Left wing scruff bags labelled useful idiots

The term “useful idiots”, most commonly attributed to Lenin to describe Soviet sympathisers in the West, has never been more appropriate this morning than in describing those who give public support to the hooligans causing criminal damage in Edinburgh in the cause, they claim, of averting climate change.

Supporting a malign cause in the mistaken belief that it is a force for good when common sense should suggest the opposite is a common feature of the deluded in our midst and nowhere is this better demonstrated than when the words “climate change” are mentioned. Simply uttering them apparently justifies any action, no matter how daft or how violent.

Yesterday, and in no particular order, saw some nutters – although they prefer the term "activists" - super glue themselves to the car park at Royal Bank of Scotland offices, whilst others climbed onto the roof of Forth Energy’s HQ, and two chained themselves to the front of the building. Windows had been previously smashed at RBS’s head office at Gogarburn, which has seen a Climate Camp – so-called – installed outside for several days now.

An "oil slick", using molasses, was created outside Cairn Energy’s office in Lothian Road and similar, but much more dangerous, slicks were also poured onto the main A720 and A8 roads. And a Clydesdale Bank branch was spray-painted.

Whilst superglue was also used to stick protestors together on a bridge over the A8 , at the Port of Leith and at other RBS premises near the Gyle Shopping Centre, the mystery to me was why the police bothered to remove them. The nights are fair drawing in and I’m sure our committed friends would have been happy to stick it out as the winds of autumn arrive.

What all of this is about is the claim that each of the companies targeted is involved in investing directly or in bankrolling, through loans, what one Sunday newspaper called “dirty oil.” The oil they were talking about, however, is the same oil that we all use in our cars and, presumably, the same oil that is used to deliver that newspaper.

And the particular sin in the case of RBS is that it is lending money to household names like BP, Shell and the like, when it is 84 per cent owned by the taxpayer. It doesn’t appear to matter that it is only by making successful investments that RBS will ever be able to redeem the damage done by "Fred the Shred" and pay back the taxpayer.

No mention is made by the protestors of the thousands of people employed around the world by these companies as a result of these loans or of the pension funds of millions of people that benefit from any profits made.

Instead, we’ve been treated to a quite hilarious account by one of the principal "useful idiots" of life in the Climate Camp, complete with a detailed account of how well ordered everything is by these “earnest, clean-shaven and fresh-faced twenty-somethings,” including lots of stuff you didn’t need to know about their sanitary arrangements.

In their arrogant desire to justify anything and everything connected with this sort of protest, these unashamed apologists for illegality ignore the fact that it is taxpayer-funded policemen who are caught in the middle, trying on the one hand to allow peaceful demonstrations but vilified if they act against law-breakers.

The greater the current economic downturn, the less we hear about climate change or other so-called environmental and "green" concerns; it was ever thus, which is why this lot have to resort to a high-profile attack that’s concentrated in the main against an outfit like RBS, which is not the UK’s most popular concern at the moment.

By their activities in the recent past, banks such as RBS have not exactly been innocent in helping to deepen this country’s economic gloom but they and concerns like Forth Energy, Cairn Energy, Clydesdale Bank and others being targeted in Edinburgh at present are engaged in decent, lawful and worthwhile activities. They are doing nothing of which they should be ashamed.

It is those who through their idiotic and public backing of people who perpetrate criminal damage in pursuit of entirely dubious objectives who have most cause to hang their heads in shame.

source: The Daily Telegraph

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Norris Atthey is a retired military policeman who for some years has been trying to defend one of the last pockets of red squirrels left in England , around Morpeth in Northumberland (see his website, Morpeth Red Squirrels). He does so by destroying the grey squirrels which across most of the country have seen off their red cousins, not least by infecting them with a fatal disease, squirrel pox. There used to be a bounty on them and it is still an offence to release them into the wild, since they are officially vermin. After trapping them, Mr Atthey has quite legally shot hundreds with an air pistol, very much more humane than hitting them over the head in a sack, as Natural England and other wildlife bodies prefer.

Mr Atthey was outraged when a Burton window cleaner was recently given a criminal record and lost £1,547 in costs after being prosecuted by the RSPCA for drowning a grey squirrel. He publicly challenged the charity by announcing that he had drowned one too. The ever-zealous RSPCA rose to the bait, knocking on his door to demand an interview. He responded that he had no more to say, beyond his published statement. Next morning, the RSPCA official returned, summoning two policemen to arrest Mr Atthey for “causing unnecessary suffering to an animal”. He was handcuffed and taken to the police station at Bedlington, some miles away, where he was held for nine hours in the cells. Eventually he was interrogated for an hour by an RSPCA official, with a policeman standing mutely by, before being released.

Why was Mr Atthey arrested on the orders of the RSPCA? Why was he handcuffed, and imprisoned for nine hours? When I put this to Northumbria police, they replied that “the RSPCA is leading this investigation” and that “the arrested man remained with police until suitable arrangements were in place for an interview to take place”.

This provokes much wider questions, also raised by other cases reported in this column, such as that of Alan Brough, who was held by Carlisle police for six hours while the RSPCA took away his 90 fell ponies, and who immediately went and hanged himself.

source: The Daily Telegraph

The RSPCA, that once-admirable charity, now often seems to pursue animal-lovers through the courts simply to win the publicity that keeps its £115 million a year in donations rolling in. And why do the police now regard themselves as the charity’s enforcement wing? What an admission from Northumbria police that they seek to justify holding a 66-year old man of impeccable character for nine hours by saying “the RSPCA is leading this investigation”. When did Parliament empower RSPCA officials (all ordinary members of the public) to order our police around like this?

British government puts costs before lives

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) says the cost of the treatment is too high for the extra benefit it gives patients.

Avastin (bevacizumab) can help patients with advanced bowel cancer which has spread to other organs, usually the liver or lungs.

It costs around £21,000 per patient, and an estimated 6,500 people a year could use the drug.

NICE said it had even considered a risk-sharing scheme with the manufacturer Roche in order to get the drug to patients, but it still did not work. Patients will now have to rely on the government's £50m cancer fund, or pay themselves, if they want the drug.

Patients and campaigners have criticised the decision.

Barbara Moss, 55, was given just three months to live in November 2006 when doctors discovered her bowel cancer had spread to her liver.

Mrs Moss, a former teacher from Worcester, said: "To say that I am disappointed is an understatement. I am still here - alive.

"I am living proof that Avastin works.

"NICE has put a value on life. It seems immoral to me that, as a result of negative NICE decisions like this one, people's choice of living or dying depends on whether they can afford a drug because it isn't available to them on the NHS."

The NICE guidance is subject to consultation and appeal.

Chief executive Sir Andrew Dillon said: "We have recommended several treatments for various stages of colorectal cancer, including cetuximab for the first-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer.

"We are disappointed not to be able to recommend bevacizumab as well but we have to be confident that the benefits justify the considerable cost of this drug."

Clinical data on Avastin shows that it gives patients around six more weeks of life. In studies, patients typically lived for 21.3 months compared with 19.9 months without the drug. The drug also shrinks liver tumours, with 78 per cent of patients seeing their tumours shrink to an operable level.

Ian Beaumont, campaigns director at Bowel Cancer UK, said: "We are naturally disappointed that NICE has turned down bevacizumab (Avastin) for use on the NHS when there is so much evidence of the treatment's efficacy and it is so widely available to patients across the rest of Europe."

Mr Beaumont said he hoped the Government's interim cancer drugs fund - £50 million from October - would benefit bowel cancer patients.

His colleague, chief medical officer Rob Glynne-Jones, said that refusing the drug on the NHS would see Britain fall even further in worldwide cancer treatment league tables.

A spokesman for drug manufacturer Roche agreed.

"The fact that the UK is now virtually the only country in the developed world not to provide Avastin for bowel cancer patients through the state healthcare service is further evidence that the current UK reimbursement system is not appropriate for end of life cancer treatments," he said.

"The value that bevacizumab brings in this setting is well recognised."

source: channel 4 news

Immigration damaging employment prospects for British unemployed

Immigrationwatch has highlighted statistical evidence produced by the office of national statistics, that proves that immigration is damaging employment prospects for British people.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/lmsuk0810.pdf this is a link to the statistics please go to the bar chart on page 4

"The employment rate for UK born people aged from 16 to 64 (not seasonally adjusted) was 70.9

per cent in the three months to June 2010, down 0.5 percentage points on a year earlier. The

corresponding employment rate for non-UK born people was 66.5 per cent, up 0.5 percentage

points on a year earlier."

And table 8 shows that nearly 80% of the increase in employment over the second quarter of 2010 has comprised immigrants.

Employment increased by 188,000 between the first and second quarters of this year but 145,000 of them or 77% went to non UK born workers, that is immigrants.

Many immigrants acquire nationality after some years in Britain but the employment figures for non British nationals are virtually the same as for non British born. This means that those who

Labour's open door immigration policy, continued under the new coalition government is clearly damaging British society. With the three main parties clearly backing immigration, the only option for British workforce is the British National Party. Which unlike the labour party, when they say British jobs for British workers, the BNP actually means it!

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Youth Unemployment Linked to Immigration

Coinciding with the release of NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) statistics, Migrationwatch have today issued a research paper examining whether youth unemployment and immigration are linked

The paper finds that the relationship between immigration and youth unemployment is positive and significant in those areas that have experienced the highest rates of immigration.

In the case of those local authorities outside London with the highest proportion of immigrants, the relationship is very strong showing that for every one thousand immigrants into these areas, on average, the number of youth unemployed rises by around 900.

Statistical correlation is not, in itself, proof of causality but a correlation as high as this is, to say the least, highly indicative.

Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said

"People have tiptoed around this issue for far too long. Many factors contribute to youth unemployment but this research suggests that immigration is a significant factor in areas of high immigration. The case for getting immigration down to sensible levels, as the government have promised, gets stronger by the day"

source: immigrationwatch

British Kids Being Displaced from Schools in Peterborough

Sun, 15/08/2010 - 22:29 | BNP News

British children are being displaced from schools in Peterborough by a tidal wave of immigration which has hit that city, new reports have indicated.

Peterborough — already famous for having more than 15 destitute immigrant squatter camps on roundabouts and other public places — now faces a school crisis as well after the town has borne the brunt of more than 20,000 immigrants over the last two years.

The registrar general's population estimates for mid 2007 for Peterborough was some 163,300. This means that the population has leaped by more than 12 percent in two years, and now stands at around 185,000.

According to reports, emergency classrooms have had to be put up to cope with the demand for primary school places which has resulted, and indigenous children have largely lost their first-choice places by the tidal wave of newcomers.

A council statement issued this past week said that 252 children or 11 percent of applicants had missed out on their first choice of primary school.

A further 101, or five percent, were turned away from all of their choices and were instead offered “directed” places in schools that had spaces left.

Isabel Clark, head of school place planning, was quoted as saying that a “steep increase in demand” had caused pressures.

Apparently every class in every year group is already full and the council has “struggled” to place all 2,438 pupils due to start classes in September.

Official figures have shown that “immigrant communities” have accounted for 64 percent of Peterborough's population growth.

One local school, Fulbridge School, boasts no less than 27 languages amongst its 675 pupils, which means that Eastern European languages alone have not accounted for the immigration upsurge.

In that school, just 200 children have English as a first language.

* A separate report from Manchester City Council revealed that at least 30 percent of pupils in that city speak English as a second language, while in at least three boroughs: Longsight, Cheetham and Rusholme the number of non-English speakers rises to 70 percent.

In Newham, East London, English is a minority language in nine out of 10 schools, a situation replicated in 30 percent of all schools in Leicester and Blackburn, and 25 percent in Birmingham.

Nick Griffin “Only NW Politician” to Attend Far Eastern Prisoners of War Remembrance Service

Mon, 16/08/2010 - 00:22 | BNP News

British National Party MEP for England’s North West, Nick Griffin, was commended by the organiser of what is likely to be the last ever Far Eastern Prisoners of War (FEPOW) remembrance service for being the only invited politician in the region who actually attended the function yesterday.

The service, held at the Church of Christ the King in Childwall, Liverpool, was organised by FEPOW under the auspices of the National Ex Services Association (NESA).

It has been held annually on VJ day to commemorate the sacrifice of British soldiers in the Far East campaign which ended in 1945.

This year’s service is likely to be the last due to the advancing age of the veterans and as such the organisers made a point of inviting all MEPs and other senior politicians in the North West to attend the function.

Mr Griffin, having an abiding interest in the affairs of ex-servicemen and the sacrifice of the World War II generation in particular, was given a warm reception by the organisers and congratulated in person for being the only politician to have shown concern and support at the function.

Mexicans, South Americans, Latin Americans, Turks and Cubans: All Coming to Europe via the EU

Mon, 16/08/2010 - 22:02 | BNP News

It is well known that America is currently being crushed by a tidal wave of Mexican “immigrants” but less well known is the fact that Mexicans, Cubans and Latin and South Americans are also pouring into Europe, courtesy of the European Union.

The absurd situation has come about because of a decision by the Spanish government to grant citizenship to any person who has a far-off distant relation who might have left that country up to 80 years ago at the time of the Spanish Civil War.

According to official figures released by the Spanish government, there have been 161,463 applications for Spanish citizenship under the new law since it came into force in January this year.

Some 95 percent of these applications are from Latin American countries. Another 82,000 Cubans have applied for Spanish passports and it is estimated that at least 150,000 Mexicans are eligible.

Of this number, more than 14,000 have already been given Spanish citizenship and reports claim that there are “huge queues” of passport-seekers forming every day outside the Spanish embassy in Mexico City.

These figures do not, of course, include spouses, children or parents, all of whom will qualify for residence as dependents of EU nationals.

It is well known that Britain is the number one target for immigrants entering the EU because of the lavish benefits on offer in this country and the insane straitjacket of political correctness which prevents scroungers from being deported.

It is not only Spain which has opened the door to even larger numbers of non-EU nationals to enter Europe.

The Bulgarian and Romanian governments have also enacted laws granting passports to people who are considered to have distant connections with those countries.

According to new laws in Bulgaria and Romania, people who have the most tenuous links to those nations and who now live in Moldova, Serbia, Macedonia, Turkey and the Ukraine also qualify for EU-valid passports.

Reports claimed that some 4.7 million people are estimated to be eligible for EU citizenship in this manner.

All of these people are completely unaffected by the nonsense Tory “immigration cap” which only applies to non-EU nationals.

Furthermore, it was the Tory government under John Major which signed Britain up to the “free movement of EU nationals” directive in the first place.

Update on “Global Warming Tax”: New Projection Claims It Will Cost Taxpayers £16 billion Per Year by 2020

Wed, 18/08/2010 - 13:03 | BNP News

A new report has claimed that taxes generated by the global warming hoax will cost taxpayers at least £16 billion per year by 2020.

According to think tank Policy Exchange, the taxation will be the equivalent of the amount of money spent on both the police and fire services in England.

The Policy Exchange report said that given current legislation, householders will pay £4.3 billion in taxes on their energy bills by 2014, up from the £2 billion this year.

The report said this figure is projected to increase to £6.4 billion by 2020. Business will also be taxed, with their energy tax bill rising from £3.7 billion to £9.9 billion by 2020.

This in turn will cause an increase in consumer inflation which will cause a general price rise.

Even more disturbingly, the report pointed out that the taxes’ purpose (the promotion of carbon emissions and promote renewable energy sources) are a complete failure.

The think tank says that increased taxes do not cut global warming because they force householders to resort to other methods of producing power, such as solar panels.

These other methods in turn generate “carbon emissions” through their manufacture and distribution, thus negating the point of the tax in the first place.

* Meanwhile, a separate report has revealed that 70 percent of wind farms built in England only operate at 25 percent capacity because they have apparently been placed in areas where there is not enough wind.

According to the report, the worst performing wind farm is in Blyth Harbour in Northumberland, where windmills operate at 4.9 percent of capacity.

Under the Renewable Obligation scheme, British energy consumers are forced to pay for such schemes in the extra tax they pay on their energy bills.

UKIP’s Lord Pearson Legacy: Betrayal and A Failed Attempt to Steal BNP Policy

UKIP’s Lord Pearson Legacy: Betrayal and A Failed Attempt to Steal BNP Policy

Wed, 18/08/2010 - 12:44 | BNP News

Lord Pearson’s leadership of the fake UKIP party will be remembered for his gross betrayal of his party’s members through his offer to disband that organisation to join the Tories and his failed attempt to steal BNP policy.

Lord Pearson, who announced his resignation as UKIP leader today with the simple and accurate explanation that he was “not much good” at politics, first came to prominence in 2009 when he admitted that he had offered to disband his party behind supporters’ backs and without telling them if David Cameron held a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

Lord Pearson said he had approached Lord Strathclyde, the Tory leader in the Lords, with the offer.

Acting on behalf of his predecessor, Nigel Farage, Lord Pearson said that if Mr Cameron guaranteed a referendum and gave the Conservative Party a free vote, then UKIP would disband and its members stand down.

Lord Pearson also attempted to move on in BNP territory by adopting policies which nominally opposed the Islamic colonisation of Britain.

All these political stunts were bogus as UKIP’s manifesto clearly defined Britishness in civic terms, arguing that anyone from anywhere could be British as long as they spoke English and endorsed vaguely defined “British values.”

Lord Pearson’s stunts were not believed by the voters and he had an appalling General Election campaign in which his party was trounced almost everywhere by the BNP where the two parties came into direct competition with each other.

Despite UKIP fighting nearly every seat in the country, their total vote collapsed by over two million nationally, while the BNP, which only fought half the number of seats, saw its vote percentage increase.

Observers have pointed out that given the polling results, if the BNP had stood in the same number of seats contested by UKIP, the final BNP tally would have been around 200,000 or more higher than its Euro election vote, in stark contrast to the dramatically shrinking UKIP vote.

Lord Pearson also famously dismissed his party’s manifesto as ‘insignificant’ in a Freudian slip made during a BBC election broadcast.

During the BBC’s The Campaign Show, Lord Pearson could not remember points from his party’s manifesto.

When he was challenged on his failure to know what was in his own party’s manifesto and accused of being like Conservative politician Kenneth Clarke who admitted to never reading the Maastricht treaty which created the European Union, Lord Pearson objected to the comparison between the two documents.

"No, no,” he said. “The Maastricht treaty was a huge document of vast significance to this country," directly implying that the UKIP manifesto was of no significance.

The BNP will wait with interest to see who else will come forward to lead this Tory party stooge organisation but remains assured that no matter who it is, the BNP remains the only choice for patriots determined to resist the EU superstate and who wish to see Britain preserved for the British people.

source: www.bnp.org.uk

UK Border Agency actually does its job sometimes!!!!

A MUM whose 15-month-old daughter is stranded thousands of miles away in Malawi is desperately trying to get her home.

Sarah Blore's daughter, Amber, travelled to the country in June with Sarah's mother, who lives there.

Sarah, a single mother who lives in Basford, was unable to travel because of an illness and thought it would be an ideal way for Amber to spend some time with her family in Malawi.

Sarah's sister, Medda Mbepula, was due to bring the child back to the UK a couple of weeks ago but was denied a visa.

The UK Border Agency said there was not enough evidence to suggest Ms Mbepula intended to travel back to her home country after bringing the child back.

Sarah said they had also refused the visa because her sister only had £250 spending money, even though she had only intended to stay for two weeks. Now Sarah, who is originally from Malawi, is considering making the journey to bring her daughter back – in spite of being medically unfit to travel.

She said: "The thing that really gets me is how they'd expect Amber to come back and how they say I'm not ill enough to travel. Who makes that judgement?

"She's a British citizen, she's supposed to be here – who's supposed to protect her?

"I am just disgusted as to how my child's been unprotected by her consulate.

"They are not bothered about it. What does being British really mean if she cannot be protected by her consulate?"

After being refused a visa to bring Amber home, Sarah's sister and mother took Amber to the British Embassy in Malawi with the visa documents and passports.

She said: "My mother explained everything at the embassy, they were not really bothered. My mother was told there was nothing she could do but appeal. An appeal takes about eight months to come through."

A UK Border Agency spokesman said: "Every application is carefully considered on its own merits and Ms Mbepula's case is no exception.

"The immigration rules for visitors are clear and it is important an applicant provides sufficient evidence of funds and sufficient ties to their home country to demonstrate they will return at the end of their proposed stay.

"If Ms Mbepula is not satisfied with the decision, she can apply to have it independently reviewed by an immigration judge."