BNP to contest Bridgwater seat (From Bridgwater Mercury)
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BNP to contest Bridgwater seat
9:37am Thursday 11th March 2010 in
THE British National Party will contest Bridgwater’s seat at the forthcoming General Election, the party confirmed this week.
The right-wing group announced it had selected Scottish 48-year-old Donna Treanor as its candidate for Bridgwater and West Somerset.
The move comes after the BNP selected a candidate to stand in Bridgwater at last summer’s county council elections – where the party finished fifth behind Labour, the Conservatives, the LibDems and UKIP.
FOR more on this story, see next Tuesday’s Bridgwater Mercury.
Comments(49)
Gordon S
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11:32am Thu 11 Mar 10
Not that it bothers me because I won't be voting BNP.
Donna-T
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12:16pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Donna-T
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12:23pm Thu 11 Mar 10
GGGG
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12:31pm Thu 11 Mar 10
CombineDriver
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12:49pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Donna-T
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1:18pm Thu 11 Mar 10
JO-JO BRIDGWATER
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1:24pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Donna-T
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1:28pm Thu 11 Mar 10
CombineDriver
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1:41pm Thu 11 Mar 10
xonitar
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2:57pm Thu 11 Mar 10
junction23
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4:32pm Thu 11 Mar 10
OckendonPaul
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5:27pm Thu 11 Mar 10
I'm out of the area so this is nothing really to do with me, but wanted to wish you all the best anyway!
Don't let the name-calling get you down, you'll have to expect it I'm afraid - it's all they've got left
Gordon S
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7:45pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Donna-T
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8:14pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Gordon S
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8:29pm Thu 11 Mar 10
A local person could be black white yellow or sky-blue-pink for all I care.
As long as they are LOCAL.
somertel
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9:31pm Thu 11 Mar 10
Ali M. Abdou
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10:12pm Thu 11 Mar 10
f_l_a_p_h_e_a_d
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8:17am Fri 12 Mar 10
IAN TUCKER
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10:48am Fri 12 Mar 10
I know that this person is Kathy Pearce the Labour candidate
Whatever people may think of the present goverment, most will agree that our present Tory MP, who I understand also has roots in Scotland, has done nothing for our town.
Orzula
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12:34pm Fri 12 Mar 10
What are your views on the 6 wards within Bridgwater? Which one should is the worse for crime, unemployment, deprivation etc. Why do wards get nice parks and others don't? Why are they building on the flood plains? Do you know where the flood plains are? Do you know which wards are good or bad, do you even know the names of the wards? Do you know the local 'trend' in school at the moment?
I know someone who could answer these questions (without Googling it)
Donna-T
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12:56pm Fri 12 Mar 10
f_l_a_p_h_e_a_d
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4:50pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Donna-T wrote:Donna, how do you feel about convicted criminals becoming or remaining MPs? As a result of the expenses scandal, for example?
Ian Tucker, that's the good thing about living in a so called democracy, you can vote for who you want, no problem.
outcider
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5:45pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Donna-T wrote:An ethnic? We all have ethnicity you know. Even the scottish.
Ah Gordon but would you say that if an ethnic was standing? That would be deemed racist to say that you know.
Ali M. Abdou
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6:39pm Fri 12 Mar 10
Donna-T wrote:Well, if fascists took over we would not have that freedom, would we?
Ian Tucker, that's the good thing about living in a so called democracy, you can vote for who you want, no problem.
I'm still waiting for an answer, BTW.
JO-JO BRIDGWATER
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6:41pm Fri 12 Mar 10
John J Clarke
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6:56pm Fri 12 Mar 10
kiloran
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12:40am Sat 13 Mar 10
Donna-T
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8:33pm Sat 13 Mar 10
Take the EU for example, the British people were never allowed a referendum on this, so therefore it operates without a mandate so it is in fact a dictatorship, 80% of our laws are made there yet by faceless bureacrats that we we never voted for. This is a dictatorship.
The British National Party is dedicated to the dismantling of the Police State, we are in fact democratic, the MSM smear the British National Party because they are politically controlled, i urge you to look for yourself at the British National Party's policies via the website, we are actually very democratic, eg we will not have ID cards for the British people and will restore free speech for all (the true measure of a free and democratic society)
Make up your own mind about the British National Party by visiting the website, we even have a Jewish councillor, with many, many ethnic minorities queueing up to be members. Regards Donna
Donna-T
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8:49pm Sat 13 Mar 10
These people are a disgrace to their office and country, MP's should be in Westminster to represent their constituents NOT enrich themselves, this is such a serious matter and all the parties have are responsible for guzzling at the trough while our troops are being underfunded.
Shame on them. Regards Donna
black_dog
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9:52pm Sat 13 Mar 10
Donna-T
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10:04pm Sat 13 Mar 10
Ali M. Abdou
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8:12am Sun 14 Mar 10
I mean - we wouldn't be "together in my Burka" - I'd be in the Burka and the Jew would be in whatever they want but you get the idea.
black_dog
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6:22pm Sun 14 Mar 10
(source: http://www.channel4.
com/news/articles/po
litics/domestic_poli
tics/bnp+membership+
rules+rejected+by+co
urt/3577977)
ashamed of sedgemoor dc
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7:54pm Sun 14 Mar 10
On the same vein do YOU think that it is outrageous that some British people have moved to Spain for a better quality of life, but have at the same time have forced up the price of property in Spain, also often don't bother to learn Spanish or mix fully into the local culture. Should they be deported in YOUR OPINION
Ali M. Abdou
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9:27am Mon 15 Mar 10
black_dog wrote:Good point, black_dog. But I'd welcome BNP officials to my house! We have a saying, "The camel with the hump lives closer than the two-eyed horse." I think that speaks for itself.
Of course Ali, as the rules stand, you'd have to go through the 'home visit' test the BNP curiously applies
(source: http://www.channel4.
com/news/articles/po
litics/domestic_poli
tics/bnp+membership+
rules+rejected+by+co
urt/3577977)
Donna-T
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1:16pm Mon 15 Mar 10
ashamed of sedgemoor dc wrote:This is Britain and i am entitled to move freely within Britain and seek employment, indeed i was self employed for many years so i can't understand your comment as to how i was taking away employment from an English person? The job situation is dire ALL over Britain not just in Scotland, did you know for eg that under nu-Labour that 80% of new jobs
Ms T do you think that a Scottish person who has moved into the London area of this country, England, where wages and job conditions are generally better than in scotland(ie an economic migrant)' at the expence perhaps of an English person should be forced to leave and return to their own country.
On the same vein do YOU think that it is outrageous that some British people have moved to Spain for a better quality of life, but have at the same time have forced up the price of property in Spain, also often don't bother to learn Spanish or mix fully into the local culture. Should they be deported in YOUR OPINION
have went to migrants? (Google it)
Of course i don't think British migrants should be forcibly repatriated from Spain.
Spain is part of the EU so we are legally free to move there, when Brits migrate to Spain they take with them the finances to remain self sufficient, often retiring there or opening businesses (or both) generating money into the local community, to make such a sweeping statement about the British migrants supposedly not speaking Spanish and not integrating is prejudice and another media myth.
The British National Party would deport no one except illegal immigrant, and other foreign nationals who have committed serious crimes.
Donna-T
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1:27pm Mon 15 Mar 10
black_dog wrote:The British National Party have always done this to check the applicant does not have a criminal record and does not have a subversive agenda, these home visits by a male and female will apply to all applicants regardless of colour, indeed we have many ethnic minorities queueing up to join already and the British National Party will be proud to have them aboard.
Of course Ali, as the rules stand, you'd have to go through the 'home visit' test the BNP curiously applies
(source: http://www.channel4.
com/news/articles/po
litics/domestic_poli
tics/bnp+membership+
rules+rejected+by+co
urt/3577977)
somertel
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3:20pm Mon 15 Mar 10
Donna-T wrote:Somewhat different from the internal BNP memo that's been quoted in the papers:
black_dog wrote: Of course Ali, as the rules stand, you'd have to go through the 'home visit' test the BNP curiously applies (source: http://www.channel4. com/news/articles/po litics/domestic_poli tics/bnp+membership+ rules+rejected+by+co urt/3577977)The British National Party have always done this to check the applicant does not have a criminal record and does not have a subversive agenda, these home visits by a male and female will apply to all applicants regardless of colour, indeed we have many ethnic minorities queueing up to join already and the British National Party will be proud to have them aboard.
"We don't expect any more than a handful of people of ethnic minority origin to apply to join the party nationally, and we will not let this deflect us from our political objectives of saving Britain and restoring the primacy of the indigenous British people."
Nick Griffin had to remove the whites-only clause because of the legal challenge from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The party has no genuine interest in recruiting non-white members.
The BNP is currently subject to an injunction imposed by the Central London county court which bans it from recruiting new members until it has removed two further clauses from its constitution: 1) the home visit clause, referred to above; 2) the requirement for members to believe in the "continued creation, fostering, maintenance and existence" of an indigenous British race and to act towards "stemming and reversing" migration. On the 12th of March Judge Paul Collins found that the BNP membership requirements were still discriminatory (ie racist) because of these two clauses.
This leaves the BNP, as it stands, unable to recruit new members and facing a bill for legal costs of £100,000. Not a good position to occupy in the run-up to a general election.
Donna-T
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4:02pm Mon 15 Mar 10
somertel wrote:This is a media lie the British National Party IS in fact open to recruit new members (check out the BNP website), there is no ban in place.
Donna-T wrote:Somewhat different from the internal BNP memo that's been quoted in the papers:
black_dog wrote: Of course Ali, as the rules stand, you'd have to go through the 'home visit' test the BNP curiously applies (source: http://www.channel4. com/news/articles/po litics/domestic_poli tics/bnp+membership+ rules+rejected+by+co urt/3577977)The British National Party have always done this to check the applicant does not have a criminal record and does not have a subversive agenda, these home visits by a male and female will apply to all applicants regardless of colour, indeed we have many ethnic minorities queueing up to join already and the British National Party will be proud to have them aboard.
"We don't expect any more than a handful of people of ethnic minority origin to apply to join the party nationally, and we will not let this deflect us from our political objectives of saving Britain and restoring the primacy of the indigenous British people."
Nick Griffin had to remove the whites-only clause because of the legal challenge from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The party has no genuine interest in recruiting non-white members.
The BNP is currently subject to an injunction imposed by the Central London county court which bans it from recruiting new members until it has removed two further clauses from its constitution: 1) the home visit clause, referred to above; 2) the requirement for members to believe in the "continued creation, fostering, maintenance and existence" of an indigenous British race and to act towards "stemming and reversing" migration. On the 12th of March Judge Paul Collins found that the BNP membership requirements were still discriminatory (ie racist) because of these two clauses.
This leaves the BNP, as it stands, unable to recruit new members and facing a bill for legal costs of £100,000. Not a good position to occupy in the run-up to a general election.
The day that an unelected politically controlled Quango such as the EHRC can interfere in a political party's objectives is the day that democracy has died in this country, the British National Party has been in operation for nearly 30 years it is only when we had two MEP's elected did the ECHR jump into action, who was it from history that banned the political opposition?
It is in fact a great position for the BNP to be in before an election, there is a huge list of members keen to sign up, which means more money to field candidates, it has also appalled the decent British peoples sense of fair play, they can now see that we are living under a totalitarian regime that tolerates no other views.
somertel
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5:00pm Mon 15 Mar 10
Donna-T
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5:17pm Mon 15 Mar 10
somertel wrote:The media lie is that the British National Party has been subjected to an injunction to prevent it admitting new members, this is in fact false.
What is a media lie, Donna? Are you saying the BNP has now dropped the requirement for a "home visit" (in other words the intimidation of potentially undesirable applicants) and the claptrap about the "primacy of the indigenous British people" (rightly branded racist by Judge Collins), in order to comply with the law?
It will be a man and woman who will be making home visits, hardly intimidation material. This is only your interpretation, the British National Party has already a Jewish councillor (which we are very proud off), South Africans, Spanish, Portugese, Polish etc etc members, hardly the product of a racist party.
bgirl1
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7:25pm Mon 15 Mar 10
somertel
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7:56pm Mon 15 Mar 10
Donna-T wrote:Here in black and white for you Donna, two reports chosen from papers at opposing ends of the grown-up people's political spectrum:
somertel wrote:The media lie is that the British National Party has been subjected to an injunction to prevent it admitting new members, this is in fact false.
What is a media lie, Donna? Are you saying the BNP has now dropped the requirement for a "home visit" (in other words the intimidation of potentially undesirable applicants) and the claptrap about the "primacy of the indigenous British people" (rightly branded racist by Judge Collins), in order to comply with the law?
It will be a man and woman who will be making home visits, hardly intimidation material. This is only your interpretation, the British National Party has already a Jewish councillor (which we are very proud off), South Africans, Spanish, Portugese, Polish etc etc members, hardly the product of a racist party.
http://www.telegraph
.co.uk/news/newstopi
cs/politics/bnp/7429
614/BNP-barred-from-
taking-new-members.h
tml
http://browse.guardi
an.co.uk/search?sear
ch=bnp&sitesearch-ra
dio=guardian&go-guar
dian=Search
If the media are lying your party could always sue them for libel, unless the BNP have had enough of the courts. Or is the British justice system out to get you too? Don't forget though, it's only libel if what they're saying isn't true; you don't want to lose another £100k!
Donna-T
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1:14am Tue 16 Mar 10
somertel wrote:Lol oh well if all the newspapers are saying that then it must indeed be true then.
Donna-T wrote:Here in black and white for you Donna, two reports chosen from papers at opposing ends of the grown-up people's political spectrum:
somertel wrote:The media lie is that the British National Party has been subjected to an injunction to prevent it admitting new members, this is in fact false.
What is a media lie, Donna? Are you saying the BNP has now dropped the requirement for a "home visit" (in other words the intimidation of potentially undesirable applicants) and the claptrap about the "primacy of the indigenous British people" (rightly branded racist by Judge Collins), in order to comply with the law?
It will be a man and woman who will be making home visits, hardly intimidation material. This is only your interpretation, the British National Party has already a Jewish councillor (which we are very proud off), South Africans, Spanish, Portugese, Polish etc etc members, hardly the product of a racist party.
http://www.telegraph
.co.uk/news/newstopi
cs/politics/bnp/7429
614/BNP-barred-from-
taking-new-members.h
tml
http://browse.guardi
an.co.uk/search?sear
ch=bnp&sitesearc
h-ra
dio=guardian&go-
guar
dian=Search
If the media are lying your party could always sue them for libel, unless the BNP have had enough of the courts. Or is the British justice system out to get you too? Don't forget though, it's only libel if what they're saying isn't true; you don't want to lose another £100k!
broken_news
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8:35am Wed 17 Mar 10
ReadyForChange
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8:44am Wed 17 Mar 10
I know of many people that want change and also a return to common sense. Power has been taken from the ordinary person and given to offenders and wrong do-ers. People need a change - Things need TO change...
Stu_B
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9:51am Wed 17 Mar 10
Donna T I have to say I'm confused as to why you're standing! Do you & your fellow fascist BNP members draw the names of small towns from a hat?
There are probably a fair amount of right wing local people, hunt followers, snobs & toffs in the villages you may get their vote but they are a dying breed. Bridgwater is made up of hard working people who see the world for what it is, no rose tinted spectacles here.
P.S I find your spelling & grammer shamefull for someone in your position & would be ashamed to have you (not to mention your appaling party) represent me. I just hope my neighbours & townsfolk share my opinion!
Reverend
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11:00am Wed 17 Mar 10
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grisleyreg says...
10:31am Thu 11 Mar 10
I feel sure the majority of town voters do not vote Tory but that is what we get, So it matters little who we vote for.