April 29, 2008

BNP London leader hosts convicted Holocaust-denier

Yesterday, with just three days to go until polling day, two leaders of the British National Party took time out from the campaign to attend a secret meeting in London with three leading European neo-fascists, one of whom has a recent conviction for Holocaust denial.

Initially billed as a press conference, its true purpose seems to have been to further the ambitions of Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, to become a Member of the European Parliament by building links with far-right MEPs.

A week ago Simon Darby, the BNP’s deputy leader and press officer, announced that the party was “honoured to be playing host to a special press conference to be held on the afternoon of Monday 28th April 2008” with “a number of guests from allied Parties from Europe”. They would include Bruno Gollnisch, a French MEP and vice president of the far-right National Front, and Andreas Mölzer, an Austrian MEP and leading member of the Austrian Freedom Party.

Yet four days later the BNP had pulled the plug on the press conference, with Darby lamely declaring: “It looks like we’ve lost the venue, but our foreign friends have been most understanding about this.”

Searchlight’s mole, who had drawn our attention to the European fascists’ visit long before Darby announced it, was convinced that this was a smokescreen to cover up Darby’s breach of security in publicising the event so far in advance.

Our mole was right. Yesterday afternoon Gollnisch, Mölzer and Georg Mayer, an Austrian far-right political fixer, arrived at St Pancras International station on the Eurostar and were whisked off, not to a press conference but to a private meeting with Griffin and Richard Barnbrook, who heads the BNP’s candidates’ list for the London Assembly.

The meeting revealed the true face of the BNP, which has recently been making vigorous attempts to con Jewish voters in London into voting for the party. In January 2007 a French court handed Gollnisch a three-month suspended prison sentence and fined him €5,000 (£4,000) for denying the Holocaust. The court in Lyon found he had “disputed a crime against humanity” in remarks he made during a news conference in the city in October 2004.

Gollnisch had questioned the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust and said the “existence of the gas chambers is for historians to discuss”.

Mölzer is the publisher of Zur Zeit, an Austrian political magazine in which racism, antisemitism and xenophobia are staple features. Its recent promotion of openly Nazi and antisemitic books prompted the Berlin weekly Junge Freiheit, on which Zur Zeit was originally modelled, to sever all connections.

Georg Mayer is another Freedom Party officer and spokesperson for the far-right Identity Tradition Sovereignty group in the European Parliament until its collapse late last year when five far-right Romanian MEPs walked out in protest at anti-Romanian remarks by their Italian colleague Alessandra Mussolini. Gollnisch had been the group’s leader.

Searchlight would normally have informed the Home Office of an intended visit to Britain of a convicted Holocaust denier, but as we found when the BNP played host to Jean-Marie Le Pen, the leader of the French National Front who has several Holocaust denial convictions, MEPs enjoy a privileged status and cannot be excluded.

Instead Searchlight passed the information to the Evening Standard, with which we had been working on the story.

We later tracked down the visitors at the plush Rembrandt Hotel in South Kensington where they were staying the night and even managed to speak to Mayer about the event.

This latest confirmation of Griffin’s continued espousal of Holocaust denial follows days of revelations about Barnbrook’s bizarre personal relationships, his drunkenness and his incompetence as the BNP opposition leader on Barking and Dagenham council. It is typical of Griffin that he should attempt to boost his European aspirations regardless of the further damage that exposure of this meeting may cause to Barnbrook’s electoral prospects.

Today’s Daily Mail, which reveals the marriage that Barnbrook had hoped to keep hidden, to a woman who hates his politics, will be seen by millions of Londoners. At the same time, more than 700 Searchlight Hope not Hate volunteers are giving out 250,000 leaflets at 200 tube and railway stations across Greater London, making it Britain’s biggest ever anti-fascist drive on a single day.

Later today the Searchlight and Daily Mirror Hope not Hate bus will visit Downing Street, where Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Cabinet members will sign up to the campaign and endorse our message of Hope not Hate.

Searchlight

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

I know the hotel in which this meeting took place and its rates are around £150 per night. How generous the BNP membership must be.

Anonymous said...

Why is it that a party that has spent the past five years trying to convince the public that it is no longer nazi or Holocaust-denying decides to have a knees-up with nazis and Holocaust-deniers? Some slight paradox there?

Anonymous said...

Andreas Mölzer interviewed BNP leader Nick Griffin for his neo-nazi newspaper “Zur Zeit". The BNP published the interview on their website back in February 2008. Here’s a quote by Nick Griffin from that interview:

“Roma gypsies, who self-evidently have very little in common with true Romanians”.

Andreas Mölzer criticised the parliamentary group of his party, the Freedom Party, for not having an anti-Jewish or anti-Gypsy agenda.

In addition to his anti-Jewish articles, Andreas Mölzer has also written anti-Slav articles (so, Mölzer doesn't like non-Whites, Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, Muslims - who does he like?)

Interestingly, the criminal offence that Andreas Mölzer was prosecuted for was attempting to resurrect the Third Reich. You can’t get more nazi than that.

One should also check out Andreas Mölzer’s book he wrote about the student wing of the Waffen SS in which he said: "The first aim of our fight should be the reawakening of a strong German cultural and spiritual consciousness”.

Check out Andreas Mölzer’s nazi-like targeting of artists with whom he disagrees when he was helping Jörg Haider run the Carinthia province of Austria (reminds you of Hitler's targetting of artists):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/mar/28/austria.kateconnolly

(The article is called, ‘Haider's crocodile snaps at Austrian art world’)

Anonymous said...

What the hell makes Griffin think that Jews would want to vote for a party that meets with Holocaust deniers?

Anonymous said...

So much for Bumbrook trying to get Jewish voters to vote BNP. They are as nazi as they ever have been, folks.

Anonymous said...

Indeed... Bum-loving Bumbrook is well and truly bummed.

Anonymous said...

I bet these european Hitler fetishists proport to hate gays, so i wonder what they think of the camp as hell bumbrook?

Anonymous said...

PLEASE SOMEBODY - TELL JEWISH COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS TO RUN THIS STORY!!!

Anonymous said...

"I know the hotel in which this meeting took place and its rates are around £150 per night. How generous the BNP membership must be."

Bloody hell! Griffin knows how to live well, doesn't he.

Anonymous said...

And they wonder why we call them nazi scum???

Anonymous said...

If I was paying £30 to belong to that ratbag party of misfits and criminals I would NOT want the money used for Griffin to stay at posh hotels. Fuck me, I don't even bring home £150 for a week's work.

Anonymous said...

I didn't realise Barnbrook was that right wing. I just thought he was a gullible drunken twat.

Anonymous said...

Here’s some info on the fascist Identity Tradition Sovereignty group in the European Parliament that the BNP and Nick Griffin want to be part of:

Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty: A Who's Who

"Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty" (ITS) is a group in the European Parliament formed on January 15, 2007 by members who share xenophobic, racist and anti-Semitic views. The grouping brings together 20 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from seven countries -- meeting the minimum number of members required to establish a bloc under the Parliament's rules.

The group includes members of notorious far-right extremist parties and well-known anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers from across Europe. One of its most prominent members, Bruno Gollnisch of France, was convicted of Holocaust denial by a French court in January 2007. Like all groupings in the European Parliament, ITS is entitled to about 1 million Euros for staff and administrative costs. The group may also claim greater speaking rights and committee representation.

The group was formed after the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the European Union on January 1. As a result of the accession of these countries, there were enough far-right MEPs in the European Parliament to allow the creation of ITS. It is one of eight multinational political groups in the European Parliament. Christian Democrats, Socialists and Greens are among the other groups. ITS currently has the smallest number of affiliated MEPs, but there are concerns that its influence will spread and that the group will grow.

The group's formation was a sobering reminder that bigoted, racist and anti-Semitic political movements are not only still part of the landscape in Europe, but are willing to unify under one banner if given the chance.

The following is a Who's Who of the "Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty" group (by country):

Austria

Freedom Party

The far-right Freedom Party, which entered Austria's previous governing coalition in 2000, is represented in ITS by Andreas Moelzer. In 2005, Moelzer was expelled from the party for his criticisms of its leader, Joerg Haider, but was readmitted in the same year when Haider and others founded a rival party.

In 1999, as Editor-in-Chief of the weekly Zur Zeit, Moelzer published an article by a writer who praised Hitler as a "great social revolutionary" and denied the basic facts of the Holocaust.

Belgium

Flemish Interest

The Flemish Interest party was formed in 2004 after its precursor, the Flemish Bloc, was declared a racist organization in Belgium's highest court. The party has supplied three MEPs to ITS - Philip Claeys, Koenraad Dillen and Frank Vanhecke. It campaigns for the independence of Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, and is deeply hostile to immigrants and minorities. Under the leadership of Filip Dewinter, the party has tried to court Jewish voters by ratcheting up its anti-Muslim rhetoric. However, its participation in the ITS suggests that its traditional anti-Semitism has not been discarded.

In 2005, Claeys abstained on a European Parliament resolution paying homage to the victims of the Nazis and condemning Holocaust denial. Dillen is well-known as a supporter of the late Leon Degrelle, a notorious Belgian Nazi who was a decorated officer in the Waffen SS and later became a prominent Holocaust denier. In 2002, Vanhecke was one of a group of European far-right leaders who met at the home of the then Austrian Freedom Party leader, Joerg Haider, to discuss cooperation in the European Parliament.

Bulgaria

Attack Coalition

Led by Volen Siderov, who is infamous for his anti-Semitic and racist remarks, the Attack Coalition polled 9 percent of the vote in Bulgaria's 2005 elections. Attack Coalition's MEP and ITS representative, Dimitar Stoyanov – at 23, the youngest member of the European Parliament – used the occasion of ITS's foundation to launch a bitter attack on what he called the "Jewish establishment". Stoyanov has also refused to retract comments in which he railed against "…powerful Jews, with a lot of money, who are paying the media to form the social awareness of people. They are also playing with economic crises in countries like Bulgaria and getting rich." Stoyanov has also accused Roma parents of selling their young daughters into prostitution.

France

National Front

The National Front is arguably the best-known far-right party in Europe. The party is led by an avowed racist and anti-Semite, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who is also one of the six National Front MEPs represented in the ITS group. The others are Bruno Gollnisch, Marine Le Pen (daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen), Carl Lang, Fernand Le Rachinel, Jean-Claude Martinez and Lydia Schenardi.

Gollnisch, the leader of the party's European Parliamentary grouping, was convicted by a Lyon court on January 18, 2007 of "disputing a crime against humanity". He received a three month suspended sentence and a fine of $6,450. The conviction was based on remarks Gollnisch made at a press conference in October 2004, when he questioned the existence of the Nazi gas chambers and and suggested that the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust might have been exaggerated. These remarks fit a well-established pattern of National Front figures questioning and demeaning the Holocaust; Le Pen himself became notorious in 1987 when he dismissed the Holocaust as a "minor detail" in the history of World War II.

Italy

Social Alternative
Tricolor Flame

Social Alternative, a coalition of far-right parties, is represented in ITS by MEP Alessandra Mussolini, the grand-daughter of the late fascist dictator and Hitler ally, Benito Mussolini. Mussolini's involvement in far-right and neo-fascist politics stretches back over decades. MEP Luca Romagnoli, the Tricolor Flame party's representative in ITS, has flirted with Holocaust denial. In February 2006, he declared on Italian television: "You ask me if the gas chambers existed. Frankly, I have no way of confirming or denying it." Romagnoli's comments were widely condemned by Italian and European Parliament politicians.

Romania

Greater Romania Party

The Greater Romania Party is infamous for its anti-Semitic and anti-minority stance. Party leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor has a strongly anti-Semitic reputation and frequently attacks the Roma and the Hungarian minorities in Romania. The party has contributed five MEPs to the ITS group - Daniela Buruiana Aprodu, Eugen Mihaescu, Viorica Pompilia Georgeta Moisuc, Petre Popeanga and Cristian Stanescu. Tudor, the Party leader, has reached out to Romania's Jewish community in the past but was rebuffed, as the Greater Romania Party's xenophobic and anti-Semitic stance remains fundamentally unchanged.

United Kingdom

Independent

The sole British representative to ITS is Ashley Mote, an independent MEP. Mote was previously a member of the marginal UK Independence Party, which opposes British membership of the European Union, but was expelled in 2004 after he faced allegations of fraud. Mote's description of ITS as "center-right" in orientation was widely ridiculed by observers who pointed to the presence of Holocaust deniers and neo-fascists in the group's ranks.

http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/identity_tradition_sovereignty.htm

Anonymous said...

I didn't realise Barnbrook was that right wing. I just thought he was a gullible drunken twat.

He's that as well!

Anonymous said...

Hey, I just had an idea – wouldn’t it be interesting if Nick Griffin and Lee Barnes left their brains to science when they die – that would be some freaky science.

It would also be interesting to do a genetics experiment on BNP members, to see if there really is an evil gene. After all, you must be a misanthropic waster to join the BNP.

Anonymous said...

Well, if the BNP are hosting neo-nazi Holocaust deniers from Europe, then today on his personal blog, Lee Barnes (the BNP's legal officer) has congratulated the Italian fascist party, Alleanza Nazionale (National Alliance), over its win in Rome. This is what Lee Barnes has written:

Congratulations to the Eternal City’s new mayor Gianni Alemanno, the new mayor of Rome who has promised to clean up the streets of Rome from the immigrant scum and criminals that have invaded it.

The Revolution of the Right has now conquered Italy , the next step is the return of power to the people all across Europe.

Another example of the BNP's support for fascism and racism.

Here is an interesting article on the fascist Alleanza Nazionale:

Prescott plays into fascist leader's hands

December 2002

John Prescott's meeting with Gianfranco Fini, the Italian fascist leader, went unnoticed by the British media but for Fini it was a major coup in his party's campaign to gain inter-national respectability. The two Deputy Prime Ministers shook hands in London at a time when Prescott was busy attacking trade unionists in Parliament and Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing government was doing much the same at home. In an exclusive report for Searchlight, Alfio Bernabei explains why the meeting on 22 October was so important.

To gain respectability and widen their European network is a prime objective of Italy's fascists, or so-called "neo-fascists" or "post-fascists". Whatever they are called, they are all the political descendants of Mussolini's Blackshirts who took orders from Hitler.

The acquisition of respectability is a strategic step, part of the rebranding process required to gain acceptance in times of intense media scrutiny. The fashion conscious Armani-clad Italian fascists have becomes masters of the media game. They strive to present the electorate with an acceptable face of fascism to gain an ever larger foothold in local and national government.

Under Silvio Berlusconi's government they have the best chance of success of the past 50 years. Berlusconi has made a series of pacts with the fascists and the fascists are wasting no time. To them Mussolini's ascent to power remains the best example of how to succeed.

First, skilful use of the media. Second, the use of democracy as a means to gain power. Thirdly, the injection of large doses of xenophobia and racism among the population to help justify a strong government as the "protector of the race", as Mussolini put it.

The world let it happen in 1922, the year of the so-called "march on Rome". European governments simply watched as Mussolini was developing the doctrine that gave inspiration to Hitler and Nazi Germany.

After the Second World War Italian fascism reemerged under the leadership of Giorgio Almirante, who was an official in the nazi-backed Salò Republic. His chief protégé, Gianfranco Fini, later took over from him.

Thanks to Berlusconi's victory in the 2001 general election Fini is now Italy's Deputy Prime Minister. Still unwelcome in a number of countries because of his fascist background, a few weeks ago he was in London seeking to make himself acceptable to the British government and by implication to propel the advance of so called "post-fascism" internationally and provide succour to the extreme right everywhere.

And what welcome did he get from New Labour? Even the British conservative press knows what Fini represents. On the day of his arrival in London The Times described his party, now called Alleanza Nazionale (National Alliance), as the "post fascist successor to Mussolini's power base", adding that "he has not yet been invited officially as Deputy Prime Minister to any EU countries".

This reluctance to invite him is because he epitomises the fascist who is opportunistically trying to win respectability by profiting from Italy's present situation. The country is morally bankrupt, with the Prime Minister and his cronies enmeshed in corruption trials, and the third government party, Lega Nord (Northern League), fanning a wave of racism unseen since Mussolini's racial laws of 1938.

Fini has learned how to move tactically to reach his goal. He joined the fascist movement in 1967 aged 16 and grew in it to become general secretary to the fascist party, Movimento Sociale Italiano. He remained its leader until 1995. When asked if he considered his 28 years of fascist militancy a mistake he replied: "No, why a mistake. It was a historical phase, a movement like the MSI was useful to Italy, to have a political formation which fought the demonisation of a part of our history."

He continued: "I claimed the fascist label ... because it meant belonging to my political family, the MSI. The Roman salute and homage to Mussolini were to us the manifestation of an identity."

Fini owes his current position entirely to the Berlusconi phenomenon. The two formed the short-lived 1994 government together with the xenophobic Umberto Bossi of the Northern League. Soon after this government fell, Fini understood that in order to renew his chances and gain from the disintegration of the Christian Democratic electoral base he had to move to the centre. He renamed the MSI the National Alliance.

There was international dismay when Berlusconi first brought Fini into government with three National Alliance ministers. This was reflected in headlines in the British Press. "Berlusconi appoints neo-fascists", said The Guardian. "Berlusconi picks three Fascists", declared The Times. "Berlusconi attacked for 'Duce' praise", noted The Sunday Times referring to the fact that the tycoon as well giving posts to neo-fascists was going round defending Mussolini: "He did a few good things".

Fini's visit to London in 1995 was disrupted by Anti Nazi League protests. Several politicians, among them Peter Hain and Denis MacShane, stopped him speaking at Chatham House. MacShane, now minister for Europe in Tony Blair's government, called Fini "the rising star of Europe's reborn Fascism movement" intent on polishing his image as a charismatic television performer while at National Alliance meetings the "standard Italian antisemitic text is prominently on sale".

Fini had arranged his latest visit to London in the hope of demonstrating his acceptability in Europe and trying to impress Israel. The issue of his European ostracism was raised in an interview with an Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz. Fini retorted: "As a member of the European Convention I can call a meeting anywhere, including London". During the interview he also refused to call Mussolini a criminal and tried generally to evade questions about responsibility for fascism and its crimes.

Of course there are many other questions that Fini has not yet addressed. For example, up to the present time he has not shown any intention of wanting to apologise for the death of thousands of British and Commonwealth soldiers in the war declared by Mussolini. Not that he was "personally" involved of course. As he told Ha'aretz, "I was born in 1952". But he must have something to say about the responsibility borne by a party that after the events, in the full knowledge of all the links with Hitler's Germany and of Italy's contribution to the Holocaust, he personally rekindled and presided over for so many years.

Only days before Fini arrived in London Hain, then the Minister for Europe, cancelled his meeting with him. Whether this was a deliberate snub by the man who once called Fini a Nazi is not known. Whatever the reason, at the last moment another minister stepped into Hain's place, ready to shake hands with Fini. John Prescott, never afraid to get his hands dirty, held a half hour meeting with Fini, unnoticed in Britain but big and welcome news for Fini's camp. The sudden way in which it was organised prevented anti-fascist demonstrators from gathering outside Prescott's office, although the Anti Nazi League mounted a small demonstration outside Claridge's hotel where Fini was staying.

Among the protesters was one of the Britons wounded in Genoa last year during the barbaric police assault on the Diaz School. Women were threatened with sexual violence; dozens of people were brutally beaten up and held in what was described as a torture chamber. The police forced some of them to sing fascist songs. Fini was at the police headquarters during the crucial hours leading up to the attack. It is all too easy to surmise what the presence of a man like Fini, associated with fascist violence, might have inspired in the police forces. A number of agents are now under investigation for planting incriminating evidence in the school and for faking wounds they never received.

Prescott's decision to see Fini may have something to do with the same political pragmatism that earlier this year produced Blair's visit to Berlusconi for the signing of an agreement on furthering the so called "liberalisation" of labour protection in Europe. John Monks, the General Secretary of the TUC, described the meeting as "stupid". Fear of a Franco-German axis in Europe and the sharing of a common stance against European centralism is probably the main reason why London finds it useful at the present time to seek an ally in the Italian government.

If however the price to pay for this alliance is to lend respectability to a post-fascist like Fini serious questions must be asked of Blair's New Labour. In view of the prospective expansion of Europe to 25 countries, it seems doubly dangerous to send out encouraging signals to fascists or neo-fascists groups within their borders, which is how the welcome to Fini will be interpreted.

Fini celebrated his "success" in London in his own way. Minutes before he met Prescott he made a point of publicly praising Mirko Tremaglia, a National Alliance minister in the current Italian government, who joined Mussolini's Fascist army which terrorised the population of Northern Italy after the 1943 Armistice, killing anti-fascists and Allied soldiers on orders from Hitler.

Tremaglia is one of Fini's friends who truly remains proud of his past. He has said that Fini has nothing to apologise for, least of all for having led Mussolini's Blackshirts after the war. Only last month Tremaglia reiterated that the Italian Fascist Army "deserved" to win at Al Alamein in the battle against the British Army. "I am always happy when I hear Tremaglia being praised," said Fini, as he was about to leave Claridge's heading for Whitehall to meet Prescott, "He is a very good friend of mine".

Another good friend of Fini with deep roots in fascism is Francesco Storace, the National Alliance president of the Lazio Region, who in his youth joined the MSI. A few years ago he made a point of welcoming back to Rome some Italian fascist terrorists who had taken refuge abroad to escape police questioning and jail sentences. One of them has since formed Forza Nuova, a racist and fascist party. Last month Forza Nuova staged a rally in Rome during which pro-fascist and antisemitic slogans were shouted including: "Back to the gas ovens". The government looked on silently.

Any encouragement given to the "respectable" Fini filters through the network of fascist and racism movements, and not only in Italy.

http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=42

Some other interesting articles on Alleanza Nazionale:

http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=134

http://www.internationalist.org/italybonapartism0602.html

Anonymous said...

And the fact that it is not illegal to question the Holocaust in
Britain seems to have missed you lot, you are so full of yourselves,
will you be pissing yourselves in fear when the BNP gets not onw but
TWO meps elected onto the London Assembly? Will you be moving out of
London? No, life will just carry on without you, you morons. Why dont
you go and get a proper job instead of the social engineering roles you
mewling leftists hypocrites.

Antifascist said...

'will you be pissing yourselves in fear when the BNP gets not onw but
TWO meps elected onto the London Assembly?'

You really are shockingly stupid. It's quite frightening sometimes.

Anonymous said...

What a dozy sod Barnes is. How many MEPs are there on the London Assembly???

And he's the BNP's legal wizard????? LOL

Anonymous said...

Seeing Barnes is back to posting on here its pretty obvious that he is not taking his medication at home after allegedly being released from the secure unit at the weekend.

i do hope the men in white coats pick up very quickly that he is out of control, i mean the last physcotic episode was bad enough, and anyone with half a brain would know that you dont just stop taking this very important medication...allegedly.

Anonymous said...

Previous correspondent said

"Here is an interesting article on the fascist Alleanza Nazionale:"

Excellent posting with good facts on the Alleanza Nazionale.

What ever made Griffin meet these leaders during this crucial time for the BNP - at the end of a campaign when that party is poised to possibly win one or two London Assembly seats - needs to be analysed.

It shows the depth of Griffin's political misjudgment and failure of strategy at a top-level. His personal ambition seems to be blind him to what is going on around him. Clearly, the success or otherwise of his pary and his members mean little to him - unless he already considers that he has one seat in the bag and the financial and propaganda spoils of that is his goal.

If are to blame Griffin's failure in judgement to his paranoia then we may not be far wrong. Griffin may be planning a coup against Dicky Barnbrook and it is feasible that he and his cronies have fed information to the media to damage Barnbrook in any post-election leadership contest.

Anonymous said...

The fascists over at Stormfront are always good for a laugh, but this little classic yesterday had us splitting our sides with laughter:

"DUE TO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS COMRADES IN THE STRUGGLE IN THE LONDON AREA HAVE DECIDED TO LAUNCH A NEW SECURITY FORCE. THIS GROUP WILL BE MADE UP OF MEMBERS FROM ALL NATIONALIST PARTIES IN THE UK - TIME TO PUT IDEOLOGICAL SQUABBLES & OTHER PETTY MATTERS ASIDE. WE WILL DEFEND ANY ACTIVITY WHEN NEEDED & ASKED TO DO SO. ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED & CAN BE VOUCHED FOR PLEASE PM ME. (NO CRANKS OR TIME WASTERS PLEASE)"

The obsessive use of capital letters is always a good way to spot a nutter, but better still the words 'no cranks or time wasters please' - who else do they think they are going to get?

Oh - and for the record the thread was closed within 24 hours, as it seems all our fascist friends can do is argue amongst themselves!

Anonymous said...

Leading on from the above post about the BNP/Lee Barnes support for the fascist Alleanza Nazionale win in Rome today, here’s an article detailing that win:

Cries of 'Duce! Duce!' salute Rome's new mayor

Tuesday April 29 2008

Italy's new parliament met for the first time today with applause for Rome's mayor-elect, Gianni Alemanno, a day after followers celebrated his triumph with straight-arm salutes and fascist-era chants.

Alemanno, a former neo-fascist youth leader, took 54% of the vote in a run-off on Sunday and Monday, crushing his rival, Francesco Rutelli, a deputy prime minister in the last, centre-left government.

Silvio Berlusconi, who won a general election earlier this month, welcomed the latest evidence of Italy's leap to the right by declaring: "We are the new Falange". Although he took care to wrap his remark in a classical context, his choice of words appeared to be a nod and a wink to his most extreme supporters.

The original Falange — the word means "phalanx" — was the Spanish fascist party, founded in the 1930s, which supplied Francisco Franco's dictatorship with its ideological underpinning.

The prime minister-elect's closest ally, Umberto Bossi, the Northern League leader, kept up the intimidating rhetoric, arriving for the first session of Italy's parliament warning of violence if the centre-left did not go along with his plans for federalism.

"I don't know what the left wants [but] we are ready," he told reporters. "If they want conflicts, I have 300,000 men always on hand."

On Monday night, the area around Rome's city hall rang to chants of "Duce! Duce!", the term adopted by Italy's dictator, Benito Mussolini, equivalent to the German "Führer". Supporters of the new mayor gave the fascist Roman straight-arm salutes.

Alemanno, however, has promised to be the mayor of all Romans. He yesterday sent telegrams to both the Pope and the Chief Rabbi. Rome's Jewish community was shaken by the prospect of a mayor with Alemanno's record. During the campaign, there was a protest aimed at him in the city's old Jewish ghetto, where many of the city's Jews still live.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/29/italy1

Anonymous said...

Barnes is a fucking idiot. He'll be wondering about the MEP and London Assembly thing for months.

By the way, great to see the crap councillors page has been updated. I know you lot have been busy but it's an excellent resource. :)

Anonymous said...

"Barnes is a fucking idiot. He'll be wondering about the MEP and London Assembly thing for months."

Not surprising really. He only has a tenuous grip on reality.

"By the way, great to see the crap councillors page has been updated. I know you lot have been busy but it's an excellent resource. :)"

Yeah, nice job.