BNP’s Advisory Council to be shut down – the disasters continue

Thanks to Lancaster UAF

The BNP’s Advisory Council, which is in place ostensibly to oversee Griffin and the running of the party, is to be completely dismantled to make way for the new membership tier known as the ‘Voting Membership’. As we reported here, Griffin regards the new VMs as an ‘activist elite’, by which he presumably means they do as they’re told and they would support him whenever he embarks on yet another one of his lunatic schemes.According to information we’ve received, the unelected VMs will include organisers and active councillors at branch level as a matter of course, regional organisers, those officers of the party that remain after the coming reshuffle (or bloodbath, as one of our correspondents put it) but curiously (or perhaps not) not fundholders/treasurers – or certainly not those at branch level.Considering that Griffin made a point in his blog post of August 11th of specifically mentioning ‘effective powers of scrutiny over all central party finances’, we’re surprised that he intends to keep local financial managers out of the loop – but maybe we shouldn’t be all that surprised at all. BNP branches from all over the country have been griping for the last couple of years that money gushes eternally into the black hole that is BNP HQ, and is rarely returned in any way, even, it is frequently said, in the form of election leaflets that have been bought and paid for. The last thing Griffin would want is someone demanding financial accountability all the time, which is why he will effectively keep the financial side of things directly under the control of the party’s treasurer (currently John Walker though not, we suspect, for very much longer).One sign that clearly indicates the diminishing role of the Advisory Council is that though it is intended that it should meet ‘no less than three times each year’ according to the BNP’s website, it has in fact not met since last September – very nearly a year. And this is the body currently charged with a number of crucial tasks:’The purpose of the Advisory Council is to inspect the party’s accounts, ensuring proper conduct of the party’s finances, and to act as a forum for the party’s leadership to discuss vital issues and carve out the party’s agenda, without hindering the Chairman’s ability to make the final decision on all matters.’The lack of Advisory Council meetings might then go some way towards explaining why the party accounts are so late.Problems seem to be rife for the BNP’s Advisory Council at the moment, despite the usually politically-somnolent summer period. Jonathan Bowden left both the Advisory Council and the BNP itself in a fury after Griffin’s attack-dogs at Covert were set on him at the end of July, Scott McLean has resigned the Advisory Council and his post as Deputy Chairman over the Andrew Spence debacle and Steve Blake now appears to be directly in the firing line over a constant stream of criticism of the BNP website, which is about as bland as a political site can possibly get without anasthetic, and far worse, having signed Chris Jackson’s nomination papers in the recent leadership election. It looks like he’s a strong candidate for the bloodbath, probably alongside his pal Eddie Butler, the former BNP election guru (attacked by fruitcake Tony Lecomber a while back) who, after the lacklustre results for the party in the May elections is now apparently frequently described by Griffin as a twat (and worse). We confidently expect to be waving goodbye to both Butler and Blake in the very near future.Thus the Advisory Council dissolves around Griffin’s ears, ready to rise again in the form of a loose body of activists, the Voting Membership, and Griffin will only have to suffer the ignominy of answering to it once a year at the party’s annual conference. This will effectively hand dictatorial powers to the leader of this already far from democratic party, giving him carte blanche to do as he pleases when he pleases with nobody to answer to except his unelected hardcore activists who he has himself placed into their positions of authority. Who in their right minds would give any party leader that kind of complete power over his party – especially someone as notoriously untrustworthy as Nick Griffin? And who would want to be a member of a party where the ordinary membership is regarded as of no value at all except for the price of their membership card?We hear Jackie Griffin is swanning around showing off her nice new Peugeot sports car – a snip at around six and a half grand. The election results for the BNP might be crap, the executive of the party might be collapsing, the fake businesses dying off as fast as they are formed and the membership figures stagnating but the money still appears to be fast-flowing into the Griffin household. If I were a party member, I’d be worrying about that.

One of Griffin’s ‘vermin’ begins the fightback against BNP corruption

According to a comment over at the North-West Nationalist blog, this was sent in to the Sandwell Express Star.

Thanks to Lancaster UAF

Dear Sir

In response to Simon Darby’s comments about me resigning from British National Party. I would like to thank him for acknowledging the hard work done myself in the party. With the exception of a particular Judas, most of the Black Country BNP are first class folk.

There has been a rumour I resigned because of the party’s failure to allow me to promote the idea that 911 was an inside job. This isn’t actually the case.

My resignation followed the disclosure of a private email to a supposed friend and colleague Ken Griffiths. The substance of the email was that based on events surrounding an article about Nick Griffin’s wheeler dealing in Croatia, his meddling in the affairs of the independent trade union Solidarity and such items as £63,000 being spent on “travel and entertainment” (see 2005 BNP accounts at the electoral commission), it was about time we started educating the membership about what I believed we mutually recognised as serious financial mismanagement of the party. In fact it was Ken Griffiths along with a few others two years ago that encouraged me to examine Nick Griffin’s history and therefore his leadership of the party.

I’ve worked for the party as a volunteer for over five years. Three years as the Black Country organiser. This work was unpaid. I may have claimed £60 at most in petrol in that time and of course have suffered in my employment. Famously being sacked as a teacher in 2004. The party’s support was pathetic. The so called party legal eagle failed to advise me that I had three months to appeal to an industrial tribunal. I am currently investigating a sickening allegation that a substantial donation from a member of the public was made to myself following my sacking but didn’t quite find its way to me.

At national level huge amounts are raised. The “Trafalgar Club ” rakes in £72,000 a year according to other ex BNP figures that were close to Griffin [we've been told at least £90,000 but there you go]. Financial transparency , other than what has to be provided for the electoral commission is non existent. There are other large donations that are rumoured to have been made but not declared. This is the tip of the iceberg in my opinion.

So how is the British National Party being run ? There is a genuine need for a Nationalist Party in Britain. In my opinion Nick Griffin who is a fantastic (self) publicist and orator, runs the party as a private family business – in doing so it is also necessary to appoint dubiously moral lieutenants to keep it like that . It is a money based not ideologically based operation . As such it is necessary to periodically purge the party of thinkers and those who are capable of critical thought to keep it like that.

Cllr Simon Smith

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Back by popular demand the 2008 Searchlight calendar – a year of protest pictures with a large dash of HOPE

With special thanks to David Hoffman, Mike Cohen, John Ferguson, Billy Bragg, Nick Lowles and the hundreds of other photographers that have donated their time and efforts in the fight against hate.

American Friend of BNP sent to prison

Shaun Walker-Special Overseas Guest at a recent BNP RWB Festival

Two members of the white-separatist National Alliance were sentenced Monday to prison terms for plotting to intimidate minorities into staying off the streets of Salt Lake City, an offense that a judge called “one of the ugliest things we can encounter.”
Shaun A. Walker, the group’s national chairman, was ordered to spend 87 months behind bars and Eric G. Egbert, an associate, was given a 42-month term.
“The ugliness of this case is the racist nature of it,” U.S. District Judge Dee Benson said in meting out the punishment.
The defendants – Walker, 39, of Hillsboro, W.Va., who once lived in Utah, and Egbert, 23, of Salt Lake City – were convicted in April by a federal jury of conspiracy to interfere with civil rights and interference with a federally protected activity in connection with the 2002 and 2003 beatings in Salt Lake City of two minority men.
The sentencing of a third defendant, 30-year-old Travis D. Massey of Salt Lake City, was delayed because he was granted permission to get a new defense attorney. Massey, who has served as a spokesman in Utah for the group, was convicted of the same two counts as his co-defendants.
Prosecutors say the crimes were designed to send a message that the Salt Lake community is meant for whites. A grand jury indictment issued last year alleged that the trio conspired to provoke fights with persons perceived to be “nonwhite” to make them afraid to work, live or appear in public.
In seeking the indictment, law-enforcement authorities said hate crimes will not be tolerated.
“We’re going to continue to be aggressive in this area,” U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman said Monday.
The indictment claims that Walker, Massey and Egbert threatened minority patrons on Dec. 31, 2002, at O’Shucks, a Salt Lake City bar.
The three then allegedly assaulted a Mexican-American bartender “because he was and had been enjoying employment,” which is a federally protected activity.
According to the indictment, Massey and another man on March 15, 2003, also assaulted an American Indian man at the Port O’Call bar in Salt Lake City. That other man, Keith Cotter, testified at trial against the three defendants.
The West Virginia-based National Alliance complains of “out-of-control” immigration by minorities, an alleged Jewish monopoly of the mass media and political correctness in education.
The group was founded in 1974 by William Pierce, a former associate of the American Nazi Party and the author of The Turner Diaries novel about a race war in the United States.
The book inspired acts of domestic terror, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombers, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama organization that tracks hate crimes.
The center says the National Alliance had 1,400 members at one point, but went into decline after Pierce died in 2002, with its membership dwindling to about 200.

http://www.sltrib.com

Purged! BNP councillor Simon Smith forced out

Thanks to Voice of Reason.

One of the BNP’s better known West Midlands councillors has been forced out of the party as Nick Griffin and his acolytes continue their long predicted purge of the “vermin” who supported Chris Jackson against Griffin in the BNP’s rigged leadership contest.

Ostensibly resigning his membership, a statement issued by Griffin’s deputy Simon Darby leaves little doubt that Smith’s resignation was anything but voluntary.

In a communication that should affront the intelligence of even the dimmest BNP member, Darby says:

It was well known that former Black Country organiser Simon Smith was
a supporter of Chris Jackson in the recent leadership challenge. This was of course his democratic right and further to this two senior representatives of the challenger’s campaign spoke openly at a Black Country meeting freely promoting their candidate.

Unfortunately, at this meeting despite being asked to refrain from expressing his personal beliefs, during his own speech Simon Smith once again referred to 9/11 as being “an inside job”. In fact, despite having being told how politically damaging this form of pro-Muslim crankery could be, he emphasised his belief twice stating that “he would stake his life on it”.

Shortly after the Leadership election Simon Smith was made aware that an investigation was to take place concerning how a membership list had made its way to a former Birmingham organiser. This list, although sent to several people, was in fact never actually used. Further to this Simon Smith was told that the list dated back to the time when he was heavily involved in processing Party memberships and at one point during that time scale Simon Smith had actually left his computer at the home of that former Birmingham organiser. At no point however, was it inferred at that time that Simon Smith was actually to blame for the severe breach of security.

On the 27th July, after the leadership election results had been announced, Simon Smith sent an email to several BNP members as well as other people. Unforgiveably, one of the two attachments also contained in this email was an article complete with reader comments copied directly from a UAF site.

Simon Smith was shown a copy of the original email he had sent out early yesterday (August 14) afternoon and asked to explain the very serious implications as to what he had done. Three hours later Simon Smith admitted to having sent the email and announced that he was resigning from the BNP.

There we have the truth of the matter.

The “truth of the matter”?

Today Simon Darby told the Birmingham Post something slightly different:

“We had a leadership election which Nick Griffin won with 91 per cent of the vote. Simon could not accept that.”

Darby’s first statement is, of course, for internal BNP consumption. He brings in Smith’s frequently stated contention that the attack on the Twin Towers was “an inside job” (not exactly an uncommon opinion on the far-Right), and says that Smith was asked to refrain from making such statements having been told “how politically damaging this form of pro-Muslim crankery could be”. How this could be damaging in a meeting open only to BNP members isn’t clear – but that Jackson supporters like Smith were being told by Griffinites what they could and could not say in an internal election meeting speaks volumes for the paranoia at the top of the party.

The deputy chairman’s next trick is to effectively blame Smith for a BNP membership list falling into the hands of Sharon Ebanks, while claiming not to blame him at all. If “At no point… was it inferred at that time that Simon Smith was actually to blame for the severe breach of security” then why does Darby mention it at all? Why does Darby include the strange qualification “at that time”? Is it being inferred now?

Finally there is Simon Smith’s email. Darby does not disclose the contents, which presumably contain the real meat of the subject, but again pandering to his largely gullible BNP audience he lays stress on an attachment that apparently included an article complete with reader comments copied directly from a UAF site. How that could be seen as a crime, even by the standards of the BNP, is anybody’s guess – though we’d hazard a guess as to which site the post and comments came from .

That Smith included such matter with his email gives us a very good idea of how that email must have read – unpleasantly, for Nick Griffin, we must suppose. And whatever it said was clearly used as a pretext to force Smith into jumping before the threat of being pushed was carried out. Reading Darby’s disingenuous words, you can almost see the gun being held to Smith’s head.

The simple fact is that Smith’s resignation has nothing to do with “pro-Muslim crankery”, missing membership lists and email attachments lifted from UAF websites.

It’s about retribution against those who have finally worked out that something is very wrong at the top of the BNP and dared to say so, and it’s about exterminating the last vestiges of internal opposition to Nick Griffin.

With the departure of Simon Smith the BNP has lost yet another councillor. The character of that councillor may leave much to be desired but in BNP terms he was just the ticket – he ungraciously walked out of a council meeting that elected a Sikh as mayor of Sandwell, and has compared Hitler with Christ, among other matters.

That Griffin – and it can only have been Griffin – was prepared to force one of his tiny band of councillors out of the party, risking attendant negative publicity for the BNP and yet another blow to the morale of its members heavily underlines the lesson for so long taught here and at our allied websites: whatever the average BNP member may think the BNP is, Griffin has different ideas. First and foremost it is, as the veteran fascist Martin Webster puts it, the Griffin Family Business.

It’s Griffin’s cash-cow and he’s not going to surrender it lightly, as his insane blog rantings against the “cranks” “Hollywood Nazis” “congenital losers” “thieves” and “vermin” who had the temerity to ask awkward questions and mount a challenge against him have discovered.

It’s only a matter of time before the next victim of Griffin’s paranoia is selected for the chop. Keep watching this space.

Councillor quits BNP over leadership row

A suspended Black Country BNP councillor has resigned from the party following an “internal” disagreement.

Coun Simon Smith, who was suspended from Sandwell Council earlier this month, walked out of the far right party as he could not accept the re-election of Nick Griffin as leader, it has been claimed.

The local authority’ standards committee suspended Coun Smith (Great Bridge) for three months after he put “hateful and abusive” material towards ethnic minorities on his council website.

It is unclear whether he will continue as an independent councillor when his suspension expires in October.

Simon Darby, deputy leader of the BNP, said: “This is an internal matter. Simon has gone his own way with regard to policy.

“We had a leadership election which Nick Griffin won with 91 per cent of the vote. Simon could not accept that.

“He is his own man and there are some things that he believes which we do not want to get involved in as a political party.”

Coun Smith was found to have brought his office and authority into disrepute by the council following a Standards Board for England investigation into allegations that he had breached the Code of Conduct.

He is also required to attend training on diversity issues and on the use of the council’s website. He could not be contacted for comment today.

http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/birminghampost

Nick Griffin’s most recent Chairman’s Blog post deconstructed

Thanks to Lancaster UAF

After an astonishing five-month hiatus that illustrated pretty much everything that he thought of communication with the membership, Nick Griffin has finally updated his Chairman’s Blog, earning himself the 2007 Pinnochio Award for most lies told in a single blog post. The first lie, although maybe it’s a pig-farmer’s idea of a joke which I just didn’t get, is where he explains the reasons for not posting on his blog since Methusaleh was at kindergarten, where he states that ‘I enjoy writing the blog too much…I am very wary of making it too regular’. You can stop worrying, Nick. One post after a five-month gap is not too regular, no matter how you try to spin it.

Griffin immediately goes on the attack against those around the recent leadership challenge. Obviously furious that anyone would dare to stand against him, you can almost hear the spluttering and see his face redden as the blood pressure rises.

‘The challenge was not a genuinely legitimate one from a candidate with the genuine ability to run this party as it is, let alone take it further forward. It was a pathetic, pitiful, desperate attempt to cause trouble for the most modernised and most successful nationalist party in British history by a handful of cranks left over from the BNP’s most sterile past, aided and abetted by a gaggle of Hollywood Nazis, congenital losers and thieves.’

As the latest copy of Searchlight points out, five founder-members, two advisory council members, three councillors, eight branch organisers and 20 election candidates came out openly in support of the challenger Chris Jackson. Presumably, Griffin means them. But he isn’t finished yet…

‘…he should have known better than to allow himself to be wound up and manipulated by such vermin. I’m certainly not going to kick him out for standing against me (for one thing, by giving the membership the chance to give me a 91% mandate to continue with our current direction…)’

Interesting use of the word ‘vermin’ there. More important though is this frequently quoted ‘91% mandate’ that Griffin received in the leadership vote. As has been pointed out elsewhere, Griffin and other BNP contributors crowed when Labour were voted in on a minority vote, claiming that the ’silent majority’ had spoken by not voting at all. Curious how he seems unable to transfer this to his own situation where, because of the pitiful 43% turnout for the leadership election in the tiny BNP, it turns out that Nick Griffin’s mandate is a mere 39%. Not a mandate at all, in fact.

Strangely, Griffin chooses discussion of the leadership challenge to discuss democracy within this least democratic of all political parties, dismissing as ‘Tory nationalists’ all those who call for a one-member one-vote (OMOV) system to replace the current ‘Voting Membership’ system within the BNP, which gives the vote on issues of importance only to those who can afford to pay more money for their membership; clearly votes for cash – exactly the phrase the BNP shouts at anyone who is accused of corruption at the ballot box. The attack on those calling for internal democracy within the party, and the inevitable result of such calls, is stated unequivocally:

‘This group must now accept that their scheme to put the destiny of the BNP in the hands of anyone who deigns to pay their membership has been comprehensively and permanently rejected, in favour of a system that gives power only to those who have earned it, and who continue to earn it. The argument is over, and anyone trying to raise it again against the repeatedly expressed will of the vast majority of the party will mark themselves out as a would-be saboteur and a candidate for expulsion.’

So no OMOV and no discussion of OMOV allowed either. How very democratic.

Griffin’s post then goes off into a curiously disturbing diversion about a young BNP member suspected of being a mole for Searchlight. In this section, he speaks of the young man corresponding with Gerry Gable ‘from an email account set up for him by a BNP loyalist, so we were able to see precisely what he was doing…’ Er, what? You read the guy’s emails? Isn’t that illegal? And does the BNP regularly read through the emails of members that have been set up for them by ‘BNP loyalists’?

Whether that’s the case or not we don’t know but Griffin’s BNP is certainly trying to control many aspects of the member’s lives that aren’t entirely to do with the BNP itself. Referring to those he calls ‘conspiracy-mongers’, Griffin states clearly that;

‘They are perfectly entitled to believe whatever they want to believe, and to discuss their beliefs privately with others already of like mind. But they are not to go posting their fancies online…they are not to spout their theories at meetings, either as officials or from the floor. They are not to write to local newspapers…and they are not to pour their personal opinions into the ears of new or young activists.’

Did the phrase ‘thought-police’ just pop into your head? Because it did in mine.

Griffin then goes on to attempt to deflect two of the most recent accusations against him and the party, concerning Croatia and the Trafalgar Club money. Regarding Croatia, he attempts to dismiss all discussion with, curiously because up until now there has only been denial, an attempt at an explanation.

‘We were offered a share in the profits for the party if we could provide the contacts needed to develop land there inherited by a long-term party supporter, and on that basis myself and several others made a brief exploratory visit. As it happens, for various reasons we concluded that the project was probably a non-starter, so that’s the end of that.’

Not so fast, boyo. As we mentioned here and Stop the BNP reported here, there is rather more to this story than is at first apparent. The fact that Roberto Fiore is lurking around in the background in all of this, gives the whole idea a lot more credibility, if only because Fiore has been involved in at least two previous attempts to start ‘white nationalist’ communities in the past (both of them with Griffin, oddly enough), one in France and one in Spain. The further facts that the land has been bought and paid for and is regularly and increasingly visited by BNP bigwigs and that there has been much talk of offshore accounts and so on, lead one to assume that Griffin is trying to deflect too much interest in the project at this early stage in its development. Hard luck – we’re interested and we’re staying interested.

Regarding the Trafalgar Club accounts, which Griffin certainly doesn’t want anyone prying into, he refers to ‘the allegation that the income and expenditure of the Trafalgar Club does not appear in the BNP’s accounts. Of course it does, every single penny…’

Er, where? Early last month, we printed an article that questioned the Trafalgar Club income. We received no answers then and we really don’t expect any this time either but in a spirit of optimism, we’ll try again.

‘One of the emails [we had recently received] pointed out that the Trafalgar Club (the Trafalgar Club is the group for the wealthier BNP member – allegedly the ‘elite’) members pay £180 per year for the privilege of belonging to it which apparently entitles them to a TC tie and an annual blow-out with Griffin. Wow – that must be worth £180 of anyone’s money! The email then went on to point out that there are about 200 Trafalgar Club members which, to my reckoning, comes to around £36,000 per year. Added to this are the emails we received which pointed out that the annual Trafalgar Club dinner saw a collection which came out at £10-15,000. Yet the only mention of the Trafalgar Club in the BNP’s accounts for 2004/5 are of the £4000 it apparently cost to set it up in 2004, and income of £1155 in 2005. Clearly there is a major problem in the accounts there which we expect either the auditors or the Electoral Commission to watch for in a couple of weeks when the next accounts are due to appear.’

And now we get to the little matter of the resignation from the Deputy Chairmanship and the Advisory Council (though not the party itself) of Scott McLean, following the appalling Collet/Spence/Walker incident at last week’s Red White and Blue annual piss-up. As we reported, having received a few emails from irate BNP members, ‘Scott McLean, Griffin’s Deputy Chairman and the person responsible for maintaining discipline in the party, has clearly stated that he is resigning, having told all his long-time pals in the party that his position has been undermined again and again by Griffin’s constant refusal to take action against Collett. We’re informed that McLean gave Griffin an ultimatum a few days ago – him or Collett – and Griffin is sticking to Collett.’

Nick Griffin has always rewritten history to suit himself and his blog post carries a fine example.

‘By one of those strange coincidences that is probably nothing of the sort, Scott McLean, who has held the Deputy Chairmanship responsibility as a steady rock for seven years now, called me a week before the RWB and told me that he is stepping down from the position, and from the Advisory Council. He explained that he needs to concentrate on with a very hectic business and family life without the BNP Sword of Damocles poised to fall on his head at a moment’s notice without any warning.’

What a load of rubbish. If anyone in the BNP believes that, they’re an bigger idiot than even we would believe. You’ll remember that the BNP has tried this on on a number of occasions when things have been going pear-shaped for the party. One of the most notable was when Robert Cottage was arrested in October of last year for stockpiling chemicals that could be used to make explosives. The BNP announced that Cottage was no longer a member, though omitted to mention that membership then ran from January to December and that Cottage had stood for a council seat for the party in May 2006 and thus would have had to be a fully paid-up member at that time. A stupid lie that the party has tended to repeat ad nauseum despite the fact that everyone knows it’s a lie.

Curiously, there is a section on the new voting arrangements within the party that absolutely no-one internally appears to be questioning – the peculiar ‘Voting Membership activist elite’ that will be deciding how the party is run in future.

Griffin has mentioned something similar before but now he’s being more explicit. Torn between the desire to keep control of the party in the hands of his closest allies, and increasingly strident calls for greater internal democracy, he has apparently compromised by creating the new membership tier (the Voting Membership, who pay more to have that voting power).

This ‘elite’ who, let’s face it, are all likely to be Griffin’s chums anyway (organisers and so on) are to get a number of extra rights over and above their extraordinary voting rights. It should be noted that an ex-colleague of Griffin’s back in the old days when the late and unlamented John Tyndall was in charge of the BNP, recently pointed out that ‘the only thing consistent between now and then has been [Griffin's] desire for a multi-tiered membership. Something that has always seemed like an attempt to solve a problem that does not actually exist.’ Indeed.

These additional rights for the elite include (don’t laugh) ‘effective powers of scrutiny over all central party finances’, ‘key failsafe powers over the leader and leadership elections at present vested in the Advisory Council and Deputy Chairman’ (the role of DC going along with Scott McLean into the dustbin of BNP history), and ‘to step up the level of ideological training for VMs’. Quite what this last bit means, we have no idea, but the phrase ‘ideological training’ sounds deeply worrying and something one would expect to hear from an internment camp for political dissidents.

Interestingly, Griffin then segues into a piece on the need to find a role within the BNP for Arthur Kemp. Kemp was mentioned in July’s Searchlight as a former operative in South African Intelligence and, of course, the author of the monumental March of the Titans: The History of the White Race. A few chapter headings should give you a rough idea of which way Kemp’s ideology leans.

‘The rise and fall of civilizations explained in terms of their racial homogeneity; with the Near East civilizations as examples.’

‘Roman conquest of mixed race Middle and Near East lands; Influx of mixed race peoples and slaves into Rome causes dissolution of original Roman population.’

‘The White Race war against the non-White Muslims in Palestine; Egypt, North Africa and Portugal, under the guise of Christianity.’

‘The non-White Moors invade Europe and are driven out by White armies; Jewish co-operation with the non-White Moors.’

‘White civil wars caused by Christianity; One third of the White Race killed as a result.’

‘Whites explore and start settling the world’

‘The White Conquest of South and Central America and the creation of modern South American population; fall of Incas and Aztecs explained through racial mixing.’

‘All significant inventions which shape the world originate with the White Race; comprehensive list of inventors, inventions, dates, places.’

‘The Jewish role in the creation of Communism; Soviet anti-Zionism.’

‘The dissolution of contemporary Western civilization through breakdown in racial homogeneity; racial discordance (race and crime); Current rates of non-White immigration will mean not one majority White country left on earth by 2090.’

I’m pretty sure you’ve got the gist. Kemp is a hardcore racist and white supremacist. Unfortunately, though not perhaps unsurprisingly, the job of ideological training within the BNP is to pass directly into his hands. It looks like a return to more hardcore racism and continued/increased adoration for the ‘White Race’ at the BNP in the future.

This sudden inclusion of the despicable Kemp into the inner circle of the BNP – in fact to the very top of the party – could well indicate a coming significant change to its stance on race and how the BNP deals with it. If I were Pat Richardson (Jewish), Laurence Rustem (Anglo-Turkish), both BNP councillors, or Sharif Abdel Gawad (Greek-Armenian), a former BNP council candidate, I’d be extremely nervous. In fact, if I was a BNP member at all, I’d be nervous. There is a feeling of great shift in the air, partly generated, I believe, by the leadership challenge and all the recent controversy around Griffin, money and (among other things) Croatia. When a dictator gets nervous, he tends to lash out in all directions. Griffin’s most recent blog post reads like the first crack of the whip. We believe there are a lot more to come.

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Look out it’s king of the Aryan Nations Sid Williamson.

I bet his mum is so proud !

BNP Leadership challenge organised by “vermin” – Griffin

Thanks to Voice of Reason for this

Ominously warning of “what is going to happen over the coming months” BNP leader Nick Griffin has characterised those who supported Chris Jackson’s leadership challenge as “cranks”, “Hollywood Nazis, congenital losers and thieves”, and “vermin”.

In a blog entry worthy of a Stalin Griffin claims that Jackson’s challenge was not “genuinely legitimate” (sic) and “was a pathetic, pitiful, desperate attempt to cause trouble” for the BNP.

In fact, as anybody following coverage of the leadership election both here and at Lancaster UAF will be aware, the challenge was mounted by BNP members concerned by Griffin’s cronyism and persistent allegations of dubious financial dealings, and was hamstrung from the start by the conditions Griffin laid down for the contest.

Nobody ever doubted that Griffin would win, but Griffin feared that a respectable vote for Jackson (around 20%) would hole him beneath the waterline and set the stage for a more effective challenge next year. In the event Jackson won nearly 10% of the vote – despite the patently rigged nature of the contest, – reflecting the existence of a strong anti-Griffin tendency among more informed BNP members.

Correctly deducing Chris Jackson to be a “stalking horse” candidate, Griffin and his acolytes were sure to move against Jackson’s backers and a post-election purge was always a certainty. The BNP’s accomplished dirty tricks department (deployed against Jackson throughout his campaign) claimed its first scalp with Jonathan Bowden, viciously and untruthfully smeared as a “child abuser” on a blog operated by friends of Nick Griffin. In his letter of resignation Bowden said: “I am sick and tired of the human scum and vermin which proliferate in such shallow waters… I do not wish to associate even tangentially with such low-grade lycanthropes and psychotic criminals…”

In his blog Griffin rails against those who “scheme” for the democratisation of the BNP (a plank of the Jackson campaign) and leaves no room for doubt as to what will happen to anybody daring to raise the issue again – they “will mark themselves out as a would-be saboteur and a candidate for expulsion”.

Perhaps nagged at by the thought that his long and hysterical neo-Stalinist tirade might be too much even for the most naive of his worshipful following, Griffin cleverly interrupts himself with a pointless tale of how he has just rushed off to save the life of a helpless little lamb. The lickspittles out in BNP blog-land won’t fail to be impressed more by Griffin’s alleged mission of mercy than they ever will by the uncomfortable implications of his anti-democratic message.

In events running parallel to the later stages of the Jackson campaign, the BNP’s fake union, Solidarity, fell apart amid accusations of corruption aimed at its General Secretary – old comrade of Nick Griffin, Patrick Harrington. The accusations were made by Solidarity’s President, BNP member Clive Potter and the allegedly non-political Tim Hawke (though we believe he has connections with Ipswich BNP).

Griffin’s intervention in the affairs of a “trade union” supposedly unconnected to the BNP has been well documented on these pages, but now he has gone further and added Clive Potter to the long list of people expelled from the British National Party.

A Stormfront poster, who may or may not be Potter, but who seems to be close to the official Solidarity Executive Committee, has this to say:

It will probably come as no surprise to people who’ve been following the fate of the Solidarity Union that Clive Potter, the President of the Union, and one of its Founders in 2005, has been “Expelled”.

This of course, is a totally political “Expulsion”.

Clive has not, to my knowledge, committed any acts that would cause him to be disciplined as a BNP member.

This is to do with Solidarity. But Solidarity is independent of the party so it is obvious that one cannot be “Expelled” for actions as President of Solidarity.

The story goes something like this (but please don’t take my word for it. Check the documents at www.solidarityunion.org especially the Minutes of July 9th and the Summary and Report of Investigations on Patrick Harrington):

Patrick Harrington, after a history of going against the agreement of the other two members of the Executive Committee, fails repeatedly to come up with the accounts and then demands a lap-top and payment from the union members’ fees.

When the EC refuses Harrington goes to Nick Griffin with his demands.

Nick Griffin orders Potter and Hawke to give Harrington what he wants.

Potter and Hawke refuse and after repeated failures to bring forth the accounts vote 2:0 to put Harrington under suspension and investigation.

Griffin sides with Harrington and when Harringtno hi-jacks the union and union web-site asks Clive Potter to resign as President, so that Harrington can take over.

Griffin also threatens that he will declare Clive Potter a “socio-path” if he doesn’t go along with the take-over of the union by Harrington and Griffin.

Clive Potter refuses to be intimidated and so is “Expelled” from the party even though this has nothing to do with the party, and Griffin should have absolutely nothing to do with Solidarity.

Potter and Hawke have also been smeared as being guilty of a union “take-over plot” and a “plot against Solidarity and Nick Griffin”.

How can the Official Executive Committee of the Union be charged with “trying to take it over”????

This really is a joke.

The bottom line is, Clive Potter has been expelled from the BNP for not resigning as President of Solidarity, and for not acquiesing to the hi-jacking of the union and union web-site by Harrington, backed up by Griffin.

Clive was expelled on July 17th.

However, so as not to influence the leadership election in any way, I did not hear of this until after July 26th. (Griffin does not deserve such consideration).

It is also clear on the summary and report on Patrick Harrington on www.solidarityunion.org that the publication of these on the web-site was also delayed until end of poll on 26th, because Potter and Hawke had also been “accused” of backing Chris Jackson in the election. As Executives of Solidarity they wished to be seen as impartial. (The reports had been completed on July 4th.)

Clive Potter has been in the BNP since 1998 and I believe voted for Griffin in 1999. He supported Griffin and Collett throughout the two years or so of the “Free Speech Trials”. He is a decent man who goes beyond the call of duty in helping a friend. He is a patriot, and as far as he is concerned, Solidarity should be run for the interests of its members, decent British workers, and nothing else.

So Clive Potter now is added to the list of decent patriots who have fallen foul of Griffin.

Griffin seems to have a genius for turning some of his best activists and most loyal supporters against him. But then I’m pretty sure he doesn’t care, in fact, I’m pretty sure it’s deliberate. People who are decent and ethical are an especial threat.

I am in no doubt now that Griffin does not care about the BNP, neither does he care about his country or his people.

So Clive is expelled from the party, but he is still the official President of Solidarity and Tim Hawke the official Vice-President. This was voted for by us, the members, in the AGM of February 2006.

The BNP has lost another one of its assets.

The BNP cannot afford to loose Jonathan Bowden, Andrew Spence, Clive Potter or any other of its hard-working loyal activists no matter at what level. It could not afford to loose the decent people in the past either, such as the Edwardses.

Expulsion should be a very rare disciplinary outcome, and should be reserved for people guilty of very serious misconduct only.

Shame we can’t expel Griffin for his Treason.

Yours,
B.P. [British Patriot]

As another poster hints, Griffin needs to have a very good and legally sound reason for expelling Potter, or there may be serious financial repercussions for the BNP should Potter decide to take the matter to court.

Who’s next in Griffin’s sights? Well our friend and contributor Antifascist has produced a masterful assessment of the dismal prospects in store for former blue-eyed boy Richard Barnbrook, BNP group leader on Barking and Dagenham council. Bowden, Spence, McLean and Potter gone – will Barnbrook be next? is a must-read for all BNP-watchers.

Griffin has a lot of names on his hit-list (not least the 100 BNP members who signed Chris Jackson’s nomination papers), and it seems that the BNP’s long hot summer of strife is set to continue for some time to come.