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England, the pound, foxes and fuel - oh and the BNP!

David Ash | 31.10.2000 12:46

The picture is from the 'Keep the Pound, No Eurostate!' march and rally last saturday in London - mentioned at  http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=688

England, the pound, foxes and fuel - oh and the BNP!
England, the pound, foxes and fuel - oh and the BNP!


David Ash
- Homepage: http://www.fuel-protest.com

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31.10.2000 13:11

As mentioned in the other article there's a load of flyers going around from fuel-protest.com

The website says 'fuel-protest.com is the online voice of a grass-roots campaign by patriotic fuel protesters'

It also lists the BNP website in their links section - and if you go to the BNP website it has a pop-up window ad for the fuel-protest website.

The website goes on to say:

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with PC legislation and hand-outs to New Labour's pet 'minorities' taking an ever-growing proportion of government expenditure. The British people are not only expected to watch their traditions, culture, heritage and identity destroyed, and their homeland confiscated
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"White, male, independent = Guilty. So cough up some more taxes to throw down the bottomless rat-hole of the spongers' society." That's the root of Blair's "get tough with the protesters" rhetoric. You want to leave a business to your son? They want to turn him into a mincing faggot, not a lorry driver-mechanic with oil on his hands and his own money to feed his own family. And they're going to scrap Section 28 and bring in lessons in perversion in schools to do it. That's the secret agenda of Ministers in this Government of Perverts.
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They threaten to ban hunting on the grounds that this ancient tradition is 'cruel', but don't make a squeak about the horrors of alien 'religious' ritual slaughter of huge numbers of poultry, sheep and cattle. As always, there's one law for the 'never wrong' immigrants, and one law for the 'never right' taxpaying British.
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No one has voted to turn Britain into a majority non-white country by 2060. But now we're told that this is what we're going to get. The only wonder is why it's taken the Backbone of Britain so long to stand up and say: "Sod it. We'll fight!"
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Diary of events

Nov. 5th. Bonfire Night Protest - burn the "Regular Guy" on a community bonfire near you

Nov. 13th. "Time's Up Tony" Launch a rocket over your town at 9pm. Download and adapt our online press statement and get it in to your local newspapers a day or so before.

Nov. 14th. "Time's Up Tony" protest march in Central London to mark the expiry date of the 60-day deadline.
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...and the best for last...

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First they came for the shooting enthusiasts, but I wasn't a shooting enthusiast, so I didn't oppose Blair.

Then they bankrupted the beef farmers, but I wasn't a beef farmer, so I didn't oppose Blair.

Then they came for the huntsmen, but I didn't hunt so I didn't oppose Blair.

Then they bankrupted the independent hauliers, but I wasn't an independent haulier, so I didn't oppose Blair.

Then they came for the air gunners, but I wasn't an air gunner, so I didn't oppose Blair.

Then they bankrupted the fishermen, but I wasn't a fisherman, so I didn't oppose Blair.

Then they came for the 'homophobes', but I wasn't a 'homophobe', so I didn't oppose Blair.

Then they bankrupted the pig farmers, but I wasn't a pig farmer, so I didn't oppose Blair.

Then they came for the fuel protesters, but I wasn't a fuel protester, so I didn't oppose Blair.

Then they bankrupted the small shopkeepers while taking backhanders from supermarket chains linked to the government, but I wasn't a shopkeeper, so I didn't oppose Blair.

Then they came for the boxing enthusiasts, but I wasn't a boxing enthusiast, so I didn't oppose Blair.

Then they bankrupted the small businessmen they'd tied up in red tape, but I wasn't a small businessman, so I didn't oppose Blair.

Then they came for the anglers, but I wasn't an angler, so I didn't oppose Blair.

Then they bankrupted the market traders selling apples by the pound, but I wasn't a market trader, so I didn't oppose Blair.

Then they came for the anti-paedophile protesters, but I wasn't an anti-paedophile protester, so I didn't oppose Blair.

And then they bankrupted me and took me away as well - and there was no one left to oppose Blair.
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So, the BNP is trying to tie up the strands of blood sports, farmers and truckers together in a patriotic burst of fuel flame.

The rise of countryside and fuel protests raises many questions for those who are environmentalists or those on the left of politics.

Questions can also be raised about oil industry and the government media stance - it is true to say they're pushing the violence and intimidation angle from the last protest now in preparation for the next possible round of protests.

Some on the left have said people should be trying to bring the truckers and other fuel protestors into the 'left movement', other have said that it is imperative to put the environment - fossil fuels and climate change - firmly in the spotlight if more protests occur, I for one agree with this - the storms of the last few days and the general trend for more extreme weather is a pretty good starting point...

So many issues, so many causes. The next few weeks could be very interesting indeed...

David Ash


ambivalent nature of fuel tax protest

31.10.2000 19:53

i gave my own interpretation of this march on saturday
[article: "unpleasant bunch ]. But as things stand we cannot be sure of how the fuel tax protesters will navigate the various political options on offer. Up to now they've tried to be 'apolitical', refusing support from activists from either left or right, and as some coverage of the first protest seemed to indicate, their demands were of the 'bread n butter ' kind, rather than blatantly bigoted or promulgating manifestos.
There was a heated debate about the economic identity of the farmers and hauliers; some thought they were workers in the conventional sense, others that were in the realm of the establishment. i think they are somewhere in between, and will waver to left or right depending on who puts the best case to them.

Auguste