New Nazi spreads hate in Scotland

A Neo-Nazi mouthpiece who was behind a sickening racist propaganda campaign across Ulster is now spouting his bitter views in Scotland.

Greg Cummings, who Sunday Life exposed four years ago as being behind the distribution of race hate literature in Ulster, is now peddling his extreme views across the Irish Sea

Self-confessed racist Cummings told Sunday Life that he had been booted out of the White Nationalist Party after he attracted too much media scrutiny of members of the shadowy organisation. However, he is now fronting another race hate group. Cummings is now described as a "recruiting officer" for the so-called British People's Party.

The group - which is linked to Ayran Unity, an online cabal of extreme right-wing organisations and which has members in Northern Ireland - boasts that the "veteran nationalist" and "ex-WNP comrade" plans to "revitalise" the organisation in Scotland.

A literature campaign run by Cummings and his cronies in the WNP coincided with a string of terrifying race attacks across Northern Ireland. After we exposed him as the group's mouthpiece, he claimed he was involved in a violent bust up with other members of the WNP and given the order of the jackboot out of the organisation.

Cummings also complained that his mother, who he said was appalled at his extreme views and his involvement in "white power" organisations, had booted him out of the family home.

Belfast Telegraph

Right sickos!

Ulster Nazis mimic Maddie poster in scaremongering recruitment drive...

Underneath the heading "Missing!" it shows a small blonde-haired girl and warns that her future has been "abducted". It says she has a "trusting personality" but is being led into a "Third World Ulster".

The sicko poster was launched by the so-called British People's Party at the height of the Madeleine McCann crisis. The four-year-old English girl was snatched in Portugal seven weeks ago. A similar poster featuring her image has been emailed around the world in a desperate bid to find her.

Last week the BPP poster was forwarded to 30 racist supporters in Ulster. The attached message read: "Print it, put it up everywhere and pass it on."

Police have been made aware of the leaflet.

A PSNI spokeswoman told Sunday Life: "Police will investigate any written material that incites hatred or is in breach of the law and those involved in the production or distribution of such material."

The poster displays a mobile phone number asking supporters to get in touch. But callers are greeted with a recorded message asking them to leave their details. The BPP, an offshoot of the tiny British National Party, was founded two years ago. It is committed to "racial nationalism", is opposed to immigration and despises gays and Jews. Its literature reads: "We no longer stand aside, we know our time has come."

According to a source, a leading figure in the BPP is an Englishman who lives in the west of the province. The former BNP member has made a number of recent visits to loyalist parades in Belfast to try and build links with other racists. The source, who has had dealings with the Ulster-based BPP man, told us: " He preaches that racism is patriotic. He claims to have built up support in east Belfast and that's where he wants his poster campaign to begin. The longer plan is to run for election in Ulster. They did that in England in 2006 but didn't get anywhere. They have about 30 or 40 members in Northern Ireland."

East Belfast MLA Naomi Long described the poster as "a sick exploitation of a most distressing incident". "Exploiting that incident is absolutely despicable," she said.

The Alliance woman said right wing groups had tried in the past to build a base in east Belfast and failed.

"They haven't found much fertile ground. Racism is a problem, but it's a problem with a very insignificant number of people."

Belfast Telegraph

BNP seeks anti-abortion Catholic votes

The British National Party is building an alliance with radical anti-abortion activists in an attempt to reach out to Catholics and secure their votes in future elections

Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, and one of his close deputies confirmed yesterday that they held private talks last week with the UK co-ordinator of Life League, an anti-abortion lobby group. Griffin and Mark Collet spent two days with James Dowson, an Ulster-based businessman and the main force behind Life League.

The meeting has outraged other anti-abortion campaigners. A number of them, who wanted to remain anonymous, contacted The Observer this weekend. One, who described himself as a 'mainstream anti-abortion and anti-racist', condemned the BNP.

Griffin claimed that amplifying the party's 'pro-life' policies would win it new votes among Catholics. 'There used to be a perception in Northern Ireland and Scotland that we were an Orange party. This is not so,' he said. The BNP, like Dowson, wanted to reach across the sectarian divide.

'If there is any plus for us in meeting Life League and highlighting our opposition to abortion, it is that it chimes with the feelings of many working-class Scottish Catholics,' the BNP leader said. His main candidate in Glasgow would be stressing the BNP's opposition to abortion in the forthcoming Scottish elections.

Dowson said the league had a 'moral duty to engage with anyone who will listen in order to promote our pro-life agenda'.

Matthew Collins of Searchlight, the anti-fascist magazine, said it was odd that the BNP 'welcomed Holocaust deniers' yet believed in the 'right to life of the unborn'.

Observer