Wednesday 28 April 2010

Leftie Warriors Ignorant Of Political And Economic Reality...Again

It seems the Left are only happy about some political parties being given a soft ride by newspapers:
An Essex newspaper has come in for severe criticism for an “article” on its website which reads almost word-for-word like a BNP press release. The report, which isn’t bylined, gushes about how “proud nationalists” dug into their pockets to fund Brentwood & Ongar BNP candidate Paul Morris’s deposit, “packed into a back room of a patriotic pub”.
Oh, noes! Newspapers are only ever supposed to hurl abuse at the BNP! How can this have happened?
The post, on the Essex Chronicle website “This is Total Essex” – which also tweeted the piece – adds: “The party operates under a veil of secrecy to protect members from those who oppose their beliefs and did not reveal the location of the meeting until just minutes before it was due to start. With the pub set to become a regular meeting place for the new group, they have asked us not to reveal where it is.

“Christine Mitchell, a 68-year-old grandmother from Chelmsford, will be running the branch from here on in. Mrs Mitchell, who is contesting the newly created Saffron Walden seat in the general election on May 6, said: ‘We are fighting for British jobs for British workers, that is the start but we are standing for other reasons – crime rates, the state of the education system and the fact MPs have stolen from the public.’

“The former Conservative leader of Westminster Council, Peter Strudwick, spoke for more than an hour during the meeting, rallying support for what he called “ideologies” for the future…

“Searching faces scoured the room until a man who had until then sat quietly in the corner, put his hand up to pledge £100. Others then thrust crisp £50 notes in the pot before the less well-off handed over their screwed up £10 and £20 notes. There was much applause and hand shaking as the money came flooding in, uniting the room in the campaign to bring about radical change.”
'Bring about radical change'..? That's only supposed to happen when the left do it. The left! God, you parochial little newspapers need to learn your place...

Don't worry, there'll be room for you up against the wall come the glorious revolution.

I mean, it's unthinkable that a newspaper, of all things, could print this without giving the other side a right to repl...

Oh:
Readers vented their fury at the Chronicle’s appeasement of the BNP in the comments.
'Appeasement'..? One might think they aren't a minority party...

But it's worse than that, comrades! Brace yourselves! It appears that some newspapers have been...

Oh, I almost can't bring myself to say it. They've been...accepting advertising!

Not from wholesome, union contributions, or any of the army of quangos and fakecharities. No, they've been taking the devil's shilling!
In January, Left Foot Forward revealed how 14 local papers in Essex had accepted advertising from the BNP during the 2009 European elections. This is the roll of shame: Basildon Recorder, Braintree Weekly, Chelmsford Weekly News, Clacton & Frinton Gazette, Colchester Weekly News, Echo, Essex County Standard, Evening Gazette, Halstead Gazette, Harwich & Manningtree Standard, Maldon & Burnham Standard, Southend Standard, Thurrock Gazette and Weekly News Brent & Bill.
Oh, horror! Local newspapers are commercial organisations...!

Who'da thunk it?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I suspect another irony (from the content of the story) is that the BNP is actually funded to a greater degree by its actual membership than the other three who have largely whored themselves to businesses and unions.

North Northwester said...

"And what is the Gazette doing pandering to these racist thugs by agreeing not to print the name of the pub? If the members are not ashamed of their beliefs why do they need protecting."

Hmm. Almost all political violence in the western world is 'official' Left-wing or Islamic imports. I can't imagine why people exercising their right to organise and associate with one another would need protecting from people who have never met them but who think it's okay to call them "racist thugs."

Weekend Yachtsman said...

Not for nothing is that particular newspaper known to locals as "The Essex Chronic".

Quiet_Man said...

I'm not surprised that they wanted to keep the location a secret considering what the leftist brownshirt UAF thugs have a tendency to do with anyone who they think is a BNP supporter.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Tee hee :)

JuliaM said...

"...the BNP is actually funded to a greater degree by its actual membership than the other three who have largely whored themselves to businesses and unions."

Good point!

"I can't imagine why people exercising their right to organise and associate with one another would need protecting from people who have never met them but who think it's okay to call them "racist thugs.""

A puzzle indeed. Thought as QM points out, they did provide a clue a few monmths ago....

David Gillies said...

But the BNP are the Left. They're National Socialists. As such, I think they're contemptible scum. But then I think that all hard leftists are contemptible scum*. Their scuffles while they decide how to carve me up are neither here nor there. A pox on all their houses.

* Hayek said 70 years ago that the Nazi/Bolshevik animus was a turf war for the support of the proletariat between competing Leftist ideologies. Sounds correct to me.