Scotland: fear and loathing grips McBNP

On the day that Nick Griffin made the fantastical claim that the BNP had gained 1000 members since last Friday (not all of them Sikhs, apparently) a very large fly dropped into the ointment jar when three Scottish officials were outed as “traitors” in a hysterical post on the BNP Scotland website.

The post is illustrated with a tiny version of the poster below, issued in Wisconsin as a warning to Confederate sympathisers that if caught they would be “summarily dealth with”, meaning hung – an end the BNP has previously promised awaits everybody from the Archbishop of Canterbury to British Army generals and its own dissident former members. No wonder they reproduced it at illegible postage-stamp size.

It seems that emails between the three "traitors", who allegedly call themselves the "Scottish Volunteers", had somehow fallen into the hands of "a loyal member", and are now in the possession of Scottish BNP officials ("emails in our procession" [sic] is how the excitable author of the BNP Scotland post puts it) and are to be forwarded on to national BNP officials.

We shall have to assume that these emails were obtained by legal means, because, of course, if they weren't...

The post alleges that the three, in "their words", intended “to cause the greatest destructive effect on their (BNP Scotland) morale” and also “To destroy the party in Scotland”. It further claims that the three had refused to stand for the BNP in Scotland "but have tried to get seats to stand in in England", but happily:

This action as they know means we have nine candidates standing now missing the required twelve to qualify for a TV election broadcast. This will cost us thousands of votes..

Alongside an unexplained accusation that the renegades had "spread poison in England" is another that "this trio of fools are being manipulated behind the scenes by ex-Tory ex-ukip rejects with their own agenda".

It's all very strange, but there's not much about the BNP that isn't.

The Comments section of the post is as revealing as the post itself:

...The word traitors is too good a word to use - they are scum...

...BNP Scotland has it's own "axis of evil", aided and abetted by their UKIP master. Once again, you have been foiled. Why do you continue with your attempt to de-stabilise the BNP in Scotland...

...The only thing they are fighting for is the demise of the current scottish bnp their reason is they want to run Scotland their way i think they should be named and shamed...

And the very next poster does exactly that - allegedly:

I WILL NAME THE SUPER KEY PLAYERS (thats what they call themselves) CHARLIE BAILLEE, JOHN ROBERTSON, MAX DUNBAR. AND THE VERY HAPPY IAN WILSON i have the proof here so the above please try to sue me

Hang on - we seem to have acquired an extra traitor, but no matter. It appears, from a close reading of all this, that the three (or four) renegade officials are not too happy with the leadership of Englishman Gary Raikes, who is very much a Nick Griffin groupie.

Some time ago a commenter at Lancaster Unity (click) reposted the following from a BNP blog:

Not to worry as I will continue the Nationalist fight, just not under the banner of Corrupt Griffin and his lying backstabbing toad in Scotland, Gary (Please can I have my picture published) Raikes. The good members north of the border will very quickly see the difference between, the very efficient, open, loyal, and honest Kenny Smith, and the self publicising, lying, lazy, backstabbing, tight arse that Raikes has already shown himself to be”.

Oh dear, trouble in the glens for the BNP's Caledonian clots, and just as you thought it was safe to predict a BNP Scottish MSP in 2011...

[The post - "Anti-BNP Scotland group exposed" - was removed some time this morning (Thursday)]