The white nationalist, Holocaust deniers party in Britain, the BNP, is going through a rough transitional stage right now. With around 50 members upset at the current leadership, a new, more authentic BNP is being created.
Oh, and the exiting members have informed the authorities about some of the original BNP’s illegal activities:
This week the leadership was accused of spying, theft and money laundering and dozens of key organisers have resigned the party whip and are now calling themselves the “Real BNP”.
Labour MP Jon Cruddas has handed a dossier of evidence to the Electoral Commission and the Metropolitan police that he says contains evidence of “alleged illegal activity and financial irregularities”.
Cruddas, who has several BNP councillors in his Barking constituency, told MPs in the House of Commons: “What’s been uncovered in the internal workings of the BNP appears to be systematic illegality in terms of data protection, bugging, money laundering, theft and the operation of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000.”
Detectives in Nottinghamshire have confirmed they are investigating claims that a BNP security team stole files and computer equipment from the home of a regional official. The Metropolitan Police said it had responded to the allegations but added it was not investigating the matter “at the current time.”
The BNP insists it has not done anything illegal and says the affair will “blow over” by Christmas.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
The split seems to have been made official at a BNP meeting on the 19th in Yorkshire. The meeting happened to be attended by a writer posing as a BNP supporter who recorded the events in an article for Stop the BNP:
The long trailed Fight night in Leeds City Centre yesterday turned into a pantomime as rival factions within the BNP slugged it out over a mince pie and a Christmas sherry. Leading the proceedings was local football hooligan Tony MacDonald, better known to Searchlight supporters as Tony Mac. Smashing a glass on a table he charged at Mark Collett promising to “cut your throat”, forcing the much maligned and recently demoted graphic designer to flee out the fire escape.
The rest of the evening was no less exciting as speaker after speaker spewed poison into the festive air. The highlight of the evening for me personally was the confirmation of the existence of a photo of Nick Griffin doing a Nazi salute. More of this later.
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Anyway, with the crowd howling, and Tony Mac still threatening all sorts to the increasingly white-faced Collett, it was Ian Dawson’s turn to respond. And so he did, attacking the party leadership and defending the actions of the rebels. I have to admit that it was hard to hear actually what Dawson was saying above the screams from behind me.
According to the script it was then meant to be the turn of Mark Collett to speak but in what was obviously a clearly planned intervention, Griffin rose to reply. Pushing aside the protests from the audience, Simon Darby explained that serious allegations had been made against the party leader so it was only right that he should be allowed to respond. This sent the crowd into a frenzy, not least from the barbarian behind me.
With Collett due to speak Tony Mac had decided that he had had enough. Shouting “I’m going to kill you”, “I’m going to cut your throat”, he charged forward, smashing a glass on the side of the table as he headed straight for Collett.
Lovely.
All hell broke loose, as the security team moved forward to block the charge. Of course, their priority was protecting Griffin so Collett was left to fend for himself. He did, at some haste, by fleeing like a whimpering dog out of the fire escape!
Complete chaos broke out, though given the audience and the background to the meeting it was hardly surprising. In the ensuing pandemonium at least a quarter of the audience walked out, some in disgust others in fear of their lives. All this could have been caught on BNP TV, which had been filming the meeting, had it not been for Tony Mac of making a point of pushing over the camera.
Some people have said that Griffin was punched but hand on heart I cannot say I saw that.
However, the evening was not over yet. In fact, this fight was not even the highlight of the proceedings. That came when an angry Tony Mac publicly confronted Griffin over his claims that the rebels were Nazis. “I have a picture of you in Scotland with Blood and Honour giving a Nazi salute. Do you deny that?
“If you do then it’ll be in the Sunday papers.”
Griffin looked on in silence, his face creasing up in horror.
“Ok,” said Tony Mac, “it’ll be in the Sunday papers”.
Fascinating. I wonder who will turn out to be the most racist, fascistic, group of Holocaust denying scum…
The reason I’m interested in this group is because some American ‘paleo-conservatives’ wish to make alliances with European parties like the BNP. I am strongly against this.
The BNP’s leader, Nick Griffen, for those who are unaware, has been denounced by David Horowitz for presuming to be an acceptable speaker at MSU’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. Griffen, a known Holocaust ‘minimizer,’ anti-Semite, and racist, was invited to speak by MSU’s Kyle Bristow, who never stopped defending Griffen, even when he found out about all the racist stuff.
Here’s Kyle and Nick now:
Oh, and here is Kyle, again, with The Only Man Who Can Save The WORLD!!!
These photos can be found on Kyle’s site.
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Makes our scandals seem kind of tame.
Too bad “Tony Mac” didn’t follow through with that pic of Griffen.
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[...] Last month there was a chance that we might see photos of Nick Griffin of the British National Party (BNP) at a Blood and Honour rally giving a Hitler-salute. This was the threat that fellow BNP member “Tony Mac” made: [...]