I really couldn’t care less about the publication of a list of BNP members. I mean, seriously, who cares? Let’s make this clear: the BNP are a legitimate political party. However distasteful we may find their political beliefs, they have a right to hold them and to be a member of a political party that supports them. Rather than threatening BNP members/voters, we should engage with them. Yes, we should. If we don’t, we can’t destroy the racist elements. Political parties must address the prime reason why people vote for the BNP - and that is because they feel ignored. If we listen to the voters - the vast majority of whom aren’t racists - then we can convince them that the BNP are not the party who can deal with the problems they are concerned with, but just a...

Article from WCC website here, dated 14th November 2008 - “A call for a new international financial architecture The World Council of Churches and the overall ecumenical family are deeply concerned with the current global financial system which has continued to generate poverty and create massive unemployment. On November 15 the leaders of 20 nations and the major multilateral financial institutions will gather behind closed doors in Washington, D.C. to attempt to fix the current crisis by remaking the rules of global finance. This group includes many of the people, governments and institutions whose policies are responsible for the current financial meltdown. It has been dubbed “Bretton Woods II”. The WCC is concerned about the effectiveness of such a meeting limited...

The leaked BNP membership list looks like being a story that is going to run for some time now - the epitome of the ‘gift that keeps on giving’ - and looks like saving us from having the media totally dominated by some fuss about a dancing competition on the TV.  The whole circus is casting light on some neat ironies and the reactions are far more interesting than the leaked list itself. The initial fuss was when the list was posted online on a blogspot/blogger site.  Despite this being hosted in the US, it disappeared fairly quickly (opponents of Redwatch take note!).  The irony of this is that, as posted on that site, the list was actually fairly useless.  It was posted in 20 or more chunks by surname.  Each chunk was a plain text series of names and addresses laid out...

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The following article is from here. I find the infiltration by ‘Neo Nazis’ exploiting the ‘Christian Conservative’ groups particularly interesting. It is not just Britain where this is going on, of course, and not just the BNP doing this. And there are also various degrees of exploitation and extremism too by far more orthodox looking groups. Church, take note. Some of the people on the list are self-described as ‘Committed Evangelical christian, attends bible studies/prayer meetings’ and ‘Devout Christian lay preacher (non-conformist churches: Baptist, United Reformed, Presbyterian etc)’.  The mind boggles. “Five ‘Reverends’ were amongst the names in a list of BNP members posted on the internet, as well as a number of...

Having correctly sensed broad voter opposition to ID cards, cold, inhuman, incompetent Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has decided to impose them by stealth, firstly to people working air side in the aviation industry: Ministers will publish draft regulations on Friday to set up a trial requiring airside staff at Manchester airport and London City airport to sign up for an ID card before they can get security passes allowing them to work there. If the regulations are approved, the first ID cards will be issued at the two airports from autumn next year as part of an 18-month trial. Under the proposals, airport workers will be the first British citizens to be given ID cards, which are due to be introduced for young people from 2010. British pilots however have ideas of their own: (Jim)...

“I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion.” Gingrich also stated: “[W]hen the radicals lost the vote in California, they are determined to impose their will on this country no matter what the popular opinion, no matter what the law of the land.” (source) There are indeed gay people and secular individuals who want to impose their will on the rest of you. But let’s unpick that - the ‘rest of you’ are the fundamentally religious. ‘We’ are the gay, the straight,...

Every police force in the UK was tonight scouring the leaked British National party membership list for names of serving officers, after the Merseyside force confirmed it was investigating one officer's links to the far-right party.The Prison Service pledged to oust any employee on the list and far-right supporters spoke of fear for their livelihoods as the BNP was plunged into crisis.Party officials complained that hundreds of members had received threatening or abusive telephone calls within hours of the list being posted on the internet, and feared that the episode could lead to a damaging slump in support and membership.Merseyside police, who discovered the name of one of its constables on the list, identified him and said that he had served briefly as the chief constable's driver. A...

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That would be mean and cruel. Everyone deserves the right to privacy even if it is very amusing to see so called "British Lions" terrified at the idea of people finding out what political party they belong too. Certainly showing the sort of bravery I'd expect of spineless racist scum. Let us instead gloat on a little titbit that the gormless traitor Nick Griffin has revealed:In a statement on the party's website, Mr Griffin said he had lodged a complaint with Dyfed-Powys Police on the grounds that the publication breached human rights and data protection laws.He told the BBC's the party would be using the Human Rights Act to try to protect the identities of its members, despite the BNP being against the European legislation.Is that not the most amusing piece of hypocrisy?? A party whose...

Merseyside police is investigating whether one of its officers is a current member of the British National Party.The force acknowledged that a serving policeman appeared to be among the names on the leaked list of BNP members put up on various websites this week.In a short statement, Merseyside police confirmed that membership of the far right party "was totally incompatible with the duties and values of the police service". It added: "We will not accept a police officer or police staff being a member of BNP. As a matter of urgency, we have immediately started an investigation into all aspects of this case. We will be keeping an open mind until all of the facts have been established."The force, which named the officer apparently on the BNP list, said it had yet to establish whether he...

I've regularly been nasty to the BNP. I think they're a racist party, with stupid, knuckledragging supporters. But I would not call for the party to be banned, because I don't like constraints on freedom of speech on principle. Or if that's too high-minded, the simple reason that the advantages the BNP get for being legal means they keep their public pronouncements on the right side of the law against incitement will do. To make them illegal would drive them underground where they would be more dangerous. The left, who claim a monopoly on public morality, on the other hand think being on a leaked list of BNP members should be enough for someone to lose his job. This reveals the left for what it is: Authoritarian, and intolerant of dissent. David Semple, for example (via) finishes his...

Leftie Mafia close ranks over Baby P “WHY did Gordon Brown react so violently when asked in the Commons about Baby P’s shocking death? Was it a guilty conscience? The unforgivable death of Baby P has revealed Labour’s dirty little secret — the arrogance verging on corruption of entrenched Socialism”. Not such a secret now, after the hideous catalogue...

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Someone has published the British National Party membership list and published it on the internet.The full story is here.As the various blogs go into overload debating this issue, most are rightly pointing out how terrible it is that personal details have been leaked like this. That is correct. Whoever has done it will be in considerable trouble.But what troubled me specifically, is the revelation that five vicars (or retired vicars) are party members. These may not be the only church leaders on the list, but they are the most obvious.That means five people in leadership positions in the UK are members of a party whose policies nestle in a right wing totalitarian timewarp.That is the real shame of this news story. So much for caring for the alien amongst us. So much for visiting the...

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Paul King chief executive of the UK Green Building, gave a brief speech at last night’s Building Sustainability Awards. Here it is: A question on many people’s lips, including journalists from the trade press, recently has been, ‘will sustainability be the next casualty of the credit crunch?’ Life is very tough out there at the moment, and I don’t underestimate the scale of the challenge some people are facing, with some very real threats in the short to medium term. But I wanted to share with you some feedback from a recent poll of UK-GBC members, covered in The Guardian today, at a recent event looking at our response to the financial crisis. 27% said that sustainability has maintained its place on their company’s agenda. But remarkably more than 55% said that it had...

The UK government was under fire today for "undermining" the European Union's fight against climate change by auctioning off carbon allowances for the first time and not earmarking the cash for "green" projects. Around four million permits are being distributed today under a new phase of the European Union's (EU) emissions trading scheme (ETS) with expected receipts of up to £60m going to the Treasury for general spending purposes."The policy of the UK government on this issue undermines the very purpose of the EU ETS... Auctioning undermines this flexible mechanism as it takes money away from those who can do something about climate change, the emitters, and it gives it to those who can't, the politicians," said James Emanuel at emissions trading broker, CantorCO2e.The Institute for...

The Labour Party was gearing itself up 14 months ago to call a General Election.  Brown marched his troops (or should that be troups? they are like a ballet troup) to the top of the hill, then dithered, and marched them down again. Lord Mandy is behind the current spin.  So this “snap election” is a bit better spun. But the problem is for Mandy is the unpredictability of his new boss (unlike the predictable Blair), as Mandy saw when Brown went loopy at PMQs last week. Labour is setting out its stall for a snap poll with its announcements and hints on taxation.  The problem is, of course, and poor Mandy no doubt realises this, is that - even if they had a poll lead - Brown is too much of a ditherer to call a General Election.       ...

The BBC is gleefully reporting a Tory U-turn because they have announced that they will spend less than Labour following an election. The pledge "to match Labour spending plans for 2 years" was made in the expectation of a 2008 election. Thus the wriggle that the Tories had been using was that it did not, in fact commit them to anything should there be a 2010 election. It was a useful pledge to shield themselves from charges of "Tory Cuts". Dishonest for sure, but not egregious by the standards of politicians.No-one expected that the Labour party, under pressure would so catastrophically abandon any sort of fiscal responsibility. Anyone who said that the moment the economy slowed a bit, the British Government would be running a 4% budget deficit (forecast to rise to 7.5%) and be...

One response to this post’s title is that quite a lot of people have irresponsibly open Facebook profiles that expose these kind of personal details for all to see on the open internet (or for anyone to access with only a few minutes effort). But what about involuntary disclosure?Let’s be clear: I’m no fan of the British National Party. It beggars belief that there’s a market for such narrow-mindedness. The party’s policies and its members’ views veer towards ideologies and mindsets that are exclusive, intolerant, with a heavy dose of historical revisionism - all serving to devalue humanity.But it’s a political party, and it’s not proscribed. And while I don’t like it, it’s perfectly legal to be a member. Though it does seems to be more embarrassing to be "outed" as a...

I finally found the document that the blogsphere is laughing at, and did a search of the members, to find our local Nazis:MrPaulJohnson13 MelbostBorveIsle of LewisHS2 0RR(deleted)@houseofjohnson.co.ukIT specialist. Keen to help with leaflet design/websites etc.MrColinCampbell30 Cnoc-Na-FairePort EllenIsle of IslayArgyllPA42 7BU01496 302xxxMrJohnathanBowker30 BorvePortreeIsle of SkyeIV51 9PE07766 795xxx(deleted)@borve.plus.comChange of address 07/03/06MrSamuelSmith28 Liveras ParkBroadfordIsle of SkyeIV49 9AW04718 226xxMrKevinMulligan8 Liveras ParkBroadfordIsle of SkyeIV49 9AW01471 820042(deleted)_metal@yahoo.co.ukActivist. Change of address 5/2/07and an ex-pat RudhachMrKenneth A.Smith2 Wilson's Building260 Main StreetStenhousemuirFalkirkFK5 3JY01324 555xxx07077...

One hundred and fifty two days, not the longest stand off in Northern Irish politics but possibly one of the most crucial with one of the greatest outcomes at the end. Many said it could never be done but the DUP and Sinn Fein have actually come to an agreement over moving forward the devolving of powers for justice and policing from Westminster to Stormont. Announcing the programme of...

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The irony of BNP activists’ details published and then their cheek at trying to use the Human Rights Act and then the subsequent Google Maps mashup of the list is quite amazing. A list showing the full contact details of British National Party activists has been published online. The BNP says the list, which includes home phone numbers and e-mail addresses, dates from 2007 and some people are no longer members. Why would you join a political party, then want to keep that quiet? © somefoolwitha.com...

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posted by Cptn What surprises us about the BNP membership list leak is that they are surprised that former employees are “malevolent and spiteful”, surely that’s a pre-requisite to join the BNP in the first place? What also surprises us is that there aren’t more BNP members in the Bay area, but that might be our own prejudice coming to the fore. At least it’s reassuring to know that, according BNP spokesman Simon Darby in the Guardian, “the list contained the names of people who had never been members of the party as well as the names of current and former members”. That’ll be quite a long list then. Peruse it at your leisure, you never know who will be on it, the Plymouth Herald has spotted the professions of some of those on the list, and...