Rebels reject BNP compromise

News has reached Searchlight that the rebels have rejected a ‘compromise’ offer from the BNP leadership. In exchange for giving up their ‘strike’ and taking down their insurgent website and blogs the rebel leaders were given the chance of getting their party cards back.

The only condition laid out by the ever-so-generous party leadership was that they would only return as probationary members. This would mean that their immediate future in the party would be dependent on good behaviour and, just as importantly for Nick Griffin, they would not be entitled to stand for the party leadership at least the next three years.

Unsurprisingly, this generous offer was rejected by the rebels. However, this has not stopped the Griffin loyalists feigning outrage. “This proves that the rebels have no interest in getting back involved in the party,” one regional organiser recently a meeting.

Griffin, of course, has no intention of compromising. In fact, quite the opposite. Following on from his abusive letter to Bradford BNP he has finally answered a similar letter criticising recent events within the party by neighbouring Kirklees BNP. Signed by all 17 officers within the local authority area, including all three Kirklees councillors and former regional organiser Nick Cass, the letter appealed to Griffin to reverse his disruptive decisions.

The BNP leader’s reply was much more diplomatic than that to Bradford but the end result was the same. He stressed that he did not want to lose the branch officials but if they continued their course of action then he would rather they leave as soon as possible.

More significantly, Griffin is consolidating power as any good dictator would. It appears that he is looking to change the party constitution to prevent any party member from challenging him as leader more than once. With this outrageous abuse of power, Griffin hopes that young pretenders would be scared off from making a challenge in case they blow their one opportunity whilst also deterring other potential candidates from building a national profile over several years. (However, this would already be difficult as Griffin, as party leader, decides the election rules and in last year’s leadership election that meant that all campaigning was banned!)

Another rebel facing the chop is Steve Haddon, who was until recently the Party’s Wolverhampton organiser. He has been sacked after attending the rebel conference in Nottingham.

Given that this is now a sacking offence, Searchlight is prepared to hand over the names of the 112 other people who were present at the rebel conference for Griffin to dismiss. But only if he asks very very nicely!

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