Feeling gutted that I’m not flying off to Rome this morning to see the mighty reds win back to back Champions League Finals.
Any guess who?
Daily Archives: May 28, 2009
Well i found this in the Manchester evening news an article by one of it’s top writers any views?
BNP’s dark past
May 28, 2009
THE British National Party has poured huge resources into trying to disguise its neo-Nazi roots.
The BNP was an off-shoot of the New National Front, itself a breakaway group from the National Front.
It was founded by John Tyndall, who used slogans like ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘What we need is a few machine guns’.
He was one of a number of men prosecuted in the 1960s for setting up and running a private army based on the `brownshirts’ of Nazi Germany.
Tyndall – who once described Adolf Hitler’s autobiography as `my bible’ and called for `medical measures’ to prevent those with `heredity defects, either racial, mental or physical’ from having children – was jailed for six months.
He went on to set up the BNP in 1989.
Stars unite against BNP
Under Tyndall, the party made no secret of its belief in racial discrimination and it developed its policy of compulsory ‘repatriation’ – essentially forcing non-white British people out of their home country.
Tyndall was ousted by Nick Griffin in 1999 in a leadership election. Griffin had previously been more than happy to toe the party line on race, telling a newspaper in 1996: “All black people will be repatriated, even if they were born here.
“We must preserve the white race, because it has been responsible for all the good things in civilisation.”
As party leader, however, Griffin began trying to `modernise’ the party’s image. The immigration policy was changed to state only that non-white Britons would be given `firm’ incentives to leave their homeland.
The BNP now issues reams of guidance to party members and officers on what they should and should not say in public.
Secrecy and deception
In one document – called ‘language discipline’ – organisers are told that racial and ethnic epithets and insults should never be used’.
In December 2006 a reporter from the MEN’s sister newspaper, the Guardian, infiltrated the party and worked as the BNP’s central London organiser. He revealed how the party used ‘techniques of secrecy and deception’ to ‘conceal its activities and intentions’.
His report detailed how activists used false names, employed counter-surveillance techniques to conceal the locations of their meetings and used encryption software to protect email messages.
Yet beneath the sophisticated and disciplined surface, the same attitudes keep resurfacing.
In 2004, an undercover reporter infiltrated the BNP and filmed party activists saying things they would never dare say in public.
One council candidate was taped saying ‘all I want to do is shoot P***s’, while Tyndall was caught describing the then leader of the Tory party – Michael Howard, whose Jewish parents fled to Britain during the Holocaust – as ‘an interloper’.
Other senior BNP officers have been caught admitting to deeply unsavoury attitudes.
Mark Collett, the former chairman of Young BNP, described Aids as a `friendly disease because blacks, drug users and gays have it’.
Then there are the former and active party members caught committing serious criminal acts.
In 1999, David Copeland – a former BNP member once pictured with party founder John Tyndall – gained infamy as the `nail bomber’ who terrorised London.
His first two bombs were let off in Brixton, which has a large Black community, and Brick Lane, which has a large Asian population.
The last one was planted in a Soho pub, at the heart of London’s gay community. Three people died, including a pregnant woman, and more than 100 were injured.
There is no doubt Copeland acted alone. But there is also no doubt that it was while he was in the BNP – between 1997 and 1998 – that he used the internet to read up on how to make bombs and to access anti-Semitic texts from extreme right-wing groups in America.
Conspiracy
In August 2007, former BNP council candidate Robert Cottage was jailed for two-and-a-half years after stockpiling explosive chemicals.
Cottage, of Colne in Lancashire, was cleared after two trials of conspiracy to cause explosions, but pleaded guilty to possession.
Mrs Justice Swift, sentencing, said Cottage held views that `veered towards the apocalyptic’.
And Griffin himself was convicted of incitement to racial hatred in 1998, for distributing material denying the Holocaust.
The BNP leader says his views on the matter have changed. Those looking closely at his party’s history might be forgiven for harbouring doubts.
Salford Pop Stars 2009
Well just like to say i have been to see the Salford Pop Stars 2009 with my wife and a couple of friends. I felt it was a fantastic night with some brilliant young kids. And guess what a Swinton Lass won it well done Girl. It’s so easy to have a go at our kids. If you would have come to night you could of seen some possible talent for the future.
Well the councillors allowances are out next month. Take a look at the Liberal Democratic first then look at Labour and come back and tell me if you get value for your money.
Why do New LABOUR claim all these special allowances? we get more than enough at £10.000 per year why do people take extra. It is a public Duty not a full time job. Well message to Mrs Blears Swinton South Counciollors claim only the bare basic allowance nothing more, but i hope the people of this city check New LABOURS. or should i say pretty well off labour.
Who said this job was easy two days one flat mobile and worn shoes we managed to stop the cutting down of all the trees on Cherry Drive Swinton.
We Lost out on one but we have managed to get temporary orders in place to stop the wholesale cutting down of the Cherry trees in cherry drive.Thank you for coming out to help Urban Vision i can’t for the life of me see how this was allowed to commence but all’s well that ends well i hope.
Officer suspended for allegedly failing to reveal to senior management that one of the homes had been given a poor report last year! what the hell is going wrong?
Kids’home boss suspended
May 28, 2009
THE man in charge of all children’s homes in Salford has been suspended after three damning reports by government inspectors.
Mike Kelly is also facing disciplinary action for Teams from Ofsted arrived unannounced to carry out inspections at three children’s homes in March and all were found to be unsatisfactory.
Concerns were raised over insufficient training for staff, poor record keeping and facilities in the buildings. But one of the three homes was also checked in September last year and again found to be unsatisfactory.
Mr Kelly, principal manager for inclusion services, allegedly did not alert the head of children’s services, Jill Baker.
An internal investigation into the failings has been launched and John Merry, Labour leader of the council, said the matter was being taken ‘very seriously’. Only last year the council was ordered by the government to take urgent action over ‘inadequate’ support for children at risk of neglect.
‘Heads should roll’
A report leaked to the M.E.N. said that despite millions being spent looking after a huge number of children in care, not enough was allocated to supporting children living with families but needing the support of social workers to keep them out of care.
Opposition councillors hit out at the council over the latest Ofsted reports and demanded action to improve standards.
Tory children’s services spokesman Christine Gray, said: “These are vulnerable children that we are responsible for keeping safe. Inadequate is not good enough.”
Coun Norman Owen, leader of the city’s Liberal Democrats, said: “This is not good enough. Very firm action should be taken. Heads should roll.”
John Warmisham, council children’s services spokesman, said: “We were mortified when this happened. It was down to administrative errors. It was down to bad management and people being lackadaisical. In terms of quality of care there is nothing to worry about.
“Once things came to light we put things in place straight away and therefore when inspectors checked on some of our other homes three were deemed good and one adequate. We are confident that when the three inadequate homes are inspected again they will have improved to good.
“As part of the review into these inspections a disciplinary investigation has begun concerning a member of staff.”
Comment as a ward Councillor i was unaware of this, the email we must have all received i feel made light of a very serious issue. I will demand the leader of my group to ask a number of serious questions.With the nightmares we have seen over issues relative to young children i would like to ask the lead member of Children’s services for answers, now..
Homeless. under threat of eviction if so i need to find out how you where treated by your council.
I am finding more and more cases where residents have found little help from their council in relation to this matter. Today i start to trawl one more department set up to help and i beleive is failing the people of Salford.
I just thought i would show you some of the mail i recieve from BNP supporters.
What a pity Swinton south “Liberal Democrats2 cannot unite against real Nazis but since you are in a recist party committed to assisting in genocide, child rape & organlegging that seems impossible.
Have you any evidence whatsoever that the BNP are remotely as “extremist right wing” as your openly Nazi group?
