May 28, 2008

Mass lobby, June 10th, Amber Valley Council

Derbyshire and Notts anti-fascists accuse Amber Valley council officials of not listening

Today, anti-fascists activists have announced their intention to lobby en masse the meeting of Amber Valley Council that is to discuss the licensing of a BNP festival to be held in Codnor/Denby later in the year. At 7pm on Tuesday 10th June a panel of councillors will decide at Ripley Town Hall whether the BNP gets a drink and music license essential to the holding of the event. Anti-fascist campaigners will be protesting in the square outside the Town Hall from 6pm onwards that evening.

Dave Matthews of Nottinghamshire Stop the BNP campaign claimed that they expect a high turnout to lobby the meeting of Amber Valley councillors meeting. Similar claims have been made by Derby Unite against Fascism.

The lobby follows representations by campaigners and numerous trade unions throughout the region. Notts Stop the BNP claim that there is anger that representations made by themselves as well as by regional and local bodies of trade unions such as UNISON and UCU were ignored by the Council. Despite having had to name members in Amber Valley who have expressed their concern about the licensing of an event known to attract violent people, campaigners say that the Council has refused to listen to those objections.

‘It appears that the Council isn’t interested in the views of union members who are local residents’ claimed Dave Matthews, ‘despite the fact that this festival, especially if licensed with drink and music, will pose a threat to public order throughout the area.’

What has also angered the anti-fascist campaigners is the report that one of the councillors, Lewis Allesbrook, who is to sit on the panel deciding when the license for the event is granted, is one of the 2 recently-elected BNP councillors on Amber Valley Council. ‘The BNP having a final say on whether a license is to be granted, whilst local residents are shut out from registering complaints, makes the whole process a joke’, Dave Matthews added.

If the BNP’s festival goes ahead, plans are already afoot to organise a mass demonstration in the area. Already the campaign initiated by the Notts anti-BNP campaign along with Derby Unite against Fascism has been backed by many trade unions and trade union councils both in the East Midlands and from as far away as London. Organisers say that the counter-demonstration may well attract thousands of protesters. The likely required police operation would be likely to cost in the order of hundreds of thousands of pounds as well as seriously impacting on transport in the area.

Local anti-fascist campaigns and trade unions have demanded that all their objections should be passed onto the panel of Amber Valley councillors considering whether the event will go ahead. They say that Amber Valley council should listen to all the concerns of local residents and not just those filtered by the council’s principal solicitor.

Stop the BNP’s Red White and Blue Festival

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bumbrook will be hoping and praying that he can get pissed while singing German marching songs at the RW and B festival, the loser, lol

Anonymous said...

Rebsls such as Sady Graham, Colin Auty, and Sharon Ebanks, have for ages, believed that there were people in the establishment, "friendlies", who supported the ambitions of the One Eyed Monster to get into Europe, possibly knowing that filling the European parliament with fascists might possibly wreck the European union, even though such ambitions are undoubtedly pissing in the wind.

When the plan backfires, and lazy BNP european politicians sit on their arses, making racist remarks and little else, the One Eyed Idiot will sculk away to his MI5-sponsored retirement cottage in Croatia.

There are indeed "friendlies" out there, some of the same people who helped fund UKIP, and have now switched allegiance to the Welshpool Wanker now Nigel Farage's party have gone tits-up, for purely tax reasons, while getting blood on their hands just like the members of the Establishment who supported Lord Halifax.

The Halifax family should have been stripped of their establishment family title, but there is still a lord and lady Halifax, and you will find the descendants would-be Adolf Hitler's Prime Minister of Great Britain (Adolf's planned Vichy-style puppett) gracing Royal Ascot and York racecourse with the same royal prestige that should have been forfeited by the original Lord Halifax's traitorous actions, when Lord Haw Haw (not a real Lord, faced more summary justice).

Being a Nazi worshipper didn't and still doesn't remove you from the escalons of High Society. Indeed as Islamophobia roams free, and tax councerns rage for the ultra rich about offshore tax havens that cannot now be ignored by Mr Cameron, with a more democratic House of Lords and less ways for the "captains of industry" to weild their influence, the future doesn't look quite as rosy as it once did for the unelected figures of "The Establishment".

Staunch Thatcherite in stance, secretitive in outlook, and presumed to be members of several secret societies, tax avoidance and evasion is at the core of the Barclay Brothers' strong dislike for Europe, which is why they live like hermits in a castle in the Channel Islands.

The Barclay Brothers' cluthing of straws in a forlorn bid to derail Brussels, in pushing for Griffo and his drunken stooge Barnbrook to achieve establishment status, will undoubedtly give rise to much talk of conspiracy theories, across the whole political spectrum.

Anonymous said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barclay_brothers