April 06, 2010

BNP officers unite ‘unanimously’ after anti-Collett hate session

The British National Party’s sacked head of publicity set up a series of front companies apparently with the intention of “skimming off” printing bills, yesterday’s special meeting of the British National Party heard.

Party officers and organisers gathering near Coventry were told that a copy of a tape recording of a conversation between Mark Collett and the party treasurer David Hannam was in the hands of the police who “would be able to investigate a number of potential crimes including threats to murder, assault, fraud and falsification of accounts”, according to a BNP statement issued afterwards.

The meeting had not been allowed to hear the tape and draw its own conclusions, however, but appointed a “four man strong subcommittee” to listen to it and report back on its “full contents and implications”. Its spokesman Michael Simpkins, a BNP town councillor in Corsham, Wiltshire, declared the tape was genuine.

The BNP statement left several questions unanswered, above all why Eddy Butler has been replaced as the party’s national organiser and national elections officer by Clive Jefferson, the North West regional organiser. Members were told that Butler was “still very much with the BNP and is set to play a leading role in the party’s attempt to take control of the Barking and Dagenham council”. However Butler has not issued any personal statement.

Last November Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, announced that Richard Barnbrook, the BNP’s London Assembly member, would spearhead the party’s Barking and Dagenham council campaign. Presumably he has not been producing the canvassing returns Griffin expects.

Griffin read out a statement from Emma Colgate, who resigned as party manager last week, warning that “fake Facebook and YouTube accounts” were being set up in her name “with the obvious intention of sowing confusion”. Despite her continuing important role, running the BNP’s campaign in Thurrock, she was apparently not at the meeting.

BNP members have clearly not been told the full story about the abrupt departures of Butler and Colgate from national party positions and the party’s EU payroll, and their connection with Collett’s “misdemeanours”.

Another omission from the statement is any reference to Jim Dowson, the BNP’s fundraising and management consultant, whose extensive financial hold over the BNP makes him in effect the party’s owner. Last week’s BNP organisers’ bulletin, which first announced Collett’s suspension, referred to a threat to the “personal safety” of both Griffin and Dowson and there have been suggestions since then that it was Dowson who discovered Collett’s financial irregularities.

Collett has long been accused of making a profit at the party’s expense and of being very poor at the graphic design and leaflet production that are a major part of his role, but Griffin has only listened to the allegations now. That may be because Griffin was in desperate need of a scapegoat to allay dissent in the party following his disastrous performance on Question Time last year, his capitulation to the Equality and Human Rights Commission over changing the party’s racist constitution, accusations from members that the central party apparatus is appropriating branch funds, questions about Dowson’s control over the party and Griffin’s very own EU parliamentary expenses scandal.

After venting their “hate” for Collett, in events reminiscent of Geroge Orwell’s 1984, the party united “unanimously” behind Griffin, according to the BNP’s statement, and will contest 326 constituencies in the general election on 6 May.

As for Collett, he claims to be “completely loyal” to the party and willing to help people with local publicity material in the run-up to the elections. “There is currently a smear campaign against me,” is all he has said publicly so far.

Collett had been lined up to contest the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough constituency against David Blunkett in the general election but has been replaced by John Sheldon, a Sheffield BNP activist.

The events of the past few days are far more than the sort of differences of opinion and personality clashes that any political party suffers. Griffin constantly claims he is the leader of a moderate, non-violent organisation, but it is difficult to see how he can square that assertion with his statement to the police that his own head of publicity has been threatening to kill him. The BNP remains a party full of thugs.

Hope not hate

50 comments:

P.G. said...

Isn't it time that the Fraud Squad was called in to investigate the Dowson BNP's financial dealing? What happened after that Radio 4 thing a year or so ago - didn't Jon Cruddas ask questions on this subject in the House of Commons? So what has happened? Nothing. Time for the law to step in, I think.

Anonymous said...

Which Regional Organisers didn'turn up?

Anonymous said...

wonder if they will be arrested for illegaly taping someone .
i see rent boy barnes is full of him self too today.
must have been up all nite sniffing griffins knickers

Anonymous said...

Propaganda from the BNP again. Collet is the sacrificial lamb to deflect the crap from Griffin.
Collett and Griffin were inseparable once. Just shows you the character of Griffin who will shaft his long time friends in an obvious deflection tactic.
Colgate and Butler gone[so they say]
Clive Jefferson the most useless man ever now in power position,why.
According to our sources up in the area it is well accepted that this useless lump has cost people in Cumbria some elections. He is a self proclaimed expert on electioneering, of course he has a background of drug dealer,doorman,thug.For some reason Griffin thinks this qualify s him for the job.Or could it be that he is just a kiss arser.
I think its safe to say that when Jefferson roles out his master plan nationwide,the BNP will never will another election.

Anonymous said...

"wonder if they will be arrested for illegaly taping someone"

I doubt it. They weren't even when they openly admitted recording Sadie Graham and co. These fuckers seem to be beyond the law.

Anonymous said...

Wasn't this how they nailed Sadie Graham? What kind of political party tape records conversations between its own members?

scapegoat said...

It looks like Butler and Colgate were using collette in there take over bid,collette there for it went all wrong ,which it has .Leaving collette to take the wrap or even a jail sentence .There bragging how they used him as a scape goat .There still in and he,s defo out .

Anonymous said...

Isn't it time that the Fraud Squad was called in to investigate the Dowson BNP's financial dealing?


Too bloody right!

Fuck Dowson and Griffin said...

"The British National Party’s sacked head of publicity set up a series of front companies apparently with the intention of “skimming off” printing bills, yesterday’s special meeting of the British National Party heard."

There's a fair amount of evidence to suggest that Dowson and Griffin have set up a series of front companies apparently with the intention of skimming money off the donations. Funny how THAT wasn't mentioned at this meeting.

Nick Griffin is a thief said...

"The meeting had not been allowed to hear the tape and draw its own conclusions, however, but appointed a “four man strong subcommittee” to listen to it and report back on its “full contents and implications”."

How odd that the full meeting wasn't allowed to listen to the tape. Makes you wonder who it fingered (so to speak). Did something on it incriminate Nick Griffin? If I were the police, I'd demand the whole thing, not an edited version.

"Its spokesman Michael Simpkins, a BNP town councillor in Corsham, Wiltshire, declared the tape was genuine."

And he's know, would he? What is he - the expert in surveillance recordings in the BNP?

Anonymous said...

@ FD&G

It's a bit like gangland or the ice cream wars, everyone involved is equally crooked but it's the one with the biggest gun that finishes up with the prize.

Anonymous said...

You do a disservice to your readers. I understand that as an 'anti-fascist' blog you need to portray the BNP in the worst possible light but telling such patent untruths actually weakens your case.

LU "The meeting had not been allowed to hear the tape and draw its own conclusions"
Fact: The meeting was asked if it wanted to hear the tape, or wanted a small group to listen to it, and it voted for a small group to do it and report back.

LU "After venting their “hate” for Collett..."
Fact: There was no "hate" expressed. It was a businesslike approach of 'lets hear the facts then move on'.

LU "Griffin was in desperate need of a scapegoat to allay dissent"
Fact: This is just plain ridiculous - there is no dissent.

LU "The BNP remains a party full of thugs."
Fact: Now that's just parroting the worst aspects of the MSM

Clive Jefferson... surprise, surprise, I re-read your blog post but you didn't give him your normal hate-treatment this time. Anyway, he gave a very enlightening talk on taking BNP election campaigning to the next level and when his ideas are implemented there will be many more BNP council election victories.

Sorry to rain on your hate-fest.

Antifascist said...

'Fact: The meeting was asked if it wanted to hear the tape, or wanted a small group to listen to it, and it voted for a small group to do it and report back.'"

From the BNP's own report from the meeting.

"Amongst the details revealed were serious issues...and a short snippet of a recorded conversation with Mr Collett. The meeting [then] decided unanimously to appoint a four man strong subcommittee to listen to the entire tape recording and report to the crowd on its full contents and implications.

Councillor Michael Simpkins, a former RAF police officer, then reported back after a break that the tape was genuine and was of a conversation between Mr Collett and party treasurer David Hannam."

No mention of the meeting being asked if it wanted to listen to the entire tape there. Why not? But being as you claim to be in the know, perhaps you'll inform us as to the legality of recording private conversations and their admissibility in evidence (and I don't mean a BNP kangaroo court - the evidence is already tainted there purely because the ROs have already heard part of the illegal tape).

Maybe Griffin should have had a word with your party's fake barrister before this was posted up on the internet for all to see.

Antifascist said...

'Clive Jefferson... surprise, surprise, I re-read your blog post but you didn't give him your normal hate-treatment this time. Anyway, he gave a very enlightening talk on taking BNP election campaigning to the next level and when his ideas are implemented there will be many more BNP council election victories.'

On the contrary - we look forward to Jefferson implementing his ideas nationwide. Particularly if they reflect the less than spectacular success he's had in the North West.

Lapsed member and never going back said...

"I understand that as an 'anti-fascist' blog you need to portray the BNP in the worst possible light but telling such patent untruths actually weakens your case."

You might like to explain the lies about Emma Colgate in the report too and why she was forced to sign an NDA or be thrown out of the party.

Anonymous said...

"wonder if they will be arrested for illegaly taping someone"

The BNP's grandly named "intelligence department", headed by an extremely shadowy figure and former high-ranking member of the South African police, Lance Stewart, routinely carries out illegal bugging, hacking and phone taps on people both inside and outside the BNP. The department have a tacit agreement to do this with MI5/Special Branch and these state agencies have agreed to "look the other way". The BNP regularly trade information with the secret state. How do you think those BNP members convicted of arms possession in the last few years were first detected?

Anonymous said...

LU "Griffin was in desperate need of a scapegoat to allay dissent"
Fact: This is just plain ridiculous - there is no dissent.

Erm, don't you lot say this EVERY time there is internal dissent???

Anonymous said...

"Sorry to rain on your hate-fest"

Taking a break from the Daily Mail, pal?

We all know that internally the BNP is modelled on some cultish Stalinist set-up: complete devotion to the leader who can do no wrong in terms of policy. All so called democratic party meetings are 'rubber stamping' exercises.

Anonymous said...

LU "The BNP remains a party full of thugs."
Fact: Now that's just parroting the worst aspects of the MSM

Yes, but it IS a party full of thugs.

Anonymous said...

"I understand that as an 'anti-fascist' blog you need to portray the BNP in the worst possible light but telling such patent untruths actually weakens your case."

Why should you care about the strength or weakness of our case?

Anonymous said...

Clive Jefferson... surprise, surprise, I re-read your blog post but you didn't give him your normal hate-treatment this time. Anyway, he gave a very enlightening talk on taking BNP election campaigning to the next level and when his ideas are implemented there will be many more BNP council election victories

HMMM I WONDER WHO THIS IS
DO WE HAVE CLIVE JEFFERSONS ATTENTION;I THINK WE DO LOL

Anonymous said...

"I understand that as an 'anti-fascist' blog you need to portray the BNP in the worst possible light."

Why, because you are a bunch of fascists?

Anonymous said...

"I understand that as an 'anti-fascist' blog you need to portray the BNP in the worst possible light etc"

Nobody needs to bullshit or lie to make the BNP look corrupt (in all senses of the word). It is corrupt. Just reporting the truth is enough to show it up for what it is.

Anonymous said...

Well well well Gri££in Dowson and Darby can carry on ROBBING the BNP members. Hope the Fraud squad investigates the hundreds of thousands being stashed away in there bank accounts??????????

Anonymous said...

"And he's know, would he? What is he - the expert in surveillance recordings in the BNP?"

LOL They need one though.

Anonymous said...

There was a very interesting radio programme about Dowson and the BNP on BBC Radio Ulster two weeks ago, but unfortunately it no longer available, unless somebody knows another source?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007d4pg

Anonymous said...

Fun and games on the Sheffield Star site's report of this. See

http://www.thestar.co.uk/headlines/Sheffield-BNP-man39s-arrest-for.6205082.jp?CommentPage=2&CommentPageLength=10#5106320

BNP trolls on there include waywoodwind47 and lifelong owl as well as others. It's fun winding them up by taking the piss out of them and Collett. One of them is arguing that Collett was replaced because he wasn't local. Anti-fascists should go on there and wind them up. BNP posters do delete posts but if you keep going on there it'll tie them down.

Anonymous said...

Has the BNP submitted their accounts for last year yet?
Or are they still paying fines for "inadequate" (Griffin's word) accounting?

Anonymous said...

I've found the BBC Radio Ulster expose of Dowson broadcast on 28th March, please listen from Youtube links below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ybn1DamHFI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgk_KkccS70&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqCNbXSSIwU&feature=related

Anonymous said...

KINKY DARBY found on darby blog

Myself, I have a confession to share with you. A tune with lyrics including "want,want,want" and "boom,boom,boom" sung by a African lady riding a lion and then a zebra is currently trapped inside my mind. I've tried everything I can to purge Rihanna's "Rude Boy", but I feel the only cure is prolonged exposure to some AC/DC.

I always knew he was a pillock

John P said...

Fun and games on the Sheffield Star site's report of this. See

http://www.thestar.co.uk/headlines/Sheffield-BNP-man39s-arrest-for.6205082.jp?CommentPage=2&CommentPageLength=10#5106320

BNP trolls on there include waywoodwind47 and lifelong owl as well as others. It's fun winding them up by taking the piss out of them and Collett. One of them is arguing that Collett was replaced because he wasn't local. Anti-fascists should go on there and wind them up. BNP posters do delete posts but if you keep going on there it'll tie them down.

Waywoodwind47 is John Beatson who is the BNPs candidate for Heeley and he runs the Sheffield Nationalist website

Anonymous said...

anon @ 4.58 states that Jefferson gave a speech about taking campainging to another level.

Was that a downward level then LOL

tulip

Anonymous said...

"Has the BNP submitted their accounts for last year yet?
Or are they still paying fines for "inadequate" (Griffin's word) accounting?"

The 2009 accounts are not due until July, though with incompetent Dave Hannam in charge, what are the chances they will be on time? The 2008 accounts are still under investigation by the Electoral Commission because they did not comply with the law.

Another day in the life of a normal political party.

Anonymous said...

BNP leader calls for white people to "maim and blow things up"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNAzLXdO31M

Barbara said...

I don't get the Butler angle - what was he trying to do?

Anonymous said...

It would seem everyone in the BNP is either a crook or a Searchlight mole :)

David Ick said...

Well let me tell you people, I was at that meeting and I COULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT I SAW!!!

Before my very eyes the top tier of the party shape-shifted into reptilliods after which they sang "knees up Mother Brown" and did the hokey-kokey.

Oh the horror!

Anonymous said...

Waywoodwind47/Beatson is a good laugh on there. He really is bonkers and keeps banging on about how proud he is to be British while destroying the English language with his lack of knowledge of it. He's made it quite clear who he is by admitting he lives in Lupton Walk. Lifelong Owl admits to living in High Green. Any ideas?

Anonymous said...

One more idiot doesn't make a party full

Anonymous said...

Jeffersons new level is he now has to decide wether he sucks griffin or dowsons dick ,

La Di Da Gunner Graham said...

"Fact: The meeting was asked if it wanted to hear the tape, or wanted a small group to listen to it, and it voted for a small group to do it and report back."

As if, sunshine.

Methinks you do a disservice to your "comrades" by painting them as retarded children. Then again...

Anonymous said...

Maybe Griffin should have had a word with your party's fake barrister before this was posted up on the internet for all to see.

Didn't think Barnesy was stupid enough to claim he was a Barrister now surely? If he is is there a law against it and can we tell someone?

Anonymous said...

"Didn't think Barnesy was stupid enough to claim he was a Barrister now surely? If he is is there a law against it and can we tell someone?"

Yes there is and the sooner the Law Society act the better.

Old Sailor

Anonymous said...

"It would seem everyone in the BNP is either a crook or a Searchlight mole :)"

Ha Ha - I sometimes think that entire branch meetings of the BNP must be full of touts and informers. Kinda reminds me of a "funny" FBI report that was released under the US Freedom of Information Act a few years back. It concerned a meeting of the Black Panther Party in 1971 and stated that no useful intelligence was gained as all the attendees were police informants inside the BPP! Could imagine something similar happening today in Britain with the BNP.

Anonymous said...

Jefferson is the Thickest Dumwit in the BNP. The BNP are Dumber than Dumb to employ this thick twat. HA HA

Anonymous said...

Its time now for Mark Collett to tell the truth about how much Griffins been making from Skimming money from the membership???????????

Mark Griffins let you hang and you can hang him by telling the truth.

Anonymous said...

"Mark Griffins let you hang and you can hang him by telling the truth."

Collette ain't got the bottle mate, or the intelligence.

Anonymous said...

"Didn't think Barnesy was stupid enough to claim he was a Barrister now surely? If he is is there a law against it and can we tell someone?"

Maybe in Barnes's 'Walter Mitty' world, he is!

Anonymous said...

"Its time now for Mark Collett to tell the truth about how much Griffins been making from Skimming money from the membership???????????"

Indeed. It's also worth comparing and contrasting the amounts paid to Collett and Dowson in the leaked BNP accounts.

Take March for example

Collett received;

-£602.38
-£951.28
-£1,751.62
-£1,189.46

Dowson on the other hand received
payments totalling £50,400

By strange coincidence Dowson opened up a new company in Spain back in March financed with 50,000 euros. Wonder where that came from?

I don't doubt Collett was skimming but he's too much of a cowardly shit to do so without Griffin's blessing. This really is a theives fall out.

Anonymous said...

watch this space afte the Elections