Sheffield BNP meeting tonight

Sheffield BNP will be holding a meeting tonight at
The Malthouse Public House
71 Monteney Crescent,
Sheffield,
South Yorkshire
S5 9DP

The BNP's National Organiser Adam Walker will be the main speaker.
Why not telephone the pub on 0114 246 7231 & politely lodge your complaint.
Alternatively you can email @ gemma5438@hotmail.com

Update :- the meeting was cancelled at about 4.30. Thanks to everyone who phoned or emailed.

Shock at BNP coin sticker

A Sheffield shopkeeper has called in the police after he was handed a coin covered with a BNP sticker.

Zahid Ahmed, aged 39, who runs DJ's News in Crookes, said he was shocked to receive the coin and believes it was deliberately given to him as a racist gesture by a supporter of the British National Party.

The married father-of-two, who is originally from Pakistan and has run his business since December, said he did not notice who gave him the coin but it was handed over last Sunday morning.

"When I spotted it I could not believe it - I was shocked and upset to think that somebody would come into my shop and give it to me," he said. "The BNP only accept white people, so this could be the party's way of spreading their message but Britain is a multi-cultural society. I have lived here since 1997 and have always worked – I have never claimed benefits in my life. I am contributing to society and do not expect to be treated like this - it is disappointing.

"The police say they have not had any other reports like this but if anybody out there has received a coin like this they need to come forward so that the police can get to the bottom of it. I see this as a form of racial abuse."

A South Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said the incident was being treated as a one-off. She said: "Officers have attended at the address of the complainant. After speaking to the shopkeeper, police do not believe the £1 coin with the BNP sticker covering the back of the coin, was directly targeted at the shopkeeper. Police currently believe this to be a one-off incident, as no other similar incidents have been reported."

To report a similar incident call police South Yorkshire Police on 0114 2202020.

The Star

Oh dear, it's that Lee Barnes again...

Poor old Lee Barnes. I'm actually starting to feel sorry for him. He clearly has a lot of problems, not the least of which are an unhealthy obsession with our Denise and a constant need to tell lies in a vain attempt to attack Lancaster Unity, which he obviously perceives as being quite a threat to him.

His latest fantasy comes under his not terribly good disguise of 'Walk towards the light' over at the Stormfront nazi forum, where he states that;

'The LU bragged on their state paid for blog, that they had forced the BNP to cancel a meeting in Sheffield. In fact the meeting went ahead...'

There are, in that single sentence, three deliberately misleading statements.

Lee Barnes runs his own blog - a mishmash of anti-semitism and general lunacy - in the same place as us; Google Blogspot. He must then be aware that blogspot blogs are free to set up and free to use, so how would the Lancaster Unity blog be 'state paid for'? Does that mean that Barnes' own blog is 'state paid for'?

We didn't brag about 'forcing the BNP to cancel a meeting', we simply posted a short report from the South Yorkshire Star that itself reported that, following a number of phone calls from members of the public unhappy that the club was allowing the BNP to use the venue. It also stated that;

'...following talks with police, licensing officials, MPs and city councillors, the club has agreed to cancel the event.'

Nobody forced the club to do anything at all, certainly not Lancaster Unity. It seems though that the management of the club were prepared to listen to those who find the BNP abhorrent and this, I suspect, is what really irritates the deeply troubled Barnes.

Barnes claims that 'the meeting went ahead', which is a lie designed to give the impression that the meeting went ahead at the same location in the same way as originally planned. This isn't true either. Simon Darby rants against 'Labour supporters [who] intimidated and blackmailed the owner of a large social club into backing out of hosting a BNP event last night'. He then goes on to moan about the meeting having to be held in another venue at short notice.

I was one of the people who rang up and I'm no Labour supporter. Nor did I intimidate or blackmail anyone in the course of the call and I find it hard to believe that anyone who opposed the BNP meeting would make such a call. On the other hand, I occasionally get calls from Barnes' and Darby's side threatening to burn down my house with me in it.

Barnes' increasingly strident and insane attacks on Lancaster Unity are a clear sign that we have him rattled. He's close enough to the leadership of the BNP to know that the party is well on its way to bankruptcy and that it has no cohesive force apart from its built-in racism to hold it together. Like everyone else in the BNP's leadership, he can see the collapse coming and his growing desperation to destroy the opposition is a pretty decent sign that he is powerless to stop it.

My advice to Lee Barnes? Give up the lies, Lee. You're no good at them and people are just laughing at you as you are patently losing your grip on reality. Oh, and get out of the BNP while there's still a party left to get out of. With the membership plummeting and the money fast drying up, it's on the slippery slope to nowhere.

BNP night is cancelled

The British National Party has had to cancel a meeting due to be held in Sheffield tonight.

The meeting was set to be at Southey Social Club but, following talks with police, licensing officials, MPs and city councillors, the club has agreed to cancel the event. The club steward was inundated with calls from members of the public unhappy the club
was allowing the BNP to use the venue.

Sheffield Unite Against Fascism was planning to hold a peaceful protest against the BNP before the meeting. Sheffield councillor Jackie Drayton, one of the protesters, said: 'The first battle over and we won – I'm sure there will be more.'

South Yorkshire Star

Sick yobs daub Nazi slogans on D Day veteran's house

War hero Arnold Holland was devastated after yobs daubed his home with swastikas and the words 'Nazi'.

Arnold, 85, a torpedo man with the Royal Navy throughout World War Two, survived but saw friends die as he protected vital convoys for the war effort. And yesterday he said : "I wonder now if it was all worth it. To have swastikas and 'Nazi' painted on my home is the final insult to someone who fought against Hitler and all he stood for. The ignorant idiots who did are even so ill-educated they don't even know which way the swastika emblem goes they painted it on the wrong way round." The graffiti is the latest attack on the home where Arnold lives with Annie, 84, his wife of 64 years who was born in the house in Normanton Springs, Sheffield.

And so far police have been unable to trace the vandals despite a series of incidents including: bitumen daubed on windows, breeze blocks hurled through windows, false adverts being placed saying the house is for sale.

But with angina, arthritis, only one lung and extremely severe digestion problems frail Arnold feels he can't bear to begin the latest clean-up operation.

He said: "We just don't know where to turn any more. We are in our eighties we shouldn't have to live like this, It's terrible and it's making us ill. I don't know why we are being picked on. We've lived here since we were married and until the last few years there was never any problem. But we can't put up with this all the time. We're really at the end of our tether. These people are just cowards who come in the night and do the damage. I don't know what they are trying to achieve."

Added Annie: "We rely on the law but it doesn't seem to get any better. We are just so fed up and now the swastikas are there for everybody to see."

Inspector Colin Mcfarlane of South Yorkshire Police said: "This is a serious matter and we are currently pursuing all possible lines of enquiry to identify the persons responsible. We are urging anyone who knows who is responsible to come forward."

Daily Mail