Far-right party the BNP could be handed £40,068 of taxpayers’ money to contest elections in Birmingham under controversial plans to be announced this week.
A report on funding is set to call for a cap on the money parties can receive from trade unions or businesses – with the cash replaced by a handout from taxpayers. The proposal, to be published by the Committee on Standards in Public Life, would mean parties got £3 for every vote they received.
Cash would be handed to parties to campaign in the next election, likely to be in 2015, based on the number of votes they received in 2010. It means the BNP would get £40,068 after gaining 13,356 votes in Birmingham last year, some of which could be spent on leaflets and other propaganda. Nationally, the BNP would get around £1.69 million, having gained 563,743 votes last time.
The party stood only in about half of the UK’s constituencies at the 2010 General Election and state funding could help them field candidates in every constituency across the country. It claims to be a party representing “indigenous British people”, meaning white people. In the 2010 election the BNP manifesto included a promise to introduce a system of “voluntary resettlement” in which “immigrants and their descendants are afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin”.
Liberal Democrats have been pushing for state funding of political parties, arguing that it would reduce the ability of big business and trade unions to influence Government policy by making donations. Around £100 million would be allocated to parties under the plans to be published each week, with the Tories and Labour Party gaining the most. But the proposals are set to be highly controversial.
Stourbridge MP Margot James (Con) said: “I’m absolutely opposed to any suggestion that funding for parties should be taken out of the public purse in the current economic climate.”
Birmingham Mail
November 22, 2011
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Birmingham organiser Paul-Hick tick-tockman could do with a decent haircut,some decent clobber and a makeover but griffins grubby hands will get the cash first.
I wouldn't worry about this one too much, most if not all of it will be immediately pounced by creditors.
Oh yeah. How just is that. Where the establishment's hatchet has not fallen is going into the war chest of the Nazis. Totally un-British and un-democratic, more like the sort of thing Mugabe does or even possibly was done by Gaddaffi or Saddam.
True about Paul Hickman and his family (all from the Allens Farm Estate here in Northfield) knmowing the old rotter as I do, if Les and Lynette Orton haven't got Griffin's shit on their noses and tongues before them!
In the 2010 election the BNP manifesto included a promise to introduce a system of “voluntary resettlement” in which “immigrants and their descendants are afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin”.
Thats being offered now under the coalition & was also offered by labour.
Thats the problem with democracy. You don't always get the outcome that you want. They'll piss it up the wall anyway, Gri££in & the other cunt getting into the Euro Parliament was hailed as a massive injection of funds that would enable the BNP to take the next step. Hasn't exactly gone that way, has it? :-)
DEAN OF BRADFORD CALLS FOR ATSMON'S INVITE TO BE WITHDRAWN
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/1490/dean-of-bradford-calls-for-atzmons-invite-to
BONNIE GREER REVISITS BNP QUESTION TIME IN NEW OPERA: -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15819529
RACIST ABUSE MADE LIFE HELL FOR EX-CARLISLE ACE WALLING: -
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/carlisle-united/latest/racist-abuse-made-life-hell-on-the-pitch-for-ex-carlisle-utd-ace-dean-walling-1.899421?referrerPath=home
VERY SAD STORY!!!
CA-CHING.
Nick Griffin mep.
It would only work if the funds were very strictly monitored to make sure they were spent on election material, and not used to pay off debts or enrich individuals.
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