BNP's Peter Tierney sentenced to 100 community hours

Liverpool BNP's Peter Tierney, who was found guilty of assault and causing actual bodily harm to an 'anti'-fascist protestor on St Georges Day last year, has been sentenced to 100 hours community service.

Although the jury watched CCTV footage showing Mr Tierney defending himself, they were unanimous in their decision. The judge gave the lowest sentence possible for the 'crime'.

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Muslims protest in cardiff

This is the face of islam in our countries today.

Don't sit there telling me this is a rare occasion and there are 'only a few bad muslims'. If that were so, then WHY AREN'T THE 'MODERATES' THERE TO OPPOSE THEM!

WHY don't the UAF and searchlight counter protest?

This is happening in towns and cities all across britain. This SCUM stand on our streets screeching their hatred to us, our way of life and our country. This is incitement to racial hatred and is an arrestable offence.

It's time it was put to a stop, and NOW!

Council forces schools to rearrange exams and cancel lessons to avoid offending Muslims during Ramadan

All primary schools and secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent have been issued with the guidance aimed at Muslim pupils who may still be fasting when the new term starts in September. But critics dismissed the dictats as ‘over-zealous’ bureaucracy and said all pupils would be forced to miss out on activities as a result.

During Ramadan, all Muslims who have reached puberty are forbidden from eating food or drinking liquids between sunrise to sunset to encourage discipline and self-restraint. Some younger children also choose to fast for all or part of the month.

To help them with this, Stoke-on-Trent City council advises schools not to schedule exams or hold parents' meetings and social events after school. They are also directed to avoid swimming lessons because some parents and pupils consider the risk of swallowing water too great.

The papers even advise schools to cancel sex and relationship education because Muslims are expected to avoid sexual thoughts and relations while fasting.

Although the guidance was specifically drawn up to help Muslims, it will affect every pupil in the roughly 90 schools in the area. According to the last official figures in 2001, just 3.2 per cent of the population of Stoke is Muslim.

The guidance, which was issued at a council meeting, advises schools that fasting pupils who are eligible for free school meals should have the option to take their food home with them in a packed lunch. Teachers are warned that fasting children should not be over-exerted during PE lessons as they may become dehydrated.

They are also told that they should provide more space for prayer in school and offer their support to pupils who may have had to get up before dawn to have their breakfast and may therefore be tired.

Critics from the Campaign Against Political Correctness said the document was an ‘over-bureaucratic waste of time’. Co-founder of the campaign John Midgley said: ‘Instead of meddling in this politically-correct way the local authority should trust the judgement of pupils, parents and teachers. They should be able to cater for what goes on within the schools without wasting time on an overly-bureaucratic and politically-correct piece of 'guidance. The schools have to be even-handed in how they treat everybody and not single-out certain sections of the community in how they treat them.’

He warned that the guidance could prove counter-productive and encourage stigma towards the Muslim community. And he added that the advice could ruin school activities for all pupils. ‘If there's an over-zealous implementation of this guidance that may mean some pupils could miss out on activities they could reasonably expect at school,’ he added.

Ramadan is based on the lunar calendar, meaning the date it falls on a different date each year. It is between August 11 and September 9 this year. This means that for most of the month, the pupils will be on school holidays. They will only be at school for the last week.

Mr Midgley said the guidance was a ‘waste of time’ as pupils are rarely examined in the first week of term and parents’ evenings would be unlikely to fall at the beginning of the school year.

The guidance was put together with material produced by the Muslim Council of Great Britain and was presented to the city council's Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education.

Claire Ellicott - Daily Mail

BNP Accounts and EHRC Legal Case

Somali asylum seeker family given £2m house... after complaining 5-bed London home was 'in poor area'

A family of former asylum-seekers from Somalia are living in a £2.1million luxury townhouse in one of Britain's most exclusive addresses at a cost to taxpayers of £8,000 a month.

Abdi and Sayruq Nur and their seven children moved into their three-storey property in a fashionable area of London last month because they didn't like the 'poorer' part of the city they were living in.

Mr Nur, 42, an unemployed bus conductor, and his 40-year-old wife, who has never worked, are now living in Kensington despite the fact that they are totally dependent on state benefits.

Mr Nur said his former five-bedroom home in the Kensal Rise area of Brent, which cost £900 a week in housing benefit, was suitable for the family's needs but he said they had felt compelled to move because they did not like living 'in a very poor area' and were unhappy with the quality of local shops and schools.

The family's three-storey property, which dates from the 1840s, has five bedrooms, two bathrooms, a fully fitted kitchen and a garden.

The family's living room, which boasts a large bay window, is dominated by a 50in LG flatscreen TV. It also has two large black leather sofas, two elaborate rugs and lush houseplants.

Full story HERE

When is this going to stop? We have British people here who have been on council lists for years and are unable to rent privately owned properties.

Muslim protest in Derby

Today was the 3rd Derby Gay Pride festival and according to gaypedia it is a street festival followed by a street parade of gays and lesbians, the theme being ‘Pride not Prejudice’.

Derby has a large muslim community and up to 2,000 people attend Friday prayers at the Jamia Mosque on Normanton road.

Posters advertising a protest against the festival were seen in the Normanton Road area of Derby earlier on in the week. The posters urged muslims to demonstrate against the Derby Gay Pride festival as ‘gays are un-islamic’.

Around a dozen muslims gathered outside St Peters Church, some with megaphones and ‘chanting in a foreign language’ according to my source who was in the area.

A woman stood in front of them waving a placard that said ‘Live and let live’ and trying to argue her point along with a couple of men. The muslims just drowned them out with megaphones.

A group of 30-40 shoppers stood around trying to see what was happening before walking off in disgust, either shaking their heads or calling the muslim group scum.

Police took photos of the group of muslims and eventually escorted them off towards the spot.

Hat tip to thebear

Footnote: I wonder what the muslims mates, the UAF, think to their actions today...
Picture is of gays hung by muslims

Barking by-election results

Labour Councillor and Unison member, Lousie Couling, stood down after the May 2010 election as she was found to have stood illegally in the Goresbrook ward. Couling was a council worker and as such was not eligible to stand as a candidate.

Louise Couling resigned her council position to stand in today’s by-election.

She should have been prosecuted and disqualified from taking part.

Here are the results.

1^st Couling, Louise - The Labour Party Candidate. Votes cast = 881. Elected

2^nd Barnbrook, Richard - British National Party. Votes cast = 642

3^rd Taiwo, Felicia - Liberal Democrat Focus Team. Votes cast = 136

4^th Ayer, Paul - Conservative Party. Votes cast = 108

5^th Northover, Warren - Independent. Votes cast = 63

6^th Manning, Nobby - UK Independence Party. Votes cast = 50

7^th Choudhury, Faruk Ahmed - Independent. Votes cast = 11

Number of electors eligible to vote: 7,482

Turnout 25.29%

1 ballot paper was rejected

Compared with the May election results Richard Barnbrook's percentage was UP.

Outrageous Liberal Woman calls for Sharia 'islamic' law to be implemented In UK

I can't believe the craziness of liberal idiots. Please watch this video and believe me when I say that groups such as the UAF are in total agreement. That is why they stand side-by-side with muslims on their protests.

They won't be happy until muslims have taken over. What they won't believe is that the muslims will no longer have any use for them and they must either comform or be disposed of.

ISLAMIC SPOKESMAN ATTACKS WESTERN DEMOCRACY

A spokesman for international Islamist group Hizb Ut-Tahrir has said democracy is an illusion and that the government is forcing moderate Islam on Australian Muslims.

Uthman Badar told the Today show the illusion of secular democracy "short-sold the people".

"I think people have come to see that democracy is more of an illusion in that it secures the interests not of the people but of the economic elite," he said. "What we're saying is the secular democratic process has short-sold the people and it's better that people go back to the grassroots."

Mr Badar said the government was funding inter-faith dialogues and institutions in Sydney and Melbourne that promote moderate Islam.

"All people should accept that it's not acceptable for a state to tell people this is what you should believe and this is what you should not believe," he said. "The issue is the government should not be taking sides in saying 'This is the Islam we have chosen for you — it's a secular, apolitical, localised Islam'.

"'If you do anything else, here's the anti-terror laws, we're going to chuck you in jail.'"

More than 500 participants at a Hizb Ut-Tahrir conference in Western Sydney heard on Sunday that Australia was a "god-forsaken country" and that moderate Islam was a "perverted concoction of western governments".The group is banned in many parts of the Middle East but operates legally in Australia and in 40 other countries.

Hizb Ut-Tahrir supports the establishment of a Islamic state but rejects the use of violence to achieve it.

Comment : This suggests that Islam will not tell you what to do but we all know different.

Article by Aussie Del

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Tribute to the victims of the 7/7 London bombings

'Live in a £1m mansion for £130 a week? Only if you throw in a new kitchen...': Whistleblower exposes chancers and cheats who abuse social housing

Recently the Mail published a devastating account by a whistleblower who revealed a culture of absenteeism, rampant inefficiency and 'unsackable' staff at the London council where he works as a senior planning officer.

The article struck a chord with another official employed by a housing association in the capital. The system is designed to help the destitute, but he says it is abused by undeserving chancers and cheats.

The Mail knows his identity, but to protect his job, 'Chris' tells his story to EUGENE COSTELLO...

Not long ago, I had to do a field visit to one of our sites to show some properties to a family. The houses are new-builds in a really good, central location - I'd love to live in one myself. Three storeys, with three or four bedrooms, really nice - they were so new that the paint was still wet.

The family had just arrived in London from Somalia. It didn't take long for them to decide they'd seen enough. They didn't speak much English but they made it clear they weren't happy with the bedrooms on the top floor - apparently they didn't like the sloping eaves.

But the deal-breaker came with their next questions. First, they wanted to know if the property came with an automatic right-to-buy with a discount, which it didn't.

They are thinking of council-owned properties, but we are a housing association - a not-for-profit organisation that is funded by government grants, bank loans and rental income - so we hold on to our stock and simply let it out.

I thought that question was a bit odd, considering the family supposedly didn't have a penny to their name, which was why they were throwing themselves on the mercy of the good old British taxpayer. Where would they get the funds to buy a townhouse in central London?

This 'penniless' family also wanted to know whether they got a residents' parking space with the property. I had to tell them 'No' to that as well. They shrugged and spread their arms, as if to say: 'How on earth do you expect us to live here? Why are you wasting our time dragging us here?' And off they went.

They could afford to be so sniffy because we have Choice-Based Letting (CBL). Once, there was pressure on applicants to accept properties when they came up or risk dropping back down the list. Now that's gone, so they can just keep saying No till we deliver exactly what they want - they're actually more demanding than tenants in the private sector.

Our problem as a housing association is that we are subcontracted to local authorities and have no say over the lists of people for whom we have to find a house - we are simply given the list and if someone is on it, they have the right to take one of our properties (with their rent heavily subsidised by taxpayers).

Even if it would be overwhelmingly obvious to a five-year-old that the applicants were chancers, we have to smile and say, 'Yes, sir' or 'No, madam'. In fact, we can't even describe them as 'tenants' any more - we've been told we must call them 'customers'.

The legal position is that local authorities have a statutory duty to house those in need and will determine whether they need emergency housing (such as immediate B&B accommodation) until a long-term property is found.

That's where I come in. I've been doing this sort of work for 15 years and we see a massively disproportionate number of people arriving from overseas.

The law was changed in 2000 to say that asylum seekers would not be eligible for social housing but it doesn't seem to have hugely affected the types of people that we are seeing. I suppose that's partly because once asylum is granted, they do become eligible - and those who go on to get British citizenship can invite members of their family to come over and join them.

Overall, the system is a joke. It rewards those family members who have just stepped off a plane by giving them a wonderful property in a central location, while Britons who have been here for years or even generations have got no chance of getting to the top of the list.

This is because British applicants tend to be already living with family - parents, etc - so technically qualify as being housed. Recent arrivals with kids in tow do not and are given priority. That said, single mothers as a group are hugely over-represented among social housing tenants; the perception of girls becoming pregnant to get a council flat isn't completely without foundation.

My particular bugbear, odd as it may sound, is satellite dishes. These pose a huge problem for us, especially with our Turkish 'customers' (for some reason a lot of the families we are asked to house are Turkish).

The first thing they want to know - well, after the free parking and the right to buy, of course - is whether they are allowed to put a satellite dish the size of a small helipad on the front of the property. Some of them need to put up two dishes so they can guarantee getting all the channels they want.

As a result, some of our properties end up looking like GCHQ. I'm told the problem is something to do with the signal for Turkish TV not being strong enough.

We always say No. If they think we really mean it - because the house is a new-build or period property - they will turn the place down, no matter how nice it is.

Properties with open-plan kitchens can be a problem too, as Somalian or other Muslim 'customers' often don't want a kitchen that opens straight on to a reception room, and these type of houses are always turned down. I was given the reason by one man: If he wanted to invite other men around to play cards or whatever, he didn't want them to see his wife making food in the kitchen.

I really have no idea how some of the people who come to us become eligible for such heavily subsidised properties, although I have my theories.

One of our 'customers' is a musician of west African descent who is doing really well and often appears on TV. Certainly, tributes on his website as well as comments from his agent are effusive about just how successful he is. Yet he and his family recently rang us to arrange some property viewings - they were on the council list and wanted rehousing in a more central location.

He was very fussy: it had to be a period, character property and it had to be in London Underground's Zone 1 - ie, central London.

We showed him a beautiful, four-storey Georgian property in a central London square with a park in the middle. He seemed delighted, as well he should be - this is a house worth well over £1 million and a normal rental would be £1,000 a week. He's getting it subsidised for £130 a week.

My personal view is that this house should be sold and the money invested in new-builds - we could have a dozen flats for the same money, and so help lots of families, not just one.

But no one else in the department seems to agree. I can't understand it: surely we are supposed to provide a safety net for as many people as possible, not the keys to the palace for just one family?

Anyway, this family didn't seem to appreciate their good fortune. As soon as they moved in, they bombarded us with a litany of complaints. Nothing was ever right.

For example, we had just installed a new fitted kitchen, leaving space for white goods - we don't supply those, that's down to the tenants. Sorry, customers!

Anyway, this family had brought with them a 'slim fit' dishwasher. But the space we'd left was for a standard-sized unit. Believe it or not, they wanted us to come back, take the kitchen out and refit it with units that matched their dishwasher.

In any case, I don't know how that family qualified for social housing. If I were being charitable, I would guess that they had got on the list before they had a better income and managed to stay on it.

The truth is that once you're on the list, you seem to be there for life: the system isn't continuously means-tested. What should happen is that tenants - customers - should be retested periodically to ensure that they still qualify for this enormous subsidy from the taxpayer. As I say, it should be a safety net, not a state-sponsored bonanza for a lucky few.

It really rankles that someone who is clearly earning a lot more money than me gets to live in Millionaire's Row at taxpayers' expense, while the rest of us struggle to make ends meet. I commute into work from a small flat outside of London as I can't afford to buy anything more central.

A less charitable explanation for why this musician and his family got the star treatment (and one that a lot of my colleagues believe to be the case) is that there are cliques in local authority departments - be they West African, Indian, Pakistani, whatever - who 'look after their own'.

These cliques bump friends and relatives to the top of the list, even if they don't fulfil any of the criteria for social housing. This is done either as a favour or in return for a backhander.

I know it happens. One area I deal with is in South London. There is a large Portuguese community there and I would often get a call from one local lady, a Portuguese grandmother who seemed to act as an agent for new arrivals. She'd ring me regularly and say: 'Chrees, you have nice flat? I have lovely family who just come from Portugal, need nice three-bed flat.'

The first few times I'd say: 'Luisa, you know I can't do anything unless they're on the list.' She'd reply: 'Don't worry, Chrees, they will be on list tomorrow, please just show them some nice flats.'

And sure enough, the family would be on the next version of the list we'd get.

She clearly knew someone in the housing department who would put her families on the list in exchange for cash - which she could afford to pay as she was charging these families a lot of money in return for her securing a council flat for them. Of course, the family was happy to pay a big one-off fee because once they were in the system they were in for good, and they would get a centrally located flat for a peppercorn rent for life.

I'm speaking out now because I find the whole system corrupt and unfair - and, above all, a monstrous waste of taxpayers' money. Our houses often go to those who have been in the country for less than a month and have no intention of ever contributing anything to Britain through taxes. Meanwhile, those who have been here for years paying tax have got little or no chance of getting a flat.

I went to see a woman recently in her lovely three-bed flat to arrange a follow-up visit. When I got my diary out, she said: 'Can't do July or August - I'm abroad twice this summer.' Then she winked at me and said: 'Not bad for someone on the social, eh, Chris?' and laughed. But I don't find it funny.

Just a few decades ago, if you lived in social housing, people would come and look at your property, and the rules dictated that if you had possessions that were worth anything, the authorities would force you to sell them to contribute towards your rent.

Of course, no one is saying we should return to such harsh attitudes, but the system does seem to have swung far too far the other way.

My colleagues and I go on field visits to see families who are supposedly on the breadline and cannot subsist except by the largesse of the British taxpayer. Yet they have nice cars, top-end plasma TV screens, the latest games consoles for the kids, Sky TV and all the rest of it. How on earth are they paying for it?

I'd love all those luxuries, but I can't afford them - because I work for a living.

Galloway probed for ‘inflammatory’ speech at rally

Police are examining complaints that George Galloway gave an inflammatory speech at a rally attended by thousands of Muslims in which he claimed that far-right English Defence League (EDL) activists would have to fight their way “through 10,000 dead bodies” if they interfered with members of the Islamic faith in Britain.

The Metropolitan Police said officers are now looking into statements made by the left-wing Scottish politician during the speech made to more than 3,000 people at a rally and march in London in June.

The police have video footage of the former Glasgow MP, who is a founding member of the Respect Party, telling the rally: “To the EDL, take a look around you boys. Take a look around you. If you dare touch a hijab [hair cover] on a Muslim woman’s head, if you dare touch the hair on the beard of a Muslim man in Tower Hamlets, you will have to fight your way through 10,000 dead bodies first.”

A police spokesman said: “The complaints have been referred to officers and they are being considered. There is no formal investigation as yet and we are assessing the evidence.”

Footage of the Dundee-born former MP’s speech was also placed online at YouTube under the heading: “Why half a million Brits vote BNP. George Galloway incites race violence.”

Organisers said the London rally and march at which Galloway gave his speech was called with a view to showing the English Defence League that attempts to divide the community and stir up hatred will not be tolerated.

The event was organised by United East End and Unite Against Fascism in an area where 30% are Bengali/Muslim.

A march took the protesters past the East London Mosque – said to be an EDL target – where the annual general meeting of the Muslim Council of Britain is to be held.

The EDL, which has repeatedly claimed that the mosque is a centre for Islamic extremism, called off a demonstration against an Islamic conference due to be held on the same day.

Tower Hamlets Council had earlier called on both the EDL protest, as well as the Islamic conference, to be cancelled, labelling both events “extremist”.

Supporters of Galloway say that the firebrand politician is now being targeted by the EDL.

Four days before the march, Galloway’s Respect Party claimed that 20 EDL activists, who they described as “fascist thugs”, attacked a Pakistani stallholder in nearby Whitechapel. It is alleged they yelled racist insults and threatened to attack the East London Mosque.

Some days after the controversial speech, between 10 and 20 EDL members attempted to storm a meeting Galloway was speaking at in Greater Manchester.

It is understood most were stopped from getting into the hall by security guards.

Some observers say that three were forcibly removed from the scene while a fourth who got into the meeting room was arrested by police.

The EDL claimed that the members showed “the peace sign and were not aggressive” before being “set upon by a gang of Muslims”. They claimed one of the members was “taken hostage and beaten up”.

An EDL statement said “armed police were called and entered the building” and arrested a member.

Greater Manchester Police confirmed that they moved in after being alerted of disruption to a community meeting.

A 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and has been bailed until September 27 pending further inquiries.

One Million United, the anti-fascist group, says it has evidence that the EDL is arranging another attempt “to get to Galloway”.

During the last General Election Galloway lost his attempt to win the Poplar and Limehouse seat, finishing third; he didn’t attend the count.