Jailing of Leftist Thug is on the Agenda

I have submitted the following question for tomorrow’s full meeting of Leeds City Council. The question is number 6 on the list apparently, which means the question should actually be answered in council (as opposed to being answered in writing after the meeting).

Question: Will the leader of council join me in welcoming the custodial sentence handed down to the criminal leftist thug Daniel Searle of Roundhay Road, Harehills, who was this month jailed for attacking the home of a British National Party member, and will he confirm that this council utterly condemns all acts of violence, persecution, harassment, and discrimination committed against its citizens purely on the basis of their religious or political beliefs?

Article in the York Press

What a headline!

This article was printed in today's The Press newspaper, the York-based publication. It follows an extensive story along the same lines in the Malton Gazette & Herald newspaper. Apparently, their article was originally featured on their website but has since been removed, allegedly due to the large number of pro-BNP messages left by readers!

Click on the article above for a larger version.

Call for Mayor to Go

Pictured: BNP Campaigner Mike Mee
Local campaigner and BNP candidate Mike Mee wanted to ask the following question at next Wednesday's extraordinary meeting of Morley Town Council.

Predictably enough, the council have refused to accept the question. Nothing 'extraordinary' there then. We have seen time and time again that true democracy simply does not exist within Morley Town Council. Take as an example the MBIs' disgusting decision to bar the only opposition councillor, a hard-working and conscientious community campaigner elected by the voters of Morley, from taking a single committee seat on the council.

We have been told that the issue should be taken up with Leeds City Council's Standards Committee. More about that in due course.

The text of the question that was refused is as follows:

Question for Morley Town Council/The Mayor of Morley

As the Mayor of Morley, Terence Grayshon, is obviously unable or unwilling to carry out his role as Mayor in an impartial and fair manner as is expected of the person holding this prestigious position, and as he has used his position to disgracefully declare that members of the only opposition party with councillors in Morley – the British National Party – are ‘not welcome’* in their own town, will he resign his position to make way for a Mayor who will not use his or her position to discriminate against and publicly attack Morley folk who have religious and/or political beliefs with which he or she disagree?

* ‘Morley revealed as hotbed for BNP’, Yorkshire Evening Post, 21st November 2008:

'Shop Local' letter

Pictured: The BNP supports local traders

The following letter was printed in today's Morley Observer and Advertiser. It was edited in such a way as to remove the reference to Ed Balls, and the editing also meant that the first sentence didn't actually make sense, with the letter starting with 'I welcome your report from the previous week'. The previous week to what?

Oh well, hopefully nobody else will have noticed!

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Dear Sir/Madam,

Last week you printed a letter from Paul Cockroft that made reference to a certain career-politician for whom the Shop Local campaign clearly signifies nothing more than a few cheap and cringe-worthy photo-opportunities.

Yet I write not to dwell on such disgusting and yet entirely expected hypocrisy, but rather to welcome your report from the previous week that revealed that a healthy number of Morley’s traders appear to have bucked the recessionary trend and enjoyed a booming trade over the Christmas period (Recession? What recession? – Morley Observer and Advertiser, January 7th 2008).

Whilst its exact impact clearly cannot be measured with any accuracy, I am sure that the Shop Local campaign, as spearheaded by the Morley Chamber of Trade with the full support of this newspaper, will have played a role in this success.

I also note with interest Town Centre Manager Peter Mudge’s statement that Morley’s shortage of ‘big names’ could help us in the long term, as this means we will be spared the spectacle of such businesses going bust, leaving huge noticeable gaps in the town. This reminded me of a conversation I once had with someone who attempted in vain to convince me that Morley was somehow a second-rate town, citing its lack of a Woolworths as part proof of this. How ironic such a statement was in retrospect, and I hope very much that Peter has hit the nail on the head with this prediction.

Figures this week will confirm that Britain is officially in recession, and 2009 is going to see Brown’s economic crash reach depths that our country has not seen for decades. With this in mind, our Shop Local Campaign will need more support than ever.

I would like to congratulate the Morley Observer and Advertiser for its support of this campaign so far, and I would urge the good people of Morley to continue to ‘Shop Local’ well into 2009 and beyond.

Councillor Chris Beverley
British National Party
Morley South, Leeds City Council.

Complaint to the PCC

Pictured: The Yorkshire Post building in Leeds

I have always believed the Yorkshire Evening Post to be a disgustingly biased and anti-English newspaper, and their reporting of the recent furore over the leaked BNP 'membership list' has only reinforced this view. Not allowing myself or anyone else in the BNP a right to reply to their article on this subject was a complete disgrace, especially considering the extensive quotes given to two MBIs.

It remains to be seen what the Press Complaints Commission have to say about this case. If no action is taken to address such a blatant case of unfair reporting, then the PCC might as well not exist. I will report the outcome of this complaint in any case.

In the meantime, I would like to remind all good nationalists that the Yorkshire Evening Post is a thoroughly biased liberal newspaper that has nothing but contempt for you. I would urge everyone to boycott this vile rag, and never to buy it or pay to advertise in it. The YEP has made it clear that it does not support your right to hold different political beliefs to them. Do you really want to help keep this vile rag in business?

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Press Complaints Commission
Halton House
20/23 Holborn
London EC1N 2JD

Dear Sir/Madam,

I wish to make a complaint about the Yorkshire Evening Post. This newspaper printed a story on 21st November 2008 ( http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Morley-revealed-as-hotbed-for.4717932.jp ) regarding the British National Party, and included comments from the opponents of this party including:

- One councillor declaring that members of the British National Party are not welcome in the area that he represents.

-The ridiculous claim that the people of Morley were horrified by their own decision to return a BNP councillor.

- That the British National Party in Morley ‘play up to people’s fears’

A number of other such sentiments were also expressed in the article.

Neither myself, as an elected Leeds City Councillor for the area in question, nor anyone else from the British National Party was given the opportunity to comment in this article. Furthermore, my repeated requests to have a reply to this story printed have been refused. I sent a press release to the YEP and when that failed tried to have a letter published that addressed some of the points made in the original article. Both have been refused.

I believe this is a blatant breach of your code of practice and specifically point 2 (opportunity to reply).

I enclose a copy of the text of the article in question, and a copy of some of my correspondence with the newspaper (I have not received any further responses). (text removed for confidentiality purposes).

I look forward to receiving your reply.

Yours faithfully,

Councillor Chris Beverley

BNP targets North Yorkshire

Pictured: BNP activists in Malton this Saturday.




Press Release: BNP targets North Yorkshire

The British National Party will field candidates across the region in the elections to North Yorkshire County Council to be held on 4th June 2009. This is the first time the party has ever contested elections to North Yorkshire County Council, and a number of Days of Action have been organised by the party across the towns and villages of that make up this area.

The first such Day of Action took place this Saturday (17th January 2008) in Malton, Pickering, and surrounding villages. Many thousands of leaflets were delivered both door to door and to shoppers in the centre of Malton, where a number of copies of the British National Party’s monthly newspaper Voice of Freedom were also sold.

Our activists were extremely well received and a number of good quality enquiries have been received already as a result of this activity.

Further such activities are planned in other North Yorkshire towns and villages over the coming month, including in Harrogate, Skipton, Richmond, Northallerton, Thirsk, Selby, Scarborough, Filey and Whitby.

Councillor Chris Beverley, Campaign Co-ordinator, said: “The campaign for the North Yorkshire County Council elections will go hand in hand with our preparations for the European Elections due to be held on the same day. The British National Party is widely expected to win a number of seats to the European Parliament this year, including here in Yorkshire.

“In addition to this, we aim to achieve some very good votes across the region in the county council elections, and perhaps even win a number of seats, as North Yorkshire is a very important area for us. With the latest figures showing that crime is on the rise across North Yorkshire, immigration is still out of control, and ever more decisions are being taken out of the hands of local people and handed to the Eurocrats in Brussells, the British National Party is needed in North Yorkshire more than ever.

“And with cases such as that of jailed former Lib Dem North Yorkshire County Councillor Morris Lightfoot and his internet sex case fresh in our minds, it is clear that the British National Party, with its strong pro-family and anti-paedophile message, is more relevant than ever for the good people of North Yorkshire.

“Anyone interested in finding out more about the British National Party can visit our website at www.bnp.org.uk or call 0871 050 0232 for a free information pack.”

Labour-supporting thug jailed

Being active in politics, and especially those of the nationalist variety, can sometimes be an emotionally draining experience. Yet there are certain things that make all the years of toil worthwhile. Experiencing an election victory firsthand is certainly one such phenomenon. And after today, I would have to add that so is the sight of a violent leftist thug being led out of the courtroom in hand-cuffs on his way to jail.

The following was taken from the BNP website:

Daniel Searle, of Roundhay Road, Harehill, Leeds, was jailed today for 24 weeks (it was actually 16 weeks) by Leeds Magistrates Court for an attack on a BNP member’s house on 28 November last year.

The criminal had appeared previously in court before Christmas, and even though he had been warned that he would be sentenced to jail, BNP News’s correspondent reports that Searle was ashen-faced when removed from the court in handcuffs.

He had been charged with causing criminal damage after admitting that he had obtained the BNP member’s address from the leaked list and had decided to attack the house at night.

Searle had beaten on the door with a club, obviously hoping that someone would answer. Fortunately the BNP member had the good sense not to respond and to call the police instead.

When arrested, the criminal thug said he had obtained the address from the leaked membership list.

One thing that I learned today was that Searle was already subject to a community order for domestic violence at the time of this attack. In other words, he is just the sort of person one would expect in the ranks of our enemies, and the sort of person that forms a useful reminder that we are certainly on the right side of the fence.

It should be noted that when our extremist opponents in the Establishment, be it in the other political parties or the mass media, agitate against the BNP, violent attacks like this are exactly what they are hoping for.

It is rare for them to be so explicit as to openly call for violence against our members and supporters, although it does happen sometimes, as the case of disgraced ‘comedian’ Jeremy Hardy illustrated.

Most of the time the farthest our opponents dare go is to suggest that BNP members are ‘not welcome’ in a particular workplace, organisation, or geographical area. An example of this are the disgusting comments made by the current Mayor of Morley (a supposedly non-political role) Terry Grayshon, who declared recently in the Yorkshire Evening Post that members of the only opposition party with elected councillors in Morley (i.e. the British National Party) are not welcome in the town. When such comments are made, our opponents hope that they are viewed as a ‘green light’ by violent leftist thugs to attack BNP members and their property.

The thugs that carry out such attacks are beyond contempt – but the vile individuals in the other parties and the mass media that create a climate in which it is deemed not only acceptable but even desirable for BNP members and supporters to be attacked in their homes are even worse.

The sentence today, though not a fraction of what this criminal deserves, will send shockwaves through the dwindling ranks of the extreme-left, who up until today could rest assured that they could do pretty much whatever they wanted to BNP members and their families without any consequences whatsoever.

With legal action being taken on a variety of fronts against those who have used the leaked BNP membership list to try and incite such violence against our members, it is to be hoped that this will not be the last red thug sent to prison over this matter.

Spending an afternoon in Leeds to witness this criminal thug being sentenced and led off to jail in hand-cuffs was certainly a Friday afternoon well-spent, and I would recommend such an experience to anyone!

Brighter future for residents of estate

SHEDDING LIGHT: Coun Chris Beverley met Glen Estate Residents' Group chairman Martin Oddy to discuss lighting problems.

Also taken from this week's Morley Observer and Advertiser:

Brighter future for residents of estate

People left in the dark by new lighting on a Morley estate have had their lives brightened by some good news.

A number of residents on the Glen Estate were concerned after Leeds City Council put in the new street lights as part of the city-wide replacement scheme.

They believed parts of the estate were left in greater darkness than before the new lighting columns were installed.

But after the issue was raised at a meeting of the newly-formed Glen Estate Residents’ Group, the council has approved additional lights for the streets in question.

Coun Chris Beverley (Morley South) said he had met with chairman of the group, Martin Oddy, to discuss the details of the planned work.

“I met with the council officer responsible to discuss the issue on the Glen estate, and I am pleased to say that all the requests I made for additional lighting columns to be installed within the residential part of the Glen Estate have been approved,” said Coun Beverley.

“The necessary work is to be carried out as soon as possible.

“Should anyone have any problems associated with the new street lighting that has been and is being introduced, please contact me and I will have the problem looked at.”

Sentence is sickening

Pictured: Councillor Joanna Beverley

A slightly edited version of the following letter was printed in today's Morley Observer and Advertiser.

The case of Andrew Scott (31) of Trafalgar Gardens, Morley, beating his poor dog to death is one of the worst things I have read for a while. It says alot about our opponents that something like this can happen without a word of condemnation from them. They are clearly far more interested in bickering and point-scoring over the issue of which particular pigs deserve to have their snouts in Leeds City Council's mayoral trough.

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Dear editor,

I was shocked to read of the case of the Morley ‘man’ who has just been jailed for beating his poor dog so badly that it had to be put down. The fact that the perpetrator of such an unthinkably vile act has received a pathetic 16 weeks, which in effect will be 8 weeks, makes me sick.

Clearly the laws need tightening up to ensure that when people are found guilty of such a crime, they spend an extremely long time in prison – and are never allowed to own a pet again. It is an insult to suggest that such animal-abusers should be given a right to appeal against such rulings.

At least your paper exposed the person responsible for this act and I am sure people will agree with me that such despicable individuals have no place in a civilised society, and are certainly not welcome here in Morley.

Councillor Joanna Beverley
Elmfield Ward, Morley Town Council.

Judith just isn't right

I thought I would post this story up in recognition of the hilarious title that the Morley Observer and Advertiser gave this letter from Albert Slingsby (printed yesterday). We couldn't have put it better ourselves.


Judith just isn't right

Why should the lord Mayor of Leeds be another Tory by the back door?

Coun Judith Elliott (MBI, Morley South) was a Tory councillor from the start of Morley Town Council in 2000, to February 4,2004 when the then Mayor of Morley, Coun Joe Tetley, stated she was becoming Independent - only because she wasn't getting anywhere as a Morley South Tory candidate in the 2003 Leeds city elections!

Are any of your readers willing to stand up and be counted and go down to Leeds Civic Hall with me and raise a deputation for a public-elected lord mayor?

ALBERT SLINGSBY
Rein Road
MORLEY

Ernie Wise letter

An edited down version of the following letter was printed in today's Morley Observer and Advertiser:

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Dear Sir/Madam,

I had just finished reading Leeds Civic Trust’s annual report when I read of Paul Cockroft’s request (Morley Observer and Advertiser, 31st December 2008) for the trust to consider placing a blue plaque outside the New Pavilion in Morley.

I think this is a fantastic idea and I have written to this organisation myself in support of the idea. I have also offered my assistance with financing the project. I am sure that it would be of great benefit to the local area for such a plaque to be placed at this or perhaps another local site (it has been suggested that a blue plaque could be situated in East Ardsley, possibly by the Railway pub, opposite the street where Ernie grew up).

No doubt there will be much discussion about the exact location of such a plaque, but the basic idea is certainly a good one. I am sure that this would add to the already considerable historical interest in our town and its surrounding area.

As well as individual memberships, Leeds Civic Trust encourages local societies and residents associations to affiliate themselves with the trust. It may be that some of Morley’s various community groups would be interested in such an affiliation. If so, more information about this can be obtained by visiting www.leedscivictrust.org.uk or by writing to Leeds Civic Trust, Leeds Heritage & Design Centre, 17/19 Wharf Street, Leeds, LS2 7EQ. (Tel. 0113 243 9594).

Councillor Chris Beverley
Morley South, Leeds City Council.

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Independent Paedophile Councillor Jailed

See below the Morley Library story for details.

Independent Paedophile Councillor Jailed

I was just reading some of the details of the case of the former Lib Dem paedophile councillor ('which one'? you exclaim) from Harrogate who was sent to prison recently. The story can be viewed here. The case got me thinking.

This guy used to be a Lib-Lab-Con politician. He was caught misusing his computer for his own sick sexual ends. At some point during this process he became an 'Independent'......

Are we about to witness the emergence of the Harrogate Borough Independents onto the political scene?

Perhaps it's just me, but doesn't he even look like a certain pervert politician from Morley? (Well, Kirklees actually.)

You heard it here first folks!