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Anti-BNP rally set for Friday
Date published: 20 April 2009
OLDHAMERS are being invited to a rally in the heart of the borough’s Asian community aimed at stopping the BNP winning seats at the North-West Euro elections in June.
The anti-fascist magazine Searchlight is behind the “Hope Not Hate” event which takes place at the Millenium Centre, Featherstall Road North, Westwood, between 7 and 8.30pm on Friday.
The meeting will be addressed by MPs Michael Meacher and John Cruddas, as well as other national and local politicians.
Nick Lowles, from Searchlight magazine, will also be present.
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so a bnp rally is banned yet an anti bnp rally is allowed?
somehow i can only see that stirring up more hate?
this is just handing out more publicity to the far right!
We pray to god that Oldham unites against the far right BNP party. Dont be decieved by the BNP
The council is right to ban rallies that incite hatred.
"Hope not hate"
not
"Hate not hope"
The far right are well able to generate enough publicity of their own...without Searchlight's help. The message of Searchlight's campaign is to reject the politics of "hate" from the far right and embrace those of "hope"!
As for pandering to the "Asian vote"?...well that betrays some serious intolerance on the writer's part, which supports the true need for such a rally!!!!
Serious intolerence on my part ? I would say that allowing a group such as searchlight to dictate to people who they can vote for in a democratic election regardless if you agree or not with the BNP is pretty intolerant, wouldn`t you ?
Theoretically, democracy, although imperfect, is supposed to accept whatever way people actually vote. Instead of opposing the BNP in this way, the other parties should consider why they present an electoral threat, and produce the deliverable and credible policies to prevent it. Lord knows, in Oldham, the non-guilty among us have, for many years, had to accept the kind of democracy inflicted on us by the unremitting socialist mind-set.
So yet another panderings to the asian community, although we do not want the BNP in town would they be given the same right to march?, the answer is simple no they would not, such hypocracy only hightens racial tensions not appease them. Seachlight are no better than the BNP their aims are the same to incite. lets remember this is Britain not extentions of pakistan or india
Searchlight a nice money making organisation stirring up racial divides by lies and questionable comments. While the democratic system is being continually mutated in favour of these groups with one single interest, we need to seriously question there validity within the UK system. If the BNP posted a candidate in my area they would get the same considerations as any other party.
So let me get this right two Labour politicians attend a meeting in a public building finance in part by public money the rest coming from the EU along with a communist magazine with only one aim and that is to smear a legal political party in the name of democracy
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I thought that free speech and democracy was at the heart of British politics, how wrong or naive am I ?
Great venue also, Millenium centre ? Oldham Bangladeshi Association Millenium Centre to be more precise, more pandering for the Asian vote at the expense of the majority again is it ?
By Oldham Owl @ 20/04/2009 13:47:37