Don't forget also to look out for BBC 1 Wednesday night 7:30 pm Inside Out - The massive MoD fire in Shropshire and the cover-up which followed; on the road with the far-right BNP in Stoke, and Jacey Normand meets a millionaire art connoisseur.
It appears that the above is only intended to be available for those of us in the West Midlands, but with the wonders of SKY, Freesat, Freeview and the Internet I am sure many from further afield will be able to tune in. In any case I'll carry the link from this blog if and when the archive is available.
Just to let you know a bit more about this programme, it wasn't just Saturday's activity we allowed them to film. A TV crew was also present throughout the planning meeting we held in Stoke last Wednesday night. We have nothing to hide and so we allowed them to film the meeting in its entirety, let's hope they are good enough to depict what happened in an honest and truthful way. I've worked with these people before who made a programme about me and a black barrister a few years ago and they played it straight down the line. Strangely enough I actually got on with Courtney Griffiths and he told me some very interesting things concerning some of the high profile cases he has taken on.
Nick is speaking tonight and I've just arranged for a local journalist to report on the event via the local organiser. Once again we will see how this goes and if they stab us in the back, they will never have the opportunity again.
It's the same with the Ham & High newspaper who keep ringing up in order to embellish their newspaper with factual tit bits concerning the BNP in order to stimulate sales. If you remember the journalists at this title actually took strike action over a decision to carry a BNP advert during the London elections in May. As I keep saying to the girl who keeps ringing, how on earth do you expect to establish a trusting relationship after an infantile, totally unprofessional temper tantrum like that.
In response I am told that we need them in order to get elected. Wrong - we get elected despite some of these newspapers and journalists not because of. In any case the proverbial writing is on the wall for a lot of these smaller newspapers as sales diminish and their catchment areas are enriched with people who don't even understand what a local community is even if they could read English. Let's see how their seemingly instinctive, journalistic liberal zeal fares in the real world.
Another call in today comes from the Malvern Gazette and Ledbury Reporter concerning the decision by the CPS not to prosecute over leaflets detailing how the heroin in this country is overwhelmingly imported by Muslims. I point out to him that one of the pitfalls of trying to get people jailed for telling the truth is that when the CPS realise they cannot concoct a case then that leaflet is by default deemed to be perfectly legal. He is not happy with this and changes direction, going for the emotive he accuses us of exploiting the death of Rachel Whitear, of course the hundreds of working class kids that die from heroin every year are inconsequential.
Getting colder isn't it but the swallows are still here. However it appears that the swifts have flown south I haven't seen any impressive clouds of house martins for a couple of weeks.
I'll end with some really exciting news from Ireland, for it appears that last Monday there was the first validated sighting of blue whales off the Irish coast for twenty years. Here is a photograph and by clicking on it you can see the report and more photos from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group. I find it utterly disgusting that there are nations out there that still hunt these wonderful creatures.
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One more time with feeling, "Far Right maybe but not far wrong!"
We considered putting an explanatory note on a local by-election address to the effect that the BNP is the other party of whom the other parties dare not speak its name.
Maybe The Party that reaches the parts the other parties long ago parted company with i.e. the as yet majority British population, would be a possible future slogan.
Re: the Rachel Whitear tragedy and others like her, if the BNP said nothing about these cases, it would be accused of callous indifference to the victims and their families.
The explanation is simple.
The Party threatens the ease, comfort, opulence and status of the media-politico trough-snouted 'establishment.'
It wouldn't matter, therefore, if the Party leaders were intrinsically on a par with Mother Theresa. You'd still be damned if you do and damned if you don't by anyone desperate to preserve their Fleet Street (Wapping? Whopping?) pay packets, privileges, pensions and/or parliamentary perks, or provincial equivalents.
That's the way it is, for now.
As the late Mark McManus (Taggart) once said, "Responsible journalist* is a contradiction in terms!"
*BNP Press Officers and all like-minded editorial colleagues excepted.
Many a true word spoken in fiction, I suggest.
I enjoyed your replies to the paper's Simon!
Hi Simon you feature in this video from Stoke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC-SRI1SFTI
Hi Simon
just some thoughts on this and saturdays BBC reports on stoke. We are constantly portraid as being racist or skinheaded nuckle draggers and slated by all and sundry- I was speaking to a friend in the pub who is now attending his first ever BNP meeting this evening by the way, he is now on the point of becoming a BNP supporter but had his view of the party as that portrayed in the media, he made a suggestion that i thought was good- Why dont the BNP organise a national fund-raising campaign for the gurkha's or even the sikh soldiers that have fought allongside our troops in many conflicts and are now being denied simple rights that others from the 3rd world are being given freely dispite having never sacrificed or contributed in anyway to this country. I thought this made good PR sense and the media could never brand this as racist, imagine every group with activists in town centres with buckets collecting money for the gurkha issue- a very emotive subject with the electorate and as your aware currently enjoying media coverage with joanna lulmley at the front. Interesting thought for your consideration
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Points worth noting Re: the MORI poll.
1)The poll was taken at the end of the Lib.Dem. conference and just before the Labour so the media was concentrating on the ‘main’ parties.
2)People are reluctant (frightened?) to admit to voting BNP. Some even think that the Thought Police will find out even if they reveal this deviant behaviour in the confessional of an opinion poll.
3)Many have bought into the lies and smears of the media, so that even though they agree with everything the BNP stand for they still vote for the old parties.
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