The British National Party's senior members have voted "overwhelmingly" in favour of allowing a party-wide ballot on membership rules
A change in constitution would bring the BNP in line with the recent Equality Bill, and would allow non-white people to join.
On the first day of the party's annual conference in Wigan, delegates debated whether its membership policy should discriminate on the grounds of race or religion. The BNP's leader Nick Griffin was present at the "closed for business" debate, at the Legends Bar in Hindley Green. Members of the public and journalists are barred from the proceedings, which draw to a close on Sunday.
John Walker, a press officer for the party, said on Saturday: "Today we debated the change and how we are going to move forward. More than 300 of the party's voting membership voted overwhelmingly in favour. At a later stage it will be put to the entire membership of the party to vote for, or against, the motion."
On Sunday the delegates will discuss 12 policy motions put forward by the various regions the party operates in. Nick Griffin will then close the conference with a keynote speech in the afternoon.
During the conference, a group of up to 50 protesters marched from a nearby pub to the Swan Lane venue. The complex houses both the Body Image Fitness Centre and the Legends Bar. Demonstrators chanted "Black and white unite and fight" and "Smash the BNP" as they walked towards the venue. The police prevented them marching past the conference building, so they formed a group in a park across the road. Dozens of police officers were on patrol outside the complex and the surrounding roads.
Daily Express
The fun and games begin when the rule change finally goes through and the party is confronted with thousands of non-whites wanting to attend meetings. There should be some laughs then.
ReplyDeleteAnd well done to the demonstrators who managed to turn out with NO notice at all.
It's a bit of a joke. Every person who the BNP regard as not being a silent Uncle Tom, will be dismissed on trumped-up charges. Also the BNP will continue to hold their meetings upstairs of dingy rough-looking drinking dens where you have to walk past hard-looking muscley thugs armed with pool cues to attend, and anyone hoping to elicit change would have to expect plenty of death threats and intimidation.
ReplyDeleteTo join the BNP, they would have your home phone numbers, your email addresses, and they would know where you live.
If somehow anti-racists could infiltrate the party to dismantle it from the inside, they could however render it useless like the pro-apartheid South African National Party, which as Kemp is fully aware, once they allowed non-white members to join, saw the party lose its appeal to hardline Boer supremacists.
Has anybody got a story about the decline of the South African NP, which could perhaps put the wind up the rank and file members.
If the BNP do vote for allowing antiracists and Uncle Toms alike into the BNP, lots more members will leave to join the fascists street-fighting EDL which has no electoral mandate, and is better equipped to disguise its racial prejudice behind its Islaimophobic white nationalist dogma.
anyone know anything about Legends Bar, who owns it, if they are fascist themselves, etc?
ReplyDeleteTried a web search and didn't come up with anything useful.
LATEST BBC NEWS: THE SDL'S "FAKE SCOTSMEN" ARE OUTNUMBERED IN GLASGOW 1500 TO 80:) -
ReplyDeletehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8359336.stm
SCOTLAND SAYS AN ASTOUNDING NO TO STREET-FIGHTING FASCISM.
PLEASE POST THIS HUMILIATING PEACE OF NEWS ON YOUR BLOG, KETLAN, THANKS!
Hope everyone in Wigan avoids the Legends bar in-future.
ReplyDeleteHope they go bust pretty soon for accomodating the neo-Nazi BNP.
http://www.indymediascotland.org/node/17396
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Sorry to go off topic
ReplyDeleteMore good news from Glasgow
Turnout for the Scotland Utd demo
approx 2000
Turnout for the debut performance of the SDL
Approx 70
Venue for Scotland Utd
Glasgow Green
Venue for SDL protest
A tiny wee side street just off Sauchiehall Street
Duration of Scotland Utd Demo
1hr Rally followed by march through the city to George Square
Duration of SDL protest
5 minutes
Ah the SDL- the far rights answer to a scarcely detectable kitten fart.
John Walker the perverted so-called "press officer" should come clean about his love of horse pornography.
ReplyDeleteJERSEY BLOOD AND HONOUR MEMBERS TRY TO IMPORT ILLEGAL RACE HATE CDS TO THE UK: -
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thisisjersey.com/2009/11/13/campaign-of-racial-hate/
What happens if BNP members vote 'no' to changes in membership rules?
ReplyDeleteThe EHRC has already issued an ultimatum that the rules have to change to comply with British laws.