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BNP activist and speaker Alan O’Reilly says Catholics will be deported under a BNP government; declares Catholics to be the enemies of Britain and Christianity; believes Islam, the European Union and eastern European immigration are Catholic plots to destroy Britain; and, that Catholicism was behind communism, World War I & II and the Nazi regime. We enter the mad anti-Catholic world of the dark recesses of the BNP.
Disturbed and disturbing
In May 2008, as the start of a series of articles on the anti-Catholic bigotry that haunts the BNP, we revealed the anti-Catholic prejudice of BNP candidate Alan Girvan and the anti-Catholic violence of BNP northern Ireland organiser Andy McLorie (see link). This article, the second instalment in that series, was triggered by three incidents: the BNP legal director Lee Barnes’ recent claim that the Saxon races were forced to convert to the Catholic faith; the recent sectarian murder of a young Catholic man by the neo-nazi terrorist group Combat 18 (1 = A, 8 = H. This gives AH or Adolf Hitler), set up the BNP in the 1990s; and, the claim by a racist BNP poster called ‘BNP Supporter’ on the Angry Of Havering Forum that:
“A lot of the BNP supporters on this site have pointed out that this is a christain country and that faith has come under attack from other religions in recent years. It actually goes further this is a PROTESTANT country and the religion is the Church of England and this will be the only faith taught in our school. Catholicism is as much a threat to us as Islam. Our Queen is head of the Church of England and the monarch should always be a protestant but in recent years the Catholics have been trying to have this law removed so the monarch can be any faith. Tony Blair was a secret catholic for may years as Prime Minister and only converted publicly when he left office. Britain for the British”
It was whilst researching these incidents that we discovered the frightening anti-Catholic hatred and racism of the clearly disturbed BNP speaker and Australian immigrant Alan O’Reilly. A fanatical devotee of BNP leader Nick Griffin and operator of the Cleveland BNP blog (BNP for Cleveland), Alan O’Reilly should be prosecuted for incitement of hatred against Catholics.
This article will expose, in detail, the sick and reprehensible views of BNP speaker and activist Alan O’Reilly.
The BNP will deport all Catholics and Muslims from Britain
BNP speaker Alan O’Reilly threatens Catholics and Muslims with the following warning:
“As and when it comes to power a BNP Government would be constitutionally entitled summarily to eject you. All Muslim supporters, Marxist supporters, Papal [i.e. Catholic] supporters etc. could be 'ex-patriated' to countries where such regimes prevail”
Catholics can never be British
BNP speaker Alan O’Reilly classifies Catholics as an enemy category who must be ethnically cleansed from Britain because they can never be British (odd given that Britain was once a Catholic country!):
“I would include them [Catholics] in the 'foreign white' category, which you seem to have overlooked in my earlier posts - they certainly could not be described as ‘white Britons’”
That Islamic/Catholic/EU/Sinn Fein/IRA plot to destroy the UK with Catholic immigrants!
Initially, Alan O’Reilly claims that the European Union (EU) is “a Vatican-inspired project to destroy Britain. Swamping us with foreigners is part of the overall strategy”. But, he then goes on to claim that this is part of a much larger plot between Islam, the Catholic Church, the EU, Sinn Fein and the IRA to destroy Britain by flooding the country with Catholic immigrants from eastern Europe!:
“Sinn Fein actually support illegal immigrants! Eastern Europeans, particularly Poles, are the same religion as Sinn Fein/IRA. Poland is 96% Catholic and Lithuania is 69% Catholic - these were the two European nations mentioned in the BT article. This kind of immigration can only help the Sinn Fein/IRA cause, which is a united Ireland under the Pope. The EU's aim is that mainland Britain should suffer the same fate - and the Mozzies [Muslims] are also a means to that end. Mozzie aggression is a means of driving the British population back into the 'fold,' as the Pope will be perceived as the only leader of any substance willing to stand up to them. He never really apologised for his anti-Mozzie remarks, only regretted that he had been 'misunderstood.'”
Alan O’Reilly then claims that the Catholic Church murders public critics of the EU:
"that's what happens to EU dissenters in public life, who speak the truth. The Vatican is poised for the kill. It is hoped that a government can be elected within the next decade to stave off the Pope's 'coup de grace' but time is running critically short."
This anti-British conspiracy then extends to the Nazis and the African National Congress (ANC) because:
“The IRA and the Nazis all belonged to the same [Catholic] church. Their blood-brotherhood in terror (along with Islam and the ANC) should surprise no-one”.
Catholics are not Christians
Condemning the Catholic religion as the “whore of Revelation”, Alan O’Reilly states: “Catholicism isn't Christianity” and reiterates this on BNP legal director Lee Barnes’ blog when he says, “Catholicism and Christian belief should not be confused”.
Islam is a Catholic plot against Britain and the Protestant faith!
Following the Catholic immigration conspiracy, Alan O’Reilly claims that:
“Islam is a Vatican creation”.
“Both Catholicism and Islam have a common objective - the destruction of Protestant Britain”
Further, on the blog of BNP newspaper editor Martin Wingfield, Alan O’Reilly asserts that “all the world's religions, including Islam, are gradually merging to worship the Catholic BVM. This is not good news for England's identity, any more than the armada of 1588 was”.
This is because, as Alan O’Reilly claims, the real enemy of Britain and the White race are Catholics:
“the real enemy, which is the same one Britain has always had since Henry VIII broke with Rome in the 16th century. It's just a question of straegy and tactics to suit the times, as in 1588 (Armada), 1642 (Civil War), Stewart Pretenders (1715, 1745), Napoleon (1815), Kaiser Wilhelm II (1914), Adolf (1939-40). All the tyrants alluded to belonged to the same church as Sharia Blair, with the exception of the Kaiser and he was a sympathiser, allied to Catholic Austria-Hungary. Adams and McGuinness have been described as "two fine f****** Catholic boys" by IRA heavy Brian Keenan, who masterminded the Libya-IRA connection, i.e. Mozzies[Muslims] and Papists [Catholics] colluding to murder British security personnel”.
One should remind Alan O’Reilly that BNP leader Nick Griffin himself once visited Libya to secure funding from Gaddafi’s regime and the BNP carried articles in its then official magazine, Spearhead, in support of Gaddafi under the leadership of BNP founder John Tyndall. Are Nick Griffin and John Tyndall now in league with the ‘Mozzies’ as ‘Papist’ co-conspirators? This aside, the Catholic threat is very real for Alan O’Reilly because, according to him, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was “another papal puppet”. Then, on the BNP website, Alan O’Reilly claims that the Church of England (CoE) never fully recovered from what he regards as the Catholic assault on it. Elsewhere, the Catholic treat to the Protestant faith, in the particular to the CoE, is clear for Alan O’Reilly:
“Rome's premier target was the 1611 Authorised King James Bible .. he main attack was orchestrated by Romish Anglican Cambridge academics .. They produced the Revised Version of 1881, a Catholic bible that was the forerunner of all the modern bibles that have effectively marginalised the national church”.
Destroy the CoE and you destroy Britain. But, Alan O’Reilly’s real concern is not for the Protestant faith or the CoE. The truth is that he worships race and nation rather than God as he defies Britain and the White race by placing them at the centre of the Protestant faith and the CoE. Not just this, but again on the BNP website, Alan O’Reilly claims that God punished Britain with World War I because:
“Unfortunately, the [Coronation] Oath was tampered with in 1910, to remove the clause whereby the monarch is supposed to disavow the Catholic mass, in accordance with Article 31 of the Church of England’s 39 Articles of Religion .. which is one reason, I believe, why Britain became embroiled in WW1 a mere 4 years after the Oath was corrupted. God is not mocked”
Alan O’Reilly claims Catholics were behind World War One and Two
For Alan O’Reilly the alleged corruption of the Coronation Oath is evidence of the Catholic Church’s modern interference in British affairs that culminated in World War II. But, he goes further. He claims that Catholicism deliberately started both World War One and Two:
“If you want to know who set up WW1, 2, for example, read ‘The Vatican Against Europe’ and’ The Secret History of the Jesuits’ by Edmond Paris, a French writer who was murdered by Jesuits for his publications against them”.
Alan O’Reilly claims Catholics wrote Mein Kampf and were in charge of the concentration camps
Not only does Alan O’Reilly accuse the Catholic faith of directing the Nazi violence against the Jews in 1930s Germany, but he also claims that it was a Catholic priest, not Hitler, who wrote Mein Kampf:
“It was even a Jesuit, Fr. Staempfle, who 'ghosted' Adolf Hitler in the writing of Mein Kampf. Even Hitler had part-Jewish ancestry, as did other leading Nazis but that did not stop him from instigating the murder of 6,000,000 European Jews. That was because he and all the leading Nazis, plus the commandants of the death camps; Hoess, Koch, Stangl etc. all belonged to the same [Catholic] religion - which was not Judaism.You have no chance of winning any war if you can't identify the enemy [i.e. Catholics]”.
But, Alan O’Reilly’s claim that a Catholic priest wrote Mein Kampf is pointless as elsewhere he claims that Hitler was a Catholic carrying out the Pope’s orders.
Attacks on other Christian sects
Not content with attacking Catholicism, in another post Alan O’Reilly takes a swipe at Jehovah's Witnesses and accuses the Greek Orthodox Church, like the Catholic Church, of concealing original parts of the Bible.
Alan O’Reilly claims Catholics are behind communism
Alan O’Reilly then goes on to claim that every prominent communist personality of the twentieth century were in fact secret Catholic agents: “the so-called founders of CommUNism; Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and later Castro”.
The relationship between Catholics and Jews
Alan O’Reilly argues that the “Jewish-Roman collusion against genuine believers is as old as the 1st century Pharisaic declaration”. Alan O’Reilly then claims that the Catholic Church used “renegade Jews to defeat the Russian Orthodox Church via the 1917 Revolution” and “tutored Marx in writing the Communist Manifesto in the Reading Room of the British Museum”. And, the Catholic Church then “instigated the pogroms against Russian Jews to encourage them to help overthrow the Czar”.
But, he also says that the “Jewish loathing for Christians undeniably exists within the State of Israel but the only kind of terror that has reared its ugly head in these isles for the last century has been papal [Catholic] and Islamic”.
Jesus Christ sends earthquakes to punish Muslims for their sins
But, his most sickening claim is that Jesus Christ sent the Kashmir earthquake that killed 75,000 civilians to punish Muslims for the 7/7 bombings in London. Why? Because both events occurred three months apart and so must have been the work of Christ.
Alan O’Reilly’s sick claim that Madeleine McCann was kidnapped by Muslims
A stupid and unjustifiable statement that will surely distress the parents of Madeleine McCann, the British infant who went missing in Portugal, is Alan O’Reilly’s baseless implied claim that it was, conveniently, Muslims (he means non-Whites) who kidnapped Madeleine McCann:
“A pity that a Patricia Harrington act-alike couldn't have been 'riding shotgun' on Madeleine McCann and her siblings. If so, what is the possibility that the outcome might have been two dead Mozzies [Muslims] instead of an abducted 3-year old?”
The Olympics spread “global tyranny”
Bizarrely, Alan O’Reilly claims that the Olympics are a “deception to boost the NWO [New World Order] and eventual global tyranny”.
Foams against mixed-race relationships
Posting on the pro-BNP blog, Sarah Maid of Albion, Alan O’Reilly claims “the media is doing all it can to encourage this inter-racial destruction”. On another site, Alan O’Reilly then claims that pornography “encourage[s] attacks on white girls by non-white males”!
Alan O’Reilly perverts the Bible to justify racial segregation
The reason why Alan O’Reilly can attack inter-racial marriages is due to his apartheid-like perversion of the Bible to justify his racial hatred:
“I have no comment about black males in the media, except that according to holy scripture (along with all those not in the media and their female counterparts), none of them should be living north of Cairo or west of the Azores. Africa, not England, is the land of Ham, the pro-genitor of the black race, Psalm 105:23, 27, 106:22, Genesis 10:6-20 (The Table of Nations - note that Hamites later located in the land of Canaan were out of bounds, which is why they had to be expelled by the Children of Israel under the leadership of Joshua, Joshua 1-24).”
This is the same twisted and evil racio-theological logic that the Klu Klux Klan uses to justify its lynching and murder of Black men and children in the United States. Further, on the Cleveland BNP blog, an excerpt from Alan O’Reilly’s speech at a Teesside BNP meeting states:
“why populate a country like Britain with black Africans and Asians. In the long term, it would only weaken that nation’s physical resilience. I guess that is the agenda”.
Does Alan O’Reilly’s family history of violence explain his disturbed views?
The verbal violence that Alan O’Reilly commits runs through his blood. On his personal blog, alanorei, Alan O’Reilly tells us about his alcoholic grandfather who used to beat up local policemen in western Australia and the violence his father pursued, as he puts it, for “recreation”. Alan O’Reilly comes from a fine lineage.
Conclusion
In light of racist and sectarian nonsense we read above, can anyone with an adult, rational and sane mind ever contemplate voting for the BNP? For readers interested in our first article on the BNP’s anti-Catholic racism, we refer them to the following article:
BNP candidate in anti-Catholic claims: the indefatigable Alan Girvan strikes again!
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May 26, 2008
BNP candidate in anti-Catholic claims: the indefatigable Alan Girvan strikes again!
This article was submitted by one of our readers, Hexapla. We welcome any contributions from our supporters (as long as those contributions conform to the law and are in reasonably good taste). Please send your articles to us via email.
Anti-Catholicism?
One of our favourite BNP Walter Mitty characters, the erudite BNP candidate Alan Girvan from Dewsbury has made some very strange legal claims: that Catholic emancipation in Britain is illegal and it is also illegal for all non-Protestants to hold public office!
If it wasn’t for the sheer and utter strangeness of Alan Girvan’s somewhat nuanced legal pronouncement (God knows what provoked it), under ordinary conditions one would normally be filled with admiration for a chap who attempts to single handily overturn roughly 330 years of continuous law through the medium of a solitary internet posting.
On the Archbishop Cranmer blog, Alan Girvan, posting as ‘cromwell316’, makes the following anti-emancipation argument:
“The Bill of Rights 1689 was not an ordinary act of Parliament it was an act of settlement which actually sets up the legality for the present state and give Parliament its power in the first place. It also clearly states that changes to it, were themselves illegal. The Catholic Relief Act implied (not explicit) repeal of the Bill of Rights so my point being that the Bill of Rights was superceded by an unlawful bill, which emancipated Catholics as long as they swore an Oath (even that Act has been repealed since) so all these individuals who are now determined to break what is by LAW a Protestant Kingdom whether they be Catholic, Muslim, Atheist or even Marxists' are not even lawfully in office”.
Now for those of you who were asleep during GSCE History class, the Catholic Relief Act 1778 (culminating in the Catholic Relief Act 1829) initiated a process in Britain and Ireland in the late 18th century and early 19th century which involved reducing and removing many of the discriminatory restrictions on Catholics which had been introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the Penal Laws. However, Alan Girvan argues that the Catholic Relief Acts are illegal and by extension so is the resultant emancipation of Catholics. Seemingly, Alan Girvan wants to turn the clock back and re-inaugurate discriminatory measures that once made Catholics second-class citizens in their own country. Not only this, but from his subterranean perspective, any British person who is a non-Protestant i.e. a Catholic, Orthodox (Christian), Atheist, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, etc. is wilfully breaking the law by holding public office in the United Kingdom! Beat that for logic!
BNP’s tainted image amongst Catholics
In the past, the BNP’s appeal to Ulster Catholics has been undermined by its open association with anti-Catholic and anti-Irish Loyalist terrorist groups. Nor will it help that, for example, John Oddy, when he was the BNP’s north-west Wales organiser, allegedly boasted of killing innocent civilians in northern Ireland whilst as a serving soldier, or that its northern Ireland organiser, Andy McLorie (who recently joined a breakaway BNP faction dedicated to removing the current BNP leader Nick Griffin), was jailed for his participation in a Loyalist bomb attack on a Belfast home. When interviewed by the police over the bomb attack, Andy McLorie allegedly made use of the term ‘Taig’, a racist term used to denigrate Catholics. If it weren’t for the lack of space we would list more incidences of anti-Catholic sectarianism and anti-Irish racism committed by BNP members (perhaps to be covered in a separate article).
One can’t help but feel that Alan Girvan is motivated by an antiquated sectarian antipathy towards especially Catholics. After all, why the need to specifically doubt the legal freedoms of Catholics, freedoms that are benignly enjoyed by the rest of us? I thought that the BNP was supposed to be concentrating on attacking Muslims (codeword for ‘Asians’) as its current choice of hapless victim. Alan Girvan’s views on Catholic emancipation can only embarrass and impede the BNP’s efforts to cultivate support amongst Catholics in northern Ireland (as well as damage its image amongst Catholics on the mainland).
The strange world of Alan Girvan
Alan Girvan is one of many BNP members who, despite their opposition to the anti-fascist movement, periodically takes to posting on anti-fascist sites. Quite recently Alan Girvan indulged us with a posting on the anti-fascist blog, Kirklees Unity, attacking the pro-Nick Griffin wing of the BNP as “malevolent”. This was Alan Girvan expressing this support for Colin Auty, the BNP councillor from Kirklees, in his attempt to displace Nick Griffin as leader of the BNP. But, what was most strange was Alan Girvan’s claim in his posting that his is an “ex-BNP member since Jan 2008”. Seizing on this, Kirklees Unity pointed out the following to Alan Girvan: “Please explain why you still felt the need to stand as a BNP candidate in a winnable seat if you had quit the party back in January?”
Kirklees Unity is 100% correct. In the recent May 2008 local council elections Alan Girvan stood as the BNP’s candidate in the Dewsbury East ward. Strange. Even stranger was Alan Girvan’s claim several years ago, when he stood as an independent candidate in Dewsbury, that he was being manipulated by larger forces as part of some grand anti-BNP conspiracy!
But, what was perhaps Alan Girvan’s finest Walter Mitty moment was his claims to the Yorkshire Post newspaper that he was a “former advisor to American president George W Bush”! How the mighty have fallen, going from having the ear of the world’s most powerful man to being a lowly BNP underling in Dewsbury.
Nor has Alan Girvan had much luck of late in either of his BNP or romantic endeavours! Earlier on in May 2008, Alan Girvan was caught out breaching copyright laws when he used images from the TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in his BNP literature. At the time, 2waytraffic, the company that owns the copyright to the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? images threatened Alan Girvan with legal action unless the BNP leaflets were withdrawn from circulation.
Shortly before that, Alan Girvan failed in his BNP legal bid to have postal voting banned in Kirklees. Naturally, the court resisted the BNP’s anti-democratic bid and awarded costs against Alan Girvan (if Alan Girvan truly cares about democracy, then he should launch a court case trying to ban BNP candidates registered at fake addresses from standing for election or to have the BNP’s ban on its members joining certain political parties lifted).
Though we understand from rumours that Alan Girvan is currently dating a stripper, we hope that this means Alan Girvan is no longer posting ‘adult’ adverts on various internet dating sites or on popular sites such as FaceParty (quite popular with certain senior BNP officials and their swinger sex parties). We feel that despite his divorce and his dating a stripper, Alan Girvan very much exemplifies the BNP’s much touted family values.
Lastly, we’re contemplating holding a whip-round for hapless old Alan - it seems he’s having difficulty paying his TV licence. I recently came across Alan Girvan complaining on a yahoo forum about having to purchase a TV license and asking fellow contributors on ways he could get round having to buy one! Sorry, Alan but we’ve all got to have one.
Anyway, below are some links for those of you who are interested in learning more about BNP candidate Alan Girvan:
http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2008/05/bnp-in-hot-water-over-millionaire.html
http://norfolkunity.blogspot.com/2008/03/bnps-alan-girvan-suitable-case-for.html
http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2008/03/have-you-heard-one-about.html
http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2008/03/bnp-fail-in-bid-to-stop-postal-votes.html?showComment=1206816720000
http://kirkunity.blogspot.com/2007/03/only-lonely-its-alan-girvan.html
http://kirkunity.blogspot.com/2008/03/is-girvan-unhinged.html
http://kirkunity.blogspot.com/2008/03/now-here-is-good-one.html
http://kirkunity.blogspot.com/2008/04/its-quiz-time.html
¡No Pasarán!
Please Note: Not long after we published the article, we were contacted by a source claiming to have recently left the BNP.
We understand from the source, who is currently either inside the BNP or very close to some of the BNP's Kirklees councillors, that Alan Girvan denies being involved in Colin Auty's campaign to replace Nick Griffin as BNP leader. This is despite Colin Auty's campaign site listing Alan Girvan as an official supporter. Based on this information, perhaps Alan Girvan should request that Colin Auty remove his name from the site (we also understand from the source that some BNP members from the pro-Griffin wing in Kirkless/Dewsbury are under the impression that Alan Girvan is working for Colin Auty's campaign. They may be wrong, they may be right).
We also understand from that source that Alan Girvan has, at least privately, recently denounced the BNP or at least some of its members as "racists" and "bigots". Interesting. Took him a long time to figure that out.
We also seem to be getting close to resolving Alan Girvan's claim that he left the BNP in January 2008 despite subsequently standing as a BNP candidate in May 2008. According to our source, it was in fact Colin Auty who personally requested Alan Girvan to stand as a BNP candidate so that if Alan Girvan was elected, Colin Auty would gain another ally in Kirklees. Our only concern is that Colin Auty may have broken BNP rules over putting up a non-BNP member/someone who recently left the BNP as a BNP candidate.
We want to thank our secret source whom we only refer to by the codename 'Walter Mitty'. You know who you are.
Anti-Catholicism?
One of our favourite BNP Walter Mitty characters, the erudite BNP candidate Alan Girvan from Dewsbury has made some very strange legal claims: that Catholic emancipation in Britain is illegal and it is also illegal for all non-Protestants to hold public office!
If it wasn’t for the sheer and utter strangeness of Alan Girvan’s somewhat nuanced legal pronouncement (God knows what provoked it), under ordinary conditions one would normally be filled with admiration for a chap who attempts to single handily overturn roughly 330 years of continuous law through the medium of a solitary internet posting.
On the Archbishop Cranmer blog, Alan Girvan, posting as ‘cromwell316’, makes the following anti-emancipation argument:
“The Bill of Rights 1689 was not an ordinary act of Parliament it was an act of settlement which actually sets up the legality for the present state and give Parliament its power in the first place. It also clearly states that changes to it, were themselves illegal. The Catholic Relief Act implied (not explicit) repeal of the Bill of Rights so my point being that the Bill of Rights was superceded by an unlawful bill, which emancipated Catholics as long as they swore an Oath (even that Act has been repealed since) so all these individuals who are now determined to break what is by LAW a Protestant Kingdom whether they be Catholic, Muslim, Atheist or even Marxists' are not even lawfully in office”.
Now for those of you who were asleep during GSCE History class, the Catholic Relief Act 1778 (culminating in the Catholic Relief Act 1829) initiated a process in Britain and Ireland in the late 18th century and early 19th century which involved reducing and removing many of the discriminatory restrictions on Catholics which had been introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the Penal Laws. However, Alan Girvan argues that the Catholic Relief Acts are illegal and by extension so is the resultant emancipation of Catholics. Seemingly, Alan Girvan wants to turn the clock back and re-inaugurate discriminatory measures that once made Catholics second-class citizens in their own country. Not only this, but from his subterranean perspective, any British person who is a non-Protestant i.e. a Catholic, Orthodox (Christian), Atheist, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, etc. is wilfully breaking the law by holding public office in the United Kingdom! Beat that for logic!
BNP’s tainted image amongst Catholics
In the past, the BNP’s appeal to Ulster Catholics has been undermined by its open association with anti-Catholic and anti-Irish Loyalist terrorist groups. Nor will it help that, for example, John Oddy, when he was the BNP’s north-west Wales organiser, allegedly boasted of killing innocent civilians in northern Ireland whilst as a serving soldier, or that its northern Ireland organiser, Andy McLorie (who recently joined a breakaway BNP faction dedicated to removing the current BNP leader Nick Griffin), was jailed for his participation in a Loyalist bomb attack on a Belfast home. When interviewed by the police over the bomb attack, Andy McLorie allegedly made use of the term ‘Taig’, a racist term used to denigrate Catholics. If it weren’t for the lack of space we would list more incidences of anti-Catholic sectarianism and anti-Irish racism committed by BNP members (perhaps to be covered in a separate article).
One can’t help but feel that Alan Girvan is motivated by an antiquated sectarian antipathy towards especially Catholics. After all, why the need to specifically doubt the legal freedoms of Catholics, freedoms that are benignly enjoyed by the rest of us? I thought that the BNP was supposed to be concentrating on attacking Muslims (codeword for ‘Asians’) as its current choice of hapless victim. Alan Girvan’s views on Catholic emancipation can only embarrass and impede the BNP’s efforts to cultivate support amongst Catholics in northern Ireland (as well as damage its image amongst Catholics on the mainland).
The strange world of Alan Girvan
Alan Girvan is one of many BNP members who, despite their opposition to the anti-fascist movement, periodically takes to posting on anti-fascist sites. Quite recently Alan Girvan indulged us with a posting on the anti-fascist blog, Kirklees Unity, attacking the pro-Nick Griffin wing of the BNP as “malevolent”. This was Alan Girvan expressing this support for Colin Auty, the BNP councillor from Kirklees, in his attempt to displace Nick Griffin as leader of the BNP. But, what was most strange was Alan Girvan’s claim in his posting that his is an “ex-BNP member since Jan 2008”. Seizing on this, Kirklees Unity pointed out the following to Alan Girvan: “Please explain why you still felt the need to stand as a BNP candidate in a winnable seat if you had quit the party back in January?”
Kirklees Unity is 100% correct. In the recent May 2008 local council elections Alan Girvan stood as the BNP’s candidate in the Dewsbury East ward. Strange. Even stranger was Alan Girvan’s claim several years ago, when he stood as an independent candidate in Dewsbury, that he was being manipulated by larger forces as part of some grand anti-BNP conspiracy!
But, what was perhaps Alan Girvan’s finest Walter Mitty moment was his claims to the Yorkshire Post newspaper that he was a “former advisor to American president George W Bush”! How the mighty have fallen, going from having the ear of the world’s most powerful man to being a lowly BNP underling in Dewsbury.
Nor has Alan Girvan had much luck of late in either of his BNP or romantic endeavours! Earlier on in May 2008, Alan Girvan was caught out breaching copyright laws when he used images from the TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in his BNP literature. At the time, 2waytraffic, the company that owns the copyright to the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? images threatened Alan Girvan with legal action unless the BNP leaflets were withdrawn from circulation.
Shortly before that, Alan Girvan failed in his BNP legal bid to have postal voting banned in Kirklees. Naturally, the court resisted the BNP’s anti-democratic bid and awarded costs against Alan Girvan (if Alan Girvan truly cares about democracy, then he should launch a court case trying to ban BNP candidates registered at fake addresses from standing for election or to have the BNP’s ban on its members joining certain political parties lifted).
Though we understand from rumours that Alan Girvan is currently dating a stripper, we hope that this means Alan Girvan is no longer posting ‘adult’ adverts on various internet dating sites or on popular sites such as FaceParty (quite popular with certain senior BNP officials and their swinger sex parties). We feel that despite his divorce and his dating a stripper, Alan Girvan very much exemplifies the BNP’s much touted family values.
Lastly, we’re contemplating holding a whip-round for hapless old Alan - it seems he’s having difficulty paying his TV licence. I recently came across Alan Girvan complaining on a yahoo forum about having to purchase a TV license and asking fellow contributors on ways he could get round having to buy one! Sorry, Alan but we’ve all got to have one.
Anyway, below are some links for those of you who are interested in learning more about BNP candidate Alan Girvan:
http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2008/05/bnp-in-hot-water-over-millionaire.html
http://norfolkunity.blogspot.com/2008/03/bnps-alan-girvan-suitable-case-for.html
http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2008/03/have-you-heard-one-about.html
http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2008/03/bnp-fail-in-bid-to-stop-postal-votes.html?showComment=1206816720000
http://kirkunity.blogspot.com/2007/03/only-lonely-its-alan-girvan.html
http://kirkunity.blogspot.com/2008/03/is-girvan-unhinged.html
http://kirkunity.blogspot.com/2008/03/now-here-is-good-one.html
http://kirkunity.blogspot.com/2008/04/its-quiz-time.html
¡No Pasarán!
Please Note: Not long after we published the article, we were contacted by a source claiming to have recently left the BNP.
We understand from the source, who is currently either inside the BNP or very close to some of the BNP's Kirklees councillors, that Alan Girvan denies being involved in Colin Auty's campaign to replace Nick Griffin as BNP leader. This is despite Colin Auty's campaign site listing Alan Girvan as an official supporter. Based on this information, perhaps Alan Girvan should request that Colin Auty remove his name from the site (we also understand from the source that some BNP members from the pro-Griffin wing in Kirkless/Dewsbury are under the impression that Alan Girvan is working for Colin Auty's campaign. They may be wrong, they may be right).
We also understand from that source that Alan Girvan has, at least privately, recently denounced the BNP or at least some of its members as "racists" and "bigots". Interesting. Took him a long time to figure that out.
We also seem to be getting close to resolving Alan Girvan's claim that he left the BNP in January 2008 despite subsequently standing as a BNP candidate in May 2008. According to our source, it was in fact Colin Auty who personally requested Alan Girvan to stand as a BNP candidate so that if Alan Girvan was elected, Colin Auty would gain another ally in Kirklees. Our only concern is that Colin Auty may have broken BNP rules over putting up a non-BNP member/someone who recently left the BNP as a BNP candidate.
We want to thank our secret source whom we only refer to by the codename 'Walter Mitty'. You know who you are.
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Alan Girvan,
anti-Catholic,
BNP,
Walter Mitty
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