April 24, 2011

He's nothing to do with us: Daughters of first BNP mayor change names because they're so ashamed

Condemned: John Cave's views have been
called 'repugnant' by his daughters Donna and Rachel

The daughters of the man voted in to be Britain’s first BNP mayor are so ashamed of their father they are changing their name by deed poll.

Donna and Rachel Cave do not want to be associated with the man they say abandoned them when they were teenagers. Donna, a 27-year-old law graduate, said: ‘It’s a terrible thing to carry through life, the feeling of being dumped by your father, made worse now that he’s become a national hate figure. I try not to tell people my name in case they make the connection.’

John Cave, a local councillor, was elected deputy mayor of Padiham, near Burnley in Lancashire, earlier this month and will step up to the role of mayor next year. The position is largely symbolic but his election has been seen as a coup for the far-Right British National Party while being ¬condemned by community leaders.

Last night Donna and her sister Rachel, 25 – who also have two other sisters Victoria, 40, and Katie, 26 – said his character made him entirely unsuitable for the office. Donna claimed he walked out on the four of them and their mother Marlene 12 years ago when she was having chemotherapy for cancer.

She said: ‘It’s unbelievable that this man who abandoned my mother when she had cancer, as well as his four daughters, and who holds such repugnant political beliefs, could ever be considered fit to hold such a position of responsibility. He cut all ties with us, never called or even sent us a birthday card.

‘Our early attempts to keep in contact were either ignored or rebuffed. It’s as if we had never been part of his life. He has two grandchildren who he hasn’t seen.’

Rachel has a four-year-old daughter and Victoria and Katie are both married with two children.

Donna added: ‘I’m speaking out as I’ve had enough of being quiet about the appalling way he’s behaved. It’s amusing to hear someone say they want to make a difference to the community when he can’t even look after his own children.’

Rachel said: ‘It’s the principle of it. He’s representing the town and I think they should have someone with better morals and family values. We’re like a secret family. It’s not right.’

Mr Cave is now married to shopkeeper Sharon Wilkinson, a BNP Lancashire county councillor, who has three sons from a previous marriage. The girls claim he was having an affair with her while their mother was ill.

Donna said: ‘He insisted they were just friends but no one believed him. I think she was the cause of rows between Mum and Dad. He was at her shop frequently and did the cash-and-carry buys for her.

‘I noticed that usually at 10pm when she closed up, he would conveniently walk the dog. I wasn’t stupid. I knew what was going on.

‘And I had watched Mum get more depressed because people were whispering behind her back.’ In 1999, the girls returned from school one night to find their father gone. Rachel said: ‘He didn’t stick around to explain anything. Mum said he was gone for good and, in a way, I was relieved because we could all see that he was hurting her. After he left, she finished the treatment and was given the all-clear. She has been OK since then.’

Mr Cave, a landscape gardener, then joined the BNP. He and Ms Wilkinson rented neighbouring houses while still insisting they were just friends. The girls believe she was responsible for their father’s political conversion from working-class Tory voter to bigot.

Donna said: ‘Before this, Dad never talked about race as an issue. He had Asian friends and he’d take us to some of the Asian shops to see the different foods on sale. I don’t remember any racist talk at home.’

Rachel thinks Ms Wilkinson first embraced the BNP after her off-licence lost out to competition from an Asian shop that opened across the road in 1999.

She said: ‘They were bigger and cheaper. They were always busier than her. That’s when I think she changed. She was very upset.’

The last time all the girls saw their father was at their grandmother’s funeral four years ago. Donna said: ‘Dad spoke to Katie once in passing, but didn’t say a word to the rest of us. Lots of his BNP friends were there strutting around with their badges on, which upset me as Nanna was not racist.’

When their grandfather subsequently died only Donna and Katie attended the funeral. Now, with the change of their names, their estrangement is complete. Donna said: ‘He rejected us so we’re rejecting him.’

Last night Mr Cave told The Mail on Sunday: ‘What my daughters want to say is up to them. My divorce from their mother was not at all amicable and they seem to have taken her version of events. I did not abandon them or “disappear”. That would be impossible in Burnley. Really, I’ve absolutely no comment to make about what those people say.’

Mail Online

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

Rachel thinks Ms Wilkinson first embraced the BNP after her off-licence lost out to competition from an Asian shop that opened across the road in 1999

Same old story.

A lot of small business people join fascist movements due to them losing out to rival ethnic owned businesses and/or the massive multi-national chain stores. They hope that a BNP government would remove this competition. It was a big part of facsist movements in the 1930's and although much smaller today it is still there.

Anonymous said...

You just know the BNP is fucked when the Daily Mail and it's associated titles does smear stories on them.

Papers like the Mail and Express, if not openly supporting the BNP, should at least be neutral, considering their content reads like BNP propaganda at times.

It shows that the BNP are a toxic brand.

Anonymous said...

The Mail and Express may have similar rhetoric to the BNP, but they have always stopped short of supporting them and have often criticised the party

Jay said...

"Those people"? What a great way to describe your daughters, even if they are estranged from you. Filth, like everyone else in the BNP.

Anonymous said...

"Rachel thinks Ms Wilkinson first embraced the BNP after her off-licence lost out to competition from an Asian shop that opened across the road in 1999"

Selfish and pissed off that some Asians managed to beat her in business. Pathetic!

B31 Antifascist said...

The Daily Hatemail only attack the BNP because 1) of its support for rival UKIP and 2) the BNP consider the Daily Mail to be their favourite little rag and therefore running an anti-BNP story would provoke debate from its bigoted fascist online fanbase.

Anonymous said...

Don't you just love those BNP family values?

Anonymous said...

Other astute business people think of productive ways to fight the competition and make a profit again, regardless of the skin colour of said competition. Sharon Wilkinson joins an Aryan nationalist party. Really!! Shows she's just as much a shit businesswoman as a councillor.

Anonymous said...

EDL leadership exposed by hackers, again! http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/04/478013.html

Anonymous said...

Good job its not a paki family - the father and the uncle would have been shagging them daughters - and then burning them alive if they did not marry their retard cousin.

And YOU KNOW this is true!!!!

Anonymous said...

It was a big part of facsist movements in the 1930's and although much smaller today it is still there.

Your knocking on a bit ain't ya, if you can remember the 30's.

Antifascist said...

"Good job its not a paki family - the father and the uncle would have been shagging them daughters - and then burning them alive if they did not marry their retard cousin."

And you people wonder why the vast majority of the British public think you're utter twats? Moron.

anarchist said...

"Good job its not a paki family - the father and the uncle would have been shagging them daughters"

I don't think this is even a real stereotype. You know you're thick when you're bad at being racist.

Anonymous said...

Good job its not a paki family - the father and the uncle would have been shagging them daughters - and then burning them alive if they did not marry their retard cousin.

And YOU KNOW this is true!!!!

Well where's your source knucklehead?

The West family weren't "pakis" and then there are others who have done despicable acts to their own children, including an NF member, who beat his own child to death.

Anonymous said...

Re: Anon @ 4:38 PM, April 24, 2011

One of the BNP's more intellectual supporters!

Anonymous said...

Caveman is a useless wanker who sums up Nick Gri££in quite well.

Anonymous said...

The EDL/BNP nazi scummer who trolled this blog with his bile is a complete racist cockhead.

Antifascist said...

"And you people wonder why the vast majority of the British public think you're utter twats?"

We don't THINK they are complete and utter racist twats - they ARE complete and utter racist twats!!!

rugbyfan said...

Ben Cockayne the Hull KR rugby league thug, who recently was involved with a violent asssault, is a member of the Hull EDL, amd his picture with two team-mates is part of an album of celebrity Hull EDL supporters.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=148285045190289&set=a.148284308523696.24292.138625686156225&type=1&theater

He faces being banned by Hull KR, for his racist comments posted on facebook, but it's all the more shocking that he openly supports the EDL.

Let's hope there's anti-racist protests each time he turns up to play rugby.

Perhaps it's no surprise Cockayne supports the EDL.

His supporters in the Hull KR crowds call out the chant "CHARLIE, CHARLIE" when he scores tries, the EDL lovers of snorting the "white stuff" in Wetherspoons.

Anonymous said...

The Hull Daily Mail today shows some other screenshots from Cockayne's Facebook page.

"Religious views: hang/burn the extremists then off with there [sic] stinking ugly heads"

"Political views: british jobs british folk, block up the [censored] channel tunnel"

What a moron.

Anonymous said...

Andrew Brons has put out yet another announcement.

"I do, however have concerns that I am prepared to discuss with members and ex-members and my greatest concern is that the Party is being dismantled, quite deliberately...."

"I cannot foresee the future but the Party will either think again about its disastrous course and embrace reform and reconciliation or it will cease to exist."

http://www.andrewbrons.eu/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=171:register-your-continued-commitment

Anonymous said...

Crush the EDL nazi scum!!!

NewsHound said...

EDL THUG MIGHT BE ALLOWED TO STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM: -

http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2011/04/24/edl-thug-may-be-allowed-to-continue-studies-at-university-of-birmingham-66331-28573007/

WHERE THE F*CK ARE TUITION FEES WHEN YOU NEED THEM?

B31 Antifascist said...

Good job its not a paki family - the father and the uncle would have been shagging them daughters - and then burning them alive if they did not marry their retard cousin.

And YOU KNOW this is true!!!!


Source please?? Mind you, if the BNP say it's true then you know that it isn't true at all!

B31 Antifascist said...

Good job its not a paki family - the father and the uncle would have been shagging them daughters - and then burning them alive if they did not marry their retard cousin.

And YOU KNOW this is true!!!!

And who's been believing a tadge too much of what 'the lads' have been gossiping about down the Red Lion then????