The British National Party has started moves to copyright its
political slogans after the Labour Party stole the BNP-origin term
“Operation Fightback,” Nick Griffin MEP has announced.

Speaking to BNP News after Labour unveiled its “Operation Fightback”
banner at its flop conference this weekend, Mr Griffin said this
blatant theft was the second time that the Government had used a BNP
phraseology.

“Last year we saw Gordon Brown use the slogan ‘British jobs for
British workers’ at a Labour conference,” Mr Griffin said.

“Enough is enough; the BNP is now going to start copyrighting its
slogans to prevent the ideologically-bankrupt thieves at Labour HQ
from using our ideas,” he said.

‘Operation Fightback’ is a slogan that the BNP has been using since
before the European elections in June this year. The BNP program has
seen mass mobilisation by supporters objecting to lies told about the
party in the media which has resulted in several successful Press
Complaints Commission rulings and withdrawal statements being
published by several newspapers.

“What makes matters worse is the fact that Labour genuinely does not
believe any of the slogans which it uses,” continued Mr Griffin. “The
‘British jobs’ one, for example, was an outright lie as Mr Brown knows
very well that the European Union freedom of movement regulations
prevent the Government from reserving jobs for British nationals.”

The half-empty hall at the Labour conference also reflected the air of
desperation which marked Labour’s annual meeting. That party is on the
point of a massive implosion with backbenchers openly dismissing Mr
Brown as a “dead man walking” and pretenders to the throne already
jostling for position in the hope of kicking out what has clearly
become one of the most hopeless British Prime Ministers ever.

Labour’s desperation was also revealed with ‘Lord’ Peter Mandelson
declaring last week that he would be prepared to take up a post under
a Tory administration if his party lost the next election.

Although commentary on Mr Mandelson’s confession focussed on the fact
that he was in effect admitting defeat, the reality is that there is
so little difference between Labour and the Tories that it would make
almost no change for him.

http://bnp.org.uk/2009/09/bnp-to-copyright-its-slogans-to-stop-labour-stealing-them/

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 at 14:56:40, "Love Europe, Hate the EU" 
 wrote in uk.politics.electoral :

>The British National Party has started moves to copyright its
>political slogans after the Labour Party stole the BNP-origin term
>“Operation Fightback,” Nick Griffin MEP has announced.
>
>“What makes matters worse is the fact that Labour genuinely does not
>believe any of the slogans which it uses,” continued Mr Griffin. “The
>‘British jobs’ one, for example, was an outright lie as Mr Brown knows
>very well that the European Union freedom of movement regulations
>prevent the Government from reserving jobs for British nationals.”

But surely they'd prevent the BNP from doing so, too?
-- 
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

In article
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   "Love Europe, Hate the EU"  wrote:
> The British National Party has started moves to copyright its
> political slogans after the Labour Party stole the BNP-origin term
> “Operation Fightback,” Nick Griffin MEP has announced.

[Lots snipped]

Yes, I read about that.  Labour has also "borrowed" two designs from the
Conservatives -- their stage design (obvious when you look) and the cover
for a recently-released Think Tank report for Labour, which is obviously a
slightly-modified copy of the graphic on the cover of "The Plan" by
Douglas Carswell MP.  I have already covered that on my 'blog, as have
others including Douglas himself, with scans of both as proof.

Labour long ago ran out of original ideas, and these (now four) instances
show clearly just how desperate they are that they have to resort to
copying others even when it will be spotted straight away.  Not very
clever...

> Although commentary on Mr Mandelson’s confession focussed on the fact
> that he was in effect admitting defeat, the reality is that there is
> so little difference between Labour and the Tories that it would make
> almost no change for him.

Incorrect; but that is the view one has when viewing two distinct object
when one is a great distance away from both of them oneself.  One has to
closer to the mainstream feeling in the country as a whole to see that
they are quite distinct in a huge number of ways.

As some (many? most?) of us are able to do that, it demonstrates lack of
perceptual ability on the part of those who cannot perceive the
difference, and the fault is theirs.

-- 
John M Ward - see http://www.horsted.john-ward.org.uk
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