This afternoon like many on the left I was forwarded the link to the list of BNP members. Many of my NUJ colleagues who have bravely taken the BNP head-on have found themselves on the vile Redwatch website -targetted as people to be intimidated . So once I get back from tonight's council meeting, I will be scouring that list closely.
Update: According to last night's Newsnight, a fair proportion of BNP membership is based around Blackburn and Halifax - both towns on my doorstep and both extremely vulnerable to being targetted by the BNP due to high levels of unemployment and deprivation.It's depressing news but hardly unexpected to anyone living in this corner of England. Burnley, just 10 miles away, is also BNP heartland. Though the heartening news is that groups like UNITE have won successful battles to see off most of the BNP councillors elected in recent years. Apparently, police are now perusing the list to see if any of their officers are signed up . The list also stretches into the teaching profession. I'm sad to report that it's common knowledge round here that one local teacher told a pupil who espoused interest in the Labour Party that she would "rather vote BNP."
Coupled with the recent glossy PR campaign being conducted by these right-wing scum, the truth is we have to take them head-on and defeat their foul racism. Once confined to the very fringes of political society, they are now mainstream
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
BNP WATCH.....
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Dear friends I would like to bring to your attention the hypocrisy of BNP leader Nick Griffin. While calling out Labour MPs for being gay on a homophobic page on the BNP website. We find Nick Griffin has his own hidden homosexual past according to the ex leader of the BNP John Tyndall. On the web pages of the now dead former BNP leader. http://spearhead.com/0310-jt2.html
Maybe Nick Griffin should come clean about his relationship with a former high ranking National Front official, Martin Webster. Before he starts looking into the beds of Gay MPs?
What follows is John Tyndalls own questioning report on the Nick Griffin gay story!
Well, it is interesting to learn that Nick Griffin these days considers defamation of himself a cause for action against the defamer, for this did not seem to be his attitude back in 1999, when a former high ranking National Front official, Martin Webster, put out a circular alleging a homosexual relationship between himself and Griffin back in the late 1970s. Webster, in doing this, challenged Griffin to take him to court for libel if the allegation was untrue. Griffin declined to do so, arguing that as Webster was a 'man of straw' he would not get any damages off him. This completely side-tracked the main issue, which was not one of money but of the personal honour and reputation of the leader of the BNP, and thus of the BNP itself.
But it was not only Webster whom Griffin could have sued. The story was covered in both The Sunday Times and Searchlight magazine, in the latter case being written in tones which gave credence to Webster's claims. Neither of these publications are exactly without assets, and Griffin could have got tidy sums off them had he taken them to court and won.
But he chose not to - which makes it strange that he is now so sensitive to imagined 'defamation' by me and has had me hounded out of the BNP for my troubles. As to whether Webster's story of a homosexual affair with Griffin was true or not, I simply don't know.
Maybe we should bring him out the closet!
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