BNP criticised for prejudice over halal jobs
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.
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Kevin Edwards
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.”
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?”
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 homoerotic 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.”
by norm, neath
Friday, April 16 2010, 9:56PM
“What is the difference between a nazi and a dog?
A nazi lifts his arm....”
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.”