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Published Date: 21 March 2009
By Craig Woodhouse
NICHOLAS Soames, the Conservative MP, yesterday called for action to be taken against the British National Party to stop it using an image of his grandfather, Sir Winston Churchill, on a campaign leaflet.
Mr Soames, 61, said he "very strongly" objected to the use of Sir Winston's face on a on a leaflet entitled "This Britain is yours!", saying it gave the impression the former prime minister would share the BNP's beliefs, but Sir Winston would "never
support a party whose platform is hate".

The leaflet uses a picture of Sir Winston's face superimposed with the words "This Britain is yours!" in large capital letters. Underneath, it reads: "Millions of our ancestors gave their lives to ensure you have the freedom to enjoy it. Your country. Your land. Your home. Do not betray their sacrifice!"

The opposing side features BNP contact details and the line "The TRUE face of the British National Party".

Asked about the leaflet, Mr Soames said: "The law does not allow for Churchill's family to protest against the image being used – if it did, you can rest assured we would pursue all ends to do so. So I am writing to the Electoral Commission to ask them what they can do."

Simon Darby, the BNP deputy leader, vowed to continue using the image and said Sir Winston's views on immigration and Islam meant he was "pretty much on our wavelength".

He added: "There's nothing the Electoral Commission can do about it, but Mr Soames is more than welcome to try.







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donald anderson it's me,

glasgow 21/03/2009 05:49:54
The BNP were handing out "British Jobs for British Workers" leaflets in Glasgow's Argyle St last Saturday.

Today an English NAZI sect are heading for Glasgow. They photographed themselves, in hoods, in Buchanan St six weeks ago.
2

Jim A,

21/03/2009 06:07:49
Thing is though, they are starting to win elections. However small, it's a start. Should I be afraid?
3

rhory,

Aberdeen 21/03/2009 06:35:46
Soames is wriggling (the only movement of which he is capable) because he knows what his grandfather really thought about multiracialism and Islam. Churchill would undoubtedly have been expelled from the Cameronite Tory party for his views and would probably have joined the BNP. Churchill had the courage to say the unsayable in the face of accusations of warmongering and so do the BNP, who brave vilification and isolation to say what they say - like them or not.
4

bully wee alba,

Edinburgh 21/03/2009 06:42:24

The BNP is infandous.
5

Munguin,

21/03/2009 09:20:06
If the BNP wants to use the image of a depressed alcoholic as the supposed "best of British" good luck to them. Lets not forget that Churchill was hopeless in almost everything he tryed to do, he was only any good at speech making and spin. His failures are legion! As is his disasterous second term as PM from 1951 to 55 when he said "I will not preside over a dismemberment." of the empire. This is often forgotten by the pro Churchill as the greatest Britain advocates.
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Fred Leeson,

on a beach 21/03/2009 10:15:09
Nicholas Soames. The rich buffoon who threatened to sell his grandfathers wartime diaries at auction unless the national lottery coughed up £12 million. Hardly helping Churchill's image there was he ?
He was hardly a needy cause with his MP's salary and £146K a year expenses.
Oh and banned from driving for two months for driving without insurance. Tut tut.
7

Tartan Viking,

21/03/2009 11:15:43
#1. Strange comment. I am not a BNP supporter but the Labour Party have opened our borders over the past decade to the extent that we have lost control of who is here. We have large sections of the community that are effectively no go areas. We have terrorists operating from within.

Therefore I would thing the Labour Party policies are radically different to the BNP. To sday there is no difference is completely wrong.
8

Scimitar1,

21/03/2009 11:23:13
They came a whisker away from winning a council seat in an immigrant free Cumbrian constituency recently, therefore their growing support is probably not only due to their racialist policies, but more about the perceived nulabour betrayal of the lower working classes.

These people have unquestionably bore the brunt of nulabours policies, in particular the running down of the manufacturing industry and some say,a reckless immigration policy that has utterly transformed towns and cities and in some cases displaced local workers in the labour market,and demoted them in the housing list.

It might be worth stating the Polish workers unions are currently calling for the deportation of foreign labour from Poland ,the French are repatriating car manufacturing from Slovenia, and Obama is currently talking about imposing tariff's on steel imports. At the end of the day all governments look to their own self interests . Queue a void to be filled by the likes of the BNP.

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Observer,,

Glasgow 21/03/2009 11:48:14
16 the BNP hate people who were born in this country Scimitar. That is the difference between people who may have a genuine concern about immigration and what that means for society - which does not make you a racist. But these people view UK born and bred people as not being British, purely because of their religious belief or colour of skin. That does make them racist.
10

Toast,

21/03/2009 12:03:59
Labour has sold out the working class,in England who are they supposed to vote for,who will address working class concerns.Labour is to busy bailing out the parasite bankers who have been ripping the public off for years ,the working class are sick of Brown,Darling,Mandelson,Balls,Cooper,Alexander etc who have never worked a day in their live in the "real" world.
11

Los Angeles,

21/03/2009 13:07:06
"The BNP were handing out "British Jobs for British Workers" leaflets in Glasgow's Argyle St last Saturday." (Donald)

And there are a few on these threads, and other national websites. They are a menace to good temper.
12

Mr. Lachie Todd,

Edinburgh 21/03/2009 14:02:58
According to Wikipedia the BNP is clearly an extreme racist, right-wing, offshoot of the UK National Front, although both parties are now bitter rivals who cannot agree on anything!

We should not forget that the vast majority of the English are amongst the most tolerant people on this earth!

Whatever we may personally think of them, the English are a great race, who will never allow themselves to be brain-washed by this gang of disaffected delinquents.



13

themainthing,

England 21/03/2009 14:13:27
Observer...imagine if you will, a proud scottish couple booked a holiday in china only to find out that the wife is pregnant.But no matter the babys not expected until two months after the holiday so they decide to go on holiday anyway. However during the holiday the wife goes into labour and gives birth(in china).
Is the baby scottish or chinese?I think you know the true answer.
Being born in Britian does not make you British only your race makes you British.
14

Horrible Cankers @Cyber Shebeen,

21/03/2009 18:50:43
22...Wharraloadakeech and how irrelevant..."Only your race makes you British"...what about the Asian Brits that have generations of family in Britian?
15

Fred Leeson,

in the bar 21/03/2009 21:04:40
The rich always make the poor pay for their privileges.

The act of blackmail of the nation by Churchill's children and grandchildren (Mary Soames and Nicholas Soames} - they threatened to sell Churchill's war time papers at auction); and the family's appeasement by an effete Conservative establishment under John Major, (he ordered that the family be bought off with £12.5 million pounds with the very first payout of the newly created Independent Lottery Fund was the trigger that let bribery and corruption loose in the Conservative Party and which led, inexorably, to its 1997 historic collapse.

UKIP will lose their seats at the Euro Elections as Nigel Farage just can't shake off the sleaze and corruption of his party. They've joined the euro gravy train and are milking it for all it's worth.

16

Observer,,

Glasgow 21/03/2009 23:47:20
22 Thank you for illustrating my point.

23 the scary thing is horrible cankers that the BNP will NEVER acknowledge Asians as British. They are dangerous and nasty people.
17

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22/03/2009 02:31:57
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themainthing,

England 22/03/2009 09:15:58
"Asian Brits" you just dont see the irony do you.
Have any of you done any research on Churchill's views on immigration or islam, if you had you would realise Winston was opposed to both.
19

themainthing,

England 22/03/2009 09:20:16
Oh and heres another question for you to ponder....if a Scottish person moves to England does that make them English?
20

Fred Leeson,

in the bar 22/03/2009 09:40:23
#30
Wash your mouth out you !
21

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23/03/2009 01:46:40
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donald,

glasgow 23/03/2009 08:05:13
#30 Oh and heres another question for you to ponder....if a Scottish person moves to England does that make them English?

It works for Broon and Dahling.
23

Calum Crubag,

23/03/2009 12:56:54
"British jobs for British workers" a quote from both Gordon Brown AND the BNP. Interesting.

Is there any real different between the unionist parties? Does it just come down to who's more 'Brit' than the next and the exact number of foreigners/asylum seekers they want to kick out?

How about an independent Scotland for anyone, regardless of colour?
24

Beachcomber,

Edinburgh 06/04/2009 22:10:18
#27 Daniel,,, Two words Gallipoli and the Dardanells

25

Dougie - Edinburgh,

19/05/2009 20:39:45
A quote from an 1899 book by Winston Churchill, "The River War", in which he describes Muslims he apparently observed during Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."






http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2007/05/cameron_we_must.html

David Cameron

"Asian families and communities are incredibly strong and cohesive, and have a sense of civic responsibility which puts the rest of us to shame. Not for the first time, I found myself thinking that it is mainstream Britain which needs to integrate more with the British Asian way of life, not the other
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Dougie - Edinburgh,

19/05/2009 20:43:12

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2007/05/cameron_we_must.html

David Cameron

"Asian families and communities are incredibly strong and cohesive, and have a sense of civic responsibility which puts the rest of us to shame. Not for the first time, I found myself thinking that it is mainstream Britain which needs to integrate more with the British Asian way of life, not the other way around."






With respect to the above two quotes, who can have any doubt that the BNP attitudes have far more in common with Churchill's than the modern Conservative party's do?

 

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