I had the unfortunate pleasure (!) of listening to Nick Griffin on Radio 4 this lunchtime.
He came out with the usual drivel, and bandied about the noxious mix of inaccuracies, falsehoods, and downright lies that characterise him and his so-called political party.
I wanted to challenge him as a soi-disant Christian who believes that"Christianity is the tapestry upon which our country's heritage was woven", where is his Christian charity?
After all, according to the Bible, has not God "made all nations 'of one blood'" (Acts 17:26)?
The man is a whey-faced poltroon, a chiselling charlatan, and a craven coward who uses other peoples' faith as a stick with which to beat them.
Showing posts with label bnp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bnp. Show all posts
Friday, 30 April 2010
Monday, 19 April 2010
Alienation not Immigration fuels the BNP
A fascinating, and I believe hugely important, new report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) concludes that it is not immigration but alienation and an inability to overcome social challenges such as isolation and low skills which are the main drivers for BNP support.
This is something that I have been saying for a long time, backed by my experiences trudging the streets in the more deprived parts of West Yorkshire.
The finding contradicts the argument that immigration is to "blame" for pushing voters into the arms of the BNP.
If anything, the opposite is true, namely where folk have experience of living with migrants they are LESS likely to vote to the BNP.
It is also axiomatic of a wider political and social truth, the more we have an opportunity of getting to know each other, the more our lives overlap, whether at school, at work, or even at leisure the more we can understand and appreciate each other and realise that there is much more that unites us than divides us, and indeed often learning to celebrate that diversity.
The report can be downloaded from here http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=742
This is something that I have been saying for a long time, backed by my experiences trudging the streets in the more deprived parts of West Yorkshire.
The finding contradicts the argument that immigration is to "blame" for pushing voters into the arms of the BNP.
If anything, the opposite is true, namely where folk have experience of living with migrants they are LESS likely to vote to the BNP.
It is also axiomatic of a wider political and social truth, the more we have an opportunity of getting to know each other, the more our lives overlap, whether at school, at work, or even at leisure the more we can understand and appreciate each other and realise that there is much more that unites us than divides us, and indeed often learning to celebrate that diversity.
The report can be downloaded from here http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=742
Monday, 5 April 2010
Violence begets only violence
I was shocked and horrified to read that the leader of a political party had been threatened with violence and even death by some members of his own party.
That it was in this country was doubly worse, and then it transpired that this was a story about the BNP, and it all made sense.
After all a party based on hatred, violence, and intimidation, many of whose leaders have criminal convictions, and whose current leader came to power in a "palace coup" can expect little in the way of loyalty.
Worse than this, has been the BNP's threatening of my friend Dominic Carman the Lib Dem candidate for Barking, East London.
I wish Dominic all the very best, and remind him that I trounced Griffin decisively in the 2005 general election in Keighley.
Despite all their bluff and bluster and their hatred and vileness the overwhelming majority of the electorate see through their lies, and will do so again.
That it was in this country was doubly worse, and then it transpired that this was a story about the BNP, and it all made sense.
After all a party based on hatred, violence, and intimidation, many of whose leaders have criminal convictions, and whose current leader came to power in a "palace coup" can expect little in the way of loyalty.
Worse than this, has been the BNP's threatening of my friend Dominic Carman the Lib Dem candidate for Barking, East London.
I wish Dominic all the very best, and remind him that I trounced Griffin decisively in the 2005 general election in Keighley.
Despite all their bluff and bluster and their hatred and vileness the overwhelming majority of the electorate see through their lies, and will do so again.
Sunday, 14 February 2010
The BNP the long slide to oblivion
In his early stand-up routines Woody Allen had a skit which went something along the lines of, "We were married by a Reform rabbi in Long Island. A VERY Reform rabbi. A Nazi".
Which brings me to the BNP and their constitution on which they are voting today. Apparently it is to vote to lift the ban on membership on "non-indigenous Caucasians".
They have lined up a sadly-deluded Sikh "Uncle Tom" by the name of Rajinder Singh "the honour of becoming the first ethnic minority member".
Of course, there is the entryist option as practiced by the Militant tendency and the Labour party in the 1970s and early 1980s, namely that thousands of people from various ethnic minorities apply to join en masse and then take over the BNP from within.
Better yet, for that same thousands to apply for jobs with the BNP here and especially in Brussels and when refused to take them to employment and industrial tribunals.
A bit of mischief-making in politics can only help show how odious and ultimately ridiculous the British Nazi Party is.
Which brings me to the BNP and their constitution on which they are voting today. Apparently it is to vote to lift the ban on membership on "non-indigenous Caucasians".
They have lined up a sadly-deluded Sikh "Uncle Tom" by the name of Rajinder Singh "the honour of becoming the first ethnic minority member".
Of course, there is the entryist option as practiced by the Militant tendency and the Labour party in the 1970s and early 1980s, namely that thousands of people from various ethnic minorities apply to join en masse and then take over the BNP from within.
Better yet, for that same thousands to apply for jobs with the BNP here and especially in Brussels and when refused to take them to employment and industrial tribunals.
A bit of mischief-making in politics can only help show how odious and ultimately ridiculous the British Nazi Party is.
Friday, 27 November 2009
The cost of Free Speech
Nick Griffin's disastrous appearance on Question Time landed taxpayers with a £143,000 security bill.
That's how much police spent dealing with protesters outside BBC Television Centre, closing roads, and using a helicopter to keep the nutty neo-Nazi numero uno safe.
I think that most sane people will be horrified to find out that so much public money has been spent giving the no-Nazi party their best-ever publicity.
However, on balance I think it was money well-spent to show everyone, what an odious little tic the man was and how his neo-Nazi party is really the heir to Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists.
"I'm not an extremist. I'm a national socialist".
"I read Mein Kampf... there are some really useful ideas there".
And my all-time favourite: "Yes, Adolf went a bit too far... It just creates a bad image".
That's how much police spent dealing with protesters outside BBC Television Centre, closing roads, and using a helicopter to keep the nutty neo-Nazi numero uno safe.
I think that most sane people will be horrified to find out that so much public money has been spent giving the no-Nazi party their best-ever publicity.
However, on balance I think it was money well-spent to show everyone, what an odious little tic the man was and how his neo-Nazi party is really the heir to Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists.
"I'm not an extremist. I'm a national socialist".
"I read Mein Kampf... there are some really useful ideas there".
And my all-time favourite: "Yes, Adolf went a bit too far... It just creates a bad image".
Thursday, 9 July 2009
Nick Griffin-what an arse!
Honestly, how crap do you have to be when even European fascists don't want to sit with you? Oh yes, when you are the BNP!
News comes that having been elected to the European Parliament, he cannot find enough European MEPs to sit with him and Andrew Brons.
Instead the Italian neo-fascists, the Greek far-right, the Slovak xenophobes, and various anti-Semites, feel that the BNP is beyond the pale and would rather sit with UKIP (whose members are old-fashioned "golf club" bigots).
This is UKIP, who in the last European Parliament lost two of its members because of fraud!
The Italian Lega Nord leader Umberto Bossi described African immigrants as "bingo-bongos".
The leader of the Greeks in this group challenged the Israeli ambassador in Greece to come and discuss the "Auschwitz and Dachau myth", and claimed that "the Pope and the Jews are conspiring against Greece" and suggested that "the Jews" were responsible for the September 11 attacks.
The Slovaks in this motley crew are the SNS who are a "political party which incites or attempts to stir up racial or ethnic prejudices and racial hatred".
Their leader Ján Slota once said the best policy for dealing with the Roma was "a long whip in a small yard". He is quoted as saying "we will sit in our tanks and destroy Budapest" and that "The Hungarians are a cancer in the body of the Slovak nation".
Let me remind you that this lot REFUSED to sit with the ridiculous "Laurel and Hardy" of the Fascist world.
Griffin, "would be Fuhrer of the BNP", has been a Tory, a revolutionary nationalist, a radical National Socialist, a Third Positionist, a friend of the boot boys and the skinhead scene, and a man committed to respectable politics.
He has however, kept his links with the far right in Europe and America, where he has spoken on platforms with white supremacists, anti-Semites, Islamophobes, and Holocaust-deniers. He is obsessed with a coming race war and has called for adults to keep "in their homes a standard-issue military assault rifle and ammunition".
Well this week he outdid himself when talking about African immigration to Europe, when he said "The only measure, sooner or later, which is going to stop immigration... is to get very tough with those coming over... Frankly, they need to sink several of those boats".
How Christian of him, the jumped up little oik!
News comes that having been elected to the European Parliament, he cannot find enough European MEPs to sit with him and Andrew Brons.
Instead the Italian neo-fascists, the Greek far-right, the Slovak xenophobes, and various anti-Semites, feel that the BNP is beyond the pale and would rather sit with UKIP (whose members are old-fashioned "golf club" bigots).
This is UKIP, who in the last European Parliament lost two of its members because of fraud!
The Italian Lega Nord leader Umberto Bossi described African immigrants as "bingo-bongos".
The leader of the Greeks in this group challenged the Israeli ambassador in Greece to come and discuss the "Auschwitz and Dachau myth", and claimed that "the Pope and the Jews are conspiring against Greece" and suggested that "the Jews" were responsible for the September 11 attacks.
The Slovaks in this motley crew are the SNS who are a "political party which incites or attempts to stir up racial or ethnic prejudices and racial hatred".
Their leader Ján Slota once said the best policy for dealing with the Roma was "a long whip in a small yard". He is quoted as saying "we will sit in our tanks and destroy Budapest" and that "The Hungarians are a cancer in the body of the Slovak nation".
Let me remind you that this lot REFUSED to sit with the ridiculous "Laurel and Hardy" of the Fascist world.
Griffin, "would be Fuhrer of the BNP", has been a Tory, a revolutionary nationalist, a radical National Socialist, a Third Positionist, a friend of the boot boys and the skinhead scene, and a man committed to respectable politics.
He has however, kept his links with the far right in Europe and America, where he has spoken on platforms with white supremacists, anti-Semites, Islamophobes, and Holocaust-deniers. He is obsessed with a coming race war and has called for adults to keep "in their homes a standard-issue military assault rifle and ammunition".
Well this week he outdid himself when talking about African immigration to Europe, when he said "The only measure, sooner or later, which is going to stop immigration... is to get very tough with those coming over... Frankly, they need to sink several of those boats".
How Christian of him, the jumped up little oik!
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