August 28, 2009

BNP councillor defends party after members burn gollywog at festival

A BNP councillor has defended the party after members were filmed burning a gollywog and making racist comments during a festival. Paul Golding (left), British National Party councillor for the St Mary’s ward in Swanley, has condemned members who were shown performing the mock trial of the gollywog.

A News of the World reporter filmed the ritual while undercover at the party’s Red White and Blue family festival in Derbyshire last month. The group, which included a 12-year-old girl, dubbed the stuffed toy ‘Winston’ and charged him with being black before dropping him onto a fire. One member, identified as John Coombes, of Maidenhead, Berkshire, a council candidate for that area, said: “He thinks he's not black. He's charged with being black. Get on there.” The 45-year-old added: “Let's get a real one. In the town we'll find one or two.”

Police in Derbyshire have launched an investigation after seeing the video footage. A spokeswoman said: “Officers will be contacting the newspaper which alleges that an undercover reporter witnessed unlawful activity while at the event.”

Cllr Golding, who was elected in February, says the views of the people involved in the mock trial are not representative of the BNP. He said: “If you subtract these morons from our 13,000 members it is something like 0.01 per cent of the party. They are all being disciplined and it will be very severe, if not being kicked out of the party.”

The News of the World article claims members gave Nazi-style salutes and shouted Sieg Heil, and music with racist lyrics supporting Hitler was played. Cllr Golding said he was at the festival but was not aware of the racist activity, and he says the party is not racist.

Party leader MEP Nick Griffin was also at the event, which was attended by around 1,200 BNP supporters. He said the party will be organised to give non-whites no power if new legislation forces it to allow them to become members, the article alleges. Cllr Golding says the BNP is for white British people, so there would be no reason for non-whites to join other than to cause trouble within the party.

Last month News Shopper revealed that a Gravesend woman convicted of intimidating an Asian mother was a member of the BNP, after Cllr Golding made a video stating she was not. Helen Forster, aged 32, of Park Place, denied being a member in the video posted on YouTube and the BNP website, but she was registered under a different surname - Colclough. Cllr Golding says he was unaware Forster was a member of the party under a different name at the time of making the video.

News Shopper

15 comments:

KO said...

"Cllr Golding, who was elected in February, says the views of the
people involved in the mock trial are not representative of the BNP."

By which he means, presumably, that they are not racist.

"Party leader MEP Nick Griffin...said the party will be organised to give non-whites no power if new legislation forces it to allow them to become members"

Erm, isn't that outrageously racist???

Anonymous said...

Erm, isn't that outrageously racist???

It's probably illegal as well.

Anonymous said...

"If you subtract these morons from our 13,000 members it is something like 0.01 per cent of the party."

Golding you are one of the biggest morons, what's your IQ? Don't you know all the BNP members are idiots or state stooges?

Anonymous said...

A complaint must be made against Golding over the Helen Forster/Colcough Youtube video lie, we must get this moron suspended, only somebody who lives in Seven Oaks area can put in a complaint and must provide a copy of the video. Can anybody help out there?

Christine Nuttall
The Monitoring Officer
c/o The Standards Committee Assessment Panel
Sevenoaks District Council
Argyle Road
Sevenoaks
Kent
TN13 1HG

Anonymous said...

Paul Golding committed a racist attack against a man of mixed race, so you know where this BNP twat is coming from.

bnper said...

Most of the party hate this prick, and hate the way he walks round full of false self importance. Also the way he flaunts round with his slapper even though everybody knows he's actally in a relationship. He is laughed at by most of the membership behind his back.

Anonymous said...

If the membership is 13,000 that is still 130 people!

Anonymous said...

Of course Paul Golding should know a thing or two about being caught out by the press. The Daily Mirror caught him wearing his pants on his head within the vicinity of the Cenotaph during the Remembrance Day commemmorations during an infiltration some years ago by that paper.

And to think a veteran Labour councillor in Swanley (Lesley Dyball) has actually lost her seat to this bloody twat.

eric the fish said...

All members are impotent (some in both senses perhaps) anyway. It's hardly the bastion of democracy. It's just a fund raising club for Nick The Grief.

Even the Green Arrow is getting a bit miffed with them.

Interesting times ahead.

Anonymous said...

Disgusting racist bastards.

Anonymous said...

Who the fucks Paul Golding, he has only been a member of the BNP 2 years.

Brummie said...

To change the subject briefly, there is now an online letter to Birmingham City Council regarding the threatened far right march next weekend. Please go to hopenothate.org.uk and follow the link on Nick Lowles' blog and make sure you sign the online petition and let our Council know that here in the heart of the multiracial UK everybody is welcome regardless of race creed or colour but certainly not racist football hooligans.

So far we have 863 signatures. We need as many people as possible.

Thank you.

Anonymous said...

"Most of the party hate this prick, and hate the way he walks round full of false self importance."

What marks out most leading national socialists is their staggering arrogance. I'm reading a book at the moment about the leading Nazis during the Third Reich and they were great believers in the crank "social theories" of social Darwinism and eugenics. They believed that their position in the Nazi hierarchy was related directly to their supposed racial superiority.

Something similar must be going on with Golding.

iliacus said...

"Our 13,000 members"

Yeah, yeah - let's just see what figure the Accounts reveal ......

HappyBrummie said...

To change the subject briefly, there is now an online letter to Birmingham City Council regarding the threatened far right march next weekend. Please go to hopenothate.org.uk and follow the link on Nick Lowles' blog and make sure you sign the online petition and let our Council know that here in the heart of the multiracial UK everybody is welcome regardless of race creed or colour but certainly not racist football hooligans.

So far we have 863 signatures. We need as many people as possible.

Thank you.

As of now (1010 Saturday) we have just broken the one thousand barrier! Thanks to everyone who signed to help keep Brum fascist free. Another 1000 over the Bank Holiday weekend! Well, anything is possible!!!!!