...and he doesn't seem to be much of a fan of the Young BNP either
Martin Wingfield, the current editor of the BNP's trashy tabloid, the Voice of Freedom, has reacted badly to the article in last Wednesday's Mirror about the party's Youth Camp, where future members of the Hitl - BNP were given 'ideological training', lectures in how to argue with their 'Marxist' teachers and shown how to handle - among other things - knives and guns.
Admitting that he is no 'fan of youth organisations connected to political parties', Wingfield refers directly to the ideological training, stating that it leaves the party 'vulnerable to the brainwashing charge'. Well, yes, because that's what it is. But he is not only concerned about brainwashing. As he rightly points out;
'In nationalist politics over the years, we have only received detrimental publicity concerning our youth wings - from the leafletting at school gates charge, through to targeting football supporters and now to learning about guns and knives at a summer camp.'
He should know. Wingfield has been around the far-right for donkey's years and no doubt remembers the furore caused once when a bunch of fascists turned up to leaflet outside a West Country school's gates and were promptly reported to the police. Eventually, nearly a dozen of them were nicked.
Or perhaps he's thinking of the attempts to leaflet crowds of football fans when a good few of the BNP's supporters are violent football hooligans (like the late Luke Smith, chosen by the party - despite his extensive record of hooliganism - to become a councillor in Burnley).
Possibly he remembers back to before the days of the Red, White and Blue, when the BNP ran a youth camp at which the main attraction was weapons training using paintball guns - the BNP has always had a penchant for playing toy soldiers. On this occasion, one of the kids thought he'd quite like to keep one of the paintball guns for himself but was caught and asked in no uncertain terms if he was trying to commit suicide. Why? Because the guns belonged to former-Griffin bodyguard and gangster Joe Owens, a self-confessed thug who has been accused of a zillion crimes including a number of murders.
Whether Wingfield remembers these incidents from personal experience or not, he writes;
'...all those associated with the Young BNP [give] our youngsters an exciting time and a grounding in the values that are important to us'
Presumably those values include a grounding in using guns and knives, a pastime that earned this rebuke from Home Office Minister Tony McNulty;
'[It is] disgraceful to teach children to use weapons at a time when the scourge of knife crime among the young [is] such a problem...I have never seen anything so irresponsible. Teaching young children to use knives and guns is reprehensible but it is what you expect from such a sick and twisted party.'
Perhaps Wingfield really does believe that the BNP running kiddie gun camps is out of order - or possibly he just has a stick up his arse at the moment because Searchlight has got hold of the fact that his favourite toy - Voice of Freedom - could be about to be taken away from him (read the current issue of Searchlight for more details). Either way, he isn't any too happy as redundancy looms. Unlike his lord and master, Nick Griffin, there will be no £30,000 pay-off if he's thrown on to the scrapheap.
September 07, 2008
Wingfield slams BNP's gun camp for kids
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Stuffy old fart, keep him in the BNP top ranks so we can poke fun at him.
Wankfield's days are numbered indeed.
Cyclops will be plotting already for ways to get rid of him.
Mark my words.
"Read the latest issue for details".
Bit ambiguous that, can't believe you really mean the latest issue of Voice of Freedom as you wouldn't want people to buy it surely? But that is how the article reads.
Surely you mean Seaerchlight. In which case why not amend the article to make that clear
Maybe Martin "I nicked Roger Denny's Wife but I favour family values" Wingfield doesnt favour youth movements because he has always looked like an old codger.
However, if it wasnt for youth movements it's doubtful he'd have met his wife. Tina was a skinhead member of the NF known as Tin Tin and she is photographed in a YNF T shirt (Keep Bulldog Barking) in the old Marching On with the NF. Sje then married Denny but somehow she ended up with Wingfield.
She really should have gone to Spec Savers
'Bit ambiguous that, can't believe you really mean the latest issue of Voice of Freedom as you wouldn't want people to buy it surely? But that is how the article reads.'
LOL You're right. Amended accordingly.
"Unlike his lord and master, Nick Griffin, there will be no £30,000 pay-off if he's thrown on to the scrapheap."
The only one who is going to come out of the BNP with a small fortune is Nick Griffin. His £30000 payoff is just the icing on the cake. He's got rich on the backs of the party members.
Griffins a theif a liar and a conman
"Wankfield's days are numbered indeed.
Cyclops will be plotting already for ways to get rid of him.
Mark my words."
That'll teach him for kissing Griffins arse at last years AC. Griffin has been using Wingfield for years LMFAO
"See the latest issue"
Septembers Searchlight isnt online - can you give us some idea why Wingfield is out of favour, once again with Hick Gri££in? They fell out once before when Gri$$in slammed Wingfield as an "ultra Tory". Not quite as bad as "vermin and scum" but and insult none-the-less
Git face! Who has egg on their face now, you reap what you sow Wankfield!
Oi!
Nye B, the Tredegar Anti Facist, recognised who the real vermin were, and Cyclops don't even qualify for the name 'Lower than Vermin'. Thats an insult to any decent Rat !
Old Sailor
Indeed! Wankfield's history, lol
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