LEWISHAM: BNP to enter candidate in mayoral elections (From News Shopper)
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LEWISHAM: BNP to enter candidate in mayoral elections
12:18pm Friday 5th February 2010 in
A BRITISH National Party mayoral candidate will target muslim and Nigerian voters at this year’s Lewisham elections, it has been claimed.
The party’s London organiser Robert Bailey has confirmed the party will contest the borough’s mayoral election.
But he said a candidate would not be announced until the party had raised enough money.
Mr Bailey claimed the people of Lewisham had requested they field a candidate, and the party would be supported by those disillusioned with Labour.
He said: “It’s going to be difficult. The Labour Party think they’ve got the ethnic vote sewn up - that’s why they imported all these people and gave them passports.
“But a lot of people who follow Islam won’t be following Labour because of their wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“They can’t rely on the Nigerian Christian vote because of their support for abortion and championing of gay rights above what’s right and normal.”
He added: “Lewisham has a traditional white working-class background and in recent years it’s come under attack by Labour-inspired immigration policies which have made the white working-class a minority.
“Lewisham is symptomatic of a lot of London boroughs where you’d be hard-pressed to find an indigenous face in the high street and hear people speaking English.
“Lewisham, in many respects because of Labour’s open-door policy of mass immigration, looks more like the capital of some far-flung country than a borough in London.”
Mr Bailey claimed the party also stood for lower council tax, a cutback on political correctness and an end to “pandering to ethnic minority groups”.
The party also plans to field around 30 parliamentary candidates across London during the elections.
But current Mayor of Lewisham Sir Steve Bullock said: “The residents of Lewisham have too much sense to be taken in by the superficial makeover of the BNP.
“It’s still a nasty, racist party with nothing to offer but division and hate.”
Mayoral candidate for Lewisham Greens Councillor Dean Walton said: "Racists aren't welcome in a diverse and tolerant borough like Lewisham.
"I'd be confident that the BNP would be sent packing by Lewisham's voters."
Comments(21)
Beckenhamlady
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1:12pm Fri 5 Feb 10
Simon Bull
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1:13pm Fri 5 Feb 10
You are perfectly free to speak up against the BNP and to challenge its views, as you have just done in your comment.
I don't think there is anything remotely disrespectful about this article. An outspoken and controversial party has announced it plans to stand in a major local election, so it is perfectly valid to report that.
The opinions expressed in the article are most definitely not the views of News Shopper, they are solely the views of the BNP. It's up to people like yourself to read what's being said and to make up your mind whether you agree with it or not.
On the subject of being disrespectful, is it not slightly disrespectful to pigeonhole muslim or Nigerian voters into specific communities? Surely everyone is just part of the wider Lewisham community.
It's Me again !
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1:38pm Fri 5 Feb 10
Beckenhamlady wrote:Quick your stone is missing you ...get back under it
vote BNP all the way
Richard Simcox
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1:52pm Fri 5 Feb 10
Anyway, as a Lewisham resident, I hope they don't manage to stand a candidate. If they do, we have to ensure they get smashed in the election.
the wall
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2:25pm Fri 5 Feb 10
Simon Bull
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2:41pm Fri 5 Feb 10
We had the info about the BNP standing which we wanted to get up because it's something people will no doubt be interested to know. I'm sure there will be a strong reaction, which we'll report on too. There is a quote now in the story from the currrent mayor saying what he thinks of the BNP standing.
Nrob00
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3:33pm Fri 5 Feb 10
Margaret Wilson
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7:34pm Fri 5 Feb 10
Let's Agree To Differ
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8:48pm Fri 5 Feb 10
Creaky
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10:00pm Fri 5 Feb 10
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They cannot possibly be worse than this current shower.
Richard Simcox
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1:28pm Sat 6 Feb 10
Thanks
K1rky
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1:33pm Sat 6 Feb 10
Mike Burns
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1:50pm Sat 6 Feb 10
Let's Agree To Differ wrote:Yes. Most violence is directed against the whites and most racist attacks are against the whites.
I've heard it all now.
I suggest you open your eyes. Watch Crimewatch or visit the Court News once in a while.
And whites are more likely to be accused of being racist.
It's called persecution. Or more precisely political persecution.
Instigated by government and carried out by it's quangos such as the EHRC.
We will have our day. We will win and we will not forget those responsible for the persecuton of the white population in this country.
Fortunatley not all of the ethnic communities are in agreement with our persecutors. Just some.
PS the fact that the media have been told to present whites as racists and aggressors and ethnics largely as victims. Doesn't fool everyone.
Mike Burns
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1:59pm Sat 6 Feb 10
Nrob00 wrote:@ Nrob00
Here's a more balanced report from 2 days ago with quotes from antifascists and reference to Lewisham's history of standing against fascism : http://bit.ly/cePBzX
Wake up please. The so called antifascists are the real fascists in this country.
They use hammers to hit leaflette carrying canvassers on the head.
As Churchill warned the fascists will return and will use the guise anti-fascists.
PS an unbiased report isn't a newspaper article that you happen to agree with.
Richard Simcox
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2:51pm Sat 6 Feb 10
Similarly most people who buy milk are white, most people who watch EastEnders are white, most people who slept for 7 hours 32 minutes last night are white...
RedRevolver
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3:35pm Sun 7 Feb 10
I'm pretty sure the only reason I signed up to the News Shopper website was because of the Shopper's ridiculous reportage on Orpington College -- and the inference that the expansion of multiculturalism within the college was the problem -- and have since commented on many articles which target ethnic groups or foreign nationalities as a rash that needs a cure, rather than just realising that the world in general can be a very bad place and that we can focus however much the hell we want on foreigners and the problems they bring but when the BNP are voted in, and we are left with our lovely, pure, white race and we still have theft and we still have violence and we still have ignorance and we still have hate that actually it doesn't matter where you're born - it'll still be a problem, and it's not something you can just help by shipping people off to a foreign land, whether that's where they originally came from or not.
Simon Bull
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5:35pm Sun 7 Feb 10
It does not matter in the slightest where people are born or what colour skin they have. Crime is crime, and a criminal is still a criminal irregardless of any other circumstances.
Unfortunately, I completely disagree with the first half of your comment.
The standard of News Shopper's journalism is most definitely not poor, quite the opposite in fact, which is why we won a major award for our journalism just a week ago.
And News Shopper is most definitely not a right-wing newspaper. Either you haven't read much of our news coverage or you're just being selective to suit your own perceptions. In your own words it is "unsubstantiated drivel" to claim News Shopper is right-wing. In fact, we have no political leaning whatsoever, and none of our articles ever target ethnic groups or foreign nationalities.
Perhaps you could point me in the direction of any Orpington College reporting which might be considered right-wing? Perhaps you are confusing News Shoper's articles with comments which readers have independently posted on the site?
It's a shame a comment which ended so lucidly and insightfully started with the same kind of jumping to wild conclusions that all too often afflicts BNP followers, who seem to be the people you're speaking out against.
Simon Bull
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7:56pm Sun 7 Feb 10
Let's Agree To Differ
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8:55pm Sun 7 Feb 10
Keep up the good work!
porkpie
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10:59am Tue 9 Feb 10
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Nrob00 says...
12:52pm Fri 5 Feb 10
And why are there no opposing voices her to challenge the BNP's racist comments about 'indigenous faces' and 'pandering to ethnic minorities'. Lewisham has been a multicultural community for many decades and we're proud of that. Lewisham has a great history of dealing with the far-right. We saw off the BNP's predecessors, the National Front, in 1977 and we'll see off the BNP as well. The Shopper should be ashamed of publishing this piece of BNP PR.