"DEMOCRACY" IN BLAIR'S BRITAIN 2003

BNP branches in Merseyside and Guildford have this week been the victims of undemocratic behaviour during the municipal council elections with echoes of Mugabe's own style of "democracy". Both BNP branches were exercising their legal right to hire, for a fee, council owned property for the purposes of holding an election meeting. That is, a meeting where the candidate standing on behalf of the British National Party would meet the local electorate and discuss issues of local concern and explain why the British National Party deserved the electorate's support on Polling Day. Such a long established rule is being used by the Old Gang parties and the myriad Marxist grouplets who are contending May's elections across the country. However when the only patriotic party which speaks up for the overwhelming majority of people in Britain, requests use of council owned property, it meets numerous obstacles deliberating placed before us, in an attempt to deny our democratic right of assembly and our democratic right of speech.

Both Merseyside and Guildford authorities pulled the plug on BNP election meetings at the last minute as a response to threats by members of the TUC and the so-called Anti-"Nazi" League to carry out violence against members of the public arriving at the meetings.

Regrettably we cannot report too much here because both authorities are now the subject of legal action undertaken by the BNP using Election legislation. In short, the threat of violence and damage to council owned property, carried out by members and supporters of the ANL and local Trades Unions was enough to scare the local councils into canceling their previously established contracts with the BNP. During election campaigns, such action is illegal and the BNP intends to uphold its rights of assembly and free speech and legal action is now underway. Just as the brutal Zimbabwean dictator, Mugabe, denies democratic right of assembly and free campaigning by members of opposition parties, slowly we see the slide into an autocratic abyss of the hard won universal franchise our forefathers made so many sacrifices to bring about.

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