So today saw the launch of the SNP’s white paper on an independence referendum.
What a complete waste of time, energy and tax payers money this is as it does not even ask the simple question, independence Yes or No.

The reason being because even the blinkered false nationalist party already knows the answer.

Can they seriously argue with more than three decades of broadly similar poll results or hard votes? A hard core of about 20% of Scots wish to go it alone while in a good month for the SNP a little over 40% favour separation. But in the SNP’s entire 75 year history the party has never won more than 33% of the poll in any kind of national election.

Recent polls show that a record 57% of voters resolve to vote no with only 29% in favour of separation which is why the white paper has been designed to gerrymander the referendum by splitting the unionist vote.

By the SNP’s own admission this will cost 9-11 million, the outcome of which is already known to be against independence, what a criminal waste of money when so many are suffering in the midst of a recession.

With their manifesto pledges in tatters due to as they say lack of funds can anyone take this obsession seriously? The people of Scotland deserve better governance than this during an economic crisis, the people must soundly reject the false nationalists at the General Election and send them a clear message at the ballot box, time to go home and think again Alex!

The following letter was published in the Daily Mail and is of special interest as it was written by someone who spent time on the campaign trail recently.

“I’m not racist, but…” that’s what I heard on the streets of Glasgow North East, time and time again. As the dust settles, activists in the main parties should consider the wider implications.
The BNP came within a few dozen votes of pushing the Tories into forth place and became the new home for angry and disillusioned voters rather than Solidarity, the Scottish Socialist Party and the Liberal Democrats’
Many voters were disillusioned with mainstream politicians. “Politicians? There all the same,” they all told me.
I found an increasing number of traditional non-voters were going to vote BNP. ” Someone needs to grab this country by the scruff of the neck,” was a common feeling.
If the main parties continue to be seen as indifferent or ineffective, then the BNP will continue making inroads in Scotland.
When voters ask why their children can’t get a council or housing association tenancy, the answer “they aren’t priority status” is remembered.
When gangs roam the streets and drug dealers ply their trade with little, if any, interference from the police, voters know who really calls the shots. People have had enough.
Alex Salmond has made much of Westminster dancing to a Scottish tune after next’s years General Election.
If I were him, I would be more concerned about the BNP holding the balance of power in Holyrood after the next Scottish Parliamentary elections in 2011.

MEV BROWN, Independent candidate in the Glasgow North east by-election, Currie, Midlothian.

All I will say is I promise that I will work night and day to make this a reality! We will deliver a BNP MSP in 2011 and nothing will stand in our way.

Gary Raikes

Local dynamo Susan Ross has been nominated to stand for the British National Party in Aberdeen South, it was announced at the latest meeting of the party in this northern Scottish town.

“My aim as candidate is to offer real representation for everyday people, confronting real political issues and to show Aberdeen that the BNP really is a credible alternative,” Ms Ross told the meeting to great applause.

Organiser Barry Scott described the meeting as a “roaring success” with attendance figures significantly up on the previous gathering. “There were a great many new faces in the audience which which was extremely reassuring,” Mr Scott said.

“The most promising and significant difference this time round was the increase in female attendees. Some 30 percent of the members who turned-up were women, a very encouraging development,” he said.

The meeting was also addressed by local activist John Robertson who gave an informative talk on the forthcoming changes to the party’s constitution and its implications.

The meeting ended with a lengthy question and answer session followed by a collection which raised £170.

BNP Scotland are now in reach of winning a seat in Holyrood, that is if the usual suspects don’t change the voting system by 2011. This reflects the hard work that has been done over the last two years that has resulted in doubling our membership and increasing our vote to with in a whisker of saving our deposit for the first time ever in Scotland

Another five members have stood up to the mark and are in the process of being appointed Local Authority Organisers which will add Dundee, Fife, North lanarkshire, Highlands and Clackmannanshire to the ten organisers already appointed which means a leap from three groups two years ago, to fifteen now!

Issue three of our Scottish news letter ‘The Bugle’ will be going out in January to every member helping to keep all up to date with our progress and our official web site www.scotland.bnp.org.uk will spread news further a field!

It has not all been plain sailing, steering the good ship BNP never is, but we are in the best shape we ever have been and moving rapidly ahead. Our target now is 2010 when we aim to stand 23 candidates across Scotland, every group must now start raising funds and appoint candidates, some have already done so but every group has to start campaigning now, paper sales and leafleting events held by every one of our 15 groups will ensure the BNP’s message of hope starts to reach the Scottish people on a unprecedented scale!

In what can only be described as proof of the complete failure of decades of political correct liberalism, figures released last week show 6,488 crimes had been committed in the north east by youngsters aged between eight and sixteen in the last year!

The list does not make easy reading and includes crimes of rape, attempted murder, indecent assault, carrying knives, public indecency, assault, robbery, vandalism and fire raising.

Sadly this comes as no surprise to British nationalists who have warned about the liberals fixation with rights with no responsibility for years. These youngsters are the children of parents who went through school with no fear of real punishment, the slipper, cane and strap being banished and now the right of parents to smack their own children taken away.

Now we have a second generation with no idea of discipline instilled at a young age. No fear of the police who they view as social workers, no respect for their elders or the community they live in, and in many cases no hope for the future with a life on benefits beckoning.

This is a sad result of decades of misgovernment by the Lib-Lab-Con pact.

It is time for change, a change that only the BNP can deliver. Have you the courage to stand with us? Contact Scotland@bnp.org.uk and find out what you can do to help.

Hello Folks,

Just a polite reminder about the next Group meeting this coming Wednesday:

Wed 25th November at 7:00pm to be held at a City Centre location.

Details of that Location will be emailed or text to you on Tuesday the 24th.

This will be the last official meeting of the year, so don’t miss it! Please confirm your attendance as places may be limited.

And feel free to invite a friend!

Regards,

Barry Scott,
Aberdeen Organiser.

Aberdeen BNP were honoured to have been represented at the Remembrance Sunday Parade at Cowdry Hall.

Four members, including the Organiser, attended the ceremony on the 8th of November to lay a wreath in tribute to those who gave their lives in the name of Freedom and Democracy and to those servicemen still at war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As well as the Service held in Morayshire members in Glasgow also took time to remember the fallen.

Something that should concern all the smaller political parties in Scotland has been reported in the press, in a wholly fascistic move some MSP’s have suggested the electoral system for Holyrood should be changed to stop the BNP winning a seat on the top up list.
The top up system was introduced to compensate parties that polled perhaps 20% of votes in constituencies but failed to win first past the post seats. This is democracy in action, which both the Greens and the far left have benefited from in the past. However now that the BNP are in reach of winning a seat the main parties want to change it!
The desperation of these anti democratic forces is staggering, people it would seem can vote for who they like as long as it suits the Lab/SNP/Con tri-party, this can not be tolerated and must be challenged.
The BNP is a completely legal registered political party that has won a mandate from one million people, almost 30,000 here in Scotland voted BNP in the Euros, we beat the Lib-Dems, Greens and all the far left parties in Glasgow recently, we have the absolute right to represent these people, as they have the absolute right to vote for us, do not let them take away this freedom, contact your elected representatives and express your disgust with the Holyrood fascists.

Contact details can be found on www.theyworkforyou.com

We’re glad to report that the British National Party has pulled off our best-ever result in a parliamentary election in Scotland, demonstrating just how far we have come in a very short time and the extent to which the party is now perceived as a credible, mainstream contender by increasing numbers of voters.

There was no surprise about the top two positions at the Glasgow North East by-election on Thursday 12 November 2009, but the entire story of the contest was the battle for third place.

For our party to even be fighting over third place at this early stage in our Scottish growth is astonishing. Three years ago we wouldn’t even have placed in the top six. Now we’re fighting for third. It just demonstrates the potential out there.

For our readers in England, remember that this result is even more remarkable given that we have four, not three, Westminster parties up here.

When we consider what we were up against, we really have done remarkably well.

Let’s reconsider our seven stated aims at this by-election, which we published in our article on the BNP website on 9th November, here.

Our first aim, to beat all the extreme left-wing parties was achieved, in spades. In fact, we beat the combined vote of Solidarity, SSP and Socialist Labour, added together. So, aim achieved.

The second aim, to get in the top six. Achieved.

The third aim, to beat one of the following: the Greens, Conservatives or the Lib Dems, who on past outings have come above us. Well, we tanked the Greens, and that is so necessary if we are to stand a chance of getting our candidate elected on the Holyrood PR ballot in 2011 or more probably 2015. Achieved.

The fourth aim, to come in the top five. Achieved.

The fifth aim, to beat any two of the Greens, Conservatives or Liberal Democrats. Well, we also tanked the Lib Dems. Achieved.

We said that if we achieved any one of our seven aims then we would have done extremely well in the first by-election that the BNP has ever contested in Scotland.

Fact is, we achieved five of our seven aims, failing only to save our deposit (by 17 votes) and come third, which would have needed an additional 63 votes.

So we came fourth, but consider what we are up against.

The Conservative Party is a multi-million pound machine. It has virtually unlimited access to finance from the City. We had access to exactly £890.34 which we raised at our fundraiser on 27th October.

The Conservative Party has a big team of well-paid, full-time employees in Scotland who are dedicated full-time to winning elections for their party. We had a small band of hard-pressed men and women, squeezing in activism when they could get time off their work.

And then there is the full-spectrum dominance of the Conservative Party, and the other Westminster parties, on our national mass media. We can’t escape seeing them or listening to them in the papers, the TV and the radio, every day, 24/7/365. Yet they have the cheek to complain because Question Time hosted Nick Griffin … once.

Yet still we pushed the Tories to the wire. Indeed, the entire story of last night’s election on TV was whether we were going to take third place from them or not.

Furthermore, all the four Westminster parties had privileged access to the national mass media. They were invited onto radio hustings. We weren’t. They were in the Scottish press every day. We weren’t. They received invites to all the hustings meetings in the constituency. We received not one.

Yet still we tanked the Lib Dems, taking over twice its vote.

We’ve also learned many valuable lessons in this campaign. These lessons are being recorded right now. We know several areas where we need to improve, and we’ll be rolling out this best practice for all our teams during the General Election next year.

Talking of which, we are launching the biggest-ever campaign in Scotland for next year. We have identified 23 seats and we aim to contest them all. That makes a difference from the 2005 General Election when we contested two.

As our candidate, Charlie Baillie, said at the count, this election has established us as a credible alternative in Scotland.

Incidentally, while all the candidates lined up on stage for the announcement of the result, they all, like ill-mannered peasants, left the stage when Mr Baillie walked forward to speak. By so doing they were demonstrating their sneering contempt for the 1,013 good people of Glasgow North East who voted for the BNP, as well as their contempt for the democratic process.

Let us leave the final word to Mr Baillie who told this website: “I’d like to thank all the activists from Glasgow, and the others who travelled far distances to be with us, and without whose help this result would not have been possible. I’d especially like to thank our Chairman Nick Griffin for visiting Glasgow twice. His tremendous popularity really helped us deliver this result. Thank you, Nick. To the 1,013 people of Glasgow North East, thank you.”

Now please take the next step. Please register your interest on this website. We want to meet you and speak with you. We need your help.

If you can help BNP Scotland at the General Election — we are looking for candidates, activists and people who can help pay for the £500 deposit in each constituency — please contact Scottish Regional Organiser Gary Raikes at Scotland @ bnp.org.uk with your full name and address, or send a letter to PO Box 11815, Turriff, AB53 8WB.

And remember you can help us do all these things, and more, without even being a member!

We have timed this election well. The publicity and intensity we have built in this campaign is building perfectly and would you believe the 40,000 full colour, main election addresses, that the GPO deliver in Parliamentary elections have been timed to go out in the last four days of the election and have just started dropping on peoples mats TODAY! They will all be out by Wednesday and what an impact that will make.
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Add to that the huge publicity generated today by our high profile campaigning, due to hit the newspapers tomorrow, again timed to start peaking our campaign. We also have another 5,000 of the new leaflets, pictured above, going out now along with another 5,000 VoF newspapers and multiple thousand full colour magazines.
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We are also diverting more manpower into this by-election and experienced teams from the North West and North East are going up tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday.
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It is all set for a most interesting parliamentary by-election.
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ALL ACTIVISTS – GET TO GLASGOW.

It’s a lovely sunny but chilly morning on Monday 9th November 2009 and BNP Scotland is delighted to welcome to the streets of Glasgow North East, Nick Griffin MEP and Richard Barnbrook GLA (Member of the Greater London Assembly) for a day’s campaigning in the constituency.

We started in Springburn Shopping Centre just after 11am where we spent a full hour in the presence of the national media.

Richard Barnbrook took up the megaphone and regaled shoppers with our message while BNP activists leafleted everyone coming and going. Meanwhile Nick spoke to an eager media as the Truth Truck drove all around the area with its positive message blaring from the speakers.

Interestingly, there was no sign of the other parties at all, as Nick went walkabout, meeting and greeting the locals.

It was then onto Saracen Street with the media keen to keep up.

Richard walked ahead of our entourage, right down one side of Saracen Street with his message sounding out from his megaphone. It was clear to us all in BNP Scotland that Richard is a real professional and judging from his confidence and skill, he has done this many times before! In fact, Richard told us that Glasgow North East reminded him of Barking and Dagenham 3 years ago.

Nick followed and greeted passers-by, shaking their hands, stopping to talk to them and giving them our leaflet. On the other side of the street, our party activists were handing out leaflets as the Truth Truck drove up and down the street.

On one side of the leaflets was the message “SNP – The Mass Immigration Party” and on the other “Fair Play for Glasgow – Stop Asylum Dumping Now!” The leaflet was well-received by everyone.

The leaflet continued: “The SNP are showing their real unpatriotic colours. They want to see even more immigration to Scotland and don’t care that it’s unfair on our own jobless, homeless and taxpayers. An SNP vote is a vote to import even more unemployment, crime and poverty into Glasgow.”

The Truth Truck is very tall and visible. As a passerby commented, “You can see it for miles!”

After spending time in Saracen Street everyone set off for Duke Street. Here we did the same thing. Our entourage walked down one side of the road, led by Richard with Nick and the media and our leafleters in tow, and then we walked down the other side, while the Truth Truck drove up and down and round about the entire area.

Nick was on top form and was as happy to be with us as we were to see him. He is a very friendly politician and loved to shake hands with the people who recognised him – which was everyone.

Everyone was friendly. The only sour note was from an SNP activist who stumbled into our entourage. He called one of our leafleters a “fascist”, only to be brought up short by our activist who rebuked him, “You Sir, have not been brought up properly!”

The frantic SNPer also received a particularly unwanted reminder of his own party’s history from our activist: “Calling us ‘fascist’ is rich coming from a member of a party whose former leader, Arthur Donaldson, was a Nazi sympathiser during WW2 and wanted to set up a Vichy-style regime in Scotland!” he was told. The SNPer stormed off in a huff – we guess the truth hurts!

The facts about Donaldson were explained in a 2005 Sunday Times article which stated:
“Arthur Donaldson, the former SNP leader, planned to set up a Vichy-style regime in Scotland in the event of a Nazi invasion, according to a newly released MI5 file. Donaldson intended to infiltrate the party with Nazi sympathisers, who would undermine the British war effort by carrying out acts of sabotage and spreading misinformation. Following a widely anticipated invasion by Hitler’s forces, the Nationalist leader hoped to establish himself as a ‘Scottish quisling’ in charge of a puppet government. Donaldson, who led the party from 1960 to 1969, was arrested in 1941 and was held for five weeks at Barlinnie.”
(Peter Day, “SNP boss planned Nazi Scotland”, The Sunday Times, 6 November 2005).

You can read the story yourself here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article587207.ece

Let our candidate Charlie Baillie have the final word after today’s wonderful activity. As he told us:

“This was a great day’s activism. Thanks to Nick Griffin MEP and Richard Barnbrook MLA for coming up to help. We really appreciate that. Nick got a great response from the voters and Richard is an extremely impressive politician who really helped to turn the visit into an event! It was especially appropriate that Nick and Richard were here on the same day that Alan Johnson, Home Secretary, was also in the constituency. This is a man who says in today’s papers that he wants ‘a debate’ on immigration. Well, talking is nice, but action is what is needed now! The fact is, Alan Johnson can debate immigration until the cows come home, but he has no intention of ever actually doing anything about it! The voters can see through him. That’s one of the reasons why voters in Glasgow North East are supporting the British National Party – the only party that is not just talking about it, but will actually do something to stop mass immigration.”

Voting is this Thursday 12th November between 7am-10pm. See the “Point of Light” manifesto on which Charlie Baillie and the BNP are standing here:
http://bnp.org.uk/2009/11/a-point-of-light-the-bnp-manifesto-for-glasgow-north-east

Officials from across Scotland attended a Remembrance Service conducted by Reverend Robert West in Morayshire this Sunday.
Representatives from Inverness down to Glasgow travelled to the private service to remember our fallen.

A wreath was laid in glorious sunshine followed by the two minutes silence that was very poignant in the countryside surrounding us.

The group then crossed over the road to take a seat for the second part of the service. This was followed by hot soup and rolls and a chance to catch up.

As Rev West had to travel so far to conduct this service it had been arranged to hold a baptism as well. I would like to thank John and Vikki for becoming my daughters God parents and Hammy, Joe and Denise for their kind present.

Gary Raikes

Glasgow Correspondent – Carrick Crawford

In the morning Charlie Baillie and his team visited Royston. We managed to leaflet most of the area including the high rise flats. Royston was previously known as Garngad and is still known as such by residents with a familial link to the area. It is notable for its large population of Irish Catholic descent, and a high level of deprivation. The British National Party is proud to be non-sectarian and is making huge efforts to be seen as such but unfortunately the sight of the Union Flag as part of our leaflet’s BNP logo was enough to attract unsavoury attention from some of the local unemployed youth. Nevertheless, we succeeded in bringing our message to their area and letting them know we are willing to represent their community.

We had a great response in Dennistoun where we spent the whole afternoon. Although predominantly tenemental, the Victorian villas and terraces to the west (towards the city centre) established the area as a respectable working class area for families. Its proximity to the city centre and to Strathclyde and Caledonian universities, has contributed to its gentrification in recent years; many of its residents are now students and young professionals.

We split into three smaller teams and after a hard working leafleting session around both the flats and villas, we stopped for a well deserved tea break in Coia’s Café in Duke Street. This café has long established roots in the area since 1928 and is fondly remembered by Charlie, when, as a boy, he was taken there every now and then for a treat by his parents.

Whilst relaxing, we were spotted by a film crew and reporter from Channel 4 who asked to film us and also granted Charlie a short interview. We also noticed the SNP candidate, David Kerr, was in the area, driving around in his SNP coloured Mini!

After refreshments, we returned to the streets, talking to people and giving out leaflets near Golfhill School before turning towards Alexandra Parade shopping area, where we gave out the remainder, both inside local shops and outside. Charlie greeted many residents who shook his hand and wished us well. At the end of the day, Charlie reported our day’s efforts back to Nick Griffin, who we are hoping can make the effort to return to Glasgow for the final week of our campaign.

I’d like to thank everyone who helped out today and remind everyone again to try their best to spare a day to come out and help Charlie in our final week of action. We are hoping for a real breakthrough for the party in Scotland in this high profile by-election, as we are seen now as a credible alternative to both the SNP and the locally despised Labour.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6905279.ece

Mainstream parties say that Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time has raised the BNP’s profile.
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The mainstream political parties are increasingly worried that British National Party could achieve a political breakthrough in Scotland in next week’s byelection.
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Some privately believe that the BNP stands a chance of winning third place in Glasgow North East, ahead of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, or, at best, save its deposit — something the party has never achieved in an election in Scotland.
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In the European elections in June the BNP won 545 votes in Glasgow North East — 4.4 per cent of the overall vote on a 21.5 per cent turn out. To save its deposit on Thursday, the BNP needs to achieve 5 per cent. If the turn-out in Glasgow North East is around the predicted 40 per cent, the BNP would require only 1,200 votes to reach that target.
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The main parties believe that the BNP’s campaign was boosted by the appearance of Nick Griffin, the BNP’s leader, on Question Time last month. They also say that the BNP is feeding off voter antipathy created by the MPs expenses scandal
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Allied to that, Glasgow North East is the only Scottish constituency with a relatively high number of asylum seekers. Ten years ago the city decided to take part in the Home Office’s asylum seeker dispersal programme and many of the several thousand asylum seekers who were sent to Glasgow ended up in the constituency’s notorious Red Road towers.
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Asylum seekers say they regularly face accusations that they are given preferential treatment over local families when it comes to housing allocations.
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Labour MPs out canvassing in the constituency say that they have come across growing support for the BNP among voters.
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“It’s not just in these places where you would expect it but among some of the better-off people as well. I’m worried that the BNP could cause a real shock here,” said one.
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Another was concerned that the BNP could achieve 10 per cent of the vote, although his colleagues disputed that support was as high as that.
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Professor John Curtice, Britain’s most respected polling analyst, said: “You would have to say that this is potentially the best place in Scotland for the BNP.
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“The social profile in Glasgow North East means it is the kind of area where the BNP tend to do well throughout the UK. But you do not expect them to do as well in Scotland as they would do in the same social situation down south.”
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He said that the chances of the BNP coming third were slim. For it to do so would mean that support for parties other than Labour and the SNP had totally collapsed.
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The BNP candidate in the byelection is Charlie Baillie, a long-time member of the party. “The message is that the BNP is opposed to the dispersal policy enacted by the city council. We are opposed to mass immigration and we seek an immediate return for bogus asylum seekers,” he said.
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With the byelection campaign now in its final lap, the Labour candidate, Willie Bain, appears increasingly confident of holding off a strong challenge from the SNP and avoiding a repeat of Glasgow East byelection last year, when the SNP overcame a 13,000 Labour majority.
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Political observers say that the SNP campaign has failed to develop any real momentum.
Labour has made great play of the SNP government’s recent decision to cancel a rail link project from Glasgow to the city’s airport. The SNP has tried to hit back by reminding voters that they have been electing Labour representatives at all levels of government for the past 74 years but that the constituency still remains one of the poorest in the UK.
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The byelection was triggered by the decision of the former Commons speaker, Michael Martin, now Lord Martin of Springburn, to stand down in June as the MP for Glasgow North East in the wake of the expenses scandal.
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Both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives, which will also be fighting to save their deposits, did not contest the seat at the General Election in 2005, observing the Westminster tradition that the Speaker is not opposed.
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My information to date, which includes a very good estimate of the votes already cast via the postal votes, is that third place and a stunning shocker is ………..possible, very possible!

Lets not disapoint them! Every member who can get to Glasgow over the next week please contact 07827811008 or 07717774730

We recognise that the Royal Mail is a vital national and publicly-owned institution which delivers a quality service and works to bind the United Kingdom together.

We demand a reassurance that the Royal Mail will remain a publicly-owned, public service organisation with the investment necessary to take it into the 21st century.

We oppose any further privatisation (destruction) of this public institution and we demand that the government ditch the EU Directives which have privatised (destroyed) many of the most financially successful parts of the Royal Mail, and which consequently have created its financial losses.

There are 3 EU Directives to blame. These are Directives 97/67/EC, 2002/39/EC and 2008/06/EC, which are designed to end national postal monopolies by 2010 and to promote “cross-border” integration of the EU’s postal services.
See: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/post/legislation_en.htm

As Christopher Booker has written:
As a result Royal Mail had to surrender the most profitable part of its operations, when bulk business mailing was opened up to rival firms. It still has to deliver business mail, for a knock-down price of 14p an item, while the 19 companies that bid successfully for the business of collecting and sorting them cream off all the profits.
This was a major factor turning Royal Mail’s profits into a £179 million annual loss. Driven into desperate cost-cutting exercises, it drastically reduced post-box collections and ended those on Sunday altogether, while making vain attempts to raise revenue, such as its mad “size and weight” pricing scheme. But then EU law kicked in a second time, when our Government was not allowed to make up the resulting deficit under EU state-aid rules.
This was why Nigel Stapleton, head of Postcomm, suggested last year that the only way round the state-aid rules was to part-privatise Royal Mail, thus allowing it to borrow on the open market.
Christopher Booker, “Mandelson’s package and the loss of Royal Mail”, The Sunday Telegraph, 1 March 2009.

So, the first thing we need to do is seek reassurance that the Royal Mail will remain publicly-owned, and the second thing we need to do is to break free of the EU Directives which are forcing the destruction of this valuable British national institution.

Furthermore, we call for fair wages. We want to see the big salaries and bonuses for the management cut, and we want to see the salaries for Royal Mail staff increased.

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Remember that the by-election is on Thursday 12 November 2009. Charlie needs your help. If you can be with him on the streets, please call him on 07827 811008. If you cannot campaign physically, please donate to us financially by writing a cheque payable to “BNP-Scotland” or “British Heritage” and sending to PO Box 11815, Turriff, AB53 8WB. We really need your help. If you cannot do anything else at this time, then please donate to the Party!

OUR 5-POINT PLAN TO CREATE EMPLOYMENT
Firstly, Invest in Industrial Revival throughout Glasgow:
The Westminster Constituency of Glasgow North East has the highest unemployment rate of any Westminster Constituency in Scotland and the 14th highest unemployment rate in Britain.

It has 17.5% male unemployment, 6.4% female unemployment and 12.2% overall unemployment, according to the House of Commons publication, Unemployment by Constituency, August 2009 RESEARCH PAPER 09/72, 16 September 2009, at page 20 (which shows the number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance recorded as resident in each constituency).

We are committed to creating and protecting British Jobs for British Workers. The area within Glasgow North East was formerly known for producing locomotives – back when Glasgow was known as the second city of the British Empire.

Engineering used to be Glasgow’s genius! Where is its industry now?

To return to genuine, long-term wealth and jobs we need investment into the productive economy, into industry. Instead of pouring money into the banking sector and down the drain, we need to invest in industry. The prescription to ensure long-term wealth and jobs is Industrial Revival!

Secondly, Promote Green Jobs:
The BNP stands for energy independence for Britain. We want to see Britain aiming to provide for as much of its energy needs as possible. Nationally, it is dangerous and uneconomic to be reliant upon outside sources for our energy needs.

We advocate investment in jobs and in communities in order to achieve the aim of energy independence for Britain. For example, we want to see an insulation programme for houses throughout Glasgow, creating long-term jobs and saving energy!

We also advocate investment in appropriate sustainable energy sources, as part of our programme for national self-reliance – these would be small-scale energy initiatives, rather than industrial-scale wind-farms which damage and blight the countryside.

Thirdly, Create Apprenticeships:
We want to see the creation of skilled, secure, well-paid, long-term work for our young people. With a programme of Industrial Revival and Green Jobs, we will be able to invest in apprenticeships which will train our young people in useful and productive skills.

By protecting British Jobs for British Workers we will ensure their efforts and wages are not undercut by foreign goods and labour.

Fourthly, Encourage Small Businesses to Succeed:
The best way of doing this is to give small businesses, rates relief. The high cost of business rates in Glasgow is making many small, independent businesses unviable. Slashing business rates is an absolutely essential policy which will allow small businesses to succeed, while boosting employment throughout Glasgow.

Fifthly, Encourage Alternative Methods of Raising Finance:
We support the creation and promotion of local Credit Unions, and we support the “Grameen Glasgow” initiative of Prof Muhammad Yunus – which could allow people to take out a business loan without forfeiting their benefits and without putting up any collateral. (”Grameen” means “rural” or “village” in Bengali.)

IMPROVING EDUCATION
We must make educational attainment a priority. The Westminster constituency of Glasgow North East is the 4th worst for educational attainment in all of Scotland, and the 14th worst for educational attainment in all of Britain

Out of 628 Westminster constituencies, Glasgow North East is the 615th worst for people with no qualifications, and out of the 59 in Scotland, it is 4th from the bottom. That is to say, more than a quarter (25.5%) of people in Glasgow North East have no qualifications at all.
(Christopher Mackie, “Millions spent but location still key to earning degree”, The Scotsman, 19-10-09 at pages 14-15)

We want less politically correct teaching methods, and better discipline in schools. We will concentrate on the “3Rs”, and we will not just “throw money” at the matter. Smaller class sizes are helpful but useless without the proper teaching methods.

We want an end to the politically-correct, multi-racial brainwashing of our children. We want to remove all such harmful propaganda from our schools. We will promote British and Scottish history and heritage first.

While we acknowledge a link between economic deprivation and poor educational attainment, there are other reasons for poor educational attainment! Family breakdown, unemployment, addiction, and debt are other drivers and must all be addressed as part of an overall package to fight poverty and raise educational achievement.

ENDING MASS IMMIGRATION
We say, “No to mass immigration and bogus asylum seeking. Yes to repatriation of bogus asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.”

Most so-called asylum seekers are bogus. For example, of the 19,400 “asylum seekers” who had decisions made in 2008 by the Home Office, 70% were refused refugee status or any other kind of leave.
See: Home Office Statistical Bulletin, “Control of Immigration Statistics, United Kingdom 2008″, at page 21 and at Table 2.1b on page 58, published August 2009.
Download at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/hosb1409.pdf

Glasgow is currently home to the largest number of dispersed asylum seekers in the UK. The Sighthill estate in the constituency of Glasgow North East is home to the majority of dispersed asylum seekers. Cowlairs in the constituency of Glasgow North East is the area of Glasgow with the highest percentage of resident asylum seekers.
See: http://www.icar.org.uk/9983/glasgow/current-situation.html

We are unique in campaigning for these policies. All the other major parties, and especially the SNP and the Labour Party want to promote mass immigration and bogus asylum seeking into Scotland, and into Glasgow in particular. They want to overcrowd our city and bring down the wages of Glaswegians. Only the BNP stands against this irresponsible and immoral policy.

REFERENDUM ON THE DEATH PENALTY
We will offer a Referendum on the Death Penalty! We are the only people committed to giving the people a choice on this matter.

We want serious jail sentences for serious crimes. If you commit the crime – you must do the time.

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS: BRING THEM HOME
We support our troops and we say, “Bring the troops home and put them on our border!”

We ask, why are we in Afghanistan, “protecting Britain from the Taliban”, when it would be more effective to stop them coming into Britain in the first place!

We also want to replace the politically partisan Donald Dewar statue at the top of Buchanan Street in the centre of Glasgow, with a non-political memorial to the soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Remember that the by-election is on Thursday 12 November 2009. Charlie needs your help. If you can be with him on the streets, please call him on 07827 811008. If you cannot campaign physically, please donate to us financially by writing a cheque payable to “BNP-Scotland” or “British Heritage” and sending to PO Box 11815, Turriff, AB53 8WB. We really need your help. If you cannot do anything else at this time, then please donate to the Party!

A very fair article in today’s Sunday Herald (1 November 2009)
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/the-respectable-face-of-the-bnp-1.929674

This illustrates the extent to which the British National Party in Scotland is growing and developing into a credible alternative, which stands a chance of having a candidate elected at the 2011 Scottish election, or perhaps more probably in 2015.

The Sunday Herald reporter was at our launch on Tuesday night and he writes:
“True to the BNP’s ’suits not boots’ rebranding, there are no skinheads, no fixed scowls at the press, and almost no tattoos on show. Most people are in their 30s and 40s, with women making up about a fifth of the crowd.”

The report quotes quite a bit from our Glasgow North East candidate, Charlie Baillie’s enjoyable and colourful speech, including his paraphrasing of the Randy Travis song, “Point of Light”.

As the article says: “Mr Baillie detects a ‘darkness’ threatening Britain. ‘It’s a darkness everyone must face. That darkness covers everything in sight. It needs a single point of light. The BNP is that single point of light. We alone stand for the survival of this nation and will secure a future for British children,’ he says.”

Charlie and his team need all the help they can get for the by-election on Thursday 12 November 2009. If you can help Charlie and his team to provide the Point of Light for the electorate in Glasgow North East, then please give him a call on 07827 811008.

Now is the time to come forward – and if you cannot campaign physically, please donate to us financially by sending a cheque payable to “BNP-Scotland” or “British Heritage” and sending to PO Box 11815, Turriff, AB53 8WB.

There is a point, when you cannot walk away.
When you have to stand up straight and tall,
and mean the words you say.
There is a point you must decide,
just to do it ’cause it’s right.
That’s when you become a point of light!

There is a darkness, that everyone must face.
It wants to take what’s good and fair
and lay it all to waste.
And that darkness covers everything in sight.
Until it meets a single point of light!

Point of Light, Randy Travis, 1991