Griffin 'attack' joins Griffin 'assassination attempt' in top-ten list of classic BNP lies

Back in April last year, the BNP attempted (unsuccessfully) to gain the sympathy of the nation when it claimed that Nick Griffin and his entourage only narrowly missed being blown up while travelling by train in Sweden, by, it claimed, radical Muslims. A complete lie of course. It turned out that Griffin and his gang weren't even on the train with the bomb, the bomb itself was never going to go off because it wasn't constructed properly and the Swedish police stated that the bomb had been planted by radical leftists, though they were by no means certain even of that much.

Griffin, the lying buffoon, was nowhere near being assassinated but obviously thought we were all too stupid to do a little research and check out his ridiculous story.

Now - in the run-up to this year's local council elections, the BNP's fibmeister has come up with another stupid story; that he was attacked by a bunch of thugs on his way to a meeting but that his assailants were fought off by his heroic bodyguard, Martin Reynolds.

In a slightly hysterical thread, now closed and doubtless soon to be deleted, on the Stormfront nazi forum, where most of the BNP, including its leadership, go to play despite it being ostensibly proscribed by the party, the story quickly evolved from an attack by two so-called white nationalists (nazis) who punched Griffin then did a runner, all the way through to a battle of Homeric proportions against four 'reds', one of whom was captured then apparently and surprisingly released by Reynolds - an unlikely outcome, to say the least.

Curiously Griffin, usually ever-eager to claim attacks even when there have been none, chose not to report this one to the police or even mention it on the BNP website. If the attack was carried out by lefties or any other kind of anti-fascist, you can be sure that Griffin would have been in the police station before they'd finished hitting him and in the nearest newspaper office ten minutes later.

If, on the other hand, the attack was carried out by disgruntled right-wing nuts, Griffin would probably have reported it on the BNP website at least, to make sure he got all the sympathy he could from his own people, a notoriously unsupportive bunch, and to criticise those he sees as his right-wing opposition. Given that there's no report, there appears to be only one sensible conclusion - that Griffin's little story-spinners are telling porkies again. Like the fake assassination attempt that never got anywhere near him, this is just another attempt to get the sympathy of his own party membership, if not the public.

Not surprisingly, even the hard-liners on the Stormfront forum are sceptical of the claim, with Sharon Ebanks, former member of Griffin's gang and now avowed Griffin-hater, right there at the forefront, ridiculing the attack claim as yet another example of Griffin's bullshit and spin. When called a traitor for taking the opportunity provided by the fake attack thread to criticise Griffin, she responded in her usual inimitable way, not just answering a direct attack on her but also launching an immediate and vitriolic counter-attack of her own, thus:

'What do you think of your leader for stealing members money and attempting to bankrupt and jail me? Don't answer, actions speak louder than words What a splendid membersheep it is that it follows a crook. Griffin knows who I am, tell him to put me on the stand and disprove it. He isn't a nationalist, he's just a common thief gifted at conning the uneducated.'

We'll agree with Ebanks about the crook statement but not over the claim that he's gifted at conning the uneducated. A couple of us are uneducated and we weren't conned by this lie at all, any more than we were conned by the stupid lie about the so-called 'assassination attempt' - but what's the betting that both of these mythical events appear on a couple of the BNP's leaflets in the pre-election period to show how the opposition uses violence to oppose the BNP, as a counter to the many recorded instances where anti-fascists actually have been attacked by BNP supporters.

The only truth in all this is that Nick Griffin is a compulsive liar, prepared to use any means to deceive the British public enough to get them to vote for his appalling party and its filthy and divisive policies.