Nationalists contest over 800 seats
News article filed by BNP news team
On Saturday, 14th April the British National Party held the official press launch for its May 2007 local election campaign and manifesto.
The launch was hosted and organised by Eastern Region and the National Elections Department and held in a first-class venue in Dagenham in Essex.
The meeting was attended by over 100 elected councilors, new candidates and agents. After an introductory talk from the National Elections Officer and Eastern Regional Organiser Eddy Butler, the platform party entered the hall flanked by two young candidates from Thurrock holding St. George Cross Flags, to the musical accompaniment of a modern version of Rule Britannia recorded by Thurrock candidate Dave Strickson.
The meeting chairman Emma Colgate, the Eastern Regional Secretary, then introduced the first speaker, Sadie Graham, the Group Development Officer. Sadie spoke on the spread of candidates that reflects the Party’s growth across Britain, with around 880 seats being contested for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Borough and District councils in England and Scotland and many Parish and Town Councils in England.Next to speak was the Party’s Cultural Officer Jonathan Bowden who gave an expert and enthralling summary of the local elections manifesto. The manifesto itself is the most coherent, comprehensive and professional nationalist local election manifesto ever produced. The cornerstones of the manifesto are a pledge to restore local democracy by empowering our local communities through direct democracy at the parish level, and a pledge to reduce council tax bills nationwide by 50%.
There followed a talk from Richard Barnbrook, the head of the BNP’s councillors on the fine record of service that the BNP’s councillors have put in over the past few years and the very real positive difference made by these councilors to their communities.
Murder victim’s mother
The next speaker was Angela Daly, a candidate in Thurrock who gave a very difficult and emotional speech on her experiences as a mother in trying to obtain justice for her 19 year old son Ryan who was brutally murdered by a gang of trash. She was received by a standing ovation. Thurrock council had recently announced that they would not be putting flowers in a privately funded memorial to Ryan, contrary to an earlier pledge to do so. The council claimed that they had run out of money, even though they had funds to put flowers every where else in Thurrock and even though they throw hundreds of thousands of pounds at their pet multiracial schemes. There is no money to put flowers on a simple memorial for one of our own people who had been murdered by scum. Emma Colgate then announced that a collection would be held and proceeds from it would ensure that flowers were planted at Ryan’s memorial.
The last speaker was Party Chairman Nick Griffin who pointed out that the totality of the British National Party’s campaign in this year’s local elections shows that the we have leapt forward in terms of the professionalism of our approach. From the unprecedented number and quality of the candidates fielded, to the radical yet sensible manifesto, and to the highly attractive new backdrop display which exquisitely set off the Press Conference.
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