"Thugs in suits"

Super smug, UAF claw hammer thug supporting David Cameron had the temerity to call the British National Party “Thugs in Suits”.

Oh dear David, how do you defend the report this week that former Conservative borough councillor John Cort appeared at Leicester Crown Court last week charged with murder ? (Some thug-some suit).

Local activists will recall that the same John Cort, a solicitor, was this time last year exposed in the local Leicestershire media as the worst attending councillor on Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council with only a 14% attendance record.

In the subsequent by-election in the Markfield, Stanton and Field Head ward that his forced resignation caused, our candidate Colin Gilmore secured 263 votes which has given us a sound base on which to build.

Former Tory in a suit, John Cort has been remanded in custody until October charged with murder of solicitor Vina Patel. Her body was found in her office at Cort Solicitors on Blackbird Road. Leicester.

For further information about respectable “politicians in suits” go to
LIARS, BUGGERS and THIEVES

The full story appeared in the Hinckley Times, July 9th., 2009:

"A FORMER borough councillor has been charged with murder.
John Cort, who represented Markfield, Stanton and Field Head as Conservative member for Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, appeared at Leicester Crown Court last week.
"He is charged with murdering solicitor Vina Patel whose body was found in her office in January.
"She was found by a family member at Corts Solicitors, on Blackbird Rd. in Leicester, after relatives became concerned when she failed to meet them.
Cort, 53, of Rutland St., Leicester, and Brian Farrell, 36, of Queensborough Terrace, West London, were both charged, and remanded in custody until a Hearing at Leicester Crown Court on October 9th.
"Cort resigned as a borough councillor last year.
In August, we exclusively revealed that he had attended just 14% of council meetings, although Conservative colleagues refused to call for his resignation.
Last year, group leader,Cllr. Reg Ward, said: 'he hasn't attended enough meetings but he has looked after the people who voted for him.
'The fact that he doesn't attend meetings does not make him a bad councillor'"

Article Here

Swine Flu information

From the Leicestershire & Rutland NHS site:-

The situation with swine flu has now changed. As swine flu spreads and there is transmission within the community, it makes sense to move from intensive efforts to contain the virus to focusing efforts on treating the increasing number of people who have the disease.

Swine flu itself remains, in most cases, a relatively mild illness, similar to seasonal flu.
If you develop flu-like symptoms stay at home and visit the NHS Direct website and use the online symptom checker, or call the national flu information line on 0800 1 513 513.

Typical symptoms are:
· sudden fever and
· sudden cough

Other symptoms may include:
· headache
· tiredness
· chills
· aching muscles
· limb or joint pain
· diarrhoea or stomach upset
· sore throat
· runny nose
· sneezing, and
· loss of appetite

If you are unsure about your symptoms and need advice, contact NHS Direct on 0845 4647

If you now believe that you have swine flu you should stay at home, then:
· Telephone your GP who can provide a diagnosis over the phone

If swine flu is confirmed, your GP will provide you with an authorisation voucher which your 'flu friend'* can take to a local collection centre to pick up the antiviral treatment. Your GP will tell you where the nearest centre is located. You should not collect the treatment yourself.

* Be prepared - before you become ill, make sure you have identified a ‘flu friend' who can collect your antiviral drugs for you if you need them. A 'flu friend' can be a member of your family, a friend, a neighbour or a colleague. If you know older or vulnerable people, or neighbours who live alone, check to see whether they have a 'flu friend', and think about offering to become theirs.

You should also do the following to protect the people you live with:
·Cover your nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing and use a tissue where possible
·Dispose of used tissues in waste/rubbish bins as soon as possible
·Wash hands frequently with warm soapy water to reduce the spread of the virus from your hands to your face, or to other people
·Always wash your hands before eating
·Clean hard surface, such as door handles, telephones and desks regularly using a normal cleaing product.

DO:
Stay at home
Go online and check your symptoms on the NHS Direct website, or
Call the swine flu information line on 0800 1 513 513 If you have symptoms
Call your GP on the phone
DO NOT: Visit your GP surgery or A&E in person

East Midlands BNP Regional Council Meeting. Friday 3rd July

John Ryde, East Midlands BNP Press and Publicity Officer, sends us this report of the Meeting:-

The East Midlands has “hit the road” running following the recent round of elections said Geoff Dickens, Regional Organiser.

Opening the East Midlands regional council meeting, Geoff said that large numbers of local enquiries that the elections have generated are already being followed up and converted into members. So great has been the increase in new members that Northampton branch has now split in to two groups and the newly formed Erewash group was already out fighting a local by-election.

Regional fund holder James Mole then gave an update on funds. The Peacock Club from which the 2.4 million Euro leaflets were financed still has a healthy balance and is now building for the future. All local branches and groups were in the black. Considering the considerable expense that the elections had cost the British National Party in the East Midlands was financially stable and ready for future elections.

Wayne McDermott, regional elections officer gave an overview in the massive increase in our support, thanking all those who stood as candidates and to all the helpers who had made the breakthrough possible. Wayne then asked for help in the by-elections that are now current in the East Midlands and announced that we now had another three parish councillors. giving a total of 23 parish,6 district /borough and 1 county councillor in the region. Meetings with local activists across the region are being set up to fill the gaps on the map with the new high quality enquiries/members to move the region forward.

John Ryde, regional press and publicity officer distributed copies of a revamped “Good News” leaflet, and stressed the importance of keeping up the door to door leafleting.

Minutes of the BNP Branch Meeting, June 2009

The Meeting was opened and chaired by Geoff Dickens
49 people attended
The Minutes of the last meeting were read and agreed.

Short Organiser's Report by Geoff Dickens:

Geoff said that there were a large number of new enquiries and new members of the party, despite the media whipping up hate. For the last EU elections Geoff and four other members manned phones in a house, this time we had a professional set up in Belfast who processed 60,000 enquiries, and many have since joined.

Election report: [read for Wayne by Pete Cheeseman]

Across Leicestershire we stood 48 of the 52 wards, and in NW Leicester we polled 18.5%, within 2% of coming second overall. Graham Partner was elected in Coalville as a county councillor, our first in the country! We had five seats where we polled above 20%, and four more at just above 19%, These were areas where we had done work campaigning and in three of them we had a district councillor already, but what surprised us was the areas where we had done very little work and still polled extremely well, like Groby and Ratby where we polled 18% without a leaflet or campaign of any sort.
We now need to plan for the coming years, and we need more people to come forward and stand as a candidate, we need more councillors. We are getting used to winning, let's carry on the trend.

Press report by John Ryde:

John spoke about the tremendous amount of opposition to us in the press, where they distort stories, or invent them. Graham Partner e-mailed the Leicester Mercury to say he wouldn't be doing an interview with them, and they quoted him as saying that Nick Griffin was a pratt. Even the Times has invented quotes! Well, if they didn't fear us they wouldn't attack us! The National Union of Journalists are not allowed to report uncritically about us, and don't allow us on the letters column or on phone-ins, however they give coverage to the views of travellers and gypsies. John supplied a print off of the NUJ rules to anyone who wanted one. However the Chartered Institute of Journalists have said that the BNP should be reported on in the same even handed way as other parties. So if you are approached by the media don't say anything but refer them to our Press Officer.

20 minute interval

Guest Speaker: Peter Jarvis

The Act of Supremacy was still in law in this country when 'we' signed up to the EU, which made that signing an act of treason. Since then half of our dairy farmers have disappeared and we import milk – there's no sense in that! When our 200 mile fishing border was reduced to 6 miles we lost 80,000 jobs and a billion a year in wages and sales, there's no sense in that, and because of regulations from the EU many of our post offices have closed. The EU has also closed many of our local abattoirs which means we have to transport animals many miles, not good for them and means using more diesel. It may also cause the spread of foot and mouth.

There was a short Question and Answer session

The collection with teas raised £217.43
The raffle raised £61.80
The next meeting is on 19th September.

David Cameron and the UAF

BNP Chairman, Nick Griffin MEP, writes:-

"I am sure many of you have heard of an organisation called Unite Against Fascism (UAF). The media tries to portray this group as some type of 'public protest' body - but the reality is that they are nothing but a tiny gang of extremist far-left communist party freaks, anti-white bigots and Muslim extremists.

"In fact, the UAF organisation is so overrun with Islamist extremists that the Searchlight organisation, which was an original founding member of UAF, left that group after it became clear that the Islamists were also violently anti-Israel and anti-Jewish as well!

"In other words, this UAF group is not a 'public protest' party, but a distillation of the most extreme, fanatical, lunatic cranks who blight the fringes of British society today.

"As the UAF group is unable to stand for elected office - because they have no popular support whatsoever - they actively resort to physical violence to try and achieve their extremist goals.

"The UAF is responsible for multiple acts of vicious political violence against the BNP and its members. At the onset of the Euro election campaign, it was UAF-placard carrying activists who attacked and smashed up a BNP loud-hailer vehicle in Wigan. During this attack, BNP activist Tony Ward was attacked and struck on the head by a claw hammer wielded by a UAF thug. Tony suffered grievous injuries in this attack. We are glad to report that the UAF thug was arrested by the police.

"Shortly after the BNP's Euro election victory, it was UAF thugs who attacked a peaceful BNP press conference outside Parliament, pelting the media and party officials with eggs, placards and bottles. Several of the UAF thugs also punched and kicked members of the BNP, including deputy leader Simon Darby who was repeatedly kicked in the back.

"Now, one would have thought that this bunch of sideline freaks would be ignored by any normal political party. No one in their right mind, we would have presumed, would want to associate themselves with this sort of violent, far leftist thuggery and extremism. But we are wrong!

"It turns out that the leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, is a signed-up supporter and founding member of the UAF communist thug gang. Incredible but true…

"We are convinced that the average Conservative Party member, voter supporter and activist are totally unaware of Mr Cameron's extremist leftist violent criminal connections. We need to tell the average Tory voter and supporter exactly what their leader is up to. For this we need your help. Will you take a few minutes to undertake this task?

"We need you to do 2 things:

"We need you to write to as many of the local Conservative associations as you can and tell them the truth about David Cameron's links to the UAF. You can find a list of local Conservative associations by CLICKING HERE That link will take you to a directory of local Tory group websites, where you will be able to email each one.

"Secondly, we need you to utilise an online service called 'WriteToThem.com', which allows members of the public to send a message to their local Conservative MP protesting Mr Cameron's support of the extremist leftist violent criminal UAF gang.
CLICK HERE to go to that website.

"When writing, always be polite and genuinely express your concern over the Tory leader's links to extremist criminals.

"We can put pressure on Mr Cameron to withdraw his support by contacting the lower-ranking Conservatives who we know are unsettled at the thought of their party being associated with the Communist left. Thanks for your help!"
- Nick Griffin MEP

Footnote: Part of a statement on the Searchlight website reads: "We have no intention of engaging in an ongoing row with UAF or of setting up a rival national organisation. We also recognise that there are good activists on the ground who will carry on identifying with UAF whom we will continue to work with in the future."

County Council Election Report, 2009

Cllr. Wayne McDermott is the BNP's Regional Elections Officer for the East Midlands. Here he gives his analysis of the Party's performance in Leicestershire:-

"Firstly,I would like to thank every one who stood as a candidate as without these people we would not have achieved what we did.

"Across Leicestershire we contested 48 out of the 52 wards which was fantastic. The target was always to have full slates in NW Leicestershire, Charnwood, Melton and Blaby; to also have a full slate standing in Hinckley was an added bonus and for the first time ever to contest seats in Harborough and Oadby & Wigston was a welcome boost.

"An incredible 26,279 people voted BNP across the county, a record number. In NW Leicestershire we polled 18.5%, Charnwood 15.1%, Blaby 14.9%, Melton 13.7% & Hinckley & Bosworth 13.5%; these vote shares were across the whole district, not, as previously, just across our best seats in the area.

"In the totally new areas we polled Oadby & Wigston 9.3% (14.5% in Wigston alone), Harborough 8.2%.

"In NW Leicestershire we were within 2% of coming second overall, really closing the gap on Labour beyond what we expected and putting us within a chance of becoming the 2nd party at the next District Elections in 2011, which would mean opposition status, something which has only been achieved in Barking & Dagenham so far.

"Of course the result we will all remember is Coalville: the first ever BNP County Council victory in the East Midlands and 1 of just 3 across the country. The people of Coalville electing Graham Partner has really put us on the map; although Graham and the Party can not yet form a group (until we win a County Council by election), just being on there will gain us vital experience and Graham has already been put onto other committees, helping him and us learn more about the system we one day hope to run.

"The one thing most of you are not aware of and what makes this victory even sweeter is the story behind the BNP contesting Coalville at District level 2 years earlier. As you will know the target seat that year was Whitwick where we had been working for sometime. During the build up to the election our ‘Friends’ at Searchlight, issued the BNP’s target seats, and where we must be stopped. On this list was Coalville. Until that point we were not even going to contest the seat as we had no candidate, but at the last minute we got a candidate and contested the seat coming 3rd and failing to get elected by a handful of votes; since then its been one of several seats we hoped to come close in at county level. So some of the thanks must go to Searchlight - I am sure if they hear of this they will be kicking themselves.

"Other highlights this year were:-

"5 seats with above 20% vote shares: Coalville, Whitwick, Ibstock, Syston Fosse, & Enderby Meridian. These are all seats we have contested before, either at County or District, and shows we can build on past results when the right work goes in. 3 of these seats also have local District Councillors and shows how we are building on the success of 2007 when we first broke through.

"Another 4 big votes above 19% and just missing the 20% target were Thurmaston, Syston Ridgeway, Forest & Measham and Earl Shilton; all these areas having some decent campaigning going on.

"What did shock us were the areas where we have done very little in the past couple of years yet still polled extremely well. The best example of this is in Groby & Ratby where we polled 18% without a leaflet or a campaign of any sort

"The two second places in Melton (remember at the last County Election we came last in every seat we contested) were another huge step forward and we should be looking to break onto the council in the next elections.

"The average vote across the whole of the county, including the areas where we did not have a candidate, was an impressive 12.1% and grabbed the Leicester Mercury headlines along with our victory in Coalville. This proved beyond all doubt the huge effort to contest so many seats was well worth while. I now feel we have broken the ‘Extremist handcuffs’ and we have become part of the electoral system in Leicestershire.

"In 2005 our best result was in Whitwick, 11.1% (Councillor elected 2 years later) and Syston Fosse 11% (Councillor elected in East Goscote part of the ward 2 years later). Well, we have 38 seats where we polled above these percentages.

"Although this sounds amazing remember the elections in 2005 were on General Election day so our results would have been held back slightly. I would still expect several councillors to be looking very nervously at us and wondering what we will be doing next.

"Looking at the bigger picture now these elections are over we need to set the plan for the coming two years; I will be meeting with a couple of people from each district in Leicestershire to set the plan and make sure these new target wards are worked, not just at election time but all year.

"We need more people to come forward and stand as candidates. If you are thinking about it talk to any of us that stood this time; remember, time is ticking and we need more councillors sooner rather than later. Unless we continue to fight hard and continue to put forward more candidates we will not be able to harvest the potential we have just set it place.

"Election 2009 has been good but we need your help and support to make these next 2 years an even bigger success. We are getting used to winning now so lets carry on the trend and win in 2011.

Euro elections

"Just a brief note on the Euro Elections campaign and a thank you to our Regional Organiser and Leicestershire Branch Organiser. 2 years ago Geoff started breaking parts of Leicestershire off to form independent BNP groups, a move which split one of the best Branches in the country. A brave move that some thought was maybe wrong, do these results prove anything about this move? Was it the right thing to do?

"Well, when you compare the progress of each of the 40 districts across the East Midlands from Euro 2004 election result to the vote we received this time, the top 3 out of all 40 were the 3 areas which were broken off by Geoff:

"Melton, who increased it’s 5% vote in 2004 to 9.9% - Relative increase of 97.8%
NW Leicestershire, 8.3% to 14.4% - Relative increase of 72.9%
Charnwood 6.8% to 11.7% - Relative increase of 71.7%"

An excellent report, thank you Wayne.