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Today the Times ran a lengthy and entertaining interview of Nick Griffin.  It was conducted on the hoof by Martin Fletcher, and gives a generally fair flavour of the man, his views and his supporters.

Griffin has earned his £1,800-a-month BNP salary. The party won three council seats in Burnley in 2002. It now has 49 nationwide, and on May 3 Griffin expects to win many more in what he sarcastically calls “enriched” areas such as inner Essex, the Black Country, West Yorkshire and Lancashire.

The party will also be contesting seats in blue-rinse towns such as Harrogate, Bath, Windsor and Torbay. One recent poll suggested that 7 per cent of the electorate would consider voting for it.

Griffin says that membership has risen from 1,300 in 1999 to 10,500, boosted by home-grown Islamic terrorist plots, globalisation and his dramatic acquittal in last year’s race-hate trials.

... He is not racist, he argues. He does not believe that whites are superior. He believes that races are different and that multiculturalism is a recipe for disaster. He opposes miscegenation “because most people want their grandchildren to look basically like them”. If the liberal elite had its way, the world would become “a giant melting pot turning out coffee-coloured citizens by the million”.

...  In Ripon the meeting point is the town square, where the local BBC radio station interviews Griffin. Ripon and Harrogate are “lovely English towns and we believe they should stay that way. They can’t if there are high levels of immigration,” he says. On our way to the meeting we pass a painting of a black inmate outside the Workhouse Museum. Griffin splutters. It was poor whites who suffered in workhouses, he says.

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My thanks to a seriously untangled guy named Smith for this hard-to-find story from The (Glasgow) Herald:-

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission of Equality and Human Rights, said there was a clear choice facing communities who are witnessing an influx of migrants.

Speaking at the STUC annual congress in Glasgow he said the choice was between welcoming people or fearing newcomers.

He urged people to turn their backs on racists in communities and at the ballot box and showed his contempt for the British National Party by saying they should be treated as “less than human”.

He said: “We will see communities standing up for asylum seekers who want to live as part of that community. We will see the Scottish government welcoming them as part of the fresh talent initiative.

“But we will also see the ugly face. We will see those who will assault a woman and baby simply because they are foreigners.

“We as a society have a choice. In England we have the BNP. The path is to keep them out.  We need to change in an inclusive way.”

I haven’t heard about any dramatic breakthrough yet in the search for those who will assault a woman and baby simply because they are foreigners.  But let that pass, because the big news is that Mr E has pulled off another of those smooth political hip wriggles for which he is so famous.  “Less than human” he says, is how BNP members should be treated.  A real headline grabber, one would think.  And surely that was what Trevor was hoping.

But, was he legal?  Can you imagine Nick Griffin and Mark Collett getting away with such a statement about Pakistanis?  If they were worth twice prosecuting for calling Islam “a wicked, vicious faith”, surely they would have been lynched for saying what Phillips just did.

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The lead story in today’s Times may prove the last Labour straw for the middle-class.

Secondary students will be offered cheap school transport under plans to open up popular schools in wealthy areas to pupils from poorer neighbourhoods, as well as to promote eco-friendly travel.

Pupils will be charged a maximum of 50p a journey for travelling on school buses or chartered coaches, or for passes for public buses or trains, the Department for Education will announce today. The subsidised travel will be available from September 2008 to all secondary school pupils in 20 pilot local authorities, regardless of ability to pay. Poor children will not have to pay at all.

The plan is part of a move to end the middle-class stranglehold on popular schools in expensive areas and to encourage sustainable travel for pupils by reducing the number of cars on the school run.

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In the Scotsman an ICM poll has revealed the continuing hardening of SNP support and the softening of Labour’s.  The speculative scenario I suggested on January 13th - an SNP government in May, a carried vote on independence in 2010, followed by the grisly death of the Labour Party nationally - is coming ever closer to fruition.

From the Scotsman:-

Under the poll results, Labour would have too few MSPs to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats and would have to try to rule as a minority government or patch together an unlikely coalition with the smaller parties to get into government again.

Translated into seats, the poll would give the SNP 44 to Labour’s 41 - a major turnaround on 2003, giving the SNP 17 more seats than they won then and Labour nine fewer.

The Liberal Democrats would also see a big improvement, with 23 MSPs gaining an extra six seats on the 17 they won in 2003, while the Conservatives would be down slightly, with 17 seats, not the 18 they won in 2003.

According to the poll, the SNP is in line to win 34 per cent on the constituency vote, up 1 per cent on last month, and 32 per cent on the regional vote, down 1 per cent.

The Scotsman still predicts a minority Labour administration.  But there is a grim 70-day slog ahead of Blair and McConnell, in which they can only lose more ground.  The potential for a highly significant moment in Britain’s political history is decidedly there.

The BNP put up a short piece on its website yesterday about Mark Collett’s appearance at a BBC local radio debate on the wonders of multiculturalism in the city.  Without him, in truth, it wouldn’t have been much of a debate.  There were only a couple of rather weak dissenting voices besides his own - neither of them armed with much in the way of argument.

The format was a panel answering points made or, sometimes, questions raised by an invited audience.  Collett, who was born and educated in the city, was among the invitees - which is certainly progress for a party that is still formally denied a media platform.

The panel of wise multicultural elders consisted of:-

  * Wolde Selassie - Chair, Leicester African Caribbean Arts Forum and Leicester   Black History Season consortium
  * Prof Richard Bonney - formerly Professor of Modern History at the University of Leicester, now Emeritus Professor and Chairman of the Europe-Islamic Organization
  * Riyaz Laher - youth worker and teacher
  * Sir Peter Soulsby - Leicester South MP (Labour, naturally)

Collett was given a fair crack of the whip.  He spoke from his place in the audience on, I think, three occasions.  He is, of course, the BNP’s Head of Publicity, and the most striking aspect of his contribution was its careful avoidance of anything too controversial or shocking to the assembled black and brown folks and white ethno-suiciders.

You can listen to the whole debate here, though I found the rampant suicidalism on so very eager display too much for my taste.  The BBC, however, kindly acknowledged Collett’s unique appeal on the evening with some links to a post-debate conversation recorded with some young or, certainly, youngish Moslems.  The links are here, here and here.

It is disquieting to hear a senior BNP official apparently predicating Moslem integration on the wearing of the hijab rather than the full-face veil.  But this is politics, a game the BNP are learning how to play.  Winning trumps sincerity.

I guess he did at least bag the best line in the debating chamber, rounding off with the ringing declaration that the panel represented all manner of ethnicities, but none of them included the white native population.  The BNP alone represented them.

After much Hiltonian leaking yesterday Da’ud al-Khamouron, leader of the Prophet Mohammad’s (PBUH) Loyal Opposition, has spoken of his vision for our not very British future.  It surpasses the obvious to say that he really is not, not a Conservative.  He is a thorough-going Guardianista.

David Cameron has called on the people of Britain to resist extremism, and work flat out to tackle the ‘five barriers’ dividing society and blocking cohesion in the community

And these five pillars of Islamo-British disunity are:-

1. Extremism: Here the Tough-Love Kid gets to conflate Muslims who don’t like Western decadence with the BNP, who don’t like Islam.  I bet he enjoyed that poke at “the Far Right” (who simply never read the Guardian and wouldn’t know polenta from that Polish teagirl at the Reform).  Of course, David believes that there is a moderate centre hanging around out there, waiting to be fashioned out of Muslims who hanker after a bit of Western decadence and Brits who admire the noble, manly life of the Bedouin and often holiday in the Rub’ al Khali.  But does anyone who isn’t a liberal politician believe that?

2. Multiculturalism: David says:-

“multiculturalism has been manipulated to favour a divisive idea - the right to difference”

But that’s just not right.  Multiculturalism didn’t need to be manipulated.  It was simply never intended to produce a cohesive society.  Its supporters didn’t care if the end-result was a train-wreck.  The point was to destroy the cultural hegemony of the native English, Scots and Welsh.

David doesn’t see that stopping this process will necessarily provide native hegemony with a certain isostatic recovery.  That alone will make it more difficult, not less, for aliens to integrate.  Put another way, if multiculturalism required us natives to “celebrate diversity”, ending it will cause us to celebrate ourselves, won’t it?

3. Uncontrolled immigration: David says:-

“We can only live together if there is proper integration. You can’t have proper integration if people are coming into Britain at a faster rate than we can cope with”

But immigration in Britain has always been at a faster rate than we can cope with.  That’s why it was called mass immigration.  And, then, any genetically-distant mass immigration is by definition impossible to cope with.  That’s why it was called Commonwealth immigration, and why all those blacks and browns squeezed together in their own little - now quite big - corners of the country.  They did not want to integrate with us, and we did not want to integrate with them.  White flight mean anything to you, David?  Probably not part of your aristocratic experience.

4. Poverty: Well, the mean IQ of Pakistan is 81.  What can one expect?  But David, who cannot be unaware that his ideas have all been tested up to and beyond destruction in America, Holland or France, blithely asserts that:-

“the most effective way of beating poverty in the long run is to give people in deprived areas decent schools”

5. Poor educational standards: The mean IQ in Pakistan is 81.  What can one expect?

So much for the young hero’s prescription for a less British, more exotic life of colour-blind togetherness.  The “extremist” BNP, unwilling to consign us into the tender care of the muezzin, passes it’s judgement on Cameron here.  I suppose it won’t be long before we receive a reply from the extremist Muslims.

I’m angry.  No point in pretending otherwise.  Today, I listened to a man getting away with treason.  In public and without any attempt to disguise or ameliorate the crime.

Why should he?  Anthony bleedin’ Blair – English-hater, Surface Man, Bilderberg bum-boy – is all for celebrating the destruction of my people and the slow, ineluctable theft of my homeland.  He doesn’t care.  He thinks it’s OK.  He tells himself - and us - that we don’t care either … that we are all progressing together to that happy la-la land where Trevor Phillips’ racist dreams come true.  Or dream singular, to be exact.  For the dream of blacks and Jews and the traitor class is one.  The dream of all the Western nation-haters is one.

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