ISLAM

The address below provides feature length and intelligent critique of the problems posed to the West by Islam:


http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-871902797772997781&q=islam+what+the+west+needs+to+know&total=190&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0&hl=en-GB

HALTEMPRICE AND HOWDEN

Who said politics is boring?

On a point of principle, apparently influenced by Shami Chakrabarti, David Davis has resigned as the MP for Haltemprice and Howden in order to force a by-election in which he will stand.

David Davis is making a stand over Labour's intention to ram a bill through parliament enabling the government, with certain caveats and conditions, to hold terrorist suspects in prison for up to 42 days without charge.

The Liberal Democrats have assured David Davis that they will not stand against him, and it seems that Labour are tempted to refuse to dignify the by-election with a candidate of their own. Without a Lib Dem candidate David Davis is assured of victory - unless there is a major upset.

The English Rights Campaign is aware that the English Democrats are preparing to fight their own campaign in this by-election. In the Tranby ward in Haltemprice and Howden in the local elections last year, the English Democrats beat one of the Tory candidates and were only 6 votes short of beating the other, despite the swing to the Tories in East Yorkshire in that election. In adjoining constituencies in Hull this year, the English Democrats contested 4 wards and beat the Tories in 3 of those wards and were only 6 votes short of beating them in the fourth.

The English Rights Campaign looks forward to the English Democrats contesting this by-election.

THE EU

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

The Irish have voted 'No'in their referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Good for them. The pity is that they are the only nation in the EU which are being allowed to vote on this sordid treaty. Labour, despite their clear manifesto pledge to hold a referendum in the UK, have absolutely no intention of honouring that pledge.

Despite their habit of vote rigging, of which the West Lothian Question is but one example, this illegitimate Labour government dare not even allow a vote on the Lisbon Treaty.

A recent ICM opinion poll for Global Vision has revealed that 41% of the people would prefer a relationship with the EU restricted to one of trade and cooperation; 27% want to remain full members of the EU; and 26% want to withdraw from the EU altogether.

If the option of 'trade only' was offered in a referendum, 64% said they would vote in favour, with 57% being prepared to leave altogether in the event that other EU countries tried to block such a move.

This simply shows that the British ruling class is persuing its own agenda against the interests and views of the British people.

No doubt the EU, and the illegitimate Labour government, will now persue their dreams of a superstate regardless of the Irish referendum, just as they did in response to the Dutch and French referendums.

QUOTE OF THE MONTH

'With the collapse of Marxism and, to all intents and purposes, of other forms of socialism too, those who dislike capitalism and its foremost exemplar, the United States, with equal passion, have been obliged to find a new creed.

For many of them, green is the new red. And those who wish to order us how to run our lives, faced with the uncomfortable evidence that economic prosperity is more likely to be achieved by less government intervention rather than more, naturally welcome the emergence of a new licence to intrude, to interfere, to tax and to regulate: all in the great cause of saving the planet from the alleged horrors of global warming.'

And the article concludes:

'So the new religion of global warming, however convenient it may be to the politicians, is not as harmless as it may appear. Indeed, the more it resembles a Da Vinci Code of environmentalism. It is a great story, and a phenomenal bestseller. It contains a grain of truth - and a mountain of nonsense.

And that nonsense could be very damaging indeed.

We appear to have entered a new age of unreason, which threatens to be as economically harmful as it is profoundly disquieting. It is from this, above all, that we really do need to save the planet.'

Nigel Lawson, writing in yesterday's Daily Mail.

THE EU

Below is a copy of a letter from today's Independent:

Independent.ie
We need Lisbon Treaty facts now

I have to question the silence of this paper on the fact that in the European Parliament's vote on the Lisbon Treaty in February 499 MEPs, including Proinsias De Rossa, voted not to respect the outcome of the Irish referendum. Further, that silence continued when Pierre Jonckheer, Vice-President of the European Green Party in the European Parliament, spoke on March 6 in Galway and said that it was irrelevant what the Irish do in their referendum.

If the result was a no to the Lisbon Treaty, Europe would ignore it and carry on with the Treaty.

This silence continued when Senator Dan Boyle, Chairman of the Irish Green Party, defended Mr Jonckheer's assertion.

Let's first clear the air.

The Lisbon Treaty must be ratified by all 27 member states or it can not go ahead.

This means that an Irish no vote is an automatic veto of the Treaty binding the entire EU.

Any country is entitled to use a veto and no country can be punished for using it.

The fact that the Irish people are being given their democratic right to vote on this Treaty means that we have an obligation to the entire EU to have all the facts of the debate, including that the European Parliament voted not to respect our referendum.

It is disappointing that this paper did not report this fact to the Irish people.

If the EU is, as Mr Jonckheer seems to think, so desperate to get this Treaty and the additional powers it bestows on it, that it is willing to break its own laws, then we must ask where the EU is heading.

I trust that the law will be respected and an Irish no will mean no and send the Treaty back for serious revision, because otherwise the "rule of law" that the EU says it stands for is a sham.

KATHY SINNOTT MEP

BALLINHASSIG, CO CORK

VOTE RIGGING

Below are 3 items from The Times which show the extent of the outright vote rigging now endemic in the UK. The Tories seem to have responded by trying to out vote rig Labour rather than demanding the return of the ballot box.

From The Times
March 19, 2008
State of denial allowed voting cheats to prosper
Dominic Kennedy

It is hardly as if he didn’t warn them. As Tony Blair shone his shoes before visiting the Queen to call the May 2005 general election, a judge planted a bombshell under Britain’s proud electoral system.

Richard Mawrey, QC, finally lost his temper with ministers’ arrogance as he ruled that Labour had organised a conspiracy across Birmingham to win the local elections by rigging postal votes. His trial found “fraud that would disgrace a banana republic”, while ministers were in “a state not simply of complacency but of denial”.

After The Times disclosed vote rigging in Yorkshire and the North West in the 2004 local elections, ministers dug in their heels. Chris Leslie, the Constitutional Affairs Minister, disregarded it all in the Commons as hearsay, rumour and misconceptions. The denial only ended when a Labour councillor in Jack Straw’s Blackburn constituency was jailed for voterigging. Mr Blair agreed to an electoral reform Bill.

Labour switched tactics, bringing in cosmetic changes in the Electoral Administration Act. In January investigators from the Council of Europe condemned British elections as “childishly simple” to rig.

The Conservatives have exploited the new rules eagerly, using technology to trick electors into sending their ballots to Tory-controlled addresses. The seats with most postal votes in the last general election showed bigger swings to the Conservatives. This conspiracy goes a lot wider than Birmingham, Slough or Labour.

From The Times
March 19, 2008
Army of ghost voters who won an election but wrecked career of Eshaq Khan
A Conservative councillor has been found guilty of corruption after a botched cover-up and now faces a police inquiry

Greg Hurst

When the Conservative candidate Eshaq Khan unexpectedly unseated a long-serving Labour councillor in local elections last May, it seemed to be the high point of a long career of public service.

He already held senior posts in charitable and cultural groups and was a respected figure in the tight-knit Kashmiri community in Slough, Berkshire, where he ran a carpet and furniture business.

But within days of his triumph, his victory began to unravel amid a welter of allegations of a crude campaign of vote-rigging and, ultimately, forgery and intimidation of a witness.

It ended in disgrace yesterday when Khan was found guilty at a special High Court election hearing in Slough council chamber of corrupt and illegal practices to secure his election. He was stripped of his seat and banned from standing for office for five years. He now faces a police inquiry.

Khan, 50, won his marginal seat in Central Ward after his team registered hundreds of “ghost voters” in the month before the election and cast votes using fraudulent postal ballots.

He and his team compounded the fraud with a botched cover-up that included poorly forged tenancy agreements and statements from bogus voters, and an attempt to intimidate a witness. Thames Valley Police said that it would widen its inquiry into the case in light of the judge’s accusations of perjury and attempts to pervert the court of justice by supporters of Khan.

Three people have been arrested in connection with the case. Police have interviewed another three. The Times understands that they include Khan and a leading figure in his campaign, Mohammed Basharat Khan.

The election team registered fictitious voters at derelict houses and claimed that as many as 12 voters were living at two-bedroom flats or three-bedroom houses. Khan beat Lydia Simmons, his Labour opponent, by 120 votes but Labour contested the result by bringing an election petition to overturn the result after almost 450 voters were added to the electoral register in the final weeks before the poll, almost all of whom voted by post for the Conservatives.

Labour succeeded in striking 145 “ghost voters” from the electoral roll. The judge accepted that the true figure was likely to run into hundreds.

Witnesses included a handwriting expert, Kim Hughes, who said that 198 of the postal ballot forms were filled in by Mohammed Basharat Khan, described by the judge as “a serial forger”, and another 79 were in the handwriting of the candidate.

Once Labour began to identify ghost voters, Khan and his team produced forged tenancy agreements. Ten of these were produced on the same computer. Khan’s team also produced 46 statements by individuals claiming that they lived at the disputed properties.

Two Polish women were accused of lying by Khan’s allies when they said that they knew nothing of the six and seven Kasmiri voters registered at each of their homes. One witness, Nighat Khan, who was due to give evidence that the five Kashmiris registered at her flat were fictitious, received a visit from a man claiming to be a lawyer. He produced a typed letter that he asked her to sign,saying that she would then not have to attend the hearing. The court received a letter allegedly from Ms Khan claiming that she was too ill to attend.

Khan will be forced to repay to Slough Borough Council all the expenses for council duties he claimed since his election and was told to pay aggravated legal costs, although local Conservatives said that some of these may be covered by insurance.

From The Times
March 19, 2008
Vote Rigging: a Banana Republic
The Government must cease its complacency over postal vote corruption

Four years ago, this newspaper uncovered widespread intimidation and postal voting fraud in local elections around the country. Ten months later, ruling on the scandal in Birmingham, Richard Mawrey, QC, presiding over an election court,found six Labour councillors guilty of corruption that would, he said, “disgrace a banana republic”. He declared that the Government's introduction of postal voting on demand was “an open invitation to fraud”. Yet the Government was reluctant to act. The reforms that it eventually made, after the 2005 general election, have now been shown to be utterly inadequate.

Eshaq Khan, a Conservative councillor in Slough, was found guilty yesterday of using bogus postal votes to beat his Labour rival. The 2006 introduction of a requirement for double signatures, one on the application for a postal ballot and another on the ballot itself, proved no deterrent to his creation of hundreds of fake voters. In his judgment yesterday, Mr Mawrey stated that “the opportunities for easy and effective fraud remain substantially as they were in 2005”. The deception was uncovered only because of the incompetence of those involved and the blatant nature of the frauds. The fake ballot papers had been filled out in the same handwriting, and more than half of the Tory votes had arrived by post.

Individual instances of tampering may sound ludicrous, but they are potentially lethal to democracy. Britain used to have one of the most robust, respected voting systems in the world. But in 2001 the Government abolished the requirement to show good cause for needing a postal vote, such as being abroad on business. Anyone could apply for a postal vote, to be sent to any address.

The aim was to raise voter turnout: but the method was reckless. The main victims of the policy have been Asian voters, particularly women, who have had their votes stolen by aspiring politicians who have predominantly been of Asian origin. Other law-abiding citizens have also found that their votes no longer count.

All three main parties have now been tainted by these corrupt practices. This should enable them to move beyond mudslinging, to agree that there must be far tighter controls. In Northern Ireland, postal votes are available only to the sick, infirm or those working abroad. All postal ballot papers are scanned in Northern Ireland to compare them with voters' signatures. This system provides a template for serious consideration by ministers.

The electoral register also needs an overhaul. It contains far too many “ghosts” who have died or gone abroad. The Electoral Commission has rightly called for individual registration to replace the current system, which expects householders to keep forms up to date.

The irony is that the bloated nature of the electoral register means that turnout has not actually been as low as politicians have thought - making their rush to loosen the rules look even more naive. Ministers must realise that high turnout is not always a measure of faith in politics, and must act to ensure that the result of the next general election is not open to question. The Council of Europe is already threatening to monitor British elections. It would be disgraceful if international observers felt the need to intervene to ensure that British elections are free and fair.

THE BRITISH INQUISITION

The latest victim of the British Inquisition is no other than Basil Brush!

Apparantly, the puppet’s show had a gypsy character selling pegs and heather, which led to gypsies complaining to the Northamptonshire Police Force alleging racial abuse.

This is despite the fact that the episode is 6 years old and has been shown 8 times without complaint.

Apparantly, gypsies no longer sell heather and pegs.

PC Plod from the Northamptonshire Police Force have launched an investigation.

QUOTE OF THE MONTH

‘Politicians on both sides, furious about the “river of blood” speech in 1968, claimed then – and some still do – that Powell’s speech hindered reform. It was so extreme, you see, that it made it difficult for us moderate men to do something about immigration, which we obviously had intended to do when the occasion was suitable, when the time was right, at the appropriate juncture, etc.

I promise you as God is my witness that what the two frontbenches wanted to do was nothing, nil, zero, rien and nicht. It was this conspiracy of silence and inertia which enraged Powell and much of the public. It is understandable why he became hated by Labour figures like Roy Hattersley, interviewed on the programme. For it meant that he and his fellow socialists had been found out.’

Andrew Alexander, writing in the Daily Mail.