£50 Million of Your Money to Help 25 Million Bangladeshis Speak English

£50 Million of Your Money to Help 25 Million Bangladeshis Speak English

 BNP News

The new ConDem government has once again shown its loyalty to the British public by giving away a further £50 million to teach 25 million Bangladeshis English — while the axe falls on spending at home.

The incredible announcement of the English language programme was announced on an internal circular sent out by the Open University a few days ago and picked up by an alert BNP News correspondent.

According to the Open University circular, a “£50 million programme over nine years will help 25 million people in Bangladesh develop their English language skills via new mobile technologies.

“English in Action, currently in pilot phase, was initiated at the request of the Government of Bangladesh, is funded by the UK Department for International Development, and is using expertise from the Open University in researching the project operations and developing, supporting and evaluating innovative teacher education programmes,” said the circular.

“English in Action provides English teachers in Bangladesh with professional development training and resources and classroom materials so that they can enhance their own teaching skills and bring new ideas into the classroom.

“The Open University’s experts in distance education have helped to produce development materials for teachers that fit with the Bangladeshi curriculum, and advice on how teachers and their use of technology can be supported in the programme.

“Teachers are given handheld mobile devices such as iPods to use in the classroom with speakers, so that pupils can listen to podcasts and other audio or video materials, and use these in conjunction with their school textbooks.

“200 secondary school teachers are also studying a customised Level 1 OU course — Make Your Teaching Experience Count — which is being delivered through BRAC University in Bangladesh and quality assured by the OU.”

Meanwhile, the ConDem regime is pushing ahead with previously announced British education budget cuts of £398 million for 2010–11.

In addition, British universities have been told to make “efficiency savings” of more than £83 million.

Yet, it seems, there is money for ipods, speakers and textbooks for Bangladeshis to learn English.

* According to the International Monetary Fund, Bangladesh is ranked as the 48th largest economy with a gross domestic product of US$224.889 billion. The economy has grown at the rate of 6–7 percent per year over the past few years and has an unemployment rate of 2.4 percent — compared to the UK’s unemployment rate of 8 percent (according to the 12 May 2010 figures released by the labour force survey).

Knockout Punch for Jan Brewer on Arizona Immigration

Knockout Punch for Jan Brewer on Immigration

Created:June2010 Author: rugfish 

Tough talking Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, appears to have no problem fulfilling her duty when it comes to looking to protect the rights of Arizonans under the American Constitution, nor does she seem to have a problem when it comes to dealing with illegal immigration or giving a warning to the U.S. Federal Govt administration, to butt out of Arizona's legal affairs.
However, with six U.S. Supreme Court judges on her side, then I guess Obama might want to consider again whether to sue Arizona over its immigration law, or indeed whether he visits Arizona himself where cops will soon legally be able to ask the president to show his own birth certificate if he so much as spits on the sidewalk, has a tail light out, or jumps a red light in his motorcade.
CNN: Arizona governor defends immigration law; will meet with president Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer made clear Tuesday she's not worried about a potential legal challenge from the Obama administration over her state's controversial immigration law. "We'll meet you in court," Brewer told CNN' when asked how she would respond if President Barack Obama's Department of Justice decided to challenge the law. "I have a pretty good record of winning in court." The American Civil Liberties Union is currently leading a court challenge. Attorney General Eric Holder, who met with a delegation of police chiefs from Arizona and elsewhere this week to discuss the law, has yet to indicate whether the federal government would file a legal challenge.
Strong Supreme Court precedent in support of Arizona immigration law
On Monday, the ACLU announced a lawsuit challenging the Arizona illegal immigration law on the basis of the “prohibition on unreasonable seizures under the 14th and Fourth Amendments.”
The ACLU, however, might have a difficult time making that case.
In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in Muehler v. Mena that questioning someone regarding their immigration status is not a violation of Fourth Amendment rights - provided that person is already lawfully detained.
In the wake of a drive-by shooting, Officer Muehler and other members of local law enforcement handcuffed and questioned Iris Mena in connection to the shooting. They did so while executing a search warrant for a safe house which she and members of West Side Locos gang would gather at, most of whom were illegal immigrants. Small wonder, then, that they asked if she was in the country illegally.
Muehler v Mena establishes that “officers did not need reasonable suspicion to ask Mena for her name, date and place of birth, or immigration status.”
Even though this was a gang-related case, “no additional Fourth Amendment justification for inquiring about Mena’s immigration status was required.” If that’s true in California, it’s true in Arizona. This is a strong precedent, with six justices from that unanimous decision remaining on the bench.
Certainly, Arizona law enforcement must take care not to be heavy handed, but the choice between heavy-handed local police action and wide open borders was forced upon the states by past administrations and congresses which punted on illegal immigration rather than do the hard work of governing. Washington Examiner:
Meanwhile, I read a report yesterday from Arizona Central which basically tried to put the frighteners on by talking about a 'mass exodus' of immigrants, and noting how it would hurt immigrants businesses who were servicing immigrants!
It also reported that the last clamp down led to 100,000 leaving, and noted a rise in vacant rental properties which were being rented by legal and illegal immigrants which led to a decline in the rents because of the space created.
It didn't mention any benefits of a lowering of rent which aids the cost of living, or an easing of the burden of unemployment in Arizona, or a reduction of the state costs of keeping immigrants in lifestyles to which Arizonans are themselves unaccustomed of course.
Let me see now, we have over a million illegal immigrants here in the UK, so how much better off would we be if the UK government actually done something about it here instead of talking the talk as opposed to walking the walk like Arizona Governor Jan Brewer.

European Union Uses Greek Bailout to Grab More Power: Tories Silent

European Union Uses Greek Bailout to Grab More Power: Tories Silent

  BNP news

The Tory Party, which campaigned on “rolling back the EU’s powers,” has remained predictably silent on the latest European Union Greek bailout power grab which has seen the Lisbon Treaty “fundamentally changed” overnight without being voted upon in any way.

The French foreign minister, Pierre Lellouche, has said that the Eurozone’s €440 billion debt guarantee scheme is “tantamount to the adoption of a NATO-style mutual defence clause” and “marks an unprecedented change” to the Lisbon Treaty.

In a newspaper interview, Mr Lellouche said that the emergency stabilisation scheme agreed earlier this month “amounted to a fundamental revision of the European Union’s rules and a leap towards an economic government for the bloc.

“It is an enormous change,” Mr Lellouche said. “It is expressly forbidden in the treaties by the famous no bailout clause. De facto, we have changed the treaty.”

Mr Lellouche explained that the bailout was “nothing less than the importation of NATO’s Article 5 mutual defence clause applied to the Eurozone. When one member is under attack the others are obliged to come to its defence.”

Meanwhile, EU president Herman Van Rompuy has admitted that the Lisbon Treaty contains "uncertainties and gaps.”

Mr Van Rompuy agreed that the Lisbon Treaty needed to be changed and added that he hoped “we can achieve these objectives within the framework of the Lisbon Treaty."

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that “changes to the EU treaty are unavoidable” if the bloc is to survive the Greek debt crisis.

Ms Merkel says that the EU budget rules, known as the Stability and Growth Pact, need to be beefed up and harsher penalties implemented against “offending” member states which could include the withdrawal of structural funds and the voting rights.

The bailout has direct implications for the ConDem regime’s EU policy.

The Conservative Party fought the general election campaign on a promise to “roll back” the powers of the EU, while the Liberal Democrats promised to increase Britain’s involvement in the EU and to adopt the euro currency.

The Greek bailout has in effect translated into a further punitive power grab by the EU — something against which the Conservatives campaigned.

Given the nature of the coalition government, it is of course unlikely that the British government will oppose the latest expansion of EU powers, and that Britain will also soon be subjected to EU budget “scrutiny” in yet another stripping away of Westminster’s powers.

* In an unrelated development, the British Pest Control Association (BPCA) has warned that a new EU rat poison ban will see Britain “overrun” by rodents.

The EU in Brussels wants to ban rat poisons which contain warfarin on the obvious grounds that they are “dangerous for humans.”

“It would mean a massive increase in the rodent population,” Richard Moseley, of the BPCA was quoted as saying.

“You would have to go back to using traps and dogs. You have a spurt of the population and you could be overrun.”

British Counter Jihad: Islam Exposed 2

British Counter Jihad: Islam Exposed 2

 Author: Reconquista |  

The second in a series of short articles exposing the dirty secrets about “The Religion Of Peace” the ruling elites and duplicitous Muslims are determined to prevent the British people from discovering.

Use them whenever Islam is discussed to educate, inform and more likely, challenge Islamic apologists without needing an extensive knowledge of either the Qur’an, the ahaddith (accounts of the life of the Islamic prophet Mohammed) or Sharia Law, the legal system all Muslims must adhere to.

2. Clear Messages From The Heart Of Islam

Take a good look at the flag above. It is the flag of the Islamic state of Saudi Arabia, the land where the religion of Islam was born, the land where the Islamic Prophet Mohammed spent his time on this earth. It is the heart of Islam, the home of the two most sacred cities in Islam, a state where Sharia Law is brutally enforced and a state that makes no secret of it’s adherence to Islam.

It is an Islamic state that is sending the non-believers – the kuffars, the lowest of the low – clear messages about the true nature of Islam as we shall now see.

Inscribed on the flag of Saudi Arabia is the shahada. The shahada is a short statement, a short prayer if you like, that forms one of the five pillars of Islam, indeed, it is the first. Every Muslim is under an obligation to say the shahada aloud in front of two Muslims to assert their belief at least once in their lifetime.

The prayer is the foundation of belief to be a Muslim:

“La ilaha illa Allah wa-Muhammad rasul Allah.” - There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger.

The green colour of the flag is to represent the Prophet Mohammed. And underlining the shahada is a sword, representing the importance of the Islamic faith and the “victories and justice” of Saudi Arabia’s first King, Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud.

Looking at this scared prayer inscribed on the flag of Saudi Arabia, some very important questions can be asked:

Why is a sword underlining the most important statement of faith in Islam? How is justice represented by a sword linked to a core testament of faith in a religion that claims to be peaceful?

It is a clear assertion of strength of faith in Islam and honours the victories in warfare of the first Saudi King. But what about the claim of representing justice? The Saudis once again send a very clear message about what they mean by justice and it is a message unheeded by the majority of non-believers.

The two most sacred sites in Islam are situated in Saudi Arabia. Mecca, where the Islamic Prophet Mohammed first claimed to have received the immutable word of Allah, and Medina, where he again claimed to have received the immutable word of Allah (which super-ceded many of the first “immutable” words, but don’t let on, unless you want even more offended Muslims) during the flight from Mecca in 622.

The fifth pillar of Islam makes it incumbent for a Muslim to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, called “Hajj” at least once in their lifetime. Again it is a sacred duty, and millions of Muslims make the pilgrimage to Mecca every year.

It is forbidden for non-believers – dirty kuffars – to enter Mecca and Medina, as commanded by the Islamic Prophet Mohammed himself. In 2007, three French tourists were slain for having the affront to rest in a Muslim-only area. 

That non-believers are barred from entering the two most sacred sites in Islam is a clear indication of how the non-believer is regarded in Islam. There isn’t another religion in the world that treats non-believers this way, I cannot imagine the Vatican City, or Bethlehem or Jerusalem, important places to Jews and Christians, ever declaring that non-believers are forbidden to enter, indeed, these places are visited by millions of people from a variety of creeds every year.

I assert that this deplorable treatment of non-believers and the underlining of the shahada with a sword on the flag of the heart of Islam offers yet more proof that Islam categorically is not a religion of peace and it’s time all non-believers start to understand the clear messages being sent from Saudi Arabia.

Met Office Role: Propaganda or Weather Prediction?

Met Office Role: Propaganda or Weather Prediction?

 

BNP News 

By Mercia — According to the Government-owned Met Office, the number of sweltering nights when urban temperatures will remain above 68 F will increase fivefold by 2040 because of climate change — this from the same "independent" organisation who as recently as last September predicted a “warmer than usual winter.”

The timing of the Met Office's “findings,” which comes hard on the news that the Government intends to impose a green levy on energy producers in order to fund its proposed “green bank,” has raised a few eyebrows.

In the same way as the United Nations (UN) is dependent upon the “findings” of its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to justify its plans leading to “global governance”, the UK government is equally dependent upon its subsidiary body, the Met Office, for “findings” supportive of its green energy tax proposals.

Perversely, whilst the Met Office has been quick to point out that some 2,000 (mostly elderly) people died during the 2003 heat wave, they have made no comment on the 40,000 elderly Britons who died from avoidable cold related illnesses in this country during the course of the last winter.

Possibly the reason why they ignored the latter deaths was that they occurred during a winter which they had predicted, using their defective computer-based climate modelling software, was going to be “warmer than usual.”

The Met Office has yet to explain how it is possible for it to predict climatic conditions over a period of 40 to 60 years when it is demonstrably unable to accurately predict the weather over a period of just six months.

On 10 December 2009, for instance, the Met Office claimed it was “more likely than not that 2010 will be the warmest year in the instrumental record” — a prediction that could hardly be further from  the truth as the year, so far, has been one of the coldest on record.

Perhaps a clue to what is going one was provided in a Daily Mail article published in January of this year, in which it was claimed:

“From a fuddy-duddy organisation created in 1854 to provide a service to mariners, and then aviators when the aeroplane was invented, the Met Office became an arm of the Ministry of Defence.

“But it has since transmuted into a powerful advocacy unit that sees its main mission to convince the world that we are prey to 'dangerous climate change'.”

So what exactly is the Government-owned Met Office's role? Is it primarily to provide accurate weather forecasts for those who require such information, or is it to manufacture propaganda useful for those determined to legislate for unnecessary green stealth taxes to fund their path towards “global governance?"

The Greening 

Open at Last: Establishment Marks out Its Anti-White Discrimination Policies

In the Open at Last: Establishment Marks out Its Anti-White Discrimination Policies

  BNP News

The anti-white and anti-British establishment has abandoned any pretence at fairness and at last broken its cover with the advertising of local government jobs for which white people are forbidden from applying.

The Liberal Democratic-controlled Bristol City Council has advertised two full-time positions at £18,000 per year for management trainee opportunities — “open to Black and minority ethnic graduates.”

According to the advertisement, successful candidates “will be offered a postgraduate diploma in Management Studies, a tax free training allowance and mentoring and support throughout the traineeship.“

The council claims that these “traineeships are advertised in accordance with section 37 of the Race Relations Act 1976.”

The blatant anti-white discrimination is actually legal, and is part of that act which was passed by all three Westminster parties.

The Race Relations Act allows councils whose workforce does not represent the racial population make-up of their borough to actively recruit “ethnics.”

Bristol council has 9,000 members of staff of which 630, or 7 percent, are “ethnic.”

According to the most recently available figures, Bristol now has a 12 percent “ethnic” population and as such the council is legally entitled to advertise jobs which discriminate against white people.

According to a newspaper, one jobseeker described the posts as “totally racist. I am a tolerant white person who has lived in Bristol for 27 years.

“I am searching for a job and stumbled across a job advertisement on Bristol City Council's website that I see as totally racist.

“I feel the job would be an excellent opportunity for me to make use of the skills and qualifications that I have acquired but, being white, I am excluded,” the person was quoted as saying.

The jobseeker’s comments contain the core of the problem, namely that in their attitude of “tolerance,” white British people are being actively colonised, dispossessed and discriminated against in their own homeland.

No one in their right mind would expect the Pakistani government to employ white British people in its civil service before its own nationals.

No one in their right mind would expect the Nigerian government to employ white British people in its civil service before its own nationals.

No one in their right mind would expect the Chinese government to employ white British people in its civil service before its own nationals.

No one in their right mind would expect the Saudi Arabian government to employ white British people in its civil service before its own nationals.

No one in their right mind would expect the Japanese government to employ white British people in its civil service before its own nationals.

No one in their right mind would expect the Somali government to employ white British people in its civil service before its own nationals.

No one in their right mind would expect the Turkish government to employ white British people in its civil service before its own nationals.

Yet for some reason, it is perfectly acceptable for the British government to actively discriminate against its own people when offering employment in its civil service.

The British National Party alone stands opposed to the blatant anti-white and anti-British policy of all three Westminster parties.

Tonight (1st June) in the Green Arrow Paltalk Room

Tonight (1st June) in the Green Arrow Paltalk Room

Created: Tuesday, 01 June 2010 14:28 Author: Green Arrow |  

Been a little bit of a debate going on in the Green Arrow paltalk room over whether not the Americans did actually put a man on on the moon back in 69.  Now I for one firmly believe they did but there are others who say they have read and seen evidence that proves that it was all filmed in someone's garage and have the evidence to prove it.

So as a break from talking about politics, bread making machines, vegetables and each other, Bertie Bert will be playing in ten minute segments a rather interesting video that he has come across interspersed with discussion about the segments viewed.

Now having done a bit of research into this and reading just what Professor Van Halen said himself about how the astronauts could have passed through the radiation belt without harm, then that is one of the "irrefutable" pieces of evidence of those who says it did not happened destroyed for a start.

Then again in these days, in which we know that government DO lie and lie constantly for different reasons, it is difficult to know what is the truth and what is not and so I for one am looking to forward to watching and listening.

If you think you can contribute to this debate then be there for the start at 2000hrs GMT this evening.

By the way for those of you still interested in the ongoing saga of Violet Elizabeth Bennett, then you can go visit it  BNP Truth Chronicles.  I had a bit of a laugh actually when Violet contacted me and asked for a chance to visit the Green Arrow Paltalk room to show how how honest and decent he was.

Well I am afraid he lost the right to anything, when he betrayed not just his party and kinsmen but also his country whilst posting the home address of an 88 year old lady to attack me personally.  This statement from him had me rolling in stitches.

In terms of my behaviour, that has always remained consistent. I'm calm and professional until threatened with violence, abused, lied about, slandered or libeled. Then I hit back - often hard. If people don't like the way I fight, don't pick fights with me, fight dirty and think I will roll over. I won't.

Like I said, he had me rolling in stitches.  Just go now Judas. You have done what you were paid for and you are now history.

The Colonisation of Britain Continues Unabated: One UK Passport Handed out Every Three Minutes

The Colonisation of Britain Continues Unabated: One UK Passport Handed out Every Three Minutes

  BNP News

Official figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed that 203,790 people were naturalised as British citizens last year, with the vast majority originating in the Third World.

According to the ONS, the main originating territories of “new” British citizens were India (29 percent, or 59,520 of all grants in 2009), Africa (27 percent, or 55,235 of all grants), and “people from the Remainder of Asia” (17 percent, or 34,900 of all grants).

Citizenship grants made to people from the “Remainder of Europe,” that is, outside the European Economic Area, were 8 percent (15,955), while the “Americas and the Middle East” accounted for 6 percent each (12,880 and 11,615 respectively).

“All regions apart from the Middle East and almost all individual nationalities saw increases in the number of grants of British citizenship in 2009,” the ONS report said.

“The reduction in the Middle East reflects grants to people who were previously nationals of Iraq which decreased by 38 percent in 2009 to 5,495 from 8,895 in 2008.”

The “top ten” nationalities reflected in the citizenship grants were, according to the ONS, as follows:

India — Number of grants: 26,535 (a 124 percent increase from 2008);

Pakistan — Number of grants: 20,945 (a 122 percent increase from 2008);

Bangladesh — Number of grants: 12,040 (a 231 percent increase from 2008);

Philippines — Number of grants: 11,750 (a 118 percent increase from 2008);

South Africa — Number of grants: 8,365 (a 59 percent increase from 2008);

Somalia — Number of grants: 8,140 (a 14 percent increase from 2008);

Zimbabwe — Number of grants: 7,705 (a 35 percent increase from 2008);

Turkey — Number of grants: 7,205 (a 55 percent increase from 2008);

Nigeria — Number of grants: 6,955 (a 53 percent increase from 2008);

China — Number of grants: 6,335 (a 121 percent increase from 2008);

Other previous nationalities — 87,730 (a 27 percent increase from 2008);

All grants: 203,705 (a 58 percent increase from 2008).

This means that a British passport was handed to a foreigner every three minutes and that more than half a million immigrants are entering Britain every year.

The complete ONS report can be downloaded here.

* Meanwhile, it has also been announced that the European Union will soon end all visa restrictions on Bosnians and Albanians even though those nations are not currently EU members.

This means that anyone who can gain access to either of those two nations will, like any other EU resident, have complete freedom of movement to enter Britain and parasite off the now legendary benefits system in this country.

Iran and Enriched Uranium: Controlled Media Continues War Hype Lies

Iran and Enriched Uranium: Controlled Media Continues War Hype Lies

  BNP News

The controlled media in Britain and elsewhere has continued with its war hype against Iran with the deliberate distortion of the contents of a new UN Atomic watchdog report on enriched uranium in that country.

According to a headline in the Daily Express, Iran has “two tons of uranium” which “would be enough for two nuclear warheads.”

That, and similar reports appearing in the controlled media in Britain and America, is deliberately designed to convey the impression that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has issued a report warning that Iran “is on the point of acquiring nuclear weapons.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, for example, ran a headline reading “Iran on the brink of a nuclear bomb.”

In reality, the IAEA report said nothing of the sort. Released on Monday, the report confirmed that Iran had a stockpile of low-grade uranium but said that it would require further enrichment to reach weapons grade.

The inspectors reported Monday that Iran has now produced over 5,300 pounds of low-enriched uranium, all of which would have to undergo further enrichment before it could be converted to bomb fuel.

Until recently, Iran’s uranium stockpile, as confirmed by the IEAE, had been enriched to around 4 percent, the level needed to run nuclear power reactors.

The IAEA report stated that Iran had expanded work at its Natanz site to raise the level of uranium enrichment up to 20 percent.

This is the level needed for the Tehran Research Reactor, which produces medical isotopes for cancer patients.

Weapons grade uranium requires an enrichment level of 90 percent.

This means that right now, Iran is nowhere near making “atom bombs” as the controlled media is hysterically claiming.

The main point of conflict between Iran and the IAEA is, according to the report, a question of trust.

This is not surprising, considering the outrageous lies circulated about Iraq's “atom bomb” and “weapons of mass destruction” which were circulated just prior to the illegal invasion of that nation.

The IAEA report went on to describe the lack of trust which resulted in cooperation with its inspectors inside Iran being thwarted by angry Iranian scientists.

For several months, Tehran has refused to accept a deal brokered by the IAEA in terms of which Iran would send 2,640 pounds of low-enriched uranium to Russia and France to be turned into fuel for Tehran's research reactor.

Iran initially rejected that offer but has now said it is prepared to accede and has enlisted the backing of Turkey and Brazil in pushing that process on.

Despite this, the IEAE report noted that the agency had succeeded in setting up a “good monitoring system” for the 20 percent enrichment work.

“A new safeguards approach is now being implemented,” the report said.

Doubtless these lies will now be seized upon by the London-Washington Lie Machine to try and incite the public in Britain and America into yet another conflict in the Middle East, this time against “atom bomb” Iran.

The British National Party stands resolutely opposed to this warmongering and demands that Britain stay out of all foreign conflicts in which our national interests are not affected.

Military Parade Cancelled because It Was Not Diverse Enough or It “Offended Muslims”

Liverpool Military Parade Cancelled because It Was Not Diverse Enough or It “Offended Muslims”

BNP News

In yet another example of the insanity which pervades ConDemLab Britain, the eighth annual Liverpool Military Show has been cancelled because it was not “diverse enough” and it had the potential to offend Muslims in Merseyside.
According to local media reports, the annual charity event was cancelled after the Labour Party-controlled town hall withdrew an £8,000 funding grant allegedly because it didn't meet their "diversity criteria.”
A local newspaper quoted a spokesman for the Liverpool Military Show as saying that the event organisers had tried to meet the “equality and diversity standards” by including a “transsexual soldier” in the parade.
The event was to have taken place last Saturday and would have included a memorial service to fallen war heroes. A large number of armed forces personnel and equipment, due to take part in the parade, had to stand down because of the last minute cancellation.
Last year's show raised £13,000 for the Army Benevolent Fund, Combat Stress, St John Ambulance and the Army Cadet Force.
This year, however, organisers said they were told that the show did not "score highly enough" on Liverpool City Council's "diversity scale" to justify funding from the arts and culture budget.
The decision to pull funding to the army charity event contrasts strongly with the decision a week earlier by Liverpool City Council to give £80,000 to fund the Liverpool "Homotopia" festival in August and the "IDAHO" Gay Pride festival which celebrates an "International Day against Homophobia.”
Liverpool war hero Peter Dunning, who lost both his legs while serving with the Royal Marines in Afghanistan, was quoted in a newspaper as saying the decision was "a disgrace.
"The council are just afraid of a Muslim backlash, similar to the protests in London last year,” Mr Dunning was quoted as saying.
So it goes: the colonisation of Britain by Islam will mean the replacement of British culture, heritage and traditions with that of the colonising force. Only the British National Party stands against this destruction of all that is Britain.

Victims of the silence of the PC Media

Victims of the silence

Created: May Author: Sarah: Maid of Albion

 

Johan Strydom (South Africa) and Shane McClellan (USA)

Johan Strydom (South Africa) and Shane McClellan (USA)

A few days ago hundreds of mourners gathered to grieve following the death of Johan Strydom, who was murdered at his farm near Parys in South Africa's Free State on the 15th of May. Strydom's popularity in life was clear from the numbers attending his funeral, many standing in the doorway of the overcrowded Dutch Hervormd Church in Parys as there were insufficient chairs to seat them all.

Johan Strydom's funeral

Now further details of the violent nature of the amiable Afrikaner farmer's death after he was hijacked at his farm gate have been revealed. Strydom suffered a burst liver, damage to his skull, and extensive “dragging injuries", following being chained face down behind his truck and dragged around his farm by one ankle. Medical reports reveal that he was alive whilst being dragged.

This is the second incident this year where a white South African has been carjacked, tied behind his own vehicle and then dragged. A young man was the victim of just such an attack only a few moths ago in that increasingly violent country. He survived, but with injuries which will take years to recover, if they ever do.

Unless you live in South Africa, this is most probably the first you have heard of either of these cases, indeed few in South Africa know of the first incident, as it has gone virtually unreported I only know of it because I was sent photographs of the young man's injuries, which I can not possibly publish here, and which I will probably never forget having seen.

However, as with so many of the horrors which have happened in South Africa in recent years, such as the ghastly, probably muti related, murders of 77 year old Alice Lotter and her 57 year old daughter Helen, who's horrific torture included their genitals being mutilated with shards of broken glass, before, whilst still alive their breasts were cut off and used to write anti-white hate slogans on the walls, news of anti-white hate crime continues to be suppressed.

Compare this with the case of James Byrd jnr. Who was tied to the back of a truck in Texas and dragged to his death in very similar circumstances to the two cases in South Africa this year, the only difference being that Byrd was black and his attackers were white. It was because of the colour combination Byrd's murder became a world wide news story, and “teachable event” in every school across America, and it is equally because of the colour combination that the South African hate crimes are being suppressed.

It is not just news from South Africa which is deliberately not reported, the press is also silent about anti-white hate crimes closer to home. Infamously within the Nationalist community, but almost unknown in the wider US population, the the savage 2007 rape and murder of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian by five African Americans went almost unreported outside Knoxville where they took place, even while one by one their rapists and killers were tried and convicted, the most recent case ending this month. Similar limited reporting applied to the 2002 slaying of four young whites (a fifth escaped by playing dead) by African American brothers Jonathan and Reginald Carr, or more recently to the killings in Pearcy reported here by Vdare.com

However, these cases only scratch the surface of the epidemic of anti-white hate crimes across America, which the police are not permitted to prosecute as hate crimes, because the victims are from a group denied hate crime protection (white people), and which the media refuses to report outside the local news, if they report them at all.

Only this week Shane McClellan a 16 year old white youth was allegedly kidnapped and beaten for hours by a group of black men, who Shane claims used repeated racial slurs and told him they were doing it because he was white. Maybe that is why the case has hardly been reported outside the local Seattle news.

Shane's father, Tim McClellan said he barely recognized his son after the brutal assault, adding "I didn't know if he was alive or dead,"

Of course, at this stage, allegations remain allegations, however, can you just imagine how those two propaganda organs of which Joseph Goebbels would be proud, CNN and MSNBC, would be screaming had such allegations been made by a black person against a group of whites. (Remember Duke Lacrosse?)

Even when cases do make the national news, such as the carjacking and murder of North Carolina student Eve Carson by two black youths the race of her attackers is treated as incidental. (I wonder how many black women were carjacked let alone murdered by white gangs in recent years? None, I'd guess, otherwise we would certainly have heard of it.)

Likewise, when committed white Obama supporter Kirsten Brydum was shot dead whilst spreading the word of “Change” in a black neighbourhood of New Orleans, in 2008 she was reported as being "in the wrong place at the wrong time". No mainstream news organisation in America would dare to add that any time is the wrong time for a white person, let alone a white woman, to be in a black area – alone or otherwise.

If you lived on a remote Island in the South Atlantic and you read the crime news on the main US news websites, you could be forgiven for believing that violent crime in America was a multi-racial activity, with, if anything, whites being marginally more prone to criminal activity than other races. Indeed, if you ignored the news and formed your opinion of criminal perpetration on the basis of what you see in US Cop shows, you would be led to believe that crime in general is an overwhelmingly a white perpetrator activity.

However, the truth is very different from the carefully nurtured fiction. here are some figures:

In 2006, the incarceration rate in state or federal prison or jail for men was 1,384 per 100,000 residents, for women 134 per 100,000 residents. The rate for white men was 736 per 100,000, for black men 4,789 per 100,000, for Hispanic men 1,862 per 100,000. The rate for white women was 94 per 100,000, for black women 358 per 100,000, and for Hispanic women 152 per 100,000. (i)

Of the 249,400 state prison inmates serving time for drug offenses at year end 2004, 112,500 (45.1%) were black, 51,800 (20.8%) were Hispanic, and 65,900 (26.4%) were white. (ii)

At midyear 2006 more black men (836,800) were in custody in State or Federal prison or local jail than white men (718,100) or Hispanic men (426,900). Black men comprised 41% of the more than 2 million men in custody, and black men age 20 to 29 comprised 15.5% of all men in custody on June 30, 2006. my source, which I have quoted below, and which I am quoting verbatim states "Relative to their numbers in the general population, about 4.8% of all black men were in custody at midyear 2006, compared to about 0.7% of white men and 1.9% of Hispanic men. Overall, black men were incarcerated at 6.5 times the rate of white men. The incarceration rate for black men was highest among black men age 25 to 29. About 11.7% of black males in this age group were incarcerated on June 30, 2006. Across age groups black men were between 5.7 and 8.5 times more likely than white men to be incarcerated." (iii)

As you read that, you can almost hear the cry, “That is because of racism within the legal system and the fact that more blacks live in poverty and social deprivation!”

Wrong on both counts.

The reality is that politically correct law enforcement bends over backwards to avoid racial profiling, as shown by the shrieks of horror by various senior policemen following the new Arizona law requirements to merely check the legal status of suspects. Meanwhile courts in America go to great lengths not to disadvantage black or Hispanic defendants, whereas statistically, black and mixed race juries are significantly less likely to convict black defendants, especially if the victim was white, than white jurors are in the case of white defendants (iv)

The claim that poverty is the reason why more blacks offend also does not stand up to scrutiny. According to the most recent reliable figures (okay Wikipedia) the population of America stands at around 308,672,000 66% of whom (roughly 203,723,520) are white, 14% (about 43,214,080) are African American and 15% (46,300,800) are Hispanic, the remaining 5% being made up of groups such as Asians, Native Americans and Pacific Islanders.

When it comes to poverty the figures state that “only” 8.2% of the US white population live in poverty, compared to 24.7% of blacks. (v) This statistical imbalance is frequently used by liberals to excuse the higher numerical rates of offending amongst blacks and Hispanics. However, this is entirely misleading, and does not make any sense when you actually look at the ethnic make up of those living in poverty.

8.2% of 203,723,520 means that 16,705,328 white Americans are living in poverty, whereas despite the much quoted higher percentage rate 24.7% of 43,214,080 means that 10,673,877 are living in poverty, a significantly smaller number of people.

If poverty was the key to offending you would expect to see whites committing 16 crimes for every 10 committed by black people, however, outside the whacky parallel universe, as portrayed by CBS, that is not what we see.

Likewise, hate crimes are, to a massively disproportionate degree, something which happens to white people, that truth is merely hidden by legal system which refuses to call such crimes by their true name and by a media which fails to report them.

What we see in America we are seeing here in Europe, yet we are not allowed to say so.

We have reached a point in our society where the truth can not be acknowledged if it does not comply with an ideological narrative, despite the fact that the narrative is a lie. It is the silence of the reporters which gives succour to the lie and imperils its victims, for how many lives could have been saved had they had, at least been warned of the danger?

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(i)Source: Sabol, William J., PhD, Minton, Todd D., and Harrison, Paige M., Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2006 (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, June 2007), NCJ217675, p. 9, Table 14.
(ii)Source: Sabol, William J., PhD, Couture, Heather, and Harrison, Paige M., Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2006 (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, December 2007), NCJ219416, p. 24, Appendix Table 9.
(iii) Source: Sabol, William J., PhD, Minton, Todd D., and Harrison, Paige M., Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2006 (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, June 2007), NCJ217675, p. 9.
(iv)http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/19980807031456data_trunc_sys.shtml
(v) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States

ConDem Coalition to Make Consumers Pay for Spanish-style Failed “Green Energy” Projects

ConDem Coalition to Make Consumers Pay for Spanish-style Failed “Green Energy” Projects

From the |BNP News Room
By Mercia — The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition seeks to place a levy on power suppliers in order to finance “green energy” projects like those which have already failed in Spain, it has been announced.
The special levy will, according to reports, add approximately £20 to the annual bill of the already struggling individual consumer and will make British industry even more uncompetitive.
According to reports, the special levy “could generate capital” for the proposed “green investment bank” and has been suggested to the Government by investment bank NM Rothschild (who the Times described as having “a close relationship with the Treasury”).
Apparently the concept consists of putting a levy of about £2 per megawatt hour on the wholesale price of electricity to raise some £30 billion annually. When the Spanish government introduced similar "green" measures in that country, the move resulted in an increase in unemployment as hard-hit companies laid off staff to reduce cost overheads.
The Spanish example also resulted in an exodus of energy-intensive manufacturing industries such as steel-making, chemical production and food processing, to countries where cheaper energy was readily available.
The new levy is needed, it is claimed, to compensate for the reluctance of power companies to provide the funding because they are not convinced that the “green proposals” are economically viable and show little ecological benefit compared to the huge social hardship and economic damage they inflict.

The Government claims that the “green energy” measures are necessary to control greenhouse gas emissions but continue to ignore the reality that uncontrollable natural phenomena, such as volcanic activity, produce far more CO₂ than human activity. Most interestingly, it is not the ecologists who are behind the latest levy proposals, but the bankers.
Global investment banks, in particular, are supportive of “cap and trade” measures which will earn billions of pounds for the big institutional players on the world's stock markets.
No one should be surprised by the Tory’s close relationship with globalist bankers or by their reluctance to disclose their plans for the introduction of this wholly unnecessary and burdensome stealth tax.
Ultimately, it will benefit the ConDem’s friends in The City and on Wall Street, rather than the consumer or the environment.

County Durham BNP Is on the Right Path

County Durham BNP Is on the Right Path

Tue, 01/06/2010 - 14:41 |  BNP News

County Durham British National Party sent some of its members to the woods near the Cow Plantation in Spennymoor, County Durham, to construct a path as a community project, reports our North East correspondent Pete Molloy.
“The path was drastically needed to aid the public who use the woods for recreational purposes like walking their dogs or cycling, as the existing access was a bit treacherous,” Mr Molloy said.
Leading the project was County Durham’s Organiser, Adam Walker, who was impressed with the work by his team.
“I’ve been planning this project for a while, but it had to be put on hold until after the general election,” Mr Walker said.
“It took the team two hours to complete the project and we have used all natural materials from the woods itself, so it is very eco friendly,” he added.
The members of County Durham BNP who took part in the project were Adam Walker, Amanda Foster, Pete Molloy, Michael Stewart and Mark Walker.

ConDem Foreign Aid Policy Kicks in: 45 Million Condoms to Uganda while Egyptian Appointed to Oversee “Priority” Aid to Afghanistan and Pakistan

ConDem Foreign Aid Policy Kicks in: 45 Million Condoms to Uganda while Egyptian Appointed to Oversee “Priority” Aid to Afghanistan and Pakistan

The BNP News Room

The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government’s foreign aid policy has kicked off with the donation of 45 million condoms to Uganda and the appointment of an Egyptian to oversee the “prioritisation of aid” to Afghanistan and Pakistan — while at home, the ConDem tricksters prepare their first wave of domestic budget cuts.

According to Tory Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell, British taxpayers will provide “urgently needed” contraceptive supplies to Uganda at a cost of nearly £3 million to the British taxpayer.

At the same time, Mr Mitchell announced in an official statement on the Department for International Development (DFID) website that “aid to Afghanistan and Pakistan needs to to [sic] get higher priority.”

British taxpayers will be glad to hear that this “higher priority” has included the appointment of an Egyptian, Ms Nemat Minouche Shafik, as the DFID’s “Western Asia and Stabilisation Director with responsibility for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Stabilisation.”

According to Mr Mitchell, this appointment reflects the “need to see the UK’s aid work harder in countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan in order to bring about stability.”

Bizarrely, Mr Mitchell justifies aid to Afghanistan because of the war in that country.

His official statement said: “Following 30 years of conflict, Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world.” Mr Mitchell has conveniently ignored the fact that Afghanistan has been at war for the last nine years because of an illegal invasion launched by the Labour Party regime and which was completely supported by his own Conservative Party.

Mr Mitchell and his fellow conmen also choose to ignore the reality of Pakistan, which had a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2009 of some $449.30 billion.

This makes Pakistan the 27th largest economy in the world in terms of purchasing power, and the 45th largest in absolute dollar terms — yet still somehow deserving of British taxpayers’ “foreign aid.”

Furthermore, the Pakistani armed forces have a budget of $7.8 billion per year, or the 23rd largest in the world. Approximately 650,000 personnel are on active duty in the Pakistani military, which is the world's 6th largest armed force.

Combined with the 302,000 strong paramilitary forces and 528,000 in reserve, the military of Pakistan has a total size of over 1,000,000 personnel.

The Pakistan military possesses nuclear weapons and a range of missiles and aircraft which can deliver these weapons of mass destruction over vast distances.

Why exactly British taxpayers should be giving foreign aid to a country that can finance such an army has never been explained.

Meanwhile, the ConDem government has announced the first wave of budget cuts in Britain which will see hundreds of thousands of British people lose their jobs.

Only the British National Party has called for an immediate halt to all foreign aid programmes and the reallocation of that budget to pressing internal problems inside Britain.

The United Nationalist Nations (UNN) And The Eight Percent Minority

The United Nationalist Nations (UNN) And The Eight Percent Minority

Created: Friday, 28 May 2010 11:58 Author: The Founders

This introduction to the UNN, is a concise, and uncomplicated offer to all people of European origin. In particular, to ordinary people from across the cultural, political, and religious spectrum that has resulted in centuries of division and pointless wars and conflicts.

The United Nationalist Nations is strictly Non-Political, and requires nothing more than five people to administer it, which it has now employed. It will never take sides in party political life, and requires only financial support from individuals, or blocks of individuals.  Whether the reader is a political leader, or activist, a working man or woman, or one of the millions of disparate and concerned diaspora of Europeans, whose ancestors built the region you currently live in, this organisation will speak for you.

There will be no requirement for left or right rhetoric and dogma, or advice from people whose egos are bigger than our need for survival. There is a simplicity, and an uncomplicated structure of five Founders and they will administer the whole project, and it's financial requirements. To this end, support is achieved through the equivalent of just 25 pence per week. Supporting the UNN is based on a non-partisan, non-political basis, whereby ALL those seriously wishing that the peoples of the Western World are sustained, supported, and have legal redress to corroborated problems that may result in their losing homes, jobs, or being coerced into accepting a way of life oppressive to them, can find a legally accepted voice through the first ever, Ambassador For The People Of European Origin.

Immediately upon initially promoting the UNN in basic format, the Founders unsurprisingly came across road blocks and potential infiltrators. Hence the trap was quickly entered by those wishing to ensure we, the original peoples of this region upon earth, and other areas we have settled in for centuries, have no voice in the New World Order.

The Founders are glad to say, it was obvious, and we will continue this project regardless of those opposed to our survival and eventual renaissance.

Within one year, we intend to reach one million people, and thus, as we insist on a low membership and support fee of 25 pence per individual per week, or £13 per annum, our aim is to supply our people with an organisation and infrastructure able to fund £13,000,000 worth of legal aid, educational support, food where necessary, and legal redress to those mentioned above. Funds will also be used to feed those who are struggling on a daily basis, such as the elderly and very young, whose families cannot find the income to do so.

The uncomplicated structure of the United Nationalist Nations, with just five salaries to be paid when funds allow, and very little Red-Tape needed as such, will not become a burden upon those who have contributed.

Millions of people around the world of European origin, are as we speak, suffering disgraceful, desperate and lonely lives. Over 30,000 elderly people in Britain alone, let alone our people elsewhere, are dying from cold each year. Britain is the world's fourth largest economy (apparently), and these figures are almost of Third World proportions in the 21st Century.

By mobilising under the UNN banner, this could be tackled through the already alert, and politically aware Nationalists. Other problems that could be tackled are threats to our freedoms. We do not particularly need political parties to tackle this, as seemingly, it is the very presence of Nationalist political parties on the election scene in many of our nations that, has resulted in jail, threats of jail, intimidation and wholesale electoral fraud. If a cultural or political leader, activist or other, is under threat of jail or legal action, then the UNN in it's role as a Human Rights organisation, would be there to support and lobby for the rights of both the activist, leader, and/or the family if and when required. As a world minority of just eight per cent, we have rights, and will fight for them.

A giant lobbying system would also become available for our people. Imagine if you will, a lady or gentleman, allegedly jailed, or threatened with jail, because they simply could not pay their bills, or were being hounded out of their home for whatever reason. The United Nationalist Nations would draw upon millions of people, supporters, and members, and LOBBY just as other ethnic and socio-cultural groups do almost daily somewhere on earth.

A system such as this, could then gather even more support, especially when countless millions realise that this really does happen, and the people of European and British origin, have never had support or help from anywhere... until now. Within a few short, and turbulent years, even those Journalists and weak minded politicians or community leaders, who wrote ugly and smear filled rubbish about Nationalists, and generally treated Europeans and Britons with contempt, will have had their salaries smashed, and their pensions turned to dust.

Then we will see support from as now, unlikely sources. They too have families, and as life gets harder, and international criminal enterprises get stronger in the guise of Global Warming and Aid organisations, the whole world will be looking beyond national politics for an answer. The international cabal of financiers and war-mongers, will not expect such a combined intellectual attack, and it will become harder for them to standardise our lives, and usurp our ancient rights and many cultures. We as a people, are being de-democratised, de-humanised, and our traditions and political power is being crushed. Thus, we now require an addition to the political process, and one that cannot, and will not be hi-jacked, or shoved onto a road that leads nowhere. The UNN will provide a complete and complimentary infrastructure that includes all of the above and more.

There will be a gathering of the masses of ancient European peoples, under the United Nationalist Nations banner. Those masses remember, all have similar socio-cultural traditions, commercial, and educative requirements, not to mention financial security and worthwhile careers they and we have fought long and hard to keep.

Below is the potential order with which we will construct the UNN:

1 - Establish an Embassy with it's own Ambassador, diplomatic procedures and infrastructure. Inform world leaders and institutions including the world media, as to our intentions in this as yet basic, and fledgling guise.

2 - Communicate with our Nationalist cultural and political leaders, their organisations and members, already concerned enough to have been active. Promote on websites everywhere, the intention of the UNN to leglly support international treaties that lobby for Human Rights, and to include pro-Caucasian sustenance and traditional values and rights to resources and land.

3 - Respectfully request that ALL nationalist leaders ratify the UNN treaty, and immediately contact members and supporters via their organisational literature and websites. No political or cultural leader, or any large financial donor(s) will expect to take control, or divert the UNN for financial gain. The five founders will protect it at every level.

4 - Ensure a solid financial and intellectual base is installed, and clearly understood by everyone. Transparency will be clear and easy to process. All members whether individual, or as a block membership or families, will be able to view accounts professionally documented under national and international law. Membership is private, and as the UNN is non-profit, and non-political, and could ultimately become a registered charity, privacy is guaranteed and legally acceptable with or without membership status. Card carrying members and financial supporters are considered equal, therefore no list is required for public domain.

5 - Create a date and time for the first inaugural UNN conference. This will only be relevant with sufficient numbers joining, and or enough funds offered by way of donations. There will be no ''Committees'' required when the UNN is up and running, as these can lead to take-overs, and distraction from our core principles and constitution. Committees also offer untold options for in-fighting, or to destroy the organisation by block-voting, or infiltration by those opposed to our survival. 

6 - Through the basic structure of each interested individual or organisational website, create links to the UNN basic site, or by then, professional website. Personal choice is important, no political agendas are expressed, and when the UNN site is viewed, people can make their own minds up about membership and/or support. 

7 - Implement an international strategy for action, and a more sophisticated constitution in all European languages. This strategy will include a ''Socio-Political Rescue Plan''. This will mean using funds as a lobby and human rights group, to oppose political exclusion of any individual whose party of choice is no longer available to them through state oppression and ''third party'' attacks, either physically or via wealthy ''Horse Whipserers'' behind the scenes.

8 - Establish the University Of Ancient European Peoples online initially. This will help redress the propaganda and levelling off of standards in British and European facilities. The UNN University will utilise its broad based collective and once again, educate Western youth to the degree our parents and grand-parents once knew.

9 - The UNN will eventually create a private, legally administered bank. Something along the lines of the Bank Of Ancient European Peoples for instance, will enable the UNN to employ professionals. Some of whom may have been sidelined by positive discrimination and lack of opportunities. A financial operation that is mutually beneficial, could provide emergency loans, and very low interest loans, would ensure that millions could enjoy the benefits of actually doing what others can only do chained up in perpetual internationalist debt.

10 - legal teams will be employed to activate, or re-activate the rights of individuals or lobbying groups officially supporting the UNN. The legal department will lobby and tackle the UN, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on their lack of integrity when it comes to protecting the rights of Caucasian peoples. We will lobby and legally redress the state of our rights to keep our communities indigenous, and retain land, work, and homes that have been held by our families for generations. The UNN will work on behalf of ALL peoples of European origin wherever they are. The papering over of our rights by disregarding for instance, the English Bill Of Rights, The Magna Carta, and The Act Of Settlement in the UK, will be fought, highlighted, and taken to the highest courts, including our own. Our own legal institution will be funded via the initial UNN donations and membership income when funding allows this to happen.

11 - The UNN will lobby for the rights of ''Heads of Families'', provisionally one out of every 100 families in any region, to bare arms for protection of said community. The alien laws of recent years, have meant many cannot now protect their own families, homes, or businesses, when dangerous and violent criminals attack them.

12 - The UNN will respectfully request that the UN, all world leaders, the EU and NATO, officially recognise the UNN as a fully legal entity through its embassy and Ambassador. If this request is ignored, the UNN will lobby exactly as described herein. No internationally engineered ''condemnation'' of our own Human Rights and lobby group by the elites and their hired mouthpieces, will be allowed to have any impact on our project. Many countries have continued to control their own socio-cultural, and socio-political agendas.

Other peoples can take control of their immigration policy, their business and trading partners, and have suitably and rightly rendered useless, any opposition regarding these important rights. China, Israel, India, Pakistan, and many countries in Africa, have protected their cultures, religions, and ethnic ancestry. National policies are rightly protective, and create healthy self-governance for untold future generations to come. Their right is our right also. At merely 8 percent of this planet's inhabitants, we will take that right as an official world minority.

Australia could ship migrants to desert mining camp

Australia could ship migrants to desert mining camp

They have been sent to remote Pacific islands and to the Indian Ocean – now asylum-seekers intercepted in Australian waters may end up in the middle of the desert, in a near-empty former gold-mining town.

A flurry of boats arriving this year – mainly from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan – has led to chronic overflowing at Australia's main detention centre, on Christmas Island, as well as at mainland facilities. As a result, the government is urgently seeking alternative accommodation for asylum-seekers while their claims are processed.

 

More than 200 are living in hotels and motels. The latest site under consideration is a disused mining camp near Leonora, a historic gold rush town in Western Australia. More than 500 miles from Perth, Leonora was a booming place in the late 19th century. Nowadays it has a distinctly abandoned air, with its broad, empty streets and dwindling population.

The Immigration Department has confirmed that it recently examined the camp, as well as other potential sites in Western Australia, including a former agricultural college run by the Christian Brothers, a Catholic lay order implicated in sexual abuse scandals around the world. Around Australia, churches and other groups have been approached to see whether they can offer suitable facilities.

The refugee issue became highly controversial in Australia when John Howard, the former conservative prime minister, turned away the Tampa, a Norwegian tanker carrying shipwrecked asylum-seekers, in 2001.

Mr Howard then adopted the "Pacific solution", which involved intercepting "boat people" at sea and paying impoverished Pacific nations – namely, Nauru and Papua New Guinea – to house them while they were processed.

After Kevin Rudd's Labor government came to power in 2007, he scrapped the Pacific solution, along with other policies, such as mandatory detention for all asylum-seekers. Mr Howard's hardline measures proved such an effective deterrent that, for many years, few would-be refugees even bothered making the journey.

That has changed over the past 18 months, partly as a result of global events such as the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka. Last year about 2,700 people arrived by boat, and many more by air. Already this year 60 boats have been intercepted, the same number as during the whole of 2009.

The Australian external territory of Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, was supposed to be the Rudd government's solution. After refugee numbers escalated, a mothballed detention centre, originally designed to hold a maximum of 800 people, was opened on the island, about 1,600 miles north-west of Perth. Prefabricated huts and air-conditioned tents have boosted its capacity to 2,500, but the centre is now once again bursting at the seams. Officials hoped to transfer up to 90 people, mainly women and children, to Leonora.

However, the plan was criticised by the Western Australian premier, Colin Barnett, who told ABC radio: "I think it's quite silly of them, charging around country areas of Western Australia, looking for buildings or deserted mining camps. That's not a very professional way of dealing with... an important humanitarian issue."

Gold is still mined in the Leonora area, as is nickel, mainly by "fly in, fly out" workers accommodated in temporary camps. One-third of the town's population is indigenous.

David Laws: The Tip of the Lib Dem Expenses Scandal

David Laws: The Tip of the Lib Dem Expenses Scandal

From BNP News

The resignation of Lib Dem Treasury Chief Secretary David Laws for claiming £40,000 of taxpayers’ money to pay rent to his boyfriend is just the tip of his party’s expenses scandals.

Mr Laws, who has tried to use his homosexuality as an excuse for the blatant swindle, claimed between £700 and £950 every month to rent rooms in London.

These properties were actually owned by his long-term partner, James Lundie, who apparently works as a political lobbyist.

Mr Laws can have no excuse for his expenses claims, as MPs were banned four years ago from leasing accommodation from a partner.

Mr Laws is not alone in this grand rip-off conspiracy. Here is a selection of Lib Dem expenses claims:

* Lib Dem MP for St Ives, Andrew George, claimed £847 a month from taxpayers on mortgage interest payments for a riverside flat — even though the home insurance policy included on his expenses file is in the name of his 21-year-old daughter, Morvah George.

* Lib Dem leader — and now deputy prime minister — Nick Clegg charged monthly interest repayments of £1,018 on a £279,000 mortgage to the taxpayers, including stamp duty, land registry and legal costs, totalling £9,244.50.

Mr Clegg also charged the taxpayers for a £2,600 kitchen, and had £5,857.63 worth of decorating done, including carpets, a laminate floor, tiling and sanding, curtains, blinds, curtain rails and repairs to a garage door. Mr Clegg also claimed for cushions costing £4.99, a £2.49 cake pan and £1.50 paper napkins.

Mr Clegg also claimed £680 worth of gardening carried out, including work to “build small wall in rose garden”, followed by £760 for the repair of his garden path.

Taxpayers will also be glad to hear that apart from his parliamentary salary, they also paid to feed Mr Clegg. In the period from 2 August to 13 December 2005, Mr Clegg submitted a £1,657.32 invoice for food.

Finally, Mr Clegg made the taxpayer pay for his private telephone calls to Colombia, Vietnam and Belgium. The last set of claims was so outrageous that Mr Clegg was forced to pay the money claimed back.

* Multi-millionaire Lib Dem MP Chris Huhne, owns his second home in his Eastleigh constituency but makes sure that the taxpayers pick up the bills for its upkeep.

In August 2006 he claimed — and was paid — for a £5,066 builder’s invoice that included having two coats of “red rustic timber care” applied to garden items, and two coats of green preservative for fences.

Mr Huhne also submitted a handyman’s bill for £77.31, including a claim for “replacing rope on swinging chair.”

His incidental expenses provision claims include a single receipt for semi-skimmed milk (62p), chocolate HobNobs (79p), tea bags (89p), a bus ticket (£3.20), a cheese muffin (99p), bacon flavour Wheat Crunchies (28p),  Ready Brek (£1.81), and an £85.35 bill for the “mounting, framing and inscription of photo of Chris Huhne.”

* Lib Dem MP for Montgomeryshire, Lembit Opik, was forced to pay back £2,499 for a 42” plasma TV which he bought for himself.

In May 2006, Mr Opik billed a £40 summons for non-payment of council tax on the flat to his second home expenses.

He successfully claimed £890 for a smaller television and new video recorder. In July 2008, Mr Opik claimed £135 for a triple mirror and coffee table from Argos.

* Nick Harvey, Lib Dem MP for North Devon, claimed £30 per month for his subscription to Sky Sports and £3,515 for food between 2004 and 2008.

* Norman Baker, MP for Lewes, tried to claim for a bicycle and a computer so that he could “listen to music.” Both these requests were denied, but his expenses records revealed that he had claimed hundreds of pounds for food at his second home at a time when Parliament was not sitting.

* Lib Dem MP for Teignbridge, Richard Younger-Ross, charged taxpayers more than £1,200 for mirrors to furnish his London flat, one of which alone cost £725.

He also claimed on his parliamentary expenses for a top-of-the-range stereo system that cost more than £1,100, and a bookcase called the “Don Juan.”

* Former Tory party leader and current Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith told the BBC that Mr Laws “has the talent to return” to the cabinet.

Mr Duncan Smith, most famous for leading the Conservative party in backing the illegal war against Iraq by supporting the Labour Party in parliament, said Mr Laws was a "thoroughly decent person."