War veterans kicked out to make way for football fans

A group of Scarborough war veterans have been told they cannot stay at a well-known hotel because their visit would clash with a football game.

The Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool, part of the Britannia Hotels group, told the veterans that, as their Navy day clashed with Liverpool’s home game against Derby County, their booking was being cancelled. The hotel claimed that it was “not profitable” to host the veterans instead of the football fans.

This could have been the last Merchant Navy day for some of the veterans, as some are too frail to travel and other city centre hotels are fully booked. The men had served in wars including the Second World War, the Falklands and the Gulf. Their accommodation had been booked in February, and a deposit paid. They had stayed at the Adelphi for most of the Navy days since they were introduced in 2000. The men were looking forward to the day, and said it was “insulting” that they had been cancelled for football fans.

So it seems that life does revolve around football, whether people like it or not. Risking your life for your country obviously does not count as much as people wanting to see a ball being kicked round a field for 90 minutes!

EU bureaucracy hits Scarborough pleasure boat

A Scarborough pleasure boat, which was involved in the Dunkirk troop evacuation, has been prevented from sailing between Scarborough and Whitby because of EU red tape.

The Coronia has been given a European Class C Licence, which is a legal requirement for passenger boats, which limits it to 30 nautical mile round trips only - within three miles offshore.

The distance between Scarborough and Whitby is seventeen nautical miles, meaning that round trips would be four miles over the boat’s legal limit! The British certificate also stipulated a 30 mile limit, but this could be increased slightly at the discretion of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The boat is only able to run trips which stop short of Whitby and no passengers are allowed ashore.

The Whitby trips have proved very popular in recent years, with around 95,000 passengers making the journey since 1992. Local people wanting to make the journey had wondered why the trips were not advertised, now they know! The small boat which sailed to Dunkirk and back without a hitch is deemed by the EU to be unsuitable to sail between two Yorkshire coastal towns.

Scarborough BNP is opposed to the incessant meddling of the EU in our business. If you wish to voice your support for a referendum on the proposed EU Reform Treaty (which could see even more of our sovereignty handed over to faceless Eurocrats) then sign the online petition here .

Historic British icons visit Scarborough

Over the past weekend, the residents of (and visitors to) Scarborough were privileged to witness a flypast by three of Britain’s historic icons - the Avro Lancaster, Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF).

These three aircraft types were instrumental in the Allied victory in World War 2. The Avro Lancaster - a four engined bomber - was the type famous for the “Dambusters” raid carried out by 617 Squadron in 1943. The Lancaster flying with the BBMF is one of only two airworthy examples of the type in the world - the other one being in Canada. The Supermarine Spitfire hardly needs any introduction - this fine aircraft was instrumental in winning the Battle of Britain, along with its illustrious companion the Hawker Hurricane.

The BBMF celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2007 - it was formed as the Historic Aircraft Flight at Biggin Hill in 1957 - initially with one Hawker Hurricane and three Supermarine Spitfires. The Avro Lancaster joined the Flight in 1973, when it changed its name to Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. A Dakota (military variant of the Douglas DC3) occasionally flies along with the three other aircraft.

The aircraft of the BBMF date from a time when Britain was a world leader in aviation technology. Many British aircraft were to become household names - the Mosquito, Vulcan, VC10, Comet, Viscount (to name a few) were known throughout the world and the UK had many famous aircraft factories - Vickers, Handley Page, Avro, Shorts, Bristol, Blackburn, De Havilland, Gloster, Fairey etc. The last jet airliner to be built in Britain was the BAe 146/Avro RJ. The Avro RJ came to an end when the RJX programme was cancelled. Britain no longer develops and builds airliners - just the wings for airliners which will be assembled in France and Germany.

The BBMF is a reminder of a once-great British industry which we will never see the likes of again. It was a rare delight to be able to see three lords of the air lovingly preserved and flown for future generations who would otherwise never know that Britain had a great aviation industry.

For more info on the BBMF visit this site .

Sign our online petition - EU referendum now!

Scarborough BNP have launched an online petition to allow people to voice their support for a referendum on the proposed EU Reform Treaty.

We believe that the Government has a duty to offer a referendum and let the people of Britain have a say before even more of our traditional powers and sovereignty are lost to the faceless bureaucrats of the EU.

The petition can be found here .

BNP Day of Action in Whitby

Activists from Scarborough, Teesside, York and Bridlington BNP Groups held a Day of Action in the North Yorkshire resort of Whitby.

The BNP team in Whitby

The event was well-attended, and the keen group of activists were organised into small groups - some manning BNP stalls, some selling the Voice of Freedom and others leafleting around the town. Scarborough BNP had designed a special leaflet for the occasion and many were delivered locally.

There were two stalls selling BNP publications

The stalls also offered members of the public the chance to obtain BNP national leaflets in order to learn more about what the Party stands for.

Freedom Sellers

Several copies of Voice of Freedom were sold to an interested public, but the weather intervened and heavy rain, thunder and lightning brought the Day of Action to a premature close.

Scarborough BNP would like to thank their friends and colleagues from Bridlington, Teesside and York BNP Groups.

Sadie Graham Addresses Scarborough BNP

Sadie outlines the Party’s recent election performance

Councillor Sadie Graham, Group Development Officer, and Harrogate Organiser Tom Linden were the latest guest speakers at Scarborough BNP.

The meeting was opened by Scarborough Organiser Trisha Scott, who welcomed the audience before handing over to Fundholder Vince Rosser, who gave an update on the Group’s finances.

Sadie Graham was the first guest speaker to address the audience, telling them it was the first time she had attended a Scarborough meeting.

Sadie’s speech concentrated on the recent elections, where the Party gained 15% of the vote on average across the country. These figures had risen to 27% in the last 100 by-elections the Party had contested.

MPs Cruddas and Hodge, in Barking and Dagenham, were now worried by the BNP and its success in the area in 2006. Even in non-traditional BNP areas, such as Scarborough, the Party was now fielding candidates, and it seemed there was no longer a “traditional” BNP area. In the last Euro elections the Party needed 12% to win a seat, but the results was spoilt by UKIP and Veritas taking a larger share of the vote and so the Party gained around 6-7%.

Candidates needed to get involved in their local communities, get known to the voters and work hard on campaigning. A good step was to get co-opted onto parish councils and work hard, making a good impression and break down the stigma attached to the BNP. The Party was more than just a political party, it was a cultural movement, Sadie concluded.

After a short break, Trisha introduced the second guest speaker of the evening, Harrogate Organiser Tom Linden.

Tom’s themes for his talk were the issues of eastern European migration and fanatical Islam in the UK.

Thanks to eastern European migration on such a massive scale, it was becoming increasingly difficult for local people to find work in areas such as hospitality, agriculture and building. Some places were even refusing to employ people who did not speak Polish because all the other employees were Polish and locals would not be accepted by the Poles, who did not even speak English. Tom pointed out that, although it was widely claimed that the eastern Europeans were merely doing the jobs that local people refused to do, that could not possibly be the case, as these employers had employed local people before 2004, otherwise jobs would never have been done! British workers have been dismissed from their jobs and replaced by Poles, who were cheaper to employ. However, British workers already had skills, or they could learn them, we do not need the Poles or other migrants to do any of these jobs.

Tom then turned to the worst threat Britain has ever faced - militant Islam.

According to police figures, there were 200 al Qaeda cells in the UK, 1600 fully-trained terrorist operatives and 30 plots currently underway.

In Beeston, Leeds, where three of the terrorists who attacked London in July 2005 had lived, three trees were planted to show solidarity with the community and its loss on 7th July. There had been a two minutes silence at the planting, but it would have been more fitting to remember the 52 innocent victims of 7th July, and plant trees in their memory, rather than the perpetrators.

In France, there are currently 751 Muslim-controlled areas, where the police have no control and do not even venture into. There are riots each weekend and over one thousand police officers injured each year. France is the closest country to England in terms of distance, and now in England there is Sharia law imposed in Dewsbury for civil cases, with funding of £177,000 each year.

Tom concluded that attitudes towards the BNP are changing, and people now want to become involved.

Trisha thanked the audience for attending and announced that the collection raised £111.

Political Correctness Comes to Scarborough

Political correctness came to Scarborough recently in the form of a fund raising music event.

Children at a local nursery sang “Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep” instead of the traditional “Baa Baa Black Sheep“. This drew local criticism, saying that children were “in the grips of political correctness” and that nursery rhymes were part of our cultural heritage.

We have the “rainbow sheep” but what will be next? “Four and twenty rainbow birds” instead of “four and twenty blackbirds”?

Have you ever seen a rainbow sheep out there? No, neither have we!

Scarborough Beaches and Dogs

Our own opinions:

We often hear in Scarborough how much cleaner the beaches are once the dogs have been banned between May and September.

Whilst we agree that ALL dog owners should be made to clean up after their pets, we feel that dogs are not the big problem on local beaches.

Do dogs leave messy nappies? Do dogs leave plastic drinks cups? Do dogs leave broken glass and bottles? Do dogs leave condoms? Do dogs leave syringes? These are the real problems on local beaches. Many dog owners are responsible and clean up after their pets. It's just a pity that more non-dog-owners are not so responsible too.

Education Standards in Britain

My own opinion (again!)

Having read from "knowledgeable" and "expert" sources that the reason people are unemployed is because "they lack basic skills such as numeracy or literacy", I would like to know what those people who say that think about some of the standards in people who are employed?

For example, last week I saw a sign in a Scarborough travel agency advertising "holidays for family's". Now, as we know, it's the unemployed who are illiterate, and obviously those in work must be super-intelligent! Someone ought to explain to this highly-intelligent working individual that "family's" is the possessive form of the singular word "family". The plural of "family" is "families" which, in the possessive would be "families'".

How gross it must be for these super-intelligent people to have an unemployed person (who, don't forget, should really be illiterate and innumerate!) correcting their appalling grammar.

This unemployed person is a science graduate who reads The Times and can certainly teach these super-intelligent employees a thing or two.

The Local Elections

The highest vote for the Scarborough BNP (in terms of numbers) was in Filey ward, where Kevan Foulds gained 340 votes.

The results of the four Scarborough BNP candidates:

http://www.bnp.org.uk/election2007/reg_showresult.php?cand_id=534&ward_id=131&year=2007

http://www.bnp.org.uk/election2007/reg_showresult.php?cand_id=381&ward_id=246&year=2007

http://www.bnp.org.uk/election2007/reg_showresult.php?cand_id=419&ward_id=319&year=2007

http://www.bnp.org.uk/election2007/reg_showresult.php?cand_id=10&ward_id=638&year=2007

The number of votes for other parties are sometimes shown as the total for that party if more than one candidate stood.

Election Issues

The Scarborough BNP has several issues it is highlighting in the forthcoming local election.

Law and Order - there has been alot of car crime and vandalism lately in one of our wards. We are pushing for more police on the streets, and also for facilities for youngsters so that they can no longer use the "boredom" excuse for their criminal rampaging. People should feel safe on the streets of Scarborough and Filey, not threatened by out of control yobs.

Fair Trade - the Greens want Scarborough to be a Fairtrade town. Fair enough, for items which cannot be produced here in the UK, but for items which can be home produced, they should take precedence. Many sugar beet farmers have lost their livelihoods after sugar factories have closed down, but all we hear from the fair trade brigade is how we should buy imported sugar instead of helping our own farmers. We say - fair trade begins at home - help British farmers, buy British produce as your first priority.

Migrant Workers - an old favourite of the Scarborough BNP. We see many jobs being taken by migrant workers, we have heard of people having their contracts terminated, only to be replaced by a migrant worker. Students see their summer jobs being taken by migrants, building workers are told by employers that they will not be hired because the employer is only taking on Poles, people apply to companies, hear nothing and then find that the same company has taken on a load of Polish workers. British workers should have priority in the jobs market. It is a myth that British workers do not want jobs.

Companies are saying that their business depends on migrant workers. The Eastern Europeans have only been entering this country in high numbers since 2004. The companies involved are established companies who would have gone bust if they had no one working for them until the migrants came over. So who did the work before? Did they employ local workers? Or did they employ illegal black market workers? My money is on them employing local workers.

Happy St George's Day

Happy St George's Day from the Scarborough BNP.

This is the ideal day to remember what it is to be English, and celebrate our heritage and customs before they die out forever in the all-encroaching tide of political correctness.

We are flying the St George Flag at Scarborough BNP "headquarters" but how long before it is an offence to raise ANY British flag? Our own Union Flag could soon be replaced by the vile EU "circle of stars", as it has equal status with our traditional British flag.

Rest assured, readers, that the Scarborough BNP will NEVER raise the EU piece of rag over its headquarters!

Local Elections

This is the first time Scarborough BNP have contested a full election, as opposed to by-elections. Here the elections come round every four years, and the group was only really formed in 2005. So we were pleased to be able to field four candidates at our first attempt.

Three of the wards have been contested in by-elections (all in 2006!) while one is totally new to us.

The wards and candidates are:

Central Ward - Trisha Scott (Scarborough Organiser).

Filey Ward - Kevan Foulds.

Hertford Ward - Louise Scott (Scarborough Secretary).

Stepney Ward - Alan Foulds.

Filey and Hertford turned in good results and percentages last year, Stepney is the poor performer for us.

All results will be published here.

Steve Blake in Scarborough

A bit late for this report but it doesn't matter :-)

"Almost 40 members attended the latest meeting of Scarborough BNP, held in North Yorkshire.

Scarborough Organiser Trisha Scott chaired the meeting, and began by telling the audience of the forthcoming May elections, and that more activists were always needed by the group.

The first speaker of the evening was Linzi Reynolds, of the Department of Security. Linzi outlined the importance of security and vigilance as the profile of the Party was increased.

The second person to speak was Scarborough Fundholder Vince Rosser. Vince spoke of how the Scarborough group had increased its orders for both ‘Voice of Freedom’ and ‘Identity’ in the recent months, and Scarborough was now one of the top six groups in the Yorkshire region. Many of the new Party leaflets had been distributed since August 2006, and the group wanted to raise the profile of the Party in the area, which was achieved by having a regular ‘Voice of Freedom’ stall.

After a short break, Trisha read out the full versions of two letters she had submitted to the regional press. One related to the ‘Undercover Mosques’ programme on Channel 4 and the other related to comments made by David Cameron. Both letters had been published but not in their full versions! The letters were well-received by the audience.

The main speaker of the evening was BNP website editor Steve Blake, who was making his first visit to the North Yorkshire coast. The theme of his talk was “a journey through time”.

The present scenario was a serious situation, where the Home Secretary recommends that criminals are not sent to prison unless they are deemed to pose a serious threat. One peace protester, a 74 year old woman, had been sent to prison for 14 days after she refused to pay a fine. On the other hand a serial paedophile was told he “should buy victim a bike to cheer her up.”

Council tax had risen way above inflation, and cuts were being made in all councils.
Gordon Brown has said that in 10 years time there will be no work for unskilled workers, yet there are 600,000 East Europeans working in the UK, and 300,000 are expected to arrive from Bulgaria and Romania.

Sharia law is already being implemented in Muslim areas of British cities, and more and more concessions were being made to the Muslims. At the moment there are approximately 1.8 million Muslims in the UK, and Conservative leader David Cameron is now trying to win the Muslim vote by talking to the Muslims in Birmingham. Cameron was not talking to whites, only Muslims as it is their vote he wants.

As white Britons emigrated to places such as France, Spain and America, Muslims from Africa saw Europe as an empty land to colonise. In 15 years, France and Spain would be unrecognisable as European countries.

Steve then spoke about the past, in particular Scarborough’s past. The town gained its name from a Viking invader called Thorgills Skarthi (Skarthaborg), though there were other place names in the area, such as Ayton, Wykeham. Brompton and Cayton which had Old English origin (“ton” was a settlement and “ham” was a farmstead). These names dated back 400 years before the Vikings had arrived.

In 300AD the Romans had built a signal station along the coast and there was evidence of stoneworking in Yorkshire which dated back to 5000BC. These ancient stone masons would have looked like the Britons of today.

Steve told the audience that we are fighting for the future and to honour the memories of those who have made sacrifices in the past.

Moving on to the future, and a scenario 30 years on, in which Christmas has been abolished and people are sent to jail by the religious police. Politicians are now warlords and the local high street is Mohammed Khan Way. There is one pub, and alcohol is very expensive, though drugs are available. Petrol is very expensive and only warlords/politicians have cars, as they are the only ones who can afford them. Anyone who resisted the religious police would be put in camps and labelled “racist”, subject to curfew and with tags on their ankles.

An alternative Christmas – walking along Nick Griffin Avenue to the sound of bells from the towers of the medieval churches. Children can play outside without supervision, as it is safe for them to do so. Bikes and rollerskates are still their favourite toys. The pub is open, with the inviting smell of a log fire, pies and sausage rolls drifting onto the street. It is part of the community and everyone knows each other. Petrol is still expensive, but wind farm produce power so we are no longer hostage to Middle East terror and we produce our own energy.

Which scenario we choose is down to us, Steve concluded.

Trisha closed the meeting and announced that the collection had raised over £200."

I was pretty pleased with this report, sometimes it is hard to get the whole of the speech in, but I think I got this one alright. This was our first meeting of the year, and it was a freezing cold, icy night. Thanks to all those who attended, and those who didn't missed a great meeting.

And thanks to Steve Blake for that Guinness!

Scarborough Builders Lose out to Migrants

Builders in the North Yorkshire resort of Scarborough have claimed they are being priced out of work by incoming migrant workers.

They claim that the East Europeans are working for a third less than their British counterparts - in one case being paid £10 per hour rather than the £15 a British worker would be paid. They claim that the issue could seriously damage the future of the building trade in the town, as employers won't bother to train young local apprentices if they can hire cheap migrant labour.

One builder states that many skilled people are becoming unemployed because of the hiring of the cheap migrant labour.

Recent estimates have put up to 10,000 migrant workers in North Yorkshire - many employed in building, and also in shops, factories, hotels, bars and restaurants.

Scarborough has an unemployment figure above the national average, one of the highest in North Yorkshire.