Our local election candidate, John Robertson, and 2 colleagues from the British National Party attended the Count last night for Drumchapel/Anniesland ward in Glasgow. We’re pleased to report that John attained 177 first-preference votes, or 3.3% of the first-preference vote (plus 9 second-preference votes).
This is the highest percentage vote we have ever received at a council ward election in Glasgow, and is more than twice the percentage of what we received in Baillieston ward last year.
3.3% would do us very nicely at the Euro-election, allowing us to achieve the goal of saving our deposit and put us in range of the 5-6% that we will need in the Regional Constituencies at the Holyrood election on 5th May 2011, if we are to get British National Party members into the Scottish Parliament.
The atmosphere at the Count was reported as convivial with the only sour note being the winner, Labour candidate, Anne McTaggart who refused to shake hands with John. As Charlie Baillie said, “She’s been well trained in the Marxist school of ill manners. She is saying, effectively, that she would refuse to shake hands with the 177 of her constituency members who voted for the BNP! She is snubbing 3.3% of the electorate!”

Another day was spent on the campaign trail in Deeside on Sunday where our leafleteers basked in glorious sunshine pounded the streets of Aboyne delivering a ‘vote for Roy Jones’ leaflet with the ‘say no to EU rule’ one.

At the same time our candidate canvassed shoppers in the town centre where he was well received yet surprised to find the level of voters apathy to be at an all time high.
While people were happy to stop and speak many expressed their disillusionment with politics and politicians by saying they would not be bothering to vote for anyone!

On a good note those he spoke to were well aware of the BNP standing in this election something that has also been picked up on by the press who ran the usual quotes from an outraged liberal Dem councillor (is there any other sort?) stating that we have no right to be standing in his back yard, very democratic! Since this excuse of a public servant lacks the courage to even debate with us he has no right to complain. The people of Deeside will make their own minds up who they vote for on Thursday.

The fact that this election uses the transferable vote system means the out come is far from clear, which party gains the second vote from the two independent candidates supporters will certainly make things interesting.

Roy has worked hard over the last month to put the BNP marker down in Deeside and in that respect is all ready a winner, we have never contested this ward so this is a first step for BNP Scotland here that has already gained supporters, activists and another future candidate.

We will of course be hoping to see a good percentage at the count on Friday to give us a measure of things to come in June. But whatever happens Roy and his team are winners in progressing the party North of the border.

Our local election candidate Roy Jones, reporting from the front, sent in the following despatch tonight.

“Our day started early at 0700hrs with a 55 mile drive to Braemar to meet up with the leafleting team, although early the drive through Strathdon and Deeside was stunning and made myself and Elise appreciate even more just what a beautiful country this is”.

The leaflet team set to work in earnest and got every property leafleted in a few hours whilst Mr and Mrs Jones canvassed people in the centre of the village.

The team then proceeded down to Ballater, where as you can see from the photo, they visited the queen’s summer retreat on Deeside and left a leaflet for her perusal.

Ballater was leafleted through out the afternoon after a sterling effort by the team who were very well received in the town, a number of people even wanting Vote BNP signs for their windows, general discussions were held with people from all walks of life that agreed with the BNP manifesto and wanted more information concerning BNP policies.

Sadly even in this picturesque part of Scotland the team encountered one of the usual lefties with the usual rant, who then tried to engage in a debate about our politics, her argument was swiftly shot down in flames!

Roy finished up by telling the news team, “By this time we were just about out on our feet but decided to have a quick stop in a pub in Strathdon on the way home, here more support was offered by a family group who had just moved back to Scotland after living in Dover, they told us that the people in Scotland are so far unaware of the horrors that are to become them, and it was about time the BNP told them the truth. Their vote was in the bag “!!!

“We had a great day and will be carrying on right up until polling day on Thursday.
Many thanks again to my wife Elise, Mike, John, big Stevie and Chris, my leafleting team for the day”.

I believe a great proportion of the British public have lost faith in our mainstream government and their failed policies.  The British National party can present a viable alternative, and that is why I think you should vote Roy Jones at the next election.

Only the British National Party have the courage to ask uncomfortable questions and only The British Nation Party have the policies to redeem this country.  I can and will be your voice.

A first task is to lobby the Chief Constable of Grampian Police.  Coverage for this area can be greatly improved and made more efficient.  My personal view is that policemen should be on the beat and not in their cars!

I would also push for tougher sentencing to include all levels of anti-social behaviour, e.g. joyriding, vandalism, intimidation, unruly neighbours, etc., in fact all criminal activity needs revised scrutiny.  Presently the types of people responsible for this kind of conduct are laughing up their sleeves at the Authorities craven unwillingness to prosecute with any effectiveness.

I also intend to expose the mismanagement of our taxes that we work so hard to pay for out of our wages and reveal the corruption throughout all levels of government from local to ministerial.  If elected I will work diligently for our community and guarantee to stay true to my words. The only voice of common sense, the BNP.

Finally as a true nationalist I believe in preserving Britain’s tradition, its culture, its jobs, its homes and its countryside.  If we fail in this there will be no civilized or decent legacy for our future generations to inherit and enjoy.

Northeast activists arrived in Aboyne on a bright sunny morning to continue their local election campaign where they were met with much approval from residents, many of whom wanted more literature and leaflets to distribute themselves. 

Upon talking to a large number of people it appears that Roy and the BNP have a large amount of support for their policies in this local election. 

Many people quite openly engaged with the team in conversation, some with some very witty anecdotes about past local life and how things have now changed for the worse.

Activists also turned out in Torphins where the area was leafleted and the response from the local people was reported as being “very encouraging”, including the details of one contact who wishes to help leaflet next weekend.

Local candidate Roy Jones told news team that, “This has been a very encouraging response from a small rural community, in Alford where we canvassed in the afternoon we had another very good response, a gentleman spoke to us and informed us that he was a former voter for the SNP but expressed great interest in the BNP, upon further questioning his reasons were that he felt the SNP was courting the Muslim vote and he would never live in an Islamic state under sharia law, something he felt the SNP were comfortable with”!

After all these encounters the team felt encouraged that the people of this ward have been let down badly by the lib, lab, con and snp gang of four and are seriously looking for an alternative party to restore order, direction and sustainment of our British culture, the only party that offers to do this is the BNP, we have the courage to say the awkward things in public that the majority of Britons only say in private.

Roy finished by saying, “Special thanks for Mike S for his help and canvassing today and John our contact in Aboyne. Anyone that can help with the big push planned for next Saturday and Sunday will be much appreciated as we feel we can make a major impact in this ward judging by today’s reactions”.

This is good news, BNP Scotland can only hope that this show of support turns in to votes on the 23^rd and leads on to greater things in June!

Activists will be out in Aboyne this week campaigning for BNP candidate Roy Jones who is standing in the Aboyne and Deeside ward.
This is our first outing in the area and will give some indication of the number of votes we may receive in the Euros.
Roy is up against two independents, one Liberal Democrat, one Conservative and one false nationalist (snp).
On the ‘vote wise’ site only Roy and the snp candidate have published their manifestos to date.
Polling day is 23rd April, Saint George’s day! Maybe a good omen!

Good luck from the news team Roy.

BNP Scotland Euro Campaign team visited Edinburgh this weekend!
On Friday afternoon the Scottish Executive was leafleted where the electorate and many MSP`s were given our literature for their weekend reading.

On the Saturday Edinburgh people warmly welcomed BNP Scotland EU Candidates Charlie Baillie and Max Dunbar!

The team distributed leaflets all day after an early morning start receiving a lot of encouragement from English tourists, many of whom turned out to be fellow Party members!

Activists wore British workers high viz jackets and gifted several to Construction workers who backed us, making a good number of contacts for our new Edinburgh Organiser to recruit!

VOTE BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY ON JUNE 4TH

For a Better Scotland!

Edinburgh Organiser
Kenny McDonald Mob 07861 397844

British National Party Euro candidates Charlie Baillie, Debbie McKnight and Max Dunbar were on the Campaign trail with activists to meet and greet our supporters on the weekends of 21st and 28th February.

Teams visited Edinburgh Princes Street and Glasgow Argyle Street. We also had teams covering the Central belt distributing hundreds of leaflets and Freedom newspapers.

Lead candidate Gary Raikes has been speaking to the press and reported that there is a lot of interest from the media in the fact that for the first time the BNP are standing a full slate of candidates that all live and work in Scotland, a sure sign of the advances we have made in recent years.

We are now generating dozens of enquiries and enrolling new members with each day of our Euro Campaign, as the Electorate can see the British National Party puts British People First!

Euro Election date Jun 4th 2009
Vote for The British National Party

Activists from Mid Scotland and Fife joined the Glasgow and west team canvassing in Baillieston this weekend. Our Glasgow correspondent reported that they were well received on the doorsteps with many people showing a keen interest in the party and its policies.

Some of the team went off to erect vote BNP placards and again only encountered friendly faces. The poll will be on Thursday, this time around the extreme left have only put up one candidate no doubt due to the fact that the BNP would beat them again if they continue to split their vote. In our favor the SUP will not be fielding a candidate so we could still beat them!

Due to the recent sad death of the Labour councillor Dougie Hay of Baillieston ward, we will once again be standing in the coming election.

Our candidate will be Charlie Baillie who hopes to improve on his recent success in beating the Greens, SUP, SSP and being only 2 votes away from beating Solidarity.

With such a short space between elections this is more like a continuous effort from our Glasgow and West campaign team, if you can offer any help please contact us.

Report filed by Stephen Cameron 19-9-08

ANTI-DEMOCRATIC MARXIST THUGS

ATTEMPT TO DISRUPT BAILLIESTON POLL

Turnout: 22.68%

After a 3-week campaign, our BNP activists spent polling day, 18 September 2008, visiting the stations in Baillieston, and attending the count.

Candidate Charles Baillie commented on the result: “This is quite a good result for us given that this is the first time standing in this ward. We beat the Greens, who have 5 councillors on Glasgow City council! We just missed beating the Solidarity candidate, which has 1 councillor. So given the resources of these candidates it is a good result for us. It was also very satisfying to beat the SSP by a comfortable margin.”

The day was a little marred by up to a dozen anti-democratic Marxist troublemakers who were intimidating the public who were trying to access the polling stations.

Charles Baillie commented:

“The anti-democratic Marxist rabble got inside the grounds of the polling station – where they were not entitled to be because they were not claiming to represent any particular party – and were shouting absurd lie-filled slogans. They were covering all approaches to the door, walking in front of voters who were trying to get into vote, and aggressively getting into voters’ faces, many of whom were elderly. We were concerned for the electorate’s safety, and also for the safety of the council officials within these polling stations.

“Not only was this an unsuccessful attempt to intimidate our activists who were going about their lawful democratic activity, but it was also an appalling attempt to intimidate voters at the poll. This disgraceful, anti-democratic behaviour is more to be expected from Robert Mugabe’s thugs in Zimbabwe, than on the peaceful streets of Baillieston.

“The British National Party would like to express our appreciation of the professionalism of the Presiding Officers who ensured that voters were able to access the polling stations, despite the best efforts of the Marxist mob.”

INCIDENT AT GARROWHILL

The only party activists allowed inside the grounds of the polling station are the candidates and the official “polling agents” of each party. These people need to apply for, and wear, the official passes which are issued by the council.

The troublemakers, who did not have official documentation, got inside the grounds of the polling station, causing an obstruction, and harassing members of the public who were intimidated, and who were complaining about feeling intimidated. Indeed, two women electors complained to the Presiding Officer that they were being intimidated by the troublemakers.

The Marxists were creating a very nasty atmosphere and demonstrating their contempt for the electoral process.

This was a clear attempt to disrupt the democratic process.

At this point, the Presiding Officer came out and tried to get them to leave. He asked the troublemakers which party they were from and they avoided any direct answers – giving evasive answers. These anti-democratic agitators were breaking the rule that you can only get inside the grounds of a polling station if you have a “polling agent” pass for a specific party.

The Presiding Officer called the police because these people were not moving. Two police officers arrived quite quickly.

When one of the police officers was speaking to one of the troublemakers, an SNP activist came up and sided with the troublemakers and tried to justify their appalling behaviour. Indeed, we were concerned at how pally some of the SNP people were with the anti-democratic agitators.

The support of the SNP activist deflected the policeman from doing what he should have done immediately, which was to tell these totalitarian leftist troublemakers to leave the grounds of the polling station, where they were not entitled to be. If they had refused to leave, then they should have been arrested for breach of the peace. Unfortunately, they were allowed to remain.

At this point, the Presiding Officer decided to call a meeting of the parties in a room in the polling station in order to explain the rules.  The SNP candidate, David Turner – who seems a very uncouth, rude and overweight person – said in reference to our candidate, that he did not want to “sit with this shit”.

The Presiding Officer said the troublemakers would have to stand outside the gates rather than inside the gates of the polling station, because they refused to give any information about what party they were representing and were not official candidates or polling agents.

At this point, the SNP candidate sided with the rabble and said he too would stand outside the gate. The only candidate who said he would stay inside the gates was the Conservative candidate.

The Presiding Officer allowed the BNP to stay inside the gates of the Polling Station and at this point, the Marxist rabble moved outside the gates.

However, the BNP activists were concerned for the safety of the polling station staff and for the general public, and decided reluctantly that it would be in everyone’s best interests for us simply to move to another polling station.

The British National Party would like to express our thanks to the staff of Glasgow City Council who administered the election. They were courteous, impartial and completely professional, and were concerned to ensure fairness and the correct democratic procedure. The Presiding Officers at Garrowhill and Caledonia Primary School were exemplary.

The day had its amusing incidents. One of our activists, who was about to give someone a leaflet outside Caledonia Primary School, was deliberately jostled by an extremely unpleasant and inarticulate middle-aged male. Our activist said “No, shoving and physical contact, please.”

This troublemaker replied, “I wouldn’t want to touch scum like you, anyway!”

Our activist replied, “You’re obviously incapable of stringing a sentence together. If you’re a representative of your party then it must be pretty pathetic.”

He replied, hilariously trying to defend the intellectual calibre of his associates, “We have doctors, lawyers and professors in our party.”

Our man replied, “So, where are they?” 

That shut him up!

Even though the leftist rabble were trying to intimidate the electorate, the BNP activists nevertheless received warm comments from the public, including a voter who expressed his support and who wanted to take a bundle of leaflets.

Finally, at the count, despite our candidate offering to shake hands after the result was announced, the new SNP councillor, David Turner, ignorantly refused to shake hands.

This new councillor for Baillieston appears to be a coarse and awkward person who does not know how to behave appropriately, with personal manners and social skills well below the standard required for this public position of responsibility. This new councillor also appears to have difficultly in public speaking, and gave a somewhat inarticulate, halting, clumsy, disjointed speech as he struggled to express himself.

Congratulations to our candidate, and all our activists who have helped, once again, to raise the flag of the British National Party and give the people of Baillieston the chance to vote for the hope of our great country.

Nu-Labour has sent its storm troopers into Baillieston handing out the vilest lie filled leaflet I have ever seen.

While our activists have gone about their business in a professional way encountering no problems from the local people the anti-democracy arm of the Labour party obviously worried that people have responded well to our message have kindly donated free toilet paper to the ward in an attempt to attract voters!

Do these people really think that anyone will believe these tired accusations based in fantasy? Do they take the good people of Baillieston for idiots, just like their masters do?

The BNP is growing because we treat people with the respect they deserve, the voters in Scotland will make up their own minds about who they vote for, like all Britons they don’t like to be told who not to vote for!

The hundreds of ‘Voice of freedoms’ handed out by our team of activists will more than counter the childish nonsense produced by the anti-BNP goons.

Good luck Charlie and team for tomorrow.

Gary Raikes

BNP Scottish Secretary

The final weekend of canvassing prior to the by-election at Baillieston has just been successfully accomplished. The weather was kind to us and, despite the heavy rain of the last few weeks, we have been extremely fortunate to avoid a drenching throughout this campaign. The Gods must be smiling on us.

Work started on Friday evening with a visit to Shettleston Police Station to inform them, as requested, of our election-board activities. The advantage of this approach is that the roads are empty of traffic and we get on with the job in peace and quiet, or at least that is the theory! It depends on whether you do a main street with pubs or residential areas. Certainly, our activities can provoke an interesting and varied (diverse?) response. After an evening pounding the streets and climbing lampposts I challenge anyone to say that we are just another boring and bland political party. We had some interesting encounters with the local people.

Right at the start, within about 5 minutes, a man appeared from the pub next to us, which is adjacent to a busy junction and shouted at us while waving his arms about. We were, naturally, concerned and waited to see what would happen next. Within a few seconds this middle aged man started to jump up a lamp-post beside where we were standing and rip down the election-boards of two of the Far-Left parties and then stamp on them. Of course we were very relieved that this unusual behaviour, which cannot be condoned, was not directed at us. Furthermore, he insisted that we board every post at the junction and demanded that we give him two more of our boards to decorate his “own” two posts just outside the pub. They were fixed at very low level and we did not give much for their chances of survival. Amazingly, they were still in place at the time of writing. I can only assume that they have been under guard 24/7. 

Naturally, not everyone chooses to support us and, while halfway up a lamppost outside a polling station, one of the few leftist insomniacs who inhabit this constituency decided to mount a challenge. First, this aggressive woman threatened us with the police. She seemed to be under the delusion that we were acting illegally. When we responded that we were acting within the law she and her husband, who seemed to be hiding behind her, resorted to sneer tactics. It was time to move on. At another location some distance away we decided to have a break.

We then started to board the street outside one of the main polling stations. However, we became aware that we were being followed for some considerable distance and decided to stop and await developments. Our “shadower” finally caught up and gave us his sincere congratulations on the job we were doing. He shook hands with all three of us and then disappeared down the road. By this time it was getting late and we decided to call it quits while on a high note.

Over the weekend we covered three key areas, although I should qualify this by saying that we have really only managed to canvass a small sample of each area. I am only sorry that with our limited number of volunteers and the time constraints we have not managed to speak to more of the people of Baillieston. They have impressed me as being decent hard working folk. Certainly, people are extremely concerned about immigration and although we are not a single issue party this is what most of them are worried about as it has a direct effect on their jobs and the areas in which they live. One woman that I spoke to asked me what the party would do for her. As soon as I mentioned immigration she became extremely interested. She works at the sausage factory in Shettleston and says that she and her colleagues have not had a pay rise for years. The reason? Cheap imported labour on the minimum wage who will work 24/7 if asked. At home she has problems with asylum seekers/immigrants who live above her in an overcrowded flat. Weekends are a misery at times with noise and general anti-social behaviour. She took a pile of papers and leaflets from us.

Another area, which is north of the Edinburgh Road, has the feel that the politicians have abandoned it. Not an election board to be seen. We had to double check to make sure that we were still in the constituency as it is very close to Easterhouse. Of course, one never knows what sort of reception one will receive in an unfamiliar area and we were quite apprehensive. We need not have worried. The response was wonderful. Within minutes a horde of excited children accompanied us round the houses. They knew who we were and insisted on escorting us wherever we went. The adults greeted us warmly and one man spent some considerable time talking to us and giving us insight into this area of which we had only vaguely heard. He shook hands and wished us all the best. We gave him contact details for joining the Party.

Some older residents expressed apathy and disillusionment with politics and who can blame them? I think that it would be fair to say that we left them with some hope and renewed interest in the future of our country. I only wish that we could justify their trust in us in the near future. Things are changing rapidly at the moment and we are the only party who are prepared to take on the David and Goliath task of opposing the evil Hydra of Marxist Multiculturalism that exists in its many insidious and intolerable forms. We took our leave of this area but not before being souvenired of our remaining boards and rosettes by the eager and lively children. E-bay may have some unusual items for sale in the near future!

Max Dunbar

Glasgow and West Fund holder      

Charlie Baillie is a 57 year old self-employed electrical Contractor living in the Pollokshaws area, where he stood as a candidate in May 2007 for the Newlands/Auldburn ward.

Charlie is our organiser for Glasgow and West BNP and can been seen giving a short talk on BNPtv filmed at the recent RWB family festival.

“The British National Party are for the Union of our British Nation and are opposed to the Separatist agenda of the SNP. We are for local people first, in the provision of jobs housing and community needs.

We are opposed to the Dispersal policy of Glasgow City Council which has given priority to immigrants over local people in the provision of these services”.

 Charlie Baillie, Candidate.

  Mob 078278 1108.

Report Baillieston 31-8-08 from Max Dunbar

During the past week Glasgow and West BNP have carried out a well organised campaign of leafleting and newspaper distribution in the Baillieston Council Ward. This is in anticipation of the forthcoming by-election which takes place on the 18^th September 2008.

We have considered that leafleting, although a very important part of the campaign can be enhanced by door to door canvassing. This has the undoubted added benefit of giving the BNP a human face, and making the work of activists much more interesting.

Although it may be argued that this technique is slow, in practice this proves not to be the case. In a short period of time, hundreds of households can be covered. A percentage of people are not in and the remaining households are simply leafleted.

By and large, we have had a most favourable response and the general public have treated us with courtesy and have shown interest in what we have to say. They have drawn our attention to the local issue of a complete lack of sports facilities for children and young adults. This is a matter of high priority to us as we consider that young people be given every opportunity to exercise and enjoy themselves in a positive and constructive way. We fully intend to continue with this essential work and the local BNP activists are determined to do their utmost for the people of Baillieston.

If you wish to assist, please telephone 07960 714931

The following candidates will be contesting the Baillieston election 18th September 2008

John Anderson                 Scottish Conservative and Unionist

Charles Baillie                 British National Party

Moira A Crawford              Scottish Green Party

Ian Dickie                         SUP, Proudly Scottish, Proudly British

David Jackson                  Scottish Liberal Democrats

Tricia McLeish                  Solidarity

Andy Muir                         Scottish Labour Party Candidate

Daniel O’Donnell              Scottish Socialist Party

David Turner                    Scottish National Party (SNP)

Nomination papers etc were put in today in Glasgow and accepted, Charlie baillie will be announced as our official candidate tomorrow when we will find out the names and parties of all those standing. 

This is the result from the last election for Baillieston ward

The election team were out both days on the weekend canvassing in the ward a full report will be posted later.

                                BAILLIE FOR BAILLIESTON

                                              BNP V SNP

Our Campaign Team are planning the strategy for the weeks ahead, as we will have only 3 weeks from the notification by the Council to the poll date. 

This weekend 23/24 will be our first leafleting session in the Baillieston Ward. Help is needed please come along if you can. Together we can make a difference.

We will be in the ward from 1300hrs.

For details contact our BNP Hotline Mob 07960 714 931.

                                 Team BNP for Great Britain

                              BNP v SNP

                   BAILLIE FOR BAILLIESTON 

Glasgow and West organiser Charlie Baillie

Due to the incumbent, being elected to Westminster, Glasgow City Council, must call for a By- Election in its Baillieston Ward.

All British Patriots in Scotland are called to this campaign for our Noble Cause, to fight for the Union of Great Britain, against the criminal folly of the separatist SNP.

Our Candidate is Charlie Baillie, the Glasgow and West Organiser. He contested the Council Elections in 2007 and is leafleting now, prior to the official 3 week run up to the official campaign.

    Please contact Charlie on Mob 07960 714931 and offer your help.