THE CHURCH and fascism do not normally mix, but one Reverend has clearly rejected the command to "love thy neighbour" in favour of racial hatred.
Former Conservative Party councillor Rev'd Robert West is standing for the British National Party for the first time after defecting to the neo-Nazis in protest at David Cameron's "A-list."
His candidature, in the east Midlands district of South Holland, is one of several eyeraising choices as council candidates made by Nick Griffin's party.
Rev'd West claimed his action was sparked by a desire to "seek "refuge from political correctness by applying for asylum with the British National Party - Britain's finest and most decent party - in our country's hour of need."
Ironically Rev'd West taught political philosophy and equal opportunities law at the universities of Nottingham and East Anglia, was also a member of the Lincolnshire Council for Racial Equality.
But, switching to the BNP, he claimed Cameron's A-list, an attempt to boost numbers of women and black candidates, was "discrimination of the worst kind."
The part time supply teacher is the only name publicly associated with the Christian Council of Britain, a front organisation set up by the BNP to "Christianise" its message.
The CCB attempted to forge links with Christian Voice at the height of the Jerry Springer - The Opera controversy, in a coalition of right-wing Christian fundamentalists.
Rev'd West, 53, has reportedly been spotted among BNP supporters outside Leeds Crown Court during the trial, on racial hatred charges, of BNP leader Nick Griffin and youth leader Mark Collett, who is also standing for election to his council in Yorkshire.
Rev'd West has set up his own church, based in a house in Holbeach, to preach "traditional bible beliefs" after leaving the Anglican church.
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April 20, 2007
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Reverend my arse. Look in Crockfords - he's no more a reverend than I am.
What interests me is that West has set up his own church. There is something of a history of far-right loopies with a vestment fetish doing this. They usually claim a "line of succession" from the rogue cleric Arnold Mathew, as did Roger Gleaves, the infamous paedophile and "Bishop of Medway". Gleaves ran an extreme right-wing group in the 60's, and handed his membership over to his freind John Bean of the original BNP. Google "Old Catholic Church" and you'll find hundreds of them! I keep hearing whispers, but nothing substantial, concerning some of these "churches" and their links to the far-right, paedophilia, etc. Those exposed for paedophilia usually have some youth organisation attached - volunteer ambulance, search and rescue, cadets, after-school clubs, that sort of thing. It's something I'd like to research further, so if anybody has any info, or comes across anything interesting, let me know.
A quick websearch leads me to believe that those who think West was "ordained" into what appears to be the entirely respectable Pentecostal Apostolic Church are barking up the wrong tree. There are any number of "Old Catholic" and "Orthodox" "churches" going by the name Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, all claiming descent from the rogue Arnold Mathew. They often drop the "Holy Catholic". I think it more likely that if West was ever ordained, it was by one of these strange little "front room" churches.
With West in their ranks, the BNP is indeed a strange Wako-like doomesday sect.
Reminds me of several American white supremacist churches led by fundamentalist Christians.
The BNP has indeed become a fundamentalist doomesday cult, as a previous article proved.
They are complete and absolute loons...
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