RACISM CUTS BOTH WAYS
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Sunday 14 February 2010

Extraordinary General Meeting Passes New BNP Constitution with Overwhelming Vote

The new British National Party constitution has been passed with an overwhelming majority by the Extraordinary General Meeting held today in a positive and unified spirit, BNP leader Nick Griffin MEP has announced.

Speaking at the conclusion of the meeting, held today in London, Mr Griffin said that there had been five votes against and four abstentions while the rest of the 300-strong gathering voted in favour.

“The meeting was dominated by a good spirit of unity, with everyone understanding that the party has to adapt for legal, financial and political necessity,” Mr Griffin said.

“No-one is particularly happy about being denied the right of self-association, which is what the court order and law essentially enforces, but it is understood that the party has to put this behind us and get on with the serious business of saving Britain from the ravages of the establishment parties,” he said.

“Everyone knows that there are going to be a few ethnic members,” Mr Griffin continued. “In fact, when I announced that I personally would welcome the brave Mr Rajinder Singh as a member in the light of his struggle against the Islamification of Britain, I was warmly applauded by the crowd.”

Mr Griffin said the new constitution gave added protection to the BNP which would prevent anybody, no matter what their ethnic origin, from entering the party with the aim of causing trouble or subverting it.

“Although we object to the basis of the law which does away with our right to associate with those we choose, the new constitution follows the letter of the law and does away with what the Equalities and Human Rights Commission calls ‘direct discrimination’. We will see if this satisfies the ECHR who have already made it clear that they think our policy will prevent people from joining.

“That is of course a nonsensical argument because all parties have policies that its opponents don’t like, which makes it impossible for example, for a BNP supporter to join the Tories or Labour.”

Mr Griffin said the next step in the process was that the new constitution will be sent to the ECHR on Tuesday. That organisation has a week in which to make formal comment , after which the BNP has a week to review their comments and respond.

After that, a new court appearance in March should finalise the matter. Mr Griffin added that it was clear that the ECHR’s intention was to keep the BNP in the courts in an attempt to financially exhaust the party.

To prevent this from happening, the new constitution has also empowered the party leader with the right to revise any clause over which the ECHR might try and make an argument. “In this way we can quickly circumvent any drawn out legal processes and concentrate on fighting the election,” Mr Griffin said.

During the meeting, veteran nationalist Richard Edmonds stood up and read a piece of writing from party founder John Tyndall which said that if the law was ever changed, the BNP would amend its membership criteria to comply with the law. This, Mr Edmonds said, was why he was voting in favour of the new constitution.

* During the meeting, BNP security removed a journalist from the Times newspaper from the hall. The journalist in question had been asked to pledge that he would not work with another Times journalist, Fiona Hamilton, who has specialised in fabricating the most vicious lies about the BNP in the columns of that newspaper.

The journalist refused to give such an undertaking and was then asked to leave. He refused and was then escorted off the premises by the BNP stewards. Mr Griffin said afterwards that the BNP did not mind criticism, which was part of the political process, but was “sick and tired of the outright lies from the Times.”

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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Adopted by General Assembly Resolution 61/295 on 13 September 2007 Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognising the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such. Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind. Recognising the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions, while retaining their right to participate fully, if they so choose, in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the State.

ROLL OF SHAME

They once considered themselves ‘socialists’, but the recent list of expenses claimed by our 645 Members of Parliament exposes Labour members as the hypocrites they truly are!


1. Shahid Malik (Lab) £185,421
2. Liam Byrne (Lab, Hodge Hill) £178,116
3. Joan Ryan (Lab) £173,691
4. Dan Norris (Lab) £172,733
5. Tim Farron (Lib-Dem) £172,327
6. Frank Doran (Lab) £171,836
7. Angus MacNeil (SNP) £169,971
8. Tom Levitt (Lab) £168,660
9. Alex Salmond (SNP) £166,814
10. David Mundell (Con) £166,598


Anti-BNP hatemonger Shahid and Hodge Hill comedian Liam topped the free-loading chart, but how did the ten other Birmingham MPs fare …


88. Roger Godsiff (Lab, Sparkbrook & Small Heath) £150,059
108. Khalid Mahmood (Lab, Perry Barr) £148,666
113. Richard Burden (Lab, Northfield) £148,447
139. Lynne Jones (Lab, Selly Oak) £146,793
167. SiĆ“n Simon (Lab, Erdington) £145,444
196. Andrew Mitchell (Con, Sutton Coldfield) £143,965
278. Steve McCabe (Lab, Hall Green) £140,352
382. Gisela Stuart (Lab, Edgbaston) £134,870
388. Clare Short (Ind, Ladywood) £134,408
394. John Hemming (Lib-Dem, Yardley) £134,220


The combined expenses of Birmingham’s eleven MPs for this period was £1,605,340. Is that value for money or just being taken for a ride?

PATRIOTIC POETRY & READINGS

The footer blog of the Birmingham Patriot will contain poetry and readings that stir the patriot from within. I have decided to start with a famous one from Kipling, which as far as I can determine was written during The Great War. Well he does make exceedingly good poems! This is followed by a personal all time favourite, The St Crispins Speech from Henry V, by Black Country Boy Billy Shakespeare. Again please email me with suggestions birminghampatriot@hotmail.com


The Beginnings

IT WAS not part of their blood,
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make good,
When the English began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy-willing to wait
Till every count should be proved
Ere the English began to hate.

Their voices were even and low,
Their eyes were level and straight
There was neither sign nor show,
When the English began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
When the English began to hate.

It was not suddenly bred,
It will not swiftly abate,
Through the chill years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the English began to hate.

Rudyard Kipling written during the period 1914-18.

Excerpt from Henry V

This day is called the Feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a-tiptoe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall see this day and live t'old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say "To-morrow is Saint Crispian":
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars
And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day."
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now abed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

William Shakespeare 1599

Fly the flag Video by Bertie Bert music by Richard Greenfield