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  • BNP leader Nick Griffin could lose Euro seat as party faces bankruptcy

    BNP leader Nick Griffin could lose Euro seat as party faces bankruptcy

    By Tom Mctague
     
    Griffin could lose Euro seat as party faces bankruptcy
     
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    BNP leader Nick Griffin faces being axed as a Euro MP as he fights to avoid bankruptcy over his party’s soaring cash crisis.

    He is among top officials thought to be personally liable for the racist group’s £700,000 debts – which it admits it cannot pay.

    Anyone made bankrupt is legally barred from being an MP or Euro MP.

    The BNP’s money woes were laid bare by ex-chief fundraiser James Dowson in a letter seen by the Mirror.

    Mr Dowson told North-East printers who produced its newsletter that the finances were like “a shipwreck”

    He added: “Cash is in very short supply… [it is] impossible for the BNP and persons associated with it to pay outstanding bills in anything like a normal timescale, if indeed at all.” The “very grave” crisis meant it could only pay 20% of what it owed, he added.

    Its money problems have been made worse by having to settle a legal row after illegally using Marmite in an ad and the cost of fighting the Equality and Human Rights Commission over its whites-only admission rules.

    Meanwhile, electoral chiefs are still probing its 2008 accounts as they contain gaps that breach the law.

    The BNP’s debt meltdown comes amid a spate of defections and expulsions.

    Mr Dowson and media officer Paul Golding have left while campaigns chief Eddy Butler and London Assembly member Richard Barnbrook were recently expelled.

    Mr Griffin was not responding to our requests for a comment last night.

    , 3/11/2010

  • Exposés:Highlights the organisational set-up, the secret locations and the people running the fascist party

    Exposés:Highlights the organisational set-up, the secret locations and the people running the fascist party

    Jim Dowson: How a militant anti-abortionist took over the BNP. Part I of a three part investigation.

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    Today we start a serialisation from the current issue of Searchlight Magazine which features a special investigation into the heart of the BNP. We highlight the organisational set-up, the secret locations and the people running the fascist party. We expose how the running of the party has been outsourced to a rabid Loyalist anti-abortionist in Belfast and we reveal that this man is receiving European Union money for peace and reconciliation.

    We have also been busy working with the media. Many of the revelations and exposés we have read in the newspapers over the past few weeks have originated from Searchlight.

    Forty-seven years after Searchlight was first formed we are proving that we are still ahead of the game.

     

    From rags to riches

    By Gerry Gable

    Ten years ago Jim Dowson (pictured) was a down-at-heel anti-abortion campaigner and hardline Protestant, who had marched with a loyalist band that played songs in praise of the convicted loyalist murderer Michael Stone (pictured below).

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    His luck changed when he formed an alliance with Justin Barrett, a far-right Catholic lawyer and leader of the notorious Irish anti-abortion group Youth Defence, which had previously stormed buildings in Dublin in their crusade against a woman’s right to choose. In 2000 Barrett had attended a rally of the German nazi National Democratic Party, where he met Roberto Fiore, the Italian fascist friend and mentor of Nick Griffin, the BNP leader. The trip was arranged by Derek Holland, one of Griffin’s old colleagues from the days of the National Front Political Soldiers.

    Barrett attracted attention as the lead spokesperson of the successful Irish campaign against the Nice Treaty in 2001 and money started to flow from far-right anti-abortionists in the United States.

    In 1999 Dowson had formed Precious Life Scotland and it was through cooperation between his group and Youth Defence that he met Barrett. The link proved beneficial when Barrett pitched £50,000 into Dowson’s organisation to pay for the production of anti-abortion CDs and video tapes to be distributed to schools and churches in Northern Ireland and Scotland.

    Dowson was a “rent-a-cause” extremist who had been kicked out of the Orange Order. He has a list of criminal convictions including breach of the peace in 1986, possession of a weapon and breach of the peace in 1991 and criminal damage in 1992. Although a Protestant, he was happy to sell thousands of photographs of the Pope at inflated prices to Catholics in the Irish Republic.

    Barrett faded from the public arena after the Nice Treaty vote was rerun and went the other way. His political demise was hastened after the publication of his book The National Way Forward, in which he described immigration as “genocidal”. He also became increasingly antisemitic, influenced by the nazi leaders he had met in Germany.

    In contrast, Dowson’s campaigning activities grew. He turned his sights on gay people and encouraged his followers to abuse and threaten people who attended or worked in abortion clinics.

    This resulted in Dowson parting company with some of his Precious Life fellow activists, but he was now in a financial position to go it alone, turning his faction into the UK LifeLeague. He never looked back.

    Dowson, 45, started working with the British National Party late in 2007, and he quickly revolutionised its fundraising. His first appeal, launched at the time the BNP was tearing itself apart in an internal rebellion, was carried out as a free sample to show the party what he could do, but since then he has worked on a percentage commission.

    His work for the BNP grew to encompass the provision of manage-ment training in Spain and revamping the party’s administration. Early in 2009 he set up the Belfast call centre, piggybacking it on his successful fundraising for the LifeLeague, thereby cutting costs and perhaps giving doubtful BNP officers the impression of a larger operation than it actually is.

    Over the past two years he has clearly raised huge sums for the party, although it remains financially strapped. Partly this is the result of scams, such as the truth truck, which Griffin claimed had been bought with thousands of pounds of supporters’ donations. It turned out still to belong to Dowson’s private company, Adlorries.com, and, like much of the other equipment the BNP claimed to have bought, it was only leased by the party.

    Today Dowson practically owns the BNP, which he briefly joined to placate his critics but left as soon as the heat was off him. He remains at loggerheads with many senior party officers and employees. One, whom he sacked in spring, is heading for an employment tribunal.

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    Griffin’s claim that the BNP is being flooded with donations via Dowson’s call centre is a lie. Income is down to a trickle and membership is a mere 8,000 or so. People are not queuing up to join after the end of the three-month moratorium on membership, they are leaving in droves, especially since the latest membership list leak from Dowson’s Belfast bunker.

    All this comes on top of the party’s forced climbdown over its racist constitution, the non-appearance of its 2008 accounts and concern over the number of senior party officers who have been put on the European Parliament payroll as staff of the two BNP MEPs.

     

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  • BNP wins two seats in Europe

    BNP wins two seats in Europe

    Party chairman Nick Griffin was elected an MEP in the northwest of England region with eight percent of the vote, hours after Andrew Brons won the BNP’s first ever European seat in the nearby Yorkshire and the Humber region.

    Griffin had earlier hailed Brons’ win — with almost 10 percent of the vote — as “a huge breakthrough” for his party, and used the victory to reiterate his party’s anti-immigration and anti-Islam stance.

    He denied his party was racist, but said: “We do say this country is full up. The key thing is to shut the door.”

    Griffin told Sky News television: “This is a Christian country and Islam is not welcome, because Islam and Christianity, Islam and democracy, Islam and women’s rights do not mix.

    “That’s a simple fact that the elites of Europe are going to have to get their heads round and deal with over the next few years.”

    The result is a vindication of efforts by Griffin, who was educated at the prestigious Cambridge University, to recast the party since taking over in 1999, emphasising its grassroots activism over extreme-right ideology.

    Amid concerns about soaring unemployment and a deep recession and in particular the demise of the country’s manufacturing base, the BNP has pledged British jobs for British workers.

    It is opposed to European integration and wants to pull Britain out of the European Union and halt all immigration to the country.

    In recent weeks it has also capitalised on public anger over the row over lawmakers’ expenses, which has severely damaged the reputation of parliament and the mainstream Labour and Conservative parties.

    Health minister Andrew Burnham described the BNP’s first MEP victory as a “sad moment, and following Griffin’s success in the northwest, local Labour MP Tony Lloyd said he was ashamed at how some people had voted.

    “I am genuinely not just disappointed, I think it is a matter of shame, this country has a deserved reputation for a tolerant society,” said Lloyd, the Labour MP for Manchester Central.

    “Their (the BNP) vision for Britain is a nightmare for Britain. I think many people will wake up with some sense of shame.”

    Government ministers and the Conservative party had sought to remind voters of the BNP’s policies, which include calls for the immediate halt to all immigration to Britain and the “voluntary resettlement” of all immigrants.

    Source: www.google.com, 08.06.2009

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    Sarkozy: “Islamization is Inevitable”

    There is nothing new here. We knew what Sarkozy’s vision of the future was: an “Islam of France”, “métissage” between races and ethnic groups, dissolution of nationalist, regional, and ethnic identities, subjugation to Brussels, openness to socialism, and a Turkey as closely aligned with Europe as possible, etc…

    But it’s always sobering to hear it again, from one who knows Sarkozy personally. Philippe de Villiers was interviewed by the weekly Famille Chrétienne. The Catholic blogLe Salon Beige relates part of the interview:

    Why are you so focused on the theme of Turkey and Islamization?

    – Quite simply because we will see the first transformations of churches into mosques in the coming three years. At any rate, that is what Nicolas Sarkozy told me.

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    – I had an in depth discussion with him at Elysée at the end of last year. He said to me: “You have intuition, I have the figures. And your intuition is confirmed by my figures. The Islamization of Europe is inevitable.” Careful: it’s a process that will not occur overnight, but will take decades.

    Why does this issue appear to be of central importance to you?

    – Most politicians have a comforting ignorance of what Islam is and propose transforming Europe into a supermarket of competing religions. Unaware that Islam is not only a religion since, by melding the temporal and the spiritual, it imposes a law. But behind this comforting ignorance of politicians, there are those who know. (…) The reality is that we are headed for a criss-cross [chassé-croisé] with, on one side, Europe and its en masse abortions, its promotion of gay marriage, and on the other, immigration en masse (…)

    Chassé-croisé” is virtually impossible to translate. Originally a choreographic term, it usually refers to a crowded movement in one direction that passes but never encounters a crowded movement in another direction. Sometimes it is just kept as is in English.

    Aren’t you exaggerating the dimensions of the phenomenon?

    – No. The crux of the issue is simple: Europe is refusing its own demographic future. And it is working with a fearsome weapon towards this end, written into the Charter of fundamental rights appended to the treaty of Lisbon: the promotion of gay marriage. This in turn is accomplished through the principle of non-discrimination and the disassociation of marriage from the sex of the spouses (which appears in article 7 of the Charter of fundamental rights). In reality, there are two weapons being used by European leaders to kill Europe demographically: the promotion of gay marriage and en masse abortions. And a third: the recourse to immigration that is 80% Islamic in order to replace the people who are no longer there (…)

    As usual there are LSB readers who question Villiers’ sincerity and motives. But this time, there are also many who applaud his courage. He is certainly putting more muscle into his words on the eve of the election.

    A spokesman for Elysée protested saying: “Philippe de Villiers is not the spokesman for Elysée. He makes multiple declarations on this topic, declarations that obviously need to be regarded with caution.”

    Source: www.brusselsjournal.com, 06-06-2009

  • Protesters descend on BNP leader

    Protesters descend on BNP leader

    bnpAnti-BNP protesters have stopped the party’s leader Nick Griffin from entering Euro election count in Manchester.

    Placard waving demonstrators surrounded a number of cars – one of which was thought to be carrying Mr Griffin – when they arrived at Manchester Town Hall.

    The cars, one of which apparently had a window broken, drove away without anyone getting out.

    Several dozen protesters had gathered outside the town hall to await the count.

    Mr Griffin is hoping to become the far-right BNP’s first MEP in the EU-wide election.

    Small crowds of noisy demonstrators had gathered around both entrances to the Town Hall.

    There was also a large police presence.

    A Manchester City Council spokeswoman said: “Nick Griffin has been driven away to avoid the protests that they have set up at both entrances.

    “He drove to one and could not get in then went to the other one and then was driven away.”

    The protesters were carrying “Don’t Vote BNP” banners and chanting “BNP is the Nazi Party”.

    The council spokeswoman said another attempt would be made to get Mr Griffin into the building.

    She said: “Griffin, as one of the MEP candidates, will have to gain access to the Town Hall at some point for the count.”

    ITN

  • BNP leader ‘barred’ from Royal event

    BNP leader ‘barred’ from Royal event

    bnpBNP leader Nick Griffin has been effectively barred from attending a Buckingham Palace garden party.

    The right-wing politician had been invited to the social event by British National Party colleague Richard Barnbrook who, as a London Assembly member, was nominated for two tickets by the Greater London Authority (GLA).

    But Jeff Jacobs, the GLA’s deputy chief executive, has tonight written to Mr Barnbrook telling him to change his controversial guest and stop exploiting the situation for “publicity”, or his nomination would be “reviewed”.

    Mr Jacobs wrote: “The event is a social occasion hosted by Her Majesty and it is inappropriate to exploit this privilege for party political purposes.”

    “The authority may need to review its position in relation to your nomination unless you revisit the selection of your guest with a view to avoiding further controversy and desist from any further publicity.”

    The BNP campaigns for the “voluntary resettlement” of immigrants back to their countries of origin, claims white Britons have become “second-class citizens” and wants to bring back corporal and capital punishment for criminals.

    A BNP spokesman said Mr Barnbrook would make a statement on Tuesday about his decision.

    The organisation said yesterday: “You can’t withdraw the invitation because you don’t agree with someone’s views.

    “How is it going to look if the three main political parties conspire to deny us our rights – and the people that voted for Richard? They are seeking to subvert the democratic process.”

    The garden party will come after the June local and Euro elections, which could see the BNP gaining more local council seats and their first MEPs.

    Disillusionment with mainstream politicians over the MPs’ expenses scandal and fears over jobs and immigration could lead to a surge in support for the party, according to political experts.

    ITN