The Journal, just who are the fascists?
October 17, 2009 by BNPScot
Filed under Scottish Leader
Labour: “BNP members should not be allowed to teach in Scotland”
From ‘The Journal’ newspaper.
BNP claim it is a breach of their human rights to withhold employment based on political beliefs
The General Teaching Council’s (GTC) code of conduct is strong enough to prevent BNP members from becoming teachers in Scotland, according to Scottish Labour.
The comments come following a speech by schools secretary Ed Balls to the Labour conference in Brighton last week, in which he ordered a review in England and Wales to “keep racism and BNP activity out of all our schools”.
Rhona Brankin, Scottish Labour’s education spokesperson, said: “We all condemn the idea of having racists teaching in our classrooms. No one would want their children educated by a neo-Nazi. Here, the General Teaching Council for Scotland has much stronger powers to ensure that anyone in the classroom is a fit and proper person to be a teacher.”
A Scottish Labour spokesperson added: “The BNP are not a normal political party. They are a violent bunch of fascists who stand against everything the vast majority of Scots hold dear.”
The review ordered by Mr Balls will consider whether or not to ban BNP members from becoming teachers in England and Wales, but will not effect the Scottish education system as it falls under the jurisdiction of the Scottish Parliament.
Regarding a similar review in Scotland, a Scottish government spokesman said: “Teachers must adhere to the General Teaching Council for Scotland’s Code of Professionalism and Conduct, which states that teachers must not be prejudiced by views about a pupil’s lifestyle, culture, disability, beliefs, colour, gender, language, sexuality or age. Membership of a specific political party in itself is not a breach of the Code.”
Speaking to The Journal, Gary Raikes, leader of the Scottish BNP, defended his party, saying that it is wrong to deny a teacher the right to employment based on political beliefs:
“The BNP are not neo-Nazis or violent fascists. Those that level these insults at us do so due to their ignorance. I would suggest that by trying to deny teachers employment because of their political beliefs is in itself a fascist act and a breach of our members’ human rights.”
GTC Scotland would not comment specifically on the situation, highlighting instead the stability of the system and the strict measures in place.
GTC Scotland Chief Executive Anthony Finn said: “We are content that our Code of Professionalism and Conduct offers a robust and fair measure by which to ensure that teachers registered in Scotland are fit to teach in our Schools.”
I'm all in favour of the education system being politically neutral, sadly it's not. Having had two kids come out of university in the last few years I know for a fact it is rampant with communist type folk and misfit organisations like UAF etc, . Kids go there to be educated NOT bullied into going along with a bunch of weirdos and being persecuted directly or indirectly if they refuse. Fortunately both my kids were smart enough to see through it all but it made life a bit harder for them. Knowing what I do now, if my kids were about to enter college or uni all over again I'd be asking which members of the staff had associations with these crank communist groups. If these were banned from teaching I bet there'd only be about 10% of teachers left.
The headmaster at my local primary school, a Mr McDonald, was a racist and an exception in making provision not only for bible class but Scottish history. Elsewhere children emmerged from school ignorant of who they were and where they came from therefore unable to learn from the past and how to use it to their advantage. We as a people were over the decades if not centuries being socially engineered and nothing much has changed in that respect except that anglicisation is being replaced with multi culturism and will be the death of us. The people who used to punish children for speaking Cymric, Gaelic and the Lallans have been replaced by the politically correct engaged in a similar activity. History does tend to repeat itself hence the need to learn our own and not that of the alien and potentially malign as is certainly the case with the Arab and Moslem.
I have over the last 2 years found myself more aligned with BNP thinking than any other party and in fact voted on both local and European for their candidates in the last elections. Historically my parents and myself were Lib-Dems, but sadly like all the other parties they are watery without the backbone to actually voice what some of their members believe, and of course like other parties clamoring for the votes of the ethnic groups and tripping over themselves with political correctness!
Nick I think you stood up well on the BBC's program who set out with their journalistic colleagues to cause embarrasment.