Exeter and District BNP Newsletter (August 2013)
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EXETER & DISTRICT BRANCH
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The Exeter & District Branch of the British National Party held a meeting at The Twisted Oak, Ide, near Exeter on Wednesday 21st August 2013, which commenced at 19.30 hours. The pub is now run by Chinese immigrants so any reference to the BNP was prohibited, with the meeting being held under the name of the Drake’s Drum Forum. What follows are details of topics discussed at the forum:
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Announcements
Cliff said that he had leafleted parts of Newton Abbot with some 500 old BNP leaflets – better to put them into folk’s letter-boxes than to dump them. Since the last meeting, table top sessions had been held in Plympton and Ivybridge. The first table-top was held at Plympton with Adrian and Cliff. The reception from the people was generally favourable apart from one women who called us racist scum, but refused to converse with us in a civilised manner. Twenty minutes later a policewoman turn up and said that the police had received a call from the public saying that a racist incident had occurred. Cliff showed her the literature on display, which the policewomen agreed was in no way racist. She appeared embarrassed about the incident, but said that as the complaint involved a supposed racist incident the police had no option but to investigate. A table-top session was held at Ivybridge on Tuesday 20th August with Adrian and Cliff in attendance. Again the overwhelming majority of people were supportive and took our leaflets with enthusiasm. However, an Asian woman approached our table and started to rant on about us being racist and promoting hate. Trying to have a reasonable discussion with the women proved futile as she became more hysterical and attempted to confiscate all our literature. She went off in a huff. A taxi-driver who witnessed the incident complimented us for standing our ground, and took a few of our leaflets. Some time later a policeman and policewomen turned up to question us about our literature and behaviour. After a few minutes Adrian was able to assure them that everything had been conducted in a non-racially aggravated manner, and they left soon afterwards assured that no offence had been committed. Isn’t it amazing that if someone complains to the police that a racially aggravated offence has occurred, then they react within twenty minutes. Try getting the police to react to a burglary, then you’re lucky if they turn up at all in most instances they will just give you a crime number so that you can make an insurance claim.
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Cliff sent an E-mail to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) concerning the recent adverts put out by the Halifax that always show a white woman with a Negro man. Details of the E-mail can be seen on page 15 of this Newsletter.
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Future Activism
Chris Stone thought that the proposed location of the Whipton Social Club for an open debate of the Drake’s Drum Forum was a good idea. Clearly, if the Forum was restricted to BNP members it would fail, as there are insufficient active members within the South West for such an event to succeed. For the event to succeed invitations must sent to other political groups or organizations that share our concerns. It was pointed out that many people in the UKIP and Conservative parties share many of our views, so the topic for debate should be something that will appeal to like-minded people. It was agreed that the possibility of holding such an event at the Whipton Social Club should be investigated further. Adrian said that while we still have a few weeks of summer weather left, we should be using it productively by have more table-top sessions and meeting the people. He will be arranging more of these events and would be grateful for more people to participate.
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Any Other Business
Cliff pointed out that the BNP conference was being held at Blackpool over the weekend of 28th and 29th of September. Those who said that they would be interested in attending the conference were: Adrain Romilly Cliff Jones Trevor Edwards The problem seemed to be that Adrian’s health prevented him driving any great distance. Both Trevor’s and Cliff’s cars are too small to take 3 people with their luggage any great distance. The overall expense is a problem that concerns Cliff. But if a large enough car can be borrowed, then Devon and Cornwall may be represented at the conference.
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4 Group Discussion: Fracking – Is the BNP right to oppose it?
Cliff opened the discussion with a brief description of the fracking process, and circulated the following diagram to assist in the understanding of the process.
He explained that gas (methane) is trapped in the shale rock. By drilling and inserting a pipeline into the shale rock it is then possible to inject high pressure water into the rock that causes it to fracture, so releasing the shale gas. This freed gas diffuses towards the pipeline, which can then be extracted for commercial use. Cliff posed the first question: Does Britain need the energy that fracking is supposed to provide?
Answers from those in attendance could be summed up as being: With an ever increasing population Britain is going to need all the energy it can get, especially with the production of North Sea gas in terminal decline.
Cliff went on to say: Can Britain not obtain this additional energy requirement from other sources?
It was pointed out by numerous people present that the UK is already heavily dependent on foreign nations for its energy supplies: gas from Russia, Electricity from France and oil from the Middle Eastern countries. It was mentioned that although the UK still has huge resources of coal available, most of the easily mined coal has been extracted, and what remains will be costly and dangerous to mine. Joan B-T pointed out that wind turbines are a waste of time and will not meet Britain’s increasing energy demand.
Cliff then proceeded to ask: What are the dangers associated with fracking?
Those present stated: The fracturing of the shale rock can cause earth tremors. The various fluids used in the drilling and fracking process can leak into the subterranean aquifers, so polluting the water supply. The methane gas can also leak into the water supply, with the possibility that the gas in the tap-water can ignite. 3
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The picture shows running tapwater in North Carolina which contains large quantities of methane gas that can be ignited when a flame in placed near the running tap-water.
This begged the question: Are the dangers associated with fracking over-exaggerated?
It was pointed out that we still suffer from earth tremors due to coal mining, and these have never really caused any serious problems. Trevor said that the shale rock is very much deeper than the coal mines (up to 3 miles deep), so any earth tremor will probably be of very low intensity compared to those associated with coal mining. The picture showing the methane flame derived from tap-water could have been derived from other natural sources – methane is a bi-product of decomposing vegetation so it appears naturally in all rivers and wells. The general consensus was that the dangers associated with fracking are probably over-exaggerated by the ‘green’ lobby for political purposes.
The penultimate question was: Will the Green Party’s anti-fracking campaign succeeed?
It was generally agreed that the Green Party’s campaign to prevent fracking will ultimately fail. The reasons being that: the UK will be in need of more energy due to a growing (if unwanted) population; Britain needs greater self sufficiency in energy, free from its current dependence on foreign suppliers; there is so much money involved that the banks and big-business will ensure that it happens.
The final question was: The BNP is opposed to fracking; is this the right approach, if not, what should its policy be?
It was generally agreed that the BNP’s policy of opposing all fracking is wrong, and it should change its policy to be more in tune with Britain’s needs and the will of the people. Joan B-T considered that the BNP should have no official position on fracking until its safety is assured. Most people felt that the BNP must accept the inevitable and have a pro-fracking policy; however, its policy must be such to ensure that the fracking process benefits the British workers, industry and consumers - and not the merchant bankers or foreign oil companies. It must, also, ensure that fracking operations are strictly regulated to minimise any pollution or earth tremors that are inherent in these operations.
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Conclusion of Meeting
After a lively and enjoyable discussion the meeting finished at 9:30pm. A collection raised £45.00 for our funds. The date for the next meeting has not been confirmed, but is most likely to be on the last Wednesday in September; Cliff will advise later.
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Comments from a Satisfied Reader
Hi Cliff Great newsletter as usual. Just a quick comment. I personally use Yahoo as my home page on the internet. From there, Yahoo (as you are probably aware) present the latest news. At the bottom of every news item there is a very widely used comments section, where everyone who is a Yahoo user can leave comments on the news item. There are quite a few of us on there who lean towards the BNP (though our user names do not show this) and there are a few on there who actively display the BNP in their names. As you know, at the moment, for some people it is not advisable to display your allegiance to a particular political party and it is very hard to try to determine which of the users are like minded individuals. Could we not, as followers and supporters of the BNP, add something to our user names (on whatever news site or comments section we use) which would identify us to each other without being too blatant. Something along the lines of, say, a "Colon" after the user name. It's hard at times to try to get a point across when the majority of other users are not sympathetic (and sometimes openly hostile) to our views. At least if we recognised that we had a fellow soul on a particular subject we could offer moral support if nothing else. Yes, I realise that a user name followed by a simple "BNP" would make us instantly recognisable, but sometimes it is necessary to engage in debate on a level playing field before showing your hand and sometimes, showing your hand immediately brings on hostility or an unwillingness to converse. So if anyone has any idea how we could incorporate something into our user names which would make us instantly recognisable to each other, then perhaps as a group we could start to influence discussions taking place on the news channels and forums. As an example, my Yahoo user name is Stephen H. Perhaps if it was displayed with say the first 3 letters as capitals, example....".STEphen H"... looks harmless enough and an innocent mistake, but would be instantly recognisable by anyone who knew what it meant. As you know, there are hundreds of news channels and forums out there, this simple act would allow each of us to recognise the affiliations of each other and offer verbal support and constructive input where needed. Perhaps conversing on these channels as a group will let us influence others and get our message across far easier. Just a thought Cliff, once again, great Newsletter and look forward to the next issue Kindest Regards Stephen Hopper
Anyone got any ideas?
The following letter by Adrian Romilly was published in the Western Morning News.
Sir, I think 'Diversity' should 'celebrated' with a little more caution than was apparent in last Monday's report (3/6/13) of Exeter's Respect Festival; looking around the world one finds that almost all of the places where there is strife there is also diversity: there is a surfeit of diversity in countries such as Syria (Shia, Sunni, Alowite ), Burma (Budhists v Mohammedans), Ceylon (Tamil's v Sinhalese), Iraq (Kurds, Shias, Sunnis ), Egypt (Mohammedans of several stripes, Christians ), Ireland (republicans v Loyalists), Fiji (native Fijians v Indians).... . In tranquil countries, countries at ease with themselves, the diversity co-efficient tends to be low. Of course, it is possible that the association of 'diversity ' and 'strife', may not be causal but I wouldn't count on it!
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Notwithstanding these, and many other examples that could readily be adduced, our political elite repeatedly assert, without offering much supportive evidence, that 'Diversity is good for Britain' and, as one would expect, our local politicians dutifully toe the party line dictated from Westminster. While I dare say that an agreeable time at the (publicly financed?) Respect Festival was had by many there is another side to it. Experience across the globe demonstrates that different ethnic groups/cultures under a common government have conflicting demands the resolution of which frequently leaves one or more of the groups angry and dissatisfied with dire consequences for society as a whole - as in the above instances. As I see it, it is 'homogeneity' not 'diversity' that is the first prize for any country; we had it in England within the memory of most of your readers - it has been recklessly discarded by those in the metropolitan elite who, finding their fellow countrymen both too expensive to employ and too dull to be borne, sought to enrich themselves (through cheap, pliant labour) and brighten their lives by creating the more vibrant multiracial society that we now have. Those who brought about this demographic transformation will, like the writer, but unlike their grandchildren, not have to 'face the music' in thirty or forty years time. Yours truly, A L Romilly
Adrian received the following E-mail from a fellow BNP member:Dear Adrian, My husband and I went to the “Diversity” festival a few years ago and hope to go again, to tackle some of the stall-holders on their assumptions. While we’re on the subject, what exactly is a racist or, as used to be racialist? What is a fascist? What is the Far-Right? What is homophobic? Is it not necessary to tackle everyone who uses these well-used but sloppy phrases and demand of them exactly what they mean? I am reminded of when I taught and the deputy head accused me to my husband of not fulfilling “my obligations” and he asked “what are they in this context?” and she was unable to answer. If tackled, most who use such phrases mean anyone who disagrees with my liberal prejudices. As to “diversity”, I went to school in Wales and learnt 5 foreign languages. I was there with girls who spoke at home one of maybe 7 languages, and who were of all Christian denominations, as well as Jewesses, Jehovah’s witnesses and atheists. But that is not diverse enough. So “diversity” also has a particular meaning for our liberals. Has anyone ever asked them what they mean? By using such phrases they hope not to be asked for their own perverted meaning, because they can then brainwash those who dare not to share their own opinions. What they in fact mean on diversity is Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, West Indians, Africans, Eastern Europeans etc (How exactly is Mo Farrah British?) and crawling to anyone who does not belong here. Maybe you would like to pass this around your list of contacts for comments. Regards, Anne Passman (often, for the sake of my family, known as Anne English, my maiden name) Yes, the thought police are alive and well and living in an England near you.
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Some Light Entertainment
I’ve received various the following light-hearted articles that I would wish to share with you:BLACKADDER TELLS BALDRICK;;;;;;;;;;; Baldrick: "What I want to know, Sir, is that, before there was a Euro there were lots of different types of money that different people used. And now there's only one type of money that the foreign people use. What I want to know is, how did we get from one state of affairs to the other state of affairs ?" Blackadder: "Baldrick. Do you mean, how did the Euro start ?" Baldrick: "Yes Sir" Blackadder: "Well, you see, Baldrick, back in the 1980s there were many different countries all running their own finances and using different types of money. On one side you had the major economies of; France, Belgium, Holland and Germany and on the other ... the weaker nations of Spain, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal. They got together and decided it would be much easier for everyone if they could all use the same money, have one Central Bank and belong to one large club where everyone would be happy. This meant there could never be a situation whereby financial meltdown would lead to social unrest, wars and crises." Baldrick: "But this is a sort of a crisis, isn't it, Sir ?". Blackadder: "That's right, Baldrick. You see, there was only one slight flaw with the plan." Baldrick: "What was that then, Sir ?" Blackadder: "It was bollocks."
I went down to the Jobcentre this morning to sign up my Dog. The woman said, "Dogs are not eligible for benefits". I explained to her that my Dog is black, unemployed, idle, can't speak English and has no clue who his dad is. She looked in her policy book to see what it takes to qualify. He gets his first cheque on Friday. Damn this is a great country!!!
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Bible Study Class
I received the following information from Mike Turner concerning President Obama’s swearing-in ceremony.
THAT, HAPPENS TO BE A QURAN
I SWEAR! THIS IS NOT THE SAME BIBLE, IS IT? FOR GEORGE BUSH OR HILARY CLINTON
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NEITHER IS THIS, IS IT?
BILL CLINTON'S BIBLE
GEORGE BUSH - SAME BIBLE AS CLINTON'S
YOU WERE TOLD THAT OBAMA WAS SWORN IN ON THOMAS JEFFERSON'S BIBLE
HERE'S THOMAS JEFFERSON'S BIBLE, IT IS LONG AND NARROW WITH A CLEARLY DIFFERENT SPLINE.
OBAMA’S BIBLE (QURAN). I REST MY CASE, BECAUSE...
BIBLE CLASS IS OVER
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State Sponsored Attack on the Family
What follows are three selected items from the July 2013 edition of the English Churchman, which I believe is very relevant to everything that we in the British National Party stand for.
1. Busting the myths of Swedish family policies
Sweden has a reputation for being something of a utopia, with low rates of child poverty and infant mortality, long life expectancy, high levels of gender equality and a comprehensive day-care system that is the envy of the world. However at the Family Education Trust conference, Jonas Himmelstrand presented evidence that tells a quite different story. While no infants under the age of a year are in state-funded childcare due to parents' entitlement to parental leave during the first year of a child's life, 92% of all children aged between 18 months and five years are cared for outside the family home. Parents, grandparents and even childminders are discouraged from caring for children, but group day-care is strongly encouraged both culturally and financially, with a 90% tax subsidy saving parents around £14,000 per child per year in childcare costs. Children under the age of three are never in groups of less than 10, and it is not uncommon for them to be placed with more than 14 children. Between the ages of three to five, day-care group sizes can be upwards of 25-30 children. Child-staff ratios are not regulated, but the average ratio at all ages is a little above five children per carer, though it is not unknown for a member of staff to have the care of as many as 10 children. The traditional focus on play is now changing in the direction of more early learning.
Objectives and outcomes
The aims of universal day-care in the early years are: to create a classless society and achieve higher levels of greater gender equality to improve children's academic and social development, to liberate mothers from their maternal instincts, and to produce more life satisfaction for parents through more time spent at work and less time spent at home. However, the results are not positive. Over recent years, Sweden has seen a marked increase in diagnosed psychiatric illnesses among young people and in discipline problems in schools, alongside a decline in educational outcomes and the quality of parenting. Questions are beginning to be asked about the quality of day-care too, with Swedish psychiatric and educational experts expressing concern that the quality has fallen to a level where some children will have their development impaired or arrested. Sick leave rates among women are very high, with day-care staff featuring among the top three professions in the sick leave statistics, and families are subject to ideologically motivated interventions from social workers. Contrary to the common perception, Sweden's family policies have not even achieved the goal of creating greater gender equality since Sweden has a highly gender-segregated labour market and a large gender pay gap, together with high levels of youth unemployment.
Why?
The following considerations constitute possible causal explanations for these outcomes: • A lack of emotional nourishment in the very early years can create chronically low thresholds for stress throughout life.
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• Early exposure to large groups of peers can make children peer-oriented and lead to bullying, promiscuity, gang membership, and a lack of interest in learning. • The culturally endorsed early separation of young children from parents causes stress in parents which in turn contributes to high levels of sick leave. • State intervention in family life reduces parents' sense of responsibility for their children. Swedish children seldom suffer from material poverty, but many more suffer from emotional poverty, due to the early separation between children and parents encouraged by Swedish family policies. The indicators suggest that this early separation may have negative effects on early child development, on the quality of parenthood, and on adolescent health and education outcomes.
The state versus parents
A large number of studies have confirmed that the majority of Swedish mothers want to spend more time with their children and a survey of six year-old children showed that their greatest wish is to have more time with their parents. Yet such desires do not feature in current Swedish debate on the future of family policy. The agenda is rather dominated by discussions about extending day-care to night-care, weekend-care and summer-care. The suggestion is being made that unemployed parents should be forced to use day-care as a condition of receiving unemployment benefit, and it is even being proposed that day-care should be made a compulsory child's right which parents are not allowed to interfere with. Once Swedish family policies are put in place, it has proved very difficult to discuss them through the normal democratic processes.
Learning the lessons
Swedish family policies have led to negative developmental outcomes for children, parents, and families because childcare has become a state decision based on political ideology, rather than a parental decision based on the needs of the individual child. Every society should allow parents the freedom to make their own choices about the care and education of their children. The state should adopt a neutral position on different types of care, including home care, and not incentivise one over another, whether culturally or financially. However, since the family is the key institution for building close relationships, it merits the respect of the government. Raising children should be viewed as a social good, and true gender equality includes respecting and valuing the choices of mothers who elect to stay at home to care for their family. Swedish family policies are not emotionally sustainable and possibly not even democratically sustainable. They need to be researched and understood in depth before any attempt is made to emulate them. Jonas Himmelstrand is the author of "Following your heart in the social utopia of Sweden". He has spoken widely about Swedish family policies in the United Nations and in national parliaments, including Westminster. He and his wife were forced to leave their native Sweden in 2012 for home educating their children. They now live in Finland. The slides from this presentation are available online at: www.mireja.org/130518.html
2. When Family-Friendly means keeping parents and children apart
The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has proposed the introduction of longer school days and shorter school holidays. According to Mr Gove, these measures will improve performance and make life easier for working parents. Speaking at the Spectator education conference on 18th April, the Education
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Secretary said: ‘It may be the case that there are one or two legislative and bureaucratic obstacles which prevent all schools moving in this direction, but I think it’s consistent with the pressures of a modern society. I also think it’s going to be family-friendly.’ Many parents will want to question how it can possibly be family-friendly to increase the amount of time children are kept apart from their parents and to limit the amount of time families spend together.
Parents disempowered
A primary school head-teacher put it well in a letter to the Independent newspaper published on 26th April: 'Mr Gove underestimates the family and its role in educating a child. For too long policy has placed the onus on schools to provide the child with every attribute necessary to access adult life. This has in turn disempowered parents. There has been a noticeable increase in the number of children coming to school without being toilet trained, with poor speech and language skills and incapable of any independent tasks; the expectation is that schools will take responsibility for these issues. This is not the answer. Providing longer school hours and shorter holidays will reduce the amount of time spent with family and further diminish the role of parents within society. Children need time to play, explore and learn about human relationships beyond school. Populating the global society with creative, intelligent, highly motivated and flexible individuals is surely Mr Gove’s ambition; but such people do not evolve from a childhood spent entirely in the classroom.’
3. All children in Scotland to be given a ‘NAMED PERSON’ to support their wellbeing
The recently-published Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill proposes that every child and young person in Scotland should be given a named person from birth until they reach the age of 18. The purpose of this named person is to 'safeguard and support their wellbeing, working with other bodies as required’. For the avoidance of any doubt, the Bill explicitly rules out the possibility that the named person could be one of the child's own parents. It has to be someone appointed by the state and, the policy memorandum states, 'will usually be a practitioner from a health board or an education authority’. Family Education Trust director Norman Wells, told the Scottish press: 'One wonders what the Scottish Government thinks parents are for! Not only is this proposal a gross insult to the vast majority of parents in Scotland, but it is also a serious misuse of taxpayers' money that would be far better targeted where it is most needed and not spread thinly across the entire population. On top of that, it is bound to backfire. The more the state undermines parents by assuming a parental role, the less responsibility parents will be inclined to take for their children. That, in turn, will lead to more child neglect, more state intervention in children’s lives and a still greater burden on the public purse.’
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Vladimir Putin's Speech
The following speech was sent to me in an E-mail by Brian Jenkins. It’s clear that the Russian’s can see the disaster that is happening in Europe, and are determined to ensure that it doesn’t happen to them.
Putin's speech on 4th February, 2013 addressed to the Russian Parliament .... The West should take notice ....
On 4th February, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Duma, (Russian Parliament), and gave a speech about the tensions with minorities in Russia: "In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Sharia Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law. Russia does not need minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell 'discrimination'. We had better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities. When this honourable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians.
The politicians in the Duma gave Putin a standing ovation for five minutes.
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Letter from UKIP
The following letter was received from UKIP begging for money. Now, you would have thought that with all the money and free use of facilities that the millionaire owner of Trago Mills have lavished on them over the past decade they would not need the common people to donate yet more of their hard-earned money.
They, also, asked me if I would help in the May 2014 election by: Displaying a large UKIP Board Displaying a Window Poster Displaying a smaller UKIP Board
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The HALIFAX – Why is it promoting genocide of indigenous Britons?
Below is an advertisement currently being displayed at all branches of the Halifax to promote their financial services. As can be seen it shows a Negro with an indigenous white woman, and is clearly designed to brainwash our young girls into believing that it is perfectly acceptable for them to have relationships with black men, even though statically these relationships inevitably end disastrously.
The Halifax have succeeded in sinking to even lower depths of depravity in their most recent TV commercial which shows a Negro football coach with his white pregnant partner at a children’s football match.
This goes even further than the first advertisement and its message clearly indicates that it is perfectly acceptable to breed with Negros, even though any offspring produced will be of low intelligence that will inevitably genetically weaken Britain as a nation.
Now, one advertisement promoting miscegenation would have been considered an aberration, but two in close succession can only be a wilful act of racial hatred in the promoting the genocide of indigenous white British population. Why should the Halifax produce such controversial advertisements and what is their agenda, when they know it would be considered most offensive to the vast majority of indigenous Britons? I wonder what reaction I would get if I made a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)? My guess is that they will refuse to act, for fear of offending the immigrant community. I have now made an official complaint just to see what response I get from the ASA. I’ll let you know what response I get.
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Grade Inflation: ‘A’ Level Results 1982 and 2013
As you are all probably aware, this year’s ‘A’ level results have recently been published. They show that approximately 26% achieved grades A and A*, with 8% getting an A*. Furthermore, only 2% failed the exam. The Daily Mail, also, published the ‘A’ level results for 1982 which revealed that 8% achieved a grade A, with 32% completely failing the exam. The diagram below shows the comparison between the ‘A’ level results for 1982 and for those of 2013.
This diagram clearly indicates that over the past 30 years there has been massive grade inflation associated with ‘A’ level results, with only the grades C to A* being accepted by respectable universities as acceptable passes. Furthermore, with a failure rate of only 2% it’s almost impossible to fail – how bad must one be to fail such an exam? This is probably a symptom of the modern education system where nobody can be seen to fail, and everyone must have a prize.
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The Exeter & District Branch of the British National Party held a meeting at The Twisted Oak, Ide, near Exeter on Wednesday 21st August 2013, which commenced at 19.30 hours. The pub is now run by Chinese immigrants so any reference to the BNP was prohibited, with the meeting being held under the name of the Drake’s Drum Forum. What follows are details of topics discussed at the forum:
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Announcements
Cliff said that he had leafleted parts of Newton Abbot with some 500 old BNP leaflets – better to put them into folk’s letter-boxes than to dump them. Since the last meeting, table top sessions had been held in Plympton and Ivybridge. The first table-top was held at Plympton with Adrian and Cliff. The reception from the people was generally favourable apart from one women who called us racist scum, but refused to converse with us in a civilised manner. Twenty minutes later a policewoman turn up and said that the police had received a call from the public saying that a racist incident had occurred. Cliff showed her the literature on display, which the policewomen agreed was in no way racist. She appeared embarrassed about the incident, but said that as the complaint involved a supposed racist incident the police had no option but to investigate. A table-top session was held at Ivybridge on Tuesday 20th August with Adrian and Cliff in attendance. Again the overwhelming majority of people were supportive and took our leaflets with enthusiasm. However, an Asian woman approached our table and started to rant on about us being racist and promoting hate. Trying to have a reasonable discussion with the women proved futile as she became more hysterical and attempted to confiscate all our literature. She went off in a huff. A taxi-driver who witnessed the incident complimented us for standing our ground, and took a few of our leaflets. Some time later a policeman and policewomen turned up to question us about our literature and behaviour. After a few minutes Adrian was able to assure them that everything had been conducted in a non-racially aggravated manner, and they left soon afterwards assured that no offence had been committed. Isn’t it amazing that if someone complains to the police that a racially aggravated offence has occurred, then they react within twenty minutes. Try getting the police to react to a burglary, then you’re lucky if they turn up at all in most instances they will just give you a crime number so that you can make an insurance claim.
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Cliff sent an E-mail to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) concerning the recent adverts put out by the Halifax that always show a white woman with a Negro man. Details of the E-mail can be seen on page 15 of this Newsletter.
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Future Activism
Chris Stone thought that the proposed location of the Whipton Social Club for an open debate of the Drake’s Drum Forum was a good idea. Clearly, if the Forum was restricted to BNP members it would fail, as there are insufficient active members within the South West for such an event to succeed. For the event to succeed invitations must sent to other political groups or organizations that share our concerns. It was pointed out that many people in the UKIP and Conservative parties share many of our views, so the topic for debate should be something that will appeal to like-minded people. It was agreed that the possibility of holding such an event at the Whipton Social Club should be investigated further. Adrian said that while we still have a few weeks of summer weather left, we should be using it productively by have more table-top sessions and meeting the people. He will be arranging more of these events and would be grateful for more people to participate.
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Any Other Business
Cliff pointed out that the BNP conference was being held at Blackpool over the weekend of 28th and 29th of September. Those who said that they would be interested in attending the conference were: Adrain Romilly Cliff Jones Trevor Edwards The problem seemed to be that Adrian’s health prevented him driving any great distance. Both Trevor’s and Cliff’s cars are too small to take 3 people with their luggage any great distance. The overall expense is a problem that concerns Cliff. But if a large enough car can be borrowed, then Devon and Cornwall may be represented at the conference.
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4 Group Discussion: Fracking – Is the BNP right to oppose it?
Cliff opened the discussion with a brief description of the fracking process, and circulated the following diagram to assist in the understanding of the process.
He explained that gas (methane) is trapped in the shale rock. By drilling and inserting a pipeline into the shale rock it is then possible to inject high pressure water into the rock that causes it to fracture, so releasing the shale gas. This freed gas diffuses towards the pipeline, which can then be extracted for commercial use. Cliff posed the first question: Does Britain need the energy that fracking is supposed to provide?
Answers from those in attendance could be summed up as being: With an ever increasing population Britain is going to need all the energy it can get, especially with the production of North Sea gas in terminal decline.
Cliff went on to say: Can Britain not obtain this additional energy requirement from other sources?
It was pointed out by numerous people present that the UK is already heavily dependent on foreign nations for its energy supplies: gas from Russia, Electricity from France and oil from the Middle Eastern countries. It was mentioned that although the UK still has huge resources of coal available, most of the easily mined coal has been extracted, and what remains will be costly and dangerous to mine. Joan B-T pointed out that wind turbines are a waste of time and will not meet Britain’s increasing energy demand.
Cliff then proceeded to ask: What are the dangers associated with fracking?
Those present stated: The fracturing of the shale rock can cause earth tremors. The various fluids used in the drilling and fracking process can leak into the subterranean aquifers, so polluting the water supply. The methane gas can also leak into the water supply, with the possibility that the gas in the tap-water can ignite. 3
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The picture shows running tapwater in North Carolina which contains large quantities of methane gas that can be ignited when a flame in placed near the running tap-water.
This begged the question: Are the dangers associated with fracking over-exaggerated?
It was pointed out that we still suffer from earth tremors due to coal mining, and these have never really caused any serious problems. Trevor said that the shale rock is very much deeper than the coal mines (up to 3 miles deep), so any earth tremor will probably be of very low intensity compared to those associated with coal mining. The picture showing the methane flame derived from tap-water could have been derived from other natural sources – methane is a bi-product of decomposing vegetation so it appears naturally in all rivers and wells. The general consensus was that the dangers associated with fracking are probably over-exaggerated by the ‘green’ lobby for political purposes.
The penultimate question was: Will the Green Party’s anti-fracking campaign succeeed?
It was generally agreed that the Green Party’s campaign to prevent fracking will ultimately fail. The reasons being that: the UK will be in need of more energy due to a growing (if unwanted) population; Britain needs greater self sufficiency in energy, free from its current dependence on foreign suppliers; there is so much money involved that the banks and big-business will ensure that it happens.
The final question was: The BNP is opposed to fracking; is this the right approach, if not, what should its policy be?
It was generally agreed that the BNP’s policy of opposing all fracking is wrong, and it should change its policy to be more in tune with Britain’s needs and the will of the people. Joan B-T considered that the BNP should have no official position on fracking until its safety is assured. Most people felt that the BNP must accept the inevitable and have a pro-fracking policy; however, its policy must be such to ensure that the fracking process benefits the British workers, industry and consumers - and not the merchant bankers or foreign oil companies. It must, also, ensure that fracking operations are strictly regulated to minimise any pollution or earth tremors that are inherent in these operations.
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Conclusion of Meeting
After a lively and enjoyable discussion the meeting finished at 9:30pm. A collection raised £45.00 for our funds. The date for the next meeting has not been confirmed, but is most likely to be on the last Wednesday in September; Cliff will advise later.
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Comments from a Satisfied Reader
Hi Cliff Great newsletter as usual. Just a quick comment. I personally use Yahoo as my home page on the internet. From there, Yahoo (as you are probably aware) present the latest news. At the bottom of every news item there is a very widely used comments section, where everyone who is a Yahoo user can leave comments on the news item. There are quite a few of us on there who lean towards the BNP (though our user names do not show this) and there are a few on there who actively display the BNP in their names. As you know, at the moment, for some people it is not advisable to display your allegiance to a particular political party and it is very hard to try to determine which of the users are like minded individuals. Could we not, as followers and supporters of the BNP, add something to our user names (on whatever news site or comments section we use) which would identify us to each other without being too blatant. Something along the lines of, say, a "Colon" after the user name. It's hard at times to try to get a point across when the majority of other users are not sympathetic (and sometimes openly hostile) to our views. At least if we recognised that we had a fellow soul on a particular subject we could offer moral support if nothing else. Yes, I realise that a user name followed by a simple "BNP" would make us instantly recognisable, but sometimes it is necessary to engage in debate on a level playing field before showing your hand and sometimes, showing your hand immediately brings on hostility or an unwillingness to converse. So if anyone has any idea how we could incorporate something into our user names which would make us instantly recognisable to each other, then perhaps as a group we could start to influence discussions taking place on the news channels and forums. As an example, my Yahoo user name is Stephen H. Perhaps if it was displayed with say the first 3 letters as capitals, example....".STEphen H"... looks harmless enough and an innocent mistake, but would be instantly recognisable by anyone who knew what it meant. As you know, there are hundreds of news channels and forums out there, this simple act would allow each of us to recognise the affiliations of each other and offer verbal support and constructive input where needed. Perhaps conversing on these channels as a group will let us influence others and get our message across far easier. Just a thought Cliff, once again, great Newsletter and look forward to the next issue Kindest Regards Stephen Hopper
Anyone got any ideas?
The following letter by Adrian Romilly was published in the Western Morning News.
Sir, I think 'Diversity' should 'celebrated' with a little more caution than was apparent in last Monday's report (3/6/13) of Exeter's Respect Festival; looking around the world one finds that almost all of the places where there is strife there is also diversity: there is a surfeit of diversity in countries such as Syria (Shia, Sunni, Alowite ), Burma (Budhists v Mohammedans), Ceylon (Tamil's v Sinhalese), Iraq (Kurds, Shias, Sunnis ), Egypt (Mohammedans of several stripes, Christians ), Ireland (republicans v Loyalists), Fiji (native Fijians v Indians).... . In tranquil countries, countries at ease with themselves, the diversity co-efficient tends to be low. Of course, it is possible that the association of 'diversity ' and 'strife', may not be causal but I wouldn't count on it!
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Notwithstanding these, and many other examples that could readily be adduced, our political elite repeatedly assert, without offering much supportive evidence, that 'Diversity is good for Britain' and, as one would expect, our local politicians dutifully toe the party line dictated from Westminster. While I dare say that an agreeable time at the (publicly financed?) Respect Festival was had by many there is another side to it. Experience across the globe demonstrates that different ethnic groups/cultures under a common government have conflicting demands the resolution of which frequently leaves one or more of the groups angry and dissatisfied with dire consequences for society as a whole - as in the above instances. As I see it, it is 'homogeneity' not 'diversity' that is the first prize for any country; we had it in England within the memory of most of your readers - it has been recklessly discarded by those in the metropolitan elite who, finding their fellow countrymen both too expensive to employ and too dull to be borne, sought to enrich themselves (through cheap, pliant labour) and brighten their lives by creating the more vibrant multiracial society that we now have. Those who brought about this demographic transformation will, like the writer, but unlike their grandchildren, not have to 'face the music' in thirty or forty years time. Yours truly, A L Romilly
Adrian received the following E-mail from a fellow BNP member:Dear Adrian, My husband and I went to the “Diversity” festival a few years ago and hope to go again, to tackle some of the stall-holders on their assumptions. While we’re on the subject, what exactly is a racist or, as used to be racialist? What is a fascist? What is the Far-Right? What is homophobic? Is it not necessary to tackle everyone who uses these well-used but sloppy phrases and demand of them exactly what they mean? I am reminded of when I taught and the deputy head accused me to my husband of not fulfilling “my obligations” and he asked “what are they in this context?” and she was unable to answer. If tackled, most who use such phrases mean anyone who disagrees with my liberal prejudices. As to “diversity”, I went to school in Wales and learnt 5 foreign languages. I was there with girls who spoke at home one of maybe 7 languages, and who were of all Christian denominations, as well as Jewesses, Jehovah’s witnesses and atheists. But that is not diverse enough. So “diversity” also has a particular meaning for our liberals. Has anyone ever asked them what they mean? By using such phrases they hope not to be asked for their own perverted meaning, because they can then brainwash those who dare not to share their own opinions. What they in fact mean on diversity is Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, West Indians, Africans, Eastern Europeans etc (How exactly is Mo Farrah British?) and crawling to anyone who does not belong here. Maybe you would like to pass this around your list of contacts for comments. Regards, Anne Passman (often, for the sake of my family, known as Anne English, my maiden name) Yes, the thought police are alive and well and living in an England near you.
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Some Light Entertainment
I’ve received various the following light-hearted articles that I would wish to share with you:BLACKADDER TELLS BALDRICK;;;;;;;;;;; Baldrick: "What I want to know, Sir, is that, before there was a Euro there were lots of different types of money that different people used. And now there's only one type of money that the foreign people use. What I want to know is, how did we get from one state of affairs to the other state of affairs ?" Blackadder: "Baldrick. Do you mean, how did the Euro start ?" Baldrick: "Yes Sir" Blackadder: "Well, you see, Baldrick, back in the 1980s there were many different countries all running their own finances and using different types of money. On one side you had the major economies of; France, Belgium, Holland and Germany and on the other ... the weaker nations of Spain, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal. They got together and decided it would be much easier for everyone if they could all use the same money, have one Central Bank and belong to one large club where everyone would be happy. This meant there could never be a situation whereby financial meltdown would lead to social unrest, wars and crises." Baldrick: "But this is a sort of a crisis, isn't it, Sir ?". Blackadder: "That's right, Baldrick. You see, there was only one slight flaw with the plan." Baldrick: "What was that then, Sir ?" Blackadder: "It was bollocks."
I went down to the Jobcentre this morning to sign up my Dog. The woman said, "Dogs are not eligible for benefits". I explained to her that my Dog is black, unemployed, idle, can't speak English and has no clue who his dad is. She looked in her policy book to see what it takes to qualify. He gets his first cheque on Friday. Damn this is a great country!!!
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Bible Study Class
I received the following information from Mike Turner concerning President Obama’s swearing-in ceremony.
THAT, HAPPENS TO BE A QURAN
I SWEAR! THIS IS NOT THE SAME BIBLE, IS IT? FOR GEORGE BUSH OR HILARY CLINTON
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NEITHER IS THIS, IS IT?
BILL CLINTON'S BIBLE
GEORGE BUSH - SAME BIBLE AS CLINTON'S
YOU WERE TOLD THAT OBAMA WAS SWORN IN ON THOMAS JEFFERSON'S BIBLE
HERE'S THOMAS JEFFERSON'S BIBLE, IT IS LONG AND NARROW WITH A CLEARLY DIFFERENT SPLINE.
OBAMA’S BIBLE (QURAN). I REST MY CASE, BECAUSE...
BIBLE CLASS IS OVER
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State Sponsored Attack on the Family
What follows are three selected items from the July 2013 edition of the English Churchman, which I believe is very relevant to everything that we in the British National Party stand for.
1. Busting the myths of Swedish family policies
Sweden has a reputation for being something of a utopia, with low rates of child poverty and infant mortality, long life expectancy, high levels of gender equality and a comprehensive day-care system that is the envy of the world. However at the Family Education Trust conference, Jonas Himmelstrand presented evidence that tells a quite different story. While no infants under the age of a year are in state-funded childcare due to parents' entitlement to parental leave during the first year of a child's life, 92% of all children aged between 18 months and five years are cared for outside the family home. Parents, grandparents and even childminders are discouraged from caring for children, but group day-care is strongly encouraged both culturally and financially, with a 90% tax subsidy saving parents around £14,000 per child per year in childcare costs. Children under the age of three are never in groups of less than 10, and it is not uncommon for them to be placed with more than 14 children. Between the ages of three to five, day-care group sizes can be upwards of 25-30 children. Child-staff ratios are not regulated, but the average ratio at all ages is a little above five children per carer, though it is not unknown for a member of staff to have the care of as many as 10 children. The traditional focus on play is now changing in the direction of more early learning.
Objectives and outcomes
The aims of universal day-care in the early years are: to create a classless society and achieve higher levels of greater gender equality to improve children's academic and social development, to liberate mothers from their maternal instincts, and to produce more life satisfaction for parents through more time spent at work and less time spent at home. However, the results are not positive. Over recent years, Sweden has seen a marked increase in diagnosed psychiatric illnesses among young people and in discipline problems in schools, alongside a decline in educational outcomes and the quality of parenting. Questions are beginning to be asked about the quality of day-care too, with Swedish psychiatric and educational experts expressing concern that the quality has fallen to a level where some children will have their development impaired or arrested. Sick leave rates among women are very high, with day-care staff featuring among the top three professions in the sick leave statistics, and families are subject to ideologically motivated interventions from social workers. Contrary to the common perception, Sweden's family policies have not even achieved the goal of creating greater gender equality since Sweden has a highly gender-segregated labour market and a large gender pay gap, together with high levels of youth unemployment.
Why?
The following considerations constitute possible causal explanations for these outcomes: • A lack of emotional nourishment in the very early years can create chronically low thresholds for stress throughout life.
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• Early exposure to large groups of peers can make children peer-oriented and lead to bullying, promiscuity, gang membership, and a lack of interest in learning. • The culturally endorsed early separation of young children from parents causes stress in parents which in turn contributes to high levels of sick leave. • State intervention in family life reduces parents' sense of responsibility for their children. Swedish children seldom suffer from material poverty, but many more suffer from emotional poverty, due to the early separation between children and parents encouraged by Swedish family policies. The indicators suggest that this early separation may have negative effects on early child development, on the quality of parenthood, and on adolescent health and education outcomes.
The state versus parents
A large number of studies have confirmed that the majority of Swedish mothers want to spend more time with their children and a survey of six year-old children showed that their greatest wish is to have more time with their parents. Yet such desires do not feature in current Swedish debate on the future of family policy. The agenda is rather dominated by discussions about extending day-care to night-care, weekend-care and summer-care. The suggestion is being made that unemployed parents should be forced to use day-care as a condition of receiving unemployment benefit, and it is even being proposed that day-care should be made a compulsory child's right which parents are not allowed to interfere with. Once Swedish family policies are put in place, it has proved very difficult to discuss them through the normal democratic processes.
Learning the lessons
Swedish family policies have led to negative developmental outcomes for children, parents, and families because childcare has become a state decision based on political ideology, rather than a parental decision based on the needs of the individual child. Every society should allow parents the freedom to make their own choices about the care and education of their children. The state should adopt a neutral position on different types of care, including home care, and not incentivise one over another, whether culturally or financially. However, since the family is the key institution for building close relationships, it merits the respect of the government. Raising children should be viewed as a social good, and true gender equality includes respecting and valuing the choices of mothers who elect to stay at home to care for their family. Swedish family policies are not emotionally sustainable and possibly not even democratically sustainable. They need to be researched and understood in depth before any attempt is made to emulate them. Jonas Himmelstrand is the author of "Following your heart in the social utopia of Sweden". He has spoken widely about Swedish family policies in the United Nations and in national parliaments, including Westminster. He and his wife were forced to leave their native Sweden in 2012 for home educating their children. They now live in Finland. The slides from this presentation are available online at: www.mireja.org/130518.html
2. When Family-Friendly means keeping parents and children apart
The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has proposed the introduction of longer school days and shorter school holidays. According to Mr Gove, these measures will improve performance and make life easier for working parents. Speaking at the Spectator education conference on 18th April, the Education
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Secretary said: ‘It may be the case that there are one or two legislative and bureaucratic obstacles which prevent all schools moving in this direction, but I think it’s consistent with the pressures of a modern society. I also think it’s going to be family-friendly.’ Many parents will want to question how it can possibly be family-friendly to increase the amount of time children are kept apart from their parents and to limit the amount of time families spend together.
Parents disempowered
A primary school head-teacher put it well in a letter to the Independent newspaper published on 26th April: 'Mr Gove underestimates the family and its role in educating a child. For too long policy has placed the onus on schools to provide the child with every attribute necessary to access adult life. This has in turn disempowered parents. There has been a noticeable increase in the number of children coming to school without being toilet trained, with poor speech and language skills and incapable of any independent tasks; the expectation is that schools will take responsibility for these issues. This is not the answer. Providing longer school hours and shorter holidays will reduce the amount of time spent with family and further diminish the role of parents within society. Children need time to play, explore and learn about human relationships beyond school. Populating the global society with creative, intelligent, highly motivated and flexible individuals is surely Mr Gove’s ambition; but such people do not evolve from a childhood spent entirely in the classroom.’
3. All children in Scotland to be given a ‘NAMED PERSON’ to support their wellbeing
The recently-published Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill proposes that every child and young person in Scotland should be given a named person from birth until they reach the age of 18. The purpose of this named person is to 'safeguard and support their wellbeing, working with other bodies as required’. For the avoidance of any doubt, the Bill explicitly rules out the possibility that the named person could be one of the child's own parents. It has to be someone appointed by the state and, the policy memorandum states, 'will usually be a practitioner from a health board or an education authority’. Family Education Trust director Norman Wells, told the Scottish press: 'One wonders what the Scottish Government thinks parents are for! Not only is this proposal a gross insult to the vast majority of parents in Scotland, but it is also a serious misuse of taxpayers' money that would be far better targeted where it is most needed and not spread thinly across the entire population. On top of that, it is bound to backfire. The more the state undermines parents by assuming a parental role, the less responsibility parents will be inclined to take for their children. That, in turn, will lead to more child neglect, more state intervention in children’s lives and a still greater burden on the public purse.’
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Vladimir Putin's Speech
The following speech was sent to me in an E-mail by Brian Jenkins. It’s clear that the Russian’s can see the disaster that is happening in Europe, and are determined to ensure that it doesn’t happen to them.
Putin's speech on 4th February, 2013 addressed to the Russian Parliament .... The West should take notice ....
On 4th February, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Duma, (Russian Parliament), and gave a speech about the tensions with minorities in Russia: "In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Sharia Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law. Russia does not need minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell 'discrimination'. We had better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities. When this honourable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians.
The politicians in the Duma gave Putin a standing ovation for five minutes.
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Letter from UKIP
The following letter was received from UKIP begging for money. Now, you would have thought that with all the money and free use of facilities that the millionaire owner of Trago Mills have lavished on them over the past decade they would not need the common people to donate yet more of their hard-earned money.
They, also, asked me if I would help in the May 2014 election by: Displaying a large UKIP Board Displaying a Window Poster Displaying a smaller UKIP Board
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The HALIFAX – Why is it promoting genocide of indigenous Britons?
Below is an advertisement currently being displayed at all branches of the Halifax to promote their financial services. As can be seen it shows a Negro with an indigenous white woman, and is clearly designed to brainwash our young girls into believing that it is perfectly acceptable for them to have relationships with black men, even though statically these relationships inevitably end disastrously.
The Halifax have succeeded in sinking to even lower depths of depravity in their most recent TV commercial which shows a Negro football coach with his white pregnant partner at a children’s football match.
This goes even further than the first advertisement and its message clearly indicates that it is perfectly acceptable to breed with Negros, even though any offspring produced will be of low intelligence that will inevitably genetically weaken Britain as a nation.
Now, one advertisement promoting miscegenation would have been considered an aberration, but two in close succession can only be a wilful act of racial hatred in the promoting the genocide of indigenous white British population. Why should the Halifax produce such controversial advertisements and what is their agenda, when they know it would be considered most offensive to the vast majority of indigenous Britons? I wonder what reaction I would get if I made a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)? My guess is that they will refuse to act, for fear of offending the immigrant community. I have now made an official complaint just to see what response I get from the ASA. I’ll let you know what response I get.
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Grade Inflation: ‘A’ Level Results 1982 and 2013
As you are all probably aware, this year’s ‘A’ level results have recently been published. They show that approximately 26% achieved grades A and A*, with 8% getting an A*. Furthermore, only 2% failed the exam. The Daily Mail, also, published the ‘A’ level results for 1982 which revealed that 8% achieved a grade A, with 32% completely failing the exam. The diagram below shows the comparison between the ‘A’ level results for 1982 and for those of 2013.
This diagram clearly indicates that over the past 30 years there has been massive grade inflation associated with ‘A’ level results, with only the grades C to A* being accepted by respectable universities as acceptable passes. Furthermore, with a failure rate of only 2% it’s almost impossible to fail – how bad must one be to fail such an exam? This is probably a symptom of the modern education system where nobody can be seen to fail, and everyone must have a prize.
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