November 18, 2007

200 protest against dismal BNP conference

Around two hundred anti-fascists gathered outside the ghastly New Kimberley Hotel in Blackpool yesterday to protest at the British National Party holding their conference at the resort for the second time. Protesters came from Blackpool itself, Lancaster, Barrow, Manchester, Tyne and Wear, Nottinghamshire and Liverpool, and included students and trades unionists.

Speakers included Donna Guthrie: UAF, Stephen Mullen: Blackpool and the Fylde College Student's Union, Alec McFadden: North West TUC, Jane Rogers: Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre TUC, Paul Jenkins: Barrow and South Cumbria UAF, Dan Ratcliffe: Lancaster University SAAR, Mike Killian: Manchester UAF and others.

The BNP, rather than standing around sneering at us from inside the hotel as they did last year, chose instead to hide behind drawn curtains - except for a few who appeared momentarily to snap off a picture or two, much to the annoyance of the police who had told them not to. While most of the people who choose to do this at least tried to be discreet, Mark Collett, being the BNP's most arrogant moron, pulled his curtain wide open and stood in front of it grinning down at us until ordered to stop being a prat by the police.

This buffoon craves the limelight, good or bad, and one wonders why any party leader, particularly one as paranoid as Nick Griffin, would want such an uppity and ambitious little snot standing very closely behind him. I'd advise Griffin to check for concealed knives.

Cumbria BNP's Clive Jefferson made a couple of appearances at the door for no apparent reason, though maybe he simply wanted to be caught on Granada TV's camera. While on the subject of Granada TV, there was an excellent report on the demo last night including (sadly) a snippet of Griffin followed by three of our people. Nice. If anyone managed to get a digital recording of it, please sling it across to us at lancaster.uaf@zen.co.uk

A number of people at the demo speculated on the reason for the curtains being closed and it was suggested that the most likely reason was that there was hardly anyone in there attending the conference. This was borne out an hour or so after the demo had ended, when a group of us drove past the hotel on our way home only to see that the curtains had been opened and that there was a small cluster of around fifteen to twenty people sitting around a table in the dining room apparently engaged in a discussion. Maybe they were asking where the missing accounts have got to.

Assuming that a similar discussion was taking place in the resident's lounge (though it looked empty to us) that indicates a 'national' conference attended by about forty people. Wow.

All in all, a good demo. The weather didn't get too out of control, the conference looked pretty dismal and our speakers were great.

Thank you to everyone who made the effort to turn out, particularly to our friends who travelled from well out of the area. Many thanks to our speakers who all did a sterling job despite being frozen and our thanks to the many members of the Blackpool public who stopped to chat or who were driving past but gave us the thumbs-up.

Well done everyone (and thanks to Jim B. and Phil for the pics). :-)

21 comments:

Unknown said...

Welcome back, Ketlan, and well done to everybody.

Anonymous said...

more protestors than BNP members?

now that speaks volumes

Anonymous said...

http://www.itvlocal.com/granada/news/

Goto the right hand side of screen and click Granada Reports, then click on Saturday 17/11/07

Then you can see yesterday's report on the demo.

Anonymous said...

Excellent report and great demo.

Anonymous said...

I hear mark Collett is gaining quite a reputation as an after "a cheese roll at £4.00" speaker

Anonymous said...

Love the 'BNP scum here'. LOL

Anonymous said...

"Love the 'BNP scum here'. LOL"


Yeah, but remember not all present at the Kimberley were scum, our Monty made it in.

Anonymous said...

But Ketlan, you didn't go

Antifascist said...

'Welcome back, Ketlan, and well done to everybody.'

Thanks Denise and definitely agree!

'But Ketlan, you didn't go'

Oh right. What a twat.

Anonymous said...

So according to the BNP website -

(i) Financial motion wasn't passed - am I suprised?

(ii) Mark Collet is a "design guru"

Unknown said...

Financial motion wasn't passed - am I suprised?

Nobody is.

Martin Wingfield explains why:

"What a difference it makes in ensuring that all those attending must have been to at least a couple of education and training seminars. This stipulation has clearly raised the quality of debate which accordingly makes the subject under discussion more interesting and provides a more informative platform from which Conference can make its decision"

Anonymous said...

While UAF did sod all to stop the conference taking place, inside the Kimberley BNPers were busy bickering and indulging in frolics which were the talking point of the weekend.

So, the bar remained shut until 7 oclock but some delegates get the Dts if they go without for a few hours and secret supplies of booze were smuggled in. Barnbrook's gin fuelled talk on Saturday afternoon was so rambling that even the Chairman Simon Derby had to call time on procedings.

No surprise then that by Saturday evening there was the usual revelry whenever BNpers gather. There was the usual loud and raucous barroom arguments about which was worse, blacks or asians and why homosexuals should be shoved off into mental homes, only a minor altercation broken up by security team and only one report of sex in the toilets by two high ranking organisers. The female participent emerged "exhausted and wet" according to one source who overheard all the episode. Red faces and strong words of rebuke on Sunday morning.

The biggest hangover on Sunday morning must have been the hated Collett whose passenger side car tires was slashed.

Everyone was quick to blame the UAF but Collett's silver Merc was parked inside others and that was the only car damaged. Despite this attempt to upset Mark Collett was in defiant mode in Sunday and gave a fantastic speech after speech and every motion he supported was passed and every motion he opposed was struck off. No wonder there are so many who are envious and afraid of this young man's talents. He is look like to be the natural hier apparent to Griffin whose days are numbered anyway.

UAF dont need to bother protesting, the BNPers are more than possible to screw up things without any outside protestations.

Anonymous said...

'He is look like to be the natural hier apparent to Griffin whose days are numbered anyway.'

Really? We might as well shut up shop then.

Imagine the charisma by-pass kid on Newsnight - would we have any voters left by the end of the programme, do you think?

Anonymous said...

"Mark Collett gave fantastic speech after fantastic speech?"

Says who?

Mark Collett himself, mister infatuated-with-hitler himself, the serial loser who cannot get a girlfriend.

It can't have been Collett shagging in the toilets. Females don't go near him with a bargepole.

Anonymous said...

If you're in a hotel, which (if I recall correctly) is a building full of bedrooms, why have sex in the toilets?

Or does this tell us another unappealing fact about the BNP?

Anonymous said...

Mark Collett gave a brilliant performance and is the only person in the party apart from Nick who can engage and enthuse an audience. He is by far the best graphic designer in the history of nationalism. As others have indictaed he is the subject of much envy for his considered talents of public speaking, personablity and graphic design as well as having a complete depth of knowledge of BNP ideology. He is Nick's number one and is the only person Nick trusts when others are incompetent and back stabbing. Nick is grooming Mark to take over in the next decade. He commands respect and integrity and is the only hope for the future of the party.

Anonymous said...

'If you're in a hotel, which (if I recall correctly) is a building full of bedrooms, why have sex in the toilets?'

Maybe one of those hotels where you can't rent rooms by the hour, often causes inconvenience.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said... "Nick is Grooming Mark"

Well, Nick did have a very good teacher himself. :)

Anonymous said...

"Mark Collett gave a brilliant performance and is the only person in the party apart from Nick who can engage and enthuse an audience. He is by far the best graphic designer in the history of nationalism. As others have indictaed he is the subject of much envy for his considered talents of public speaking, personablity and graphic design as well as having a complete depth of knowledge of BNP ideology. He is Nick's number one and is the only person Nick trusts when others are incompetent and back stabbing. Nick is grooming Mark to take over in the next decade. He commands respect and integrity and is the only hope for the future of the party."

Stop, please, please, stop .. You're making me laugh so much it's injuring my sides..

Have mercy, please - I'll need an ambulance..

Seriously, if it wasn’t Collett himself who typed this, then isn't someone carrying their immature little infatuation a bit too far?

(Could it be the ho in the hotel toilet?)

Please, though, whoever it is, please desist - if you care at all about the future of nationalism.

I must admit, I've never thought about making a list of the "greatest graphic designers in nationalism" (though, if there were to be one, maybe we could get a Grosz or a Heartfield, instead of an idiot).

Yet, even if Collett were to come top of this list, wouldn't the fact that his personality is so repellent disqualify him in every other sense?

For goodness sake, take a look at 'Young, Nazi and Proud', the Channel Four documentary made in 2002. THAT prick is the future of British nationalism????

Geddouddahere......

Anonymous said...

Fascism will return next time in the guise of anti fascists..Sir Winston Churchill.

Anonymous said...

"Chairman Simon Derby"

Need I say more than do your research and learn to spell?

"the BNPers are more than possible to screw up things"

The BNPers are possible? What? They possibly exist? well yes they do, they are more than possible to screw up things? I don't get it.

"He is look like to be the natural hier apparent to Griffin whose days are numbered anyway."

Errrrr......yeah, what you said.