Over two hundred anti-fascists supported the Wales TUC and Wrexham Trades Council march and rally through Wrexham on Saturday.
Searchlight Cymru, as well as a number of organisations, politicians and supporters joined local citizens to give a loud message that the racist politics of the BNP was not welcome in Wrexham.
Led by the famous Cambria Drum Band, the march and rally wound through Wrexham city centre, where it was met by taunting and laughter from a BNP stand staffed by a strange mixture of skinheads, older ladies and sharp suited organisers. The Cambria Drum Band led off the March into Wrexham town centre. Following the march, a very successful rally was held at the Miners Institute.
Searchlight Cymru gave away over 1,000 leaflets explaining why Wales is a tolerant and great place to live, but whose problems need to be dealt with in a non-racist and threatening environment.
The BNP gave out a couple of hundred Voices of Freedom newspapers whose unhelpful solutions for employment, economic inactivity, housing and community cohesion include attacking Islam, bringing back the death penalty, withdrawal from the EU and abusing the Archbishop of Canterbury. Their accompanying Welsh leaflet further excited the people of Wrexham by calling for motorway speed limits to be raised, linking foreign aid with repatriation and ending the conflict in Ireland by putting Eire into the UK.
Searchlight Cymru also sent out a team of litter pickers to ensure Wrexham was free from the discarded extremist newspapers that littered the streets and put them in bins where they belonged.
The BNP reports that just 10 locals bothered to take part with a coach load of bedraggled leftists arriving from outside Wales managing to bolster the Communist numbers to about 50 in total !! The 'bedraggled leftists' were in fact all from Wales on the Searchlight Cymru coach. Admittedly the coach company had a Welsh name, which probably confused the BNP no end. Amongst the ‘leftists’ were a number of very well behaved children who were a credit to their parents.
On a lighter note, one member of the Searchlight Cymru party was very interested in the St David flag on the BNP stall. A little bit cheekily he asked 'what's that flag ?'. A very helpful woman replied that it was the flag of Cornwall. In fairness it is very easy to get confused between the two. One is black with a yellow cross and is displayed at every Welsh rugby and football match, at many churches and is on the Cardiff City football kit. The other one is a black flag with a white cross on it quite often seen in the south West of England.
Searchlight Cymru
April 16, 2008
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LOL - the BNP running internet ads for inter-racial dating and Muslim singles!!! Check out the article from The Guardian (16 April 2008) below:
Duncan Campbell's Diary
Yesterday we noted that the Green Arrow Forum, the bloggers' website that supports the British National party, was running a rather surprising ad for singlemuslim.com, a leading marriage service for Muslims. It transpired that the ads were placed by Google, which offers a service of "contextually relevant ads"; the many references to Islam by BNP bloggers had attracted the ad. Closer inspection of the website shows that there are many other ads that might, on the face of it, seem puzzling. Yesterday's featured ad, for instance, was for InterracialRomance - "the number one interracial dating community on the net". It had presumably been drawn there by the Google AdSense programme, which would have spotted many blogs about "race mixing" and the like. More intriguing were ads for Hollywood lighting companies, which seemed odd at first until it became clear that they all provide searchlights - and Searchlight, the anti-fascist magazine, is a bete noire of the BNP, because it is constantly exposing the dodgy pasts of BNP candidates. Still, there was one ad that might well have found its natural home. "Emigrating to Canada?" it asks. Doubtless, if the Green Arrow bloggers just can't take it any more, the internet firm offering a speedy passage west will be doing a roaring trade.
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