December 09, 2011

British Freedom make themselves look stupid

Paul Weston (right)
At Christmas time the far right aided by some sections of the right wing tabloid press traditionally cook up a “Christmas is being banned “story that inevitably turns out to be untrue.

This year’s Yuletide award for stupidity goes to the miniscule BNP splinter British Freedom led by UKIP reject Paul Weston. British Freedom announced a link up with the thuggish EDL just last month with the possibility of EDL members standing as election candidates under the British Freedom umbrella.

It seems the victim of this year’s made up Christmas story is the much loved charity The British Red Cross with British Freedom announcing on their Facebook page “The British Red Cross has again banned overt reference to Christmas from its 430 fundraising shops to avoid “cultural insensitivity” Do not donate to them.”

However The British Red Cross are old hands at this having dealt with this kind of nonsense since The Daily Mail printed an incorrect story about them back in 2002. On their website The British Red Cross under an article entitled “How the Red Cross didn’t ban Christmas” quickly demolished the untrue story.

“To reiterate: this story is now nine years old. Many of our shops and offices are decked out in Christmas decorations, and our online Christmas gift shop is open for business. We have in no way “banned Christmas” nor have we discussed doing so.”

They continued “It’s true that you won’t find explicitly religious items or displays, relating to any faith, in any of our shops, at Christmas or any other time. But this certainly doesn’t amount to a ban on us celebrating or mentioning Christmas, or any other holiday. And it’s absolutely nothing to do with “offending non-Christians” or to serve any other sort of politically correct agenda.

The point is that the Red Cross is not a political or religious organisation. This neutrality is one of our fundamental principles and governs everything we do in the whole Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. We can’t let people in need down by compromising our neutrality. That is why we do not align ourselves with any particular political cause or religious creed anywhere in the world. And that’s why we don’t have any items of a religious nature in our shops.”

Red faced British Freedom administrators quickly deleted the posting from Facebook when it was pointed out to them that what they had claimed was nonsense and are now pretending the whole incident didn’t happen.

Good job we managed to get hold of this screen grab.

Hope not Hate

12 comments:

NewsHound said...

NEW YORK POLICE IN FACEBOOK RACISM PROBE: -

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/12/racism-nypd-seeped-facebook/45800/

Anonymous said...

NYPD IN FACEBOOK RACISM PROBE: -

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/12/racism-nypd-seeped-facebook/45800/

NewsHound said...

EMMA WEST TRAM RANT SUPPORTED BY THE BNP: -

http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Emma-West-racist-tram-rant-accused-attracts/story-14092144-detail/story.html

NewsHound said...

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(UNCLE TOM WATCH)

Anonymous said...

Snowy plans fun outside Yaxley Lennon's house, and there is talk of shoving fireworks in his letterbox.

http://www.twitpic.com/7qy1zj

Anonymous said...

What's this "make themselves look stupid" nonsense? They ARE fucking stupid!

Anonymous said...

Why are my comments not appearing? Is it because I once linked to an article in Lenin's Tomb, the evil SWP front?

Anonymous said...

The EDL will attack Occupy Leicester tomorrow at 12pm unless enough Antifa are there to protect them.

Anonymous said...

Paul Weston claimed in an interview with Michael Coren that the British Freedom Party is a new party and only started one 10 of November last. Is it true that Peter Stafford, Simon Bennett etc have all resigned? That is a funny thing to do, let someone else take a political party of you?
We are seeing an extreme anti-Muslim movement being created with liks to not only other Liberal-sounding politicos like Geert Wilders but terrorist groups like the Jewish Task Force. They think by talking like Liberals on everything else and removing all ex-BNP members they can act middle-of-the-road.

http://europenews.dk/en/node/50459

Anonymous said...

"The point is that the Red Cross is not a political or religious organisation. This neutrality is one of our fundamental principles and governs everything we do in the whole Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement"

BUT using the Christian red "cross" and the Islamic "crescent" voids their argument.

Anonymous said...

UNMASKED: WEALTHY BACKERS BEHIND THE FAR-RIGHT EDL: http://twitpic.com/7rtguu

The Sunday Times have just released a major expose where they name "Alan Lake" as Alan Ayling and expose a wealthy BFP member, Ann Marchini as another of their backers.

Ann Marchini, [pictured: http://twitpic.com/7ru6dg ] is allegedly a Finance Director of WAR PR, so maybe it'd be appropriate to let them know what sort of person they have in their employment? : http://www.war.uk.com/contact

Sources are also suggesting that this is Ann Marchini's phone number, so maybe it might be worth politely letting her know about the football hooligan movement she has been donating money to? : 07887 564 825

It will probably all fall on deaf ears, given that she's been photographed by the BNP's man in brown, (Dick[head] Barnbrook), in 2008 but there's no harm in trying: http://twitpic.com/7rv2ll

Anonymous said...

The BFP Facebook and Twitter Accounts are both ran by the number one sexual deviant and bedroom warrior Michael Wood from Cardiff. If anyone has ever saw a picture of him its rather amusing, one can understand why he never leaves his bedroom.

Where's Enoch Mullins these days is he dead, or planning another money making scam with Bennett?