, together with the release of all Muslim 'captives' from Belmarsh Prison.
Over a series of months he spent up to nine hours a day at Black-burn Central Library researching and plotting, Manchester Crown Court heard. But he was unaware that counter terrorism police spent five months conducting covert surveillance of his activities after being alerted by a website moderator.
Kanmi was arrested at Manchester Airport as he waited to board a flight to Finland in August 2008. He had three electronic storage devices in his suitcase and was carrying a mobile phone all of which contained terror-related inform-ation which he intended to distr-ibute.
Today he pleaded guilty to professing to belong to al Qaeda and inviting support for the terror group. He also admitted collecting or making a record of information likely to be useful to a terrorist and three counts of disseminating terrorist publications.
Kanmi denied two counts of soliciting to murder Mr Brown and Mr Blair, which the Crown Prosecution Service said it was content to lie on file. Andrew Edis QC, prosecuting, said inviting support for a 'murderous organi-sation' such as al Qaeda was a similar crime to soliciting to murder.The pleas brought a strong reaction from Muslim community leaders in Blackburn.
Coun Salim Mulla, the chairman of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, said Kanmi was a 'rotten apple' who had behaved in a 'completely unacceptable way'.
And Jack Straw, Blackburn MP, said the court action, the fifth terror-related conviction for a Blackburn man in recent years, had come as a shock.

Following the lifting of reporting restrictions yesterday it can now be revealed that Kanmi was travelling to Helsinki when he was arrested in January 2008.
He was with Abbas Iqbal, 24, one of two brothers who filmed al Qaeda-style propaganda and dubbed themselves 'The Black-burn Resistance'.
Iqbal, of Percival Street, Black-burn, was sentenced to three years in jail at Manchester Crown Court two months ago.
Another terrorist linked to Kanmi was Albanian Krenar Lusha, 30, who was convicted by a jury at Preston Crown Court in December last year of five counts of possessing terror-related articles, and jailed for seven years.
Kanmi, still posing as Umar Rabie, had been in phone and internet contact with Lusha who was caught downloading a video on how to blow people up when police burst into his home in Derby.
Officers also discovered 71.8 litres of petrol in the cellar of Lusha's terrace house and computer documents such as 'The Bomb Book' and videos including 'Mobile Detonators'.
The convictions were the culmination of an operation which saw undercover police stationed at Blackburn Library between March to July 2008. They watched and filmed Kanmi while he used the computers.
During last year’s aborted trial, Mr Edis said Kanmi admitted making the two postings regarding Mr Brown and Mr Blair but would counter that it was a joke and that he never thought anyone would take him seriously.
The first message posted on the al-Ekhlaas website on January 2, 2008 compiled a list of aims for al Qaeda in Britain which included 'the elimination of political leaders and top of the list Blair and Brown. As God said: ‘Kill the nonbelievers’.'
Another objective was 'huge attacks, God willing, on centres and places of benefit to the crusaders. As God said: ‘Kill the participants as you find them, take them, guard them and wait for them’.'
The message concluded: 'We invite all Muslims in Britain to join us and prepare themselves for martyrdom operations and not lose this golden chance.
'We also invite all Muslims in Europe to make us victorious in Europe, with men and money, until the British government withdraws its troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.'
It was signed 'Leadership of al Qaeda in Britain.'
A second posting followed on January 24, 2008, composed from a public computer at Blackburn Central Library, in which Kanmi wrote: 'In the name of Allah, we the organisation of al Qaeda in Briton (sic) offers a truce to the British government.
'Our demands are as follows - 1: A complete withdrawal of the British troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, 2: To free all Muslim captives from Belmarsh Prison.
'If the British government fails to respond to our demands within the last day of March 2008 then the Martyrdom seekers of the organisation of al Qaeda in Britain will target all the political leaders especially Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
'And we will target all embassies, crusaders’ centre and their interests throughout the country, with the help of Allah.'
Mr Edis said Kanmi began using the name Umar Rabie on a US chat forum called Infovlad in May 2007.
He went on to create two other online identities, Umar Rabie’s Bro and Lover of Islam.
On the planned visit to Finland, Kanmi was to formally introduce Iqbal to the mosque leaders who had offered the latter a teaching post, the court heard.
He had previously visited a newly-opened mosque in the Finnish capital in his purported role as an Islamic scholar.
When searched at the airport both men were carrying terror-related information on mobile storage devices contained in their luggage.
Kanmi possessed a film from the media wing of al Qaeda about the 7/7 bombings in London and other videos on martyrdom and military training.
In Iqbal’s suitcase was a memory card which contained a video of two men dressed in camouflage crawling through Corporation Park in Blackburn.
Joel Bennathan QC, defending Kanmi, said it would be argued that his client was 'reckless rather than intentional' in some of his actions.
He said: “We will say this is a very young, damaged man who is a million miles away from Abu Hamza.”
Sentencing will take place on a date yet to be fixed as psychiatric and psychological reports on the defendant are prepared.
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Even more Electoral UK Fraud?

Even more Electoral Fraud?

Created:  May 2010  Author: Peter Turpin |

In the council elections of 2009 I was election agent for Epping Forest branch. We were standing in every county council ward and also a district by-election.

I attended the counting of the postal ballots a week before polling day and I was surprised to find I was the only election agent there. I was also told that I could not bring anyone with me which some have said should not have been the case. When I arrived at the count I was aware of a corridor passing through the centre of the room and council staff were passing through the room to get to the toilets.

I could immediately feel that my presence was not wanted so I sat in the corner out of the way. At 1 o'clock the counters were dismissed for a 1 hour lunch break and 4 of the 5 officials left the room. I was now in the room alone with one official and members of the council were still using the corridor to get to the toilets, within feet of opened ballot papers. I thought this was way out of order.

After the initial stampede of the council staff using the room for access to the toilets it went quiet. Then the leader of the council entered the room, a person who is very much against the BNP.  She greeted the official who you must realise works for her, she is his boss.  She gives the orders and if he wants to keep his job he must obey her. They started talking and then she noticed me in the corner of the room and appeared surprised to see me there.

It then stuck me that if I had not have attended the opening of the postal ballot votes, an ardent opponent of our party would have been alone in the room with 1000's of opened ballot papers laying on tables and just one official in attendance.

About 4 months after this time this leader of the council had the CEO of the council (who had worked there for 38 years) dismissed for no reason that anyone in the council could ascertain.So you can see how much power she would have had over this lone official.

The count went on until 4pm and when finished the counters were sent home. The council officials were now standing around looking very uncomfortable and I could sense something was about to happen.

A man entered the room with a trolley and the officials loaded it with ballot boxes. Then the man proceeded to wheel the trolley out. I jumped up and said
" Aren't you going to put the seals on? You said I could put my seals on "

The head of the electoral office then shouted at me "they will only come off in the morning!"

I replied "but surely you have got to put the seals on, that's the law isn't it?"

She again shouted at me angrily "no it's not the law"

I stood between the door and the trolley determined that it would not leave until the seals were put on. I now had 5 officials standing in front of me looking at me as though I had just killed someone. It was very intimidating.

The head of the electoral office left the room and a few minutes later returned with the head of democratic services who informed me that the seals will indeed be put on. The seals were literally snatched out of my hands and put on the boxes.  It took 10 minutes at most.  Now remember that these ballot boxes would have remained opened in the council offices for a week.

On polling day I received a phone call from our organiser who informed me that one of the polling  officials was saying that we would not be allowed to put a seal on his ballot boxes when the count closed.  On arriving at the polling station our organiser informed me that the official in charge of this polling station was one of the biggest anti-BNP campaigners in Epping Forest.  This man was in charge of the polling station, can you believe that?

You can draw your own conclusions from the above, why all the antagonism towards me for wanting to put seals on the ballot boxes which only took ten minutes to do?

How can it be that an anti-BNP campaigner was allowed to be in charge of a polling station, which in fact was the  most out of the way polling station that night.  Draw your own conclusions, but the counting of the postal ballots must be attended and you must be prepared to watch them like hawks.
Voter fraud?(BALLOT): An article from: National Voter

Britain Has Entered a New Political Era - Post Election Analysis by Chairman Nick Griffin

Britain Has Entered a New Political Era - Post Election Analysis by Chairman Nick Griffin

Dear Fellow Patriot,

So the election dust has now settled, and from our point of view there are four key outcomes:

First, the resulting hung Parliament and political instability will rapidly add to Gordon Brown's economic disaster. The Bank of England prediction that whoever won this election will end up being "out of power for a generation" is now going to apply to two of the three old parties. That's bad news for Britain, but good news for us.

Second, although many people were initially disappointed that the enormously sympathetic response (yes, don't worry; it wasn't just you, it had me going too!) we received from the public during the campaign did not translate into huge votes, the fact remains that this was the best general election result in the history of British nationalism. The headline figures tell us what we need to know:

* Total votes cast 563,743. This compares with 192,746 votes secured by the BNP in 117 seats in 2005. The nearest comparison historically is with 1979, when the National Front fought the now easily broken record of 303 seats, from which it garnered a feeble 191,719 votes

* There were a record number of deposits saved. This would undoubtedly have been even higher were it not for us missing out on crossing this important threshold in a number of seats by the votes that were undoubtedly lost in each constituency thanks to the confusion and concern caused by the unforgiveable sabotage of our website.

* The 6,620 votes I secured in Barking is the highest number ever cast for a BNP (or in fact for any British nationalist party) candidate in a general election.

* BNP candidates beat UKIP in the majority of seats where we went head-to-head - despite their party having vastly more money and receiving relentless media puffs. And we positively slaughtered the Greens.

Third, our frankly shocking wipe-out from Barking & Dagenham council is, when we look at the facts, not some terrible indictment of our councillors or leadership, but simply the result of a paradigm shift in the quality of Labour's election-winning machine.

Four years ago, the British National Party, Respect and the Christian People's Alliance between us dealt a series of shattering blows to Labour, particularly in Barking & Dagenham, Stoke, Tower Hamlets and Newham.

Rather than losing heart and wasting time blaming each other, Labour took this as a wakeup call and set about improving their election machine.

Opposition plants, sacked and bitter incompetents and ambitious knaves may use such moments to try to advance their own personal agendas, but looking for better ways to do things next time is what mature parties with real ambitions do.

Last year I wrote that Labour's use against us of state-of-the-art US techniques imported by Obama's Blue State Digital team was only a trial run, and that the real target in the long term was the Tory party.

Some people may not have believed me then, but look at what Labour just achieved by rolling out BSD's potent mix of targeted voter contact, sophisticated data basing and the ruthless use of deceit and lies to sway vulnerable voters.

It didn't just knock us out in Barking & Dagenham and take 10 of Respect's 11 seats in Tower Hamlets, but it also eliminated all opposition on Newham council, wiping out Respect and turning a confident Christian People's Alliance challenge into the loss of all three of their existing seats.

Despite Blair, despite Brown, the strong local challenges of three radical alternative parties have been crushed, leaving the whole of East London, from the edge of the City right out to the horsey fields of Essex, a Labour one party state.

The same tactics were also rolled out against the Tories and Lib Dems in other key areas, with the result that Labour, despite losing heavily in the general election, walked back into control of no fewer than 14 major councils up and down the country.

I am not saying that our inability to stand up to the Labour steamroller is not in part our own fault - of course it is. Our elections department did rest on its four- or five- year-old laurels, despite our failure to win a by-election for more than two years.

Personally I should have acted quicker to reinvigorate that side of the party - putting Clive Jefferson in charge with the brief to bring his innovative approach to wooing and securing the postal vote (the advance he pioneered that undoubtedly won us our two northern Euro seats last year) was something I should have done earlier.

But there's no use crying over spilt milk or beating ourselves up over our failure to stand up to Labour's brilliantly effective new techniques.

Rather, we must learn from the scientifically applied beating we've just received, and equip ourselves to hand out the same to our opponents in future.

I'm looking forward to that, and I know that it can and will be done.

The fourth and final point is that we have just seen the last first-past-the-post major election contest in British history.

Apart from local council elections, which may continue to be held on the old basis for some time yet, first-past-the-post is finished; Britain has entered a new political era.

Next year we have the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliamentary elections - proportional representation (PR) contests in which we can win (we only missed out winning last time around in Wales by a few thousand votes, and our Welsh results last week all showed further clear improvements).

In two years' time we have another round of Greater London Assembly elections - a PR contest in which we have already shown we can win.

Just two years after that we'll be back contesting the European elections, defending our two seats and aiming to win more.

And probably even before then, we'll be facing another general election. That too will almost certainly be fought with a PR system.

If a pure one were to be adopted, last week's showing would give us twelve MPs, which would compare well with UKIP's twenty and the Greens' six.

In fact, the Powers-That-Be will probably plump for a less fair system, but even the worst one possible is likely to lower the threshold for victory from the present mountain of about 36 percent down to a relative molehill of 15 percent. I know which target I'd rather have to reach.

Even more worrying for Labour and their hate-filled far-left mercenaries, the voter targeting they have now mastered in local elections is many times harder to roll out in the much larger constituencies that have to be used to make PR work.

We can, and will, learn ways to use techniques such as mass telephone contacts to boost and then mobilise our core vote in those future contests, but they are far harder to apply in the negative way we've just seen rough us up so effectively at local level.

With all major elections from now on therefore inevitably scheduled to involve PR, our opponents have just one year in which to break the British National Party.

Make no mistake, the forces of political hell are about to be unleashed on us. 'Operation Total Destruction of the BNP' is being rolled out right now.

You can see it in the fake emails supposedly from me and our London organiser, the brave Bob Bailey, in which we attack each other. Disastrous news - if it were only true, but fortunately it's not. And it would take much more than bogus emails to break the trust that people like Bob and I have in each other.

You'll hear it in the disgusting accusations of fraud, theft and all sorts of horror stories that are already being hawked around by various Searchlight and direct state assets who have burrowed into the party over the years.

Their previous subtle negativity, 'misjudgements' and minor acts of 'accidental' disruption are now being replaced by outright lies and sabotage in a last desperate throw of the dice to break our party before it's too late.

Again, if their tales were true, it would be a disgrace, but fortunately they are not.

Old hands have seen it before, of course, back in 1979. And that's the real good news, because enough of us know what we will now have to face together to be able to guide our party through this treacherous passage of stormy and rocky waters.

The would-be wreckers, waving their fake lighthouse lanterns from various deadly cliffs, will get short shrift from us.

Those who offer easy routes to victory, or who whisper poison against colleagues but who publicly profess loyalty or 'concern for the party', should be called to account at every turn.

If you hear anything that sounds too bad to be true about the people who have transformed this party thus far, and who united will do even more good, then understand that it probably isn't true.

New readers might at this point be thinking, "what's going on here, surely this isn't what happens in normal political parties?"

Well, friends new and old alike, that's quite right. Because the BNP is NOT a "normal political party."

In fact, in reality, we are much more than a political party, and have no desire to be like the others. For this is not a "party", so much as a movement - nay, the movement - of national salvation.

Without a complete change of course our entire nation and civilisation are heading for the rocks and for irrevocable disaster.

The old parties, the internationalist masters of the media, and the super rich and the banksters they all ultimately serve, are all happy with that deadly course. After all, they charted it.

So why should anyone who understands that be surprised to learn that these people - with all their money, all their greed, all their ruthlessness and all their fear of justice and the anger of a people betrayed - will use a combination of apparently 'internal' squabbles, wicked and baseless accusations against the innocent, and no doubt a wave of legal attacks from without, to try to drive this party to destruction over the months ahead.

They can try; they are trying - but with your loyalty and true British team spirit and dogged determination, they will fail. Our day will come - because, together, we will make it come.

Yours sincerely,

Nick Griffin, MEP
Leader, British National Party

DOUBLE STANDARDS OF BOLTON EVENING NEWS COUNT ABUSE STORY

ELECTION COUNT ABUSE BY LABOUR HORDES UPDATE!

In a staggering show of double standards the Bolton Evening News, has covered a incident of a Senior Labour Councillor allegedly slandering a defeated Tory candidate. in the article in the B.E.N it says 
"A SENIOR Labour councillor has been reported to Bolton Council over claims he shouted abuse at a losing Conservative candidate during last Thursday’s election count.
Tory supporter Ian Upton has reported Cllr Guy Harkin, who was re-elected to the council in last year’s Crompton by-election, to Bolton Council chief executive Sean Harriss after being “disgusted” at his behaviour at the Bolton Arena count.
Mr Upton alleges Cllr Harkin made a “slanderous”
reference"

And yet their has been no reporting by the BEN of how the Brave Bolton South East PPC Shelia Spinks suffered Anti British Racism and how other BNP candidates were also racially abused also. 

This article says to us at the Horwich Nationalists how the once widely read Bolton evening news, has degraded it,s self to the level of the Labour party, and is no longer like Labour interested in reporting the truth. 

And that it should remember what Malcolm Muggeridge is quoted as saying " Never forget the fact that only dead fish swim with the stream". If it ever wishes to avoid the fate of many other local newspapers!

BRAVE BOLTON BNP CANDIDATE COURAGEOUS ELECTION SPEECH IN FACE OF ISLAMIC LABOUR HORDE

See and listen how the authorities let the brave Bolton south east British National Party candidate Shelia Spinks, suffer anti British racism from the Islamic labour horde that turned the election count on May the 6th in a shameful event. Shelia Spinks was not the only BNP lady candidate to suffer at the hands of this labour rabble, the following day at the local election count the Delightful Dorathee Sayers was open racially abused, POLICE REACTION ZERO! 
for goodness sake join us in our battle for freedom, before you suffer the same abuse in your everyday life!!!!!!!!! please ignore the not graceful tag some Marxist traitor idiot on you tube put that on.

Immigration and Asylum Madness Continues as Lib/Lab/Con Coalition Talks Splutter On

Immigration and Asylum Madness Continues as Lib/Lab/Con Coalition Talks Splutter On

Tue, 11/05/2010 - FROM  BNP News

Muslim terrorist suspects — and their wives — continue to brazenly parasite off the British taxpayer while the Lib/Lab/Con artists concentrate on trying to gain power to perpetuate their policies for the destruction of Britain.

In the latest shambolic display of Britain’s smashed border and security policies, a Muslim terrorist suspect from Algeria has been granted the right to stay in Britain under the “Human Rights Act” (HRA) travesty.

The suspect, who is so protected that he cannot even be named and is only identified as “T,” entered Britain in 1997 on a false passport. He brought his wife to Britain in 2001 using false documents.

Since then, he has used taxpayers’ money to fight all deportation attempts and has now been granted leave to remain in Britain because he has now had children in this country.

The HRA was created by the Labour regime to make Britain’s legislation fall into line with European Union human rights laws.

This law is supported by the Lib Dems and although initially opposed by the Conservatives, they too have admitted that the law cannot be changed while Britain remains a member of the EU.

Remaining in the EU is of course a fundamental part of Conservative Party policy.

According to the latest ruling, immigration judges have ruled that attempts to remove “T” have taken so long that it would now be unfair on his four children to deport him.

The 39-year-old man has links with al-Qaeda suspect Abu Doha and attended the same training camp as the British shoe bombers Richard Reid and Saajid Badat.

According to reports, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) has ruled that deporting the suspect “would be unfair on his children.”

Astonishingly, it is said that the SIAC also “warned that further legal battles against his deportation could drag out for another two years, by which time his children 'will each have become even more settled in England.”

* Meanwhile, a ruling by the European Court of Justice last month forbid the British government from withholding benefits to the wives of terrorist suspects in this country.

According to reports, the decision will in all likelihood force the Government to change anti-terrorism rules.

The case was brought by three women whose husbands appear on a list of people said to have links with al Qaida, the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. This list, which was drawn up by a UN sanctions committee, contains names of people who have had their funds and other assets frozen, in a bid to cut off terrorist funding.

The EU enforces the measure via rules stating that no funds “shall be made available, directly or indirectly, to, or for the benefit of people named on the list, unless authorised to cover basic expenses.”

The wives of the suspects went to court to challenge the Treasury's decision to impose tough restrictions on access to social security payments worth several hundred pounds a week, including income support, child benefit and housing assistance.

Under the Treasury rules, such benefits must be paid into a bank account, and the spouse can draw only up to £10 in cash for each member of her household. All other payments from the account must be made by debit card.

The spouses, all living in the UK with their husbands and children, must also submit a monthly account to the Treasury detailing all spending, with receipts for any goods bought and copies of bank statements allowing Treasury officials to check that the purchases do not exceed “basic expenses.”

The EU court has ruled that “'The freezing of funds of persons with suspected links to bin Laden, al Qaida or the Taliban does not apply to certain social security benefits paid to their spouses.

“The regulation ordering funds to be frozen applies only to assets that can be used to support terrorist activities.”

In other words, thanks to the Lib/Lab/Con EU membership policy, British taxpayers are now obliged to financially support the families of Islamist terrorists as well.

British Election Was a “Fiasco That Would Shame the Third World” Says International Observer

British Election Was a “Fiasco That Would Shame the Third World” Says International Observer

Tue, 11/05/2010 - 13:12 |  BNP News

The British election was one of the “most shambolic, incompetent and fraudulent elections Britain has ever witnessed,” according to international observer and Oxford historian Mark Almond.

Mr Almond, who is also Visiting Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara, has said in a newspaper article that “ingenious fraudsters” from the “minority communities” have committed massive registration fraud.

Mr Almond’s comments have confirmed the British National Party’s allegations of massive ethnic gerrymandering in east London, where dozens of voters with ethnic names were found to be registered at addresses in key wards.

The huge ethnic “turnout” in the election played a critical role in the election result.

According to Mr Almond, “New Labour turned voter registration into a free-for-all. Coupled with unfettered immigration, keeping accurate electoral records was thus reduced to little more than guesswork.

“Ingenious fraudsters — usually in minority communities — were soon competing to see who could squeeze the most imaginary voters into one property.

“Worse still, Blair also opened up postal voting to anyone who requested it, making the scope for fraud even greater,” Mr Almond wrote.

He added that during the course of his work as an official observer in more than a hundred polls across the old Communist bloc, “I have witnessed more incompetence and corruption than I care to remember.

“Yet this week's British election has shocked even seasoned monitors like me. As one friend from Azerbaijan remarked archly to me yesterday, 'At least in my country, we have managed chaos’.

“What he meant was that while many corrupt governments around the world actively fiddle elections, in Britain we have witnessed fiasco rather than state-sponsored fraud.

“These are abuses of process one might expect in a banana republic, not in the land that gave us the Mother of all Parliaments,” he continued.

“In many other nations I have visited, an election as incompetently managed as Thursday's would result in riots in the street. In Britain, we just seem to shrug our shoulders.

“That is an insult to all those who have fought through the years to preserve a democracy we could once be proud of,” he concluded.

Working Until You Die is "Good" for the Economy

Working Until You Die is "Good" for the Economy

Created: Monday, 10 May 2010 16:06 Author: rugfish |  

No wonder Greeks are angry with their government when among its package of austerity involving increased pension ages, job cuts, the removal of protected areas of the economy like taxi driving and the legal professions, it is raising taxes and VAT.
Many Greeks will doubtless be bewildered by a system which seems only to want to take and not to give in terms of protecting the needs of its own citizenry, but of course since Greece is a part of the European Union, and since the European Union is about harmonising the bloc of countries in trade, then one can hardly be too sympathetic with Greeks when you learn that many have had retirement ages as low as age 50 and that other more productive countries such as Britain for example have sought to increase or abandon the retirement age altogether.
The UK Govt sold the idea of course, that it would be 'fairer' to 'allow' its citizens to work until they die here whilst simultaneously ending our ability to get a job by increasing immigration whilst imposing a lot of laws to promote positive discrimination where only white males can be discriminated against, and thus sold people the idea that this was good for society because Brits being without work, (obviously), is 'good for the economy???
But back to that idea the EU had to create a stable trading zone where goods bought in France were no differently priced to those bought in Spain or the Netherlands or in Britain.
This partial chart, taken from Wiki, shows the muddle of VAT rates across the EU.

It misses out a few unfortunately as I couldn't squeeze them all in here, so it's as best you know that Britain's VAT rate is currently 17.5% with a lower rate of 5% on domestic energy. Whereas Sweden's is 25% and 12%, and the Canary Isles has a top rate of 5% with no lower rate.
I wonder where harmonised trading is supposed to be in this when clearly goods bought in one country will simply not be the same as in another when VAT rates themselves are not equal?
Surely this is competition not equality?
Yet if you believe politicians (and I don't), then you would think we are part of a trading bloc in order to balance out our economic fortunes as members, and that 'protectionism', or 'competition' is to be frowned upon?
How can this be equal when incomes and salaries and pensions and pensionable ages, VAT and income taxes are not 'equal'?
But there are other questions too, and at this point I'm minded to go get some more figures but I'll resist the temptation to do that right now and instead give readers the benefit of the doubt that they themselves are intelligent enough to see there are major problems if wanting to think 'equality', if you live in an 'unequal system'.
For instance Greece doesn't have a nuclear program but France and Britain do and surely it is British and French taxpayers who would meet the bill of providing defences to Greece and to other European countries if the shit hit the fan, and meanwhile it is us who are maintaining those systems.
Another example for instance would be if the Canary Islands were seized and occupied by another dictator as they were in WWII, whether it would be the taxpayers of the Canaries who would meet the bill of British task forces with the measly contribution of Canarians of 5% which had already been re-invested into its economy and had been spent?
But I still feel sympathy personally for Greeks in their economic plight right now which sees that the only way for them to manage is with a sizeable loan through an EU and IMF led rescue plan which I can't really see as being that much different to tipping money down a Greek drain.
Greece's economy must surely have been primarily based on tourism unless you can think of any major Greek exports apart from Feta cheese? - Incidentally, the higher rate of VAT in Greece could be one reason why British tourists previously tended to have to dig deep into their Visa's when holidaying there, and it could be why 'some' would say it was a 'rip-off' when they returned?
Also, over 50% of their employed are employed by the state, and it has to be considered as to exactly where the money comes from to pay those people given that tourism generally has dropped by at best 40% across Europe?
How does Greece pay back its loan?
Oh hang on, you think tourism will bounce back and everything will be okay right?
Or maybe Greece could sell more cheese?
I would ask on the other hand, who will buy that cheese and who will be touring around Greece in the coming months, and then I'd look around and see our own economic drain hole which is about to start swirling to suck the last remaining bit of wealth out of British taxpayers pockets, in a climate where jobs are scarce, industry is non-existent, debts are high, cuts have to be made before we go under, and where our own state services employ 40% or more of the workforce on higher salaries than the national average along with immigrants who will likely not be giving up their jobs any time soon as a result that politicians have already been 'warned' - stroke - threatened with mass strikes if they make cuts to jobs or incomes.
So basically, the government will instead of upsetting immigrants and unions, go fishing into private pensions again and will have no scruples at making cuts where they hurt you but not it.
Nice for some people to feel that they are protected in a European Union where everyone and everything is 'harmonised' then?
I could go on a lot more but if I get into the industrial outputs of France and Germany versus that of all the other EU economies then I'll be here another week.
Go take a look yourselves and when you do, come back and tell me how we are 'equal partners', trading in a 'balanced economy', where we are able to live in 'harmony' in a market which is the same. And then tell me why 'protectionism' only applies if you have muscle to bring down governments like the unions in Britain which are funded predominently with money from state employees whose wages are met by the taxpayers, who are thus responsible for their own demise when that taxman's chopper lands on the back of their neck (or pension), and why anyone else can go take a flying leap because 'protectionism' is wrong (sic), and being unemployed or working until you die, and giving your jobs to immigrants is 'good' for the economy!

Britain Has Entered a New Political Era — Post Election Analysis by Nick Griffin

 

Britain Has Entered a New Political Era — Post Election Analysis by Nick Griffin

Mon, 05/10/2010 - 02:33 |  BNP News

So the election dust has now settled, and from our point of view there are four key outcomes:

First, the resulting hung Parliament and political instability will rapidly add to Gordon Brown’s economic disaster. The Bank of England prediction that whoever won this election will end up being “out of power for a generation” is now going to apply to two of the three old parties. That’s bad news for Britain, but good news for us.

Second, although many people were initially disappointed that the enormously sympathetic response (yes, don’t worry; it wasn’t just you, it had me going too!) we received from the public during the campaign did not translate into huge votes, the fact remains that this was the best general election result in the history of British nationalism. The headline figures tell us what we need to know:

* Total votes cast 563,743. This compares with 192,746 votes secured by the BNP in 117 seats in 2005. The nearest comparison historically is with 1979, when the National Front fought the now easily broken record of 303 seats, from which it garnered a feeble 191,719 votes

* There were a record number of deposits saved. This would undoubtedly have been even higher were it not for us missing out on crossing this important threshold in a number of seats by the votes that were undoubtedly lost in each constituency thanks to the confusion and concern caused by the unforgiveable sabotage of our website.

* The 6,620 votes I secured in Barking is the highest number ever cast for a BNP (or in fact for any British nationalist party) candidate in a general election.

* BNP candidates beat UKIP in the majority of seats where we went head-to-head — despite their party having vastly more money and receiving relentless media puffs. And we positively slaughtered the Greens.

Third, our frankly shocking wipe-out from Barking & Dagenham council is, when we look at the facts, not some terrible indictment of our councillors or leadership, but simply the result of a paradigm shift in the quality of Labour’s election-winning machine.

Four years ago, the British National Party, Respect and the Christian People’s Alliance between us dealt a series of shattering blows to Labour, particularly in Barking & Dagenham, Stoke, Tower Hamlets and Newham.

Rather than losing heart and wasting time blaming each other, Labour took this as a wakeup call and set about improving their election machine.

Opposition plants, sacked and bitter incompetents and ambitious knaves may use such moments to try to advance their own personal agendas, but looking for better ways to do things next time is what mature parties with real ambitions do.

Last year I wrote that Labour’s use against us of state-of-the-art US techniques imported by Obama’s Blue State Digital team was only a trial run, and that the real target in the long term was the Tory party.

Some people may not have believed me then, but look at what Labour just achieved by rolling out BSD’s potent mix of targeted voter contact, sophisticated data basing and the ruthless use of deceit and lies to sway vulnerable voters.

It didn’t just knock us out in Barking & Dagenham and take 10 of Respect’s 11 seats in Tower Hamlets, but it also eliminated all opposition on Newham council, wiping out Respect and turning a confident Christian People’s Alliance challenge into the loss of all three of their existing seats.

Despite Blair, despite Brown, the strong local challenges of three radical alternative parties have been crushed, leaving the whole of East London, from the edge of the City right out to the horsey fields of Essex, a Labour one party state.

The same tactics were also rolled out against the Tories and Lib Dems in other key areas, with the result that Labour, despite losing heavily in the general election, walked back into control of no fewer than 14 major councils up and down the country.

I am not saying that our inability to stand up to the Labour steamroller is not in part our own fault — of course it is. Our elections department did rest on its four- or five- year-old laurels, despite our failure to win a by-election for more than two years.

Personally I should have acted quicker to reinvigorate that side of the party — putting Clive Jefferson in charge with the brief to bring his innovative approach to wooing and securing the postal vote (the advance he pioneered that undoubtedly won us our two northern Euro seats last year) was something I should have done earlier.

But there’s no use crying over spilt milk or beating ourselves up over our failure to stand up to Labour’s brilliantly effective new techniques.

Rather, we must learn from the scientifically applied beating we’ve just received, and equip ourselves to hand out the same to our opponents in future.

I’m looking forward to that, and I know that it can and will be done.

The fourth and final point is that we have just seen the last first-past-the-post major election contest in British history.

Apart from local council elections, which may continue to be held on the old basis for some time yet, first-past-the-post is finished; Britain has entered a new political era.

Next year we have the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliamentary elections — proportional representation (PR) contests in which we can win (we only missed out winning last time around in Wales by a few thousand votes, and our Welsh results last week all showed further clear improvements).

In two years’ time we have another round of Greater London Assembly elections — a PR contest in which we have already shown we can win.

Just two years after that we’ll be back contesting the European elections, defending our two seats and aiming to win more.

And probably even before then, we’ll be facing another general election. That too will almost certainly be fought with a PR system.

If a pure one were to be adopted, last week’s showing would give us twelve MPs, which would compare well with UKIP’s twenty and the Greens’ six.

In fact, the Powers-That-Be will probably plump for a less fair system, but even the worst one possible is likely to lower the threshold for victory from the present mountain of about 36 percent down to a relative molehill of 15 percent. I know which target I’d rather have to reach.

Even more worrying for Labour and their hate-filled far-left mercenaries, the voter targeting they have now mastered in local elections is many times harder to roll out in the much larger constituencies that have to be used to make PR work.

We can, and will, learn ways to use techniques such as mass telephone contacts to boost and then mobilise our core vote in those future contests, but they are far harder to apply in the negative way we’ve just seen rough us up so effectively at local level.

With all major elections from now on therefore inevitably scheduled to involve PR, our opponents have just one year in which to break the British National Party.

Make no mistake, the forces of political hell are about to be unleashed on us. ‘Operation Total Destruction of the BNP’ is being rolled out right now.

You can see it in the fake emails supposedly from me and our London organiser, the brave Bob Bailey, in which we attack each other. Disastrous news — if it were only true, but fortunately it’s not. And it would take much more than bogus emails to break the trust that people like Bob and I have in each other.

You’ll hear it in the disgusting accusations of fraud, theft and all sorts of horror stories that are already being hawked around by various Searchlight and direct state assets who have burrowed into the party over the years.

Their previous subtle negativity, ‘misjudgements’ and minor acts of ‘accidental’ disruption are now being replaced by outright lies and sabotage in a last desperate throw of the dice to break our party before it’s too late.

Again, if their tales were true, it would be a disgrace, but fortunately they are not.

Old hands have seen it before, of course, back in 1979. And that’s the real good news, because enough of us know what we will now have to face together to be able to guide our party through this treacherous passage of stormy and rocky waters.

The would-be wreckers, waving their fake lighthouse lanterns from various deadly cliffs, will get short shrift from us.

Those who offer easy routes to victory, or who whisper poison against colleagues but who publicly profess loyalty or ‘concern for the party’, should be called to account at every turn.

If you hear anything that sounds too bad to be true about the people who have transformed this party thus far, and who united will do even more good, then understand that it probably isn’t true.

New readers might at this point be thinking, “what’s going on here, surely this isn’t what happens in normal political parties?”

Well, friends new and old alike, that’s quite right. Because the BNP is NOT a “normal political party.”

In fact, in reality, we are much more than a political party, and have no desire to be like the others.

For this is not a “party”, so much as a movement — nay, the movement — of national salvation.

Without a complete change of course our entire nation and civilisation are heading for the rocks and for irrevocable disaster.

The old parties, the internationalist masters of the media, and the super rich and the banksters they all ultimately serve, are all happy with that deadly course. After all, they charted it.

So why should anyone who understands that be surprised to learn that these people — with all their money, all their greed, all their ruthlessness and all their fear of justice and the anger of a people betrayed — will use a combination of apparently ‘internal’ squabbles, wicked and baseless accusations against the innocent, and no doubt a wave of legal attacks from without, to try to drive this party to destruction over the months ahead.

They can try; they are trying — but with your loyalty and true British team spirit and dogged determination, they will fail. Our day will come — because, together, we will make it come

New Buzzword Progressive spouted by Lib Lab Crooks

New Buzzword of the Moment Progressive!

Have you spectators of the political horse trading going on at the moment by the Old gang of closet Marxists in charge of the labour and Liberal parties noticed what the the new Buzzword of the moment is? well if you have noticed for reason related to stupidity , it is PROGRESSIVE! ever since the fixed election result of last Thursday. One after another of the Lib/Lab Marxists has spouted the word progressive in their comments, even Brown in his so called resignation speech spouted it. 

Well what will this new progressive political agenda involve? Firstly it will mean a amnesty for the estimated one and half million plus illegal immigrants due to the Labour party , and full British citizenship for them, should be enough to ensure a election victory for the Labour Liberal coalition, at the next election in around 18 months.

Secondly it means that stronger anti Christian legislation is produced , so as to silence the true Churches from objecting to the moral equivalence of the perverted sodomites and I suspect the eventual moral equivalency of Pedophilia, no joke either! to suit the cultish demands of the Islamic cult they wish to replace Christianity with.


Thirdly the implementation of anti White race laws especially directed at the Anglo Saxon Male , in which in the name of equality will silence the British People, from ever objecting against their unjust treatment and the rise of a political opposition , 1st us in the British national Party and then the Old Guard Conservatives! 

These will be easily approved especially by the middle class middle aged token women harridans elected to parliament, who for the sake of a name tag and a title such as junior minister for the menopause, will in their brain washed way will stick their hand up for anything called progressive. But these Progressive hags will be in for a nasty surprise, for when the Islamic horde turn on them as they undoubtedly will, they will have destroyed if successful in their goals the only thing that could protect them, and that is the Anglo Saxon Celtic male and the British Right in Politics,And when the Islamic Republic of Eurabia is founded you know what their fate will, NOT HARD TO GUESS! 

Do not say we tried to warn you!

The End of the World as we know it

The End of the World as we know it

Created: Sunday, 09 May 2010 18:16 Author: rugfish |  

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Thank you to readers for bringing this video to Green Arrows. I've just watched what I believe to be the most intelligent argument I've yet heard, as to why our voices must be listened to on the question of a disappearing culture and people, which without affirmative action will become a minority and will soon become extinct.
As British National Party members, activists and supporters repeatedly point out, this is a battle for our very survival which we must not lose.
Sum it up any which way you please, whether you be a Nationalist, a patriot, a Christian, Liberal, Socialist or Conservative, or any other type of person. This will effect you and your family and if you fail or refuse to join a cause which fights against it, then YOU alone will be responsible for the defeat of your own children and their children in future years as they will become EXTINCT.
NEVER again will YOU be given a choice to team up with the British resistance and all people who fight against us must be seen as enemies of our people.
This is no longer a time for niceties and political correctness and it is no time for weak minded individuals fighting for any other cause.You do not have the time!
Furthermore, all politicians who defy the facts described in this discussion are clearly making themselves YOUR enemies, they are enemies of freedom, enemies of democracy, enemies of your descendants and are enemies of our ancestors.
I name David Cameron as posing the biggest threat to our culture, and I name Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, as the biggest liars and traitors in British history. As for Clegg, unless he makes a comment on this website or in another place to condemn them, then he in my mind has joined their ranks.
This invitation is for everyone, to come together in the county's time of need, to back and support the policies of the British National Party and stand with us.
You are either too scared and will lose your country and people, or you are with us and will resist it.
What are you..........Man or Mouse!
Once again, thank you to readers for dropping this video into Green Arrow and friends. Supporters of the British National Party, and saviour of the British people.

Fake Emails and Whispering Campaign: Dirty Tricks Launched against BNP

Fake Emails and Whispering Campaign: Dirty Tricks Launched against BNP

  Author: Green Arrow |  

The following has been copied from Britain's most patriotic website - The British National Party. Great to see it back and publishing articles.  I am sure they will have it running at full speed soon...here is the story.

British National Party London organiser Bob Bailey has warned party activists not to be taken in by a wave of fake emails, whispering campaigns and false propaganda disguised as internal dissent.

“A hate campaign has been launched against the BNP by our increasingly hysterical enemies as they start to realise that despite the far left’s best efforts, the BNP vote not only held up in the election but actually increased overall,” Mr Bailey said.

“Today an email purporting to be from myself attacking the party leader was widely circulated amongst the crank web blogs,” Mr Bailey said.

“The email is completely fabricated and untrue. Everyone knows that despite some setbacks, the BNP’s vote has increased across the board.

“Party members must be on their guard against our enemies who are trying to sow dissension with fake rumours and lies,” he said.

“There was another email doing the rounds today supposedly from Nick Griffin which was also fake,” Mr Bailey added.

* In an act of unspeakable treason against all the hard-working BNP activists, candidates and donors, the BNP website was destroyed two days before polling day by the previous technical web master, Simon Bennett.

Mr Bennett took down the site and replaced it with pages of personal hatred and bile against the BNP’s business manager.

There was no justification for this behaviour and it was grossly unfair on all BNP supporters for Mr Bennett to take out his personal problems on everyone else who had sacrificed so much in this election campaign.

The nature of his attack and the timing thereof -- just before the election and clearly designed to inflict maximum damage on the BNP -- indicates that there is substantially more to this matter than meets the eye.

Further details will be revealed during the upcoming series of legal actions which have already been launched against Mr Bennett for damages suffered as a result of his spiteful and vindictive actions.

Nick Griffins Election Night Count Speech

NICK GRIFFINS ELECTION NIGHT COUNT SPEECH 

BNP Is Now Britain’s Fourth Party

BNP Is Now Britain’s Fourth Party

BY  BNP News

The British National Party is now Britain’s established fourth party, says nationalist election statistician Martin Wingfield.

“As some of our more vocal opponents are dancing on the grave of the electoral revival of the BNP, there comes a word of caution from other, slightly more reserved, anti-BNP campaigners in tomorrow's Financial Times,” Mr Wingfield said.

Journalist Jim Pickard writes: “The old argument against proportional representation is that it gives more voice to the most minor parties. Would its proponents really be so happy to see the British National Party get seats in the Commons? That, presumably, would be the outcome given that the BNP picked up 562,000 votes last week — up from 192,000 in 2005.

“In a theoretical PR system that could be 13 seats. But the system would probably be skewed to stop the very smallest parties getting equal representation; for example the 5 percent threshold used by the London Assembly. That didn’t stop the BNP getting a seat there, however.

“Once the BNP did have 'representation' within the Commons their grouping would have disproportionate influence in any hung Parliament situation, which would happen more frequently.

“‘Imagine if they were the kingmakers’,” says one Labour insider opposed to electoral reform.

“The counter-argument is that no far right party in Britain has ever reached the level of popularity in Britain to even merit a place on the podium. That doesn’t mean it cannot ever happen. I’m not the only person with worries about this; several cerebral politicians have told me the same thing.”

Mr Wingfield said that the Financial Times is right. “Putting aside the disappointment that we didn't make the breakthrough in our high profile seats in Barking and Stoke Central, our votes across the country in many of the 334 seats we contested were a testament to a solid bedrock of support.

“In the North East, Yorkshire and the East Midlands our candidates made inroads into the core vote of the Old Gang parties which has been established for years.

“In Wales we not only managed to save our deposits in some seats but also mounted a challenge to Plaid Cymru for the nationalist core vote.

“Anti-BNP proponents of electoral reform say that the 5 percent threshold plus an additional 2.5 percent safeguard for good measure would keep the BNP out of Westminster. How wrong they would be.

“Take a look at these results from last Thursday.

Ashton-Under-Lyne: David Lomas 2,929 votes (7.6%)

Barking: Nick Griffin 6,620 (14.6%)

Barnsley Central: Ian Sutton 3,307 (8.9%) 

Barnsley East: Colin Porter 3,301 (8.6%)

Burnley: Sharon Wilkinson 3,747 (9.05%)

Dagenham & Rainham: Michael Barnbrook 4,952 (11.2%)

Leeds Central: Kevin Meeson 3,066 (8.2%)

Leeds East: Trevor Brown 2,947 (7.8%)

Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford: Graham Thewlis-Hardy 3,864 (8.4%)

Rother Valley: Will Blair 3,616 (7.7%)

Rotherham: Marlene Guest 3,906 (10.4%)

Sheffield Brightside; John Sheldon 3,026 (7.8%)

Stoke-on-Trent Central: Simon Darby 2,502 (7.7%)

Stoke-on-Trent North: Melanie Baddeley 3,196 (8.0%)

Stoke-on-Trent North: Michael Coleman 3,762 (9.4%)

Thurrock: Emma Colgate 3,618 (7.9%)

Walsall North: Christopher Woodall 2,930 (8.1%)

Wentworth & Dearne: George Baldwin 3,189 (7.6%)

West Bromwich West: Russ Green 3,394 (9.4%)

“That's 19 constituencies where the British National Party would be staking a claim to a seat in Westminster but it's not only these high profile seats from where the BNP will be making its challenge,” Mr Wingfield said. “There are other seats where the BNP vote is ready to soar.

“This election is very much like our European election of 2004. We failed to win a seat so we were written off by the political pundits. But on closer analysis, our results on Thursday deserve much more than to be dismissed out of hand.

“In nearly 200 seats our votes were around the 4 percent mark and we were firmly established as the fourth political party. This is something to build on and shows that we have a presence across the country.

“When people digest our results in full they will see that this was a very respectable performance and bodes well for the future."

There will be a full round up of both general election and local election results in next month's issue of Voice of Freedom.”

 The Rise of Enoch PowellA Nation Not Afraid: The Thinking of Enoch Powell

Europa, Europa über alles, über alles in der Welt

Europa, Europa über alles, über alles in der Welt

 Author: Sir Percival |  

When David Cameron says he will ensure "less Europe" he is deliberately lying. He can ensure nothing of the sort because the EU has a constitution agreed under the Lisbon treaty which has

1. a qualified majority voting system (which means even if the UK vetoes anything it can still be passed) and
2. is self amending (which means that it can be changed without further negotiations).

This is incidentally the same when he says he’ll control immigration. Another lie, because the EU controls our borders.
Under a deal brokered by the Germans and French the UK will be FORCED to contribute to a fund which will be used to shore up the Euro. This is called the “European stabilisation mechanism”.
It could cost Britain BILLIONS at a time when the government, whichever colour it might be, will be making savage cuts.
And this is just the start. I have often said that the realisation that the UK is no longer a sovereign nation after Lisbon will be slow to sink in, even though it’s blindingly bloody obvious. There will be more and more of this rule from Brussels by people who frankly don’t give a toss about Britain. We can do nothing about it. Will the sheep then understand the price of treason?  Even then I doubt it.
Opinion polls before the election constantly showed a huge majority of Britons being against EU interference and yet, in the general election, more than 94% of people voted for parties that support that very interference. How soding retarded can you be?(All the main parties signed up to Lisbon including the Tories when Cameron refused a referendum on Lisbon, despite all his promises – yet another lie).
They must not bleat, they must not moan, BECAUSE THEY CHOSE THIS PATH.  And yet the stupid thick hypocrites act as if this is a shock to them.
It’s what you voted for you morons, you had your chance and chucked it away.
Now you stupid thick sheep people, you slaves, you stupid bastard cowards, down on your knees (its where you belong) and face Brussels and sing after me:
Europa, Europa über alles, über alles in der Welt