Trade unions launch campaign against Wirral by-election candidate (From Wirral Globe)
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Trade unions launch campaign against Wirral by-election candidate
1:16pm Monday 4th February 2013 in News Exclusive By Stephanie Cureton
WIRRAL trade unionists are leading a campaign against a right-wing party fielding a candidate in an upcoming local by-election.
Merseyside Coalition Against Racism and Fascism and Wirral TUC are uniting against the English Democrats when the ballot for Pensby and Thingwall ward takes place later this month.
They believe the election of English Democrat candidate Neil Kenny would be “damaging” to Wirral.
Alec McFadden from Wirral TUC said: “This party is neither English nor democratic and they have a violent past.
“We believe they are openly racist and are against gay and lesbian people.
“We will be putting out leaflets and canvassing to let people know about the party, regardless of their existing political beliefs.
“If this candidate was elected, it would have a similar effect as Nick Griffin from the BNP being an MEP for the North West.
“It would damage our reputation greatly at a time when things are already bad with poverty, unemployment and benefit cuts.”
According to their website, English Democrats believe in “standing up for what made England great” and that English residents should not be treated as “second class citizens.”
The website says the party wants the repeal of the Human Rights Act and the withdrawal of the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights.
It claims: “Both of these flawed items of legislation have perversely assisted criminals while offering little of substance to the law-abiding population”.
It also advocates “punitive fining and possible withdrawal of trading rights of companies, company directors and other employers who employ illegal immigrants.”
Immigrants convicted of crimes should be deported, it says.
The Globe has contacted the North West offices of the English Democrats and a response is expected shortly.
Other candidates standing in the by-election, which takes place on February 28, are: Phillip Brightmore for Labour and the Co-operative Party; Allen Burton for The Green Party; Sheila Clarke for Conservatives; Damien Cummins for Liberal Democrats; and Jan Davison for UKIP.
The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Conservative ward Cllr Don McCubbin.
Comments(36)
ordinary personn
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2:20pm Mon 4 Feb 13
to do so.
Positive thinker
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3:12pm Mon 4 Feb 13
who would try and cause trouble in
an empty room
Hugo1008
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7:03pm Mon 4 Feb 13
He or she is possible one of a very small handful who can truly claim this distinction among the 60 something parasites we have at present.
A New Face, cannot be any worse that what we have at the moment, and there is always the chance they could be whole lot better than what we have now.
60 something useless parasites who have led Wirral Council into being the "Worst Managed Local Authority in the Whole of Great Britain, with an abysmal record of Waste, Deceit, Misinformation, Cover Up and White Wash, costing us millions over the past 10 years or more.
PaulCa
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8:47pm Mon 4 Feb 13
Jimrob
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11:29pm Mon 4 Feb 13
And the current crop of 66 (with the possible exclusion of one very recently elected member) have done wonders for the Borough, it's population, and it's reputation???
I have come to believe, over the years, that the ONLY way we will ever have a Council that works for the people of Wirral, is to SHOCK the current 3 main parties out of their cozy ivory towers and let them know that the VOTERS can, and will, change things, if they do not get their act together and start working for us instead of lining their own pockets.
And I'm sorry if some out their think that this guy from the English Democrats is not up to the mark or unsuitable in some way, but the mere fact that he is being so vehemently attacked and slandered by so called "mainstream organizations" who lets face it, have almost destroyed democracy in this country, makes me even MORE likely to vote for him.
For the record. I totally agree with every word that Hugo1008 wrote.
It's more than time for a change now. And I am looking at ALL possibilities to try to restore some semblance of democracy to this Borough/land.
As the powers that be are always saying these days, "All options are on the table" unless they begin to listen to us.
Hugo1008
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2:12pm Tue 5 Feb 13
That said it is Physically, Morally, Ethically, and in all decency impossible for any new face to be worse that the 60 something parasites we are stuck with at present.
Lets not lose sight of the fact we have a totally undemocratic process with all the seats on the cabinet taken by Labour Party Supporters, most of those have been in prominent positions during all the past scandalous immoral and disgraceful events over the last 10 years.
Councillors in General, by and large the biggest proportion of them from whatever party have been in office over the past 20 years with a long history of abject waste, deceit, cruel, and disgusting behavior carried out against individuals and groups that for many reasons were unable to defend themselves from very highly paid Council Management.
Remember all this disgraceful behavior was not only overseen by Councillors but positively encouraged condoned and colluded with by a succession of Mayors, Committees, Councilors, and management, that has led to the situation we are now in.
Nothing to do with serving the electorate or listening to the people, purely and simply so they could keep their noses in the trough of plenty, and to hell with the rest of humanity.
So I say again vote for a new face any face that is not belonging to Conservative, Labour, or Liberal Democrat Candidates, the change can only be good for the Wirral Population.
Jack Boot
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9:39pm Tue 5 Feb 13
bickyboy
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3:53pm Wed 6 Feb 13
Electing an English Democrat councillor would require a degree of imagination and daring which is clearly beyond the voters of Wirral.
The knee will jerk, and the old order will be maintained.
PaulCa
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8:03pm Wed 6 Feb 13
Pre-war Germans saw Hitler as a viable alternative. In return for popular backing, he kept the word "Socialist" in his party's title. And the rest is history.
englishdemocrats
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7:39pm Thu 7 Feb 13
He also states “We believe they are openly racist and are against gay and lesbian people." I will ask him to check out the English Democrats candidate, Mr Michael Felse who stood in the Salford Mayoral Elections in 2012 who was also the Gay Pride Queen in the Manchester parade 2011.
Mr McFadden please check your facts, as the Labour party openly ignored England in the devolutionary process they discriminated against ALL the people of England, it didn't matter what colour, religion, sexuality or other catagory you wish to put people in, it was the fact the people of England are being denied the same Democratic rights as the people of Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland. It is the Labour party along with the Tory's & Lib Dems you should be fighting against if you want equality for and in England.
PaulCa
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9:02pm Thu 7 Feb 13
.... has opened the door to all sorts of cranks.
They only have themselves to blame for it.
englishdemocrats
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9:57am Sat 9 Feb 13
The Editor
Wirral Globe
Dear Sir
Re: Article Monday, 4th February 2013 by Stephanie Cureton “Trade unions launch campaign against Wirral by-election candidate”
This nakedly Labour Party partisan article falsely asserts that the English Democrats are:- “neither English nor democratic and they have a violent past. We believe they are openly racist and are against gay and lesbian people”… “If this candidate was elected, it would have a similar effect as Nick Griffin from the BNP being an MEP for the North West.” These comments are wildly inaccurate, untrue and libellous. Printing such a report without checking with us was grossly inappropriate.
The significance of this unjustified attack taking place in the midst of a by-election makes this matter one of importance.
I request the right of reply to these spurious allegations.
These allegations are put as a statement of fact not opinion (within the usual meaning given both by the law of defamation and of common sense). They thus clearly relate also to our candidate’s personal character or conduct. In the context of the article, its timing, and the absence of defamatory comments about any other candidates an inference can be drawn of the improper purpose of affecting the election of our candidate.
I respectfully suggest that you would be hard pressed to support any defence of reasonable belief in the truth of these statements. There is no sensible suggestion anywhere that we are a racist etc., nor indeed have you made any sufficient effort to find out what we do stand for. Indeed we have recently had a forced retraction of a lesser smear by the Sunday Times >>> http://www.pcc.org.u
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Also insufficient effort was made to speak to anyone from the English Democrats about these allegations prior to making them.
Not only do Alex McFadden’s professional standards (if any) appear to be very sloppy, but also, I would respectfully submit, your reporting of them, or relying on such an obviously dubious and partisan source, breaches the Press Complaints Commission's Editor’s Code of Practice by failing to maintain the “highest professional standards”. The comments are frankly inaccurate and misleading and untruthful and thus contrary to section 1 of the PCC's Editors' Code.
Rather than accurately reporting you seem to have stooped to cloak with respectability smears and innuendo against the English Democrats and against our candidate, Mr Kenny.
It may also be that these smears derive from an anti-English discriminatory attitude either by you or Mr McFadden, who bears a Scottish or Irish surname. Such is contrary to section 12 of the PCC Editors' Code.
In the circumstances I wish formally, and on behalf of our candidate so smeared, and also of the English Democrats, to complain and to request the Right of Reply pursuant to section 2 of the PCC Editors' Code.
Yours faithfully
Robin Tilbrook
Chairman,
The English Democrats,
craigot89
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6:26pm Sat 9 Feb 13
http://www.bbc.co.uk
/news/uk-politics-21
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simon22
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6:45pm Sat 9 Feb 13
if you bother to look at the english democrat website,it states its not left or right,just english,which means we are not interested what creed,sexuality or colour poeple are,we are interested in the rites of the english and protecting ourselves from bureaucratic idiots like you.
the party is the english democrats,democracy seems to be a word you do not understand
englishdemocrats
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9:50am Sun 10 Feb 13
.org Regards Stephen Morris,
NW Chairman,
English Democrats
PaulCa
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11:25am Sun 10 Feb 13
Hiutsuri
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12:22pm Sun 10 Feb 13
Cammell Laird Shipyard,Birkenhead have made a man redundant 1 week before death.
On informing them his only treatment was palliative Cammell Laird made the employee redundant.
The man died one week later.
His widow was therefore not entitled to death in service benefit.
Contact the following for further information.
Cammell Laird HR Manager Danny Hart
Cammell Laird Chief Executive John Syvret
MP:Frank Field / Alison McGovern
Union:Amicus / Unite / Graham Daley
englishdemocrats
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3:42pm Sun 10 Feb 13
Jack Boot
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5:56pm Sun 10 Feb 13
I hope you are well.
I am rather disillusioned with the 3 main parties, and I think it is important to vote because my compatriots laid their lives down for me to have luxury.
So I would like to vote for a different party.
My skin colour is brown, would I be welcomed into the English Democrats?
I was born here, speak perfect English, although my Hindu is rather good too; I work full time and do not claim any benefits.
Are you the party for me?
englishdemocrats
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7:21pm Sun 10 Feb 13
Colour or religion does not bar anyone from joining our party, as you have already stated that you were born in England, this of course makes you English, whether you would be welcomed into the English Democrats only depends on whether you agree or not with the majority of our manifesto.
Sometimes groups who, like the article above, will make comments about our party without properly checking us out. The article above states “We believe they are openly racist and are against gay and lesbian people.” In this comment a quick check would have shown our candidate in the Salford Mayoral Elections in 2012 was also the Gay Pride Queen for Manchester in 2011, secondly a well known left wing group attacked one of our candidates in the Police & Crime commissioner elections down south calling him a racist for our parties views on uncontrolled immigration, what they failed to notice is his wife is from the African continent, has brown skin and came to England a number of years ago.
As an Englishman or EnglishWomen (regardless of skin colour or religion) we are discriminated against by the British Government, besides the free prescriptions available in Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland but in England we pay £7.65 per item, tuition fees forced on us by Labour MPs from Scotland and increased to £9000 by the coalition whilst free in Scotland or heavily subsidised in Wales & N. Ireland, we have to pay parking charges at hospitals, we had foundation hospitals forced on us by Scottish and Welsh MPs who rejected them as inadequate for their own nations to name a few, this affects English people regardless of your colour but affects you for being English.
Remember Jade Goodey, if she was Welsh or Scottish she would have had a standard cancer screening at the age of 20, because she was English this wasn’t due until she turned 25, unfortunately this was to late as she became ill aged 23 and diagnosed with cancer, if she was regularly scanned from the age of 20 like a Scottish or Welsh women this may, just may have given her a fighting chance, yes she was white but cancer doesn’t attack based on colour and could have been any English women.
I hope this helps with your question.
Stephen Morris
N. W. Chairman
Jack Boot
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2:17pm Mon 11 Feb 13
athelstan927
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10:30pm Thu 14 Feb 13
wonkotsane
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7:40pm Wed 20 Feb 13
England needs someone to speak out against the institutional racism of the British state against English people but fighting British racism in England with racists and homophobes is jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Toque
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9:26pm Wed 20 Feb 13
There may not be many English Democrat members left at the end of the cull but at least Tilbrook could once again hold his head up high in decent society, possibly.
That the English Democrats are targets for the 'anti-fascists' is no surprise. The only surprise is that they've managed to slip under their radar for so long.
englishdemocrats
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10:02pm Wed 20 Feb 13
Toque
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10:50pm Wed 20 Feb 13
Having positioned yourselves in the gutter by courting BNP, England First Party and the EDL you've brought this type of publicity upon yourselves. As a party that routinely rubs shoulders with the far-right you're now a legitimate target of the far-left, and they can be as adept at spreading misinformation as the English Democrats' own "English Passport" blog. It's a sad end for a party that started out well-intentioned.
englishdemocrats
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4:20pm Thu 21 Feb 13
wonkotsane
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8:23pm Thu 21 Feb 13
As for nobody questioning Labour taking on BNP members - I believe they have one former BNP councillor out of nearly 22k councillors. Yes, Labour are equally wrong to allow BNP racists in their party but it's not exactly on the same level as 43% of English Democrats candidates being former BNP members is it?
I see Robin Tilbrook has an unchallenged, comments-closed "right of reply" article published on this website after he threw his teddies out of his pram and threatened the Wirral Globe for daring to run a story criticising his party. The man is pathetic, you'd think that losing the only libel case he's actually gone through with against one of his critics (me) he'd have lost his appetite for throwing his legal weight around.
PaulCa
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8:28pm Thu 21 Feb 13
A. He's the one in the flowing white robes and the pointy white hat.
englishdemocrats
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8:43pm Thu 21 Feb 13
PaulCa
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9:03pm Thu 21 Feb 13
But as you pass into history, I'll be relieved I didn't waste my time and energy on empty debate.
wonkotsane
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9:47pm Thu 21 Feb 13
athelstan927
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1:05am Tue 26 Feb 13
Be aware this narrowing political narrative we enjoy in 21st century, where religions such as Christianity (do you remember that) are becoming underground, like in 2nd century Rome will be the thin end of the wedge.
Who is to blame, WE ARE!! and you frightened souls, so scared of people wanting to represent the people in preference to a horde of corrupt, incompetent failures, should hang your heads in shame. Or show character and come from behind your blog contributions and stand!
It is vital to society that a wider political narrative is established! De base debate and end up pointing fingers and calling names leaving debate in the hands of McFaddens and poor journalists seeking to gain personal advantage! This ugly tactic of the left leaning political establishment extends and legitimises their political failure of a 75 year experiment which is likely to combust in as little as 5 years. This dead end, of course, will manifest itself with The State tightening the hangcuffs on the individual.
This tired political class of people have created an ‘entitlement society’. Having failed to empower the people and facilitate opportunity, they have gone for broke and promised us guaranteed outcomes with the sole yet nefarious intent of moulding a society in their reflection not that of the people. What a black reflection that must be, but only if you’re looking through at it.
Let us remember the Labour government having been handed a golden inheritance in 1997, systemically and irretrievably changed our country for the worse. With very little likelihood of redirecting the good ship Great Britain off course away from the shores of mediocrity.
Only a Labour administration is capable of this. It is only the Labour Party that could be that arrogant and out of touch with reality, yet still claim to be capable of fixing the nation’s problems!!
I say vote Labour and be damned!!
athelstan927
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1:06am Tue 26 Feb 13
wonkotsane
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7:05am Tue 26 Feb 13
Jack Boot says...
1:38pm Mon 4 Feb 13