Patriotic party defends interests of White Britons
by John Bean
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The fallout from junior minister Margaret Hodge’s theft of part of BNP policy in suggesting that native families should be given housing priority over immigrants, has been most revealing. One could be forgiven for believing that this former immigrant born in Egypt as Margaret Oppenheimer, has moved a long way since she was the ‘chair’ of Islington Borough Council in 1982 and reflected her Marxist views by flying the red flag over the town hall. But her critics, including those on the left, saw that there was little real political change and that her original comments to The Observer were those of a hypocrite, and not just because she happens to own three houses.
As most http://www.bnp.org.uk/publications/publication_identity.htm readers will know, her Parliamentary seat is Barking, in East London, which has a strong BNP vote – 12 BNP councillors are the official opposition on Dagenham and Barking Council. This was the reason for her appearing to put native born families first; her concern that she could lose her seat to the BNP.
The most important message to come out of it, of course, is that if your area gives substantial votes to the BNP your council will stop giving houses to immigrants. I hope our party activists will take this on board as an answer to those who say: “We agree with the BNP but it will have no effect if we vote for you”. And you can add that Labour Party chairman Hazel Blears also responded to the BNP electoral threat in towns and inner cities by supporting Margaret Hodge and agreeing that their was a need “to tackle these tough issues”.Most Labour party colleagues who made comment on Margaret Hodge’s efforts to hold her seat were very critical. Ken Livingstone (who can only remain London mayor by the immigrant vote) said her outburst would be “catastrophic for community relations”, while Labour MP Diane Abbott tabled a Commons motion condemning her remarks. She made the revealing comment: “This is supposed to be a Labour government, so why are some ministers allowing the BNP to dictate our policies?”
Keith Vaz, who is of Indian origin and Labour’s former European minister, supported Ms Abbott. He expressed regret at the honourable member for Barking’s recent call to give British people housing priority over immigrants”. The two were also supported by Jon Cruddas, the labour deputy leadership hopeful, MP for Dagenham and a leading BNP critic and witch-hunter of ‘racists’.
And what of the the Tory Cameroons? Dave the leader responded by cautioning MPs against “pouring out of their surgeries” and adding to the debate on immigration after listening to complaints from constituents which could be “based upon rumour and inaccuracies”
The same day that I read that (May 22nd), the newspaper once known as the “Torygraph” carried an article by a regular columnist Andrew O’Hagan headed “Shame on you, Margaret Hodge”. He must obviously be a Cameron supporter with the following comment, which sums up the general approach of his article: “What a terrible smallness she exudes in her estimation of how we as a society should deal with our neediest inhabitants. No matter how they come to be on these islands, by birth or by boat, if they are legitimately here, then we should find a way to raise ourselves to a show of decency and hospitality.”
For the record, Andrew O’Hagan, is a novelist and a former writer for The Guardian, where one would expect him to be more at home. Perhaps his concern for immigrants is reflected in his being a UNICEF UK Ambassador and a UNICEF Children and AIDS advisor for Eastern Southern Africa. The Daily Telegraph of late does have some rather left-wing writers. I have still not got over the shock two months ago when they commissioned the Marxist, second-rate guitar plucking singer Billy Bragg to write an article on the meaning of patriotism. It was like asking King Herod to do a piece on the welfare of small boys.