GLA/2003/022PRESS RELEASE (Out to all National Dailies)
Tuesday 21 January 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE USE
Mayor refuses racist group permission to hold rally in Trafalgar Square Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, has turned down a request by the White Nationalist Party to hold a rally in Trafalgar Square.
The Mayor said today:
'I am going to continue my very strong line that Trafalgar Square is a place for all Londoners and
racism will not be tolerated or permitted there. I have told the White Nationalist Party that if they gather in the Square without permission, they will be in breach of bylaws and subject to prosecution.'
The White Nationalist Party are, according to their website, 'racial nationalists', who are opposed to the 'integration of races and the multi-racial society.'ends
For further information please contact Ben
McKnight on 020 7983 4071
PRESS RELEASE
This blatant discrimination by Ken Livingstone against a White Nationalist patriotic party who speak for the White people of Britain. Groups, political and cultural are allowed to use Trafalgar Square at any time it seems but a pro-White people’s party is banned on its first application.
The banning of the WNP rally which was to be a “No more Asylum Seekers in Britain!” open air meeting is a further blow to Free Speech for White Nationalists. The rally was scheduled for the 27th April. The WNP will now look for alternative sites and is also considering picketing Ken Livingstone’s office in our ongoing fight for Freedom of Speech.
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