The Lothian’s activists were out again today Leafleting in support of Livingston candidate David Orr.

Under Lothians regional organiser David Orr Jun’s guidance, the team put out over 400 leaflets and Voice of Freedom newspapers, including a large number of personal leaflets about our Livingston candidate. The team were joined again by super activist Mark McGarry and local activist Darren Whyman who is fast becoming recognised for his commitment to the team.

Central regional organiser Mike Coyle also reports that he has secured a Voice of Freedom newspaper sale with another local news agent happy to stock it, THAT’S 2 IN WEST LOTHIAN ALONE! with another 2 awaiting confirmation. He would also personally like to thank David on the route that resulted in a few blisters.

On another note David and Mike are happy to announce the coming formation of the new Lothian’s branch, with all official positions filled and even its own professional branch photographer. Such progress in such little time is a clear indication that our message is being heard in the Lothian’s and across Scotland. The fire has been lit and its only getting hotter!

To join the team that is making a difference, or for more local information, contact David or Mike on the contact page.

Scottish leader Gary Raikes set off early with Barry Scott to meet up with our Lothians team for the final day of the tour.

After nearly getting blown off the Forth Bridge the team made an extensive tour of Edinburgh city centre before joining up with Lothians activists outside the Scottish Parliament. With in 30 seconds a security guard appeared to move them on but not before asking for a handful of leaflets to take away.

Livingston was next on the list where the truck visited the entire town, trading estates shopping areas and housing estates were all urged to vote Davie Orr in the coming election.

As four sub-regional organisers were present it was a chance for all to take away boxes of leaflets and armfuls of newspapers to keep on spreading the word.

Gary and Barry drove through the night to return the truck to Nuneaton. After a welcomed cup of coffee from the BNP’s Tom Gower and a hand over to dispatch manager Alwyn Deacon the duo made the long trek back to Gods own country, tired but pleased with the success of the recent tour.

Thanks go to Barry (who has spent everyday with the truck), Roy, Elise, Stevie, Richard, David, Mike, Mark, Darren and Hammy.

West Lothian Super Activist Mark McGarry and Central Scotland Organiser Mike Coyle took to the streets today in a second day of high visibility leafleting in the Lothian’s. The team put out 250+ leaflets in an hour.

Mike told the news team ” We leafleted the small town of Whitburn which has shown great support in the past. We gave a keen young chap an info pack plus one elderly lady told us she was so sick and tired with politics and doesn’t vote anymore but listened as we explained what we stood for before taking a leaflet and one for her neighbour”

The team then retired for one of Mikes dubious bacon sandwiches (which will in effect incapacitate them for a few days)

On a special note, Mike adds ” Again Mark must be commended. As mentioned before this young lad cares full time for his mother but attends every meeting and event not just in the Lothians but on occasion in Glasgow. Both myself and Lothian’s Organiser Davie Orr wish to congratulate Mark on his successfull Gold membership application that was processed today following the lift on the membership ban!”

The Lothian team is going from strength to strength with the next meeting planned for this coming Thursday.

For further details or to join the team, please contact David Orr or Mike Coyle on the Sub Regional contacts page.

Day two saw the team in the Banff and Buchan constituency to aid Richard Payne’s campaign using the slogan ” Don’t be insane, vote for Richard Payne” accompanied by the swirl of the bagpipes.

Two of the areas main fishing ports gave the ‘Truth Truck’ a real warm welcome’ support here outnumbering anything we have seen so far.

After being waved down by bin men keen to get their hands on leaflets for themselves and work mates the team stopped for a tea break and were relieved of a number of papers by someone whose girl friend had seen us out in Aberdeen the day before, the word seems to be spreading, the BNP have arrived!

More reports over the weekend.

Our candidate for Livingston’ Davie Orr’ was out campaigning on Friday along with his son Lothians organiser David Orr and super activist Mark McGarry.

The trio handed out leaflets and copies of the ‘Voice of Freedom’ that included a personal election letter from Mr. Orr snr.

David Orr told new team, ” We had no trouble from local people and the weather was fine which made it an enjoyable afternoon for all”.

The Lothians team aim to be out every week between now and the election and will be assisted by the ‘Truth truck’ early next week to let the good people of Livingston know they have a candidate to vote for who wont swindle expenses.

Lothians sub-regional organiser David Orr was more than happy with his last meeting which was called to discuss future activities, including starting this Thursday to leaflet Livingston in the run up to the election.

One member along with his partner traveled from Fife to attend the meeting, also in attendance were two people waiting to join as soon as the ban is lifted.

Mr Orr told the news team “I would like to mention Mark McGarry, he is 19 years old and went out by himself last week posted 60 ‘Voice of Freedoms’ and over a 100 leaflets. Mark has also arranged for a local pakistani shopkeeper to sell our ‘Voice of Freedom’, amazing!! Mark cares for his mum full-time, he is a shy chap and refuses any recognition but is a great activist, I look forward to hearing what he has been up to at the next meeting”.

Lothians BNP will be meeting again on Thursday 18th contact David Orr or Mike Coyle for details

Aberdeen BNP took to the Streets of Cults on Saturday and had a very productive day indeed. “Apart from a left-wing-supporting business trying to disrupt our campaigning, our four-strong team still managed to distribute over 400 leaflets and hand-out almost 100 newspapers to local residents” the North east organiser reported.

A large BNP banner was temporarily erected on council land to mark our presence in the village and was acknowledged by passing motorists who sounded their horns in support. The local hotel manager took great offence to this and decided to call the police, presumably to have us arrested or forcibly ‘moved-on’.

“The police arrived and could instantly see that we were not up to anything illegal or offensive and were quite happy to leave us to it”, said candidate, Susan Ross. “The police informed the hotel manager that there was nothing they could do because we were not breaking the law, the manager saying he only had a problem with the banner because it looks like my hotel supports the BNP”.

As a gesture of goodwill, the team made the decision to take the banner down and continue campaigning without it thus allowing our hard-working police officers to concentrate on the protection of our communities.

The police officers were visibly annoyed and embarrassed at having to waste their time in dealing with such a ridiculous call out.

“Not only has the manager of the hotel wasted tax-payers cash with his personal attack on democratic freedom of speech, he also wasted the valuable resources of the ‘financially stretched’ Grampian Police who could have used their time questioning us to catch drug dealers and thieves”, activist Steve Thomsom added.

“BNP Scotland vehemently opposes the blatant exploitation of our police force for the purpose of ‘political posturing’ and will not be dictated to when it comes to our choice of campaign locations. Our campaiging is always peaceful, our activists polite and we always place the interests of the community first” organiser Barry Scott concluded.

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

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.

Saturday the 23rd January saw a six-strong team of Aberdeen activists take to the streets of the Garthdee, Mannofield and Seafield areas of Aberdeen despite the terrible weather.

“Even though the rain never stopped the whole day we still had a very productive campaigning session, with the distribution of hundreds of party leaflets and newspapers to supportive residents” Organiser, Barry Scott said.
Candidate, Susan Ross was also on hand to meet and greet members of the public many of whom voiced their concerns about the Government’s recently proposed cuts to OAP’s pensions.

In the predominantly middle class area of Mannofield, local residents appeared visibly amazed at the BNP’s presence in their area and many stopped to accept leaflets and chat with Candidate, Susan Ross.
“The residents of Mannofield acknowledge the fact our Country needs massive change in the way it is Governed and the majority of them were receptive to the idea of the BNP as a credible alternative” Susan said.

As well as the successful ’street presence’ campaigning, hundreds more leaflets were also delivered through local letterboxes by enthusiastic volunteers.

Aberdeen Activists ended 2009 with a successful leafleting session in the Aberdeen South Constituency Area of Torry on Saturday 12th.
“We handed out hundreds upon hundreds of leaflets and newspapers to the good people of Torry who were very eager to get their hands on our literature” a spokesman said.

Many people were also keen to share the problems of their area and confided in our Aberdeen South Candidate, Susan Ross who was also present with activists on the streets of Torry. “I very much enjoyed talking with the residents of Torry who shared their grievances with me and I give my thanks to the many who voiced their support for the Party,” said Susan.
As is to be expected, non supporters of the Party let their feelings be known to ourselves with one Polish member of Torry proclaiming that “you need us Poles working here because all you Brits are lazy bas****s”!

This opinion simply galvanised our belief that Torry is one of the most desperate areas in need our of our help and representation. We aim to Campaign vigorously in this area in the build-up to next year’s General Election.

The day was brought to a close with a visit to one of Torry’s fine watering holes ‘The Grampian Bar’ for a well deserved drink.

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.

The British National Party would turn back “asylum seekers” trying to enter this country if they have passed other safe countries on their way here.

This was said by BNP candidate in the Glasgow north east by-election, Charlie Baillie, in response to a question from a journalist while campaigning in the constituency.

Mr Baillie told the journalist that he would be campaigning on an anti-immigration platform, focusing on the arrival of asylum seekers.

Asked whether he would turn away a “torture victim from Zimbabwe,” Mr Baillie said “Yes. They have neighbouring countries they can go to.”

Meanwhile, BNP Scotland continues to campaign like never before in the seat. So far, some 25,000 leaflets and 4,000 Voice of Freedom newspapers have been delivered in the north east of Glasgow.

The party’s Truth Truck is also being deployed in the campaign. Its first appearance was last Friday when it was out for a 16 hour stint. The drivers report that they were greeted with cheers everywhere they went.

The Truth Truck was also out campaigning over the weekend, despite awful weather.

The media are sitting up and taking notice of the BNP campaign in Glasgow, a small piece in the Sun last week and a splattering of local papers, and now Charlie has been invited to do an interview for the BBC which should get an airing wednesday 21st.

Charlie also heads the list of candidates on the BBC web site!

Local Campaign manager Walter Hamilton has called tonight for members to help distribute 5000 new leaflets saying ” Just think a few hours of your time will help change history in Scotland”.

This is no idle boast, the times are changing, the BNP have never been out of the news during the run up to Nick Griffin MEP appearing on Question time, this is your chance to play a part in making history, a few hours is all we ask, help let the good people of Glasgow North East know there is a real alternative to the expense swindling gang of four, the BNP is here and it is here to stay!

Contact Walter Hamilton on 07717774730

Day of action is called for Saturday 17th October. The BNP Truth truck will be in Glasgow with activists from England to help our campaign. Every Scottish member who can get to Glasgow either Saturday or Sunday are urged to do so, we only have a few weeks to ensure every voter in the constituency recieves our election material letting them know there is a real alternative to the old parties.
All BNP members are encouraged to get involved in the next four weeks leading up to the Election Day on Thurs 12 November. So far the campaign team has been to eleven locations five with a table top sale, they have distributed 6000 leaflets and given out over 2000 ‘Voice of Freedoms’ but this is only the start. We need your help even giving one day will make a difference.

The BNP standard has been raised in Glasgow will you allow it to fall or help keep it proudly flying?

Please contact either Charlie Baillie 07827811008 or Walter Hamilton 07717774730 and join the next leafleting session in the ward. Do it today, do it now!

Saturday saw a day of action in West Lothian, local organiser Mike Coyle reports.

Activists started their day in Bathgate town centre where hundreds of leaflets and magazines were handed out in less than an hour. The team spent a great deal of time talking to many supporters even having a cup of tea bought for them!
Mike told the news team, “This was the first time the new group took to the streets in West Lothian and the support was overwhelming. Many people not only took our leaflets but stopped to talk and express their views and gratitude to seeing us. The only bother we had was one untidy Marxist student who thought it was ok to roar the usual profanities in front of young children. It was actually a member of public that sent him swiftly on his way”.

Following the success in Bathgate the activists moved to Livingston to leaflet outside the shopping centre where more leaflets were handed out before Mikes hunger got the better of him. After a brief fast food stop the teamcalled it a day. Mike finished by saying, “I was taken aback by the support shown and the success of our first day leafleting and that was just a small team. As the group grows I firmly believe the party could establish itself in West Lothian. One chap that came out with me even took a bundle of leaflets away with him to hand out round his home town….and he is not even a member…..yet!”

West Lothian is going from strength to strength with their next open meeting set for 22nd October. For details contact Mike 07815597675 or coyle409@btinternet.com.

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Results from the Glasgow campaign have started to come through in the form of the number of leaflets being returned to the Scottish office asking for info packs and in some cases asking for help with local issues.
Almost every one shows great concern with law and order, or in fact the lack of law and order!
Is it any wonder when we have here in Scotland murderers sentenced to just six years in prison and released after serving three?
In January 2008 this was the sentence handed out to a thug who kicked and battered a nineteen year old youth to death then dumped his body outside his parents house in a wheelbarrow.
The youth’s mother said “Perpetrators are treated with kid gloves while victims and their families are given no consideration, how can it be justice that killing my son will cost no more than four years, and possibly just three?”
“I would never have supported the death penalty before but I would be first to sign up for it now.”
A sentiment we are finding is being expressed on the streets. There is a very real feeling that the justice system is failing in its duty which after all is to punish criminals and protect the innocent not the other way round!

If you can help spread our message please contact Charlie Baillie on 07827811008 and join one of our leafleting teams this weekend.