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Thursday, April 24, 2008 Candidate Apathy We hear a lot about voter apathy, but what about when the candidates cannot even be bothered with democracy? I went to the Balsall Heath Hustings last night, looking forward to listening to a debate between the candidates so I could decide who to vote for having recently moved to the area. When I got there, I was very disappointed to find that only two candidates had turned up, namely the Respect candidate and the Conservative candidate.  Clearly the candidates for the Labour Party, the Lib Dems, the Greens, the BNP and the Independent Community Party had more important things to do. Apparently Mohammed Azim, the Labour party candidate has not been present at the hustings for the last three years! This leaves me in a bit of a problem. I was not p...

NOVANEWS Michael Gove is the Tory Shadow Education  secretary and he calls for ‘ a much tougher approach’ to confronting what he claims to be ‘ real problems’ with Muslim faith schools.(33) Mr Gove question why the government gave the Association of Muslim schools, a group of independent Islamic faith schools, a new right to establish its own separate inspection arrangements, even though its deputy chair Ibrahim Hewitt called ‘ Political Zionism a threat to world peace’. He also argues that Jewish schools are a role model for faith schools. ‘ One of the many gifts the Jewish community has given Britain is a brilliant working model of how to combine respect for religious tradition with commitment to shared British values’ he says. The question is what kind of values when the Secretary wen...

NOVANEWS   *INTERVIEW WITH JOHN REES NATIONAL SECRETARY OF RESPECT PARTY 07.02.2008   *RESPECT: SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY   *RESPECT: RENEWAL (GALLOWAY) (JUNE 10 VOTE THE UNITY COALITION GEROGE GALLOWAY- STATUE OF LIBERTY)   *SPLIT WITHIN THE PART HAS LED TO HOLDING TWO SEPARATE CONFERENCES ON SAME DAY ON 17.11.007 IN LONDON.   *IN OCTOBER ONE FACTION CGAGED THE LOCKS TO THE PARTY’S HEADQUARTERS IN EAST LONDON TO STOP THEIR RIVALS GERRING IN.   *REES:   *BLAMED GALLOWAY FOR THE SPLIT. GALLAWAY EX- LABOUR MP EXPELLED FROM THE PARTY 2003 ELECTED FIRST TO PARLIAMENT IN 1987. HE IS A LONG TIME FRIEND OF DICTATOR AND ADMIRER OF SADDAM.   *GALLOWAY:   BLAMED REES AS DRIVING AWAY MEMBERS. REES IS POLITICALLY UNTRUSTWORTHY.   GALLOWAY ‘COULDN’T LIVE ON THREE WORKERS WAGE, I NEED £150,000 A Y...

NOVANEWS January 29, 2008 Posted by: anjam Most readers will be familar with Salma Yaqoob: a Birmingham councillor for the far right Jamaat/Respect Renewal party. Salma Yaqoob has been involved in extreme islamist politics for a number of years. She cut her teeth on a campaign to defend relatives of Abu Hamza, who had been arrested in Yemen where they were engaged in jihadism. She also wrote for Inayat Bunglawala's "Trends" magazine, and penned a fantasy vision of Great Britain as an Islamic Republic, with Salman Rushdie fleeing for his life. Salma Yaqoob is the spokeswoman for the lunatic Chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque, Dr "Dancing Cows" Naseem, the conspiracy theorist and advocate of capital punishment for homosexuality, who is the largest single funder of RESPECT. Her own press o...

NOVANEWS Most readers will be familar with Salma Yaqoob: a Birmingham councillor for the far right Jamaat/Respect Renewal party. Salma Yaqoob has been involved in extreme islamist politics for a number of years. She cut her teeth on a campaign to defend relatives of Abu Hamza, who had been arrested in Yemen where they were engaged in jihadism. She also wrote for Inayat Bunglawala's "Trends" magazine, and penned a fantasy vision of Great Britain as an Islamic Republic, with Salman Rushdie fleeing for his life. Salma Yaqoob is the spokeswoman for the lunatic Chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque, Dr "Dancing Cows" Naseem, the conspiracy theorist, who is the largest single funder of RESPECT. Her own press officer is a RESPECT activist called Adam Yosef, who has been in trouble for his outspok...