BNP fascists on the streets of Bristol

bristol | community | news report Tuesday October 21, 2008 14:29 by Unite Against Fascism

BNP hold public street stalls in Bristol

The fascist BNP have been on our streets with public stalls for the first time in years.

The local fascists have been publicising their recent local activity on the BNP website. They say they held public paper sales and leafleting in Keynsham on October 4th and in Kingswood on October 18th. They plan to hold further public activity next Saturday October 25th somewhere in Bristol.

Antifascists should be ready to protest on Saturday if we find out where they are organising.

Fascists on our streets

This is the report from the BNP website:

Bristol, Bath and District Branch have taken to the streets of their region with a vengeance to promote a message of hope and empowerment to local people in the face of the destruction of their land by the old gang parties.
Saturday, the 4th of October, saw the BNP out on the streets of Keynsham, a self contained and affluent market town between Bristol and Bath. Keynsham has long been acting as an indigenous flight safety valve for the more affluent sections of the community.
This was followed on Saturday, the 18th of October by a visit to Kingswood which in contrast is a traditional stronghold of straight talking indigenous working folk.
In both cases, the BNP distributed a locally produced Patriot leaflet opposing the destruction of the shared green belt and outlining the real reasons behind it, combined with the excellent new nationally produced Enough is Enough leaflet and Freedom Newspapers.
Here a word of thanks to Martin Wingfield, editor of Freedom, and his team for providing a vast number of extra Freedoms to all the branches and groups across the country at no extra charge.
“These were used on both occasions to great effect where people showed any interest or support to the leaflets being handed out, and I have no doubt will have a significant impact on future support locally,” said organiser Mark Clutterbuck.
“We all hope this will be repeated as soon as possible and urge all to use them as part of street activism to draw in the many interested people initially receiving a leaflet, rather than just shoving them through letterboxes where the interest of the recipient is unknown.
“What was particularly interesting to all involved was that given the many differences in income, environment and experiences of the people of the two areas, the levels of support for our presence were equally high and enthusiastic in both.
“This puts a lie to the old parties’ ‘class’ politics, which has really always been just an attempt to divide and weaken our people by setting them against each other when we desperately need to be working together,” he said.
Thanks go to Andi, Brian, Clive (and his brothers), Colin, Chris, David, Dermot, Paul, Roj, John, Mark, Mike, Nathan, Oli & Big Steve for their efforts.
If you want to help next Saturday, 25th October, when we will be doing the same again in a more diverse area of Bristol, then contact Andi Lake, Deputy Organiser on 07595 623764 or Mark Clutterbuck, Organiser on 07810 306865.

Link - This links to a fascist website - http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/10/bristol-and-bath-bnp-acti...ocals’-imagination/