BNP cracking the whip to get attendance up at the RWB

News reaches us that senior officers in the BNP are having to hassle the troops to attend the annual booze-fest, the BNP's Red, White and Blue event.

After the refusal of the former landowner to allow it to go ahead on his property (thanks in part to a massive outcry on Indymedia when it became known that the RWB and the Northern Green Gathering had shared the same space, and partly due to the fact that the landowner could make more from a couple of car boot sales than he ever could from the near-bankrupt BNP) the event was moved from its former home at Clitheroe to the field owned by BNP-waster Alan Warner at Denby in Derbyshire.

Obviously none too happy about this, the BNP membership is staying away in droves, meaning that Phil Edwards, the BNP's liar-in-chief (spokesman) is going to have to exaggerate somewhat when reporting on the attendance figures.

The figure of ten thousand has already been suggested and appears to be the baseline upon which the success or failure of the August 4th/5th event will be judged. This seems far from likely - many BNP members despise the whole RWB thing as appealing to the very worst elements in the party, particularly after former BNP councillor and well-known football hooligan Luke Smith glassed a member of Nick Griffin's security team in the face a couple of years back.

Apart from the ever-present possibility of violence breaking out, there are continuous problems with fat drunken nazis wandering around, improperly supervised firework displays, lack of provision for dealing with medical emergencies, no criminal checks on the people the BNP have got looking after the children on site and the possibility of accidentally having to listen to a crap band like Red Claire, led by the utterly-appalling Paul Cromie, Bradford BNP councillor and mandolin-plunker. And as if all this isn't dodgy enough, there's also a risk of having to sit and endure hours of speeches by Hitlerite cretins like Mark Collett.

Naturally people are not finding the prospect all that enticing and our correspondents are telling us that aggressive calls are being made to some local organisers to get their people over to Derbyshire this weekend by hook or by crook or, and the threat is clear though undefined, there will be trouble.

Nick Griffin, ever-paranoid, will be wanting to use the weekend to reassure the troops that all is well at HQ and he will no doubt remind them again and again of his 91% win over Chris Jackson in the recent leadership challenge (no doubt conveniently forgetting to mention that well under half of the voting members in the party could be bothered to return the ballot forms). Perhaps he'll also explain why the accounts haven't yet been submitted to the Electoral Commission, incurring unnecessary fines that the membership have to subsidise out of their fees.

We've had it reported to us again and again that morale in the BNP is at rock-bottom. No by-election wins for years, no new councillors at the last elections (despite a record number of candidates standing), constant accusations of financial chicanery, ludicrous new business ventures popping up like mushrooms, prominent members resigning following deeply offensive but seemingly approved verbal attacks by Griffinite bully-boys and BNP-approved fruitcakes being banged-up for storing bomb-making materials in their houses. And now the membership is being bullied into going to the RWB! It's no wonder morale is a tad on the low side.

We all know the RWB is going to be a disaster - particularly if the rain heads over that way at the weekend - but for Griffin in particular the stormclouds seem to be gathering and looking decidedly ominous.