BNP resorts to lies in desperate attempt to conceal business links

Regular readers will recall that we posted an item about the BNP's latest business venture, Avocado Mortgages, back on June 27th. In the article, we made it clear that Avocado is directly linked to the British National Party, that the registrant of the site is Steve Blake, the BNP's webmaster and also the registrant of the BNP's own site, Avocado Finance, Albion Life, the Skip Hire Registry, the Christian Council of Britain and Brightahomes (double-glazing) - all of which are run solely by and for the BNP.

The only difference between Avocado and, for instance, the Christian Council of Britain, is that the former is clearly intended to be a money-making venture as opposed to the latter which is simply an organisation to jump on an available bandwagon for short-term political gain.

The links between the BNP and Avocado Mortgages have been confirmed time and time again by our many correspondents in the BNP itself. So why do we mention it? Because there has been an attempt to stifle discussion of Avocado via Voice of Reason's web host Streamline.net.

Some mysterious person has written to Streamline claiming not only that Avocado has nothing to do with the BNP but that the claim that it is connected is 'an outright lie' and that it could seriously damage the 'business venture', and asks that the relevant article (the same as the one above) be removed from the site. Freedom of speech the BNP way, huh?

Let's go through this clearly just in case Streamline are looking in - the BNP is a fascist organisation. Okay, that should be enough for them to tell the complainant to get lost but probably won't be. Maybe if that hasn't convinced them, the fact that Avocado is sprinkled with the trademarked images of legitimate building societies without the permission of any of the companies (we have email evidence to support that fact) might change their mind and stop them picking on a legitimate news source rather than a fascist money-making scam.

Look at the BNP's Project Iona art page. On every single page bar the PI home page itself there is a link to Avocado Mortgages (incidentally, the only place Avocado advertises is on BNP sites). That link used to be to a company named Brightahomes, that was an advertising scam to reap commission on sales of double-glazing. The Brightahomes page, run by the BNP, carries an ad for Avocado. As does Horse Matters, another BNP page which just happens to carry 'sponsored' ads for both Avocado and Brightahomes.

The BNP's own Regional Voices page has a single advertising link - to Brightahomes. Click on the Brightahomes link and there you are immediately faced with an advert by Avocado!

The British National Party - or whatever idiot (possibly David Boulton, its business-partner in so many of these crap online businesses) it got to make the complaint on its behalf - is lying. And it claims to be the most democratic, honest, freedom-loving, freedom of speech-loving party that exists.

Yeah, sure.

The BNP moves into horse-trading

More money-making lunacy from the BNP

Nick Griffin's mania for new opportunities to make money continues unabated with the sudden creation of a completely new venture - Horse Matters - which purports to be 'the UK's premier source of equestrian news and events', despite the fact that the site has only existed for about half an hour and doesn't even work properly.

Griffin - who really should be concentrating on submitting the BNP's long-overdue accounts to the Electoral Commission - is obviously intending to saturate the entire internet with fraudulent companies claiming to be the premier this or the UK's best that, but the only thing they really have in common is that they show the BNP leadership's desperation to fleece as many people as possible in the shortest possible time.

We all know about the companies that appear like mushrooms wherever the BNP sees an opportunity for a scam - Albion Life, the insurance brokers that died after little more than a month (hope it was insured), Brightahomes, the double-glazing nonsense that still appears to be going (just - do a search for it via Google and a single link appears), the Skip-Hire Registry, another internet-based company that disappeared almost as soon as it was formed, Avocado Mortgages, that claimed to be the 'right site for your every mortgage requirement' though nobody in their right minds would trust the BNP or Nick Griffin with more than a box of paper-clips let alone their mortgage - and they are widely regarded as a joke of the first order though the deeper we look, the more we feel there is yet to be discovered.

Horse Matters is, it claims on the site, sponsored by Avocado Mortgages. This presumably is entirely meaningless as Avocado has only been in existence since late-June and is unlikely to have made more than a tenner for the BNP in that time. So what's the point in the reference to Avocado? Simply that the BNP, which nobody trusts, seeks to legitimise its many and various enterprises by referencing them to other BNP enterprises. Brightahomes, Avocado and now Horse Matters avoid any mention of the BNP - unlike the defunct Albion Life - and thus avoid being tainted by it, at least until they're caught out.

Griffin and the BNP's indiscriminate and growing frenzy to raise money points us to one of two conclusions - that the party is almost bankrupt, is on its last legs and Nick Griffin is panicking, or that there is a big plan afoot which urgently needs funding. Speculation is rife among anti-fascists as to which it could be but we're beginning to see distinct hints in our correspondence that the Croatia angle should not be ignored under any circumstances.

That's speculation that we can leave for another article when we have a little more information but in the meantime, if you have any more info on the BNP's curious world of dodgy companies, please let us know. At the very least, we can have a good laugh at them.

Nick Griffin the mortgage broker? Just what precisely IS the BNP now?

What precisely is the BNP? Your guess is as good as ours but now it's rapidly becoming a money-grubbing national joke! First it was secondhand cars, then the fake church and union, then it was life insurance, swiftly followed by double-glazing and skip hire - though that's ignoring all the little bits and pieces on the way like the BNP's invisible though expensive bus and the radio station that never was - and now it has entered the (it hopes) lucrative mortgage market.

The British National Party, rapidly becoming the most financially-inept and patently desperate organisation in the known universe, has branched out into trying to flog you a mortgage for that dream home of yours - or rather to act as it planned to act with Albion Life - to sell you a mortgage via some other company and take a broker's fee for doing nothing except setting up a web site and finding the sucke - customers.

The BNP's new attempted rip-off, the quaintly-named Avocado (thick-skinned, slimy inside and with a heart of stone) Mortgages appears to be working through a company named David Boulton Mortgage Solutions who apparently have an office at 28 West Road, Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales, CF31 4HD.

Curiously, or perhaps not, this appears to be the same David Boulton of Financial Solutions Unlimited in Bridgend who was associated with the BNP's failed venture into life insurance, the laughably short-lived Albion Life. David Boulton appears to be a busy boy - he's also listed as David Boulton & J. Saunders (Mortgages), Victoria Chambers, 7 Dunraven Place, Bridgend, Vale Of Glamorgan, CF31 1JF, Tel: 01656 664006. Whether this is the same David Boulton is uncertain but it seems unlikely that a smallish place like Bridgend is awash with David Boultons, all involved in mortgages and/or financial advice.

Readers may recall that Albion Life made a very big thing of being involved with the British National Party, clearly hoping that supporters would sign up and leave their insurance to the party when they finally pegged it. Avocado though - obviously having learned a valuable lesson from its predecessor, doesn't mention the BNP at all, which might not actually be fraud as far as the law is concerned, but certainly seems like it.

Once again - following the process it used with Albion Life - the BNP tries to give the impression that it is Avocado who is doing all the work, when in fact it's the real broker, David Boulton (and possibly his business partners Craig Francis and Brian John Howcroft). In a section on the website headed 'Why Avocado?', the party/company gives us this incoherent nonsense;

'Avocado Mortgages can help power charge your finances, releasing equity tied up in your property or help get you on the first rung of the property ladder.

• To treat our customers fairly and with honesty and integrity in a courteous manner at all times.
• To offer our professional yet personal service to our customers in a speedy manner.
• To endeavour to recommend the most suitable lenders and products to satisfy customer needs, using the whole market place.
• To provide our customers with all the relevant information required during the process and to ensure that customers fully understand the information.
• To endeavour to make prompt contact with new clients to start our advice process as soon as possible, ensuring that the client is able to speak to an experienced advisor.'

Which rather gives the impression that it is Avocado doing the business and not someone else entirely.

David Boulton, or at least the David Boulton who was associated with Albion Life and is now associated with Avocado, doesn't seem to be too bothered about what the public thinks of his connections with the British National Party but one wonders about the building societies whose trademarks appear all over the Avocado site without, we suspect, a single permission being asked for, implied or granted. These include the following companies:

Cheltenham and Gloucester
Alliance and Leicester
Portman Building Society
Northern Rock
Abbey
Nationwide
Yorkshire Building Society
Scarborough Building Society
Norwich and Peterborough Building Society
Mutual Matters
Skipton Building Society

Well, we'll have to check that out with their head offices and see what they say. Feel free to find the Head Office address for each of them on the internet and complain with us...

But that's not all. Behind the Avocado Mortgages site, there is another one hiding away, also registered to Steve Blake, the registrant of the BNP site, Avocado, Albion Life, the Skip Hire Registry, the Christian Council of Britain and Brightahomes (double-glazing) - Avocado Finance. One wonders what plans are afoot for this fake company's future.

Quite what the BNP's next money-making venture will be who knows, but what's the betting it will be another one of Nick Griffin's rubbishy get rich quick schemes that'll not only fall at the first hurdle but end up costing the party a fortune, all paid for out of the membership money. Leadership challenges notwithstanding, you do have to wonder how long the membership will keep its patience with this simple-minded buffoon.

(Note: Thanks to Denise, who first spotted Avocado and passed the info along)