I have friends who could fairly be described as ‘armchair’ cooks and ‘armchair’ gardeners- people who are well versed and enthusiastic about their chosen interests, but just seem to lack the application or opportunity to make their ideals become reality.

I suppose it’s a question of priorities. There just isn’t enough time to do everything we would like to do. So necessarily, some activities get relegated to the back burner. Which means in effect, that they simply never happen, despite all our good intentions.

I’m now making a direct plea to all ‘armchair nationalists.’ Those of you out there who are reading this blog, and find yourselves agreeing with most, if not all of what I say. Those of you who have ‘seen the light’- who realise the state that this poor country of ours is in, and who want to see something done about it. Those of you who can see how we have been hoodwinked by the establishment and had changes forced on us without our consent. Those who believe and know that the only party with the guts and the determination to take things forward is the British National Party.

To each and all of you, I would like you to put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, ‘Am I doing everything that I can feasibly do to help the Party, my country and the just Cause that I sincerely believe in? Or am I selling my ancestors, myself and future generations short? Am I leaving it to others to bear the burden that I should be sharing?

I confess that on some days, the demands can seem daunting. But I have always worked on the principle of ‘no regrets.’ By this, I simply mean that at the end of the day, I see myself accountable to my Cause and my conscience. So, come what may, I can always hold my head high and say, ‘I fought a good fight, I did my duty, and what’s more, I did my best.’

Success can and will be achieved. But it won’t come without a struggle. And only if everyone, yes, everyone who feels the same way gets out of their comfortable armchair and lends a hand giving or doing the best that they can. No matter how small and insignificant you feel it is, all that is needed is your best effort. No one can ever ask for more.

So, I am putting out this appeal to all like-minded folk across the nation, from Land’s End to John O’Groats and even beyond! In these days of the internet, no one is too remote to make their presence felt in some way or another. Your help is needed in Barking and Dagenham and it is needed NOW! We need manpower on the streets and we need donations. We need you to show in some way that you care!

Make no mistake, the eyes of the world are fixed on Barking and Dagenham this election-tide. Because this is where our breakthrough will come. And this is also where our opponents will mass all their resources against us. The nationalists of Barking and Dagenham are doing sterling work. But we cannot stand and fight alone. We need YOU to do your bit and do your best, now!

Thank you!

“1. How many people died as a result of being stabbed with a knife
in London in 2006? Please break down by Borough and give date of
each attack.
2. How many people died as a result of being stabbed in 2007?
Please break down by Borough and give date of each attack.
3. How many people suffered serious injury as a result of being
stabbed in 2006? Please break down by Borough and give date of each attack.
4. How many people suffered serious injury as a result of being
stabbed in 2007? Please break down by Borough and give date of each attack.”

I am sure that readers of this Blog will understand that these are matters of public interest! Indeed in my view the public and their political representatives have a right to both ask these questions and receive answers. Yet the Metropolitan Police is actually considering claiming exemptions to avoid answering these vital questions! They responded to the request saying:-

“I am sorry to inform you that we have not been able to complete our response to your request by the date originally stated, as we are currently considering whether ‘qualified exemptions’ apply to the information you have requested. As a result we will not be able to respond within 20 working days.
For your information we are considering the following exemption(s):

Section 38 – Health & Safety
Section 40 – Personal Information”

Take a look at:-
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/knife_crime_6

‘Health and safety’?! What about the health and safety of Londoners? What are they talking about? – I await their explanation with interest.
‘Private information’? Mark is asking for general statistics! The Met should answer the questions and stop trying to hide behind exemptions. I also note that they have failed meet their own stated deadline of 15 February to provide further argument concerning their exemptions.

Just what is going on here? Why the seeming reluctance of the Met to give us the facts about knife-crime? I am backing Mark Walker in this and am going to ensure that we get answers. It is in the public interest that we have an informed debate on knife crime.

It might also interest readers to know that Sir Nicholas and his wife have ratcheted up a whopping £80 000 between them of taxpayers’ money to fund their second home that was owned by a trust controlled by their children.

Now I hate to sound self-righteous, but I never claim a penny in expenses, other than a standard class travel pass. Unlike Boris and his £4,689 of public money spent on taxi fares last year. But then he is the Mayor of London. So I suppose he thinks that this entitles him to consider himself just a little more deserving than the rest of us!

Sadly this arrogant ‘grab it all’ attitude is endemic and entrenched, as illustrated all too graphically by the MPs’ expenses scandal. At least one thing that can be said in defence of Sir Nicholas is that he has had the audacity to state publicly what the rest of the political elite think privately. This ‘one rule for them, another for us’ is the root of the problems Britain is facing today. Not only are our politicians totally out of touch, they simply couldn’t care a damn about what we the voters think. That’s why they fail to act on emotive issues such as capital punishment, knife-crime, Europe, and yes, immigration. Indeed, not only do they fail do act, they take the opposite line to the views of the majority!

And that’s what makes the BNP different from all the rest of them! We, who stand for the BNP, are the voice of the people! Labour, Lib-Dems, Conservatives and yes, UKIP, are simply out to get their snouts in the gravy train. And the last thing that they want is the good brave folk of the BNP upsetting their comfortable status quo, financed by longsuffering taxpayers, whom they are happy to fleece but whose views they are so damn determined not to represent!

Apparently, the government has said that it is still looking for a site, but that Dagenham is no longer in the running. Could this be connected with the fact that Labour MPs Margaret Hodge and Jon Cruddas both face heavy election challenges from the BNP (against the prison and for a hospital) and Labour are desperate not to tip the popularity scales against their own MPs any further?

We should expect Labour to be suddenly more responsive and considerate of public opinion – at least for a few months! Then they will go back to their bad old ways of treating the views of ordinary folk with contempt. Surely they cannot really expect to fool people again?

Clearly, they are running scared! However, their attempts to placate public opinion and bolster their flagging campaigns has come too late. The tide of public opinion in Barking and Dagenham has turned in favour of the BNP. And there’ll be no stopping us now!

I believe that whatever desperate tactics Labour employs they are on their way out. The people of Barking and Dagenham have had enough and no amount of spin is going to change their minds.

In the light of this, the uncertainty caused by the closure of seven Age Concern centres in Barking and Dagenham is a matter raising serious concerns. Staff and users need some firm guarantees yet few seem on offer. As a Borough we need to encourage and support independent living – through increased Direct Payments, expanded Day Centre provision (including weekends), greater training for carers and more respite places. Our Social Workers and Carers are doing fantastic work but I just don’t think that enough is being done to help them and fund the infrastructure needed.

We have an ageing population and we need to plan more for that. We need to value what the older generation has lived through and what they have given and can give to the community. Charity starts at home. After a lifetime of paying in to the system, our elderly are entitled to receive their just deserts.

Of course, our narrow-minded opponents don’t see it like this. The fact that we, the BNP, are the lone voice of common sense, prepared to stand up for Britain and British interests and dare to question the value and merits of enforced multiculturalism and diversity makes them livid! Take this recent comment of former Labour Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, reported in the Evening Standard, 3rd February:

‘It is a travesty that the BNP has a seat on the London Assembly to give platform to its toxic propaganda.’’

Well thanks a bunch, Ken!
It seems that at least I’ve made an impact! I leave it to my readers to judge whether Ken’s utterance is either fair or accurate because I hold myself above involvement in trading insults.

But what I do take issue with, is Livingstone’s grossly undemocratic slamming of the people who voted for me, by suggesting that my tenure on the GLA is a ‘travesty.’ This sort of reaction smacks of political bigotry of the worst kind, because it intimates that those of opposing opinions should be deprived of their legitimate democratic franchise. The fact is, Mr Livingstone, is that I was voted on to the London Assembly by Londoners who exercised their preference for me legitimately at the ballot box. You may not like it, but it is a fact and my seat on the GLA is the result. By describing my election as a ‘travesty,’ you have, in half a dozen syllables, shown your utter contempt for the political opinion of 200 000 Londoners who don’t just happen to agree with your views! So much for the sentiment attributed to Voltaire: ‘I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it’

However, like it or not- and the establishment and politicians from all the other parties had better get used to it- the BNP is a growing force in modern British politics. Our support is increasing daily, as our recent election successes to the European Parliament have shown. And the more the other parties moan and groan about it, the more the electorate will come to see that the reason we attract such resentment and reaction is that they, the clapped out Lib-Lab-Cons have failed! The old parties are out of touch. They cannot deliver. And what cheers me so much is that their very evident failure is steadily laying the foundations for our future success!

It seems that NHS Private Finance Initiatives, or PFIs, are in fact worth just £11 billion. In effect, our NHS hospitals have been mortgaged for years to big businesses, whose reason for existence is, surprise, surprise, to make money. Well, it seems that they’ve hit on a gilded goose when it comes to the NHS! I only hope that the goose doesn’t die on them through the exhaustion of having to lay too many golden eggs!

But what makes it even worse, is that the fact that this offensive was scheduled to take place was announced publicly, in advance! Army spokesman, Major General Gordon Messenger stated that there had been a ‘conscious decision’ to publicise details of the attack, in spite of the risk of losing the element of surprise. He told Sky News that ‘the express purpose of this is to essentially give the Taliban in those areas a choice- either to put down their weapons, and choose not to fight and become part of legitimate society in those areas, or to fight.’

I am wondering if I have missed something?! We are not at the vicar’s tea party here, folks, we are dealing with an enemy that is fighting to maintain their supremacy and power structure in their own land, against the interference from an invading enemy that they consider to be infidel. It’s a situation somewhat akin to trying to reason with a cornered and wounded lion! Furthermore, these people have been imbibing the fanaticism of religious fundamentalism with their mothers’ milk! Fat chance of any surrender on their part! I would have thought this to be blatantly obvious!

Of course, the response was entirely predictable, given the circumstances. A Taliban commander said that 2000 insurgents were ready to fight to the death, and that “we don’t have sophisticated weapons like the Americans , but we have Islamic zeal.”

So, with the element of surprise thrown away for no good reason, our boys have again being asked to prosecute this pointless war, which the authorities know full well will lead to yet more British fatalities. But as I’ve said before, and I don’t apologise for repeating myself, it’s not their sons who are dying on an almost daily basis. The fact that yet more soldiers have died and are dying is, apparently, only to be expected on a dangerous operation like this one! I really don’t know how our spineless government politicians can sleep at night!