Le Pen Set to Back BNP's Euro Bid

Scotsman.com News ^ | 24 April 2004 | Emma Gunby

[MegaSilver]

French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen is expected to back the British National Party’s European election campaign today.

Le Pen is due to speak at a press conference to launch the BNP’s campaign which is being held at a secret location in Manchester this afternoon.

A heavy police presence is expected at the event after the Home Secretary David Blunkett warned Le Pen he would be arrested if he stirs up racial hatred during his visit to Britain.

Following the press conference the National Front leader will attend a private dinner in Shropshire.

The sell-out black-tie function, being held at an as yet undisclosed location, has been billed by the BNP as “the patriotic dinner event of the year“.

Anti-Le Pen protesters were planning a demonstration in Birmingham’s Victoria Square this afternoon to voice their anger at the Frenchman’s association with the BNP.

The demonstration is being organised by the Unite Against Fascism campaign group and has been backed by Birmingham Northfield MP Richard Burden, trade union groups and Muslim organisations.

Dr Mohammad Naseem, chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque, said: “We fought a war against the Nazis and we are now seeing Nazis invited to visit the region.

“We need unity to face our problems. We need everybody to join together and work together... not create dissension and division, which is what this visit is designed to do.

“Le Pen’s philosophy is one of hate, not unity.”

Salma Yaqoob, chair of Birmingham’s Stop the War Coalition, derided Le Pen as a white supremacist and questioned why he had not been banned from travelling to the UK.

“We are very concerned that he has been invited to come here because he already has a number of convictions for inciting racial hatred,” she said.

A spokesman for the BNP dismissed the protesters’ comments saying they were not relevant to the launch of their European election campaign.

Home Secretary David Blunkett confirmed on Friday that Le Pen was free to visit the UK despite calls from Glasgow Kelvin MP George Galloway for the Frenchman to be banned from Britain.

“If he incites, if he fosters hate, if he causes a disturbance or public disorder, then the police will take appropriate action,” Mr Blunkett said of Le Pen.

[MegaSilver]

Europe and Britain created the Front National and the BNP by refusing to appropriately clean up after World War II and by imposing the dangerous immigration experiment upon their peoples. They have no one to blame but themselves if either one rises to power.

[MegaSilver]

LePen may become the leader of France, and it would be something of an improvement.

That's the frightening part.

But to me, it really drives home the point that a free society is really an Anglo-Saxon innovation. The French can mimic it for a while, and for half a century have done so to remarkable success, but ultimately, their culture is much better suited to, say, Fascism. I'm not trying to bash the French, either; that's just the way it works. The French Revolution itself was something of a Fascist revolution, when you think about it.

[1066AD]

Interesting.
IMHO the BNP in UK, and similar parties in France, Austria, Holland etc gain attention simply because the mainstream political parties are more concerned with being "PC" and refuse to address the legitimate concerns of their electorates regarding immigration, so-called asylum seekers etc.
No brainer, someone will fill the vacuum.

[Destro]

The reason this "immigration experiment" was imposed was because White Western Europeans, while an intelligent people are lazy to the bones. They keep falling into the habit of importing cheap colored labour from other parts of the world - as they did in America as they still do in Europe.

Because they don't want to clean their own toilets Western European peoples will become extinct. So be it.

[MegaSilver]

IMHO the BNP in UK, and similar parties in France, Austria, Holland etc gain attention simply because the mainstream political parties are more concerned with being "PC" and refuse to address the legitimate concerns of their electorates regarding immigration, so-called asylum seekers etc. No brainer, someone will fill the vacuum.

I think you're right on the money. And I think this ought to serve as a valuable lesson for the United States as well... if Bush fails to make the Republican Party a Conservative alternative to the Democratic Party, he will prompt a knee-jerk reaction of classic Far-Right Fascism.

[MegaSilver]

I disagree with that, but I'm a tad too sleepy to get into it since it is 1:28 AM EST.

Well, when it's looking a bit lighter, I'd love to hear your take on it, anyway.

[Destro]

Truth! the mainstream political parties are more concerned with importing slave labor than being PC - in Western Europe and in America.

Enough of this garbage that spins the tale that the reason we Westerners import coloured peoples is to be fair and balanced. We import them because we don't want to clean our own toilets or bus our own tables or mow our own lawns or even raise our own kids.

[Destro]

The Republican Party a Conservative alternative until Bush came along.

[MegaSilver]

The Republican Party was a Conservative alternative until Bush came along.

For brief periods, it was. It was a Conservative party in 1964, and again in 1980 and 1984. And that's about it.

Luckily, Rockefeller Republican Specter looks to lose out to the conservative Toomey in a couple of days. With Specter gone, the Eastern Establishment Republicans will be, at least on the national level, extinct. That will make it easier to get rid of the Pink Elephants (i.e., Bush, McCain, etc.)

[Destro]

Screw both parties. Conservatives should dicth all parties and be in position to be courted and not vote as robots for the party the belong to.

In any case in 2 generations this country will be Hispanic majority in any case so why should I care?

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"Dr Mohammad Naseem, chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque, said: 'We fought a war against the Nazis and we are now seeing Nazis invited to visit the region.'"

I don't much care for Le Pen either, but does anyone else find this statement ironic coming a muslim cleric??

[cyborg]

Then again some of those 'coloured peoples' move there because there's more opportunity there. Not everyone there is a maid or a garbage man.

[cyborg]

Negative attitude never solved anything. Name one alternative person that you can see lots of people voting for.

[cyborg]

http://www.bnp.org.uk/articles/davidduke_battle.htm
Glowing endorsement of David Duke? No thanks.

[Missouri]

"Dr Mohammad Naseem, chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque, said: 'We fought a war against the Nazis and we are now seeing Nazis invited to visit the region.'"

but does anyone else find this statement ironic coming a muslim cleric??

That caught my eye, too. Seems to me that a lot of muslims in the Balkens sided with the Nazis during WW2.

[Destro]

What's your point? Some Blacks owned slaves in the American south also.......

[cyborg]

Who is talking about slavery? You made an assertion about people which is false.