Hard-core porn star to run BNP “family festival”

Linda Kitchen

With the Barnsley by-election set for 3 March, the British National Party appears increasingly uninterested in promoting its faux family image and the party’s diminishing number of members in Yorkshire are once more calling into question the judgement of their leader, Nick Griffin.

The surprise appointment of Ian Kitchen as a replacement for the highly regarded Chris Beverley as the new Yorkshire and Humber regional organiser in January, with Simon Goodricke, one of Griffin’s regular bodyguards, as his deputy, brought to the fore one of the worst kept secrets in the BNP’s recent history.

Kitchen, from Hemsworth near Pontefract in West Yorkshire, has long been regarded by members as an oddball and a Griffin sycophant. Most see him as a harmless crank who allegedly suffers from brain injuries resulting from a car accident.

Kitchen attracted attention for his strange and rather awkward looking cameo appearance at the launch of the BNP’s 2010 election manifesto in Stoke-on-Trent. Standing behind Griffin and Simon Darby, then the party’s deputy leader and a local parliamentary candidate, he appeared with what looked for all intents and purposes a saucepan on his head as he mimicked a poor man’s pantomime St George.

Alongside his promotion to regional organiser, Kitchen and his fourth wife Linda have been entrusted with running and promoting the party’s annual booze-fuelled punch-up, bean feast and “family orientated” Red, White and Blue festival. Their appointment has the potential to cause acute embarrassment for the party and adds to suspicions among members that the leadership is running Yorkshire region into the ground.

For alongside promoting the BNP’s alleged clean-cut image and Christian beliefs, Mrs Kitchen is a hard-core porn actress and the star attraction on a number of websites that show and sell films for a particular market in mature and genitally pierced “grannies”. There are also a number of explicit photographs of Linda, who has the word “slave” tattooed across her abdomen, engaged in sexual acts not with her husband but with alleged and consenting strangers.

The availability of the photographs and film, which rejoices in the title Freddie’s British Granny F*** 15, on a number of porn websites has long been an open secret in the BNP and one of which Griffin is believed to be aware. Their explicit and extreme nature prevents Searchlight from reproducing the evidence here.

The appointment of Kitchen irked Eddy Butler, the unsuccessful BNP leadership challenger, who has encountered Kitchen at the BNP’s offices at the European Parliament in Brussels, where Griffin sits as an MEP for the North West and Andrew Brons, a former chairman of the National Front, represents Yorkshire and the Humber.

Linda Kitchen with husband Ian and stepson also called Ian

According to Butler, Griffin lied to Yorkshire members when he claimed he did not know that Kitchen had allegedly been jailed for violence and “gives out DVDs of his wife engaging in hard core pornographic acts with strangers”.

Certainly the language used by the film’s promoters to market it is not what one would expect from the self-appointed moral guardians of the nation. Mrs Kitchen is described as a “slutty granny” among other degrading and offensive descriptions for women.

Interestingly, Butler claims that the disgraced Barnsley Labour MP Eric Illsley was forced to resign as a result of the work of the former BNP “sleaze buster” Michael Barnbrook, now out of favour with Griffin. Kitchen helped kick off the Barnsley by-election campaign for the BNP by attempting to charge £1 entrance to a party meeting. Perhaps this is typical of the ideas Kitchen brings to the table in a now morally as well as financially bankrupt BNP.

Goodricke, Kitchen’s deputy, is also far from a fine upstanding member of the community. One of Griffins regular bodyguards, Goodricke was thrown out of the police service in disgrace and conned an 80-year-old woman out of £1,000 as he awaited trial for perverting the course of justice.

The former West Midlands Detective Constable, described as “an unremarkable detective”, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment at Birmingham Crown Court in January 1998. He was found guilty of perverting the course of justice after he tipped off fraudsters attempting to swindle £100 million from Columbian drug barons.

An international police investigation was under way but collapsed after the tip-off. Goodricke was a gambling addict who had borrowed £200,000 from one of the fraudsters, to whom he later gave insider information.

While on bail he tricked a pensioner into loaning him £1,000. He had first met her some years earlier while investigating a broken window at her house. When Goodricke tried to beg more money from her she became distressed and wrote a letter asking him to leave her alone. He was said to have duped her with a sob story telling her he owed £3,500 on his mortgage and his house was about to be repossessed.

The court heard however that he was not in arrears and there had been no threat of repossession.

Goodricke was dismissed from West Midlands Police in 1996, two years after being suspended on disciplinary charges.

Hope not Hate

Convicted Italian fascist Roberto Fiore addresses BNP followers in Derbyshire

Protestors at the Red, White and Blue yesterday

Right-wing European activists have addressed the British National Party’s annual gathering despite protests by anti-fascists that blockaded the event and resulted in 19 arrests in the Derbyshire countryside.

Last night Roberto Fiore, the leader of the Italian far-right party Forza Nuova and a friend of the BNP leader Nick Griffin, spoke to several hundred people at the Red, White and Blue Festival about the “threat” to Europe from Islamic extremism.

Mr Fiore, who once said he was happy to be described as a neo-fascist, was sentenced in 1985 to 10 years prison in Italy, in his absence, for being a member of the political wing of the Armed Revolutionary Nuclei, a fascist terror group. The group’s armed wing was implicated in the Bologna bombing of 1980, which killed 85 people. Mr Fiore’s jail term was eventually “timed out” under Italy's statute of limitation laws, and he was able to return to his homeland in April 1999.

Mr Fiore was joined at the BNP gathering last night by Marc Abramson, a councillor for a nationalist Swedish political party. Mr Abramson told The Times that he would be speaking about the need for a “total stop” to immigration as it was out of control in Europe.

Mr Griffin, an MEP in the North West, is scheduled to address the gathering this afternoon.

Yesterday police arrested 19 anti-fascist protesters during a demonstration outside the event, near Denby. More than 1,000 protesters from the group Unite Against Fascism and trade unions gathered to express their anger at the BNP’s presence. About 100 protesters successfully blockaded the road for more than an hour, delaying the arrival of some BNP supporters.

A statement on the UAF website today said: “Unite Against Fascism is aware of around a dozen anti-fascists arrested on the day, mostly those involved in occupying road junctions. We believe that such tactics of non-violent direct action are a legitimate response to the BNP’s racist thuggery and we do not believe anyone should be arrested for such actions.”

The police operation, which included a helicopter and several hundred officers, is estimated to have cost about £500,000.

Denby and nearby Codnor, where several shops closed, were disrupted for most of the day as roads were closed and streets blockaded. Residents said that they were fed up with the disturbance from the festival, which has been held in their village for the past three years.

Some blamed the protesters but others said that the presence of the BNP had besmirched the village’s reputation nationally. Many were fearful of speaking out against the party, claiming there would be “retribution” as they had been threatened by members in the past.

John Lumsden, a resident who lives a few houses away from the field where the rally takes place, told The Times: “The bottom line is that no one wants them here. This is a little community where everybody is friendly and we don’t agree with their values. But not only that, this shatters the peace of the place. The event is far too big and it is simply an inappropriate site.” Mr Griffin told The Times that the BNP event was a family festival and supporters merely wanted to be left to themselves.

He said: “We don’t create any havoc at all. No-one would even know we were here if it weren’t for the far Left trying to use this as a cynical recruiting bid to try and get ethnic minorities on side. They are going to cost the taxpayer a lot of money.”

A spokesman for Searchlight, the anti-fascist group, said that Mr Fiore’s presence “says all that anyone needs to know about the modern BNP”

Times Online

Derbyshire police will object if BNP festival comes to county again

Griffin speaking at last year's RWB, while Alan Warner nods off beside him

A senior police officer has told the BNP he fears more violence if the party tries to hold its annual festival in the county this summer.

Alan Warner wants to hold the Red, White and Blue festival in fields next to his home in Codnor-Denby Lane, Denby, for the third successive year. But Superintendent Howard Veigas, who policed the event last year, has pre-empted any official announcement by writing to Mr Warner with his concerns.

He said the police would object if the party applied to Amber Valley Borough Council for a licence to sell alcohol and play live music at the event.The comments came after the force spent £250,000 policing last year's event with about 400 officers. Anti-BNP protesters clashed with police outside the festival site, leading to 33 arrests.

The letter to Mr Warner said: "In the view of the Derbyshire Constabulary, the site at Codnor-Denby Lane is not a suitable venue for an event which generates such strong emotions and objections. We would oppose it on the grounds of risk to public safety, prevention of crime and disorder, prevention of public nuisance and protection of children from harm.

"The protests last year led to a high number of arrests following various incidents of disorder which took place around the site. The open nature of the site means that it is impossible for the festival to be protected against any determined and violent opponent without a large police presence."

Last year, the BNP withdrew its application to sell alcohol and play live music on the land after the police objected but the event itself went ahead. Mr Warner said the same could happen this year. He said he could not understand the views in the letter as last year's problems had been caused by anti-BNP activists. He said: "We didn't have any trouble on our site last year. If the BNP were to apply but not get the licences I would imagine we would still hold an event."

One festival organiser, Wendy Russell, said that, if the festival took place in Derbyshire, it would be held on or around August 13, 14 and 15. She said: "We are having a committee meeting about it within the next couple of weeks. It will definitely go ahead somewhere, as it's the 10th one, so we've got to pull out all the stops. There's always other options but we like Mr Warner's land and the local area."

One local resident, Brian Bentley, 77, of Codnor-Denby Lane, said he was delighted the police were planning to object.

"If the paperwork comes in I will be objecting, as I did the year before, on the basis of noise," he said.

A police spokeswoman said the concerns raised with Mr Warner were "based on intelligence we have received and the risk that was caused by last year's violence in the area surrounding the festival".

"We are in regular contact with Mr Warner to discuss his plans," she added.

Police only have powers to object to a music and alcohol licence being granted; they cannot object to the festival itself as it is being held on private land

This is Derbyshire

The democracy dodge and the 4 year rule

Some time ago we remarked that in the 25 year history of the British National Party only two leadership elections had ever taken place, and that only one of them could be described as a relatively fair contest.

That long-plotted election saw Nick Griffin unseat BNP founder John Tyndall in a campaign notable for its rank dishonesty, and during which Griffin (largely responsible for the destruction of the National Front) openly threatened that a Tyndall win would “lead inevitably to a most disastrous split”.

The second leadership election came eight years and several self-serving constitutional changes later - years of ruthless purging and disruption by a leader beset with accusations of financial mismanagement.

It was, as we know, anything but a fair contest, the terms on which it was fought laid down by the incumbent Griffin, who shamelessly appointed his own man as Returning Officer, and then proceeded against challenger Chris Jackson's campaign in his habitually odious style of threat, smear, vilification and disinformation. And when Griffin inevitably won his Mugabe-esque victory the purging began.

In the aftermath Griffin spoke of changes to come in his infamously deranged "vermin, liars and thieves" blog post, but never quite got around to making them - unsurprisingly, with the BNP apparently insolvent at the time according to figures coming into our possession some weeks ago, and the Decembrist revolt brewing in the background.

Two would-be challengers came forward in the spring, Kirklees councillor Colin Auty's doomed campaign perhaps best expressing how widely discontent with Nick Griffin's leadership has spread on the so-called moderate wing of the party; while - incomprehensibly - hard-liner Chris Jackson again threw his hat in the ring.

The BNP's dirty tricks department set out to defuse both men (especially the dangerous Auty) very quickly and their challenges lapsed through lack of support - a lack of support not least engendered by threats that anybody exercising their consitutional right to sign nomination papers would face expulsion.

Early on came Griffinite talk of yet another change to the BNP's (apparently unobtainable) constitution that would allow a leadership challenge just once every four years. This is clearly the change that Griffin never got around to last year.

In light of simmering internal disaffection for Griffin, the existence of well-connected anti-Griffin factions on the moderate and hard-line wings of the party, the abortive challenges and the Decembrist disruption, it would be unwise for Griffin to simply impose the all important change since he would hand his numerous opponents a very thick stick with which to beat him.

To stave off accusations that the intended change is little more than the dictatorial stitch-up it is, the matter has to be dressed up in democratic clothing and presented to the membership as essential to the stability and security of the party.

For some time Griffinites have been busy selling the "stability and security" line, with dark talk about shadowy external forces manipulating leadership challenges against good-guy Griffin. "Stop the challenges and you stop the disruption" is the claim - despite the fact that those making the most noise and behaving in the most disruptive manner were the Griffinites themselves.

Rather ingeniously, Griffin has chosen the forthcoming Red White and Blue event to be the simultaneous venue for an EGM of voting members - ingeniously because the RWB will afford a whole weekend of glad-handing by the man himself and a whole weekend of pro-four year rule propaganda to put the voting members onside when the EGM considers the matter.

Holding an EGM will also have the happy effect of intimidating the more weak-minded and of identifying those prepared to risk openly opposing Griffin's will.

The result will be a foregone conclusion.

Griffin will have his way, as his spokesmen on BNP web hangouts have promised, and no matter that the manipulated and bamboozled membership will have effectively turned the BNP into a one man dictatorship - something even the Nazi Tyndall never attempted - they will leave the EGM having convinced themselves of how very democratic it all was.

To put this in context, Nick Griffin has only ever faced one challenge to his leadership. He won it by a long mile.

Paranoia, anybody?

Implied threats and fear of failure - Nick Griffin loses his nerve over High Court action

Regular readers will know that ten days ago we reported that the December rebels (Sadie Graham, Kenny Smith and co) had received a letter from Nick Griffin suggesting that the ongoing case in the High Court should be dropped. Here's what we said:

'The December rebels who Griffin was taking through the High Court have received letters this week from the pig farmer himself, asking that the case be dropped because 'it's your homes at risk' and 'it's in the best interests of' party unity and so on, apparently forgetting that it was he himself who brought the case.'

This was immediately questioned by the near-dead Lancaster and Morecambe BNP group's idiotic former organiser Chris Hill who, via the recent leadership-challenger Colin Auty's support blog, Challenge for Leadership, said,

'I may in fact be wrong about the Grifin/Collett gang having officially dropped the case against Sadie & Co. I read a report about a retraction letter being received they the defendants elsewhere on the web (the Lancaster UAF blog), but I've not seen any reports from reliable sources as yet. UAF may well be jumping the gun in reporting the inevitable, but that's UAF for you as about as reliable as Griffin on a bad day.'

We're a good deal more reliable than Nick Griffin - even on a good day when all he does is stay at home and admire his new sauna and jacuzzi while counting his pigs - and to nobody's surprise at all, it turns out that we were telling the truth and those who denied this were telling, forgive me, porkies. Oh, and Chris, in case you hadn't noticed, we changed our name to Lancaster Unity nearly six months ago.

The letter from Griffin to the rebels is reprinted below.

'Dated 8th July 2008

Dear XXXXXXXXXX

Further to our earlier correspondence in connection with proposed disciplinary proceedings, I am writing to you and your colleagues in this matter in an attempt to bring it to an early - and as far as is possible - relatively painless conclusion for all concerned.

In response to my letter of 8th April, several of your group requested that the BNP's internal disciplinary proceedings and connected unfair dismissal hearings. should be stayed pending the outcome of the court case Griffin v Smith & Others. I accepted this as a sensible proposal for all concerned for the time being.

The delay does not, however, alter the fact that our present course will see us back in court, with both sides incurring further very considerable expense. My informed opinion is that you and your colleagues will lose the case, but that Mr. Davies does not mind this in the slightest because his avowed aim is to try and bleed the BNP financially. He knows that the looming problem of negative equity for many home-owners is sufficiently large that, while the end result is likely to be your collective bankruptcy and loss of several homes, we will be unable to recover any significant part of our costs.

I trust that you will already have learnt from the failure of the desperate "Scottish gambit" in which he encouraged you to set so much store that Mr. Davies gungo-ho tendencies do not always work out in the best interests of his clients (as Steve Edwards, Jay Lee, the Roberts Brothers and Tess Culnane have already discovered to their cost).

Especially now that time has elapsed to allow water to flow under various bridges, I ask you individually and collectively, to give very careful consideration to an agreement to end the action on the basis of each side bearing their own costs and going their separate ways. The sums involved at present are, as we all know only too well, steep without being ruinous. It is surely sensible to bring matters to an end while this is the case?

As you know, the BNP has already through the action secured its assets and the privacy of its members (although my solicitor informs me that he is still waiting for the affidavit on these matters from you in accordance with the Judge's directions). While it would have been far better had it been possible to have done so without the expense incurred so far, we have at last achieved what we needed to do, so we have little other than an expensive moral victory to gain by pursuing the matter further if you and your colleagues will agree to end this and any other possible actions. Please note that there can be no question of leaving an opening through which Mr. Davies can continue to use you people as pawns in his own longstanding personal campaign to bring down those who have achieved political success way beyond anything he has been able to manage in his various forays into either "extreme" or "moderate" nationalism.

All concerned have lives to lead and better things to do than enrich lawyers or waste court time. I hope to hear that we can agree on that at least, in which a settlement along the lines outlined above would surely be the only sensible option.'

That the BNP is in dire financial straits is indisputable. Griffin is desperately trying to raise funds to pay for the usual staggeringly-high legal costs that he has already incurred by this pointless action (suggestions of £30,000 have been made by various people who should know) before he and the other officers of the party become personally liable. The fact that he is panicking and floundering around like a landed fish is obvious from this letter.

As usual with Griffin, his preferred mode of defence is attack, though more by implication than clear statement. His criticism of the rebel's barrister Adrian Davies' 'gung-ho tendencies' is a classic ploy, hopefully undermining the rebel's relationship with their counsel, as is the appalling suggestion that Davies is more interested in destroying the BNP than he is in protecting his client's interests - a suggestion that sounds awfully like libel to me but Nick Griffin probably knows more about the law than I do, having a third-rate degree in jurisprudence, the theory and philosophy of law, [yawn, sorry] and having access to one of the sharpest legal brains in the country, Lee Barnes [sarcasm].

The phrase 'the BNP has already through the action secured its assets and the privacy of its members' is an odd one when you consider that the assets (presumably laptops and so on) were grabbed by BNP security long before the court case after illegally gaining access to Graham and co's homes, but we can safely assume that the 'privacy of its members' refers to the court ordering the rebels to stop using the out of date membership lists in their possession. Thirty thousand quid seems an awful lot of money to throw away on getting something virtually worthless from a bunch of people who have done next to nothing to harm the party and who are generally acknowledged to be politically impotent.

Even though asking for, and clearly desperate for, a truce, Griffin still feels the need to ensure that Davies is out of the battle.

'Please note that there can be no question of leaving an opening through which Mr. Davies can continue to use you people as pawns in his own longstanding personal campaign to bring down those who have achieved political success way beyond anything he has been able to manage in his various forays into either "extreme" or "moderate" nationalism.'

Do I detect some nervousness from Griffin? Just a single letter and a number of attacks on Adrian Davies intended to damage client confidence. One wonders if Griffin's legal advisors are aware of this letter and its content. I showed it to a friend of mine who is in the final stages of training to be a barrister and his response was that if one of his clients had written to the opposition in the same terms, he would have no hesitation in dumping the client and immediately beginning what he described as a 'vigorous' process to get paid before the client committed another such faux pas that led straight into the High Court for a libel action.

Of course, there is another possibility. That the rumours are true and that Griffin's legal advisors have told him he gets nothing more out of them until they are paid for the work they have already carried out. As the party is near-bankrupt, paying counsel is impossible at this stage and the thought of having to face the rebels in court with only the help of Lee Barnes must be giving Griffin nightmares. But now Nick Griffin has put himself in a position where he not only has to extract £30,000 from a party that hardly has two pennies to rub together, he has also left himself open to an attack from Adrian Davies which he will find next to impossible to defend himself against.

The former problem might be solved if the cash from the BNP's Red, White and Blue piss-up in August makes enough and is immediately diverted to pay the debt, which might explain the recent statement from the party that the RWB is to be a cash-only event with no advance ticket sales. This could well not work as we hear from a number of trusted sources that there is very little interest in the RWB this year and, naturally, a lot of people are put off from going because of the national demo that's planned, the inevitably heavy police presence and the ban on selling booze.

Adrian Davies though, might well turn out to be the most serious of Griffin's problems. Despite his disparaging comments, Davies is an able barrister with a good deal of experience. Griffin could well find him the Nemesis that he has repeatedly been avoiding for the past few years. In the past, Griffin has always chosen to attack those who cannot fight back - this time he may well have attacked someone who is not only willing, but able to fight back, and who has teeth that are a good deal sharper than his own. We look forward to it.

BNP festival man's property vandalised

The BNP member who will stage the party's annual festival on his land later this year has told how his property has been targeted by vandals.

Alan Warner, of Codnor Denby Lane in Denby village, a former BNP councillor on Heanor Town Council said he woke on Wednesday morning to find a torrent of abuse daubed on his garden wall in white paint.

He said: "I got up and there were three bike locks attached to my gate."

BNP Scum was painted in big letters on his wall, along with Swastikas and other offensive slogans.

"I started to clean it but feel like leaving it so everyone can see it and see what people we are dealing with creeping around in the night."

The BNP's annual red, white and blue festival will be held on Mr Warner's land in August for the second year running but controversially will be staged without live music and a licence to sell alcohol after objections from the police and councillors.

Mr Warner has contacted police about the damage.

He said: "We are a political party and not racist as they keep making out.

Ripley and Heanor News

Heanor Town Council object to BNP festival

A controversial BNP festival to be held for the second year running in Denby has been met with objections from Heanor Town Council. The red, white and blue festival, organised by the British National Party was held on land owned by former BNP councillor Alan Warner at Codnor Denby Lane, for the first time in July.

Now an application to have live music and to serve alcohol at the second festival on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 15, 16 and 17, to be held at the same location, has been submitted to Amber Valley Borough Council.

Speaking at the latest meeting of Heanor Town Council, Cllr Bob Moon said: "The town council have made a submission about the red, white and blue festival. Last year there was a lot of noise coming from the site, before and after the event with people making a lot of noise late into the night."

The town council, which also objected to the event last year, nominated two members to attend the licensing meeting of the borough council on Tuesday, June 10, when a decision on whether to allow live music and alcohol at the event will be made.

Cllr Moon said that to be consistent the council would also object to another separate festival, called Chill Out, set to take place in Denby the following week.

Ripley and Heanor News

Visit Stop the BNP’s Red White and Blue Festival website

What the hell is that thing? Oh, it's the BNP's Nick Cass...

Enough serious stuff for a moment. Let's have a few captions to this strange image - the sillier/funnier, the better. There are no prizes, so don't ask. ;-)

The truth about Spence and the RWB punch-up - McLean resigns

It's a good job there are some people in the British National Party with integrity or we would never get to hear the truth about anything. Let's hope they've let someone who can look at them honestly to take a look at the accounts before they're submitted to the Electoral Commission. The membership might actually get a true picture of the state of the party then. But this article isn't about the accounts - it's about Andrew Spence, the BNP's ex-poster boy, who, to trumpets from on high, joined the party just six months ago only to resign in a huff last Saturday night.

The gist of the incident has already been reported here but until now we've been stuck for the detail - until, that is, a couple of angry BNP members got in touch to put this situation right. These kind people both pointed out that discussion on this subject has been censored dramatically on the BNP's own forum, with threads being closed as soon as they were started. We have also observed severe censorship over at the Stormfront nazi forum - the BNP member's favourite alternative to its own despite it having been proscribed by the control-freaks at BNP HQ. When will the BNP learn that the membership at least, deserve honesty and openness?

Anyway, back to Saturday night. This is the story as we have it...

Allegedly, after a bad row on the Friday night of the Red White and Blue, BNP Head of Publicity and chief dork Mark Collett spent twenty minutes on Saturday night goading and picking at Andrew Spence about money that was promised to him by the party over some damage that occurred to his car during the recent by-election campaign. Party Treasurer John Walker refused point blank to hand over the cash (shades of the Sharon Ebanks' fiasco there) and even refused to accept that the party was in any way liable, telling Spence to go see his insurance company about it. Eventually, we're told, tempers got frayed and Spence pushed (rather than punched) Walker. Collett, ever the coward, slapped Spence around the back of the head then did a runner pushing people aside, including the Norfolk Organiser and her young daughter.

This all took place after the row on Friday where, during a meeting to rehash the Sedgefield by-election, Collett made some stupid remarks about the campaign and Spence stormed out of the meeting in a huff, cursing Collett as he did so and promising that he would get even with him. This anger has been inspired, we're told, by Collett's inability to get the Sedgefield leaflets out on time on three separate occasions during that single campaign. Collett (naturally) blamed Spence for being picky while Spence blamed Collett for being a lazy useless bastard.

Spence, as you already know, has resigned from the party while Collett - who appears to have played a key role in provoking the incident - faces no action, as usual, despite having himself assaulted another party member.

This incident has caused fury in the ranks, so much so that Scott McLean, Griffin's Deputy Chairman and the person responsible for maintaining discipline in the party, has clearly stated that he is resigning, having told all his long-time pals in the party that his position has been undermined again and again by Griffin's constant refusal to take action against Collett. We're informed that McLean gave Griffin an ultimatum a few days ago - him or Collett - and Griffin is sticking to Collett. So much for loyalty then.

Griffin has been anxious to gain more control over the party for a while now and has already indicated that he personally will take over the role of party disciplinarian, stepping into McLean's shoes while his feet are still in them. One would have expected the party leader to have enough on his plate already but that's not, as we know, how dictatorships work.

One wonders precisely what hold Collett has over Nick Griffin. Clearly a liability, he has managed to act the buffoon on numerous occasions, causing numerous problems for the BNP's doomed attempts to appear to present itself as a 'normal' political party, praising the Nazis, verbally attacking gays and generally talking crap whenever a camera is stuck in his face. The fact that everyone knows him to be an outstanding idiot who is also lousy at his job, makes our correspondents believe that whatever he has on Griffin must be of enormous interest both to the membership of the party and, of course, us. If anyone has any information that might help us to discover what his secret hold over Griffin might be, please email us and give us a laugh.

In the meantime, we look forward to reading that Scott McLean is to be expelled because he's a) a Searchlight mole, b) an MI5 mole, c) a secret Red or d) he's moving to Croatia.

Talking of Croatia, Sadie and Matt left for Croatia on Sunday right after the RWB. Just a holiday or a look at the Nick Griffin Holiday Camp from Hell?

Punch-up at BNP's RWB

News has emerged of a ruckus at the BNP's Red, White and Blue annual boozefest involving (we're told) the BNP's Head of Publicity, the Hitler-loving Mark Collett, its hopeless treasurer John Walker and failed fuel-demonstrator Andrew Spence.

We're also told that one of them punched one of the others then promptly ran off (which sounds just like Mark Collett) and that Andrew Spence has resigned from the party. Further information (see Comments) suggests that it was Spence who belted Walker. Quite what Collett was doing while this fracas was taking place is unknown (probably hiding).

More as we get it...

BNP festival gives villagers the jitters

· Thousands of activists head for Derbyshire
· Landowner and councillor defends three-day event

There might be razor wire around his neighbour's gate and security guards patrolling the hedgerows and fields, but Joe Osborne feels anything but safe. The retired farmer has lived in Denby Village for more than 60 years but this weekend he fears this quiet corner of Derbyshire could be overrun when up to 3,000 far-right activists arrive for a three-day festival.

The British National party has chosen the former mining and farming community for its annual Red White and Blue Festival. The far-right party has held the event every year since 2000 but six weeks ago, after an internal row which ended with a failed leadership challenge to Nick Griffin, it was moved from Lancashire to a plot of land in the centre of Denby Village.

The festival, modelled on Jean Marie Le Pen's Front Nationale event in France, is, according to the BNP, a family affair that allows activists to celebrate their British heritage.

However, the local Labour MP Judy Mallaber submitted evidence to the council licensing committee claiming there had been an episode of violence at a previous festival. Opponents also say that the event regularly attracts activists with criminal convictions as well as members of far-right groups from Europe and the US. Mr Osborne said many families in the village had already packed up and left.

"We really don't want this sort of thing round here," he said with a sigh. "This is a really small place and neighbouring towns have had problems in the past with skinheads and these types." He said that the organisers and security guards who had appeared in the village over the past week had left many residents feeling intimidated and vulnerable.

"My wife hasn't slept properly for days, the music has already started late at night - I can only imagine what it will be like when we have 2,000 or 3,000 people here."

The festival will have live music, a beer tent and political speeches. It is being held on land owned by Alan Warner, a former Tory councillor who was elected to the local parish council as a BNP member in May. At the entrance to his land a security guard films everyone who approaches. When asked what the footage will be used for he laughs and replies "Redwatch" - a reference to an extremist rightwing website which carries details of journalists and political opponents and has been linked to a series of violent attacks.

However, when Mr Warner arrives he insists that although the BNP "has some hotheads like any organisation", the weekend will pass off peacefully. "Why would I have it here at my home if there was going to be any trouble?" he said, adding that many people in the village had expressed support for the event. "There are some who have concerns but then again some people would complain about anything."

The Guardian

Yet another front-group joins the BNP's fast-growing collection

The BNP's apparent mania for creating new organisations between which it can spread its diminishing resources in a vain attempt to screw money out of as many people as possible continues with the official launch a few days ago of ABEX, the Association of British Ex-Services Personnel.

ABEX comes complete with a mission statement:

'The aim of ABEX is to promote and support the welfare of ex forces personnel and their dependants, and those organizations whose agents have risked life and limb in the service of this country, through democratic representation to ensure fair and equitable treatment within our society.'

In common with every other organisation the BNP has set up in the past ten years, the BNP states that ABEX 'is not a BNP group' and that it is an 'independent and non-party political association'. Strange then, that it has been a BNP-run 'circle' for the past three years - at least according to the last three sets of accounts submitted to the Electoral Commission (2003-5) - under the care of BNP-terrorist Tony Lecomber and subsequently Sadie Graham, following Lecomber's sacking as Group Development Officer last year.

Even more strange is the statement that ABEX is 'a non profit organisation and [is] applying for Charity status at this time'. Obviously it hasn't got it. If it had, the Charity Registration number should be shown on its website and it isn't. Not that ABEX has a hope in hell of gaining charitable status (as the BNP well knows) because groups run by political parties are not allowed to be charities.

This group that is not a BNP front-group is so independent that it intends to have a stand at the party's annual Red, White and Blue booze-fest this weekend, presumably alongside that other well-known not a BNP front-group Solidarity 2, its fake union.

As expected, particularly after noting that ABEX is seeking charity status, the BNP has been careful to hide its connection to it from the unwary visitor. The website tracks back to an independent domain handler as opposed to either of the two BNP webmeisters Steve Blake or school-bomber Lambertus Nieuwhof, thus keeping its origin unclear to visitors who would balk at any hint of the BNP. Nowhere on the site does it mention that the ABEX is in any way connected to the BNP and it carefully avoids stating who its organisers are, though its forum has a number of names that might be familiar to those who delve into the murky world of the Stormfront nazi forum - Lord Kitchener and Boudicca for example. There is more of a giveaway though in some of the language used:

'...its organisers clearly see that we share a good deal of common ground...and, furthermore, they believe passionately in the freedom of speech and association for which so many past generations of British servicemen have fought and died.'

Those who know anything at all about the BNP will know that it is the least democratic political group in the country and that it has absolutely no interest in freedom of speech and association for its own party members, let alone the rest of us. ABEX is yet another peurile attempt - doomed to failure, to suck in more money to be thrown away on the next lunatic scheme of Nick Griffins - a couple of chalets for the Holiday Camp from Hell in Croatia perhaps, or yet another disaster like Solidarity.

BNP cracking the whip to get attendance up at the RWB

News reaches us that senior officers in the BNP are having to hassle the troops to attend the annual booze-fest, the BNP's Red, White and Blue event.

After the refusal of the former landowner to allow it to go ahead on his property (thanks in part to a massive outcry on Indymedia when it became known that the RWB and the Northern Green Gathering had shared the same space, and partly due to the fact that the landowner could make more from a couple of car boot sales than he ever could from the near-bankrupt BNP) the event was moved from its former home at Clitheroe to the field owned by BNP-waster Alan Warner at Denby in Derbyshire.

Obviously none too happy about this, the BNP membership is staying away in droves, meaning that Phil Edwards, the BNP's liar-in-chief (spokesman) is going to have to exaggerate somewhat when reporting on the attendance figures.

The figure of ten thousand has already been suggested and appears to be the baseline upon which the success or failure of the August 4th/5th event will be judged. This seems far from likely - many BNP members despise the whole RWB thing as appealing to the very worst elements in the party, particularly after former BNP councillor and well-known football hooligan Luke Smith glassed a member of Nick Griffin's security team in the face a couple of years back.

Apart from the ever-present possibility of violence breaking out, there are continuous problems with fat drunken nazis wandering around, improperly supervised firework displays, lack of provision for dealing with medical emergencies, no criminal checks on the people the BNP have got looking after the children on site and the possibility of accidentally having to listen to a crap band like Red Claire, led by the utterly-appalling Paul Cromie, Bradford BNP councillor and mandolin-plunker. And as if all this isn't dodgy enough, there's also a risk of having to sit and endure hours of speeches by Hitlerite cretins like Mark Collett.

Naturally people are not finding the prospect all that enticing and our correspondents are telling us that aggressive calls are being made to some local organisers to get their people over to Derbyshire this weekend by hook or by crook or, and the threat is clear though undefined, there will be trouble.

Nick Griffin, ever-paranoid, will be wanting to use the weekend to reassure the troops that all is well at HQ and he will no doubt remind them again and again of his 91% win over Chris Jackson in the recent leadership challenge (no doubt conveniently forgetting to mention that well under half of the voting members in the party could be bothered to return the ballot forms). Perhaps he'll also explain why the accounts haven't yet been submitted to the Electoral Commission, incurring unnecessary fines that the membership have to subsidise out of their fees.

We've had it reported to us again and again that morale in the BNP is at rock-bottom. No by-election wins for years, no new councillors at the last elections (despite a record number of candidates standing), constant accusations of financial chicanery, ludicrous new business ventures popping up like mushrooms, prominent members resigning following deeply offensive but seemingly approved verbal attacks by Griffinite bully-boys and BNP-approved fruitcakes being banged-up for storing bomb-making materials in their houses. And now the membership is being bullied into going to the RWB! It's no wonder morale is a tad on the low side.

We all know the RWB is going to be a disaster - particularly if the rain heads over that way at the weekend - but for Griffin in particular the stormclouds seem to be gathering and looking decidedly ominous.

'Ban BNP festival' say firemen

The British National Party "festival" at Denby in Derbyshire should be banned, according to the Fire Brigades Union. The FBU East Midlands executive member, Dave Green, has appealed to Amber Valley Borough Council to reverse its decision to allow a drink and entertainments license for the event.

The 'Red, White and Blue' event is planned for the weekend of August 4 to August 5, on land owned by BNP member and Denby parish councillor Alan Warner. Other Denby residents have protested, and so has the local MP, Judy Mallaber.

Mr Green said today: "The Fire Brigades Union is very concerned about the proposal to hold such an event in Derbyshire. We, along with many others, have tried hard in recent years to promote good relations between people of different races. That work could be undermined by the holding of a festival celebrating racist ideology. I hope Amber Valley Borough Council will think again and consider the impact on the local community."

Amber Valley Council chief executive of the council, Peter Carney said: "This was a finely balanced decision, made following thorough and careful consideration of all the issues involved. The Licensing Panel considered the representations from all interested parties, including the police, local residents and the applicant, to ensure that the application was dealt with in a fair and objective way, in accordance with all appropriate legislation."

The BNP's press officer, Dr Phil Edwards, said that the festival was held as "a celebration of the culture of white Europeans".

He said: "Because the BNP are so disliked we have to be squeaky clean with events like this or the media will come down on us like a ton of bricks."

24dash

Call for block on BNP plan to hold festival

A leading racial equality campaigner has stepped into the row over plans for a British National Party festival in Derbyshire.

Balbir Singh Sandhu, chairman of Derby Racial Equality Council, has called on Amber Valley Borough Council to block the RWB (Red, White and Blue) festival planned for Denby in August. Mr Sandhu has sent a letter to the authority, whose licensing committee meets tomorrow to decide whether or not to grant a drinks licence for the event.

Mr Sandhu claims that the BNP incites racial hatred and ruins the work of organisations like the Race Equality Council, which tries to build links between cultures in the community.

He said: "The organisation of this festival is a major concern. We fight for equal opportunities for all people and the BNP doesn't believe in that. We know of shopkeepers who've been targeted by supporters of their beliefs. That's not equal opportunity. This is very worrying for the people in the community and I worry for them if this event goes ahead."

The RWB festival is an annual event organised by the BNP. This year, it is due to take place on fields in Codnor Denby Lane, Denby, which are owned by BNP member and Denby parish councillor Alan Warner.

Mr Warner said: "I have never met anyone from the BNP who is a racist. We just want the best for the British people of this country, no matter what colour they are. There is no hullabaloo about the Scottish National Party or the Welsh National Party. This is no different."

More than 30 residents living near the fields have objected to the festival by sending letters to the borough council. John Lumsden, who lives opposite one of the fields to be used, helped to raise a petition, signed by 30 residents. He said: "Our objections surround the logistical side of things - the amount of traffic and the danger to pedestrians in the village as a result of that."

The event, which is set to take place on the weekend of August 4 and 5 and is expected to attract about 2,000 people, has previously been held in Clitheroe, Lancashire, where a local councilor says that it passed without problems

Last week, Denby Parish Council heard residents' fears about possible noise and traffic congestion and decided to object to the festival plan. But Mr Warner said that, whatever Amber Valley councillors decided on the liquor licence application, "the festival will still go ahead".

Derbyshire Evening Telegraph

BNP waits for ruling on festival

A festival for British National Party members which is aiming to attract thousands of visitors could still be stopped by council planners.

The consultation period concerning the event ends on Sunday, July 15, with a decision due to be made by Amber Valley Borough Council on Wednesday, July 18.

Alan Warner has applied for permission to hold RWB, Red, White and Blue, on fields next to his house in Codnor-Denby Lane, Denby, on August 4 and 5. He has also applied for a liquor licence.

Peter Carney, borough council chief executive, said: "We'll be accepting representations from people living near the site, and other interested parties such as parish councils, until July 15. Up to this point, we've received no representations."

A spokesman for Derbyshire police said that claims that up to 10,000 BNP members could visit the festival were unfounded.

He said: "If the event gets the go-ahead, we'll police it as we would any other large public event."

People living in Denby have started a petition, which will be delivered to the borough council, calling for the event to be cancelled.

Derbyshire Evening Telegraph

Bid to halt BNP festival

A campaign has been launched in a Derbyshire village to stop a British National Party festival which is expected to attract thousands of the group's supporters. RWB, or Red, White and Blue, is scheduled to take place on the weekend of August 4 and 5 in Denby. But people living near the Codnor Denby Lane site fear the event could cause havoc.

John Lumsden, who lives opposite one of the fields to be used by festival-goers, is involved in a petition to get it cancelled. He said: "Everyone I have spoken to in the area, not just Denby, but Codnor as well, is against it. I've been told they are expecting up to 10,000 people to turn up, but the village simply can't cope with that number of people. For a start, where will everybody park? We have enough trouble with people parking on the road as it is. There is also talk of them having a campsite. That will be like having gypsy encampment nearby - there will be rubbish everywhere."

A 39-year-old mother, who lives in the same road, said she feared RWB could bring violence to the area. The woman, who did not want to be named, said: "I will be signing the petition. I want it cancelled, not just because it's the BNP, but because of the people who dislike the group enough to turn up and cause trouble."

RWB is an annual event, which had, for the past four years, been held in Lancashire. This year, it is scheduled to be held on 20 acres of land belonging Heanor and Loscoe parish councillor Alan Warner. Mr Warner defected to the BNP from the Conservative Party after being an Amber Valley borough councillor from 2002 to 2004. He was the first BNP candidate to take a seat in Derbyshire when he was appointed to Denby Parish Council after an uncontested election earlier this year.

He said the festival would be entirely self-contained, with 60 BNP security guards to prevent people from getting too drunk or taking drugs.

Mr Warner said: "Previous events have been attended by 3,000 people but it might not be that many this time. There will be 30 toilets on the site and if people cause trouble I have told the organisers that I will call the police and they won't be able to hold the festival here again. I'm surprised at the reaction of people in the area. They are acting like thousands of Nazis are about descend on them. The BNP are not Nazis."

The BNP's national press officer, Dr Phil Edwards, said that the festival was held as "a celebration of the culture of white Europeans".

He said: "Because the BNP are so disliked we have to be squeaky clean with events like this or the media will come down on us like a ton of bricks."

Derbyshire police said the officer responsible for policing the event was not available to comment.

Derbyshire Evening Telegraph

The BNP leadership challenge: the soap opera continues...

The apparently never-ending saga of the BNP's leadership challenge (still unconfirmed publicly by the alleged challenger Chris Jackson who is supposedly continuing to gather the hundred signatures necessary to actually make the challenge) rumbles on with attack and counter-attack on all sides coming from all directions.

We anti-fascists continue to do our bit during the period of the challenge but the supporters of both Griffin and Jackson appear to be attacking each other so vigorously that they seem to be knocking unhealthy lumps out of each other without any help from us. All we're having to do is stir as and when we feel it's necessary and add the occasional bit of seasoning from time to time. Which, of course, we will happily continue to do.

Since the news of the challenge became public, three blog sites have started up - BNP Leadership Challenge (which broke with a raft of revelations about the BNP's current leader Nick Griffin but quickly closed, no doubt under the threat of the masked avenger Tony Lecomber paying the blog owners a visit), Britain Forward (which seems to be run by the Sharon Ebanks' New Nationalist Party (NNP) and seems to exist only to attack the current BNP leadership and ask pertinent but extremely awkward question) and Britain Backwards (which seems to be a Nick Griffin fan site, run by a buffoon named Green Arrow with a little unofficial help from Griffin and co). The last two appear to be slogging it out - in the process providing anti-fascists with some interesting tidbits of information and a huge insight into how the BNP has been run (mismanaged) by its leadership team who, if the extensive allegations are even half-correct, should all be banged up.

What becomes very clear as more facts emerge, is that Nick Griffin and co appear to have been running the company, sorry party, as something of a private pension plan - but we'll let Britain Forward (BF) take up the story. BF is responding to a verbal attack by Britain Backwards (BB), after BB has denied everything and told a lot of lies to cover up anything they've forgotten. Our interjections are in [square brackets].

How much does all this remind you of a soap opera?

Britain Backwards: Our Response

Britain Backwards

We are pleased that BNP HQ have taken up the challenge of dealing with our questions on their peculiarly named Britain Backward site but disappointed at the number of issues they have merely sidestepped or dismissed. All the matters we addressed were genuine concerns raised by our fellow members. Indeed in the last two days our small band of patriots has grown from 48 to 57.

Let’s see what Backwards have to say in more detail.

BNP constitution and the leadership challenge

Backwards says Nick Griffin is merely enforcing rules laid down in the last leadership challenge in 1999. The truth is that since 1999 NG has successfully tweaked our party’s constitution to reinforce his personal position and the positions of his cronies.

In particular a lot of changes were made at the general meeting on 11th March 2000 (soon after NG took over) especially to Section 4 which regulates leadership elections. Section 4 states that the procedures for carrying out such elections shall be determined by party HQ as the occasion arises. Therefore NG is responsible for the decision to deny access to party publications and websites to Chris Jackson, and the fact that John Tyndall might have made a similar decision in 1999 is no excuse. In fact it is rather strange that NG, who normally prefers to distances himself from JT, insists on following JT to the letter on this.

Red White and Blue

Backward claims the farmer told the BNP to go because it was “the least economically viable for him”. In other words RWB is not the roaring success that our chairman has claimed in terms of income and numbers attending. [In fact the farmer who formerly allowed the BNP's RWB event is planning to cover the days lost with a car boot sale, indicating that the RWB was a complete waste of time for him and that a car boot sale is likely to make him a far better profit - plus the advantage of not having to tolerate a bunch of racist drunken thugs on his land]

Sadie Graham

As we well know, the reds and the left-wing media [that's us, apparently] will seize any excuse to attack our party. We cannot ignore this, if we want to win elections we have to take extra care over our image. They have already accused our community safety patrols in Corsham and Calne of being “vigilantes”. Normally practising martial arts would be quite acceptable, if one ignores the fact that this is not exactly a British sport. However it is only a matter of time before the Blatant Bias Corporation [the BBC] or some other media organisation picks up on a rising star in our party doing martial arts and sharp shooting and accuses us of preparing to take over Britain by military means. Such an accusation is ridiculous as we all know but the image will remain in people’s minds. NG going on about the coming civil war doesn’t help in this regard.

Besides which, was Sadie’s gun and her use of it licensed? [Something that we'd wondered too] Senior BNP officer prosecuted for firearms offence wouldn’t be a great headline for us. Her playing sniper, and having her photo taken doing it, was juvenile behaviour and showed a lack of judgement that we do not expect in a national office-holder in our party.

Sadie’s martial arts skills seem not to have taught her actually to defend herself. When Sadie Graham was confronted by a drunken red thug who spat in her face, she stood there staring like a scared rabbit caught in the headlights of an approaching car.

As for Sadie’s mates, does Backwards think it acceptable for a BNP national office-holder to keep company with a psychotic drug dealer and an equally unbalanced young man who would like to oust the BNP’s head of security from his position? We believe that those who hold positions in our party have to maintain certain minimum standards in their own lives as any dirt the media can dig up will reflect badly on our party.

Mark Collett’s printing press

Backwards says that after the 2005 general election the four high quality digital duplicators, three folding machines and power guillotine bought for £70,000 were given to the regions and no longer kept for HQ jobs. In that case why do the party’s accounts, which do not include the regions, still show the party as owning the equipment centrally at 31 December 2005? Did the auditors check that the party owned the assets shown in the balance sheet, or did NG pull the wool over their eyes?

And why does Backwards say the cost of the printing equipment was £70,000? True we referred to this as the cost, as this is the figure that everyone mentions, but one of our supporters has looked closely at the party’s accounts for 2005 and has pointed out that the party only spent £51,671.13 in total on equipment during that year. [That's a curious and important fact that everyone else seems to have missed thus far] Backwards then goes on to deride our question by saying that a litho printing press would cost a million pounds not £70,000. We know that. Nobody said anything about a litho press. This is just a diversion from the real issue of late delivery of leaflets in many cases and printing charges to branches that were only slightly below commercial rates.

After Mark Collett’s childish appearance in a TV programme, some members thought he had been placed in our organisation by ZOG to destroy at least the youth wing of the party if not the entire BNP. His incompetence at printing and delivering leaflets suggests this accusation might not be wholly fanciful.

Dave Hannam

Backwards defends Dave Hannam’s appointment as deputy treasurer of our party. We say Mark Payne was a good deputy treasurer. He would have been an asset to any organisation being led and run in a financially transparent way. It seems that NG used Payne’s unrepentant national socialist [nazi] beliefs as an excuse to remove this able man and replace him with a dishonest little spiv, namely Dave Hannam, who was only too willing to do his poetic master’s bidding.

One question for anyone trying to make excuses about the handling of the party’s finances is why our treasurer John Walker went with Dave Hannan to visit the home of the former party treasurer John Brayshaw and force him to shred the party’s genuine accounts. Having committed this fraudulent act Walker and Hannam did not even have the wit between them to take away the bag of shredded accounts. Some of our 57 supporters who enjoy jigsaws are trying to reconstruct these accounts and we think they will make devastating reading if one compares them to the “official” accounts.

On Dave Hannam’s criminal record, Backwards claims that Dave Hannam had nothing to do with Simon Sheppard’s leaflet that showed Hannam’s name and address as the originator. Dave Hannam was only 17 at the time and it is unlikely that a youth court would have sent him to prison for something he didn’t really do. Unless of course he had a long line of previous convictions.

Great White Records

Backwards says there was no proposal to strike off Great White Records Ltd. This is untrue but we accept that the striking off notice has now been removed from the Companies House website. We shall look closely at the GWR accounts when they are submitted to Companies House as promised in October to test the truth of Backwards’ statement that the BNP has not put money into GWR.

We are surprised that Backwards compares Griffin’s poetry to that of John Lennon. We would have though there were plenty of patriotic nationalist poets around without singling out this drug-crazed lefty.

Welsh Assembly elections appeal

A couple of our Welsh supporters were outraged at being asked to finance our party’s campaign in Wales by sending their cash to a box number on the other side of England. Backwards says the appeal came under the aegis of the regional treasurer in Yorkshire. Why couldn’t a Welsh address have been used, especially seeing as the treasurer John Walker lives in Wales.

BNP security

Backwards spends a lot of time evading our questions and responds with a lie to whether Martin and Mrs Reynolds are paid for their work. Perhaps not everyone is prepared to take the word of a recidivist Liverpool gangster, but Joey Owens says that when he was in charge of security for our chairman and party he was unpaid and did the job out of a feeling of duty. He says that NG told him that when the party could afford it he would be paid.

Joey Owens goes on to claim that he was shocked and hurt when NG dumped him in favour of Warren Bennett who was paid. [Not only was Bennett paid but Joe Owens claimed that he was paid £500 per week] Bennett later fell out of favour and was replaced by Martin Reynolds, a very odd choice. Party members whom he had upset started to circulate pornographic photos of Martin, his wife and a second woman engaged in various sexual acts. A national newspaper obtained the story and made it public knowledge. It appears that two factions within our party were settling political scores. Many respectable and responsible members thought this would be the end of Reynolds’ money-making career in our ranks. Far from it, our chairman totally ignored this embarrassment and offered a job to Mrs Reynolds.

As an interesting aside, who was present in the room to take the photos of Reynolds and the two women?

Overseas funding

Backwards responded to our question with a blatant lie. Everybody knows that the trips to America and to visit wealthy supporters in Germany produce substantial funding for the party. Just listen to the appeal for funds at the New Orleans international conference hosed by David Duke, which NG and Kevin Scott addressed. Taking money through the back door is going to leave us with the same reputation that Blair’s Labour Party has earned.

Nick Griffin’s pay

Backwards says that NG’s pay is a matter of public record. Strangely it does not quote the figure but provides a link to an article in The Times which says he earns £1,800 a month. Since when has our party encouraged us to believe everything we read in the press?

Backwards then claims his salary is way below what his qualifications would command in the private sector. Nonsense. His degree was only a 2:2 [and] since leaving Cambridge his career has been full of financial disasters including bankruptcy. A failed scheme to sell second-hand cars brought shame on our party when the cars turned out to be Japanese and various property schemes all appear to have collapsed. Had it not been for his wealthy grandfather and party money keeping him in the style he has grown accustomed to, he would probably be unemployed and living on benefits.

Nick Griffin’s Arabian nights

Backwards tries to explain at great length why NG tried to tap Colonel Gaddafi for money but simply digs a deeper hole. Why should a true British patriot ever have set his cap in the direction of the Libyan dictator? What had Gaddafi ever done for the British people? He sent weapons to the IRA to kill British soldiers in Ulster, he had WPC Yvonne Fletcher murdered on a London street and one of his agents bombed a jumbo jet over Lockerbie in Scotland causing the deaths of hundreds of men, women and children. What is our chairman’s excuse for pursuing such a link? Blame it all on the late John Tyndall. It was not JT posing for photographs in Tripoli it was Nick Griffin.

Even at his trial in 1998 at Harrow Crown Court NG produced a white-hating black American nationalist as a witness.

Voice of Freedom

What really insults the intelligence of our members is Backwards’ claim that the party did not know that the printer that produced several issues of Voice of Freedom was owned by Saudis. Did they never look at the company’s invoices from which it was clear that it was a Saudi owned company? Did they not notice that most of the management and workforce in the company were Arabs and much of its other printing was in Arabic? Maybe our chairman would like to tell use which infirm member of our party managed to deal with these people without noticing who they were.

Backwards challenge us over our “laughable ignorance [of] international politics”. Perhaps if our Cambridge-educated chairman kept up with international politics he would understand better the double-dealing of the Saudis over Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. And that’s not just in the American or Zionist controlled press.

Abu Hamza

Backwards tries to excuse NG sharing a platform with Abu Hamza by saying that his participation in the Radio Academy event enabled him to promote the BNP to “300 of the most powerful people in British radio”. Backwards claims NG only took part in a panel discussion. We do not criticise NG’s attendance at such an event which let him meet the editors and journalists who are so often hostile to us. He even had the opportunity to meet government ministers such as Tessa Jowell the Arts Minister.

But it was not a panel discussion. The only person on the platform other than the discussion chairman was Abu Hamza, a man known throughout the world as one of the most vocal proponents of the ideas of the world’s leading Moslem terrorist Osama bin Laden. Hamza preached hatred against Britain and its people. British nationalists demonstrated against him when he conducted Friday prayers in the street outside the mosque from which he had been banned, so extreme he was even among Moslems. By debating one to one with Abu Hamza, NG placed our party on the same level, two opposing forms of unacceptable extremism. NG also showed that he was prepared to sacrifice his political principles at the altar of self aggrandisement.

Jonathan Bowden

Perhaps Backwards thinks that by telling a lie often enough it becomes reality. Hundreds of party members know that NG tried to warn Bowden off from speaking at meetings of proscribed organisations or sharing platform with individuals who had been proscribed or expelled from the BNP. Having lied about Bowden Backwards goes on to sidestep the question of the BNP councillors present at the meeting organised by New Right where the speakers included a Muslim extremist and a pagan. Is this lack of discipline acceptable to NG because he fears an open battle within the party?

Infiltration

Backwards claim that Arthur Kemp was never an agent of either the former or the Marxist ANC government of South Africa. It is interesting how adept Kemp is at manipulating the truth to advance his fellow agent Bep Nieuwhof. Backwards claims Arthur’s book nowhere said that Nieuwhof got a 12-year sentence. True the present internet version no longer contains this statement but it was certainly in the old printed version. The fact is that South African intelligence offered Arthur Kemp a deal over the Chris Hani case and as a result he continued his intelligence gathering work for a new master in the Marxist ANC regime. He exaggerated Bep’s sentence in order to enhance Bep’s credibility.

Robert Bailey

Robert Bailey had what John le Carré’s spy novels called “a legend” created either by himself or by his masters. It is almost certain he did serve in the Royal Marine commandos. However although he has mentioned a number of locations where he served, our checks revealed that before coming back to Britain he was operating in Algeria, a place he never mentioned. What was he doing there? He is referred to as a business man: in fact he was a failed business man though he was able to make a personal donation of £3,000 to the party when he appeared on the scene.

Who is ultimately responsible?

Last week’s by-elections showed that we are still not winning. Yes there were two or three quite good percentages including some second places but British elections operate on the winner takes all principle. NG’s supporters go on about getting 14% of the vote in May, which is a fair achievement compared to a few years ago, but we got over 19% in May last year. And why compare this year’s result with the 4.9% polled in the European elections of 2004? Surely the 16% we got in the local elections that year is a more relevant comparison? One gets the impression that Backwards is selecting its figures in order to prove its point. [Very neatly put]

And among all the carefully chosen figures and quotes from one of our sworn enemies, the left-wing Labour MP Jon Cruddas, Backwards fails completely to answer our question, namely that if middle management is to blame for the failings in our party, as some supporters of NG have alleged, why has NG not ensured that the right people are in these posts.

Don Black

The facts belie NG’s claim of not having any links with Don Black [ex-Ku Klux Klan and owner of the Stormfront nazi forum which is proscribed to mere BNP members]. They were photographed together at a conference in New Orleans organised by David Duke, a close associate of NG.

In 2004 Don Black, representing Stormfront, and John Tyndall attended a gathering of European nationalists in New Orleans to discuss white nationalism. Both of them signed the New Orleans Protocol. Although JT signed as an individual rather than as a representative of the BNP, NG has since then maintained the connection at international meetings in the USA.

The BNP is asked again - where has all the money gone?

More stories emerge of financial impropriety at the BNP in run-up to leadership challenge...

Whose business? Your business…

The BNP owns several companies paid for with BNP members' cash, yet no branches or groups have EVER profited from these businesses. The legal structure of these companies and some of its hidden directors means branches and groups will NEVER profit from them.

What are those businesses?

1, GWR ‘Great White Records’

It was stated at an AC meeting that more than £40,000 of membership money was poured into starting up GWR, but who owns it, and who profits?

I’m sure like many others you have purchased CDs from this company, but GWR has not only never donated to the BNP as it claims on its site, but it hasn’t filed accounts required by law for 2 years.

The original directors were Dave Hannam and John Walker. It was then switched to Dave Hannam and Nick Cass. Nick Cass resigned as director several months ago and as yet no one else has replaced him.

To check that the above is indeed fact, please go to Companies House and type ’Great White Records’ into the search box. This service is free from Monday to Friday, closed at weekends, and you must do your searches before midnight.

Name & Registered Office:GREAT WHITE RECORDS LIMITED
SOUTH FARM SOUTH CLIFFE MARKET WEIGHTON YO43 4UX
Company No. 05653472
Status: Active - Proposal to Strike off
Date of Incorporation: 14/12/2005
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company
Nature of Business (SIC(03)):None Supplied
Accounting Reference Date: 31/12
Last Accounts Made Up To: (NO ACCOUNTS FILED)
Next Accounts Due: 14/10/2007
Last Return Made Up To:
Next Return Due: 11/01/2007 OVERDUE

Check out the Electoral Commission and read the list of BNP donators and the party accounts. Where is the money?

2, Excalibur Promotions Ltd

Liquidated over 4 years ago owing more than £150,000. The directors are hidden, but we know Chris Beverly runs it. No money has ever been donated to the BNP by Excalibur. Feel free to check the donor list at the electoral commission website. BNP members spend their money with Excalibur, why is none donated to the BNP?

Many thanks to the BNP member who provided the cheque showing that this company is still trading while in liquidation. Isn’t that illegal?

If Excalibur isn't Excalibur Promotions Ltd, why is it cashing Excalibur Promotion cheques?

To check that the above is FACT, go to the companies house website

Name & Registered Office:EXCALIBUR PROMOTIONS LTD
QUEENSGATE HOUSE 48 QUEEN STREET EXETER DEVON EX4 3SR
Company No. 04081322
Status: Liquidation Date of Incorporation: 02/10/2000
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company
Nature of Business (SIC(03)):7487 - Other business activities
Accounting Reference Date: 31/12
Last Accounts Made Up To: 31/12/2001 (ACCOUNTS TYPE NOT AVAILABLE)
Next Accounts Due: 31/10/2003 OVERDUE
Last Return Made Up To: 02/10/2003
Next Return Due: 30/10/2004 OVERDUE

3, RWB Red White & Blue

Known in some circles as Griffin's three-ring circus where members are supposed to feel so happy to be part of the crowd that they part with huge amounts of cash and spend weeks preparing stalls where they mostly make a loss, and usually from their own pockets.

It is a fact that Griffin plays down the RWB as a money earner and AC members are always instructed to state it makes a loss, it doesn’t. RWB usually brings in a profit in excess of £30,000 and any stall owners who are deemed to make a large profit are supposed to hand some over to the party. Last year £6,000 was raised on beer alone, but the most interesting fact of last year was a notice put up by the Treasurer John Walker asking for ticket monies to be made payable to Freedom promotions Ltd, it was then quickly changed to make monies payable to British Heritage.

A BNP member investigated further and discovered that no company called Freedom Promotions Ltd exists. If it doesn’t exist how can the BNP ask for monies to be paid into it? In fact there were 4 companies opened and closed called Freedom Promotions Ltd, none of them ever traded, but bank accounts were gained using the company names. The BNP owns one of those accounts and above is a cheque that they paid into it. Once again it is illegal.

Thank you to the diligent BNP members for this evidence. Nicholarse must be horrified that you’re not all dummies.

4, The Trafalgar Club

Quotes from the BNP website.

“The Trafalgar Club is an elite fund-raising group. “

“Trafalgar Club members pledge a minimum subscription of £15 per month, in return for which they receive regular special internal bulletins, are invited to attend the annual Trafalgar Club dinner free of charge hosted by the party Chairman receive a Trafalgar Club tie (or a personalised organiser file in the case of ladies). The tie carries the first two 'words' of Nelson's semaphore signal before the Battle of Trafalgar: "England Expects." (Available in first year of membership only.”

“Contributing this way to the British National Party is a good investment for your future. You do not need to be a member of the British National Party to join the Trafalgar Club.”

Nicholarse Griffin has himself claimed that there are 400 Trafalgar Club members, and if you times that by the annual fee of belonging to this prestigious club which is £180, it adds up to £72,000 per year. Nowhere in the BNP accounts does it state any donations from the Trafalgar Club, nor is the Trafalgar Club listed as a donator to the BNP. No one knows how much money is donated separately at this annual event as nothing has ever been declared. The bank account holders of the Trafalgar Club are Nicholarse Griffin and his mother, Jean Griffin.

Last years Trafalgar Club dinner was meant to be a 4 course hot meal at the Waterton Park Hotel. When TC members arrived, some having done extremely long journeys to attend, they were greeted with a cold buffet of sandwiches. Nick Cass organiser of the event and BNP treasurer John Walker apologised to the 140 TC members present and explained that the Waterton Park Hotel had not only double booked, but were not used to catering for 140 guests.
Some incensed TC members contacted the hotel to complain, and the response from the management went thus

“The Waterton Park Hotel regularly caters for 140 guests providing 4 course hot meals, but the Trafalgar Club event was booked several months ago for sandwiches only. We apologise if you were disappointed, but the menu was pre arranged by the Trafalgar Club event organiser. We were not double booked”

TC members were clearly ripped off and lied to. Anyone else wishing to check the validity of the above should contact the Waterton Park Hotel.

This quote from the BNP site caught our attention:

"Is your country worth £3.46 a week? Are the futures of your sons and daughters worth the cost of a few chocolate bars? Join the Trafalgar Club today!"

AND WE SAY, WHERE IS THE MONEY?

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