Faith and politics

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.

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.

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!