Voting Rights for Britons living Abroad

Voting Rights for Brits Abroad

  Author Martin Wingfieldat Nick Griffin MEP Euro News

29TH SEPTEMBER 2010: BY far the most consistent query to the MEP's office in the North West Region comes from Britons now living overseas - "Please advise me, can I vote in UK elections?"
One such letter arrived at the office this morning from Ross in British Columbia who told Nick:
"We have many expats here in Canada who share the same political viewpoint and believe that the British National Party is best suited to safeguard these values. We want to vote for BNP candidates back home at election time but are not certain whether we are able to."
Responding on behalf of the MEP, Constituency Office Manager Tina Wingfield wrote:
"Thank you for your email regarding ex-pats’ voting rights in the UK.
"The UK Government’s public service website, DirectGov, states the following with regard to voting rights:
'British citizens living abroad can register as overseas voters if they have been registered to vote in the UK at any time within the past 15 years. Brits living overseas can either vote by post or arrange for someone (a proxy) to vote for them in a UK election.
Voters can apply for a postal vote when they register.'
"If you would like further information about your voting rights, and to download a voter registration form, please go to: aboutmyvote.co.uk .
"Please also feel free to contact the British National Party’s Overseas Liaison Officer, Mr Andy McBride, who co-ordinates all our associated overseas groups and organisations. He may be able to put you in contact with some similarly-minded compatriots. His contact details are:
overseas@bnp.org.uk
Telephone: 05601 950167."

Britain must re-build its own UK transport infrastructure

Britain must re-build its own transport infrastructure

  Martin Wingfield@ Nick Griffin MEP

September 2010
  A number of constituents have written to Nick Griffin to express their deep concern at the amount of money being spent by the European Union on the Intelligent Transport System Initiative.

One gentleman from Blackburn wrote:
I doubt the motives for building this system, believing it to be a vehicle for a few large corporations to make a lot of money from road pricing.
I feel that some political institutions are out of public control, and even local councils act as if they are no longer the publics servants but bodies in their own right, and this is certainly true of the European Parliament.
How can you as MEPs restore a feeling of public control?
I fear we have created an automaton, over which I as a citizen, have no control!
Perhaps it time we should consider the Swiss system of democracy."
Responding on behalf of the MEP, Constituency Office manager Tina Wingfield wrote:
"Thank you for your email regarding the EU’s new legal framework for intelligent Transport systems.
"The consensus within the European Parliament is, unsurprisingly, that a common European approach is required to ensure that the transport systems used in each Member State of the European Union are mutually compatible.
"As you rightly point out, this consensus on uniformity on a grand scale reflects today’s dominant approach to politics and the organisation of public, social and economic life, which asserts that macro-organisation is always the best policy. Hence, we see control consistently taken away from small, localised bodies and transferred to ever-larger, cross-county and cross-border institutions.
"Such a policy framework takes no account of the wealth of experience which suggests that the further away you take the decision-making process from the people and communities it directly affects, the more likely it is that the outcomes decided upon will not reflect the will of local people nor their best interests. Again, it should perhaps come as no surprise that there is little notice taken in political life these days of common sense or collective wisdom.
"If common sense did prevail, responsibility for deciding the direction of Britain’s transport network would not rest with a mega-European bureaucracy comprised of 736 politicians representing the self-evidently disparate interests of 27 Member States and 500 million citizens. It simply isn’t feasible that such an institution could be capable of developing a transport strategy tailored to the particular long-term needs of the United Kingdom. The recurring financial contributions demanded from British taxpayers to simply maintain this obscenely bloated, resource sapping bureaucratic monstrosity could moreover, be so much more wisely spent if redirected towards investment in our own transport infrastructure.
"As a British National Party MEP, Mr Griffin believes that Britain should withdraw from the European Union and British independence and control over its national destiny restored. The British National Party will end the multibillion cash haemorrhage Britain loses to the EU in membership fees and invest the money instead in re-building British transport infrastructure.
"Unfettered by European regulation and policy directives, a British Nationalist Government will invest public money to fund transport upgrades and the contracts for such developments will be awarded to British companies, to the benefit of British workers. The disastrous privatisation process will be reversed; traffic congestion eased by controlling the immigration invasion which is swelling our population to unsustainable proportions; foreign freight vehicles charged to use Britain’s road network (which will discourage the importation of goods which could and should be produced in this country where possible); the price of fuel will be decreased by reducing the level of government taxation; and toll-free motorways will be maintained.
"If you would like to find out more about the British National Party’s views on transport policy and other issues - such as the call for constitutional change which will ensure that all powers properly capable of exercise at local level are devolved and county council government revived - please visit the Party’s website at www.bnp.org.uk ."

Nick Griffin MEP asks for clarification on benefits

MEP asks for clarification on benefits

  Author  Martin Wingfield  @  Nick Griffin MEP

22ND SEPTEMBER 2010: THERE's an email doing the rounds that has upset a number of Nick Griffin's constituents in the North West of England.

Many have contacted their MEP to ask him to find out whether there is any truth in the claim made with regard to a significant disparity in benefits between pensioners and newly arrived immigrants.
"People want an answer and quickly so that the email can be dismissed as just mishief-making, or something that needs to be highlighted," says Constituency Office Manager Tina Wingfield.
"So I have written to the Department of Work and Pensions Ministers to ask for clarification."
This is the letter:
"Nick Griffin, MEP has been contacted by a number of his constituents with regard to benefits information that is being widely circulated via the internet.
I reproduce the information they have received below.
BENEFITS - BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER
Weekly allowance - £100
Weekly Spouse allowance - £25
Additional weekly hardship allowance - £0.00
TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT - £6,000
BENEFITS - IMMIGRANTS / REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
Weekly allowance - £250
Weekly Spouse allowance - £225
Additional weekly hardship allowance - £100
TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT - £29,900
 Mr Griffin’s constituents - mainly pensioners - have voiced their shock and concern at the disproportionate benefit allowances that appear to be available to immigrants and refugees living in Britain, in comparison with British old age pensioners. They have asked him to ascertain whether the figures quoted are correct, and if so, what justification the Department for Works and Pensions provides for such disproportionality.
To enable him to respond to his constituents’ queries, Mr Griffin would be grateful if you could confirm if the chart below presents an accurate summary of current benefit allowances. If the figures are correct, can you please explain the rationality behind such a discrepancy in benefit allowances?
If the information is not correct, can you please provide accurate benefit allowance levels?
Mr Griffin looks forward to a prompt response and thanks you for your assistance with this matter."

Burnley and Bolton Amongst 120 Groups and Branches Taking Part in the BNP’s “Bring Them Home” Campaign

Burnley and Bolton Makes it 120 Groups and Branches Taking Part in the BNP’s “Bring Them Home” Campaign

  BNP Newsroom

The appearance of the British National Party’s units in Burnley and Bolton on the streets of their towns last weekend has pushed the total number of party groups and branches taking part in the “bring our boys home” to 120, reports national organiser Clive Jefferson.

“The campaign is gaining momentum right through the North West and indeed the full country, with over 120 groups and branches now equipped with the campaign banners and literature,” Mr Jefferson said, adding that many more were just going out with the petitions.

The BNP’s Bolton group set up is stall near a busy pedestrian point and people could not but help see them, Mr Jefferson continued.

“The sun was shining but it was very cold, but the stall was well worth it for the response received.

 “People where very happy to sign when they saw it was to bring our boys home, and one lady said her nephew had just gone in the army and she was worried sick,” he said.

 “In Burnley, a party stronghold for the last decade, our organiser reported gathering up 300 signatures in just under two hours, which is a remarkable indication of the campaign’s popularity.”

Blackburn's Sacred Heart School Colonisation Is A Symptom of the Ethnic Cleansing of Britain

Sacred Heart School Colonisation Is A Symptom of the Ethnic Cleansing of Britain

The BNP Newsroom

The complete colonisation of the formerly Catholic Sacred Heart School in Blackburn by Muslims is a symptom of the ethnic cleansing of Britain which, left unchecked, will see white British people reduced to minority status well within 40 years.

Newspaper reports last week revealed that the decades-old Sacred Heart School is about to be handed over to Blackburn’s Tauheedul mosque and re-opened with a new name after the number of Muslim pupils rocketed from just 7 percent in 2000 to 97 percent last year.

The 10-year period saw a tidal wave of immigrants and immigrant births fill up the school benches, ethnically cleansing the indigenous population from possession of the school grounds. Most of the new pupils do not even speak English as their first language.

The school board of governors has recently resigned en masse as they no longer had anything in common with the pupil makeup and staff retention has proven to be a major problem.

The Tauheedul mosque is already responsible for a voluntary aided Islamic girls’ secondary school in Blackburn and now looks set to take over the Sacred Heart School and run it along the same lines.

A voluntary aided school is a state-funded school in England and Wales in which a foundation or trust (most commonly a religious organisation) contributes to building costs and has a substantial influence in the running of the school.

In other words, the British taxpayer is paying for Muslims to educate their children in the Islamic faith in schools from which they have physically displaced British children.

It is not only in Blackburn that British children are being ethnically cleansed from the schooling system.

A report issued by the Birmingham City Council in February this year revealed that Asian children outnumbering white pupils in Birmingham primary schools for the first time. Only 39 percent of primary school children in Birmingham are white, according to the council.

A similar pattern has played itself out in London, where white children are also a minority in many of the capital’s classrooms, according to figures released by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

In Tower Hamlets, 15 percent of primary school pupils are classed as white British, while the figure for Newham is 12 percent and 7 percent in Brent.

In Bradford, 47 percent of primary school children are non-white, and in

Manchester, less than 60 per cent of primary pupils are white. In Leicester, 41 percent of primary school children are white.

Birth rate figures issued earlier this year by the NHS revealed that white babies will be a minority of all live births in Britain by the year 2030.

Make no mistake: British people are rapidly being ethnically cleansed from Britain under a tidal wave of immigration and immigrant birth rates.

The British public still have a chance to avert this disaster which will irrevocably plunge Britain into Third World status.

That chance is the British National Party.

While Nu Labours Marxists Huddle, South Wales BNP Hits the Streets

While Marxists Huddle, South Wales BNP Hits the Streets

The BNP Newsroom

While the two sons of a Marxist immigrant were doing behind the scenes deals with the unions in Manchester this weekend, British National Party activists in towns all across South Wales were busy holding “support our troops” table top petition signing events, reports Clive Bennett, Swansea group organiser.

“The West Wales group held their table top in Haverfordwest town centre as activists from Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot turned out to assist the local group,” Mr Bennett said.

“We were able to have a table top at Castle Square, a second group complete with clipboards, situated at Old Bridge on the other side of the town centre, and an additional group of activists leafleting in various parts of the town.”

Mr Bennett said that the “table was busy all the time with people who wanted to sign the petition and have a chat.

“In many cases, people gave vent to their worries and concerns for members of their family who are service personnel and presently in Afghanistan, some for the third or fourth time,” he said.

“One man told us of his nephew who had been serving his country from the time of the Falklands War, with tours of duty in Northern Ireland and Iraq and who was now on his fourth term in Afghanistan.

“I told him that I hoped good fortune followed his nephew and that this petition does something to speed his and every other British son, daughter, niece and nephew's safe passage home,” Mr Bennett said.

“During the day, 122 signatures were collected and over two thousand leaflets distributed. Several Voice of Freedom newspapers were sold.

“A number of very welcome donations were also made, rounding off a very productive day which gave many local people an opportunity to meet and speak to our members face-to-face,” Mr Bennett said.

UK Democracy Has Been Denied in Britain, Says BNP Press Officer

Democracy Has Been Denied in Britain, Says BNP East Midlands Press Officer

The British people are being denied their democratic rights by a politically correct elite which thinks it knows best, according to East Midlands British National Party press officer Cllr John Ryde.

Addressing the latest meeting of the Salisbury branch, Cllr Ryde said on issue after issue, from immigration to the EU, the views of the majority of British people have been ignored and overridden.

“The British people have never been consulted on the really important issues which have determined the direction of this nation,” he said to applause.

Cllr Ryde also gave the lively audience an insight in to his work as a councillor for the BNP and his own achievements throughout his community in reducing crime.

He finished off with a Q&A which gave the audience a chance to ask him how he has seen change through mass immigration in Leicestershire.

Compared to where Cllr Ryde lives, Salisbury has “escaped the effects of mass immigration to a degree. But it is our duty to alert the residents  of Salisbury and surrounding areas to what can be expected if we do nothing,” said organiser Sean Witheridge after Cllr Ryde’s speech.

Mr Witheridge officially welcomed several new members to the meeting, including some university students.

A video of party chairman Nick Griffin’s recent speech in Bolton at the launch of the “Bring our boys home” campaign was shown and went down a storm.

“During the interval, several new members showed great interest in supporting the campaign and offered to assist the branch in any way they could,” said Mr Witheridge.

see Nicks speech speech here. Nick griffins Bolton Speech filmed in Horwich

BNP Bring Our Troops Home” Tabletop Campaign “More Effective than Leafleting”

“Bring Our Troops Home” Tabletop Campaign “More Effective than Leafleting”

The BNP Newsroom

The British National Party’s “Bring our troops home” tabletop campaign is as effective, if not more so, than putting leaflets through doors, reports Windsor and Maidenhead organiser Neil Kilbane.

“We shall carry on with type of campaigning long after this present campaign stops,” Mr Kilbane said. “It is much more productive than putting leaflets through doors.”

The tabletop campaign, which started again yesterday in the constituency, drew what Mr Kilbane described as “very good support in a very conservative area.

“The supporters of this petition filled out at least 12 of the petition sheets and we sold dozens of copies of Voice of Freedom,” he said.

One interesting point which came up during the tabletop outreach was the support expressed by ethnic minorities who were happy to sign the BNP’s petition.

“One particular gentleman, a doctor in nuclear science, told us that as a first generation immigrant, he was disgusted with today's politicians for allowing mass immigration and not then supporting the rights of the indigenous population," Mr Kilbane said.

“This gentleman said he had moved to Britain with qualifications and under terms of which he brought something useful and needed by the British Government.

“He then went on to ask why the Government insisted on allowing unqualified persons to enter the UK who bring nothing but their Third World customs and religions that do nothing but bring contempt for the British way of life.”

Mr Kilbane said that this gentleman had offered to attend a local branch meeting to speak to real Britons who share his concerns.

Western Liberals Are Tolerant – As Long As You Agree With Them

Liberals Are Tolerant – As Long As You Agree With Them

  BNP Newsroom

By Dr Phil Edwards—All over Europe, liberals are panicking as anti-immigration parties make steady progress. How predictable, that as soon as one such party in Sweden — the Swedish Democrats — enjoys success under a traditional democratic system, the liberal luvvies are, just as in the UK, out in force.

Henning Mankell, a Swedish crime writer, occasional children's author and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring Inspector Kurt Wallander proclaimed in the Guardian that the “rise of Sweden's far right has clearly shown that trying to silence them will backfire...we should have argued them into oblivion.”

That’s right — "argued them into oblivion."

But with about 100,000 immigrants entering a country of almost 9 million every year and Malmo, Sweden’s third most populous city, having about 38 percent of its 300,000 population of foreign background (from Asia, Africa, and Arab countries, with a particular problem with Somalis, Lebanese, and Palestinians) one wonders just how or what sort of argument would have prevailed.

The good news is the Sweden Democrats party (SD) has made it into parliament, with nearly 6 percent of the vote and 20 MPs.

According to Mankell this creates "an uncertain situation in parliament" — Sweden will get a "weak government" since all the parties have spent most of the post-election debate guaranteeing that they won't in any way co-operate with the SD.

So much for "strength through diversity."

Mankell asks "Who are the more than 300,000 Swedes (out of a population of 9 million) who voted for the SD? Why couldn't this be stopped?"

With echoes of the situation in the UK, the SD was pushed out of the election campaign, the other parties refused to engage in a dialogue with it. The SD was forbidden to come and spread its "message" in some schools.

"This was, of course, a completely mistaken and counterproductive strategy; it was, in fact, idiocy. The only way to deal with people with racist, xenophobic and generally populist views is through a determined dialogue" says Mankell belatedly, going on to compare the Sweden Democrats with the German National Socialism of the 1920s, asserting that "it was precisely the refusal of the other parties, from left and right, to debate with the SD that allowed them to grow from nothing to 6 percent of the vote.”

Shamefully, Mankell even admitted that "...in Sweden we have until now been able to keep these ultraconservative groupings out of play. They have had a few representatives in local government but not much more than that.

“The difference this time was that the SD was much better organised, that they made their views much clearer, and that they were pushed out. At one stage a television channel refused to show their party political broadcast. It was thought too xenophobic" — sounds familiar.

The problem for the likes of Mankell is that were parties like the SD and the BNP allowed a genuinely free and open discussion by the media, we would soon be in government — and that's the paradox for the perverted minds of the media and political elites.

Europe versus Intolerance: Proceedings of the Seminar [Held Strasbourg, Palais De l'Europe, 3-4 March 1994] 

Andrew Brons BNP MEP helps injured British Soldier

MEP helps injured soldier

  Author Martin Wingfield

SEPTEMBER 2010: WHEN Chris Beverley addressed BNP members at a meeting in Bridlington recently and asked them to let him know of any good local causes that they would like to see supported by Andrew Brons MEP, it did not take long for good suggestions to be submitted.

Indeed, it was at this very meeting that Sub-Regional organiser Gary Pudsey mentioned a fundraising event due to be held on the following Saturday. The event in question had been organised to raise money for a local soldier who lost his leg following an explosion in Afghanistan, and who had since been told that his £185 disability benefit has been stopped. Without this payment he cannot afford to run his specially adapted car.
26-year-old Aron Shelton from Bridlington (right) was told by the DWP that he was no longer entitled to disability allowance to fund his car, despite losing one leg and suffering crippling arthritis in the other.
Aron told his local newspaper:
"I was livid, I needed a punch bag to take my anger out on - though the British Prime Minister would have done! I lost my leg for a reason, I didn't lose it in an everyday accident or by messing around, I lost it fighting for my country in the British Army and I would expect that the British government would look after me because of it."
Upon learning of this case, Andrew Brons immediately send a cheque for £1000 from his community fund, which has been gratefully accepted.