Another busy weekend

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Monday, 20 April 2009, 09:30

It's been another busy weekend. Last night we finished the May edition of Searchlight and it is a cracker. We are bringing it out earlier than normal as it is a campaign special and we wanted to get it into the hands of our readers as soon as possible. It is full colour and packed with exposes of the BNP and a full rundown of our own HOPE not hate campaign.

The rest of the Searchlight team was equally busy. Sam attended a great launch meeting in Walthamstow, in North East London, which attracted over 40 people from across the political spectrum and the local community. Up in Yorkshire the HOPE not hate team spoke at the regional TUC AGM on the Saturday and leafleted a ward in Sheffield on the Sunday. Matthew attended a football match in which Derby were somehow robbed of a goal.

We managed to get stories in the News of the World and The Sunday Times yesterday about the BNP Activists' handbook. It has been followed up by The Guardian this morning, with the fantastic headline:'BNP says some members are oddballs and liars'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/20/bnp-handbook-european-elections

I'm currently on my way to Harrogate where the Unison Health conference is being held. This week we are starting our push to get Union branches signed up to organise an activity on Friday 15 May – Union Friday. I'm confident that hundreds of branches will get involved, which will be excellent.

I don't really know Harrogate but I've been promised a tour of the tea houses so I shall let you know how it goes.