November 15, 2009

Top clubs ban Welsh BNP goods

A leading member of the BNP in Wales has been forced to withdraw ‘racist’ football merchandise following threats from top Premier League sides.

Roger Phillips, the BNP’s deputy organiser for West Wales, is the director of the online operation Patriot Products.

Launched at the BNP’s Red, White and Blue rally in August, Patriot Products, which is not currently trading, sold an extensive range of nationalistic tat and clothing, including golliwog badges with the names of clubs such as Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea. They depicted a golliwog with a football holding a scarf aloft with club names and colours. The official BNP merchandising store, Excalibur, sells the same golliwog badge holding an England scarf.

The anti-racism football organisation Kick It Out alerted the English clubs involved in September. It said of the clubs involved: “Some have contacted the website direct, some have deferred it to the club lawyers.”

One of the Premier League clubs, Chelsea, confirmed they had prepared to take legal action against Phillips last month but found the offensive items had been removed before action was required. A spokesman for the club said: “We absolutely abhor the sale of any racist merchandise. We took the necessary steps to prevent it.”

Welsh Secretary and Chelsea supporter Peter Hain said: “This man is the true poisonous face of the BNP not the respectable one they pretend to have.”

A spokesman for the Football Association said: “There is no place for racism in football and we utterly condemn any organisation or individual that seeks to encourage or make financial gain from it. We help to fund Kick It Out and work very closely with other anti-racism organisations to do as much as we can to eliminate racism in football.”

Mr Phillips, 42, whose Facebook photos include one of a cornflakes box with an open-mouthed black minstrel and the doctored logo ‘Coon flakes’, wrote: “I have had my business contacted by the FA and Sheffield Football Club trying to bully me into removing Golly badges from my range. Here is my response – FUCK YOU.”

Businessman Mr Phillips, who did not return our calls, revealed in a documentary on the BNP broadcast on S4C earlier this year, in June, that he would flout employment laws to avoid employing Muslims.

“As far as Muslims are concerned, I wouldn’t be happy to employ them,” he said. “There is a reason for that. They would want time off in the afternoons to pray. You’d have to sort out prayer rooms for them. I’m not going to do that. It’s up to me how I run my business.”

On his Facebook page Mr Phillips fantasises about hanging Gordon Brown and repeats the recently regurgitated lie by the BNP that Mr Hain is a former bank robber.

Mr Hain, a vociferous anti-apartheid campaigner, countered: “I would expect nothing else from the racists and fascists who have attacked me for 40 years now. Everyone knows that in 1975 I was a victim of mistaken identity and acquitted of bank theft when I was almost certainly set up by the South African police in the bad old days of apartheid which the likes of the BNP supported.”

A BNP spokesman dismissed the sale of golliwogs. He said: “We sell golliwog toys on our Excalibur merchandise site. We market the golliwogs basically to stick two fingers up to the establishment”.

Wales Online

22 comments:

James said...

Wrll done to Kick It Out and the footie clubs concerned but surely it's possible to do this racist bastard for the 'Coon Flakes' thing and his statements that state that he would flout employment laws to avoid employing Muslims?

Anonymous said...

“I have had my business contacted by the FA and Sheffield Football Club trying to bully me into removing Golly badges from my range. Here is my response – FUCK YOU.”

Subtle, isn't he.

A. NON said...

surely it's possible to do this racist bastard for the 'Coon Flakes' thing and his statements that state that he would flout employment laws to avoid employing Muslims?

I doubt it mate, it all happened on Facebook, a haven for the far-right,

Kirklees Unity said...

Roger Phillips is your typical wind and piss fascist, as can be clearly seen from his shitty video filmed recently in Wembley.

If you haven't seen it, he drives around Wembley filming the locals and complaining about the number of Black and Asians he comes across.

Typically though as he is a bottleless bastard he gets out of the car and then has to do the rest of the commentary in Welsh.

All mouth no trousers.

Just someone else said...

"I doubt it mate, it all happened on Facebook, a haven for the far-right"

I don't think being on Facebook would help him if the police decide to take action. Being on an American server didn't help Sheppard and Whittle much. The trick is to get the police to move on this asap.
http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2009/06/racists-simon-sheppard-and-stephen.html

Bren said...

"Mr Phillips, 42, whose Facebook photos include one of a cornflakes box with an open-mouthed black minstrel and the doctored logo ‘Coon flakes’"....

C'mon Kelloggs, get sueing this racist arsehole for infrigement of copyright. Cornflakes is a brand and has commercial rights that stop this sort of thing from happening.

If Kelloggs were to sue, they could take the BNP to the cleaners, and I for one would live on Cornflakes and rice crispies, if they were to do this, to say thank you to the Kellogg corporation.

Anonymous said...

Animal rights protestors have been sued for infringing the McDonalds and KFC logos.

In the same way, the BNP could have their shitty arses paddled red raw by Kelloggs.

Anonymous said...

"open-mouthed black minstrel and the doctored logo ‘Coon flakes’"

Can anyone find a link to this shit so it can be reported, or post an image somewhere so we can send it to Kellogs.

Anonymous said...

Cease and desist, I think this is called.

Has anybody got the contact details for Kelloggs Customer Services to point out that their commercial rights are being infringed.

Anonymous said...

"In the same way, the BNP could have their shitty arses paddled red raw by Kelloggs"

Let's steal a BNP policy and bring back corporal punishment but only for pain-in-the-arse racist scumbags.

Anonymous said...

I would love the BNP to have to pay a £1,000 000 legal bill!

NewsHound said...

ENGLISH NAZIS PLAN TO MARCH ON WREXHAM NEXT WEEKEND.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/11/15/welsh-defence-league-plan-anti-islam-protest-in-wrexham-91466-25169185/

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said

Can anyone find a link to this shit so it can be reported, or post an image somewhere so we can send it to Kellogs.


Yes, here it is:

http://racisttwat.blogspot.com/

NewsHound said...

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/not-here-1.932520

EXCELLENT ARTICLE ABOUT HOW THE NEO-NAZIS WERE HUMILIATED IN GLASGOW!

Kirklees Unity said...

Once again to all people leaving comments, keep them relevant.

The posting is about Roger Phillips and the BNP, it is not about the EDL or SDL

Anonymous said...

Yes KU Newshound seems to be the main instigator of this?

As for FB comments. There is no defence because it is FB but it can be argued that they are personal comments only. Whilst we might think a comment is racist or offensive unless it is illegal it is unactionable as in the real world. Saying you won't employ a Muslim (not sure if there is anything to stop religious discrimination in Employment yet?) is only a wish. You (the applicant) could only take action if he actually did.

James D said...

A way to stop the non-relevant comments - have a sticky which is always kept second to the main thread where other comments can be posted without being ignored by the LU administrator whoever they may be.

If only one thread - the latest one - is being read, the rest being effectively treated as an archive, noone will want to post updates and alerts on this blog and it will get rather flaccid and stagnant.

Unlike Indymedia, it seems like only this blog's administrators can post articles here meaning all suggestions if they are to not be ignored are posted here, there and anywhere.

Don't know about Newhound but without any direct article imput there is no other way to point out breaking news than interrupting threads.

Also the antifascist movement must not ignore the SDL/EDL even if they seem to be low in numbers as street fighting fascists are most dangerous.

Anonymous said...

In the same way, the BNP could have their shitty arses paddled red raw by Kelloggs

You really should keep your kinky thoughts off the web. lol

Anonymous said...

Once they allow minorities into their party, none of this will work. People sell golliwogs all over the country. Cornwall is packed with shops selling them in all sizes. In Essex they even sell them in garden centre's. Allowing ehtnics into their party will change everything.

BeautifulBurnout said...

I would have thought that Robertson's Jam would have something to say about the gollies too. That was their logo for years, and you used to be able to collect labels to get the gollies when I were a lass.

I presume they wouldn't be too happy at the idea of the fash nicking their intellectual property...

DD said...

"Allowing ehtnics into their party will change everything."

Allowing 'ethnics' into the BNP will change nothing regarding laws against racism. Racism is still illegal, regardless of what's happening with the BNP membership.

"There is no defence because it is FB but it can be argued that they are personal comments only. Whilst we might think a comment is racist or offensive unless it is illegal it is unactionable as in the real world."

You've got a point but it's worth bearing in mind that copyright laws have almost certainly been breached and Kellogs are jealous copyright-protectors.

Antifascist said...

'http://racisttwat.blogspot.com/'

Thanks for that but I think we need the Facebook location itself. Without that, Facebook/Kellogs will be unable to take any action.

Regarding NewsHound and the links to news items - as far as I'm concerned, feel free to keep posting them but please, turn the upper-case off.

We can't be everywhere at once and will inevitably miss some items. Some, of course, we'll choose not to use because that particular piece of news has been covered as much as we want to cover it.

The alternative to posting them in a current thread is to email them direct but I'd prefer not to use that option. I get several hundred emails a day and they're driving me up the wall at the moment. For the time being, we'll have to carry on as we are.

'Also the antifascist movement must not ignore the SDL/EDL'

Believe me, we're not.