Not In My Name.

The shock result of the euro elections of course, was the election to the European Parliament of two members of the racist, British National Party for North West England and Yorkshire and Humberside. We need to be clear about how this has happened. Despite their share of the vote in the two regions being down on what they achieved in 2004, the overall vote fell further allowing them to profit from such a decline in the total vote. Many people in these regions who did not vote in the elections have now woken up this morning to the nasty reality that they are now represented in the european parliament by a party which is openly racist and has its roots in the sort of fascism whose defeat was being remembered in the D Day commerations only a few days ago. One of those elected, Andrew Brons, elected in Yorkshire was, in the 1960's a member of the British National Socialist Movement lead by then by the late and unlamented, Colin Jordan, which was about as unashamedly a bunch of Hitler worshippers as you could wish to find and whose members at that time had a hand in a wave of arson attacks on Synogouges. Brons was later Chairman of the National Front and has been a lifelong activist on the ultra right. The other BNPer elected, Nick Griffin, needs no more said about him.

The time has come for those who oppose the continued advance of the BNP to take a stand. The battle lines are clearly drawn between those who value an open and diverse Britain and those who believe that the answer to the multiple crises that we face is an attempt to impose a nationalism based on race on the peoples of these islands. For those who oppose the rise of the BNP a clear message must be sent out that the BNP do not speak for us and will not be speaking in europe in our name. To that end the website, Hope Not Hate has launched an online petition to be presented to the european parliament making the position of those who sign it clear. I hope that those of our readers who oppose the rise of the BNP will take the time to sign.

http://hopenothate.org.uk/index.php