“Fuck off! You fucking racist! Get yourself out of my country!” To Robb WJ Ellis, a young white recently appointed policeman in Zimbabwe just after Robert Mugabe’s accession to power, it was soon made clear what the new potentates thought of him. At the same time that Mugabe was being lauded by much of the [...]
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Without Honour - A Story from Rhodesia and Zimbabwe
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Red Ken uses Dumplings to woo Polish Voters
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n any election, candidates must have a secret weapon up their sleeves. Some dig out damaging dirt on their opponents. Others deploy a regiment of management gurus to focus-group the electorate. But in his bid to be re-elected mayor of London next year, Ken Livingstone has stocked up on something rather different: pierogi.
Realising that among [...]
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Black MPs spurn Boris mayoral bid
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Conservative MP Boris Johnson’s bid to become London mayor has been condemned by black MPs.
Dawn Butler and Diane Abbott, Labour MPs for Brent South and Hackney North respectively, said his views on race harked back to the 1950s.
The comments came after the mother of black murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence criticised Mr Johnson’s bid.
Mr Johnson is [...]
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Black Crime in Britain a “Serious Crisis”
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Parts of the UK’s Black community face a “serious crisis” with young people becoming involved in crime, Members of Parliament have said.
A House of Commons home affairs committee said the number of Black men in the criminal justice system was “unacceptable”.
It blamed social exclusion, absent fathers, lack of positive role models and, of course, Whites, [...]
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British Government Wants to Close Schools that are “too White”
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The race-traitor British government has announced that schools with large numbers of White pupils may be taken over or closed if they fail to promote race relations and links between different religious groups.
Using the excuse that they must stop “children drifting toward extremism,” schools minister Jim Knight, said that those White schools in “rural areas [...]
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BNP Support at 14% of National Vote: Labour Party Deputy Leader Candidate Admits BNP Growth
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The British National Party has experienced a dramatic increase in support, and nationally polled about 14% of the vote in last week’s elections, according to Labour Party MP Jon Cruddas, a deputy leadership candidate for that party.
Speaking at a rally in Trafalgar Square, Cruddas said that “the BNP achieved very significant levels of support in [...]
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Will computer technology reject postal votes?
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CONCERN is mounting that the declaration of results in next Thursday’s local elections in parts of Kent could be disrupted by problems with new computer technology.
Both Ashford and Shepway council have confirmed they are among local authorities facing problems with software they have been recommended to use by central government to check postal votes.
If the [...]
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12% of tories would vote BNP
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WALES: BNP leader to stand for Assembly
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BNP leader Nick Griffin is trying to boost his party’s prospects in Wales by standing in May’s Assembly election.
The far-right party said it was fielding candidates in each of the five proportional representation regions. Mr Griffin, who lives in mid Wales, is taking the number two slot on the BNP’s south west Wales regional list.
Plaid [...]
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BNP Councillor votes against council tax increase
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PENDLE Council has agreed a budget which will result in a council tax rise of 4.95% - meaning an increase of 14p a week for Band A properties.
The figures were agreed at a special meeting of the council. Liberal Democrats voted in favour, the sole BNP councillor - Brian Parker - voted against, and the [...]
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Climate change remarks ‘blunder’
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Wales’ first minister has said that climate change would not be “entirely unhelpful” if it brought summer weather similar to California’s or Spain’s.
Opposition politicians called Rhodri Morgan’s remarks a “blunder” and “utterly irresponsible”.
Mr Morgan told assembly members some climate change was unavoidable and would have to be adapted to.
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Rude, threatening councillor escapes action
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A LEADING councillor has escaped punishment despite making offensive remarks about travellers, bullying staff and sending disrespectful emails to officers.
Coun Deborah Roberts, a member of South Cambridgeshire District Council’s cabinet, faced no disciplinary action from the Standards Board after an exhaustive 11- month investigation.
The decision so angered the chairman of the council’s own standards committee [...]
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Tory councillor charged with threatening to kill a woman
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A LEADING Worthing borough councillor has been charged with threatening to kill a woman.
He is also accused of assaulting the 25-year-old woman, whom he formerly employed as an au pair for his two children.
Paul High, 50, of Compton Avenue, Goring, who represents Heene ward, is the Tory council’s cabinet member for culture, leisure and sport.
He [...]
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New Year, old New Labour tune?
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Tony Blair’s tenth - and final - New Year message as prime minister has a surprising amount in common with his first.
The world may have changed in many ways since 1997, but Mr Blair’s political obsessions remain reassuringly familiar - as does his taste in holidays.
In 1997, the Blairs spent new year in the Seychelles [...]
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Lib Dems Back Gay Teaching
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The Liberal Democrat spokesperson on equality has backed gay activist’s criticism of the government for cutting funds for teaching about LGBT history.
Lorely Burt accused the Department for Education and Skills of promoting LGBT rights as “secondary” after it was revealed that the government department had cut tens of thousands of pounds of funding for LGBT [...]
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Gay Lib Dem Defects To The Tories
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A prominent gay Liberal Democrat has defected to the Conservative party, launching a bitter attack on the leadership of Ming Campbell.
Richard Porter, a former London Borough of Southwark councillor, is reported to be one of two current LibDem prospective parliamentary candidates to have switched their allegiance to David Cameron’s party.
Mr Porter was contacted by PinkNews.co.uk [...]
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Labour party membership slumps
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Labour is losing a member every 20 minutes and will have none left within seven years if that rate continues, according to one of the candidates for the party’s deputy leadership.
Jon Cruddas, the MP for Dagenham, said the party had lost more than 160,000 members between 2000 and 2006.
If it continued in the same way, [...]
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Backing For BNP Policies
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A Sky News poll has revealed widespread public support for many of the BNP’s policies - but less backing for the party itself.
The findings will prove worrying for all the main parties in the run-up to the local elections in nine days’ time.
The internet pollster YouGov questioned 1,841 people between last Friday and Monday.
They were [...]
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The truth that hurts
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Fury at minister’s BNP ‘boost’
THERE was anger from opponents of the British National Party this week after an MP said eight out of 10 voters were considering backing the far-right group
Veteran anti-fascist campaigner Gerry Gable, co-ordinator of the Redbridge and Epping Forest Together group, criticised employment minister Margaret Hodge after she told reporters that most [...]
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Let’s shoot the messenger…
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A HEAD teacher from Wanstead was arrested last week in a scandal that could have serious long-term implications for the Government.
Des Smith, who lives in Dover Road, Wanstead, and teaches at All Saints school, Dagenham, was arrested following comments he made to The Times newspaper which suggested knighthoods were available to potential Labour Party donors.
Full [...]
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