Stuck in the past?
Out-of-date Institute of Race Relations have got it wrong.
According to Arun Kundani, of the Institute of Race Relations,” irresponsible campaigning” on issues such as immigration, Moslem life in Britain and national identity could help trigger race riots during next year’s election similar to those in 2001.
This is out-of-date, politically correct nonsense.
We all know that neo-fascism is a problem in Britain, but it is unfortunate that Mr Kundani chooses to blame mainstream politicians (he spotlighted Labour politicians) who raise the issue of immigration. In fact, populist, neo-fascist parties, like the BNP, have opportunistically exploited the resentment caused by the liberal establishment’s failure to address the bona fide anxieties of the public like immigration, Europe and joblessness.
Britain has a proud history of rejecting fascism. However, if the political classes continue thinking like the detached and out of date IRR, we risk further alienating hard working voters from mainstream politics and driving them into the hands of political extremists. Ignoring the country’s problems won’t make the BNP dissappear, it only helps them in their quest for power.
Election Campaign may trigger rac riots – Sky News
Germany considers banning NDP
NDP activist
German politicians are considering banning the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NDP) after making gains in state elections in Saxony. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said: “Bavaria will not just look on as the NPD, an enemy of the constitution, drives to establish itself.”
Hermann is pushing to take the case to Germany’s highest court and is breaking ranks with his sister party, Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Merkel’s CDU are concerned that a failure to get it banned would give the NPD a propaganda coup. The CDU would rather, according to Der Speigel, wait until the party is pushed back into the margins of society or for a more opportune time to launch another offensive against them.
In 2003, the government argued the party should be banned because of its espousal of Nazi ideology. Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has described the NPD as a “racist, anti-Semitic, revisionist” political body.
The party also has close ties to the BNP and in August 2002 Nick Griffin attended the NDP Pressefest Rally. He was photographed for the NDP’s newspaper Deutsche Stimme with NDP leader Udo Voigt and former KKK leader David Duke.
Also, in March 2005 Griffin was invited to take part in the NDP rally “National Awakening in the 21st Century”. However, he did not attend due to duties and other commitments. In August this year, we reported how NDP activists beat up a British man, who was black, in a Hamburg bakery while he was shopping with his wife and child.
While it may be tempting for some to call for legal restaints on the neo-fascist BNP we feel that the German example is not comparable. Legal restrainsts on right-wing parties and the advocacy of racist views formed an important part of Germany’s post-war struggle to avoid a resurgance of right-wing politics . In Britain we do things differently. It is better and safer to beat them in debate, thus preventing them from taking office.
New push to outlaw Germany’s neo-Nazi party – Der Speigel
Burnley councillor cleared
Derek Dawson, a BNP Burnley councillor, has been cleared by a standards board inquiry after a flare-up at a town hall meeting.
Dawson was accused of behaving ‘aggressively and unpleasantly’ towards two members of the public during and after the gathering.
But after consideration by Burnley council’s monitoring officer, it has been decided that Coun Dawson did not fail to comply with the members’ code of conduct and no further action should be taken.
This is the BNP councillor’s second acquittals by standards investigators during his four year-tenure.
Burnley BNP councillor cleared by standards board – Lancashire Telegraph
