Help beat the BNP!
3:06 pm - May 13th 2009
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I’ll be going next Saturday morning folks, join me!
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Campaigning for HOPE in Barking & Dagenham
Saturday 16 May 10.30am
St Margarets Church, Broadway, Barking IG11 7LS (map)
We are looking for 166 people to deliver 50,000 leaflets across 10 wards in the borough on Saturday 16 May. Will you be one of them?
The election is now less than 30 days away and it is time for us to spread the message in our communities. The BNP is trying to present itself as a respectable alternative to the mainstream parties but we know it is not. They might wear snappy suits and have toned down their extremism in public but we know they are the same old BNP they always were. We now have to let everybody else know the truth.
Victory for the BNP in the forthcoming European elections would transform British politics, and transform it for the worse. They will have huge resources at their disposal, respectability and be able to spread their racist poison within local communities. It is vital we stop them. Click on this link or cut and paste this website address into your web browser and sign up for the Barking & Dagenham day of action.
http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/page/event/detail/daysofaction/jwv
We can stop them, but only if we can encourage everyone who opposes their politics of hate to vote. The BNP only need 8.5% in London to get elected. Our job is to increase the turnout and to do that we need to let people know the real politics of the BNP. Our new leaflet does just that. We will tell people that the BNP councillors have failed in Barking and Dagenham and that they will fail if they get elected to the European Parliament. Will you help us tell people across Barking & Dagenham that?
If you cannot make 16th May you can still help. Perhaps you can leaflet your local streets or join with one or two others to do an evening or another weekend. This election will be determined by who can get the vote out and so by committing two hours to the campaign you can play an important role in helping us increase turnout. If you want to give two hours but can’t make the day of action, email Sam at .
The stakes are very high but together we can beat the BNP.
This message was sent to me by the Hope Not Hate campaign.
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Sunny Hundal is editor of LC. Also: on Twitter, at Pickled Politics and Guardian CIF.
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Reader comments
I’ve got a brilliant idea. The Labour Party has dishonestly pretended fof many years to support the interests of the common man. Pretended. No-one can quite remember whether they had any genuine intention to actually do so in the first place. Certainly, in practice they have repeatedly failed to do so. Leaving the economy in tatters for the second time in my adult lifetime does -I’m afraid to say it, comrades- absolutely nothing for the long-term futures of its natural electorate.It’s one “big idea”, re-distribution (i.e. robbing the “rich” to buy off the “poor”), has failed miserably….yet again. The party has then assumed its natural constituency will never desert it and gone off playing power politics whilst enriching its own MPs.
So why don’t we launch a party that is economically competent, and that is comitted to furthering the interests of its own citizens equally and honestly. Specifically, it might also look after the most vulnerable in society rather than knowingly grinding them down and then wondering why they don’t get their vote.
It seems to me that this would then pull the rug from under the extremists feet. Surely this would be far better than fire-fighting against a perceived threat that only exists because people have been mistreated and are underrepresented by other parties.
One hopes these leaflets will address the concerns of potential BNP voters rather than just saying “the BNP are nasty”.
The problem is that many people will vote BNP knowing how nasty they really are just to give a V sign to the political class.
I’m going on Friday, with an earlier TUC bunch (not that I’m TUC myself)
More people getting involved, the better.
this is incredibly important, not least because their propaganda is becoming much more effective:
http://badconscience.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/the-bnp-get-smart/
Kardinal,
You speak of redistribution.
could you show us an example of that from, you know, the period 1979 until March 2009?
I’d be really keen to see that.
What I find interesting is that various left-wing groups unite to stop the far right but their right-wing equivalents don’t seem too bothered about the far left.
I’ll happily oppose the BNP, but there’s no absolutely way I’m going to support Labour to do so.
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