On the edge: a brief look at the lunatic fringe of the far-right

NF no longer official

The National Front failed to register itself with the Electoral Commission this year so they are no longer a registered party. Tess Culnane, who was standing for the NF in the Lewisham by-election on September 13th is now apparently standing for nobody at all. Ah, the superb efficiency of the far-right - the BNP can't get its accounts in on time, the NF can't even register itself, the BPP is packed with glue-sniffers and drunks, N9S/BFP is in the closet and the NNP is just a bad joke. Dontcha love 'em.

BPP attempts to grab fall-out from constant BNP disasters

Just prior to the May local government elections, Unsteady Eddy Morrison, National Inspector of the miniscule bunch of fruitcakes, drunks and glue-sniffing nazis who call themselves the British People's Party, was calling for unity in the 'nationalist' movement and demanding that everyone in it gave their support to the British National Party.

Now, after watching the BNP and its ex-bankrupt leader Nick Griffin lurch through a swathe of crises including the recent disastrous leadership challenge, Morrison appears to have completely reversed his position and, being the opportunist he always has been and sensing instability in the BNP ranks, he's attempting to get disaffected BNP members to get out of it and join the BPP.

Much to our surprise, we found ourselves in agreement with Morrison over a number of points he makes in his current article on his party's website. The excellent appellation Nick 'Fingers' Griffin for one, which I think we might well pinch for our own use, and his description of Griffin-loyalist and Hitlerite Mark Collett as 'odious' was another. A knowledge of basic mathematics not being one of Morrison's well-hidden talents though, we have to pull him up over one figure at least, when he refers to 'the 53% of BNP members who did NOT vote for Griffin in the latest leadership challenge'. The figure was actually 57% who couldn't be bothered to vote and if you include the number of people in the party who voted for Chris Jackson and against Griffin, that figure goes up to 61%.

Figures aside, how is Morrison seeking to take the BNP residue? Partly by claiming a growth in the BPP membership that simply hasn't happened, thus encouraging the ignorant to feel that the BPP is a going and growing concern when it is in fact moribund. Membership has only increased because the BPP will sign up people who are already members of other parties - indeed the leader of the almost-dead England First Party, convicted electoral-fraudster Steve Smith, is a member of both parties. Morrison actually makes a point of saying that 'BNP members are especially welcome into the BPP' in the full and certain knowledge that if they join and are found out, the ever-paranoid Griffin will have them out of the BNP faster than he could start up a new fake company - and that, let me tell you, is very fast indeed.

Sharon Ebanks nearly takes to the law

Sharon Ebanks, former doyen of the BNP and now leader of the tiny and pointless New Nationalist Party, has threatened to go the law with the information she has on Nick Griffin's dodgy doings on numerous occasions but, up until now, has never done so. Finally though, something seems to have annoyed her so much that she has stated that she is off to Birmingham's Economic Crime Unit to inform them of 'certain information'.

Ebanks is a regular contributor to the comments section of the North-West Nationalist blog and had this to say a few days ago;

'...it should also be known that Steve Edwards told me personally that the worst days work he ever did was voting for Griffin and that he bitterly regretted it. The lengths that Griffin/Darby will go to, to destroy a persons reputation knows no bounds but this time it has seriously backfired and I will be attending the Economic Crime Unit in Birmingham to inform them of certain information tomorrow. Nick Griffin may well have successfully pocketed close to £100,000 in a libel action in the High Court last year but he sure as hell won't be doing it to me.'

We looked forward to reading of the charges being made against Griffin - though we don't seriously believe that any ever will be (for a number of reasons) and in fact, according to comments posted on our own blog, she got nowhere with the police. However, in the spirit of being kind to those less fortunate than ourselves, we offered her a space to get her accusations on screen here at Lancaster UAF - a site that we'd guess is a rather better read than her own NNP site. Her response? No thanks. We've come to the conclusion that, as much as she may continue to fantasise about revenge for the way the BNP treated her, she's actually got nothing on them that's worth having.

Nazi? Not the BFP.

Meanwhile, over at the website of the November 9th Society (N9S), they don't mess about. Not only are we treated to several images of Hitler, our ears are also assailed by the music (!) of the Third Reich. Strangely, all this is missing from its sister-site, that of the British First Party.

We mention the BFP not because it's done anything worth reporting - in fact it doesn't seem to have done anything at all since May - but because it has quite a nice little piss-take of the ads for the BNP's Trafalgar Club. Regular readers will know that one of the huge advantages of joining the BNP's Trafalgar Club at £180 per year is that you get a free tie at the end of the year to remind you of what you wasted your £180 on. The BFP's Britannia Club is a real bargain at just £150 per year and - wait for it - you get your tie AND cufflinks at the START of the year. It's almost worth being a nazi just for the gimmicks and giveaways.

The BNP - defending the indefensible

This appalling rubbish appeared on the BNP's Regional Voices page a few days back.

'A group of local funsters in the Cornish village of St. Columb Major decided to dress as Muslims in order to participate in the local carnival. With joke names such as “Miss Hairyarmpitsbad”, “Miss Slackistan”, “Miss Notbadinbedbad” and “Miss Reallyamanistan” the group of 17 men and women paraded through the village in burkas – stopping ever so often to face east to “pray” to Mecca. The local onlookers loved it and the group were about to be awarded the “best entry” prize – when police intervened. Apparently there had been a “complaint” – no names – no packdrill – just an anonymous complaint! The 17 strong group were told to go by police or, presumably, face arrest “for inciting racial hatred” or some other ludicrous politically correct nonsense!'

And the BNP claims it isn't racist. Bloody hilarious.