Alf Filer writes
The Fazakerley by-election in Liverpool yesterday put another nail in the coffin of the BNP. The Labour candidate, Mrs Ashton-Armstrong, polled 1,525 votes, with a 700 majority over the Lib Dems. The BNP received only 234 votes, compared to 440 in May 2008. and admitted to being “slightly disappointed”. However they did come third.
However, this was on a turn out of only 23.53%. What about the other 76% of the voters? Why were they not motivated to vote? Does this mean we can afford to be complacent? Far from it. Yes a set back for the BNP but not exactly a great success for bourgeois democracy.
In the meantime, the BNP showed themselves up for being supposedly a “respectable party “ by hurling abuse outside the home of the former Lord Mayor, Labour Cllr Steve Rotheram. This was not only unacceptable and threatening, but also showed a lack of concern for the effect it had on his family and children.
Cllr Rotheram said: “I always knew these were particularly nasty people but this has really opened my eyes about how bitter and twisted they can be.” He said Labour would not be intimidated by “fascists”.
In the meantime, in Hornchurch, at the supposed meeting of the BNP to change their membership rules to meet with legal requirements for electoral purposes, Times journalist Dominic Kennedy was violently kicked out of the BNP meeting. Griffin said it showed, “the party was not going soft.”
78-year-old Rajinder Singh, who is to become their first non white member may be fooled by them but others are not nor will they be. The attack on journalists who are willing to expose the lies of the fascists is the type of attacks that we have come to expect from them. Nothing has really changed has it from the days of Mosley, Jordan, Webster and now Griffin.
A rally on 23 February of Expose the BNP, a campaign aimed at supporting journalists and media workers who stand up to the BNP, its odious fellow travellers and street fighters in the Defence Leagues is a welcome response. Let us hope their editors will now also stop treating anti-fascists in the same way they cover the fascists. Perhaps we will start to see in the media some proper coverage of events rather than what the Establishment have chosen to show.
The media campaign can start by highlighting events in Bolton, the campaign against the BNP in Dagenham and an expose of the EDL .
Liam redux 
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