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BPP Honours English Heritage….A Towton Battlefield report by Rob McNeil and Eddy Morrison

As guides of the Richard III Society tell it, there once grew on Towton Battlefield, near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, a dwarf rose-bush which bore both red and white roses.

 

Given that on Palm Sunday, 29 March, 1461, the bloodiest battle of the Wars of the Roses claimed the lives of 29,000 Lancastrian and Yorkist soldiers, this nice but apocryphal tale suggests that what politics, human ambition and civil war had enforced upon a divided nation, i.e. the forcible rupture of national identity and the loss of national unity, Nature had reclaimed and reconciled.

 

As a 20 – strong contingent of BPP, BNP and England First Party members today agreed, during the annual BPP commemorative ceremony at Towton Battlefield, the lack of a more modern memorial and a suitable Visitors Centre or Information Board make it clear that successive British governments, including New Labour, have conspired through collective neglect to ensure that the political tragedy – the massacres of Englishmen by Englishmen - and the massive loss of life at Towton Field have yet to reconcile their Lib – Red overview of ‘history’ with the actual facts of those times. Historical truth has been airbrushed out of the history books. As our children daily become ever more ‘multi-cultural’, as their ‘British history’ books become ever more diluted, the importance and social value of the events of March 1461 become ever more distant from the collective memory.

 

The BPP and supporters in other UK White Nationalist parties hereby formally call upon English Heritage, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Yorkshire Tourist Board and local municipal authorities to rectify this glaring neglect, to put their heads and their funds together and to mark Towton Battlefield in a manner befitting its importance as a pivotal moment in English and European history.

 

Addressing his ‘troops’, BPP National Organiser and event co-ordinator Eddy Morrison delivered an informative and captivating talk about the battle. Gathered before the battlefield memorial cross, whose headpiece was long ago rescued from a hedgerow and is believed once to have seen service as part of a memorial chapel which Richard III erected in repose for the soul of that battle’s martyred soldiers, Eddy, standing before the memorial and flanked by a combined Honour Guard and Flag Party bearing the county flags of Yorkshire and Lancashire and the revered St. George’s Cross, also convened a Minute’s Silence. This was followed by a wreath-laying ceremony and the further parading of the Flag Party before the cross. Ceremonials completed the party then set off for Saxton and the fields nearby for a Battlefield Walk which added fresh insight to the terrible military upheavals which prevailed there 555 years ago.

 

We have mentioned the above tale of the Towton Rose bush and its fairy tale combining of the White Rose and the Red but the reality of the Wars of the Roses, which lasted over several decades, was that of a bloody and unforgiving conflict, concluding with the horrors of Bosworth Field and the later marriage of Prince Henry to a Yorkist bride, which allowed few prisoners and little compassion.

 

Having been defeated at Sandal and having suffered the beheading, in 1460 by the Lancastrian Lord Clifford, of the Duke of York, the forces of King Edward IV and his generals were recalled in 1461and marched North from London.

 

On 29 March, 1461, the rolling, blizzard-swept, fields and ridges around Towton were the backdrop to the bloodiest battle of the above wars.  As Lancastrian and Yorkist armies furiously hacked, slashed and stabbed their way across that battlefield, the political future of England hung in the balance. By battle’s end, some 29,000 soldiers of both armies had been slaughtered in the name of a civil war whose most tragic outcomes were its fatal positing of Englishman against Englishman, the way in which those who led the forces put personal aims, gains and intrigues before the greater good of their motherland and their fellow Sons of Arthur.

 

If, being an English reader, the Towton Rose tale has stirred your passions we can offer the more factual juxtaposition of how the medieval St. Mary Lead church, which is unused for worship but remains open to visitors, and the nearby Cock Beck stream played their own parts in that great drama. In the hours before the Battle of Towton, senior Yorkist commanders prayed and sought guidance from the same God whose protection and deliverance was sought and claimed by their Lancastrian enemies. It is also accepted that lesser figures, perhaps wind-frozen, weary foot soldiers, also sought respite and sanctuary there. With its 12^th-century floor ledger stones of the Tyas family – the local baronial dynasty upon whose manorial estate the church is believed to stand and for which it likely served as a chapel -, its Norman font and its 17^th and 18^th century pews, pulpit and wall panels, St. Mary Lead was an impressive and fortifying, but falsely so, seeming haven for men already traumatized by fear, exhaustion and battling with their own racial kin. Many a soldier must have gazed at that church with yearning for Cock Beck stream, says Selby Churches, ‘ran red with blood’ after the fighting.

 

Over at Saxton parish churchyard, the railed-off, much weather-beaten, tomb of the Lancastrian leader, Lord D’Acre also bears mute testimony to the ferocity and unexpected swings and turns of the Towton battle. Observing the fighting from near the site of today’s ancient and equally sadly neglected battlefield memorial cross, D’Acre took time out to have some wine. That decision cost him his life for a Yorkist arrow fatally pierced his neck. Like some early Teuton warrior, D’Acre was buried sitting upright on his warhorse. For the tens of thousands of slaughtered dead from both sides, however, their last resting places were to be mass, mostly unmarked graves. In 2005, courtesy of the Towton Battlefield Society, the remains of a few of those ordinary foot soldiers, found in the grounds of a local gentry estate, have been re-interred beneath a small, relief – carved, marble memorial which, though we think its design to be tasteless, is unmissable and, unlike the ancient and bleak-looking battlefield cross, at least endows the memory of those fallen combatants with a semblance of dignity and the acknowledgement of their modern day fellow countrymen.

 

For all who participated in today’s commemorative events, but especially for the BPP Youth contingent from Wakefield, the overall experience was both emotive and inspiring. Burnley – based leading BPP activist, Steve Smith, more simply saw it all as ‘White Nationalism in practise’ and as a priceless opportunity to reconnect with our cultural and historical origins.

 

As a measure of out commitment to the preservation and promotion of our nation’s true historical heritage, BPP National Organiser Eddy Morrison has, as we go to print, agreed to endorse the funding of an interactive, commemorative Battle of Towton DVD. This may not seem much but is a lot for a small, though growing, political organisation. The funding and erection of modern Towton memorial and Information Board, perhaps even a mobile Visitors Centre, are other matters altogether and for the municipal authorities to consider. The ball, English Heritage et al, is in your court.

 

Rob McNeil (Editor, Imperium Magazine; Leeds BPP) and Eddy Morrison (BPP National Organiser)

 

THE NEED TO CHECK THE FACTS COSTS NATIONALISM MONEY – AGAIN!

The BNP seem to have landed themselves with a very nasty bill in a libel case, according to this new article from their website:

On 19 November 2005 we published an article in the Doc's Diary column headed "Race Commissioner Caught with his Trousers Down". The article made a number of untrue serious defamatory allegations about Dr Raj Chandran, a GP based in Nottinghamshire, Mayor of the Borough of Gedling and former member of the Commission for Racial Equality. It falsely alleged that Dr Chandran had been struck off by the General Medical Council having been found guilty of having sex with a female patient in exchange for the provision of drugs.
Dr Chandran was misidentified in the article. The doctor who was at the centre of the allegations was in fact Dr Bellipady Sudharam Rai, a completely different Nottinghamshire GP. Dr Chandran has no connection to Dr Rai nor was he involved in any way with these disciplinary proceedings.
We are happy to correct the position and offer our sincere apologies for the distress and embarrassment we have caused Dr Chandran.
We have agreed to pay him damages together with his legal costs.

(Remember a year or two back when Mr. Griffin had to pay substantial damages to the London Metropolitan Police for using their logo? Hard won ordinary members money!)

From an American Comrade….Bush's Latest Report Card:

-- War in Iraq -- F
-- Hurricane Katrina -- F
-- Protecting the Constitution -- F
-- Arrogance -- A+
-- Public Speaking -- F
-- Problem Solving -- F
-- Stubbornness -- A
-- Cronyism -- A+
-- Truthfulness -- F--
-- Medicare Rx -- F
-- Port Security -- F
-- Border Security -- F
-- Corporate Welfare -- A
-- War on Terrorists -- F---
-- Social Security Reform -- F
-- Fiscal Responsibility -- F
-- Reining in Federal Government -- F
-- Foreign Relations with non-Allies -- F
-- Foreign Relations with Allies -- F--
-- Ignorance -- A
-- Apathy -- A
-- Competence -- F
-- Cabinet -- F (double F for Secy of Defense)
-- Legislation -- F
-- Use of Veto Power -- F
-- Morality -- F
-- Upholding the Constitution -- F
-- Work Ethic -- F
-- Ethics -- F--
-- Compassion -- F
-- Poise -- F
-- Strength -- F
-- Public Trust -- F
-- Political Corruption -- A+
-- Propaganda -- A
-- Law and Order -- F
-- Fearmongering -- A
-- Public Safety -- F
-- Cheerleading -- A
-- Misdirection -- A
-- Dirty Politics -- A+
-- Sleaze -- A
-- Criminality -- I

 

God Bless America....she needs it.

 

BPP BRAMLEY MAY 4th ELECTION

The British People’s Party is contesting the Bramley/Stanningley Ward, Leeds in the forthcoming council elections. The BPP is also supporting two candidates of the England First Party in Blackburn. Mark Cotterill, EFP Leader and one of the BPP’s main activists has a good chance of getting a seat in the Meadowhead Ward of Blackburn.

BPP members are assisting in the Meadowhead campaign.

The Bramley campaign as seen over 2000 pre-elections leaflets go out already and the Reds did the BPP a great favour by also leafleting the entire ward with anti-BPP leaflets. Cheers “comrades”! So everyone in Bramley is aware of the BPP’s arrival. Funds are needed for the election campaign and you can donate either by post through mailing BPP, BM Box 5581, London WC1N 3XX or directly through PayPal. Donate by PayPal here

 

 

NEW BADGES NOW AVAILABLE –check out the BPP Merchandise on www.bppuk.org – Badges Page 3

 

NEW – A4 MEMORIAL PICTURE OF JOHN TYNDALL

We have produced a new A4 colour laminated portrait of John Tyndall speaking. Ideal for framing, this a lasting memento to a great White Nationalist a great Leader whom the BPP sees still as it’s spiritual head. Order by post £2.00 including postage or online from our Merchandising Page through PayPal. www.bppuk.org

 

WANT TO MAKE REAL CHANGE TO WHITE NATIONALISM IN GREAT BRITAIN?

Then YOU should be a member of the British People’s Party. Download an application form from www.bppuk.org today and send in with the annual subscription of just £5.00 or drop us a line at BPP, BM Box 5581, London WC1N 3XX – and do it NOW!

 

IMPERIUM NO.8 Winter edition now available. Sample copy only £2.00 including postage. Spring edition out soon!

VANGUARD NO.6 March 2006 – issue now available – Stacks of articles/pics/cartoons and more…..£2.00 for a sample issue. £24.00 for 12 issues postage included.

Back issues of Vanguard are available Nos 1-3 at £2.00 per issue including postage.

 

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