Nothing British features in today’s Jewish Chronicle. The article features the news that we have written to Lady Tonge about her invtitation to attend the Palestinian Return Centre conference in December.
A spokesman for her party said: “Baroness Tonge is currently in Ethiopia working with the Bill Gates Foundation and is not contactable. We will speak to her about this event upon her return. We, of course, abhor the fascist views of the Jobbik party in Hungary.”
The arrest of David Lucas, a Suffolk based farmer and former BNP candidate, on firearms and explosives offences this week elicited an implausible response from Simon Darby, BNP deputy chairman and spokesman.
“I would imagine that it is to do with his capacity as an agricultural rural chap. It is just one of the many things that ordinary rural people have to deal with when you have got a politically motivated police force.”
These words are roundly rejected by representatives of Britain’s shooting community.
”The shooting community in Britain is one of the most law abiding in the world,” said Christopher Graffius, Director of Communications at British Association for Shooting & Conservation. “We have no truck with people who disregard firearms law and thus put themselves and the general public at risk. To complain that unlicensed weapons are common in rural areas is to insult rural people for whom the safe and legal handling of firearms is an important responsibility.”
It is not good enough for a party that aspires to the highest offices in the land to brush off law-breaking by senior figures in its ranks.
An excellent piece by London expert Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at the LSE, that says that the mainstream parties have lost traction in the fight against fascism and rightly calls for government policies that address the bona fide issues of Londons white working class. An excert here:-
The BNP has ruthlessly exploited a perception that public services are unfairly allocated between indigenous residents and new ones. MPs attest to this.
The transformation of the white working class in the imagination and vocabulary of the Left goes deeper than that. As recently as the early Seventies, many on the Left saw the working class as noble, expressing a culture to be celebrated.
Actors such as Albert Finney and Michael Caine built careers on working-class chutzpah. Today, the Left is often suspicious of such people, seeing them as a threatening, racist “underclass”.
The Labour Party has done much since 1997 to strengthen public services and make London a better place to live. Until recently, Britain enjoyed a 15-year period of economic growth with a huge rise in public expenditure. There has been significant redistribution towards the poor.
Yet this same period has coincided with the rise of the BNP. Some poorer Londoners – and greater numbers beyond the capital – simply do not see the benefits the Government has brought to them. Instead they perceive a threat from unexpected newcomers.
Migration to London and the UK will continue. Until government explains the good immigration brings, rewards the areas that provide homes for new arrivals and strikes a deal with the remaining poor white population, the BNP threat will remain. We can no longer count on our political parties to defeat them.
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