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Bishop’s warning over threat of BNP

8:24am Tuesday 15th April 2008

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ONE of the Church of England's most senior clergymen last night issued a hard-hitting warning about the growing threat of far-right extremism resulting from voters "giving up hope" in mainstream politics.

In a rare move, the Bishop of Durham issued a rallying cry to North-East churches to join forces to thwart the British National Party (BNP) in the forthcoming local elections.

The Right Reverend Tom Wright, called for more to be done by political parties to stop the rise of the BNP.

In an open letter, the bishop said people could not afford to become complacent.

Last night, his warning was endorsed by all the major political parties.

But the bishop's comments were criticised by the BNP, which claimed it was only meeting the needs of ordinary people.

Dr Wright's warning came as the BNP prepared to field a record 30 candidates in the elections for a new County Durham authority.

In his letter, he writes: "The reason the BNP can even gain a foothold in people's affections is because many people in our region feel so disaffected after the last 30 years of national politics that they are in danger of giving up hope in our regular main parties."

Dr Wright has said the parties need to ask: "Why is there a vacuum there that the other parties aren't filling?

"What frustrations are there that the BNP are exploiting, and what are the wise ways of reacting to, or even meeting, those needs?"

He adds: "It is one thing to point out, as many have already done, the neo-Nazi tendencies of the BNP, and to warn with a shudder against our society even taking a small step in any such direction.

"It is another to say How can we drain the swamp so that this kind of ideology won't breed again?' "None of us can be complacent.

"Opposing the BNP isn't simply a matter of saying the status quo is working fine, so please reject these idiots'.

"It should be a matter of saying What does a healthy society look like and how can we make it clear to our whole population that we are working in the best ways towards that goal?"

Last night, Ken Booth, the North-East organiser for the BNP, said: "This is not his place at all. He should be trying to regain his flock.

"While the bishop's banging on about how evil the BNP is, he is going to find out one day that there will be more practising Muslims going to mosques than any practising churches in Britain."

Phil Wilson, the Labour MP for Sedgefield, County Durham, said: "The mainstream political parties do have a job to do to connect to the people we represent in a better way. We have a duty to get out there in our communities and talk to people and explain how we are working to address their concerns.

"It's incumbent on all of us - political parties, the churches and community groups - to maintain a united front against the extremists and to show their politics up for what it is - the politics of hate."

Michael Bates, vice-chairman of the Conservative Party in the North, said: "The bishop has raised an important issue, not just for our region, but for the country as a whole."

Tommy Taylor, the leader of the Lib Dems on Wear Valley District Council, said: "With the greatest respect to the Bishop of Durham, his job is to deal with religion, and politics should be left to politicians. It is very rare that the BNP get many votes, and in my opinion, they will never, ever be a major threat."


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Mark, Darlington says...
9:02am Tue 15 Apr 08

Church of England getting involved in politics again!. Sharia Law then the BNP, whilst they let Christmas go by without Christ being mentioned in case it offends others, do nothing when Easter holidays are changed.
I assume they are now a political organisation sympathetic to extreme left wing views. In a democracy people can schoose who they vote for, this is not Cuba!

joe, bish says...
9:29am Tue 15 Apr 08

I was a Labour voter but now they are a disgrace. I am glad I have the opportunity to vote BNP and no attempts to smear them will put me off.

Gary, Spennymoor says...
9:33am Tue 15 Apr 08

Another nauseating, sanctimonious sermon from a member of the insulated elite.
Immigration brings little economic benefit (as demonstrated by the recent House of Lords report) and rather than enriching society, it seems to cause fragmentation and isolated ghettos.
I once lived in Bradford, and it is a tinderbox - the three main parties have created that by espousing the virtues of multiculturalism and encouraging mass-immigration. Of course they support the Bishop's comments.
I just hope that I have a BNP candidate in my constituency, because otherwise I won´t bother voting.

Robert Furness, London says...
9:34am Tue 15 Apr 08

The Bishop has got it wrong. He should be more concerned about the threat of Islam.

Keith, says...
9:36am Tue 15 Apr 08

The blind leading the blind. Another brainwashed Christian religious leader failing to spot the real danger which is the growth of Islam in this country. Does the Christian church have any leaders with real backbone are or they all resemble jellyfish like Tom Wright?

Johnny Rumbelow, Spenymoor says...
9:43am Tue 15 Apr 08

I don't think the Bishop has been watching Dispatches on Channel 4 over the last couple of weeks. The 3 part series on the truth about immigration is clearly showing that Enoch Powell's predictions 40 years ago are being proved to be correct. The BNP are the only party who dare mention this as they are not Politically Correct. This is why they are enjoying such support.

Dan, gateshead says...
9:45am Tue 15 Apr 08

I agree with the comments above however, I dont believe that the BNP have any political ambitions other than genocide, and last time that happened Hitler and Saddam were involved. BNP have some of the right ideas but for the most part all they preach is violence and racism. Even the top brass of the party are criminals? surely the point of MP's is that they are above the usual depravity of society and they make unbiased decisions based on evidence supplied to them? Islam is a threat yes, but keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Immigration has got out of hand however, look at the emmigration by comparrison, so many Brits leave the country every year that in ten years of a slightly more open book policy to the EU weve only increased the population slightly over 2 million, and thats including the higher birthrate and increased average lifespan.

Mr M, North Tyneside says...
10:02am Tue 15 Apr 08

There is an argument that the Church should not get involved with politics and stick to religion. However should the church should be talking about right and wrong, and the BNP are wrong. Behind the suits are the racist nazi's. My grandfathers fought against all the things the BNP stand for. They would turn in their graves if they thought that there was a possibility of nazi's taking public office in this area. So don't be complacent, vote for anyone else but the BNP and keep them out of our town halls.

Mark Walker, Spennymoor says...
10:15am Tue 15 Apr 08

Here we go again, (lefty people who don't even get the Echo)- calling the BNP racists, evil, Nazis etc. etc. Give up! The people are waking up to this rubbish. I have met the two female candidates for the Spennymoor wards and they are not evil, they don't hate anyone in fact they are both very intellegent and gorgeous, so now what are you gonna call them? By the way, Hitler dreamt of a unified European superstate, the BNP are the ones who oppose it!

MR T., uk says...
10:18am Tue 15 Apr 08

maybe before mr.wright starts forcing his views on people he might like to speak to henry websters mother...oops sorry bishop youve never heard of henry though have you?
stick to preaching the bible mr wright , that way you can stay in your world of make believe and keep away from the issues affecting people in the real world.

mr.s.south, the north says...
10:23am Tue 15 Apr 08

Mr M, North,
are you sure our grandfathers fought in the same war? because im **** sure mine didnt die to watch the country be swamped by a sea of immigrants and political correctness decimating the country! thought i may see you in the next war,remember that country called yugoslavia? open your eyes,we are walking headlong into a civil war.

tom Roberts, Manchester says...
10:41am Tue 15 Apr 08

Due to the advent of the Internet I manage to read a lot of the Bishops type of statement(this includes you Dan and Mr North).
All it shows to me is that brainwashed idiots are not confined to any one part of the country ie they can be anywhere.
My dad fought in the 2nd War and his father in the Great War.
You are right about those old soldiers turning in their graves but it's more probably because the country that they fought for has now turned into a cess pit for the parasites and dregs of the World.
I advise everyone to vote for the B.N.P is a candidate is standing in your area.
Wake up Britain we are very close now to Armageddon.

Gary, Spennymoor says...
10:47am Tue 15 Apr 08

Mr M, I respect the fact that your grandfather fought in the Second World War. Mine did, too.
However my grandfather fought out of a sense of duty to the country and ultimately because the Nazis invaded Poland. Read Brooke´s The Soldier and it is quite clear why our forces fight to defend our country it is because they love it. If it is unrecocgnisable to them, surely that will have them spinning in their graves?
In addition Winston Churchill, nemesis of the Nazis once came up with the following anti-immigration slogan "keep England white". I dare say he´d be considered a Nazi too in today´s climate.
The fact is voters like me have been cowed by this type of slur for too long and the country is in a mess. In twenty years time it will be irreversible, however it finally looks as though people are waking up.
I´ll vote BNP as they are the only party willing to preserve our culture. What´s more if this situation continues unabated then it may well spark violence, perhaps even genocide!

Mr B Chapman, Newton Aycliffe says...
10:48am Tue 15 Apr 08

Living in the local area I have seen what the impact of Migrant workers have had on our community. Our local youth cannot obtain work or housing becouse this is being taken up by (dare i say the word in this PC environment) Foreigners and as long as we remain in the EU this influx will only get bigger. The BNP have a slogan that stands head and shoulders above what other parties are proclaming and that is "English Jobs for English workers" The Reverand should get his head out of his rear end and understand that the BNP are not about Racism but they are abour Nationalism and having pride in our Country and our heritage.
"Wake up England before its too late!!"

anon, tudhoe says...
10:53am Tue 15 Apr 08

@ Mark walker
Your very complimentary 2 the female candidates in spenny but remember your only married to one of them. lol.
They cant be that smart tho if they represent a party where one of the top london candidates had to be pulled out cos he said that it was alright to hit women and that rape was not "a serious crime". No woman in the country should be voting for BNP let alone standing for them.

But you and your sock puppets will come up with excuses for Nick erikson.

Mark Walker, Spennymoor says...
11:01am Tue 15 Apr 08

Oh brave anon! Did you know that Nick Erikson was a member of the Conservative Party when he wrote those comments back in 2005? I guess not but my wife does! Not excuses, FACTS!

kenneth stubbs, newton aycliffe says...
11:03am Tue 15 Apr 08

I note all the comments regarding the Archbishop of Durham but was intrigued to note that it appeared that unhappiness with the main political parties means it is now easy to turn to the BNP (another political party.

I will suggetst that for many there is another growing alternative.

Vote Independent!

Where I live in Newton Aycliffe 10 (20%) of Borough councillors elected last year were Independents committed to representing and improving things for the people they represent.

I myself am now standing in the area where I live because I have the ability and skills to help me to deliver what I say I can. How often do political parties deliver what they say they will?

What concerns me and should concern yourselves is that because of mistrust of politicians etc that apathy can be fatal in shaping the new Unitary Authority in Durham to give the you the people a voice on that authority. Rather than a party doormat as party interests come first to benefiting the the interests of the people, yourselves.

I have been representing people and succesfully resolving their problems be they small or complex since 1993 and not once did I need a Party policy document to tell me the right thing to do.

So yes, I do not want to vote for a political party with its own agenda and there will be many feel the same way.

What I am saying is that there are still highly capable people who do not want to follow hidden agendas which results in them having to spin their way through years of manipulating people.

Bear in mind it took 100 years to get women the vote and the Labour party was formed 100 years ago, so whilst I realise it will be an uphill struggle, there is indeed another way.

Former MP Tony Benn once famously declared that Governments do not willingly change things for the better -People do!

Use your vote wisely


Paul, Lancashire says...
11:07am Tue 15 Apr 08

Dan wrote:
I agree with the comments above however, I dont believe that the BNP have any political ambitions other than genocide, and last time that happened Hitler and Saddam were involved. BNP have some of the right ideas but for the most part all they preach is violence and racism. Even the top brass of the party are criminals? surely the point of MP\'s is that they are above the usual depravity of society and they make unbiased decisions based on evidence supplied to them? Islam is a threat yes, but keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Immigration has got out of hand however, look at the emmigration by comparrison, so many Brits leave the country every year that in ten years of a slightly more open book policy to the EU weve only increased the population slightly over 2 million, and thats including the higher birthrate and increased average lifespan.
"The BNP dont have any ambitions other than genocide"?.....

Im not being funny, but you simply dont have a clue what you're talking about.

You seem to have read the scare stories, insinuations against the party, and dont understand complex issues such as British Nationalism.

Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussien? Come on, give me a break!.

"All they preach is hate and violence"? What utter poppycock!.
What they have preached for decades is the TRUTH which no liberalist liked to hear.
Rises in AIDS, TB and Hepititus from non EU immigrants flooding into the country, proven to be correct under the guise of how we should "help" those people...but when the BNP said it decades before they were shouted down as 'racists'. Pridictions many years in advance that there would be suicide bombers from areas in the North were proven to be correct - again, at the time it was laughed at by liberal fools who were saying "oh, that wont happen in Britain, we have tolerance and diversity" etc.
Asian Muslim grooming in Keighley, Yorkshire, Lancashire (Burnley, Nelson, Blackburn, Blackpool, Oldham) again proven to be right (as shown eventually 10 years later on the BBC just recently) after being hounded as "racist lies".
Even the National Front - who arent the BNP - were predicting in the 1970's that London would one day be upto 40% non indigenous within our lifetimes, and we would be minorities in every city in England - again, proven to be right by many newspaper columns - Liecester and Birmingham first to "go", Slough, parts of Yorkshire, Blackburn, Oldham, well within 15 years time.
Houses being given priority to 'needy' immigrants with many children - slammed at the time as BNP lies - but shown to have been liberal government policy for decades.
That immigration is not only transforming our country, but that multiculturalism always fails and is of no economical benefit to the host population....more of the BNP's "racist lies" that have been RIGHT all along.
The list goes on, and on and on.
Plus, dont talk to me about their councillors being criminals - the BNP are remarkably clean compared to the other parties, such as the lib dems, having wife beaters, drug abusers, fraudsters, electoral fraudsters, users of rent boys etc amongst their ranks, and Labour ministers giving our sovreignty away without even asking our permission, going to illegal wars without our say so, and ID cards, Entry of Turkey to the EU all being ushered in on our behalf without a whiff of our being able to do anything to stop them. Labour are proving to be the most fascist government this country has ever had - and they so it to keep a lid on the fragmenting society leftwingers have created over the many decades.
The BNP is in my eyes "above the depravity" of other MP's and has based its views on TRUTH and evidence which nobody else wanted to admit existed.
The difference with the BNP is that it works on right and wrong, not what "feels" right and wrong. It doesnt shy away from politics which makes people "feel bad", and doesnt shy away from pointing the finger where its due.

This country is going down the pan - fast - and it needs a real sharp shock if its ever to survive future trends of growth populations and cultures.
Recent court cases which let wanted terrorists and criminals stay here on "human rights", Terrorism laws being used to 'snoop' on parents who put their child into a good school catchment area are more examples of the lunacy to expect from more Labour, Liberal Democrat and NuConservative ideology.
To anyone who believes its "hatred", or "ignorance" of the "looks" of people that drives the BNP and think the BNP are goosestepping Nazi's seeking to take over Europe with a "master race" and tanks need to wake up, stop believing the fairy tales, and start learning what the difference is between British Nationalism and 'race hatred' of genuine neanderthal baffoons.
Im voting BNP this year, because I love my own people, and love whats behind my nations peoples story, not because I "hate" other races or cultures.
I seek to preserve my own race and culture for future generations to enjoy, thats being wrecked by decades of liberal social meddling in every sphere of life, and I will not appologise for that.
I dont 'hate' anybody, any 'race' or any 'culture' - but what I DO hate is the situation being brought about to this country and the politicians who have brought it on and continue to bring it on.
Thats why I'm voting for the BNP. Its beyond Enough already, something needs to be done, it isnt going to go away or get any better in the future.

Frank McGill, Oxford says...
11:28am Tue 15 Apr 08

The Church Of England has been heavily infiltrated by Marxists and other forms of rot for many years. The Bishop Of Durham's comments display how entrenched they are. Oblivious to the failings and miseries their theories and predilections have heaped upon a once great society. The BNP are not the problem Bishop, YOU ARE!

bonnylad, northeast says...
11:35am Tue 15 Apr 08

Is it just me imagining thing or was it the party leader of the BNP filmed on camera being racist by the BBC?
Not racist my foot.

A Woods, South Tyneside says...
12:00pm Tue 15 Apr 08

I am a candidate for the BNP in South Tyneside and I find the Mr Wright's comments to be lacking proper information. The BNP members I am aquainted with are law abiding decent folk who are standing up for the traditions of this country. Mr Wright should concentrate on his own business of spiritual guidence and leave politics to the voters. As far as racist comments go an elected Labour Cllr was arrested in South Tyneside last week for alleged racial disorder, he has been bailed by police and distanced and suspended by his party see this link to see the story. http://www.shieldsga
zette.com/news/Counc
illor-arrested-in-39
racial39-parking.393
3902.jp

BNP Convert, says...
12:18pm Tue 15 Apr 08

I used to think like you Bishop Wrong, but then I saw what multiculturalism is doing to our once great country, the only people with the backbone necessary to actually fight against this tide of filth swamping us is the BNP, so when you say it's giving up I disagree most strongly, anyone who DOESN'T vote BNP is giving up.

Mel, Darlington says...
12:37pm Tue 15 Apr 08

And I wonder how many of this lot on here are dirty, racist, fascist scumbag BNP supporters?? The BNP are filthy pigs who don't deserve to breathe the same air as the rest of us civilised citizens. How dare you go on about "immigrants" and all your **** patriotism, St George was Turkish and the Royal family are half Greek! Unbelievable clap trap you people talk

martin, darlington says...
12:45pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Why is it racist to want to preserve my english way of life.Not everyone wants to live in a multicultural society,apart from left wing,liberal muppets.Time to stand up for ourselves,our way of life,our country.Vote B.N.P

mr.smith, uk says...
12:50pm Tue 15 Apr 08

yes mel i must be a dirty racist?
im voting BNP.
no doubt you support this (how much of it is going on in our muslim communities)
http://isupportthere
sistance.blogspot.co
m/2008/04/8-year-old
-girl-asks-for-divor
ce-in.html

Mark Walker, Spennymoor says...
12:51pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Because in today's current climate it's racist to say ba- ba blacksheep!
Thanks Labour.

g shaw, chilton says...
1:17pm Tue 15 Apr 08

until a party comes along with the backbone to stand up for the british people of this country regardless of their religion or colour of their skin then i will be voting b.n.p. After attending one of their meetings in Spennymoor there was no mention of racism everything was about us being proud to be british once again and putting british people first and rid our streets of all the sexual predators that are protected by our country.I have worked over the last couple of years with people of many races in different jobs and i also go to watch sunderland football club and show my joy whoever scores be it jamaican kenwyne jones or any other player in the team and find it offensive when the media call me a racist because i am going to vote b.n.p. I have a poster in my window telling everyone who passes who i am going to vote for and let everyone know i am proud to be british so instead of slagging the b.n.p down lets get behind them and bring our once proud country that people have died for in many wars back to the british people vote B.N.P

C R H, Byers Green says...
2:18pm Tue 15 Apr 08

I would think alot more of the Bishop if he looked to his own organisation the C of E well infiltrated by the "Purple Mafia". I do not think he should be exhorting the people to ignore the BNP nor do I think the Northern Echo should, it is their job to give the facts and we the people will make up our own minds. Having spoken to some BNP members they seem to be well informed, sane and as far as I was able to see not corrupt (unlike most MP's with their Expenses Scams etc. etc.)who claim they are not.
If the BNP is so very bad Northern Echo why have you not reported these things instead of alluding to them as right wing facists where are your facts!

mr.irony, enriched uk. says...
2:36pm Tue 15 Apr 08

the irony goes right over the bishops head (sic) i see.
does he not realise that when islam takes over britain (look at your empty pughs mr wright). that he will be one of the first to lose his head? heres an enriching story mr wright (although to those in the church it might not be so shocking?).
taken from an 8 year old girl living under sharia law-
“He used to do bad things to me, and I had no idea as to what a marriage is. I would run from one room to another in order to escape, but in the end he would catch me and beat me and then continued to do what he wanted. I cried so much but no one listened to me. One day I ran away from him and came to the court and talked to them.”

“Whenever I wanted to play in the yard he beat me and asked me to go to the bedroom with him. This lasted for two months," added Nojoud. "He was too tough with me, and whenever I asked him for mercy, he beat me and slapped me and then used me"

However, Nojoud cannot prosecute because she is under-age but court judge Muhammed Al-Qathi(and in all fairness an obviously decent man) heard her complaint and ordered the arrests of her father and husband. The father was later released and will face no charges but the little girls husband is in jail whilst the case is being investigated. However he said from his cell:

“Yes I was intimate with her, but I have done nothing wrong, as she is my wife and I have the right and no one can stop me,"

how enriching this culture is mr wright ,how enriching.

Kathleen Boden, Darlington says...
2:43pm Tue 15 Apr 08

I don't care who you vote for or why,everyone has a view. Just get out and vote. Your new neighbors the immigrants will do it and you'll find yourself living in a Britain with no resemblance to fairness and human dignity. Take a look where these people came from and the regimes that govern there. Pretty soon they will outnumber you at the polls. Wake up and vote ,get involved.

Mikey, Chelsea, London. says...
2:50pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Firstly the BNP are nothing more than a bunch of thugs masquerading under a political banner, preying on the disenchanted. They thrive on 'hatred'; all you have to do is look at these comments above - blaming the structural economic problems of the north east on immigrants. This, simply put, is scapegoating.

With reference to youngsters who cannot get jobs because of immigrants. Immigration can only be a good thing for British youngsters. This is competition. Often Polish and other Eastern European nationals have superior skills (e.g. they often speak two languages) as compared to their English counterparts. It is obvious why employers would rather employ these people than the cider swilling Vicky Pollards of Spennymoor.

jibber, durham says...
3:09pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Yes Mikey I agree, if we sent johnny foreigner back home who would do all the work which the englishman wouldnt touch. With this countries high levels of disability its lucky weve got em over here.

John Gregg, Leicestershire, East Midlands says...
3:13pm Tue 15 Apr 08

I have been reading with interest the comments posted here. If there is a major issue about the way the policies of the three main parties have left people so disillusioned, how are this bunch of losers ever going to come up with a solution to what they have caused? No politician I have ever come across will ever admit to being wrong. I must comment on the clap trap about the BNP wanting a genocide. Get real, pal. You must know what Islam has got planned for western civilisation. Don't think that appologists or sympathisers for that militant and aggressive religion will be spared either. Finally - Barmy Bishops need to stick to nuturing peoples' spiritual needs. Spouting their current philosophies, which seem to be a strange mixture of liberalism,marxism and social worker "speak",isn't exactly filling their churches with enthusiastic worshippers.

Dylan, Darlo says...
3:16pm Tue 15 Apr 08

There is nothing racist whatsoever about wanting to preserve an English way of life unless of course as a nation we are inherently racist. But lets not kid ourselves that there is such thing as indigenous English. I am an Englishman (mainly proud of it, I fly the flag on special occassions) but like every other English man or woman that walks this earth, I am not a pure bred. Purity of race does not exist here, we are a race of mongrels - deal with it!!! But what common denominator do many of us have? Oh yes - skin colour. Funny that. While I can be convinced that there are many decent, good, many well meaning, even intelligent voters out there who are sadly sucked in by the BNP spin machine, I will not be. I lived near Welling around the time of the Stephen Lawrence murder, I visited the BNP bookshop, I observed and opinions on this bunch of losers have been well honed. Oh if you wish to vote BNP, fine but if any of you thought the Tories and New Labour have sold the NHS down the river over the past few decades, it will die on it's knees within a year if the BNP ever got to power make no mistake.

Dale, Chester says...
3:21pm Tue 15 Apr 08

I used to be a big labour supporter for thirty years, coming originaly from the left wing south wales valleys, now I see people turning to the british national party in the thousands and i will myself be joining them, the liblabcon have destroyed this once fantastic country mainly because of their own greed and their anti british anti white agenda.

when I was a labour man I detested the communists but now it seems that the communists under the guise of common purpose have infiltrated all walks of society including the church of england, heres a tip firstly vote BNP and go on youtube and search for common purpose and you will see why I will be voting british national party this election
.

Alan, Nottingham says...
3:34pm Tue 15 Apr 08

It is true that the British National Party are no longer the purely racist party that they used to be, the media merely continues to portray them as such. Anyone who doesn't belive this, see what they are saying on their website (www.bnp.org.uk/) and you will see that they only speak common sense!

Barry, says...
3:34pm Tue 15 Apr 08

The bnp are normal middle of the road working people who care about their Country, they are not racists, or some of the names they are being called. The Country has degenerated to a point where the only opinion you are allowed to have is the promotion of Marxism,and Euro Communism. In spite of the organised negative media conspiracy against them, the BNP are forging ahead in leaps and bounds. I do not yet know if a British National Party candidate is fielded in our local elections, if there is not one, I will not be voting for any of these other sell out Traitors.

Paul, Islington, London says...
3:41pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Another barmy, out of touch Bishop! I've spent my life taken in by clap trap like this and regretfully have always voted Labour as I felt it the right thing to do at the time-but no longer.I can not wait for the day when our government is run by the BNP and hope the traitors who are doing everything in their power to ruin this country are put on trial.Ignore the usual lies and nazi nonsense spewed out by these Bishops and other lefties-open your eyes and vote BNP.

bertie bert, somerset says...
3:44pm Tue 15 Apr 08

I am A BNP member and I resent the acusations of being a thug ,nazi and all that drivel, exactly where are you getting all this spitefulness from?
Why arn't you so vocal and outspoken against suicide bombers and terror plots that are taking place in britain?
It aims to: Get us out of the EU , Restore Law & order on our streets; Restore our industries, farming & fishing; Halt the ruination of our countryside; Support our troops & bring them home to defend OUR country etc etc etc etc
I will be along with many friends be supporting the BNP.
I have still got my vote and my own opinions. I have ears and eyes and
for anyone to say this Country is not letting in too many is insane !
Open your eyes and look around it is obvious surely, I suggest a visit to the BNP website for all who are wary, the BNP is not just about immegration, its Housing, Law and Order, NHS, Education, Employment

Arthur, Durham says...
3:46pm Tue 15 Apr 08

If people want to know the truth -
www.bnp.org.uk
Its all there.
Forget the claptrap from those whose necks will be first to feel the blades of their "friends" in the religion of peace and lurve.
As for the so-called "antifascists" - we indigenous Britons who know the truth will never forget, neither will we forgive!

who cares?, england says...
3:50pm Tue 15 Apr 08

lets laugh at the bishop and the marxist left calling us 'racists'.a few years ago people were terrified of the label.now its water off a ducks back.
call me a racist! so what,as they say sticks and stones. im voting bnp because i got a leaflet off the gmb through my door (paid for by whom???) TELLING me not to vote bnp.
who do they think they are? normally i wouldnt have bothered voting but now im making **** sure myself and all my family are voting bnp.thank you gmb and the bishop for motivating us to do something.

tom Roberts, says...
3:57pm Tue 15 Apr 08

In answer to 'Bonny lad' at 11.35. He is correct in that Nick Griffin was filmed by the B.B.C (secret camera) talking about the grooming of white girls by 'Muslims' He also called Islam a wicked religion.
Well the B.B.C have just done a programme on the 'grooming' and have now admitted that he was right. As for the comments about Islam being a wicked religion I suggest that he picks up the morning paper and reads the story of the 'airline bomb' trial that is going on at the moment. If that is not evil and wicked then I don't know what is.
Wake up and open your eyes the evil is all around and it is not the B.N.P.

razor, peterborough says...
4:02pm Tue 15 Apr 08

wish peterborough had bnp candidate

Mr Dudley, spennymoor says...
4:04pm Tue 15 Apr 08

As stated earlier politics and religion should not be mixed,this chap was actually put up to this by our very own mr wilson MP and ms goodman MP.they are hell bent on stopping the rise of the bnp in the durham area that they cannot sort out their own constituancies as promised in their election material.my 2 year old tripped on uneven flag stones in aycliffe town centre last week and smashed his head off a curb stone,luckily he is ok but it could have been much worse,a family friend has had long term damage to his shoulder because of a fall in middlestonemoor because of badly kept footpaths.this is only the tip of the iceberg,now lowest of low they are involving people of the cloth to do their dirty work(H.Goodman held a meeting at st pauls church in spennymoor against the bnp)The church should be concentrating on getting young people on seats and teaching them the true christian values of this land before all the churches have disappeared,in leicester the past 5 years have seen 6 churches sold off and are now mosques,if that doesnt tell you which is the stronger faith and has the biggest congregations i dont know what will.
not that it will really matter because the way this country is heading under this labour goverment we will all be praying to allah in the next generation or so.

Lickyalips, Londonistan says...
4:13pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Democracy is not subject to anyone's approval and on their terms only - we either have it or we don't.
The BNP should be given a level playing field on which to pitch their case. If they are elected on their manifesto and campaign, then that is democracy in action - if they are not elected then that, too, is democracy in action.
The bishop needs to put his own organisation's house in order instead of trying to interfere with the democratic process.

Elaine G. - BNP Member, Ipswich says...
4:15pm Tue 15 Apr 08

So the Bishop approves of the horrors inflicted on native Christian Britons by the liblabcontrick does he?
Some Christian eh!

As for those calling the BNP silly names - please keep it up. Support for the party goes up every time you open your pathetic, hysterical, lying, spittle-flecked mouths!

the eyeballs in the sky, Manchester. says...
4:27pm Tue 15 Apr 08

What are they so scared of that now the church is getting roped into their anti-B.N.P campaign.
Last month we had the govenor of a London prison telling his prisoners (mostly foreign who should not even be allowed to vote) to vote for anyone but the B.N.P.
Why are they so worried? Because now they have been found out by the ordinary man.
The pigs have had their snouts in the trough for too long now and they are just getting rumbled.
That level playing field that we all want is still quite a way away but keep plugging lads it's coming and that is why they are getting very worried.

John Gregg, East Midlands says...
4:36pm Tue 15 Apr 08

I think that Likyalips has put the case for democracy very eloquently but succinctly. Unfortunately I doubt that real democracy exists or has ever existed in this country. A closet marxism runs through all the main parties. As Lenin said, "It is true liberty is precious, so precious it must be rationed". In our not very democratic "democracy", a growing and important voice for the disenchanted and disappointed of this land is denied a forum while "establishment priests" speak out against the BNP. It must be that the party has a message that is hitting the right note. Pity these Bishops are not able to find a message that also has universal appeal. OH! but they did have one once, it was called Christianity.

Robert, Northants says...
4:47pm Tue 15 Apr 08

I really think the Bishop needs to keep out of politics and concentrate on trying to bring the message of the Gospel back to this once Christian country of ours.

He currently speaks for a tiny minority these days and frankly his bigotted views about a perfectly legal political party - the BNP - are about 35 years out of date!

We have far more to fear now from the multiculteralists in the LibLabCon parties who have handed over this country to the huge numbers of new arrivals who now want to dictate their religions and culture on the rest of us.

Times are a' changing Bishop and it's time you realised it!

Real Christian and BNP Supporter, Scarborough says...
5:08pm Tue 15 Apr 08

By aligning himself with marxist/islamist filth, this so-called 'Christian' Bishop spews out the poison of atheists from the pulpit and has defecated on the cross!
He will surely burn in hell!

mr.funny, shanty town nr peterbrough says...
5:09pm Tue 15 Apr 08

doesnt anyone else think its got to be worth getting up to vote bnp on may1st just to annoy people like this bishop,and also all the local do-gooders,unions and any other self-righteous idiots who like telling people what to think.

the eyeballs in the sky, Manchester. says...
5:11pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Bob Dylan also said 'You don't have to be a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows'
Slowly but surely that wind is changing.

Claire, Durham says...
5:11pm Tue 15 Apr 08

This Bishop is no Christian!

“I know the blasphemy of those that call themselves Judahites and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan”.
- Revelation 2:9

Terry B.Hopper, North East says...
5:35pm Tue 15 Apr 08

It is with little wonder that the churchs congragation dwindels with such statements as this by the Bishop
The church condemmend the striking miners and Labour party in the early 1900s. Now that Labour has been taken over by the money grabbers It is time to turn over their money tables by voting for the British National party Giving the workers a voice again

Amos, Co. Durham says...
5:40pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Just the kind of hysteria & lack of compassion you would expect from a bunch of fascists. There are problems yes but the BNP certainly don't have the answers...

Andy Leigh, Tudhoe says...
5:41pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Out of touch God-botherer.
This country is going to hell in a hand-cart, and only the BNP are standing up for Britain and it's people.

tom roberts, Manchester. says...
5:47pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Well come on then Amos smart**** we don't have to give you creeps any answers as you know what we think already.
I would rather hear your solutions to the nightmare.

Bob, North Tyneside says...
5:49pm Tue 15 Apr 08

What a disgrace when we need help from the church what do us english get - another marxist kick in the teeth - Hang your head in shame you you are a disgrace to true brits and the church.I do not want to live next door to forigners where their way of life is so completely differnt from my life, and peaceful values, i want my naighbours to speak the same language as me and share the same good honest hard working family values we have, after all this is supposed to be ENGLAND, I now have to worry constantly where my kids are playing due to crime/abuse, racist attacks to whites or non driving licence uninsured immigrants etc etc this place is a warzone, the trust in this country has now gone (thanks labour just why we voted you in), due to all this enrichment!!. If a foreiner moved next door i'd be off or they would im not having my kids put in danger of being sold/asaulted or abused by these fanatic thugs - muslims marry kids at 9yrs old this is peodophillia in britain its sick! muslims could marry up to four kids - ask yourself is this the sort of behaviour that you and the church thinks is ok and you would like to see this in your next garden or hear the kids sorry i mean wifes, cause i cant hear the church complaining over this, im sure the church would have plenty to say if it was white brits with kids.The govenment has made britain unsafe and crime ridden. I am not a racist im a realist - wake up soon britain or the next time you look out your window your wife or kid could be getting smacked around by a stick or stoned in the street by islam fanatics for showing a bit of ankle. Isnt enriching Brilliant! vote lib/lab/con for more!

Barry, Bradford says...
6:28pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Durham - nice cathedral, shame about the tenant!

craig pond, England says...
6:34pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Here we have a CofE bishop claiming that the BNP are the devil incarnate, and last week, we had Alison Ruoff of the CofE synod saying that the islamification of Britain must stop.
It's hardly surprising that the churches are emptying at such a rate, when the 'God squad' can't even agree on where they stand, so perhaps they should get their own house in order before they start telling others what to do!

Anon, Spennymoor says...
6:57pm Tue 15 Apr 08

I don't think the church should comment on politics but it will be a travesty if the BNP were elected in Spennymoor. I don't see how violence in the country would be curbed by electing a party based on violence and corruption. I am sick of reading BNP flyers with pie in the sky ideas. How come they don't mention all of these white, British people that are unemployed because they would rather claim benefits than work?

Arthur, says...
7:10pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Quote:
"How come they don't mention all of these white, British people that are unemployed because they would rather claim benefits than work?"
- "Anon"

Because its just nasty anti-white filth put out by self-hating, dole-scrounging creeps like you!

The truth is that native Britons have been thrown on the dole, denied housing, denied jobs in favour of "enrichers" and plied with drink, drugs, gambling and debt, while at the same time attacked, stabbed, mugged and raped on their own streets by "enrichers".

That's why, ..... arsehole!

Go and kneel with the Dhimmi Bishop!

Mrs H, Spennymoor says...
7:23pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Do we want to continue living in a dictationship world - without a massive shift in Policitical direction we will soon be programmed as robots and not be allowed to make adult decisions for ourselves or our families. I am not a political animal, I have no allegiance to any political party as such. But I want choice, to be allowed to vote for who I want, live life as I choose, within the boundaries of the law abiding citizen. I have worked everyday of my life, even though I am a single parent and with a disability, and in receipt of no benefits. Everyday of our lives, we live with the decisions we make, good and bad and mistakes are made. Most of us learn from these mistakes and shape our lives to warrant our right to live in a democracy world. I support equality and diversity for all, but very often feel that it is only too often applied to 'Ethinic Minority or disadvantaged Groups'. However, in the not too distant future, British people will be that group. I am not prejudice and I am not racist. However, I am concerned that migrants are taking jobs away from British Nationals, my concerns are only exacerbated by the very fact most of the earnings are not being ploughed in to our local or even the this Country's economy, but sent over to the very places the migrants have come from.
How much longer can our economy sustain the massive job losses being felt - Spennymoor is a little town, but is suffering significantly with so many factory closures of late. How many of our jobs are being taken abroad because we cannot be value for money in an every increasing, competitive world. How many of our jobs are provided through Agency recruitment organisations, with no security. Are we to blame for wanting to sustain a reasonable standard of living? Realistically, how many of us live in luxury in this Country - few I would suggest and those that do are generally the FATCAT bosses and government hiaracy that restrict our wages and cannot control cost of living expenses and force credit crunch crisis that beggars believe. I suggest that there are far greater powers to blame for this Countries demise in not being able to deliver value for money to keep our jobs.
I support housing asylum seekers who flee their countries out of real fear for their lives, I think we all have a responsibility to do so, and I hope we still live in a compassionate society that will show some understanding. However, I also support that these individuals should sign up to British Citizenship and the laws of our land.
I have read much about BNP and can even understand that the earlier policitical days of this party have contributed to the current assasination they face - but as I said, in life we all make mistakes, some of us learn from them. I live near a BNP Candidate, his not whiter than white, he has made mistakes in live, but he has also learned from them. He is a thoroughly decent guy who wants to do right by the local people he represents. He shows no prejudice, he is not racist and I know I could knock on his door and he would give me any help he could day or night if I needed it. Its time to stops judging books by their covers, but seeking informed unbiased choices available and having the conviction to make decisions of your choice.

oliver cromwell, the north east says...
7:25pm Tue 15 Apr 08

thanks for the warning bishop wright.
i couldnt have made up my mind without your help,
now im definately voting BNP.thanks again.

Alan Wake, A corner of England says...
7:30pm Tue 15 Apr 08

The smears and lies about the BNP aren't working any more, because people know they're not true. The tide is turning. We've reached a point now where the people have had enough of our lying, condescending, traitorous politicians who've done so much to ruin our country.

Well, the time has come to win our country back. The only party which can do that is the BNP. That is why my family, my friends and I will vote BNP at every opportunity we get.

http://britainfirst.
blogspot.com/

Mrs Smith, Durham says...
7:37pm Tue 15 Apr 08

The BNP preys on people who are easily mis-lead.

If you are not happy with main-stream politicians, then spoil your vote, don't waste it on voting for thugs.

It is very easy to scape-goat immigrants, but there are far too many indigious Brits who prefer to sit at home and not work.

Diversity is beautiful and should be celebrated

Steve Day, Co Durham says...
7:46pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Its not the BNP that lied to Parliament, started illegal and immoral wars in Iraq, its not the BNP who though open borders allowed 2 million migrants to pour in unchecked, and its not the BNP who have so badly betrasyed the working class with huge tax increases, while letting our traditional jobs be exported to eastern europe. Its not the BNP who have sat back and lets muslim fundamentalists by the boat load putthe people of the UK under direct threat from Islamic terrorism. Ref the local MP, this is the guy who expressedsupport to local people who fought to keep their post offices open, while he voted to close them in the vote. The public are neither gullable nor stupid and they now realise the main three parties have completely failed working class and middle class Briton.

John Greggj, says...
7:52pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Mrs H, Spennymoor. 7.23pm.

Well stated and well done. Yours is the real voice of forgotten Britain that Barmy Bishops and corrupt MPs neither represent or care about. They would rather support and feel righteous about recent Somali or Ethiopian immigrants than you. Spread the word, their time is coming to an end while there are good folk like you out there. By the way, how does it feel to be sympathetic to a group of nazis, racists, neanderthals, losers, etc? Not as bad as THEY make out is it? By the way I have had a professional career and do not fit the often trumpeted slur that BNP members are thugs, criminals and thick. Bless you Mrs H. and all the good folk of our land who can see through the brainless insults. We WILL together defeat these forces of evil that would destroy us.

Steve Day, Co Durham says...
7:58pm Tue 15 Apr 08

It amuses me to read the silly comments from rather blinkered people that the BNP are just a party of criminals and thugs. There is a list available on most UK politics news groups such as UK.politics.misc, and alt.politics.british that list ( and its a very long list) of offences commited by members of the main three parties, Rape, drug taking, fraud, paedaphilia, ballot rigging, assults, you name it and its been done in copious amounts by members of the three big parties. You can probably google it by searching for Lib, Lab, Con, Convictions.The BNP in comparison and absolute angels. The BNP must be given the same open, fair and democtratic opportunities the other parties get, or is democracy only for liberal left wingers?

Tina Berwick, Whitby says...
8:06pm Tue 15 Apr 08

"Diversity is beautiful and should be celebrated"
- "Mrs Smith" (yeah, right)

Tell that to all the native Britons who have been "enriched" by "diversity".
You spouters of marxist tripe are wasting your breath. It's all over. Finished.
The BNP have consistently told the truth and have been vindicated.
No one believes the liblabcontrick anymore.
We can all see through their lies and deceits.

"Diversity is beautiful and should be celebrated"
It is and it was until it was ruined by the "one world" "rainbow" multicult, marxist haters who created the multiracial hell-hole that idiots like you call "diversity".

Stop trying to kid people and yourself with your "diversity" claptrap.

The BNP cannot be stopped, because the BNP is the voice of indigenous Britons in their own, ancient, ancestral homeland!

The so-called "Christian" Bishop is just another marxist, liberal traitor!

Charles, Durham says...
8:18pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Steve Day is right.
Have a look through this site to see who the real criminals are -
liarsbuggersandthiev
es.blogspot.com

Does the allegedy Christian Bishop have anything to say about it?

Or this -
video.google.co.uk/v
ideoplay?docid=26685
60761490749816

Or this -
liveleak.com/view?i=
f99_1185836519

Well?

Amber, Tennessee says...
8:23pm Tue 15 Apr 08

I come from one of the most racist, backwards, poverty-strikin areas of America. My grandfather was active in the KKK.

And you all sound just like them. I'm usually ashamed to be American, but from reading the comments most of you have left, I'm glad I'm not British!

Maggie Williams, says...
8:27pm Tue 15 Apr 08

The bishops of the Church of England no longer care about either their religion or the ordinary long suffering people of this country. They are out of touch liberal hypocrits interested only in advancing their own selfish comfortable lives by becoming mouthpieces for new labour and it's pro multi-culturalist lies.

James Daubney, says...
8:55pm Tue 15 Apr 08

If this 'Christian' is worried about the BNP then fair enough but I wish he would be more worried about Islam. Surah 5 Ayaht 51. O ye who believe do not take the Jews and Christians as friends because they are an unjust people. Now that's worrying because the Muslims believe the Koran is the word of God and cannot be changed.

martin, darlington says...
8:58pm Tue 15 Apr 08

In reply to amber-im glad youre not english as well.Typical yank who likes to poke their noses in other countries business. Your own country is hardly aparagon of virtue,warmongerers,
corrupt,racially divided,crime ridden and populated by obese morons who manage to elect an even bigger moron as president.Sit down with your 20 big macs,mind your own business and try to sort out your own cretinous people out-by the way ,do you know where england is?

Leanne, Spennymoor says...
9:01pm Tue 15 Apr 08

The BNP are against diversity as they claim this equals danger. In actual fact diversity means different and does not just talk about race! If diversity is danger does this mean we don't want the old or young in our society. What about the disabled - should we get shot of them too? There is more than one angle to diversity and the BNP should recognise this.

The BNP are a bunch of hypoctrites. Adam Walker has taken it upon himself to post racist propaganda **** through my door supporting 'British jobs for British people' but thought it was fine for him to live and work in Japan for 6 years. Double standards anyone?

Also the BNP manifesto advocates corporal and capital punishment - I certainly don't want our country run by a bunch of extremeists who think it is acceptable to respond to matters of Criminal Justice with equally criminal acts.

Finally, Arthur you clearly are an idiot. The person you called an 'arsehole' earlier is not a dole scrounging idiot - they were mearly trying to highlight that there are plenty of jobs out there for people who WANT to work and if the many benefit claimants in our society aren't prepared to take the jobs out there then someone else will!

Concentration camp, Tudhoe says...
9:02pm Tue 15 Apr 08

The BNP have gone from marginal to irrelevant in a few short years. Well done. The Wife beating stuff is standing fascist policy, like Nick Griffin (the BNP fuhrer)is well rehearsed in.

Contrary to pathetic fascist smears the church has always had progressive beliefs - didn't jesus kick over the tax collectors table? The Echo is talking sense too when it talks of a united front against the BNP.

Apocrypha, North Yorkshire says...
9:03pm Tue 15 Apr 08

The Bishop is perfectly entitled to give his views on any political issue , just as any other member of our democratic society. Politics is about the wellbeing of the land, and hopefully the Church of England still cares about that! Tom Wright addresses the failure of ALL political parties. Whoever calls him a marxist reveals they don't know the man at all. BNP safeguarding British culture is a rediculous claim - btw, similar parties in the Netherlands, once in power, proved to be a complete shambles. Yes please vote for them - we'll happily await the infights.

e pryor, kent says...
9:04pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Is it Neo Nazi to Love your country,wish not to be overun by non Christians, plagued with problems dumped on us by a government that is following some alien agenda probably connected with Europe,a government that is driving our young to emigrate in droves.

Steve Day, Co Durham says...
9:28pm Tue 15 Apr 08

At the end of the day everyone must use the vote their fathers fought for. Who ever you vote for do so with the best interests of your families at heart. let me remind you however that it is the far LEFT, not the far right who wish ban ban political parties they object to, it was the far left blaimed by the police for inciting the race riots in West Yorks a few years back, The BNP were not even in the county. It was the tories who crippled the traditional industries that the working classes worked in. And of course it is new labour that has lied, betrayed and decieved the people of the Uk for tens long years. Taxes are doubled, fuel is now a luxury, council tax doubled, the NHS crippled, Armed forces, nurses, police, firemen betrayed, pensions ruined. And please do not forget it neither the far right or far left that has been waging a terrorist campaign against anyone not Islamic. My vote will go to anyone except the liars, cheats, fraudsters and scroungers that are New labour. The BNP are not perfect, nor are UKIP or the Independants, But they are much better bets to the British people than Labour, Tory or Democrat. Check with your heart and with your god, but do get out and vote.

tony gordon, london says...
9:54pm Tue 15 Apr 08

lets not lose the message the bishop is trying to convey here.
its fine to vote for a party who starts illegal wars and bombs tens of thousands of iraqi children and their familys into the floor (not to mention sending our troops in with the wrong equipment to their deaths)while all the time they sit at home claiming £100,000+ a year each in 'expenses',but its not ok to vote for a party whove never done anything but speak the truth and want to preserve the british way of life!
i think people can make up their own minds mr wright.

English Christian BNP Member and Real Man, inyourface says...
9:56pm Tue 15 Apr 08

The British National Party are Patriots and Realists - not 'waysists'.

So get over it you limp, cowardly, lying, self-hating, anally-prolapsed, dope-raddled, scruffy, whining, deluded, sad, pathetic, gormless, hopeless, sexually-confused, lip-quivering, sopittle-flecked, deranged, naive, laughable eu/liblabcon/islam party worshipping gimps!

Well?
Lets hear hear all you howling weirdos respond.

Ho-ho!

Dan, Norwich says...
10:30pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Amber wrote:
I come from one of the most racist, backwards, poverty-strikin areas of America. My grandfather was active in the KKK. And you all sound just like them. I'm usually ashamed to be American, but from reading the comments most of you have left, I'm glad I'm not British!
Guess what, Britain ain't America. Your country may of been built by a cesspool of s**t from all over the world. But we Brits have a long proud Anglo-Celtic heritage, culture, and history that needs preserving. It's already been stated that we native Brits will be a minority in our own land within 50 years if immigration continues. MultiCULTuralism IS racist, and it causes division, hatred, and the eventual destrucion of the host nation's own culture and race! This has been proved time and time again. The recent events in Kosovo is just one recent example.

Kevin, Tyneside says...
10:57pm Tue 15 Apr 08

The myth of the lazy, white Briton

Over the last ten years there has been a surge in the number of immigrants coming to our shores, resulting in the rapid and unparalleled transformation of many of our towns and cities. The Office of National Statistics' figures indicate that in 1992, 164,000 migrants from outwith the EU came to Britain; by 2006, this had almost trebled to 468,000! Those figures do not include British citizens or those from EU countries. - http://www.statistic

s.gov.uk/downloads/t

....ables_91-06.xls

As the floodgates have opened and Britain has been submerged under a tidal wave of immigrants, our politicians have remained silent. Prior to the 1997 general election, senior representatives of the three main parties signed a pledge not to make 'race' an election issue, and in 2001 The Commission for Racial Equality requested a similar pledge was signed by individual MPs, effectively stifling debate on the issue. - http://www.guardian.

co.uk/politics/2001/

apr/24/race.immigrat

ionpolicy1

Of course, discussion of immigration has been taboo since the 1960s, when Enoch Powell was hectored and pilloried by its left-wing exponents, the media and even his colleagues. Actually, that's not entirely true, discussion of the negative aspects of immigration and multiculturalism are taboo, we are forever being told about the benefits they bring.

Amongst the many spurious reasons cited for the need for mass-immigration, is that immigrants do "the jobs nobody else wants". We are frequently told that there are lots of lazy, indigenous Britons languishing on state benefits, rather than getting a job. The media perpetuate this myth by stereotyping benefit claimants as white, working class and uneducated - known in popular culture as 'chavs'. In contrast, ethnic minorities are usually portrayed as hard working and often entrepreneurial.

The government's own statistics, however, paint a different picture. As you can see from the graph below, Muslims, per capita, are far more likely to be unemployed than Christians, who after Jews, are the least likely to be out of work.



Even if the stereotypical hedonistic, feckless chav has turned his back on God, the above graph shows that per capita, a person of 'No religion' is more or less as likely to be unemployed as their Sikh or Hindu counterpart.

In addition to being lazy, the white underclass are also portrayed as having large broods, too. However again this is contrary to the statistics, which show that the highest birthrate in the UK is among Pakistani-born women, who have an average of 4.7 children compared to 1.6 for British-born women http://www.telegraph

.co.uk/news/main.jht

ml?xml=/news/2007/11

/25/npop125.xml .

If indeed there are jobs that people don't want to do, basic economics suggests that this can be remedied quite simply - by increasing the wage. In fields that are more specialised, the higher wage will motivate people to get the skills required. By merely importing people with the necessary qualifications, we are suppressing wages and depriving other (usually poorer) countries of their skilled work force.

It is obvious to anybody that an immigrant from say, Poland, who is sharing a house (and thus the rent and bills) with several of his compatriots is likely to be willing to work for less than a Briton with a family to feed and clothe. When one also takes into account the fact that if he is sending money home, or saving it up with the intention of spending it in Poland, his income is in real terms much higher due to the cost of living being much cheaper there.

The truth is there is most definitely an underclass in the UK that is dependent upon benefits, though it is by no means exclusively white. More importantly, it is more the result of mass-immigration than its cause

Taken from green Arrow
Vote BNP

Amber, Tennessee says...
10:58pm Tue 15 Apr 08

One shouldn't assume that I eat big macs (I'm a vegetarian). I do in fact know where England is, as I have visted it a few times and it's good to know where England is when you've been living in New Zealand. Like I said, I don't particularly like my country, but you seem to be acting worse than Americans. You make yanks look civil, which is usually a fairly difficult thing to do.
http://amberleepeace
.blogspot.com

Len Peters, London says...
11:15pm Tue 15 Apr 08

There are many different opinions among the comments. To clarify a few points:

1. The BNP are racists who will ultimately destroy society, the economy and lead us in to isolation and then in to frequent war.
2. Independent candidates tend to be right wing also. They tend to have an agenda that’s based around one particular issue e.g. crime. Independents usually side with major parties anyway to gain larger control. They usually side with conservatives and liberals.
3. All major parties especially Labour (which is theoretically the working class representative) suffer from a chronic shortage of young working class members and politicians. The reason that the main political parties do not represent the majority is because the majority fail to be representative in the main political parties.
4. The press in the UK is majority right wing (Daily Mail, Express, Telegraph etc); this has the effect of polarising the majority in to a right wing frame of mind.
5. Rightwing politics work on fear, greed and the inaction of left wing parties. The rise of racist political parties is partly the fault of Labour’s inactivity.
6. Religion is a personal preference and has no place in a government of a heterogeneous population.
7. Tom Wright is allowed to express the values of Christianity, and he is quite right the BNP have no place in UK society or in a modern world for that matter.

bonnylad, northeast says...
11:17pm Tue 15 Apr 08

I've got more chance of walking on the moon than the BNP coming to power in this country. Thank God! No matter how much they try to dress up their fascism and racism as patriotism, people will see through them like a window.

Tristan Learoyd, Redcar says...
11:23pm Tue 15 Apr 08

Len your comments are spot on. Pt 3 in particular.

The BNP are racists. If they ever got in to power they would turn Britain in to a 1936 Germany modern replicate. Join a main stream political party (preferably Labour) and protest through action - don't protest by voting BNP because thats how Hitler gained power in 1933 .

Paul, Lancashire says...
11:24pm Tue 15 Apr 08

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patriotism, St George was Turkish and the Royal family are half Greek!
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What sort of adult retort is that Mel? "Dirty" - would that be the kind of blanket ignorance thats of the same ilk as ignorant racists that say "Pakis' Smell"? Filthy pigs and our **** patriotism?
My-my-my, we are dealing with an articulate, well educated person here arent we?.

Id like you to explain to me Mel, what having an adopted patron Saint has to do with our ethnic and cultural replacement longterm in this country, against the wishes of a regular polling 85% or so of the population since the Windrush arrived.

St George may well have been Turkish, but you do know that Turkey was once not of the ethnic stock it is today right? (It was invaded, much like our country is being invaded today, only with red tape and not red swords) And that once, Turkey wasn't Islamic and certainly not an Islamic State?. St George was a Christian, who is also the patron saint of Portugal and Lithuania, but don't tell me, they don't really exist either. Does any race or culture or indigenous people exist Mel.....or are you perfectly happy to campaign for Tibetans, Australian Aborigines, Africans, Chinese and Japanese etc for their “rights” to be an identifiable people. Something tells me you are racist when it comes to allowing “existence” of defined peoples.

If you think its anything to do with "St George", adopted by the Church in what, the 13th century, then you're sadly mistaken. The same applies to the usual "aiming to be smug" comments about the Royal Family. Its only left wing ignorance and lack of education as to what drives the
BNP ideology when it comes to its most famous policies of "race" that parrots this nonsense.
Which, for the record, race is only a minor part of the BNP's excellent manifesto.

I suggest rather than rant foul mouthed on reply pages about "fascist dirty pigs" and throw up your debate curve-balls about St George and the Royal Family – as though that somehow excuses whats happening to the indigenous people of this country - you instead actually hold your nose and learn what its all really about.

You don't have to agree to ethnocentric arguments, but please at least have the grace to investigate it without your blind hatred or planted visions of Hitler, jackboots and tanks committing fascism and genocide. Quite frankly, your ignorance towards British Nationalism - or any form
of Nationalism - is embarrassing.


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"Firstly the BNP are nothing more than a bunch of thugs masquerading under a political banner, preying on the disenchanted. They thrive on 'hatred'; all you have to do is look at these comments above - blaming the structural economic problems of the north east on immigrants. This, simply put, is scapegoating. With reference to youngsters who cannot get jobs because of immigrants. Immigration can only be a good thing for British youngsters. This is competition. Often Polish and other Eastern European nationals have superior skills compared to their English counterparts. It is obvious why employers would rather employ these people than the cider swilling Vicky Pollards of Spennymoor.
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Well Mikey, where do I start here. The BNP are a "bunch of thugs" are they?......masquerad
ing under a Political Banner. Yeah, of course they are Mikey - whatever you say!

So, the BNP, for no reason other than some incomprehensible and unfathomable 'rage' and 'hatred' of skin pigmentation set up a political party so that they can go out on a Friday night in Doc
Martens and Drainpipe jeans and "leather" some unsuspecting Asians right Mikey? That they seek power to exterminate approximately 85% of the rest of the world and create some sort of master race of blue eyed, blond haired people......what sort of drugs do you take Mikey?. You should seriously cut down.

So, Mikey, the BNP people Ive met, spoken to, and my local candidate, who is a 64 year old grandfather of four is a "thug", and the majority of people in my neighbourhood ward that voted him in last time around are all 'knuckledragging' uneducated hate filled thugs too, duped by their own idiocy into casting their vote?.

Who should people believe Mikey - you - the peddler of absurd, ill educated rhetoric that goes beyond fantasy land into some sort of twilight zone, or a dedicated, patriotic, calm, educated and proud set of individuals with a whole range of policies, who have been proven to be RIGHT for decades with everything they've said thats always been dogged by the likes of yourself as "lies" to stoke up "hate"?.

For the record Mikey (and others) - if you bother to actually read up and not base your opinions on "feelings" - you will find that its not "lazy whites" who are the most unemployed - its past waves of Immigrants. You do know for example that something like 40% of Muslims in this country don't work? (mostly the
women folk who are raising an average of about 4.7 children each instead), you are aware of the statistics and reports - recently aired by Jon Snow in a documentary by the way - that people like Somalians and other immigrant groups are the "spongers" and Dole'ys who "don't want to work" or "wont do the jobs that immigrants do".

Fair enough, many white indigenous dont work, but your pathetic attempts to shoot down the BNP with “Vicky Pollard” remarks only show you to be the simplistic, hating, stereotypical fool that you claim others to be.

Previous waves of immigrants, which people like *YOU* Mikey would have clapped on arriving, are vastly unemployed, getting resentful of their situation brought about by the likes of *YOU*, and helping to stoke up hostile feelings, ghetto mentality and fueling crime and gangs.
Should you not make sure the last 50 years worth of immigrants are all working before
you allow millions more through the door?.
No, don't tell me Mikey, that
would of course be "racist" to people like yourself.

If we had done this simple thing in 1968, we wouldn't even be needing to converse right now. But oh no, to dare speak out was “racism”.

When our society is collapsing down, when our education collapsing on the world 'intelligence' scores (via a drop in standards and too much focus on "social sciences" to keep the country from splitting apart), when we are ranked 10th in Europe for the well being of our children, when classroom sizes are larger than ever and some schools have to entertain coping with up to 40 different mother tongues, when "cheap labour" is coming from allover the world to wait your middle class restaurant tables and clean your stinking toilets and stack your shelves (which our own people used to do when students or on low incomes and second jobs), when apprenticeships are not being offered in preference to cheaper immigrant labour, when there are so many foreign health workers that our own native AND settled immigrant community CANT GET JOBS after fully qualifying as doctors and nurses.....you think that its good to have this "competition"!

Dream on sunshine.

By the way, you're being RACIST about immigrants being 'better skilled'. You're basically saying that just because somebody is foreign they are *all* (as a blanket definition) "better skilled" or better able than somebody here. Thats a vile attitude you have there.

You think that its marvelous that all these people are coming and have already come, but surely its an EMBARASSMENT that a first world country like ourselves allagedly "NEEDS" approximately half a million people though its doors per year to "cover skills shortages". Its a disgrace!

It shows INEPT governance, morally bankrupt politicians, and greedy CAPITALIST MAGNATES exploiting immigrant labour to raise their already plump revenue - before they
usually wind down the companys UK branch and set up in India, Mexico,
China, or wherever else - leaving we - The Native People - with the
burden of them Transforming societies, unemployment rates, crime and racial tensions.

They dont CARE about the country - just about PROFITS. Politicians dont care as long as the effects of their actions arent “on their watch” and passed to the next losers in charge of the ship.

Stealing graduates from Africa, Stealing nurses and doctors from the developing world, and having for example trained Polish radiologists etc over here packing fish for 10 hours a day is morally DISGUSTING.

You and people like you should be utterly disgusted with yourselves.

Thats not even mentioning
the misery you bring by exploitation, people trafficking and prostitution, drug smuggling, honour killings, female genital mutilation, gang warfare, gun crime epidemics and the Islamisation of many
of our towns and cities which has accompanied mass migration of the last few decades.

Give me the BNP any day, over morons who fail to see the sheer hell their "feel good" policies and views have brought.

All reasons for immigration - ever - has been shot down so many times its untrue - the Lords report just being another in the long line.

Besides "curry" and "eating out", I never hear what these wonders are I'm supposed to have benefited from.
I cant think of anything substantial whatsoever, other than satisfying the need of the cranially
challenged to have something different to gawp at as they hum "we are the world" on the way to the shops.

It's brought sheer hell to this country for the future, and people still have the nerve to promote it??!!!.

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Posted by: Dylan, Darlo on 3:16pm today:

There is nothing racist whatsoever about wanting to preserve an English way of life unless of course as a nation we are inherently racist. But lets not kid ourselves that there is such thing as indigenous English. I am an Englishman (mainly proud of it, I fly the flag on special
occassions) but like every other English man or woman that walks this earth, I am not a pure bred. Purity of race does not exist here, we are a race of mongrels - deal with it!!! But what common denominator do many of us have? Oh yes - skin colour. Funny that. While I can be convinced that there are many decent, good, many well meaning, even intelligent voters out there who are sadly sucked in by the BNP spin machine, I will not be. I lived near Welling around the time of the
Stephen Lawrence murder, I visited the BNP bookshop, I observed and opinions on this bunch of losers have been well honed. Oh if you wish to vote BNP, fine but if any of you thought the Tories and New Labour have sold the NHS down the river over the past few decades, it will die on it's knees within a year if the BNP ever got to power make no mistake.

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Dylan, I dont know what you're feeling the need to talk about "pure races" for. Its quite mystifying.

The only reason I can think of is that you're of the opinion that the BNP support base is based upon absurd "pure blood" and "master race" connotations which are the 'alleged' goals of Hitler. This is false.

Dylan, Im sorry to have to break this news to you - but we are NOT a "mongrel race" either.

Where did you get this opinion from? Think carefully.

Have you researched it deeply, or have you repeated what you've heard in the papers and the media?- Repeating the PC driven "mantra" peddled out such as "Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance" without thinking any deeper?

There are so many ill informed people who reply to columns and forums who say we are a "mongrel race" and that immigrants and immigration is "nothing new" because we had Saxons,
Normans, Huguenots and Jews etc over the centuries. They talk nonsense. Too many people take it on board as "fact". The fact is, its wrong.

In reality, add up ALL previous waves of immigration, all previous invasions since the thawing of the ice age and first settlers and they amounted to no more than 1% of the total population at any one time or COMBINED over a thousand years time span.

The affect on our overall DNA (prior to current Britain since the 60's of course) is something like 0.5 of a single percentage.

The small numbers of invaders - which were REPELLED don't forget - were of the same genetic stock as each other from mainland Europe. The same logic cannot be applied to Africans, Middle Easterners, Asians, Oriental races etc.

Far from being a "nation of immigrants" - another "catch phrase" lie thats peddled as fact - we were in REALITY a nation of EMMIGRANTS, settling on SPARSE UNPOPULATED lands and building them up into efficient countries, with water works, trains, roads and infrastructures - such as South Africa, Australia, Canada, New Zealand. All the charts on 'migration' go the opposite way right upto the mid 1950's, so a nation of immigrants we are NOT.

The reverse is happening to us though - our country is already densly populated, one of the most densly populated in Europe, and our civilisation is being replaced, not built up from scratch. Note the difference.
If the shoe was on the other foot, Liberals will by up in outrage about it, and quite rightly so too. But here, they aren't so vocal.

Whats happening to the indigenous people of England, Scotland and Wales is a most disgusting act ushered in by Socialists and those who operate at wafer thin levels of politics who unwittingly go along with it.
They believe quite rightly that people should be tret equally and with respect (which we all agree on), but fail to think any deeper than that, then apply their simplistic comprehensions to complex thought structures.

Whilst we are talking about "race" - as is usual for any BNP comment, because people who oppose them know nothing else to talk about - I personally find the idea of one world "melting pot" absolutely evil. Thats right, evil.

People who come on here and champion "diversity" are actively working to DESTROY all diversity in the future.

But hey, as long as they "feel good" that we are all "tolerant" and they can eat at a different restaurant every weekend they don't give a crap about things 50, 100, 200 years from now.

Well, I happen to care about the future, and the future of mono-mocha-races consumed with Burger King, Toys R Us and all dominated by Tesco's and Wallmarts etc all over Europe - which will be a new EUSSR at this rate – a consumer led continent of puppets to a super state, to be absolutely
horrific .

The ones who preach all the multiracial, multicultural, pro Islam rubbish in this country must not have any idea of what they are shaping for the future of humankind otherwise they would be voting against it. I've traveled allover mainland Europe, and the process is already slowly taking shape.

Its not about "understanding" or "tolerance" or "ignorance" or any such thing, wake up people! Smell the coffee. We dont want it, we dont need it.

Our historic nation has taken on board Chinese methods of manufacture, for example, and taken up Tea drinking from India, but we never saw the need to turn the country into an outpost of China to "learn" or appreciate some elements of
their crafts or import millions of Indians to grow and pick tea bushes. You get the idea. Hopefully.

Respect and learning is fine, from afar – but not in place of or at the expense of.

By the way, how did different languages and cultures come about in the first place? It came about by separate peoples developing languages, skills, traditions, etc etc in relative isolation. What do you think the effects are, long term, of mashing everybody permanently together, edges being knocked off traditions, languages disappearing, racial groups disappearing.......c
ombined with ever larger conglomerates, a Capitalist consumer structure?. You should think hard and long about that.

Christian civilisation is nearly dead too here, with high muslim birth rates,slow transformation of our infrastructure (halal meats, sharia banking, polygamy are all dual systems already, and further laws
suggested by the Arch Bishop earlier this year wont be far off) by sheer pressure and demographic weight the future religion wise will be theirs.

Churches are empty, irrelevent yet 'quaint' and 'picturesque' reminders of a day gone by – except for – ironically – immigrants. Which begs the question of why the Church in this country finds itself in favour of open doors to the country.

Islam is a complete way of life - its not just a religion like Christianity of Buddhism - it is a political force, a law enforcement system, a court justice system, banking system etc etc all combined
into a all encompassing way to view and live life. A life system which all Muslims believe to be best, and for the betterment of mankind. Thats what they believe - and why shouldn't they? - and they believe that they are instructed to make the entire world follow Islam and the true prophet Mohammad.

Not only do they have rules and sensibilities to follow within their faith, they are UNIQUE in faith because they have STRICT RULES for EVERYBODY ELSE who DOESNT follow the faith.

When Muslims get a majority anywhere on this Earth, they are duty bound to make it an Islamic State and follow the rules of Allah and the Koran. Peacefully, non peacefully, its IRELLEVENT longterm to OPPOSING civilisational formats. See Indonesia, Chechnya, Bosnia/Serbia, and on and on it goes. Same thing.

People need to get a reality check about "fascism" and realise which elements are really fascist. I think the BNP are the most Libertarian of the "mainstream" parties, not always liberal, but libertarian. Learn the difference.

Their policies arent "Far Right" or dictatorial/fascist either - they are more traditional Labour/Left. But again, people just scream "far right nazi thugs" without even understanding their politics. They get as far as knowing they don't accept non white native stock of Europe into the party and thats it, they're off with the comments about Sig Heils, Tanks and Jackboots moaning about Fascism and blackshirts!.

I think the Labour party, sorry NuLabour, have been the most AUTHORITARIAN and FASCIST government ever in power. They have eroded our traditions, transformed the make up of the population to fulfil their socialist/marxist ideals without anybodys say-so, passed more
laws in 15 years than our ENTIRE legal history (its true, check it out), brought in measures to destroy freedom of speech and freedom of association, have given away our sovereignty to Europe without our consent, are bringing in Biometrics and ID's, more CCTVs than you can shake a stick at, and kids are even being fingerprint scanned at some school trials to get their dinners and trace what they're eating in light of an 'obesity epidemic', theres plans for car tracking satellites, and they have ridden rough shot over famous historical rights which we have fought and died to save......and you tell me the BNP are 'fascist' !!! What a hoot!!!!.

Whats more, anyone who doesnt agree with social/liberal/marxi
sm and their 'feel good over common sense' visions are branded to be beyond the pale, hate filled morons. The whole situation thats brought that situation about, is truly that of a communist style transformation of societal play and boundaries.

Hopefully, the times are changing. People are past being branded "racists" - whatever that means nowadays - and are not afraid to openly declare they are voting and supporting the the BNP.

People can point to individual events of councilors or candidates all they like - other parties have their share of despicable people and criminals - but its not the "individuals" or "Nick Griffins" personality I'm voting for - its their ideology, principles, and their values as British Nationalists.

A Sky News poll found 80+ percent of the entire population were wholly supportive of BNP policies when they were not told whose policies they were. All walks of life, indigenous and immigrant communities alike. If you dont agree with them at all in any way shape or form then dont vote for them. Its that simple.

I dont need Vicars, Bishops, far left activists, hippy students, Liberal Democrats, Trade
Unions, Labour or Conservatives to tell people who *NOT* to vote for. Thats not their place.

It just goes to show what a sham democracy we have when all three have the same ideology packaged in a slightly different coloured box, and all they can do is tell you who NOT to vote for not why you should vote for them. Plus, given what they've collectively done to this country as a unit I'm surprised anyone can vote for them anymore at all.

Emma, 888-396 says...
11:29pm Tue 15 Apr 08

I have not decided who to vote for but before anyone calls the bnp thugs bullies etc.
YOU MUST READ THIS
. i was sick to my stomach
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http://liarsbuggersa

ndthieves.blogspot.c

om/



Ollie, London says...
11:31pm Tue 15 Apr 08

BNP racist? HAHAHA give it up already, I can’t believe people are still calling them that.
I wouldn't be concerned with our ancestors turning in their graves if the BNP was elected because most of them would have already turned over after looking at what a disgusting state the country is in now, open a history book and find out what life was like 50 years ago and compare it today.
I’m sure that if our war heroes knew what the spineless Government was going to do to this country many of them would have never fought in a war to protect this country because they would know most of the things worth fighting for would be ruined to make this country more acceptable to foreign people, the very things a lot of wars were against, foreign influence.

I don’t care what you have to say, I’m voting BNP and I always will.

Councillor John McPartland, Middlesbrough says...
11:47pm Tue 15 Apr 08

The Bishop has every right to make comments on politics, as politicians have every right to make comments on religion. Those two areas of life are inexorably linked. Politics is about services to and for the people and religion, as portrayed in the parable of the Good Samaritan, is about that also. Well said Bishop!

Pheonix, North East says...
11:49pm Tue 15 Apr 08

The fact that the BNP are still trying to distance themselves from a racist image, after 15 years of trying to do so, may suggest to the voting fraternity that they may just be - racist to the core .

Disgusted Englishman, Durham says...
12:13am Wed 16 Apr 08

Posted by: Pheonix, North East on 11:49pm Tue 15 Apr 08
The fact that the BNP are still trying to distance themselves from a racist image, after 15 years of trying to do so, may suggest to the voting fraternity that they may just be - racist to the core .

Re:
This Island is FULL dont you get it!
you can only cram so much in one box

John Grant, Armagh says...
1:35am Wed 16 Apr 08

Wether you like the BNP or not, it's definitely time to get the malingerers out of parliament.

John Grant, Armagh says...
1:35am Wed 16 Apr 08

Wether you like the BNP or not, it's definitely time to get the malingerers out of parliament.

jim, elsewhere says...
3:45am Wed 16 Apr 08

To judge from the racist bilge above the Bishop is dead on target. What a picture of Britain is here seen...

Another Jim, Away end says...
5:49am Wed 16 Apr 08

The BNP's politics are the politics of fear and ignorance, and they've got nothing positive to offer the working class. I don't think most but a hard-core are nazis these days, but just like the fascists in Italy if they ever get a sniff of power they'll sell us out to big business worse than even Labour have, hard as that would be. Agree with the man earlier who said vote independent in local elections - get together with your neighbours, pick your local issues and get 'em sorted.

Nationalist, Norwich says...
7:40am Wed 16 Apr 08

You don't need the BNP to bring down multiCULTuralism, it will do that all by itself. This country is already ethnically divided, and white flight has been taken place for a while now. MultiCULTuralism is a dead failed ideology, just lke Communism, and western Europe will sooner or later end up like the Balkans where ethnic war will be in strife!

So let these lefty liberal do gooders reap what they sow. I'm sure once the remaining decent white Britons leave Londonistan or Bradfordistan, they will be shaking in their boots because they're surrounded by Pakistani or Somaili gangs!

harry, grimsby says...
9:15am Wed 16 Apr 08

Tristan Learoyd wrote:
Len your comments are spot on. Pt 3 in particular.

The BNP are racists. If they ever got in to power they would turn Britain in to a 1936 Germany modern replicate. Join a main stream political party (preferably Labour) and protest through action - don't protest by voting BNP because thats how Hitler gained power in 1933 .
Tristan Learoyd is typical of the brainwashed morons of this nation,
'Join a main stream political party (preferably labour)'
therefore we assume good old Tristan supports raining bombs onto Iraq for oil and making orphans out of thousand's of children (all of whom will be seeking revenge and moving to his street with labours open door policy in a few years).
Lets be honest here,the BNP cannot be any worse than the mass murderers of labour whatever they do!

Jim B., Brum says...
9:32am Wed 16 Apr 08

You can listen to the speech Nick Griffin made, that led to him being prosecuted and acquitted twice; it is on the web, via the BNP site. This is the 'true' voice of the BNP, filmed secretly as 'evidence'. Make your own mind up.

You can also find, on youtube, videos from British mosques, filmed openly by supporters, calling for the murder, rape and subjugation of the British people in the name of Islam. Oh, and review the cartoon protests again, listen to what they say. They mean it.

Wish the Bishop would comment on those chaps...


Jim B.j, Brum says...
9:48am Wed 16 Apr 08

And while you are shooting the messenger, don't forget the Home Secretary's recent remarks about the religion of peace, and it's continuing drive to convert us:

"There are 22,000 individuals who are being monitored. There are 200 networks and 30 active plots."

But of course, she doesn't really think they are evil, like those wicked BNP people. She won't deport them. She won't even stop their dole.


susan, Aycliffe says...
9:56am Wed 16 Apr 08

Emma wrote:
I have not decided who to vote for but before anyone calls the bnp thugs bullies etc. YOU MUST READ THIS . i was sick to my stomach . http://liarsbuggersa ndthieves.blogspot.c om/
thanks for this post emma (www.liarsbuggersand
thieves),it is shocking to see so many of our labour and conservative councilors with such appauling criminal records against children,i have googled some of the cases and it looks like it is true.I am utterly disgusted and will confront these people when they canvass my home.one bnp policy i do agree with is sarahs law where you have the right to know where sex criminals are but judging by what i now know that will never come into force as it would expose most of parliment.

Jim B., Brum says...
10:20am Wed 16 Apr 08

One more quick point, a link to a video of some British 'mujahadim' describing killing people in the Balkans, for the sake of allah. They will be back to your street soon:

http://www.youtube.c
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Yes Bishop, BNP councillors are the problem.

Manuk White, Weybridge-Surrey says...
10:33am Wed 16 Apr 08

I have requested the likes of Mr Hitchen, Mr Littlejohn and those of similar persuarsen to
explain just exactly which part of the BNP manifesto/programme that they find to be so
bigoted/racist. Just exactly what is it they object to about the Party and supporters. Those
members I have had the pleasure of meeting and
speaking too are very far removed from those
supporters of the BNP that Main Stream media
describe. As said by many, the Bishop of Durham
should not involve the Church of England in any
aspect of politics any more than should the Arch Bishop of Canterbury.
The rule of Islam and of Muslims does represent
a very serious threat to this Christian group
of countries (Eng/Wales/Scotland and Ireland) and the likes of the Bishop of Durham would be
well advised to recognise that fact and worry
less about a political party that is striving hard to rectify the problem.

Manuk White

Realist, Hyde says...
10:56am Wed 16 Apr 08

That must have to took you some time to write,Jim from Lancashire because it took me a long time to read it.
The difference to our opponents is that the arguments you put foreward had substance.
You spoke as much sense as anyone I have ever heard.
Good luck, you should stand for council or Parliament.

Stephen, Darlington says...
10:59am Wed 16 Apr 08

In February, BNP protesters staged a picket line outside a TUC conference in Chester-le-Street entitled Hope Not Hate. The conference was designed to tackle racism. If the BNP are as all-inclusive as certain posters in this thread claim, why would they denounce such a conference, why would they photograph the delegates as they arrived in an attempt at intimidation and why would they shout insulting slogans on the picket line? This is the politics of fear, not of hope.

Kevin, Tyneside says...
11:08am Wed 16 Apr 08

Judge will “consider” deporting serial rapist claim!
It really instils confidence in both the law and commonsense when we read that a judge will “consider” deporting a convicted serial rapist. Presumably the sticking point is to what extent this criminal’s human rights could be threatened through any such deportation. Has the judge forgotten the lack of consideration for the human rights of his victim shown by this “asset” we wonder? Should that not be the yardstick by which any consideration be measured? And is it not conceivable that this individual has handed down a death sentence to his victims in light of the incidence of HIV in central Africa? Isn’t it high time the authorities began to proactively defend the people of this country against imported crime by demanding an end to immigration?

One media report begins:

“A security guard has been convicted of raping two men and indecently assaulting two others in Glasgow. Hissein Atie prowled the city’s streets looking for men to attack, the High Court in Glasgow heard. The 30-year-old, who was caught by DNA evidence, committed the offences between January and June last year.”

“Sentence was deferred for reports and Atie, who arrived in the UK from Chad in 2000, was placed on the sex offenders’ register.”

“Judge Ian Peebles QC said he would consider deporting Atie to the Central African country.”

No doubt some Labour or liberal “do-gooder” will step in, using taxpayers money in the form of legal aid, in a bid to prevent deportation - if that is what the judge decides upon.
http://news.bbc.co.u
k/1/hi/scotland/glas
gow_and_west/7348982
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Mother blames multiculturalism for hammer attack on son Many readers wont be familiar with the story of the vicious hammer attack upon 15-year old Wroughton schoolboy Henry Webster on school premises, by a large gang of Muslim men and youths. The attack left Henry with brain damage and resulted in some 13 of the thugs, includng the son of a local imam, being convicted. They are to be sentenced later this month.

However, what is not so widely known, not least because the national and regional media largely boycotted the story – as they almost always do when the victim is a native Briton – is the alleged role of the school surrounding this incident.

Liz Webster, Henry’s mother, told her side of the story in the Sunday Times (13th April). It begins:-

“THE mother of a 15-year-old boy left with brain damage by an Asian gang is blaming multi-culturalism for the way ethnic minorities get away with violent bullying in schools. Liz Webster, 43, from Swindon, whose son Henry nearly died in the attack, believes a “culture of timidity” among teachers is stopping them clamping down on ethnic minority bullies because they fear accusations of racism. She also accuses teachers of failing to recognise that ethnic minorities can exhibit racism against whites. Her son, who was a pupil at Ridgeway comprehensive, near Swindon, was set upon by a 16-strong Asian gang, smashed on the skull by repeated blows from a claw hammer and left for dead. Last week 13 of the gang were convicted of charges relating to the attack.”

“Teachers also declined to get involved when the Websters requested extra vigilance for their younger son, Joe, 12, who was anxious to continue at the Ridgeway with his friends. The younger boy was surrounded by a threatening gang of Bengali-speaking Asians a few weeks after the attack. Webster believes the school is guilty of discrimination: “After the earlier scuffles the day Henry was attacked, it was Henry who was asked to report to the deputy head, not any of the Asian boys, yet somehow it is racist for me to question why my son was treated differently from them.”

“The police have been reluctant to accept any racial element. “We took 797 statements, we have 3,000 pages of documents and there is nothing to indicate racist language or taunts were used in any of the exchanges,” said Detective Sergeant Mark Wilkinson of Wiltshire police, who led the investigation. Nevertheless, Wilkinson concedes Khan was a “wannabe militant”. He had been involved in two previous violent incidents, though never charged, and carried on his mobile phone a screensaver of the collapse of New York’s twin towers.”

How different the police’s reaction would have been had 16 white men and youths launched a cowardly attack on a lone Muslim youth - it would have immediately been deemed “racist”! And, we have to ask, would any arrests have been made had it not been for Wiltshire BNP threatening a massive and sustained campaign on the issue in frustration over apparent police apathy?

http://www.timesonli
ne.co.uk/tol/news/uk
/crime/article373623
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Wake up Britain - Do your own homework we are under attack in OUR own land - How can this be good for the economy..we are throwing money at immigrants,
watch the BBC if you want to be fed news that the government wants you to see i.e. censored first - for your own protection of coarse.. Choose to get your own news. (uncensored)
http://www.uktabloid
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Visit the BNP site and judge for yourself if the BNP are racists nuckle dragging cavemen as the government would have you belive, I wonder why? - CASH / CARS / 2 HOUSES / BILLS / FOOD all paid for by YOU these are criminals in suits that are eton & oxford educated criminals that have never ever had a job or done a real days work ..they have no clue, that you think are educated enough in LIFE to look after YOU.
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Stephen, Darlington says...
11:28am Wed 16 Apr 08

To Kevin of Tyneside:

That would be racust knuckle-dragging cavemen, not racists nuckle dragging cavemen.

If you're going to defend the English way of life, at least have a stab at mastering its beautiful language.

Stephen, Darlington says...
11:29am Wed 16 Apr 08

Teach me to have a typo in my own response.

It should be racist, not racust.

Realist, Hyde says...
11:29am Wed 16 Apr 08

The reason why they picketed that particular meeting was that it was advertised as specifically an anti-B.N.P gathering (it was not big enough to be called a conference) That is called democracy Stephen of Darlington.
Isn't it funny how the anti-B.N.P mob start crying and winging when the same tactics are applied to them when people start copying what they have been doing for years.

Realist, Hyde says...
11:33am Wed 16 Apr 08

Jim of Lancashire, your speech (if you don't mind me calling it that) was better than Col Tim Collins's on the eve of our disastrous entry into the Iraq war.

Kevin, Tyneside says...
12:05pm Wed 16 Apr 08

Yeah Yeah Stephen from Darlington - grow up man! so i got a word the wrong way round. (labour education..) this is an adult debate
I have provided links about racism in this country where's yours?

I see The Pensioners Party has teamed up now with the BNP (great news)

http://simondarby.bl
ogspot.com/2008/04/b
reakthrough.html

http://www.thepensio
nersparty.org/

Are these Pensioners also racusts aswell stephen

Anthony, England says...
12:14pm Wed 16 Apr 08

Stephen, Darlington - the BNP does not claim to be "all-inclusive". It is an ethno-centric Nationalist party, whose whole raison d'etre is to secure a future for the indigenous, aboriginal, Folk of these islands, which we have occupied for almost 10,000 years.

Of course, the Party should demonstrate its opposition to conferences on "racism", because such conferences promote hatred of all things British (all done in the name of "diversity", of course) and advocate anti-democratic activities against a legally established political party, namely the BNP. Photographing the delegates arriving does not indicate anything more sinister than acquiring pictures for publishing (along with a relevant article) on the BNP website, which is, by the way, the most popular political website in the UK.

Returning to the actual subject of the above article, like Voltaire, I would defend to the death Dr Wright's freedom to make whatever comments he wishes on any matter. Freedom of speech, if it means anything, means that we all have the right to be offended. However, where I would take issue with the Bishop is his total inability and, dare I say, basic dishonesty, in not actually detailing the parts of our ideology and policies that are self-evidently anathema to him. Like all of the people who oppose the BNP, it would seem his arguments are so devoid of substance that he can only resort to insulting imagery and the usual mantras from the very limited marxist lexicon - "Neo-Nazis", "swamp", "idiots".

This closed mindset is just so typical of our opponents and can be no better illustrated than by some of the comments above that attack the BNP. They do not have an alternative to offer or sensible arguments against the BNP, they can only resort to using their standard (and oh so boring) swearwords - most of which are designed to try and close discussion down and suppress free speech (look up the origins of the word "racist" and you will see what I mean).

Conversely, the heartfelt outpourings from members and supporters of the BNP are generally detailed, sober and thoughtful - which would be a fair reflection of a cross-section of the membership of the Party, in my experience. No sign of "fascism", "racism", "Neanderthals", et al - just ordinary, decent people, who are fighting to save their country just like their forefathers did!

Karl, England says...
1:01pm Wed 16 Apr 08

Today's news tells of yet more clergymen involved with paedophilia.

The church should get it's own house in order before making such statements.

Paul, Lancashire says...
1:46pm Wed 16 Apr 08

That must have to took you some time to write,Jim from Lancashire because it took me a long time to read it.
The difference to our opponents is that the arguments you put foreward had substance.
You spoke as much sense as anyone I have ever heard.
Good luck, you should stand for council or Parliament.

*************

I hope you mean Paul from Lancashire, and not Jim..... ;).

I didnt find a Jim from Lanaschire, so I think you're meaning me anyway!.

Ironically, I used to be a staunch anti-BNP supporter!. But to be honest, that was before I learnt to put logic over idealistic emotion, and before I took the time to challenge my own rather uninformed views.

Now, at just over 30 years old, I dont think I could vote for anything else but British Nationalism, for the kind of reasons I gave earlier plus other things like nationalists being the first on the case with 'Peak Oil' topics, increased self sufficiency plans and their environmental protection objectives.

People who scream at me with "Nazi" and "fascist" and bang on about Hitler or genocide just make me laugh now, because I know what its really all about.

I dont expect hardened opponents to change their minds, but I feel compulsed to atleast try and set some things straight and give some kind of explanation as to why people like myself support them, for the more open minded thinker.
The other parties are incapable of changing their core ideology, so unfortunately they can never regain people like me as a voter nomatter what they promise or posture every time it runs up to the election period.

I wish the BNP well, yet simultaneously remain modest about what to expect in the results, given the sheer voice and air time of its shrill opponents.
They claim there is this "threat" of a nationwide BNP takeover every year, hype up how they will win thousands of seats unless people vote against them, then sneer at the BNP when they only gain a handfull of seats accross the country.

Its the same pantomime every year. Same smears, same "fascist!" screams and hysteria. It will be the same next year, and the year after....


Sue, says...
2:29pm Wed 16 Apr 08

Labour and Tory have destroyed this country over the last 50 years. I'm going to be voting BNP and no foolish man of the cloth will warn me off!

Realist, Hyde says...
5:21pm Wed 16 Apr 08

Sorry for the mistake Paul of Lancashire but you were still spot on.
It certainly seems to have shut the 'cranky lefties' for a bit.
Still I have no doubt that one of them will come on to answer (after they have stopped polishing their Jackboots)
If they don't good riddance because they have not come up with one decent answer to any of the arguments.
Away with the lot of you and get with the barmy vicar.

Arthurian, Durham says...
7:08pm Wed 16 Apr 08

Why are we wasting time responding to the spittle-flecked nonsense of lefties?
They will not listen, they will not think and they cannot change. They are programmed like Pavlovs dogs, or Skinners rats. Their lives are a lie, they hate themselves, and as a cosequence they hate others. They are malignant and nasty and dwell in a dark place.
But do not pity them or try to address them with reason, or they will turn on you.
There is only one response to the infantile, malicious drivel of the lefties, ... and that is derision.
Laugh at them. Its all they deserve.

Vote BNP. There is no other path back to freedom and peace.

Jack, Durham says...
8:19pm Wed 16 Apr 08

Jack - what on earth are you wittering on about you crazy fool. You really are grasping at straws here.
Pillock!

Wotansspawn, UK says...
3:30pm Thu 17 Apr 08

Since when does the church fell the need to get involved in politics? Even worse hes saying that the three main parties are the only parties we should give support! I think its time the state no longer had control over a church, the church has become a political arm once again.

the eyeballs in the sky, Manchester. says...
4:01pm Thu 17 Apr 08

Tommy Taylor says the B.N.P are irrelevent and do not get many votes and so are not a major threat to the cosy little gang of Buggers,Liars and Thieves who hang about in Westminster.
How is it then that the Lib/Con/Lab axis of evil are forever pleading with people not to vote for them?

How come our increasingly irrelevent Marxist Trade Unions are forever pleading with people
to have nothing to do with them?
Now we have our churches pleading with their rapidly diminishing flock, please don't get involved with the B.N.P.
It's called FEAR, they are scared that now they have been rumbled by the ordinary working man and quite a few others.
FEAR can you smell it?

Arthur, Durham says...
6:53pm Thu 17 Apr 08

"http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=VzRoDo80
4zo"

More so now.

Ken, Tyneside says...
7:35pm Thu 17 Apr 08

These Traiters have been so open with their common purpose program - EVERYONE and their dog now know what they are up to and what they are about (using the church now -shame we still know)..blah blah blah spin spin spin shiney boxes, It doesn't wash anymore you can't brainwash us WE KNOW WE KNOW WE KNOW.

Sinead, England says...
9:06pm Thu 17 Apr 08

The Pensioners Party have backed off. Seems they may have been duped: http://lancasteruaf.
blogspot.com/2008/04
/did-bnp-deceive-oap
-party.html

Steve Day, Co Durham says...
9:26pm Thu 17 Apr 08

The Pensioners Party have backed off. Seems they may have been duped: http://lancasteruaf.

blogspot.com/2008/04

/did-bnp-deceive-oap

-party.html

Far more people have been duped, lied to, decieved, defrauded, misled, annd failed by New Labour and the Tories than have ever been duped by the BNP. the Far right BNP is not perfect by a long way , but its intentions are well meant and directed at prreseving Britains culture and identity. But the main three parties serve only themselves, and in the last ten years never has one party lied, cheated, broke promises and failed the working peoples of the UK as much as New labour. Wheres our Referendum?, Wheres our Post offices gone, What happened to the original manifesto promise not to raise taxes, why did they lie to us about WMD in Iraq, They said only 15,000 eastern europeans would come, now its over 2 million. Tonight even the BBCs own annual survey reports that 60% of people in the UK are sick to death of immigration and islamic problems in the UK. So according to the loony left, 60% of the UK must be evil wicked racists. Stop knocking the BNP, UKIP, Greens, Republicans, and Independants each and every one offers more hope than the big three parties of complete failures.

Robert Furness, UK says...
8:59am Fri 18 Apr 08

anon wrote:
@ Mark walker Your very complimentary 2 the female candidates in spenny but remember your only married to one of them. lol. They cant be that smart tho if they represent a party where one of the top london candidates had to be pulled out cos he said that it was alright to hit women and that rape was not \"a serious crime\". No woman in the country should be voting for BNP let alone standing for them. But you and your sock puppets will come up with excuses for Nick erikson.
The person who made those comments about rape not being a serious crime was a conservative member at the time he made that statement. He then infiltrated the BNP but was exposed and thrown out.

CommonSense, England says...
9:17am Fri 18 Apr 08

Mrs Smith wrote:
The BNP preys on people who are easily mis-lead. If you are not happy with main-stream politicians, then spoil your vote, don't waste it on voting for thugs. It is very easy to scape-goat immigrants, but there are far too many indigious Brits who prefer to sit at home and not work. Diversity is beautiful and should be celebrated
Has anyone else noticed the spelling mistakes in the comment from Mrs Smith?

john russell, Leeds says...
7:28pm Sat 19 Apr 08

Mrs Smith, may I suggest that you've fallen foul of the propaganda the Establishment have pushed at us every day of your life-propaganda that all of us have paid for. I totally support your right to vote for the diversity that you speak of. But I believe the day will come when you will look back and bitterly regret that you accepted the hatred poured on your fellow countrymen and women by the corrupt parties which have degraded our nation, swamped us with millions of immigrants against our wishes, dragged us into wars we don't agree with, stolen our pensions and are now engaged in using our taxes to subvert the forthcoming elections.

Bob, Norfolk says...
7:27pm Sun 20 Apr 08

The meek shall inherit the Earth !

Like .... they will.
Hail Odin
14 words
( for you TF)

Andyj, Wigan, UK says...
12:02am Mon 21 Apr 08

A bit off subject (sorry) to a couple of guys who spoke of Polish workers taking jobs against local boys being good for competition. So, local lads can claim all their taxes back as none domiciles? I was wondering about that 10p tax thing myself.

Whenever I book a day off work and go into my once squeaky white town its full of bored immigrants wandering around, courtesy of my tax money.

Yes, I'd vote BNP at the drop of a hat. If nobody here will be one, I might either join or be an independent. Same thing.

Dean, USA says...
3:32am Wed 23 Apr 08

discuss your views here:
http://britishnation
alism.org

dave, says...
5:35pm Tue 29 Apr 08

It has to be remembered that the BNP loathes Christianity. Below are example of just some of the BNP’s real opinions on and repudiation of Christianity.

John Tyndall, the BNP’s founder and leader, in his September 2003 article, 'Some Definitions: A sample from the Politically Aware Vocabulary series', wrote:

"What passes for Christianity in this country today can only be described as superstitious sociology; a bland doctrine of welfare-mongering with guilt, humility and self-abasement as its cardinal principles. We can only have contempt for a Church which, in the name of Christianity, facilitates the Islamic occupation of whole neighbourhoods, condones homosexuality, promotes multi-racialism and will forgive everything.

Our race is our religion, and the nation is our church".

Source: Spearhead magazine (edited by John Tyndall).

Then Lee Barnes, the BNP’s legal officer, posting under the name ‘Vader’, stated on the neo-nazi Stormfront forum in April 2003:

"The church is a nest of faggots and apostates.

"They use Christ to promote an agenda of communism.

"The Christian Church has become a homosexual death cult infiltrated by pederasts."

Most recently, Lee Barnes in his article, 'The Werewolf Complex'(5 February 2008), goes to the extent of calling Christianity an “alien religion” forced upon Britain and blames Christianity for both the World Wars, communism and consumerism! Here are Lee Barnes thoughts on Christianity from the article:

“Whilst Christianity has seen its own traditions of violence from the Warrior Knight Tradition, the Crusades, The Inquisition, Two World Wars and also spawned Fascism, Communism and Consumerism”

“The idea that the basis of violence is such a fragile Norse meme is absurd, and ignores the reality of the violence inherent in the Judeo-Christian traditions of Judaism, Christianity”

“To deny the theological and actual historical violence of the Semitic religions as a factor in the violence of Western Society is simply logically unsustainable, especially when Christianity dominates the culture of the West.”

“I, along with Rudgeley, assert that it is the centuries long brutal surpression of our ancestral cultures that have been repressed by Christianity and liberalism, that have caused the organic and spiritual crisis in Western Man and that it today springs forth as violence.”

"Nearly a thousand years of the Judeo-Christian extirpation of the indigenous pagan religious traditions of Europe, and the attempt to impose an alien religion with its alien archetypes, has created the spiritual, social and cultural crisis in Western Man.”

S Barnett, 816-827 says...
6:46pm Tue 29 Apr 08

Location, for those who ask, isn't required on this website. So, I may come from Spennymoor but not wish to tell everyone and his/my mother.

Whilst I doubt the wisdom of a mix of politics and state, I take exception to the Bishop's intervention. He should tend his own flock and not interfere in politics.

As for Dave @ 5.35pm - words fail me. The man's a prat. Given his fondness of quotations let me add one to his collection:
'We shall never turn from our purpose, however sombre the road, however grievous the cost, because we know that out of this time of trial and tribulation will be born a new freedom and glory for all mankind.'

And for those who shrug their shoulders and say, 'What war, what conflict?' please just read and listen to the blogs and the msn.

G CATCH, WAKEFIELD says...
11:26pm Thu 1 May 08

Dan wrote:
I agree with the comments above however, I dont believe that the BNP have any political ambitions other than genocide, and last time that happened Hitler and Saddam were involved. BNP have some of the right ideas but for the most part all they preach is violence and racism. Even the top brass of the party are criminals? surely the point of MP\'s is that they are above the usual depravity of society and they make unbiased decisions based on evidence supplied to them? Islam is a threat yes, but keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Immigration has got out of hand however, look at the emmigration by comparrison, so many Brits leave the country every year that in ten years of a slightly more open book policy to the EU weve only increased the population slightly over 2 million, and thats including the higher birthrate and increased average lifespan.
WHY ARE THEY LEAVEING. THIS IS ENGLAND AND WE HAVE NO RIGHTS ANYMORE .DARE TO SPEAK OUT AND YOU ARE RACIST.THEY WONT TO LIVE HERE. DO LIKE THE AUSTRALIANS DO.
quote
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AS WE SAY NOT YOU

Tristan Learoyd, North says...
8:17pm Sun 1 Jun 08

harry wrote:
Tristan Learoyd wrote:
Len your comments are spot on. Pt 3 in particular.

The BNP are racists. If they ever got in to power they would turn Britain in to a 1936 Germany modern replicate. Join a main stream political party (preferably Labour) and protest through action - don't protest by voting BNP because thats how Hitler gained power in 1933 .
Tristan Learoyd is typical of the brainwashed morons of this nation,
'Join a main stream political party (preferably labour)'
therefore we assume good old Tristan supports raining bombs onto Iraq for oil and making orphans out of thousand's of children (all of whom will be seeking revenge and moving to his street with labours open door policy in a few years).
Lets be honest here,the BNP cannot be any worse than the mass murderers of labour whatever they do!
Harry, Grimsby.

I'm a neo-socialist, Labour happens to be the party that closes matches my views. If raping women, racist thuggery and living in fear appeals to you - vote BNP. If not vote mainstream and through mass participation we can achieve progressive change. Yes our politicians have let us down, but collectively we can change things.

Harry 'Moron', why don't you crawl back in to the racist hell hole you came from.

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