A number of people have been playing with the BNP members list.
There’s the BNP member proximity search, type your post code and find how far the nearest fascist lives, at BNP Near Me you can get a rough idea on how many fascists live in your post code district and The Guardian has a semi-interactive heat map. I’m sure there are more these are just the ones Sunny Hundal at Liberal Conspiracy has found.
The entire BNP list has been published on the web – the list was originally published on blogger at bnpmemberslist.blogspot.com, but has since been removed. However the list has since been posted on Wikileaks.
The list consists of around 12,500 entries, listing name, address, home and mobile phone numbers and email addresses, some occupations are listed, revealing a small number of police officers and school teachers.
The BNP’s leader, Nick Griffin, confirmed on the party’s website that much of the list was genuine, and that it contained data that was stored at some point between November 30 and December 2 2007. Source: The Guardian
Well it leaves me in two minds, it’s difficult to have any sympathy for these racists – these are evil people, and there’s no-way they should be employed as police officers or teachers – in fact it’s illegal to be a member of the BNP and a serving police office, so a few more racists rooted out of the police force, thankfully. However, I’m not sure, we really want anybody posting our private details on the web, what if someone took exception to some bodies membership of the Conservatives – I mean I find it pretty offensive, however I don’t think I should be allowed to publish their details on the web.
Still it’s pretty depressing to find that the Green Candidate for the last General election in a town nearby where I live is also a member of the BNP, still why should we think Greens can’t be racists?
Hat Tip: Liberal Conspiracy.
Tory MP for Harwich and Clacton, Douglas Carswell writes about his opposition to ID cards and his belief that they’ll do little to protect the country from terrorists, and much as it galls me to agree with a Tory, I have to agree. Carswell the goes on to list three things he believes the government should be doing, his second point is.
They’d stop handing out British passports and visas overseas the way that they do. (Soon after entering Parliament, I discovered, for example, that the Foreign Office has given away so many British passports in Pakistan that no one even really knows how many people living in Pakistan now have UK citizenship.)
I can’t make a better reply than the author of the Conservative and Unionist Blog:
Guess what, Douglas old pal. I’ll bet they don’t know how many people living in Germany have British citizenship either – because the UK’s foreign office have no control over who lives in either country. But, hey, Germans (in general) aren’t as likely to scare the voters.
As I said at the start don’t vote Tory if you hate racists.
I’ve rather suspected that many American’s won’t elect a black president – it wasn’t that long ago that many of them wouldn’t sit next to a black person (many still wouldn’t), let’s not beat about the bush, but up until the abolition of segregation in 1968 it was the law.
So here’s Andy Lacasse of Florida to confirm my prejudice’s of Americans – particularly those from the south – with this sign he erected on his front lawn. What a wanker.
Source: Central Florida News 13
Hat Tip: Pickled Politics & Wonkette.
Italy’s highest appeal court, the court of cassation, has ruled that Flavio Tosi, an official of the anti-immigrant Northern League conviction for racially discriminatory propaganda is unsafe, the court states.
A deep aversion [to Roma] that was not determined by the Gypsy nature of the people discriminated against, but by the fact that all the Gypsies were thieves.
I repeat “all Gypsies are Thieves”, some might call Italy the laughing stock of the EU, however that ignores the brutal reality of Italian justice. Tosi is now mayor of Verona.
Source: The Guardian.
In an interview with the Radio Times Henman was asked if he had any gossip from the changing rooms and said: “Well, the Czechs are a bit niffy”. What all Czechs? – Surely not – what xenophobic claptrap. Source: BBC & Daily Mirror.
The BBC website carries the story UK paying for ‘migrant baby boom’ what exactly is the BBC saying? The article opens.
The NHS is spending £350m a year to provide maternity services for foreign-born mothers, £200m more than a decade ago, the BBC has found.
Then talks about the decline in standards and the unacceptable service that some health authorities are supplying, and then we hit the nub of the article.
According to figures from the Office for National Statistics, in 2006 there were 15,000 more Eastern European babies born here than a decade earlier.
The statistics go on to show that 11,000 more babies were born to a mother from the Indian sub-continent, while 8,000 extra babies had mothers born in Africa.
This is Xenophobia, hitting all the targets, that the countries racists and xenophobes love, Eastern Europe, that’s, Romanians, Poles, Bulgarians, Slovakians. Then there’s Africans and Asians to satisfy the racists.
The implication of the headline is that the UK is paying for these spongers. What I don’t understand is what thought processes went on before writing the headline. By “UK paying”, I guess we mean taxpayers, which generally means everybody in work, which probably means these very mothers too. And that’s as it should be the UK paying its way. How much consideration of this important point was made before writing the headline? It would appear none.