Griffin and BNP strategy

[audiotech]

Apparently, Charlotte Lewis, the BNP candidate and regional treasurer, standing for election in Croydon this month was found guilty of four harassment charges and jailed for six months in 2001.

This was part of a concerted campaign against the staff at Huntingdon Life Sciences, whom Ms Lewis called "animal abusing scum".

In one letter Lewis wrote:

I was there when a brick was put through your window. If you don't quit HLS you can expect more of the same.

Another threatened:

This is a warning. Your life is in grave danger if you don't stop working at HLS. You will find yourself having a gun aimed at your head.

Her DNA was matched with the saliva Lewis had used to stick the stamps on the letters.

From latest issue of Searchlight.

 

[butchersapron]

As pointed out elsewhere, one of the main SHAC members recently sent down was ex-NF and also from Croydon. There's more than likely some connection.

 

[audiotech]

Here's the harasser. Comments section not disabled yet.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pbgu43K7oVk

 

[trevhagl]

Apparently, Charlotte Lewis, the BNP candidate and regional treasurer, standing for election in Croydon this month was found guilty of four harassment charges and jailed for six months in 2001.

This was part of a concerted campaign against the staff at Huntingdon Life Sciences, whom Ms Lewis called "animal abusing scum".

In one letter Lewis wrote:



Another threatened:



Her DNA was matched with the saliva Lewis had used to stick the stamps on the letters.

From latest issue of Searchlight.

It's fucking funny they care about animals when they don't even care about humans!

 

[trevhagl]

Here's the harasser. Comments section not disabled yet.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pbgu43K7oVk

Nice and polite!! I was looking for the hand up her that was working her, or was she reading from an autocue? Wonder how the BNP's stance on law and order coincides with death threats?

 

[audiotech]

Nice and polite!! I was looking for the hand up her that was working her, or was she reading from an autocue? Wonder how the BNP's stance on law and order coincides with death threats?

Full report here.

 

[butchersapron]

Potentially winnable election tommorow:

Hyde Newton Ward, Tameside - May 2008
Liberal Democrat 376
British National Party 846
The Labour and Co-operative Party Candidate 1,124
Conservative Party Candidate 732

 

[tangentlama]

BNP stands accused over leaflet drops

"FAR-RIGHT activists have been accused of “political intimidation” after encouraging neighbours to confront a prominent anti-racist campaigner in his own home.

About 20 members of the newly-formed far right group Wirral British National Party dropped 2,500 leaflets in Wallasey close to Merseyside Trade Union Congress leader Alec McFadden’s home. The leaflets urge people to confront Mr McFadden at his home and the maildrop coincided with him being in Liverpool at the front of an anti-racism rally.

The only people at home were Mr McFadden’s two teenage daughters, who have been brought up in the Jewish faith. Mr McFadden said: “They knew that I was leading the march, so they chose the moment to give these leaflets out, also knowing I’m a single parent with two teenage daughters.”

Mr McFadden was repeatedly stabbed to the face and torso in front of his now 16-year-old daughter, on the doorstep of his home in May, 2006. He believes the assailant was a fascist sympathiser and has had to alter his day-to-day life to ward off future attacks by such “radical thugs”. Police have had to intervene after a neo-Nazi website featured pictures of Mr McFadden and he received death threats.

This weekend, Chief Supt Steve Ashley said the force was aware that leaflets were distributed in an area of Wallasey on Saturday. He said: “The content is being reviewed to determine if any criminal offence has been committed, and police patrols have been stepped up in the area.”

The latest pressure being applied on the trade union leader comes as the issue of “jobs from British workers” dominates many of the national papers. Wirral BNP literature says: “Instead of defending British Workers, McFadden was holding an anti-racism/anti-BNP march in Liverpool while workers were being made redundant.”

 

[butchersapron]

Hyde Newton Tameside
Labour 1,379 45.6% +9.1
BNP 889 29.4% +1.9
Con 485 16.0% -7.8
LibDem 172 5.7% -6.5
Green 69 2.3% n/a
UKIP 33 1.1% n/a


Shows how far they've come that 29% is now considered a disappointment - also demonstrates the normalisation thesis very nicely:

2003: 578 votes (25.2%)
2004: 814 votes (all postal three-vacancy election)
2006: 761 votes (25.9%)
2007: 719 votes (24.1%)
2008: 846 votes (27.5%)
2009: 889 votes (29.4%)

 

[pingupete]

Hyde Newton Tameside
Labour 1,379 45.6% +9.1
BNP 889 29.4% +1.9
Con 485 16.0% -7.8
LibDem 172 5.7% -6.5
Green 69 2.3% n/a
UKIP 33 1.1% n/a


Shows how far they've come that 29% is now considered a disappointment - also demonstrates the normalisation thesis very nicely:

2003: 578 votes (25.2%)
2004: 814 votes (all postal three-vacancy election)
2006: 761 votes (25.9%)
2007: 719 votes (24.1%)
2008: 846 votes (27.5%)
2009: 889 votes (29.4%)

Thanks for the history on the ward. If the BNP show that kind of % increase (between 2003 to 2009) on a regional basis, it will put them on the 7.5% they need to win a seat (according to Cruddas) should they finish as the 4th largest party ahead of the Greens and UKIP in the region.

 

[JimPage]

Hyde Newton Tameside
Labour 1,379 45.6% +9.1
BNP 889 29.4% +1.9
Con 485 16.0% -7.8
LibDem 172 5.7% -6.5
Green 69 2.3% n/a
UKIP 33 1.1% n/a


Shows how far they've come that 29% is now considered a disappointment - also demonstrates the normalisation thesis very nicely:

2003: 578 votes (25.2%)
2004: 814 votes (all postal three-vacancy election)
2006: 761 votes (25.9%)
2007: 719 votes (24.1%)
2008: 846 votes (27.5%)
2009: 889 votes (29.4%)

Although i was intially content with this result in as much as they didnt win and their vote didnt go up that much, agree that this sort of thing doesnt raise an eyebrow any more

889 votes in a single council ward. Beating tories and liberals hands down, and UKip on 1.1% as well

They will win in the NW, i think. 2 council by-elections in Carlisle in a few weeks will also give an indication on how they will do

Eyes on elections in a few weeks of particualr interest in Swanley, North West Leicestershire and Newcastle-Under-Lyne

 

[durruti02]

Hyde Newton Tameside
Labour 1,379 45.6% +9.1
BNP 889 29.4% +1.9
Con 485 16.0% -7.8
LibDem 172 5.7% -6.5
Green 69 2.3% n/a
UKIP 33 1.1% n/a


Shows how far they've come that 29% is now considered a disappointment - also demonstrates the normalisation thesis very nicely:

2003: 578 votes (25.2%)
2004: 814 votes (all postal three-vacancy election)
2006: 761 votes (25.9%)
2007: 719 votes (24.1%)
2008: 846 votes (27.5%)
2009: 889 votes (29.4%)

the Searchlight / HnH strategy in full effect i guess .. not only has the turn out gone up, the Lab vote has suprisingly ( if you think of opinion polls at the mo ) gone up, and it seems pretty clear that a % of the lib dems and tories have voted labour to keep the BNP out .. HnH claim a appeal by the churches and to progressive w/c values were key to the labour vote .. hmm

 

[JimPage]

3 things of interest

By election upcoming in North Warwickshire- Atherstone- they have done fairly well in the past in nearby areas like Bedworth

Looks like big push at county council elections in June in addition to Euro poll

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=17081

"Last week the BNP came third in a council by-election in Hyde, Greater Manchester, behind Labour, which held the seat, and the Liberal Democrats."

Am sure an accidental mistake by Socialist Worker on BNP votes

 

[dennisr]

Am sure an accidental mistake by Socialist Worker on BNP votes

you would know all about accidental mistakes - are you still going down to batter those backward strikers Jim?

you realise you have lost all credibility as a concious anti-racist or anti-fascist who is capable of cutting across real backward movements (ie strategic or tactical nounce) don't you, Jim?

 

[JimPage]

you would know all about accidental mistakes - are you still going down to batter those backward strikers Jim?

you realise you have lost all credibility as a concious anti-racist or anti-fascist who is capable of cutting across real backward movements (ie strategic or tactical nounce) don't you, Jim?

When did I say batter the strikers?

This strike and the strikers are a symptom of a reactionary mood in society, of which the BNP are also a symptom. The people who have lost credibilty here are those political parties who preach anti fascism one moment, but then support what is clearly a Nationalist, Racist and Reactionary strike to the core.

 

[dennisr]

When did I say batter the strikers?

This strike and the strikers are a symptom of a reactionary mood in society, of which the BNP are also a symptom. The people who have lost credibilty here are those political parties who preach anti fascism one moment, but then support what is clearly a Nationalist, Racist and Reactionary strike to the core.

Socialist Unity Website - 30 Jan around 10 am (beginning of the second day of the strike):

Jim Page says:
"I think the first action is to expel any shop stewards involved here forthwith, and for the union leaders to condemn this strike

Secondly, its solidarity action with the foreign workers, making it clear they are welcome here

Thirdly, confronting the racists on the picket line, just as we would a BNP mobilisation"

You fuckin idiot fantasist

 

[dennisr]

clearly a Nationalist, Racist and Reactionary strike to the core.

evidence please

 

[butchersapron]

Waddon (Croydon)

Con 1462 (46.0%)
Lab 1222 (38.5%)
BNP 157 (4.9%)
LD 150 (4.7%)
Green 115 (3.6%)
UKIP 48 (1.5%)
PC 13 (0.4%)
Loony 11 (0.4%)

 

[dennisr]

Waddon (Croydon)

Con 1462 (46.0%)
Lab 1222 (38.5%)
BNP 157 (4.9%)

A releif to see a low result for a change...

Here's a gem for the folk on u75 from a recent BNP candidate (even the BNP thought this beyond the pail though:

"Rape is simply sex. Women enjoy sex, so rape cannot be such a terrible ordeal....To suggest that rape, when conducted without violence, is a serious crime is like suggesting that force-feeding a woman chocolate cake is a heinous offence. A woman would be more inconvenienced by having her handbag snatched."

Nick Eriksen. The BNP removed him from the canditure

 

[JimPage]

Waddon (Croydon)

Con 1462 (46.0%)
Lab 1222 (38.5%)
BNP 157 (4.9%)
LD 150 (4.7%)
Green 115 (3.6%)
UKIP 48 (1.5%)
PC 13 (0.4%)
Loony 11 (0.4%)

3 things on this pleasingly low vote. It was down from May 2008 in this ward from 6.1%. The candidate was a walking disaster area, having been jailed in 2001 for her involvement in the HLS campaign- whioch was splashed all over the local papers. Thirdly, Griffin booted out the previous Croydon BNP organiser about a month ago for incompetence, so this may have something to do with their poor performance here

Its the second week in row they have polled poorly (if you count Hyde Newton last week as poor)

 

[durruti02]

i attended a meeting with Nick Lowles and various Searchlight apparatchiks this week. They have brought over some w/c obama union organisers who told us how they got the votes out for obama .. very interesting but to what affect ( diff thread) .. BUT the whole purpose was to launch their June 08 euro campaign the thrust of which is to increase the overall vote to make it harder for the BNP to get candidates elected which they seem to be on course to do.

I challenged Lowles on the recent Hyde vote, for which the anti bnp campaign is essentially the same tactic, and he claimed this as a victory .. yet look at the vote .. a 5% increase to 29% of the overall vote .. and an almost 60% increase on their 2003 vote yet only 4% increase on the split .. clearly the stategy has been to increase the non bnp turnout

one of the ideas the americans have given Lowles is that it is not worth arguing with those who will not listen but better to concentrate on the middle ground

i was not the only person at the meeting who sayed that we need to and CAN actually stop the BNP vote .. that the BNP vote is STILL soft and we must relate to those voters before the turn fascist

 

[butchersapron]

Don't know if you saw this thread d :

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=278084

 

[durruti02]

Don't know if you saw this thread d :

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=278084

nope! and ta!

 

[lewislewis]

Waddon (Croydon)

Con 1462 (46.0%)
Lab 1222 (38.5%)
BNP 157 (4.9%)
LD 150 (4.7%)
Green 115 (3.6%)
UKIP 48 (1.5%)
PC 13 (0.4%)
Loony 11 (0.4%)

Who's PC? Does it mean 'Politically Correct', or perhaps Plaid Cymru have turned expansionist and started fighting elections in Croydon?

 

[butchersapron]

People's Choiice - beyond that i know nothing.

 

[icekool]

"Rape is simply sex. Women enjoy sex, so rape cannot be such a terrible ordeal....To suggest that rape, when conducted without violence, is a serious crime is like suggesting that force-feeding a woman chocolate cake is a heinous offence. A woman would be more inconvenienced by having her handbag snatched."

well I say well said to that man as females these days are on the whole (not all but most) a bunch of skanky hoes only interested in becoming WAGS or similar

As for the BNP, well I hope they get in because lets face facts we badly need to repatriate the primates don't we
Have a look at these primates and tell me how enriched we are

link removed

 

[butchersapron]

Bye

 

[Crispy]

fuck off racist

 

[butchersapron]

Downham
Jenni Clutten 1075
Duwayne Brooks (as lib dem) 1067
Labour 655
Conservative 654
Labour 635
Conservative 632
BNP 287 (10%)
Green 63
Green 62

Bilton
Bentley CON 673 37.4%
Steve Gill BNP 164 9.1%
Gray Labour 51 2.8%
McKenzie LibDems 902 50.2%

Swanley
BNP 408
Labour 332
Tory 247

 

[durruti02]

not surprised at Swanley tbh .. SE london/kent etc .. the NF did well in the LA elections in SE london .. if Griffin can take them out they will do VERY well down here

where are the other two?