The newly formed Lothian’s region BNP group met this week and have announced that they have selected a candidate to contest their Westminster seat and will now be busy raising funds and campaigning. Mike Coyle as previously reported handed over to the new Lothian’s organiser David Orr and will now take up his new role as Central Scotland Organiser.

The group discussed the good working relationship that has been built up with the local police during earlier campaigning and the importance of keeping it up in the future.

Walter Hamilton and Joe T Finnie from Glasgow and West BNP offered the group advice on leafleting, paper sales and election tactics. Joe informed the group that they would have use of the Truth truck in March.

David urged everyone to show face at coming activities to help push the BNP message of hope to the good people of the Lothian’s.

Another meeting has been arranged for the same night 4th March please contact David for details.

The reformed Glasgow and West BNP branch will be holding its monthly meeting on Wednesday 3rd March at a city centre venue.

This is the only meeting before the Election road show comes to Scotland on 27th March and will be a chance to get your tickets for this excellent event.

Please contact Glasgow and West Regional Organiser Walter Hamilton for more information.

The wheels are coming off the little dictators wagon it seems. A recent poll shows the SNP on their lowest support since Alex Salmond took over the party!

This may explained the SNP’s drive to court the Muslim vote in Glasgow and why they are happy to support a candidate who has praised the ‘Bin Laden of the internet’ radical cleric Anwar al-Awiaki

Osama Saeed is already embroiled in a cash for access row after bidding for a lunch with the First Minister, there are also concerns about his tax-payer-funded £40,000 salary as head of the controversial Scottish-Islamic Foundation which has collected more than £400,000 of tax-payers money from the Executive despite failing to organise a series of promised cultural festivals.

The SNP have used parliamentary facilities to raise funds for Saeed’s campaign and have arranged for his salary at the Scottish-Islamic Foundation to be paid out of public funds. Politicians have called for an enquiry into claims Mr Saeed is using tax-payers money to promote his Westminster bid.

The SNP a one issue one term party who are getting more desperate by the day.

We are happy to report the return of Mike Coyle after his recent personal tragedy. Mr Coyle will be helping new Lothian’s organiser David Orr Jnr to take up the reigns in Lothian and has been appointed Sub-Regional organiser for the Central region.

We have a great deal of support in the central region based around Falkirk which is one of our target regional seats for 2011, Mr Coyle is keen to get to work organising our many members ready for this coming election and building a team ready to strongly contest the regional seat next year.

Speaking to the Scottish leader today Mr Raikes told news team, “I have been talking with Mike and have asked him to take things easy not to throw himself back in to the fray to soon, the fact he has returned shows just how committed to our cause he is and a example of true British grit he is the kind of guy you want in the trenches with you”.

I too would like to express my admiration for a true British nationalist and wish him and his family all the best for the future.

Nick Teasdale
Scottish News Team

Fellow Patriots,

It is IMPERATIVE that we all attend the next meeting on: Wednesday 3rd March, 7PM

As you may or may not know, the BNP’s ‘Truth Truck’ is to tour North East Scotland in mid March.
This, as you can imagine, will generate a lot of Party Awareness and we need to back this up with street campaigning after the truck has gone home.

At this Meeting we will Organise a ‘Mobile Campaign Machine’ where a Dedicated and Ruthless Team of Volunteers (ie: the willing amongst us) will hand out Party Leaflets/Papers and talk face-to-face with the General Public as well as distribute Leaflets to Homes.

We will muster as much People, Posters, Banners, Papers, Leaflets and Signage as we can and take this Campaign Machine to Banff & Buchan, Gordon and Aberdeen Districts.

We all know how limited we are in terms of Willing Activists so we must all Commit and Work as one United Team.

Please email me any other ideas/suggestions or bring them to the meeting.

NOW is the Time We All Do Our Bit!

Regards,

Barry Scott, North east regional organiser

Even though it seems like the world is rushing headlong towards its own destruction the BNP looks to be developing more self-discipline, professionalism, and external respect, which is what is needed if it is to continue to survive and grow.
Mark you, the cards are still stacked against us, as many brain-washed fellow Britons still see the BNP as a threat to their own peace of mind and daily we still encounter their residual prejudices. However with each deal of the cards our hand is getting stronger. Perhaps one day in the not to distant future others will look to us to find some sort of order in their own lives.
The face of Britain as we know it is changing, as is the world at large. We must make changes ourselves to meet this new world. However, there is a tendency in some quarters to take the attitude that such changes cannot affect us and whatever happens we in the BNP will stay the same. I am afraid that view is sadly wrong and to think like that is a trap. We must continue to become more organised to adapt and become more aware of the world in which we operate in, or we will simply not be here in twenty years time to do anything about it.
If we are to preserve our hereditary way of life and restore our identity, freedom, security and democracy we must stand up and be counted, and be willing to fight to preserve our way of life. This can be done in a number of ways, most importantly by joining and becoming active in your local BNP group. Stand as a BNP candidate in local and national elections, make donations etc. If there is no local group in your area become a contact and start one!
The Governments of the day will continue to play on people’s fears and paranoia about anything that is different to current mainstream society, and use misinformation and public prejudice in an attempt to maintain a world of their own, where they can remain unchallenged in order to drive us all down any path they choose.
We must do all we can to stop the rot. By being a strong person, by doing something different you have already made a statement of individuality by joining and supporting the BNP.
Don’t ever lose faith, fight to preserve this simple freedom and support others who do the same. We can then hopefully build a better future for ourselves and our children and give life to some of the freedoms we are in danger of losing.

Please contact your nearest organiser or the Scottish office with your offer of help.

There will be a meeting held in West Lothian Thursday 25th Feb for BNP members and friends.

Please contact David Orr for full details of venue etc.

david_orr_1978@hotmail.com

The following letter has been drafted by a BNP member in response to Jim Murphy MP trying to get Churches to vote Labour and turn them against the BNP, copies of this excellent letter are being posted to all Churches in Renfrewshire.

Dear Sir,

I am writing to you on behalf of the leader of the British National Party in Scotland to explain a little about our party and dispel some of the misrepresentations you may have heard about us.
British National Party Scottish leader, Gary Raikes has been selected as the prospective candidate for the East Renfrewshire seat, currently held by the Labour and RCP “ex-member” Jim Murphy. Mr. Raikes has stood in both local council and Scottish parliamentary elections and was lead candidate in the 2009 Euros. He has been our Scottish leader since 2007. Gary’s website is at http://eastrenfrewshire.blogspot.com/
Jim Murphy is known to many as an extremist who flirted with the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) during his student days and regarded members of Labour’s hard left Militant Tendency as TOO SOFT.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5488742.ece?print=yes&randnum=1151003209000

The British National Party has a long history and growing support in Scotland and has recently stood in the high profile Euro Elections (June 2009) and NE Glasgow Bye-Election (November 2009) with ever – increasing votes. We now have members from all ages and walks of life and are established as a credible mainstream alternative.
We have taken part in many local initiatives from clean-ups of vandalised parks to support for Army veterans’ charities (FEBA) in Scotland to name but a few.
Increasingly, numbers of voters are expressing apathy and discontent with the endless incompetence, lies, false promises and sleaze coming from the three parties that make up the Old Gang of Lib/Lab/Con. And who can blame them? Labour’s recent record has involved illegal wars, the banking bailout scandal, the MP’s expenses scandal, the sell-off of British industry; and the handover of our sovereignty and power to unelected and unaccountable politicians in Brussels, never mind the destruction of our heritage and culture posed by uncontrolled mass immigration! We can revitalize interest in British politics. The process should be more inclusive, with more democracy, not less. We would like to put the British people first in choices for their own country – after all it’s only fair.

The British National Party is a legal, moderate, and legitimate political party which is making progress in elections and now has over 100 Councillors, one London Assembly member, and two MEPs, including our chairman, Nick Griffin.  Most of the people who attack the BNP are opposed to free debate and dislike both moral standards and Christianity, and have sought to marginalise our Christian heritage whilst paving a way for extremism from the Middle East.  What is done to the BNP now could be done to Christians later.  Christians would do well to stand up for the rights of the BNP to free debate and to seriously consider their views, which reflect up to 70% of the people of Britain, on many issues, including that of mass immigration.

We have a vast and growing raft of sensible and viable policies to lay before the voting public, far transcending the mythology that we are merely a political party only concerned with immigration. Our full manifesto and policies can be found at http://bnp.org.uk/policies/. We are interested in the future and how to improve the well being of our people based on the lessons from history. At the moment it seems we are becoming second class citizens in our own country, with rising crime, plus increasing poverty and taxes, for many becoming the social norm.

I can assure you the men and women of the British National Party are well meaning and decent individuals, only motivated by a love and admiration for the traditions of our land and who wish to build a decent community based on family values. There are a significant number of active Christians within our ranks and they will be making sure that churchgoers throughout the country are made aware of what the British National Party really stands for in the run-up to the General Election. The BNP has indeed warned about the danger Britons face from the growth of Islam on our shores. The vast majority of congregations agree with our stance on this and understand the long term social and ideological threat posed to Christianity. However, we have no quarrel with individual Muslims and have no wish to divide communities. The BNP is not anti-Jewish either. In fact we have one elected Jewish councillor (Pat Richardson – Epping Forest). The BNP has members in it who are Jewish, who are secularist, who are evangelical Christians, and who are Roman Catholics.

SNP

We are opposed to SNP separatism and believe Scotland is better off as part of the Union. Far from being impoverished; as part of Britain, Scotland is allocated more funding per person than any other part of the UK. We support the devolved parliament and all local decision making in Scotland. We would also support a referendum on Scottish independence.

We oppose totalitarianism in all its forms, both Marxist and Fascist. We believe this Labour government has implemented some of the most sinister laws attacking free speech and censorship this country has ever seen.

Anti – War

Our party is determined to re-awaken Britain’s manufacturing sector, dismantle its monopolies and generate green jobs. Our party’s foreign and defence policy of armed neutrality would see British forces withdrawn from global conflict theatres in which the country has no vital interests.

Supporting Our Troops – Bring them home now!

We believe Britain has no business intruding into the affairs of the Middle East in respect either of Israel or any other territory. Nor is it our business to support American foreign policy in the Middle East as the USA’s junior partner. We disagreed with and opposed involvement in Iraq long before the war started, together with the Green Party.

Please do not simply let the powers-that-be demonise us unfairly. Give our policies a chance and you will see they
are based on common sense and with the best intentions.

Yours faithfully,

Carrick Crawford.

Scottish leader Gary Raikes and Glasgow organiser Walter Hamilton made the long trip South to attend the regional organisers training event this weekend.

Management style work shops show how the party is progressing as does the turn out of over thirty officials from around Britain under-taking training in a high class venue.

Mr. Raikes told news team, “This was a busy weekend for myself and Mr. Hamilton which started on Friday with a meeting with a Scottish journalist who has taken a real interest in our party’s growth and potential, this was followed by another meeting this time with an old friend and ex Deputy chairman of the BNP Scott McLean. I am happy to say that Mr. McLean will be back working for BNP Scotland in the near future. Scott is someone I really respect who has a life time of involvement with the nationalist movement behind him his experience will be invaluable to us”.

“After Saturdays training finished we had a chance to catch up with all the other officials to see how things are in their regions, it would seem we are all plagued by the same problems at one time or another yet all remain dedicated to the cause. Sunday we took part in a ‘how to argue’ exercise, something we are very good at here in Scotland! This was an interesting task which Hammy took to like a duck to water, the fact Paul from Essex couldn’t understand his Glaswegian accent helped somewhat, as Jim Dowson said ‘people in Glasgow make saying good morning sound like a death threat’! Cant work out if that’s racist or not”!

During the weekend the pair managed to secure the Truth truck for a weeks tour of our target seats in March, more on that later.

Nick Teasdale

Paul Golding whipped up a frenzy on Tuesday night at the Aberdeen Branch Monthly meeting.
Local Activists and Members were left buzzing with enthusiasm after Paul gave an enthralling and motivating speech.

The evening kicked off with an branch update from Organiser, Barry Scott, who explained the progress that Aberdeen was making in terms Party Awareness, “this is a direct result of our increased weekly street Campaigning” he reported.
“and more and more Aberdonians are coming round to our way of thinking”.

After Paul’s passionate speech, the considerable sum of over £300 was raised in donations that will go towards the Branch’s General Election Campaign costs.
“Considering we had an admirable total of 32 attendees at the meeting, it was a fantastic top-up to our Branch funds”
Candidate, Susan Ross said.

At the interval, a superb buffet was served and allowed new potential members to chat with Paul Golding and Scottish Leader, Gary Raikes which resulted in two membership applications that will be processed after the ban has been lifted.
Members old and new had a chance to catch up and discuss what Aberdeen should do to spread the word of the BNP presence in the City.

The evening ended with a Question and Answer Session where activists quizzed Paul on his ‘Recipe for Success’ Campaigning techniques that led to his Election as Councillor in Swanley, Kent.
Paul emphasised the importance of Canvassing and face to face communication with Voters.
“The advice gained from Paul will be utilised to great effect in Aberdeen, Gordon and Banff & Buchan Districts where four Candidates in total will stand. We aim to Campaign vigorously to show the electorate that there is a party out there worthy of their vote”. Gary Raikes reported.

Scotland’s deputy first minister has written a letter of support for a man who could be jailed over benefit fraud.
Nicola Sturgeon asked the court to consider “alternatives to a custodial sentence” in the case of Abdul Rauf.
The 60-year-old, who is a constituent of Ms Sturgeon, defrauded £80,000 from the Department of Work and Pensions.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard how Rauf admitted failing to declare a property in Newington, Edinburgh, worth £200,000 on his application for income support.
He subsequently received £650 a month in rent while he claimed the benefits between 2001 and 2006.
At the same time he was living in a £400,000 house in Glasgow’s Maxwell Park area. In 1996, Rauf was given a four-year sentence for stealing nearly £60,000 in pension and benefit payments when he was a sub-post master at Tollcross in Edinburgh. Last week Ms Sturgeon along with her boss Salmond were selling access to raise funds for the SNP to a Mr Amin Hussain and a Mr Khalid Javid
Now she is prepared to give a character reference for Mr Abdul Rauf a convicted fraudster. Just what else are the SNP willing to do to secure the Muslim vote?

BNP Scotland held an organisers meeting on Sunday 7th to discuss the General Election. Topics included candidate admin, dealing with the media and campaign tactics.
Ten confirmed prospective candidates will be standing in Scotland we hope to make that up to twelve to reach the target we set ourselves last year.

Aberdeen organiser, Barry Scott reported that his group will be putting up two billboards to aid Susan Ross’s campaign, a first for the BNP in Scotland, we are also hoping to secure the truth truck for a tour of our target seats backed up by a newspaper campaign based on the Barking paper used down south which Glasgow Organiser Walter Hamilton and other Scottish officials helped distribute in Nick Griffins seat.

A new organiser for Lothian’s was appointed to build on the good work done by Mike Coyle who sadly due to family bereavement has had to stand down from the role. I know all BNP members will wish him and his family well, we are all thinking of you at this difficult time.

Taking over from Mike will be David Orr Jnr whose father has been one of our longest serving activists and a prospective candidate in the coming election.

Photographs were taking by our own professional photographer, Dave Jeffries, who will be on hand to capture activities through out the campaign.

A fundraising evening with guest speaker Cllr Paul Golding will be held in Aberdeen on Feb 17th followed by another event in Glasgow in March with Chairman Nick Griffin or another high profile speaker. This weekend activists from Glasgow are travelling to Aberdeen to help Susan’s campaign. BNP Scotland have candidates standing in all North east seats in this election another first, one of many more to come!

Aberdeen BNP took to the streets once again on Saturday, this time in the Aberdeen South area of Kincorth where they were met with the warmest of welcomes yet to be experienced on the streets of Aberdeen.
“It was as if the residents of Kincorth had been counting down the days until our arrival!” a spokesman said.

Candidate, Susan Ross said that “the majority of people just wanted to talk to us about what we should do to help their area”. High levels of crime appeared to be the biggest issue with local redidents and many felt that it was ruining the good reputation that Kincorth has always had.
“Kincorth would improve over-night if we got more Bobbies patrolling the streets like they used to do” a resident said.
“More for teenagers to do at night would be a good start” said another.

As well as the usual distribution of countless leaflets and newspapers, many good friends,supporters and voters were gained in Kincorth and we look forward to returning in the very near future, Organiser Barry Scott said.

The day ended with a well earned visit to the local establishment ‘The Abbott’ or ‘The Covey’s’ as it is known locally, for a refreshment.

Glasgow members and supporters are invited to this months meeting to be held on Wednesday 3rd Feb 1915hrs.

Please contact Glasgow organiser Walter Hamilton for directions 07717774730