This article was submitted by one of our readers, Jim Jay. We welcome any contributions from our supporters (as long as those contributions conform to the law and are in reasonably good taste). Please send your articles to us via email.Readers of this site will have noticed that The Daily Telegraph has provided Richard Barnbrook, the BNP's top man in London, his own blog in their My Telegraph section. That's ridiculous!
He's already taken the opportunity to blame immigrants for almost everything, call for the police to be able to do anything they like, regardless of democratic control and to send in the army to sort out crime in "ethnic" areas, which is an odd way of getting guns off the streets. If there are complaints? Well, "human rights lawyers can scream all they want." Presumably in a basement somewhere, whilst Brownshirts tear out their fingernails.
He really is a twerp.
But what do the Telegraph think they are doing giving oxygen to his bonkers ideas? How can they possibly justify this? Just because people have the right to free speech does not mean it is correct for the Telegraph to give this man a platform to denounce immigrants and plot some sort of coup. I'm sure even regular Telegraph readers, and I admit I'm not one, would be appalled.
Some of us are trying to put pressure on The Telegraph to reconsider. You can join that campaign by emailing your protest to telegraph@blj.co.uk, telegrapheditorial@telegraph.co.uk or the Letters page at dtletters@telegraph.co.uk joining the Facebook group and spreading the word about the Telegraph's irresponsible behaviour.
Jim Jay
19 comments:
First, welcome to Jim Jay, and second, well done to whoever it was who set up the Facebook page.
Another new writer? Blimey. Going well here guys!
Have tried the email address for telegraph but it is not being recognised.
tulip
Mm! More a question of the Torygraph reverting to type.
Old Sailor
How bloody stupid of the Telegraph. And I always thought it was a relatively intelligent newspaper.
Thanks dt
tulip "Have tried the email address for telegraph but it is not being recognised." It worked for me... perhaps the comma snuck in when you cut paste? Otherwise not sure what the problem would be.
aaa "I always thought it was a relatively intelligent newspaper" Well, respectable perhaps, which does make this a stupid decision - I suspect they think they're being "radical" by inviting Barnbrook to post.
The email address is correct but you could try these:
Editorial telegrapheditorial@telegraph.co.uk or the Letters page at dtletters@telegraph.co.uk
I say let Barnbrook have his blog. Every time he writes anything he shows himself up for the ignorant bigot he is.
The BNP claims it is not a racist party. Yet its most senior elected representative blogs on the Sidcup murder under the heading "Blame the Immigrants" followed by all the twaddle Jim Jay quoted.
By the way there's a follow-up to Barnbrook's posting. In it he claimed he had invited the young people from Sidcup to City Hall at 9.30 this morning, saying: "This knife crime has to be stopped. If I have to bring a 100 young people into Boris's office then that is what I will do."
Go to http://torytroll.blogspot.com/2008/05/richard-barnbrook-shunned-by-london.html to see how many turned up.
Welcome Jim Jay! We need more writers! ¡No Pasarán!
I think we need a boycott of the Telegraph until they remove his nasty little blog.
This needs to involve trade unionists who help to produce, distribute and sell it.
From the last post
"We cannot any longer just put our words on this blog and think we are doing our bit, yes he is an exploitative bastard, but we need and must come up with a way to stop this and now."
very well said tulip.
not only do you offer sound advice on choccy biscuits but you make a lot of sense.
Lets get creative here. I have a lot of fresh ideas and I gather a lot of others on here have aswell.
The BNP will not be defeated via a few blogs regardless how fantastic ( yes they really are)the blogs may be.
They may have hidden agendas, distorted views, secret maifesto's overt racism and violent leaders but do the voters know this? do the small number iof members know the truth?
I think all anarchistic-minded anti-racists ought to think seriously about digging deeper into Dicky Bumbrooks private life as there are plenty of skeletons in the closet. Also, a good heckling wouldn't go amiss. Take the fookin piss out of fascists and watch them revert to thuggish type.
Bumbrook might be a wimp, but if everybody goes around laughing in his face, particularly teenage girls goosetepping in-front of him, watch him lose his temper rather quickly, especially if he's had a lot to drink.
There's obviously legal restraints to physical action, but bearing in mind that organised racists and nazis get great pleasure from bullying non-white people, Muslims and immigrants, it would be great fun following Barnbrook and his steroidal heavies around the streets of london taking the piss, day after day.
There is, after all (thanks to the success of Spitting Image) no law against political satire, even in the case of white supremacist bisexual drunken Hitler-lovers masquerading as bona fide politicians.
If I owned a lookalike agency, I'd love to spend a little of the profits employing Dicky Bumbrook lookalikes, to follow him on all public engagements. It was done for Maggie Thatcher, so why not the drunken cowardly mouse of the BNP?
Better still, film the piss-taking and put it on You Tube.
This would be a proper art house film, not a fetish all-men arse-whipping orgy flick.
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Unions throw their weight behind anti-fascist march (Socialist Worker newspaper)
Firefighters in the FBU union are the latest group to get behind the national demonstration against the fascist British National Party (BNP) due to take place in London on Saturday 21 June.
An emergency resolution passed at the FBU’s annual conference in Southport, Merseyside, last week condemned the BNP as “a racist and fascist organisation [that] poses a direct threat to the interests of trade unionists and working class people”.
“It was an important debate to have at the union conference,” firefighter and delegate Yusuf Timms told Socialist Worker.
“It was good for the union to show its backing for anti-fascist campaigns and to reaffirm its policy against the BNP.
“The conference decision will also directly help us get as many people as possible to the demonstration.
“Our union pledged a donation of £5,000 to help organise the march, as well as promising to circulate anti-fascist material around fire stations.”
The FBU agreed to mobilise its members for the 21 June protest, which has been called by Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR), and bring the national banner to the demo.
The PCS civil service workers’ union also passed anti-fascist motions at its annual conference in Brighton last week.
It voted to continue its campaign to get BNP members kicked out of the civil service.
The debate saw union members praising the work of UAF and LMHR, which the PCS is affiliated to.
“Some 130,000 people voted for the BNP in the London elections,” said PCS deputy general secretary Hugh Lanning. “This shows the challenge that we face in our campaign.
“We need action such as the national parade and march against fascism in London on 21 June.
“The PCS should be a no go area for the BNP – and we give our commitment to smashing them.”
Other trade unions have also pledged their support for the demonstration, including Unite, UCU, NUT and NASUWT.
Meanwhile UAF activists across the country have been booking transport and mobilising for the 21 June protest.
These include coaches from areas such as Burnley, Leicester, Manchester, Liverpool, Hull, Rotherham, Sheffield, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Oxford and Swansea.
Many of the groups of local campaigners booking coaches and selling tickets have been buoyed up by the
100,000-strong LMHR carnival held in east London on the eve of the 1 May local elections.
“People from Burnley brought 70 people to the carnival, including around 50 young people,” said Donna Guthrie from UAF.
“Many of them attended an organising meeting in Burnley and are now coming to the national protest too.”
The recent elections saw the Nazi BNP making gains in many areas of the country – including grabbing a seat on the London assembly.
But the BNP’s thugs can be stopped in their tracks if the anti-fascist majority comes together to form a united mass movement against them.
The growing momentum for the 21 June demo – building on the success of the carnival last month – shows that the thirst for such a movement is felt far and wide across the country.
For more information go to » www.uaf.org.uk or » www.lovemusichateracism.com
Why not complain to Nick Griffin...
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I see this has been picked up by Latest http://www.the-latest.com/fascist-politician-blogging-for-british-national-newspaper and the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/28/thefarright.media
irishtony thank you for your kind words.....i havnt got the answers but there are enough friends on here that im convinced we can pull together.
One thing we do know Dicky is NOT writing that blog himself....in B & D we know he cannot use his computer, would not even know how to turn it on.......and the one and only time we received a communication from him by email it was so full of spelling mistakes and disjointed because of his drunkeness (dyslexia) that looking at the blog yesterday i am convinced that the Telegraph has allowed itself to be hijacked by the BNP press machine.
Now if the share holders of the Telegraph are happy now to be branded racist then they will have to bear the consequences....mind you they are still recovering from the Conrad Black business...do they really need to follow on with this.
And for a spokesman from the Telegraph to be quoted in the Guardian today saying they have received NO complaints i find unbelievable.
tulip
Boycott the Telegraph? Well, that'll save me zero pounds a year.
Formerly anonymous stormfront poster and frmer wolverhampton organiser (purged by griffin) is supporting bnp supporters on facebook. he didn;t exactly out himself as a former bnp member although he does have Chris Beverley and Jean Marie LePen in his friends' list.
Yes, I've been pre-emptively boycotting the Telegraph all my life - 37 years and still going strong!
Whilst the unions, boycotts etc are all worthy ideas I'd suggest the first port of call is the Telegraph itself.
They are responsible for the contewnt of their site and even have clauses about their bloggers not causing offence.
If you've not yet done so please do send them a message - particualrly pointing out things like Telegraph readers being unlikely to be impressed, the arguments he's been raising and how it undermines their attempts to be a serious paper with proper political comment.
You know, stuff that might persuade them - I doubt even the Telegraph is *full* of BNP sympathisers.
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