Angry Joanna Lumley last night blasted a British National Party leaflet targeting a heroic Gurkha recently killed in action.The Ab Fab star branded as “disgusting” the racist party’s use of a picture of Corporal Kumar Pun* with a cross through it. Thousands of the hate-filled leaflets also demand: “Stop this illegal Gurkha immigration.”
They were issued by teacher Adam Walker, a BNP candidate in next month’s European elections. His party warns of “Gurkha ghettos” if the Nepalese fighters win the right to settle here.
Joanna, 63, said: “The use of a brave British Army Gurkha’s photograph as part of their political campaign is disgusting, especially as he has not yet been buried. A vote for the BNP is a vote against all Gurkhas, against honour, sacrifice, duty and courage.”
Joanna yelled their war cry “Ayo Gorkhali” — “The Gurkhas are coming — outside the House of Commons last month after MPs backed her bid to let all Gurkhas who served in the British Army live here. Ministers ruled last week that Corporal Kumar’s widow and two daughters can stay in Britain. But in his leaflet for the European elections, Mr Walker, of Durham, uses scare tactics to demand they are sent packing.
It reads: “The Government would allow over half a million Gurkhas into this country. This will swamp our local housing and the NHS as most Gurkhas are elderly. They would contribute nothing.”
Last night a spokesman for the anti-racist group Searchlight said: “For the BNP to slur the memory of a serviceman who has laid down his life for his country is sick beyond belief.”
Sedgefield Labour MP Phil Wilson added: “This leaflet just shows what the BNP stand for. I was shocked. I didn’t think that even this party would go that far. It’s an absolute disgrace.
Gordon Brown has promised to review Gurkhas’ rights after a campaign led by Joanna, whose father fought with the brigade. About 36,000 have been denied UK residency despite being prepared to die for the country.
BNP leader Nick Griffin warned of “Gurkha ghettos” and vowed to remove all non-serving Gurkhas.
Technology teacher Mr Walker, 39, left Houghton Kepier Sports College in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, in 2007. He is being investigated over claims he used a school laptop in lessons to contribute racist views to online chats.
Sun
* Cpl Kumar, 31, was blown up ten days ago alongside three British soldiers in Afghanistan.
Darby and Walker seem to be denying this see http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/4375705.Candidate_denies_Gurkha_slur_leaflet/
ReplyDeleteclaiming that somebody has done it to smear them.
Are we now asked, by them, to believe that the BNP is full of very nice people who are being smeared rather than they are a collection of completely poisonous individuals?
If so, Father Christmas and fairies at the bottom of the garden really do exist...........
I could accept that the candidate might actually have enough between the ears to realise that it would be a very silly leaflet to produce
- NO, I can't they are reverting to type, shits to the very last person :-(
Amused to see that Darby says the BNP legal dept. are involved! I thought they were off their meds at the moment! - but then I guess you get 2 for the price of one.
Be careful with this one.
ReplyDeleteThe leaflet is very obviously a fake.
The Sun knew it was a fake and would immediately be revealed as such.
The Sun published it, not to discredit the BNP, but to discredit attempts to discredit the BNP.
In other words, all future attempts by the press to tell the truth about the BNP will now be suspect.
Murdoch is promoting fascism by discrediting anti-fascist information.
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ReplyDeleteBe careful with this one.
The leaflet is very obviously a fake.
The Sun knew it was a fake and would immediately be revealed as such.
The Sun published it, not to discredit the BNP, but to discredit attempts to discredit the BNP.
In other words, all future attempts by the press to tell the truth about the BNP will now be suspect.
Murdoch is promoting fascism by discrediting anti-fascist information.
That would be the same Murdoch who owns the News of the World who have published four damaging stories about the BNP in the last few weeks
It doesn't really matter too much whether it the leaflet a fake or not. The effect has been to highlight the BNP's attitude to the Gurkhas and on that score it has been a huge success.
ReplyDeleteSometimes this blog sounds more like a John Le Carrie book. Cant we please have the good guys us in white hats and the baddies in black hats, then we know where we are instead of misleading silly bloody postings about the sun did the cos of that, then, no they didnt, oh yes they did, sod it its not John Le Carrie its a flipping pantomime.
ReplyDeletePiss of BNP go and post on your own bloddy site.
tulip
Freddie Starr ate nobody's hamster ... Harold Wilson never referred to "the pound in your pocket" ... Callaghan never said "crisis? What crisis?" ... Thatcher never said "There is no such thing as society" ... Tebbitt never said "get on your bike"
ReplyDeletebut people believe they did
[And can anybody tell me which of the above WAS - sort of - actually said?]
It would seem that the Sun has withdrawn the story and the BNP is crowing about it :-) with comments from two for the price of one Barnes.
ReplyDeleteFor what my opinion is worth, I'm not convinced - it has to me the hallmarks of a loose canon within the BNP. There have been a number of them in the past.
As nobody at all has made any legal representation to us regarding the story (and I don't count the moronic lunatic Lee 'Bonkers' Barnes as a legal representative), the story stays up. If we receive an appropriate and formal takedown request, with valid reasons to do so, we might consider it.
ReplyDeleteAre you sure that's wise Anti Fascist?
ReplyDeleteLeaving the story up, could'nt the article have the legendary, allegedly, in the inroduction to it
;-)
Lancaster Unity are the messenger, and anyway, the leaflet must surely be real. The BNP have regularly denied everything including the holocaust, so it's a sure possibility that the leaflet is real and Cyclops got cold feet and had to pull the plug.
ReplyDeleteThe BNP are liers!
ReplyDeleteIt was their leaflet alright, the evil bastards!
Interesting that Ken Booth, bnp regional organiser and printer, is keeping his mouth shut on this one.
ReplyDeleteHe had plenty to say last week on the bnp killer issue in the Chronicle.
Has he shit on Adam fom a great height?