Michael Smith v Gordon Brown

From The Times on line

THE son of a second world war hero and leading Tory industrialist who was a close friend of Margaret Thatcher is to stand for the BNP against Gordon Brown at the next election.
Michael Smith, who will be the far-right party’s candidate in the prime minister’s Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency, is the son of Sir Alan Smith, a distinguished RAF pilot who fought alongside Douglas Bader, the legendary fighter ace.
Sir Alan, 92, who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for valour, was a prominent businessman and a friend and supporter of Margaret Thatcher, the former Tory prime minister.
However, last week his son, formerly a lifelong supporter of the Tories, said he had become disillusioned with the party and would stand against Brown on an anti-immigration ticket.
“I would like the opportunity to challenge Brown on the hustings because I think the man will be found wanting,” said Smith, a farmer from Kinross.
“We are totally stigmatised as out-and-out racists. We are a small, patriotic and dedicated party and I just want the BNP to get a fair hearing. There is too much bureaucracy in politics, too much deceit and a complete lack of accountability.
“Immigration is a big issue because the numbers being let in are far too big. Europe is a drain on our resources and I just think that, overall, Labour has been pretty treacherous and they are treating us like fools.”
Smith insisted that the BNP was “misunderstood”, adding that he joined in 2006 because he was frustrated at the Tories’ inability to mount a credible opposition to Labour.
He said he was sorry his father had “become a victim of his political frustration” and that Sir Alan had been upset by his defection to the BNP, which was made public in a list of more than 12,000 BNP supporters leaked on the internet earlier this month.
“My father was shocked when I told him that I was joining the BNP but he has got used to it,” he said. “There was no alternative for me to allow me to vent my frustration with the current political climate.”
In December 1940, Sir Alan joined 616 Squadron in which he was wingman for Bader, who taught himself to fly again after losing both his legs in an aircraft crash in 1931.
Sir Alan narrowly escaped becoming a prisoner of war when a head-cold prevented him from flying with Bader on August 9, 1941.
That day, Bader’s Spitfire collided with a Messerschmitt Bf 109 over France and he was forced to bail out.
Bader, who secured 22 aerial victories, was captured by the Nazis and imprisoned for the remainder of the war, latterly in Colditz.
Sir Alan was awarded a number of military medals including the Distinguished Flying Cross for “acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying in active operations against the enemy”.
After the war, he ran Dawson International, one of the UK’s biggest textile firms, which was awarded the Queen’s Award for Industry on six occasions.
Sir Alan was also chairman of Quayle Munro, an independent merchant bank and a board member of the Scottish Development Agency from 1982 to 1987 during which time he became a friend of Thatcher.
Smith said: “My father admired Thatcher. My father [is someone] I love and respect enormously. His war record is without parallel and his achievement as a businessman was a standard for others to look up to. I am sorry if he is dragged into this as he is a victim of my political frustration.”
While Sir Alan declined to be interviewed, Smith telephoned him on The Sunday Times’ behalf and said his father remained a “staunch supporter of the Conservatives and a great admirer of what Margaret Thatcher achieved” and that he was “disappointed” that his son had joined the BNP.
Among the list of BNP supporters published online earlier this month were almost 400 people registered in Scotland, with almost 110 in Glasgow and the central belt, 47 in Aberdeen and the surrounding area, 42 in Edinburgh and Midlothian, 31 in Ayrshire and 27 in Fife.
The Scots on the list included a nurse, a former maths teacher, a driving instructor and two serving soldiers attached to the Black Watch regiment.
David Cameron, the Tory leader, branded the BNP “racist thugs” at his party’s conference in Birmingham last month and said the Conservatives intended to win votes from the far-right party. In 2006, Cameron accused the BNP of “thriving on hatred” and said that it held unacceptable views.
Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP, last week welcomed Smith’s decision to stand and said his father’s war effort would help his campaign.
“It shows the stupid Nazi smear is a lie. How can you say that someone whose father fought in the war is some sort of extremist?” said Griffin.
“Smith is a tremendously good local candidate and we are very happy he is standing.”

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Unite keeps Labour afloat

Labour leader Gordon Brown can keep Labour afloat due to the generosity of Unite - Britain’s biggest Union.

The Prime Minister has negotiated a multi-million pound ‘secret’ deal to save the party from BANKRUPTCY!

Unite have contributed greatly to Labour in the past by ‘donating’ £6.5 million since Mr Brown stepped into Mr Blair’s shoes.

Mr Brown will be heaving a sigh of relief at the ‘guarantees’ that Unite has made as the Labour Party currently owe £15.7MILLION IN LOANS.

Opposition party’s want Labour to come clean about the agreement but Labour deny any party funding rules have been breached.

Ministers have recently caved in to a series of demands on union wish lists - including a new top rate of tax and a trial of free meals for primary schoolchildren.

The Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, Francis Maude, said, “The public have a right to know that, if a deal was struck between Unite and the Labour Party, what were the terms and conditions of any agreement?”.

Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott said, “If a political party can only keep going with guarantees from outside backers those guarantees should be fully and publicly disclosed as loans or donations - Even if they are operating a millimetre within the law, Labour are clearly breaching the spirit of the law”.

Figures released this week by the Electoral Commission revealed Labour has received more than £5million in private donations between July and September - whilst the Conservatives only received £4million.

Labour also converted £2.25million of loans into gifts - £2m from former science minister Lord Sainsbury and £250,000 from businessperson Sir Gulam Noon - who was at the Taj hotel when the terror attacks began in Mumbai - claimed that Britain should close its borders to all immigrants, for up to 10 years, to prevent “extremists” such as the BNP ”exploiting tensions”.

These gifts and loans have helped the party escape the perilous threat of bankruptcy that it was facing in the summer.

The Labour party claim that they have submitted detailed accounts to auditors who then approach lenders to make sure that they continue the funding as promised.

Nevertheless, as there has been no actual monies handed over, Labour have no need to report it to the Electoral Commission.

A spokesperson at the Electoral Commission said that, “Parties must report details of any donations received or regulated transactions they enter into to the commission.

“Regulated transactions include any loans or credit facilities entered into, and that includes transactions connected to those loans.

“Political parties do not have to tell the commission about any future funding arrangements they have agreed unless they are entered into a regulated transaction or receiving a donation”.

A spokesperson at Labour defended the party saying, “The Labour Party has declared its accounts, donations, and loans to the Electoral Commission in full compliance with party finance rules. As they show, there was no question of the Labour Party going bankrupt.

“While we welcome the unions’ support, it would be wrong to suggest that they are the sole source of the party’s funding or that their financial support in any way gains them any special influence in policy making”.

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New badge coming soon!

In response to the ‘outing’ of some of our members we have commissioned a brand new BNP Scotland logo badge for all those unlucky members who did not appear on the ‘roll of honour’ so they too can let their friends and neighbours know they are proud members of the BNP. Watch this space for price etc.

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SNP in a quandary

Influential party members claim Alex Salmond is risking an SNP defeat in an independence referendum unless his tactics change.

The First Minister must dump his plan to hold the vote in 2010, claimed some grassroots Scottish Nationalists whilst others accuse him of backtracking away from the campaign for independence in this turbulent current climate.

Former SNP deputy leader, Jim Sillars, added that the SNP would be doomed to lose the referendum - whenever it is held - unless the SNP’s frontbench team changes tactics.

This is the first time Mr Salmond’s plan for winning independence has been doubted by his grassroots Nationalists since he took power last May.

The leader of the SNP hoped to win over a majority of Scots to his point of view by his party governing well yet he has admitted that a referendum on independence would be a “once in a generation” event.

Support for independence has fallen to less than a third with voters more interested in what is in their pocket than independence.

The major keystone of the SNP’s economic case for independence - HBOS, RBS have been part nationalised by the UK Government (using taxpayers money and oil revenues) - are projected to drop by a third by 2010.

Rob Brown, a prominent Scottish Nationalist and media commentator has argued for the referendum to be delayed.

As Mr Brown wrote in the New Statesman: “Salmond is in a hurry to make history. But party members should be wary of his impatience because this inveterate gambler wouldn’t just be risking further economic instability and his own political legacy with an ill-timed referendum; he would be risking the very future of the self-government cause”.

Another influential SNP member, Chris Walker, a leading expert on Iraq, warned Mr Salmond that he needs to ready the party for a vote now.

Mr Walker wrote in a letter to a newspaper, “The SNP badly needs a change of direction, away from trotting gently towards a 2010 referendum -The SNP must conceive of fighting a referendum as of tomorrow morning”.

He also added that the recent by-election defeat suffered by the SNP in Glenrothes was a “warning” and that “The financial crisis has radically changed the calculus and thus the battleground arguments in Scotland”.

Mr Sillars, who is still a member of the SNP - despite falling out with Mr Salmond - said the arguments over timing are irrelevant if the party’s frontbench do not actively campaign for independence, instead of making token references to it and that the leadership of the SNP is failing to set out a detailed alternative economic plan to the Labour Government, at Westminster, for helping Scotland out of the current financial crisis.

He said “We’ve had two recent by-elections in Glasgow East they said they were parking independence and later on in Glenrothes they were putting it on the backburner.

“We cannot win a referendum on such a profound matter as independence in a three-week campaign. The main point is we have to have a sustained campaign for a very considerable period of time”.

the Scottish finance minister, John Swinney, gave an official Executive response - short on deatil - to Alistair Darling’s pre-Budget report on Wednesday.

Mr Sillars also stated that Mr Swinney should have held a press conference for the SNP to lay out his own Pre Budget Report showing how he would have things in an independent Scotland.

But a source close to the First Minister argued a 2010 referendum was still the best option, adding: “The context of a London Labour-imposed £1billion cut in Scotland’s budget will be a very powerful argument for independence and Scotland being in charge of our own tax and spending decisions.”

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Changing face of policing in Britain

It would appear that we are witnessing a political metamorphosis with the arrest and nine hour detention of Tory Immigration spokesman Damian Green by what many will be calling the New Labour-Stasi-type police, alias the counter-terrorism squad.

Because Damian Green had British public interest as his first concern and spoke out on assured facts on the nightmare which is the present state of immigration in this country, the Labour Home Secretary and the police spectacularly took what will yet prove to be a deeply damaging action.

On Nov. 2007 a Home Office memo showed that the Home Secretary had been warned four months earlier that thousands of illegal immigrants had been cleared to work in sensitive Whitehall jobs.

On 10th Feb. this year the then Home Office Minister received an email revealing that an illegal Brazilian immigrant had faked an identity pass to obtain work in Parliament. The memo was published in the Sunday Telegraph and Liam Byrne was informed of it on the 31st. Jan. Byrne was accused of a cover-up.

It is no coincidence that this arrest has been made just before a mini-recess in Parliament which will deny searching questions being asked in the House immediately. Over the past year your paper has published letters highlighting the rise in New Labour political oppressiveness and intrusions of individual liberty.

The Government’s transparent policy, both positive and by default, of changing the historic identity of the British peoples by unlimited immigration has been cranked up just that degree or so more by the scandalous arrest of Damian Green. It is to be hoped that this action will shake multitudes of the complacent from their all-too-long comfort zones.

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MSP’s ‘keep it in the family’

A new official register has revealed that the taxpayer is footing the bill - which runs into hundreds of thousands of pounds - for MSP’s to employ their FAMILY MEMBERS to carry out such duties ranging from researcher, office manager, call handler and parliamentary assistant!

A ‘backroom deal’ was done by the MSP’s after it was claimed that their office workers were UNDERPAID! Although it was agreed that the new register would be published, details of salaries would be omitted on ‘confidentiality grounds’.

The increase to their allowance went up by a fifth to £56,650, which is going to cost the taxpayers £1.25 MILLION A YEAR - the total spent on staff by the MSP’s is a whopping £7million!

The new register, recently revealed, shows that 25 MSP’s employ family members -including their spouses, children and in-laws - 11 SNP, 11 Labour, 2 Tories and 1 Liberal Democrat.

It was also revealed last year that 47 MSPs have hired close family members since devolution started in 1999.

However, these new figures only include those MSP’s who have done so since October 2008 - when the new expenses regime started

Campaign Director of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, Mark Wallace, welcomed the register but added, “Employing family members is an outdated practice that should be consigned to the dustbin of history.”

The register reveals,

Liberal Democrat MSP - employs his wife, Alison.

SNP Angela Constance MSP - employs her mother-in-law, Mary (part time).

SNP Willie Coffey MSP - employs his sister, Helen.

SNP Nicola Sturgeon Scottish health minister - used to employ her sister, Gillian. Now employs mother, Joan.

SNP Stewart Maxwell Scottish communities’ minister - employed his wife, Mary.

SNP Jim Mather MSP - employs his wife, Maureen, as a secretary and clerical assistant.

SNP Brian Adam Chief Whip - used to employ his son, David, but now has other son Alan working for him.

SNP Sandra White MSP - used to employ her daughter, Jennifer, now employs son, Christopher.

SNP Christine Grahame MSP - employs her brother Tony.

Labour Marlyn Glen MSP - employed her son, Alasdair,

Labour Andy Kerr former Health Minister - employs his wife, Mary.

Labour Michael McMahon whip - employs his daughter, Siobhan, and wife, Margaret.

Labour Cathy Jamieson MSP - employs close relative.

Labour Hugh Henry MSP - employs close relative.

Labour Tom McCabe MSP - employs close relative.

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Widows cottage raided as tomato plants look like cannabis plants

79-year-old widow Lulu Matheson’s house was raided by the police as her tomato plants ‘looked’ like cannabis plants!

The police believed that Mrs Matheson had a CANNABIS FACTORY in her Highland cottage!

Mrs Matheson, who has lived in the cottage in Shieldaig for 53 years, said she was shaken up by the encounter.

Mrs Matheson told reporters “I got a terrible fright and I couldn’t understand what they were doing here because I knew we had nothing more than tomatoes in the window. I don’t know what the neighbours must be thinking”.

Mrs Matheson’s son, Gus, was looking out of the window when he saw police cars stop right outside the house.

He said, “I wondered what on earth was going on. I opened the door and they more or less barged past, saying that I was growing cannabis on the windowsills”.

The officers burst in with sniffer dogs and took samples of the plants away for further testing.

“I started laughing because I knew they were tomato plants but it wasn’t so funny when they frisked me and then started tearing the house apart”.

The police searched through the cottage, under the mattress and in the furniture whilst Mr Matheson was detained in the bedroom - the police even “arrested” the family’s pet dogs.

Mr Matheson said, “They even ‘arrested’ Zac, our black Labrador, and Moby, our Jack Russell, putting them in the back of one of the cop cars”.

“And I just couldn’t believe it when they brought sniffer dogs all the way from Lanes, which is about two hours away”.

He added, “Despite leaving with their tails between their legs, the police didn’t even apologise”.

“The tomatoes are grown in the south-facing bedroom window,” said Mr Matheson - a keen gardener. “We always enjoy having a juicy home-grown tomato with our dinner and I’ve had fine crops this year”.

A police spokesperson said: “We can confirm that, acting on information, we attended at an address in the Shieldaig area - No drugs were found as a result of the search”.

Mr Matheson is now making a formal complaint to the Northern Constabulary

Yes, the police are willing to ‘raid’ an elderly woman’s home looking for a cannabis factory and arrest members of the British National Party for distributing LEGAL leaflets. For telling the truth about ‘positive discrimination’ and the fact that young white girls are being groomed by Muslim/Pakistani men to make them money by being prostitutes due to the fact that they are not making as much money from drug dealing as they used to. Yet when it comes to arresting those men that prey on our vulnerable young girls - the police are nowhere in sight!

It seems that if you are an honest, taxpaying, indigenous member of society then the police are not interested in defending your rights - only violating them. On the other hand, if you are a depraved drug dealer or criminal from abroad then you have the Human Rights Act on your side. Where are our rights?

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Message from Scottish leader

The recent unprecedented orchestrated attack against the BNP membership by the establishment and its lackeys has been a complete failure. I know this might not seem so to those that have been receiving threatening and obscene phone calls but be assured that it really is the case.
I have spoken to so many concerned members over the last week and I can honestly state that 99% have no intentions of being frighten off from being a member of our party now or in the future, we have received our largest donation to date and have been overwhelmed by new enquiries, there has also been a noticeable increase in traffic on our web site and a day of action being held this weekend.
So far the press, bowing to their Marxist masters, have uncovered a two year old piece of news concerning my involvement with the Army Cadet Force, given full page coverage to a member who is an Elvis impersonator and does a lot of work for charity, and exposed a doctor, retired teacher and policeman, what no knuckle draggers so beloved by the gutter press?
The profile of the BNP has been raised across Scotland leaving no region unaware of our presence and our on going political campaign, the thousands of people who had no knowledge that we were organised and active in their area do now as all the new enquiries have proven, this has been the biggest step into the mainstream BNP Scotland could of wished for, so take heart when the crank calls have faded and the media moved on to their next victims we will still be here, stronger, better organised, and more committed to our cause than ever before, for when you have truth on your side you have nothing to fear.

Gary Raikes

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Proud Scot told to remove Saltire as it is RACIST!

Council workers ordered Paul Steele, 38, - from East Wemyss, Fife, to remove the Saltire from his window after they had received comments that it was RACIST!

Mr Steele said; “The council guy said his boss had told him to get it removed as it is ‘extremely racist“.

He continued; “They’re threatening to take me to court over it but there’s no way I’m taking it down - It’s crazy. Even the Queen flies flags outside her homes in London and Edinburgh”.“I’ve got an English neighbour beside me and another one above me” he said “but I know this is nothing to do with them as we get on really well. People fly their countries’ flags all over the world and I want to do it as well as a proud Scot.”

Paul’s Saltire is 8ft x 4ft and is pinned in his living room window - on the inside - and looks out on to a quiet village street.

A member of Fife council’s customer services department, Bruce Combes, told Mr Steele to remove the Saltire after an inspection at his home last week, as he was “asked to make sure the flag was removed by my superiors”, yet made no mention of the Irish flag that Mr Steele’s son has in another window as he “did not see the tricolour”.

Head of local services (North) for Fife Council, Jim Findlay, defended the action by adding: “It was not because we considered the flag racist - We have had complaints about this property — including the flag and its prominence and as a result the tenant has been asked to remove it”.

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DAY OF ACTION PLANNED

 

This weekend BNP Scotland will be holding a day of action in support of the Liverpool 13 and to show the anti-democracy forces that have been at work over the last week that we are standing together with our fellow patriots from across Britain, standing for Freedom, Security, Identity and Democracy and will continue to spread our message of hope to the peoples of these Islands.

Please contact the Scottish Office for full details.

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