Friends reunited

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Saturday, 14 March 2009, 09:02

Last night I spoke at a meeting of Oldham United Against Racism and it was an opportunity to catch up with some old friends. I spent a lot of time in the town during and after the riots of 2001 and during that period made many good friends. With the subsequent collapse of the BNP in Oldham in recent years I’ve not spent much time in the town so last night was a good chance to catch up.

Like at my meeting in Rochdale the night before, there is a real awareness of the threat we are facing but also of the need to get active and organised. We are planning to try out a different form of campaigning in the forthcoming European Elections, one much more tailored to giving people the tools to spread the word through their own networks than simply coming out on a wet Sunday morning with the diehard activists.

I’ll be talking a lot more about this today when leading organisers from a host of North West anti-BNP groups and trade unions get together to discuss the final 12 weeks of the campaign. Yes, the election is only that far away!