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BPP Standing For Election In Leeds Bramley Ward

Red N Black | 03.04.2006 11:08 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

As the BPP launches it's electoral campaign in the Leeds Bramley ward, there can be no room for complacency.

Morrison - Conducting his own campaign in Bramley
Morrison - Conducting his own campaign in Bramley


The British People’s Party (BPP) have begun their campaign to get Fuhrer Eddy Morrison elected as a councillor for the Bramley-Stanningley ward in Leeds, leafleting the area and the local shopping precinct (they claim) on a daily basis. While this is something that should be of concern, it will be met by howls of complacency by some Indymedia readers (and IMC moderators), who have recently reached the conclusion that fascism is an irrelevance, and that the best thing to do is ignore it.: Something that being white, almost certainly middle-class, and a long way from the streets of Bramley, they will no doubt find easy to do. For those of us who do not fit into those categories, and others who have more political insight, the reality is that there is never a time for complacency in the face of organised fascism.

The BPP may be a small fascist party, made up of misfits and idiots, with little chance of electoral success, but they should not be tolerated for one instant on our streets. Eddy Morrison has already admitted that he has little chance of election on this occasion, but for hard-line Nazis like the BPP, electoralism is only ever a tactic, a way of stretching their slimy tentacles into working-class areas and stirring up racial hatred. It is about ‘street presence’, something which fascists should always be denied.

Like the British National Party, the BPP, are using local issues to get their foot in the door, and lying to people about their real politics. In Bramley, their key issue has been the possible closure of a local shopping precinct, something which councillors from the mainstream parties care little if nothing about. They are of course, also blaming local problems on an influx of asylum-seekers and immigrants (though in truth the BPP only oppose immigration from people who aren’t white.)

The reality is that the BPP cares more for Adolf Hitler than it does for Bramley. Morrison and his fellow Nazis may be cranks, but they are also dangerous. This is a party whose leadership spew out the most vile racist filth on a daily basis, who deny the Holocaust, who advocate and glorify racist attacks, and who venerate David Copeland, the ‘Brixton Bomber’. Anyone who thinks this Nazi outfit should be ignored is simply ignorant of the facts.

The BPP may be small; every reason to smash them now, before they can poison more young minds with their racist filth. Antifascists should be doing everything possible to counter their lies and stop them organising in Bramley. Morrison may ultimately get a pitiful number of votes in the May elections, but every vote for fascism is one too many.

Red N Black

Comments

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  1. More info... — Lancaster UAF
  2. BPP Bramley Bullshit Leaflet — NaziHunter
  3. NAZI BPP OUT OF BRAMLEY — NaziHunter
  4. mobile number — pete
  5. What the BPP really think — Auntie
  6. Mobile number — RedSkin
  7. Morrison's site — Red N Black
  8. A squalid little enterprise - How familiar it all is. — Val
  9. Lying BPP — Busta
  10. What the Bpp really think — Tony R
  11. Wuh? — the middle finger
  12. No room for complacency — Charlie
  13. Come on... — Fashtrapper
  14. Bramley — Harry
  15. Memoirs — Towsa
  16. Yeah right — Cambridge UAF
  17. UAF — Black N Red
  18. Cambridge UAF — Big Vern
  19. UAF — Jim T
  20. Day of "action" — Anti-fascist
  21. uaf — Leeds antiracist
  22. UAF action — Busta
  23. The BPP number — Retro
  24. BPP campaign — Retro
  25. BPP campaign — Retro
  26. Novopress — Rob
  27. Sectarianism indeed... — Phil
  28. B&H guestbook — Retro
  29. Cambridge UAF — K.Bullstreet
  30. The many faces of Eddy Morrison — Laughing at the BPP
  31. BPP Arrest — Auntie
  32. Sofa Soaker — Fred Bloggs
  33. Realist & phone numbers & Morrison — I know ALL
  34. "I Know All" — John Griff Wood
  35. John Wood? — Bigsy
  36. The BPP Leadership — anon
  37. UAF. — Sean Spurr
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