TACIT MESSAGE FOR WEST BROM MARCHERS

Sunday’s dreary weather conditions appeared to have an adverse effect on the turnout for this year’s St George’s parade in West Brom. Although many thousands stayed at home this year, the Birmingham Mail’s estimate of ‘hundreds’ was way off the mark and there was still a couple of thousand present (one must remember also that Britain was baking this time last year). Proceedings began with a handful of speeches and a rendition of Land of Hope and Glory.

Although us Brummies weren’t familiar with all of the speakers we certainly couldn’t help but notice the rather surprising message that was being sent out to the crowd. Rumours had abounded once again that the Labour-run council is planning to scrap the parade next year, the idea of which drove two of the speakers to remind marchers that polling day is around the corner and they should think about voting for the party that will ensure the parade isn’t banned. They may or may not have been aware of what message this was in fact giving the crowd ie. that they should all go out and vote BNP on May 1st. The truth is probably that they didn’t realise how their words were being interpreted, particularly when you consider that the company they were sharing on stage included the committed multi-culturalist and hypocrite Carl Chinn. When he recognised the BNP snapper his face was quite literally a picture.

Still, if these people want to inadvertently tell people to go out and vote BNP, who are we to complain!

The parade itself took the familiar route from Stone Cross to Dartmouth Park and several organisations marched in formation. These included members of the British Legion, the West Midlands Fire Service, the British Ulster Alliance and also the Northfield Caledonia Pipes and Drums who are based at the Austin Club in Longbridge. The BNP presence was much more low-key than usual due to events elsewhere, notably the re-enactment of Enoch’s famous speech. However, a number of activists made the journey from Brum including Mike Bell, Pete Longton and Ray Thomason, plus there was the local contingent led by Cllr Russ Green.

Regional organiser Simon Darby also stopped by on his way to the Burlington Hotel in New Street to commemorate a landmark speech that took place there 40 years to the day. Back then it was called the Midland Hotel and the guest speaker was one of Birmingham’s most famous sons – Enoch Powell.

Peter 'Enoch' Mullins

That famous speech was to be re-enacted by the BNP’s very own Enoch look-a-like, Peter Mullins from Cornwall. Peter repeated the entire speech word for word before Nick Griffin took over and gave the few selected journalists and party activists a speech of his own. Here in part-occupied Birmingham we are probably more acutely aware of what is going to happen in many parts of this country in the coming years and Nick was spot on with his bleak outlook of burnt-out homes and inter-ethnic violence.

This highly charged and emotive setting had also been chosen by witch-finder general Trevor Phillips in order to debunk everything that Enoch had said in 1968. However, he had not reckoned with the BNP having made an identical booking and thus Nick, Peter and co stole the show. This, combined with the fact that the hosts were happy to have us and everything went unhindered, has had some fascist journalists climbing the walls this week.

Chief among them is the cringe-worthy Adrian Goldberg who it must be said is not the biggest fan of free-thinking, let alone expression. He has written an article on his website every day this week, all of which dedicated to the BNP presence at the Burlington on Sunday. Each article has revealed a more desperate Gonzberg as he struggles to come to terms with what he sees as such an outrage!

If he had his way we would all be locked up and the key thrown away, or worse. People like Gonzberg just don’t appreciate what our forefathers fought for in the last century, but then again, Hitler was also a horrible little man.

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Photos from the Burlington