BNP supporters are thugs?
really | 13.05.2004 21:17
The BNP supporters are thugs? Hardly! The BNP has recently receied an endorsement from World War 2 Hero Squadron Leader Douglas Tidy, MA, RAF (retd.)
THE British National Party's European Election campaign in the South West was delighted to receive an endorsement from Squadron Leader Douglas Tidy MA RAF (ret).
Over the last 12 months from his home in Buckfastleigh, Douglas has been busy defending the BNP corner on the internet. He has been active amongst the myriad of web-rings endeavouring to keep our servicemen, past and present, in touch with each other.
"I'm getting a very positive response from most people", the 81-year-old former member of No.74 Squadron told Voice of Freedom.
"My debate with a former RAF Padre created a great deal of attention the other week."
Douglas Tidy's service with the RAF in the Second World War started during the Battle of Britain in 1940 and found him as a wireless operator in the Operations Room at the Fighter Command Station of Portreath in Cornwall in 1941, having been remustered from pilot duties because of defective eyesight.
He went to the Middle East in January 1942, (having flown in Wellington aircraft in Britain), and flew in Blenheim and Lockheed Hudsons, after an attachment to the Transjordan Frontier Force. He was in Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Masirah, and Aden before returning to the UK where he served at Haverfordwest with Mosquitoes, finishing the war at Mount Batten.
Douglas Tidy was born in Highgate, North London, and educated at St Austell County School, Cornwall where his family moved from London in 1935.
After the war, he took his Higher School Certificate at Rendcomb College, Gloucestershire where he also taught from 1946-48. His university education was at Oxford, where he took an honours degree in English Language and Literature (MA 1957) and did a post-graduate Colonial Service course in 1950-51.
In the following years, Douglas was a District Officer in Northern Nigeria, and spent two years with the BBC before returning to the RAF and retiring as a Squadron Leader in 1966.
He explained why he's supporting the British National Party on June 10th:
"I'm dismayed over how our politicians have pushed for acceptance of multiculturalism whatever the cost to the cohesion of our society. I'm worried over the rise in crime, appalled at the congestion on our roads and disgusted at the sorry state of public transport.
"Uncontrolled immigration into our cities has led to white flight to our rural areas. This has pushed house prices beyond the reach of first-time buyers, meaning that if they stay in the area they will never own their own home.
"The EU's obsession for more and more human rights laws has made a mockery of national government and natural justice.
Over the last 12 months from his home in Buckfastleigh, Douglas has been busy defending the BNP corner on the internet. He has been active amongst the myriad of web-rings endeavouring to keep our servicemen, past and present, in touch with each other.
"I'm getting a very positive response from most people", the 81-year-old former member of No.74 Squadron told Voice of Freedom.
"My debate with a former RAF Padre created a great deal of attention the other week."
Douglas Tidy's service with the RAF in the Second World War started during the Battle of Britain in 1940 and found him as a wireless operator in the Operations Room at the Fighter Command Station of Portreath in Cornwall in 1941, having been remustered from pilot duties because of defective eyesight.
He went to the Middle East in January 1942, (having flown in Wellington aircraft in Britain), and flew in Blenheim and Lockheed Hudsons, after an attachment to the Transjordan Frontier Force. He was in Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Masirah, and Aden before returning to the UK where he served at Haverfordwest with Mosquitoes, finishing the war at Mount Batten.
Douglas Tidy was born in Highgate, North London, and educated at St Austell County School, Cornwall where his family moved from London in 1935.
After the war, he took his Higher School Certificate at Rendcomb College, Gloucestershire where he also taught from 1946-48. His university education was at Oxford, where he took an honours degree in English Language and Literature (MA 1957) and did a post-graduate Colonial Service course in 1950-51.
In the following years, Douglas was a District Officer in Northern Nigeria, and spent two years with the BBC before returning to the RAF and retiring as a Squadron Leader in 1966.
He explained why he's supporting the British National Party on June 10th:
"I'm dismayed over how our politicians have pushed for acceptance of multiculturalism whatever the cost to the cohesion of our society. I'm worried over the rise in crime, appalled at the congestion on our roads and disgusted at the sorry state of public transport.
"Uncontrolled immigration into our cities has led to white flight to our rural areas. This has pushed house prices beyond the reach of first-time buyers, meaning that if they stay in the area they will never own their own home.
"The EU's obsession for more and more human rights laws has made a mockery of national government and natural justice.
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