December 07, 2007

North Bedfordshire BNP Meeting – Wednesday 12th December

North Bedfordshire British National Party are to hold a secret meeting next Wednesday in an unsuspecting pub in Tempsford. The group, led by Bedford mature student Phyllis Carter, have created controversy by booking the pub under the false name of "English Heritage," the government body responsible for protecting historic buildings.

Background

Phyllis Carter is the BNP's group organiser for North Bedfordshire, living in the mid-Bedfordshire village of Lower Stondon. She is the person to whom the local BNP PO Box 32 is registered. Mother-of-two Carter is a final year journalism student on the Polhill, Bedford site of the University of Bedfordshire.

She stood as BNP candidate in the May elections for Stratton ward in Biggleswade, coming bottom of the poll with 224 votes. She can be seen alongside BNP leader Nick Griffin in the following web link: http://www.bnp.org.uk/freedom/Vof82-14.pdf.

Previous Meeting
Left to right : Group Organiser Phill Carter, guest speaker Councillor
Richard Barnbrook and Eastern Region BNP organiser, Eddy Butler.

The North Beds group is very small with a handful of active members. They can, however, give the appearance of considerable size when they bus members in from across the 3 Counties. They did just this when they held an October meeting – their first - at the Anchor Pub in Tempsford, nr. Sandy in Bedfordshire. This was - an event captured on BNP TV with footage placed on their website http://www.bnptv.org.uk/archive1.php. The footage shows the distinctive decor of The Anchor – again shown in the photograph above.

Upcoming Meeting

For their follow-up Christmas meeting, Carter has issued an email indicating that the venue will be the same as before with Steve Blake as speaker. Blake, an IT consultant, of Bury St Edmunds, runs the BNP website. In the 1980s, his company, Aurora Promotions, imported Nazi propaganda from the US.

Carter has told members that she has had considerable difficulty booking meeting venues in the past. Perhaps this is why she has booked The Anchor under the false name of "English Heritage," the government body responsible for the upkeep of historic buildings. When rung, pub staff have twice confirmed that the booking is not in the name of the BNP.

Comment

"We find it extraordinary that Phill Carter should have to resort to these tactics in order to hold a simple branch meeting. It makes you wonder what they have to hide. All this goes to show that the BNP is very far from being a normal mainstream political party. We feel sure that English Heritage will take a very dim view of their name being abused in this way."

Contact Details

The Anchor, Great North Road, Tempsford Sandy, Beds. Phone 01767 640233.

English Heritage Press Enquiries Phone 020 7973 3250

E Mail From: "North Beds BNP"

Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:59:37
To:
Subject: Christmas Meeting

Dear member

I would like to inform you of our North Bedfordshire Group Christmas meeting. The meeting will take place on Wednesday 12th December at the same venue as last time. If you did not attend the last meeting, please contact me for directions. We aim to open the meeting at 8:00pm, so please arrive by 7:30pm to ensure that you get a seat. The guest speaker at this month's meeting will be Steven Blake – BNP Web Editor. If you haven't heard Steven speak before, please let me assure you that he is a truly excellent speaker.

There will be a small selection of BNP merchandise available for purchase on the night…an excellent opportunity to stock up on stocking-fillers! Whilst this is only our second meeting it is also the last this year and it promises to be a brilliant night. If you wish to attend please let me know if you can to give me a rough idea of numbers. Feel free to bring a friend/relative along who perhaps sympathises with our policies…the more the merrier!

Best Regards,
Phill Carter - Group Organiser

10 comments:

Antifascist said...

Since this article was posted, we've discovered (thanks to the helpful owner of the hotel, Malcolm Jennings) that the BNP have booked this meeting under the name 'British Heritage', yet another ridiculous front group.

If you're intending to ring the hotel, please be polite and stay calm, no matter what the provocation.

Anonymous said...

"We find it extraordinary that Phill Carter should have to resort to these tactics in order to hold a simple branch meeting. It makes you wonder what they have to hide?".

Why extraordinary? If they booked it under their own name would you leave them and the owners alone? Smacks of a self-fullfing prophesy to me! The sooner the BNP are faced up to everywhere in elections the sooner they will wither on the vine (the Sandwell result is a good example of giving them enough rope.......). The above actions are encouraging a fanaticism amongst their membership in reaction to such 'underhand' treatment and keeping them alive.

Anonymous said...

The usual lies from the BNP

Anonymous said...

Well its not an unsuspecting pub anymore, the telephone line has been permanently engaged.

Anonymous said...

'Well its not an unsuspecting pub anymore, the telephone line has been permanently engaged'

Ever heard of leaving the receiver off the hook?

Anonymous said...

Why extraordinary? If they booked it under their own name would you leave them and the owners alone? Smacks of a self-fullfing prophesy to me!

Come off it. The BNP as an organisation spends most of its time hiding the fact that its actually a fascist group and its left up to the likes of Searchlight and LUAF and their supporters and allies to point out the truth to hotels/pubs/clubs etc where meetings are arranged. Inevitably these locations then cancel. Nothing to do with threats, fanaticism or underhand treatment of any kind - merely a dislike by the owners of these venues of being misled by a party that it desperate for some sort of power simply so it can misuse it. The BNP should at least have the balls to book venues under its own name rather than misleading people by claiming to be someone else. If a venue still tells them to push off, its the BNPs own fault for being what it is, not LUAFs.

Anonymous said...

Hopefully the hotel will see sense and cancel the booking, especially as it was booked under false pretences, as it would be within their rights to do so. Failure to do so know they know the score would be complicit to collusion with fascism.

Anonymous said...

Hope English Heritage can sew their Hitler loving ayrian asses.....

Anonymous said...

Event now cancelled - hotel owner turfed them out and all other venues booked for Christmas.

Job done !

John P said...

http://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/bed-news/Landlord-calls-time-on-BNP.3591489.jp