BNP criticised for prejudice over halal jobs

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THE British National Party has been accused of putting their "narrow prejudice before the chance of good jobs" after vowing to oppose a major development earmarked for the region.

Carmarthenshire and Neath have been named as the preferred home for a proposed £150 million Super Halal Industrial Park, said to promise around 1,500 jobs.

But the BNP say they will fight the plans because the jobs would be given to Muslims.

Writing on our website, Kevin Edwards, BNP Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Aberavon, said: "If the people of Wales think this will provide employment for them then they must think again. If this is given the go ahead the vast majority of jobs created will have to be allocated to Muslims."

Mr Edwards, a Penygroes community councillor, added: "The Welsh Assembly has a shameful record of handing out grants to companies that have fled as soon as the money has gone.

"When this happens, as it inevitably will, 'the industrial estate' will wind up and there will be 5,000 more Muslims in the UK claiming benefits and living on our doorsteps.

"Only the British National Party will oppose this development."

Criticism of how halal meat is produced has also sparked debate.

Traditionally, halal meat is killed by hand without stunning the animal first, and then blessed by the person doing the job, although some Muslims say a mechanised form is also now acceptable.

Julie Richards, from Pontarddulais, said: "It is absolutely barbaric. Lambs are going to be strung up and bled to death. It is not humane."

However, the possible jobs have been welcomed by some. An anonymous Post reader said: "If Carmarthenshire or Neath don't want it, can we have it in Swansea please?"

Llanelli AM Helen Mary Jones said she was pleased to hear Llanelli was being considered as a location, and branded the view of the BNP as "typical prejudice, racist misinformation".

"It is typical of them to put their narrow prejudice before the chance of good jobs for the many people in this area who are out of work," she said.

Managing director of Halal Industries UK, Mahesh Jayanarayan said: "We don't need Muslims necessarily to work there. If they are preparing food, we may have Muslim supervisors to certify it. The jobs will be given to multi-cultural skilled people and to people from the community.

"We are also not just going to have food processing, we are doing pharmaceuticals.

"We will be hiring from local schools, colleges and universities."

gill.roberts@swwmedia.co.uk

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    by Mike, Swansea

    Saturday, April 17 2010, 10:48AM

    “BNP members 'hold Nazi principles', by Channel 4 News

    ..Alby Walker, former group leaded for BNP councillors in Stoke on Trent, resigned four months ago. He is now standing as an independent in this election.

    "There's a vein of Holocaust denying within the BNP," Mr Walker told Channel 4 News.

    "There are people with Nazi-esque tendencies that do support Nazi principles."

    Mr Walker said that he was aware of the controversy sounding the party when he joined but said he was "assured from the highest level by Nick Griffin and Simon Darby, the deputy leader¿ that the BNP was taking a new direction and people like that wouldn't be tolerated."

    "But after being there for seven years I noticed that the same people were still there or hanging round in the background."

    A BNP official has described Alby Walker as a disillusioned individual who's struck out for himself. But in London in recent weeks another BNP councillor has split from the party after a dispute with a fellow activist.

    "It is the same old racist, right-wing party," former BNP councillor for Havering, Mark Logan, told Channel 4 News.”

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    by Jo, Port Talbot

    Saturday, April 17 2010, 9:08AM

    “' Honestly now, would you prefer your kid growing up in Oldham and Burnley or 1930s Germany? It would be better for your child to grow up there'.

    Mark Collett BNP candidate..and head of publicity in the BNP until sacked for allegedly making death threats against Nick Griffin.Has he more recently been reinstated?”

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    by thiswassouthwales, Swansea

    Friday, April 16 2010, 11:05PM

    “Kevin, you are very uninspiring. The 7 followers on your blog may disagree, though you leave the rest of us bewildered.

    The BNP appears to be attracting a new breed of racist, the type who end up being inexplicably quite bright. They waddle off to Uni, to study ENGLISH, and suddenly, instead of the extreme-right circle-jerk they hung around in before, they¿re in a hotbed of radical liberalism being forced to read books and think about stuff. Fortunately for us, we just have Kevin Edwards, who blatently lacks the intelligence and panache to make his dream a reality, though he manages to half juggle paranoid racist fantasies with media frenzies remarkably well.

    I enjoyed your ****erotic love letter to Lord Jesus Christ (Nick Griffin) on 13-Apr-2010 at 18:53. As much as I'd love to pontificate about your soiled loins over a pompous fat racist, I would ask you to maybe step away from the Kleenex and please, actually for your own sake, tell us something that would make us vote BNP. You never have, people give you the opportunity and ask, but you never answer.

    Instead you fuel your posts with edits from (presumably) the Daily Mail and really amount tp nothing. Fairly representative of your parties policies actually.”

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    by norm, neath

    Friday, April 16 2010, 9:56PM

    “What is the difference between a nazi and a dog?
    A nazi lifts his arm....”

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    by jerry, NEATH

    Friday, April 16 2010, 9:49PM

    “The Electoral Commission has announced it is investigating the published accounts of Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP and one of its Euro MPs.

    Apparently, there is a problem with the said accounts and the accountancy firm that is supposed to sign off them has declared that they are inadequate in some way.
    Nick Griffin of course was supposed to be opposed to the Euro gravy train ...the report will be issued in the near future but it could well give Griffin and his organisation a bit of a financial and legal and political headache.”

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    by James Sheridan, Swansea

    Friday, April 16 2010, 3:26PM

    “Councillor Kevin Edwards, BNP Parliamentary Candidate Aberavon

    Poor loony tune Kevin Edwards, continues to have the BNP disease of misleading the public! Why is it, Kevin, the BNP are incapable of telling the truth, even about my trip to Sri Lanka!? I never said anything about any missing 'cheque', there was certainly no " Nubile Young Students", on the trip and was certainly no scam! Perhaps you have seen so much going on inside the BNP and its previous reincarnations, that you possibly think everyone acts like the BNP does!

    Has any more of your BNP buddies threatened to kill each other, more recently than Mark
    '(allegedly) shoot him dead' Collett!? Strange you have not commented on Mark Collett's or Eddy Butler's departures, Kevin, or has the cat (mine maybe) got your tongue!?

    Are you still a Community Councillor, Kevin, or have you turned your back on your responsibilities as a Community Councillor!?

    Have you told the lady from Vietnam yet, that the BNP has a policy that she will be sent home!? Or do you think, Kevin, that I am trying, and succeeding, to 'Hanoi' you!?

    I would have liked to say Kevin, the BNP were having a good General Election campaign, but I can't, as your fuhrer said recently to a coloured gentleman that he (Griffin) wasn't a Racist! Perhaps you and your pal Griffin could star in a sequel to the Jim Carrey movie 'Liar, Liar' and we could call it 'Liar 2 the British nation'!

    Still wanting to see Hangings on British TV, Kevin!? How does that sit with your 'Christian beliefs'!? Or has your BNP Bible erased 'Thou shall not kill'!

    Has your Jobcentreplus Advisor sanctioned you spending time not getting elected!? Are you applying for any more jobs, outside your non-Election campaign!?

    Kevin, have your BNP pals learned to do their sums yet!? Or do we hear yet another different 'Account' from the BNP!?

    Not to worry Kevin, you can go back into your Castle Crypt with the rest of your freeloading, BNP 'Dracula' buddies, once you have all lost your Deposits! Now that will be a 'Booti-full' day!”

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    by Ray, Neath

    Friday, April 16 2010, 3:19PM

    “From what I have read in the anti fascist leaflet I have received today the Bnp should be called the British Nazi Party.All its leading figures seem to be in one way or another Hitler admirers. They are certainly not'patriots'.They are fascists and racists.Mr Griffin even has a record , a criminal record for claiming that the Holocaust, masterminded by Hitler never took place.
    And I checked out the previous leader Mr Tyndall on 'google images' as David suggested...and indeed there he is in full nazi uniform standing in front of a swastika.

    The man was an out and out nazi! No doubt about it!”

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    by Not a racist misfit, Not voting BNP

    Friday, April 16 2010, 2:47PM

    “An article on www.thisislondon.co.uk (titled "Posing in a burqa and fishnets, BNP candidate who backs execution of ¿Paki¿ criminals") talks about BNP parliamentary candidate Charlotte Lewis mocking Muslims by posting pictures of herself to facebook wearing a burqa and fishnets whilst drinking alcopops. Lewis also used her Facebook account to post racist messages, including one calling for foreign ¿Paki¿ criminals to be executed. In another message she targeted the Equality and Human Rights Commissioner Trevor Phillips, whose recent court proceedings forced the BNP to open their membership up to non-whites.
    And in another message she encouraged attacks on the home of a teenager. Miss Lewis was jailed in 2001 for sending death threats. In 2006 she was questioned by police over possible fraud when standing for election in Waddon, Croydon, after she was found to have used a false address. The article says Miss Lewis has a history of psychological problems.”

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    by john, EUSSR

    Friday, April 16 2010, 11:07AM

    “A list of the atrositys the "BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY" is definatly not guilty of >Declaring war on Iraq on a lie made up by Tony Blear"Champaigne Socialist"Murdering 100s of thousands of men,women and CHILDREN. Commiting our young boys to a useless and pointless war while making £millions as they lost their lives or dissabled through their injurys. Committing our soldiers to another point less war in Afghanistan just to put a pipe line through that country,nothing to do with terrorisum if they really wanted to stop the drug peddling Taliban and take their funds away simple DISTROY THE POPPYS THAT PRODUCE HEROIN! No they would rather our boys get killed. while this is going on they are blatantly robbing us stealing money that could have been used to equipe our solders with decent equipment. Only 3 facing criminal charges and you would never guess they would qualify for leagal aid"SOCIALISUM"YOU CANT BEAT IT.And the most dangerous of all is their vision of a UNITED STATES OF EUROPE and their gaol is a commonist Europe.They will be stopped by the NATIONALIST! Limp wristed Liberals do not have the guts to take this on it has to be the most disspicable political idology they just jump from one fence to the other. ONLY THE BNP CAN SAVE THIS COUNTRY THEY REALLY CARE ABOUT THE BRITISH PEOPLE!NATIONALISM THINK ABOUT IT...”

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    by Gren, NEATH

    Friday, April 16 2010, 9:25AM

    “Meet The BNP Bomb Makers!

    Meet Terence Gavan ,a Gold star BNP member .He was sentenced to 11 years for building up a huge cache of bombs and guns at his home earlier this year.

    Meet Robert Cottage a former BNP candidate.He was jailed three years ago after he was caught with a haul of rocket launchers and explosive chemicals at his home.

    Meet David Copeland a former BNP bodyguard .He went on a bombing spree killing three and wounding hundreds in London 11 years ago.

    Meet Tony Lecomber, a well known senior BNP leader who was jailed for bomb making activities [and also for assaulting a London teacher who was removing anti Jewish graffitti from a London tube wall ].

    In addition, meet the late Henry Guterman MBE and Holocaust survivor. He said shortly before his death 'Do not be fooled by the BNP pretending to have changed and become respectable.They are still fascist with their policy of racism, anti semitism and Islamophobia...Do not allow the BNP to dupe us.'.”

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