Reporter Group Newspapers in decline

A heartening piece of news in this weeks Press newspaper reports on the Dewsbury Reporter newspaper's continued decline in sales.
In the first 6 months of the year sales were down 7.6 per cent to 12,005 copies per week.
The Reporter's sister paper - the Batley News - has seen a similar decline with sales down 4.2 per cent to below 9,000 copies per week.
And long may it continue!
Finally local people are seeing the Reporter group for what they are and voting with their feet.

For years the only papers in the area was provided by the Labour supporting Reporter Group and for years we had their unique take on the news. We were presented - not with a cross section of local news, relevant to the area but a distorted, selective reporting of the news designed to fit in with their Liberal sensibilities
For example any letter that was anti immigration or anti multi culturalism was simply not printed, whereas pro ones would be printed every time. Asian on White racist attacks were deemed 'not newsworthy' and ignored but White on Asian crime would be front page news.
Then along came a new kid on the block - The Press.
The Press newspaper was started in 2001 by Danny Lockwood an ex Reporter editor and from the beginning was like a breath of fresh air and continues to go from strength to strength. Rather than having a political agenda, it reported and continues to report on all the news and presents views from all ends of the political spectrum regardless of who may object.
The local Labour career politicians absolutely hate the newspaper because of its impartial stance.
MP for Batley Mike Wood in his usual mature, adult manner refuses to speak to them at all and the Dewsbury Labour MP Shahid Malik is currently in the process of suing them for their reporting of an incident in Savile Town, where Jonathan Scott the Tory candidate for Dewsbury South was threatened by local Muslim youths at the 2006 local elections.
How New Labour despise the truth!
And they're not alone. When the Press printed an interview with local organiser Nick Cass one of the Kirklees Unity (an anti BNP group) members, a one Terry McKay (who stinks by the way) was so incensed that he threatened to burn down their offices.
So not only are more and more local people voting BNP, more and more of them are seeing through and rejecting the lies and distorted PC nonsense spewed out by the likes of the Reporter group.
And long may it continue.
Read the Press here

Green belt land to be built on

A Government commissioned panel of inspectors have said that due to the 'soaring' population developers must be allowed to build on Green Belt land therefore burying more of our once green and pleasant land under tarmac.
Bearing in mind that the native population of this land is falling with deaths far outstripping births one wonders how our population is 'soaring'.
We don't need more houses what we need is LESS people. Any ideas how we can achieve that?
Answers on a postcard.
Vote BNP.
Read the story here

Notting Hill crime fest ends in violence - again!

Well the Notting Hill crime fest has certainly lived up to expectations! Yesterday the BNP website reported that up until midnight on Sunday that the official crime tally was: 3 people arrested for attempted murder, 3 people arrested for possession of firearms, a further 4 arrested for a crime involving a firearm and 124 criminal incidents reported that resulted in a total of 104 arrests.

To that tally we can now add Monday’s “bag” – which includes 2 people shot, several people (3?) stabbed, a mini riot and scores more arrests!

According to the media the number of people arrested during the three day “festival” was between 206 and 220 – dependent upon which report you read. And that’s with the Metropolitan Police allegedly turning a blind eye to low level crime for fear of “sparking an incident”! In total the number of REPORTED criminal incidents during the “festival” is said to be 336. What the real number of crimes were, as opposed to the minority officially notified to police, remains anyone’s guess.

It is hard to imagine what sort of event could generate such high levels of violence and general criminality. Even a major riot between opposing armies of football hooligans would not result in so many arrests and serious criminal offences. We are indeed lucky there were no fatalities this year!

So why do the authorities tolerate the annual Notting Hill crime fest? Why aren’t outraged politicians tabling motions of condemnation in The House? The answer is simple – they dare not oppose it for fear of the consequences!

November Bank Holiday?

Apparently Labour 'insiders' are considering another Bank holiday intended for November on the Monday after Remembrance Sunday to honour community 'heroes'.
Kath Stanley of the 'Public Policy Research' a Marxist think tank which advises the Government says:
'We need a day when people give something back to their communities and celebrate the diversity and pluralism of modern Britain'.
In other words a day off to allow them to ram 'multi culturalism' and 'diversity' and other unwelcome additions and dilutions of our once great nation down our throats.
You can imagine the BBC TV programming schedule for the day.
It'd be all about what terrible, nasty people whites are and would be dominated by programs about slavery, how black crime and failure is white people's fault, Steven Lawrence, how we're all wrong about Islam and how it's such a cuddly, touchy feely type religion that would be favoured by kittens. Then they'd wheel on the obligatory white apologist such as Ken Livingstone, blubbing for white people's sins and begging some black such as Jessie Jackson (who used to spit in white people hamburgers when he worked in a fast food take away) for forgiveness.
You get the picture, the BBC execs would be orgasmic at the very thought of it.

Well no thank you, you can stick your bank holiday where the sun doesn't shine (and it never does especially in November). We and millions of other fellow Brits don't need a bank holiday to remind us what it means to be British, we live and breath it every day. It's New Labour traitors who appear to have forgot or rather are trying to forget what it means to be British by doing their utmost to turn our once great nation into a third world slum, such is their contempt for us and all things British.
And why put it on the day after Remembrance Sunday? Is it some attempt to overshadow the sacrifices given by British soldiers around the globe?
What do you think?
Obviously remembering the nations war dead who died so that the likes of New Labour would have the freedoms they so abuse today, is far too hideously white for their sensibilities so they attempt to sweep it under the carpet with the rest of Britain's history that they seem to be so ashamed of.
Another Bank Holiday would be nice but not to celebrate something that the British people never asked for and never wanted. No way.
Read the story here.

Best market in the land?

In a follow up to the story regarding Marks and Spencer and it’s decision to pull out of Dewsbury after a hundred years of trading.

Anyone who lives in or has had the dubious pleasure of visiting Dewsbury will know that the town centre is an awful, dirty, threatening place and that the market in particular resembles a third world bartering den that basically sells tat, so it came as quite a shock when it was voted ‘best outdoor market in the country’ a decision that probably owes more to it ticking the right boxes with regard to racial 'make up' and 'diversity' in today’s increasingly politically correct, totalitarian climate - rather than it having anyting to do with such petty considerations as selling anything useful or any traditionally British produce and goods that British markets were once famous for.
Anyway it would appear I’m not the only one to have such heretical thoughts and opinions as these three letters from the local newspaper the Press show.

The following letter was originally printed in last weeks edition of the Press the other two were in this weeks.

From: Wendy Senior, Dewsbury

Dear Sir,

This is the last straw! The only decent store we have leaving Dewsbury after almost 100 years trading there.
Kirklees Council are at fault for this. Look at the shops gone from Dewsbury: Co-op, Bickers, Hudsons and Strawberry Fair. Also five cinemas and a theatre – the lovely Empire.
Then there was our hospital, paid for by Dewsbury businessmen, pulled down and houses built on the land.
Look at Huddersfield; compare it with Dewsbury. Where is our Council Tax going?
Dewsbury was such a lovely town; now we have a market resembling Bangladesh, women in burkhas and men in pyjamas. Ravensthorpe and Savile Town have problems with Iraqis and Pakistanis. Who is putting them there?
Dewsbury Hospital is being down-graded by Pontefract and Pinderfields Hospitals taking money intended for Dewsbury.
Why do Dewsbury people have to pay exorbitant parking charges when Batley, Mirfield and Heckmondwike car parks are free?
So, what do we do about this... nothing?
Or do we make a fuss. I will be outside Marks & Spencer on Wednesday August 22 from 11am collecting signatures to save our store.
Also, a petition to leave Kirklees and return to our own council. This is the only way to save Dewsbury.
Any offers of help will be welcome.


From: Mr RL Rowbottom, Dewsbury

Dear Sir,

I agree entirely with the views of Wendy Senior describing the state of Dewsbury and the description of Dewsbury market resembling Bangladesh.

I cannot think of any town within a 30-mile radius offering as little as Dewsbury does and I do not blame Marks & Spencer for leaving a sinking ship. I can’t imagine any reputable business ever wanting to move to Dewsbury.

I cannot understand how the market was voted ‘best outdoor market in the country’ compared to those such as Barnsley which is a far more traditional English market. I also can’t believe anyone who visits by coach trip will ever want to come again.

Regarding the burkha, can anyone explain why they are more prominent in the town centre and Savile Town as opposed to Ravensthorpe?

On a recent holiday in Tunisia – it has a with a 95 per cent plus Muslim population – the occupants of the nearby city were dressed more Westernised than you see in Dewsbury, and there was not one burkha in sight.

I do not think I would last long if I wore a white hood with just my eyes visible.

I am now retired and was born and bred in Dewsbury and have enjoyed many good times before the bad publicity arrived, and, I am sorry to say, that I now find this town the absolute pits.

From: Name and address supplied

Dear Sir,

Why the big fuss about Marks & Spencer quitting Dewsbury? It’s not that much of a shock, is it?

They’re only doing what a growing number of Dewsbury’s original inhabitants are contemplating. I’ve lived the majority of my life within four or five miles of Dewsbury town centre but it’s somewhere I avoid these days.

In fact the last time I visited was at Christmas to do a bit of last minute shopping, and I vowed at the time that I’d not visit the place again. I had the kids with me and they’ve not been since either.

My wife hasn’t been to the market for years and on the rare occasions she does go to Dewsbury she restricts herself to Sainsbury’s. Our experience is that we feel alienated in our own town. We feel we don’t belong any more.

Dewsbury is in the process of becoming a foreign country and, like Marks & Spencer, our intention is to quit the area as soon as we can.

According to council leader Robert Light, £80 million has been ‘invested’ in Dewsbury, and that may be so, but it’s still a tatty, alienating place and my guess is it will only get worse

Leo McKinstry in the Express

FREEDOM of speech is one of the cornerstones of our democracy. 

The open exchange of views and the expression of controversial opinions are bulwarks against tyranny.  

Yet the British tradition of liberty is now increasingly under threat because of the state’s cowardly policy of trying to appease radical Islam.

In the name of promoting a spirit of tolerance, our civic institutions have become ruthlessly intolerant of anyone who dares to challenge some of the most repellent features of hardline Islamism, such as misogyny, the contempt for human rights and the resort to violence for political ends. 

Blanket accusations of racism are regularly used to suppress debate about the problems caused by Islam. 

Britain fought the last war against an anti-semitic, book-burning, totalitarian regime. Yet in a bizarre twist, the modern British Government now acts as the guardian of those Muslims who want to see an Islamic version of just such a regime in this country. In a monstrous inversion of our values, those seeking to uphold our freedoms against Muslim fundamentalism are now the target of state repression.

Our police are turning into political commissars

The British bobby, once a symbol of robust common sense, is rapidly being transformed into an agent of the race-fixated thought police.

Perhaps the most worrying recent example of this trend was the outrageous conduct of the West Midlands police over a Channel 4 investigation into extremism within Birming­ham’s mosques – Undercover Mosque. Anyone watching the programme would have been appalled at some of the sentiments of the Muslim clerics. 

One preacher, referring to his eagerness to see British soldiers killed in Afghanistan, said that “the hero is the one who separated his head from his shoulders”. Another called for homosexuals to be “thrown off the mountain”, while a third believed that Jews will be killed at the end of time, accompanying his forecast with a snorting noise like that of a pig.  

A Christian minister coming out with vile language against Muslims would not only be defrocked but would have his collar felt by the constabulary. Yet the reaction of the West Midlands police was very different. Assistant Chief Constable Anil Patani, in charge of “security and social cohesion”, decided the preachers of hate should face no action. Instead his force issued a complaint against Channel 4 to regulator Ofcom, that the programme-makers may have been guilty of stirring up racial hatred. 

Patani, one of the new breed of police chiefs seemingly more interested in social engineering than in protecting the public, claimed that the producers had deliberately quoted the Muslim clerics “out of context” to suit an Islamophobic agenda. The West Midlands police, he said, had pursued Channel 4 “with as much rigour as the extremism portrayed within the documentary itself”.

Since when was it the job of the police to sit in judgment on TV productions, acting as a political censor? Is the West Midlands so free of crime that police can look through hours of TV footage, deciding whether a television company has shown sufficient obedience to the new doctrine of anti-racism? 

Mr Patani was effectively exploiting the current row over TV fakery, suggesting that the investigation into the mosques was just another distorted documentary, like the BBC’s notorious programme about the Queen, in which editing of the footage appeared to show Her Majesty storming out of a photoshoot when in reality nothing of the sort happened.

In fact there is no evidence that Channel 4 was guilty of any kind of manipulation. None of the participants complained about the programme, nor was there any denial of a right of reply.

This controversy only shows the disastrous influence of the Marxist creed of political correctness, where the police have become so neurotic about Islamophobia that they have turned themselves into political commissars.

This worrying pattern can be seen in so many other areas. Only this weekend it emerged that the BBC had decided to rewrite an episode of the popular hospital drama Casualty because it feared the original storyline, about an Islamist suicide bombing at a bus station, might offend Muslim sensibilities. So the BBC replaced it with one about carnage perpetrated by animal rights activists.

Anti-Islamist Rally Banned in Brussels

By Vasko Kohlmayer
FrontPageMagazine.com
An eagerly awaited public rally was to take place in Brussels – the capital of the European Union – on September 11 of this year. Called ‘Against Islamisation of Europe,’ its intent was to protest the spreading of Islamic sharia law across the European continent and honour by a minute of silence the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks.

The event was being organized by SIOE (Stop the Islamisation of Europe), an alliance of people from across Europe whose objective is to prevent Islam from ‘becoming a dominant political force in Europe.’ Concerned about the Muslim subversion of the continent’s cultures and institutions, SIOE’s has this to say about Islam:

No other religion demands more from those who do not adhere to its doctrine. This would not be a problem if our leaders actually stood up for Western values and insisted that Muslims live within our laws and accepted our cultures and social systems. Instead, it is we who are told we must abandon our values, cultures and societies in order not to offend Muslims. It is Islam that is being rammed down our throats and the throats of our children. It is not only in the West that Islam is causing misery and mayhem. All around the world Islam is battling the “infidels”.

In a clear sign of public support for the planned demonstration, 20,000 people from across Europe have pledged their participation.

But now it looks the event will not be allowed to proceed. On August 13, Brussels’ Mayor Freddy Thielemans, a socialist, made the decision not to issue a permit for the march.

The Mayor’s decision is a very unusual one, because Brussels is known as a demonstration friendly city. In fact, it is the demonstration capital of the world with two or three events taking place on average every day. In the last six years alone, the Mayor’s office has received 3,600 requests for public protest permits of which only 6 have been denied.

But the Mayor is trying to do more than just stop people from voicing their concerns about the ongoing Islamization of their culture. This is what he wrote on August 20 in an op-ed piece in the Belgian newspaper De Standaard:

First and foremost the organizers have chosen the symbolic date of 9/11. The intention is obviously to confound the terrorist activities of Muslim extremists on the one hand and Islam as a religion and all Muslims on the other hand. […] Such incitement to discrimination and hatred, which we usually call racism and xenophobia, is forbidden by a considerable number of international treaties and is punished by our penal laws and by European legislation. The European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly pronounced judgments condemning this type of acts.

In what is a truly surreal development, a European public official calls those concerned about the encroachment of Islam on their life extremists and threatens criminal prosecution if they don’t desist.

The Mayor’s concern about extremism is very selective, however. In December of 2004, for example, he allowed a demonstration to proceed where more than 20,000 Iranians protested against the inclusion of People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran in EU's list of terrorist organizations. This is how this group was once described by the US Department of State:

The Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a leftist revolutionary group, was formed in 1963. Its founding principles included the creation of a Marxist-oriented Islamic government in Iran; opposition to 'imperialism' as supposedly embodied by the United States; opposition to Zionism and Israel; and a close affinity to Third World radical movements. […] To achieve its political objectives, the MEK almost from its inception has engaged in acts of terrorism and violence; the organization was responsible for fatal attacks on several Americans in Iran in the 1970s.

Not only was the demonstration allowed to go on – it took place in front of the EU’s headquarters – it received extensive official backing. Numerous speeches were made by European parliamentarians and various public personalities seeking to remove the group’s terror designation.

This makes for a remarkable situation: In the EU capital, Iranian Muslims are allowed to show their solidarity with a questionable organization while native citizens are being turned into criminals for seeking to voice their concerns about the unfolding Islamic takeover of their lands.

To add insult to injury, on the very day the organizers of the 9/11 rally were protesting the decision to block the event, Mayor Thielemans approved a permit for another demonstration to take place on September 9. Organized by an alliance of ‘various truth, peace and human right movements in Europe’ calling themselves United for Truth, they claim that the 9/11 attacks were staged by the Bush administration with possible support from some European governments. A message posted on their website on July 30 reads in part:

Recently the French Minister for Housing and the City Mme Christine Boutin expressed her doubts about the official 9/11 report. Before, Michael Meacher, secretary of state in Britain and Andreas Von Bulow, ex Minister from Germany, stated clearly that 9/11 and the war on terror are orchestrated by the Bush administration. Prof. David Ray Griffin held on September 14th, 2006 a lecture ('Should the truth be revealed or concealed') in Copenhagen. In this lecture he asked for a European investigation to the facts of September 11, 2001. To make this demand stronger, the United for truth organization in Belgium is organizing a European protest rally through Brussels. […] They [protesters] agree the 9/11 attacks and other terrorist acts, no matter if they were carried out by some so-called Afghan cavemen or by the governments themselves, inflicted the current policy of fear.

It is hard to believe that in Europe Muslims and far-left radicals are allowed to march in support of their causes and inane theories while those concerned about the ongoing disintegration of their societies are not only being silenced but threatened with legal action.

The controversy surrounding the planned 9/11 rally in Brussels is emblematic of Europe’s rapid descent into madness. Today Europe is a place where things are turned upside down and where common sense is not only commonly disregarded but actively suppressed.

Having lost both its sense of identity and sanity, Europe stands on the brink of being overtaken by Muslims who may well be able to claim their prize without so much as a fight. Brussels’ socialist Mayor Freddy Thielemans is only one of many among Europe’s leftist elites who are not only willing to capitulate to the barbarian invaders of our age but are actively facilitating their progress. America better take heed, for these are the very people its own liberals admire and in whose steps they would like to follow.

The truth behind Marks and Spencers move from Dewsbury

As anyone who lives locally will be aware Marks and Spencer are to close their Dewsbury store after 100 years of trading. Here we print in full an excellent piece submitted by a regular contributor to this blog that analyses the reasons behind Marks and Spencer's 'relocation' and the deterioration of a once proud town. Thanks to JP.

A phoney war of words has erupted between two establishment politicians, Dewsbury's Labour MP Shahid Malik and Kirklees Conservative Council Leader Robert Light (pictured)

Prompted by the news that after 100 years Marks and Spencer is to close its Dewsbury store, MP Malik has implied that the fault lies with Kirklees Council for its failure to invest in the town. Eager to shore up his rapidly diminishing support, Malik has jumped on the 'Dewsbury is going to the dogs' bandwagon that blames Kirklees for favouring Huddersfield over Dewsbury.

Leader Light has reacted with feigned outrage: "What has he (i.e. Malik) ever done for the town?" he shrieked. Light went on to say that the Council had secured over £80 million investment for Dewsbury and he urged everyone to "...talk up Dewsbury" rather than criticise it.

In typical politician's self-congratulatory style, Light shamelessly blows his own trumpet, "We are supporting investments in a children's centre, playground improvements, road and traffic programmes - all aimed at rejuvenating, regenerating, and transforming the fortunes of Dewsbury."

Oh really? And where is this children's centre to be situated, and which children will benefit from it? And which schools will benefit from improved playground facilities, and which roads will benefit from the new traffic programmes? Of course Light doesn't specify - but then he wouldn't, would he?

Let's cut to the quick. Dewsbury is a dump - and its most fitting monument is the clock tower on the Pioneer building where trees take root in the mortar and where the weather vane sits at an appropriately drunken angle.

What's that Councillor Light, we should be talking Dewsbury up? Isn't that like expecting passengers on a sinking ship to say what a wonderful sea voyage they're having?

Light boasts, "The council's continued investment in Dewsbury market resulted in it being judged the best in the UK this year." Out of curiosity, does anyone know who was doing the judging? It certainly wasn't the woman who wrote to the Press recently (17/08/07): "Dewsbury was such a lovely town; now we have a market resembling Bangladesh, women in burkhas and men in pyjamas."

Yes, Dewsbury was a lovely town - past tense. But it's not lovely now, certainly not for its original inhabitants who are in the process of being ethnically cleansed: Dewsbury is being Asianised with the connivance of the likes of Malik and Light. How long before the Minster is converted into a mosque? How long before the mill lass iron sculpture under the railway arches is dressed in a burkha? Surely it's only a matter of time.

Malik blames Kirklees Council for its indifference; Light blames those who aren't talking Dewsbury up.

Both are more concerned with their seats on the gravy train than they are with the truth of what is happening to Dewsbury.

Light is a selfish coward who has no qualms about betraying his fellow ethnic Britons to further his pathetic political 'career'. A better man wouldn't shy away from the real problems of Dewsbury and pretend it can all be made better by 'investment'. But Light isn't a better man, he's afraid of the truth and he hates the BNP because we stand by the truth.

And as you'd expect, Malik has his own agenda.

But no matter how much the politicians wriggle and squirm, there's no getting away from it - Britain's plight is a direct result of the insane immigration policies that Labour and Conservative governments have been employing these past fifty years or so. And they can invest in Dewsbury all they like but they won't put a halt to its deterioration. Labour wants immigrants as voters and the Tories want them as cheap labour. It's called treachery, and when the BNP eventually takes power as it inevitably will, these traitors in parliament and in the council chambers will be introduced to the business end of the rope - after a fair trial of course.

Story here

Send this animal back

There can be no greater example recently of the perverted notion of justice that passes for the human rights act than the recent example of Learco Chindamo - the immigrant who murdered headmaster Philip Lawrence - and the refusal by judges to return him to his country of birth on the basis that it would be unfair to send him to a country where he has no ties and doesn't speak the language.
Despite the fact he wasn't born in this country, has abused our hospitality and commited the worst crime possible - that of murder - the judges refuse to return him to the country of his birth.
By the same token would they agree that it would be unfair to grant asylum to anyone who doesn't speak English? What do you think?
The truth of the matter is that the Judiciary is run by lefty idiots who take a perverse delight in going against common sense and the wishes of the majority and who totally ignore the human rights of the population at large to live in peace by favouring the rights of people who have no rights to be here.
The sooner we get rid of the human rights act and the idiots who interpret them the better.
A BNP Government would pull out of the EU and re write the human rights act to put the needs of the law abiding majority in front of criminals. Although in this case had the BNP been in Government there would have been no need for a tribunal as Chindamo would have swung from the end of a noose.
Read the story here

New Pat Condell video

Here's Pat Condells latest video diary. As usual he hits the nail on the head regarding the ' religion of peace'. Enjoy.

The Deep Crisis of the West

The piece I've cut and pasted below is from a website called honestthinking.org which is dedicated to the art of thinking honestly and is an excellent analysis of the state of European society, what is required for a society to work and the present state of European society which is far from being the nirvana the ruling class would have us believe and is more likely a society on the brink.
Although a bit long winded it's well worth the read

This article was published by HonestThinking on 19 May 2007.

For the record: What follows is a translated and considerably expanded version (approximately double size) of an article that was originally published in the Norwegian daily Klassekampen on 5 December 2006 (see Europas dype krise). It has caused a bit of debate among Norwegian intellectuals, but no one has yet challenged the basic assumptions upon which it rests.

The deep crisis of the West

By Ole Jørgen Anfindsen, Oslo, Norway

editor, HonestThinking (ole at honestThinking.org)

Sometimes we make things too complicated. This article is an attempt at explaining, using as few words as possible, why Europe in particular, and the entire Western world in general, is in a deep crisis. This explanation will be followed by a brief discussion of some possible objections, after which several sobering facts and quotes are provided. The article is wrapped up with some concluding thoughts and remarks.

My pessimism on behalf of the Western civilization rests on the following simple observation: Somewhere, somehow, there has to be a limit to the amount of diversity a society can handle without becoming dysfunctional.

I am not pretending to know exactly where this limit is; I am merely claiming that such a limit must necessarily exist. With this as our basic assumption, we may reason as follows.

Theory and discussion

First, it is indeed possible to list the most important factors that could potentially make a society dysfunctional. At the very least they include language, culture, religion, and ethnicity. Carefully note the qualification in the first sentence of this paragraph; the just mentioned factors will not necessarily create problems, but they all have the potential to do so. Differences in these four areas are examples of what we may call essential differences, i.e., differences that cannot be allowed to grow without bounds if society is to remain healthy. This is so because these factors are strongly connected with our sense of identity, belonging, and loyalty; the kind of stuff without which no society can function.

Second, any society’s ability to handle essential differences will vary with time. For example, a society with an expanding economy will temporarily have larger tolerance in these areas. Given that economic growth cannot continue indefinitely, Western societies’ ability to deal with essential differences is sooner or later bound to be reduced.

Third, whenever a society exceeds its limits concerning the amount of essential differences it is able to handle, some kinds of forces will – necessarily – come into play in that society and restore a sufficient degree of unity (*).

How is this going to affect Europe in the coming decades? The options appear to be pretty draconian:

· Some groups of people will have foreign languages, cultures, and/or religions forced upon them.

· People from different groups will move away from each other.

· People from different groups will kill each other.

The end result of this process is likely to fall into three main categories, although hybrid scenarios are also possible:

· Europe could be split up along dividing lines of language, culture, ethnicity or religion, not unlike what happened when Yugoslavia disintegrated.

· Europe could be taken over or become dominated by immigrants.

· Immigrants could be forced to leave Europe or in other ways lose their influence.

It can hardly be denied that the level of diversity is steadily increasing in all nations currently taking part in the multicultural project. I have yet to see any suggestion by anyone as to how we are going to avoid reaching the above mentioned critical limit.

One possible objection to the above line of reasoning is that diversity is a strength, not a liability. Such an objection misses a crucial point, however. Granted, too little diversity can certainly be problem, but so can too much. There are virtually infinite numbers of real life phenomena that have this kind of property; you need a certain amount of the stuff in question, but hardly ever is it simply a matter of having as much as possible.

Diversity within human societies is no exception to this rule. As soon as such diversity grows above the limit of that which is useful and healthy, one is going to see symptoms such as the development of parallel societies within the larger society, lack of communication and mutual understanding due to different languages, incompatible worldviews, conflicting values, and so on and so forth.

A few steps further down the line the proper functioning of democracy will be hindered by citizens voting for candidates who represent their particular religion, ethnic group, or language, rather than voting for candidates with the better political program. If diversity continues to grow without bounds, sooner or later the society in question will become dysfunctional.

Tragically, these things are occurring before our very eyes here in Europe. Still, academia and the media are only moderately concerned, and the vast majority of our politicians appear to be pretty much clueless as to what could or should be done about this.

Interestingly enough, while the public is regularly brainwashed with slogans like “diversity is our strength”, diversity of opinion on issues related to multiculturalism is not always appreciated, to put it mildly. On the contrary, the ruling elite is still putting serious effort into preventing true, profound, rational, and informed discussion of these painful issues.

The result is an intellectually numbing consensus culture that makes sure we all march to the same tune of diversity. Diversity, that is, in those areas where our elites have decided that diversity is A Good Thing, but uniformity, conformity, and political correctness elsewhere. Europe is, simply put, in deep intellectual trouble, which in turn is bound to cause political trouble.

Current trends in Europe

Let’s elaborate on these issues by having a look at some sobering facts from the Netherlands, Great Britain, and France.

According to statistics published in November 2006 by the Norwegian daily Klassekampen, 119.275 people chose to leave the Netherlands in 2005 while 92.297 entered the country that year. The majority of those who left were ethnic Dutch, while the majority of the newcomers were non-Westerners entering through family reunion. This process has been going on for several years now and is expected to grow stronger in the future.

In March 2006 the Dutch intelligence organization AIVD published a report called Violent Jihad in the Netherlands. The report addressed the fact that in spite of formidable attempts to stem the developments, the radicalization of young Muslims continued unimpeded. AIVD warns that if the current trends continue, the Dutch society might be headed for disintegration.

In June 2006 The Sunday Times reported that one of Great Britain’s most experienced military strategists, Rear Admiral Chris Parry, warned that the currently ongoing demographic development represents a threat to the West comparable to what made the Roman Empire collapse. We are simply unable to integrate, much less assimilate, the increasing flow of immigrants that are coming to Europe.

In France the situation is already particularly serious. Suburban violence and rioting is so common that it is no longer considered news, and therefore largely ignored by the media. But whoever looks into the general situation concerning integration of non-Western immigrants in Europe, will find that the situation is quite scary in other places too. Pertinent issues include lack of discipline and associated learning-problems in schools, growing levels of violence and crime in large cities, more and more ethnic Europeans finding it difficult to live in a huge numbers of suburbs and other areas, and also an increase in the assaults and harassment of Jews.

Refusing to face reality

On the international scene there is a steady flow of articles and books predicting the downfall of Europe, which creates a rather interesting situation. On the one hand a number of experts and intellectuals do their best to warn of impending catastrophes. On the other hand the ruling elite insist that all is well. Reference Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg who in March 2006 wrote the following in the periodical Samtiden: “The last twenty years have probably been the most successful in the history of mankind. The world is making progress, and the pessimists are wrong.”

It’s about time we replaced cheap propaganda with serious analysis. Is it the case or not that the above mentioned essential differences are growing out of control in Europe these days? What, if anything, is going to stop this growth? As far as I can tell, this can only come about if we rethink our entire immigration regime, but most of our politicians, as well as large portions of media and academia, seem to vehemently reject any such proposition.

The adherents of the multicultural project seem determined to ensure that their political Titanic continues full steam ahead, no matter what the future cost in terms of human lives and societal breakdown. These people deserve to be labeled multicynical.

Europe has not been in such dire straits since Hitler’s madness covered our continent in darkness. Whose fault is that? The primary responsibility rests upon naïve, cowardly, power-hungry, and/or arrogant politicians. And in no small part it rests upon media and academia, large portions of which continue to idealize the situation and quench democratic debate.

Every now and then some of the top politicians in Europe, for example Tony Blair, will utter tough words about immigration, integration, Western values, the death of the multicultural ideology, or something like that. However, unless and until they demonstrate in practice that they are prepared to follow through with measures that could actually make a difference, I suspect these are just empty words from incompetents with no real plan of action. Less likely, but not entirely unthinkable, these are words from cynical people trying to hide their real intentions.

We are, at increasing speed, headed for problems of unprecedented magnitude. Closing our eyes and hoping for the best until it is too late, is probably the worst possible strategy. Unless the problems are soon acknowledged, and serious efforts made to find viable solutions, it is probably just a matter of time before untold numbers of Europeans will follow the Dutch example, and look for an emergency exit. Indeed, more and more of Germans and Britons are already doing so. Such a migration pattern can only continue for a certain period of time before it becomes self enforcing, in which case Europe’s fate will be sealed. Any morally responsible person owes it both to immigrants and Europeans to try to prevent such a scenario.

Conclusions

This article is obviously written from a European perspective. However, the wishful thinking, the utopian visions, and the intellectual dishonesty that is well on its way to destroy Europe, is rampant in the rest of the Western world as well, not least in academia and media, the influences of which should not be underestimated. The situation in the USA and the rest of the Western world may not be as bad as in Europe, but the same processes that are eroding the foundations of civilized society here, seem to be busily at work there as well. In particular there is reason to be concerned that the USA will become seriously weakened or even torn apart by internal tensions that are already visible for the whole world to see.

Islamists are very much aware of this. They understand perfectly well that our diversity is their strength. Even so, many conservatives still see Islamism as our only enemy, failing to see the even larger threat coming from within.

Unless we strengthen our efforts to wake up the general public to the challenges we are facing; unless we manage to break the yoke of politically correct thinking; unless we honestly confront reality in all areas that are crucial for a well-functioning society (no matter how painful the truth may be); the entire Western world could crumble before the end of this century. Actually, I think it might possibly happen within our lifetimes. With the added qualification, of course, that many of us will cease to be alive once these processes really get going.

(*) Footnote: This sentence is not meant to preclude the possibility that a "sufficient degree of unity" could be restored through the breaking up of the society in question into smaller units.

Postscript

Different versions of the above article were in April and May of 2007 submitted to four well-known publications in the UK and USA (three primarily paper-based, one web-based). None of them accepted the article. This surprised me somewhat, because they all regularly publish material that is critical of the currently ongoing multicultural developments.

Why was this article rejected? Not having received any feedback, I can only speculate. My guess is that the publications in question are uncomfortable with the mere mention of the words ethnic or ethnicity in the context of serious problems. It should however be quite clear from my article that I am not advocating any extreme points of view on these kinds of topics. On the contrary, I am stating that a certain amount of diversity, including ethnic diversity, is good for a healthy society. However, unless we start dealing in a frank, honest, and respectful way with the challenges posed to us by ethnic diversity, I fear that our chances of winning the war against global jihad and radical Islamism will be slim indeed. Moreover, failing to deal with this topic is going to pave the way for people who will certainly be frank, who may perhaps try to be honest, but who will probably have little or no intention of being respectful in these matters. What we need here is free, open, and proper intellectual discussion in the spirit of John Stuart Mill’s classic essay On Liberty. See in particular Chapter II – of the liberty of thought and discussion; the essence of which is captured by Mill as follows:

· First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

· Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any object is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

· Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds.

· And not only this, but, fourthly, the meaning of the doctrine itself will be in danger of being lost, or enfeebled, and deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct: the dogma becoming a mere formal profession, inefficacious for good, but cumbering the ground, and preventing the growth of any real and heartfelt conviction, from reason or personal experience.

If only intellectuals had been willing to heed the admonitions of Mill during the past 60 years or so, the West would have been in an entirely different situation today (and the world would almost certainly have been a better place).

There are multiple reasons why Islamists will gain by ethnic diversity growing uncontrollably in the West, and I will briefly mention two. First, this will in itself weaken our societies, destroying the foundation for well-functioning democracies and creating a need for a totalitarian ideology that can clean up the multicultural mess by bringing the sum total of essential differences below the critical threshold. Second, some ethnic groups are very likely to become fertile ground for Islamic revivals. I encourage people with access to pertinent information to further elaborate on these topics.

In any case, refusing to face reality has hardly ever been a good strategy. If it is true, as claimed above, that ethnicity is one of the central factors (not the only one) when it comes to people’s loyalty, identity, and sense of belonging, then we ignore this topic at our own peril.

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Employers should bear cost of immigration

Still not working!

Comment in the Telegraph written by Irwin Stelzer who makes the point that as employers are the only people to benefit from mass immigration then they should bear the cost.
Although it's a bit of a confused piece in parts the sentiment is good and it's something that the BNP have argued for for years.
While the owners of capital trouser the increased profits from paying low wages to immigrants the taxpayer get lumped with paying the cost of settling them here, housing them, schooling their kids, paying for their wives to sit at home while they breed more of them and all out of their wages which are artificially depressed due to the vast amount of ready labour brought about by immigration.
Add this to the overcrowding in the country, the lack of housing, the increased hospital waiting lists, increased traffic, increased crime etc. etc. And it's no wonder we get pissed off.
We need to stop all immigration now and if we have any labour shortages then we need to train the 10 million people on various benefits to do the jobs that we need.
Read the story here.

More concessions

In a further example of the continuing Dhimmification of Britain another example from north of the border in Scotland.
Following the attempted Glasgow airport bombings hospital staff in the Lothians region of Scotland have been advised not to have working lunches during Ramadan - which is a 30 day fast- to avoid offending Muslims.
Managers have also been advised that Muslim staff are also to be allowed breaks to pray and time off to celebrate eid.
Why is it whenever Muslim terrorists blow us up or attempt to blow us up it leads to more concessions for their backward beliefs? Shouldn't it be the other way round?
Rather than encouraging them we should be looking at ways of discouraging the Muslim faith with a view to eventually banning it altogether.
Read the story here

Guantanamo Bay Five

In an attempt to appease the Bush haters and anti Americans within his treacherous little party Gordon Brown has put the safety of the British people at risk by calling for the release of five men from Guantanamo Bay.
The men are all considered as terrorist threats by the Americans but were unfortunately British residents at the time of their arrests.
Despite the fact that none of the men are British nationals and none were even living in this country at the time of their arrests Brown and his Government have called for their release.
Why? What the hell do we want them here for?
Apart from the fact that they are all confirmed enemies of the west and terrorist suspects it's going to cost us £7.5 million pounds a year to monitor them! And that's on top of the council house's they'll be given and every benefit you can think of.
You can just imagine the scenario, as soon as their plane touches down they'll be treated like returning hero's. They'll be fawned all over by the media and especially the BBC who'll hang onto their every word. They'll most likely have an hour long special made about their lives and their 'unfair and unjust' incarceration in which any awkward questions will be skirted over - for which they'll receive a fat pay cheque and that's on top of any huge compensation payout they'll likely get for the infringement of their 'human rights'.
If these people do commit any terrorist acts then Brown and his cronies will have blood on their hands and should be held personally responsible.
Read the story here.

Where's the referendum?

Apart from their cavalier and deceitful approach to immigration nothing illustrates more clearly this Governments anti-democratic contempt toward the will of the British people than their double dealing and downright dishonesty towards the question of a referendum on the European constitution.
In 2004 the European constitution was shelved when it was rejected by both France and Holland and at the time Blair promised a referendum on any further attempts to enforce a constitution on the people of Europe.
And guess what? They've gone back on their word!
The referendum is back again on the agenda, this time renamed as a treaty and surprise surprise we're not going to get a referendum.
Like a referendum on immigration the Government know damned well they would lose it so we're not going to get one.
And still the idiots vote for them.
Rather than going further into Europe we should be pulling out of the EU completely. It benefits us not one iota.
Read the case for pulling out here.
And a piece in the Times here.

How the Government has declared war on the English

A piece in the Daily Express here by Leo McKinstry tells of how the indigenous population of these islands and especially the English are discriminated against by the state whilst at the same time paying for the privilege. It's a ridiculous state of affairs where non-whites are seen by the state as unable to make it on their own two feet and therefore need a leg up.
Like I've said many times in this blog the race industry is not based on wanting equality it wants preferential treatment for non-whites based on nothing more than the distorted Marxist view of looking at things. In their muddled thinking 2 plus 2 doesn't equal 4 it equals racism.
Fortunately more and more people are waking up to the fact and voting for the only party that will make a change.
Vote BNP!
Read the story here.

More 'Asian' grooming of white girls

Another report here (this time in the Times newspaper) looking at the problem of the racist paedophile grooming of white girls by 'Asian' males. Although the word Asian is a bit of a misnomer bearing in mind the people that are doing the grooming are defined by their religion not their nationality and are overwhelming Muslim and not Hindu or Japanese or Buddhists or Nepalese.
Suppose they're only following in the footsteps of the founder of their religion - the paedophile Mohammed.
The report highlights something the BNP have warned about for years although as usual when we raised the matter we were called racist, liars etc.
It looks at what the BNP have been saying for years - that the grooming of white girls by Muslims is a huge problem and one that is ignored by the liberal establishment and the police for fear of being labelled racist. And is nothing less than the sacrifice of our children in the name of political correctness.
Even Ann Cryer who relies on the Muslim vote to get elected has spoken out and said; "I think there is a problem with the view Asian men generally have about white women. Their view about white women is generally fairly low. They do not seem to understand that there are white girls as moral and as good as Asian girls."
Read the report here.

Former Lib Dem Councillor spared jail

Tabasum Aslam the former Lib Dem councillor for Heckmondwike was spared jail (like there was every any possibility of that happening!) for attempting to fraudulently obtain benefits.
The judge ruled out any possibility of a jail sentence saying that; 'the loss of his good name and character' were punishment enough.
Which name would that be then? His real one? Or one of the one's he uses to fill out his benefit forms?
And how is it possible for someone standing as a Lib Dem to have a good name in the first place?
The mind boggles!
Apprently he filled in a form for his mother claiming that she was renting the house (that he, his brother and his mother owned) from his brother. All using various names that he and his family go by.
The 'community' must be very proud of him.
He also tried fiddling his council tax.
He was eventually given a two year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £2,500 court costs.
His defending barrister Richard Clews said without any hint of irony that;
"this is not a criminal fraudster trying to enrich himself. This was a man trying to get on the property ladder.
All he was trying to do was keep his head above water."
Its must be a real struggle trying to keep your head above water when you're trying to mange on a measly 47 grand a year. The poor man.
The judge said after passing sentence that: "the criminal convictions and loss of your good name and character is the main punishment in this case."
He could always use one of his other names i suppose.

Read the story here.

Why are we so scared of offending Muslims?

A good piece here written by Christopher Hitchens, the lefty half of the Hitchens brothers.
He asks the question in the title and gives the answer which as we all know is; 'because they react with violence to anyone who dares question their beliefs'.
When even deluded lefties like Christopher Hitchens are finally facing reality and slagging off the Islamic religion you know there's a problem.
Read the piece here.

Another racist attack

With monotonous regularity the local papers, once again this week reports, on a Asian on White racist attack in the local area. This time the attack took place on Transvaal terrace in Batley in the early hours of Tuesday when the man in his early 20's was walking home whilst talking on his mobile.
Four Asian men pulled up in a Vauxhall Corsa punched the man to the ground and stabbed him before fleeing in the car.

There hardly seems to be a week goes by when the local papers aren't reporting on a Asian on White racist attack in this area. In fact for at least the last five weeks the local paper -the Press- newspaper has reported on separate attacks on white people and it's been a similar tale for years.
All the attacks seem to take the format, where a lone white person is usually ambushed by a gang of them either in a car or on foot.
But where are the police on this? Predictably silent as always. Although if the attacks were the other way round you could guarantee the Police would be stepping up their patrols and bending over backwards to 'reassure' 'the Community'.
Read the report here