RACISM CUTS BOTH WAYS
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Monday 15 March 2010

So where's the money Tanya Lumby?

At a recent meeting of The East Birmingham branch of the British National Party in Acocks Green, there was an unanswered controversy that unfolded before the bewildered eyes of members and other attendees.

The new fundholder had earlier been introduced as Mr Rob Offord, husband of Amanda Offord, both activists from Moseley.

A collection took place and money collected was, as is tradion, placed in a hat. 

Rather than new fund-holder Mr Offord count the money in the presence of the rest of the room, as is usual, instead the group organiser Tanya Jane Whitehead-Lumby, took the money away and counted it in private.

It was estimated by many there, and from 'known' donations that around £1500 was 'in the hat', including £500 from the host, and several £100 and £50 donations from working members.

Yet following Lumby's return, it was announced that £950 was collected.

Amid the gasps from dumbfounded open mouths the recently declared bankrupt Mrs Lumby thanked the room for their generosity!

Mrs Lumby also 'assists' in collections for other groups in the area, and questions must now be asked about the virtue of re-instating the BNP membership (during a membership freeze?) of both of the Lumbys who were quite vocal four months ago in their resignation of the jobs within the party and their membership.

The Lumbys and The Offords were also main protagonists in hounding several BNP members from the party during 2009

The BNP National Accounts manager, David Hannam, was not available for comment.

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