Getting active

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Saturday, 9 May 2009, 19:39

I've been getting some great reports of activities around the country today. About 40 people came out in Bristol, 35 in Wolverhampton and a similar number in nearby Smethwick. Thirty people did the bulk of two wards in Rotherham and a similar number were out in Blackpool.

We are getting inundated with offers of help over the past few days, including many from areas where there has been absolutely no Hope not hate activity before. I think many people are starting to become aware of the BNP threat in the European elections and they are determined to do their bit to stop them. Much of this is probably due to the success of our new press officer in getting articles in the media. We had another good hit today when the Guardian ran a full page on leading BNP member Arthur Kemp and his links to the death of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani. I am confident we'll be seeing more stories like this in the near future.

We've shifted 270,000 newspapers from our warehouse to venues across Greater Manchester today. Next weekend we hope to distribute these across Manchester but as you can imagine this is quite a logistical operation. Fortunately I'm being assisted in this by a great team we have around HnH in Manchester, which ranges from the trade unions to the political parties, community groups to the Bishop of Manchester's office.

The sun is now out and I'm about to enjoy a well earned drink with my old pal Steve Tilzey.