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Redwatch

July 17th, 2006 · 10 Comments · Politics

The other day I noticed a surge in visits from a site called Redwatch. Surge is probably over-stating it a bit: as at yesterday I had 16 hits from 9 different IP addresses. Not much of a surge really. More of a blip. But I thought I would head over to Redwatch to see what […]

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The Ministry of Truth

June 2nd, 2006 · 4 Comments · Politics

We all owe a debt of thanks to The Ministry of Truth for spending so much time investigating the right-wing hate site Stormfront to find out the types of comment one of the newly-elected BNP councillors in Sandwell has been saying for the last 5 years. I hope he had a long bath in Dettol […]

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Crusaders: BNP IT Warfare Unit

May 17th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Technology

Today I had an e-mail from the “BNP IT Warfare Unit”. Actually I had 10 e-mails from them, all addressed to the Crawley UAF address.

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Vote blue get red, white & blue?

May 15th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Politics

Fortunately that is not the case everywhere, but there still seems to be a significant number of BNP supporters hiding within the Conservative ranks, as the story of the Rev Robert West shows. In a statement, Mr West said: "I have decided to seek refuge from political correctness by applying for asylum with the British […]

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Crawley election results

May 7th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Politics

Very belated results, due to my Internet access problems over the last few days but… The full results are on the Crawley Borough Council website, but the highlights are: Labour lost 3 seats Tories gained 3 seats Tories gained control of the council BNP finished 4th in two wards and 3rd in two wards, with […]

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Personalised newsletters

April 27th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Politics

We had an extraordinary response to our Labour newspapers in Furnace Green this evening. I have never before seen people come out of their house, asking to have their copy autographed by the candidate, and had the experience of seeing people taking pictures with their mobile phones everywhere we go. I would not like to […]

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Have you voted yet?

April 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Politics

Not in the local elections, but in the Sky News poll on whether the BNP have a place in British politics. At the moment 57% say they have.

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The oxygen of publicity

April 24th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics

There is a big debate about how to treat the BNP, running alongside the debate about why they are getting what support they do, and how to tackle that in the longer-term.

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Do leopards change their spots?

April 22nd, 2006 · 2 Comments · Politics

No its not a post about Dave the Chameleon, but about Vernon Atkinson, who is standing as a BNP candidate in Furnace Green. I noticed today that a Vernon Atkinson stood in the Wandworth borough elections in 1978 and 1982 as a candidate for the National Front. Either its a common name in far-right circles, […]

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Love Music Hate Racism

April 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Love Music Hate Racism · Music, Politics

Most of us will probably be busy with other things less than a week before the local elections, but there is something going on in Trafalgar Square on Saturday, April 29th from 12 noon.

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