BNP student - victim of hate campaign

Posted: 16th March 2003

One of the bright young stars in the BNP has become the victim of a deliberate and orchestrated campaign of hate on his university campus. Tony Wentworth who celebrated his 21st birthday this weekend is a first year student at Salford University and has been the target of a petition drawn up by the Afro-Caribbean Student Society and the thoroughly misnamed "Anti Nazi League". Tony is also the leader of the Young BNP, the organisation for 18-24 year old members of the party.

It is reported that "600" signatures have been raised in the petition drawn up to expel Tony from the Manchester campus.

Student activists - who formed the Salford United Against Racism alliance after finding out Tony was a student - have already called for politics students to boycott lectures with the BNP member and for lecturers to refuse to teach him. If a few misguided students wish to boycott lectures and run the risk of flunking their exams and assignments we have no problem with that; that is their personal choice. However any lecturer who refuses to teach Tony will be in breach of contract and the BNP legal team will bring the full force of the law to bear on Salford University. Salford University adminstrators are, of course aware of this possible outcome and have assured Tony that they will do their very best to ensure that he has access to the full range of university facilities including uninterrupted access to lectures and tutors.

Makola Mayambika, a second year student from Redbridge in London and chairperson (sic) of the students' union Afro-Caribbean society, has been among those collecting signatures in support of Tony being expelled.

He arrogantly told newspaper reporters in Salford that: "Our campaign is to expel him. We don't want people to have to study here in fear."
Student Chris Tavner, a member of the "Anti Nazi League", said: "Everybody here feels threatened by his presence."

If young Tony, 11 stone and 5ft 10", and who is by no stretch of the imagination, a shaven headed, tattooed thug, can threaten "everybody ...by his presence", he must be able to exert some paranormal influence over those around him, in which case we may find that he is "head-hunted" by recruitment agencies around the globe.

Although many students have to fund their own way through university, substantial amounts of taxpayers' money are spent on university courses, the university infrastructure and all students benefit from public money.

These Salford students who have reportedly signed this petition, regardless of whether they are overseas students funding their way through their course, or domestic students partly funded from grants, all benefit from British taxpayers funding. They need to be reminded that a university education is a privilege, not a God-given right and that everyone from supermarket shelf-stackers earning five pounds an hour through to self-employed tradesmen have to work hard to pay their way through their own lives. They are furthermore highly suspicious of students claiming "injustice" and begrudge having to fork out money on a group of self-indulgent, lecture-dodging Salford University students who have a problem with tolerating someone who may have different views from their own. The word "university" means a place for "the whole", a place "for all".

This kind of activity by a small group of disruptive students exposes the myth about "democracy". A small vociferous and annoying group can try to exert pressure to bring about what they deem to be correct. There are 18,000 students at Salford. 600 signatures represents about a paltry 3% of the student body. How dare this small group try and stop a British youngster born to British parents and British grandparents from gaining an education in a British university. Tony's parents have worked hard and have paid their taxes to help fund his time at University and understandably want the best start for him. It behoves every one of us to look at this news for what is really is. The British people have for centuries welcomed students from all nations on this planet so that they may get the excellent education British universities can offer. As taxpayers we help pay for those students attain educational excellence. When some of those students, plus our home-grown preservers of political correctness, try to bite the hand that feeds them a new response is needed. Instead of rolling over and feigning death, every red blooded British taxpayer reading this must so something to help correct the situation.

Tony is putting his neck over the parapet, he is doing so in order that Britons of all ages know about the BNP and the programme of reform we wish to bring about and will bring about to end the downright criminal situation where the Government fleeces workers and small business folk to fund our own destruction.

If you are reading this, please spare a thought for Tony today. He deserves our full collective support and even if you have never done so before, please dig out your cheque book, write out a cheque to "British National Party" for as much as you can afford to help our overstretched and underfunded legal operation. We have a small team of talented lawyers who are working on Tony's case and other cases of injustice around the country. Regretably "law" is now an expensive business and thousands of pounds are needed to examine and challenge all the obstacles the BNP and its members are faced with, while trying to disseminate our very real programme of reform. Every penny will help. Tony deserves nothing less.

Thank you for your assistance.