We’ve just finished organising the 30,000 newspapers into wards at our venue for Stoke-on-Trent tomorrow. But as we finish preparing for our day of HOPE, locals are telling me that the BNP have started to distribute their own newspaper as they prepare to launch their manifesto of hate.
Stoke-on-Trent is a key target for the BNP this May as they try to preserve their dwindling numbers on the council. Last year Hope not hate worked alongside local anti-fascist group North Staffordshire Campaign against Racism and Fascism to prevent two BNP councillors from winning again.
This year we aim to remove the remaining four who are restanding and ensure the other six who are standing across the city are defeated.
Join us tomorrow as we deliver the final knockout blow in Stoke-on-Trent and across the united kingdom.
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