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When Nick Griffin told BBC One’s Question Time that he found “the sight of two men kissing in public a bit creepy”, he may have been thinking about a traumatic adolescent experience. In an interview with The Times, Mr Griffin claimed that a former deputy leader of the National Front (NF) offered sex to him when he was still a teenager.

England is a strange place these days. A sort of political volcano has exploded, and the significance of it is not clear. According to pretty well everyone with access to free speech, fascism has erupted. The British National party has been making surreptitious headway for some time now, but restricted to winning a seat on some local council here or there. Suddenly in elections for the European parliament in Brussels, the BNP got about 900,000 votes, entitling it under proportional representation to two seats. One of those seats goes to Nick Griffin, the BNP leader. [....] Griffin has only one...

• Party claims biggest ever recruitment night • BBC feared far-right victory in high court • Griffin attacks capital as 'no longer British' The British National party will receive a pre-general election boost in the opinion polls, ministers fear, after more than 8 million people watched the far-right leader Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time on Thursday evening. As the party claimed that a record 3,000 people had registered to join its ranks in the biggest recruitment night in its history, Lord Mandelson warned that Griffin's exposure would produce "a bubble in the opinion polls for the BNP". He reflected...

Headline only, waiting on full article. Protesters have been gathering outside BBC Headquarters all day: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/22/question-time-protest, "Swelling number of protesters demonstrating against BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on show".

Deputy director general Mark Byford has said it is not the BBC's role to censor the BNP as criticism mounts ahead of the party's Question Time appearance. He said the BNP's Euro vote meant the BBC had to allow it on as part of its "responsibility of due impartiality". Cabinet minister Peter Hain had asked the BBC to rethink its invitation to the whites-only political party. Ex-London Mayor Ken Livingstone said the BBC would bear moral responsibility for any "spike" in racist attacks. And the Equality and Human Rights Commission said the party's membership rules were currently illegal and it...

The reputation of the armed forces is being tarnished by right-wing political "extremists", a group of former military leaders has warned.

*Sigh* Haven't been there in several months, thought I'd take a look. Top story: Meanwhile, over at the far right fever swamp called Free Republic, denizens are openly supporting the white supremacist British National Party: British National Party Forced To Admit Non-Whites. To: Steelfish You most certainly don’t have freedom of associaton in America. Well maybe if you’re non-white you do. 5 posted on September 3, 2009 8:18:55 PM PDT by American Silver Eagle [...] To: Steelfish Freedom of Association is supposed to be party of the Constitution but white people are currently not allowed to declare their neighborhoods “for...

20 years ago they paraded in bovver boots and sported Nazi tattoos but today the leaders of the British National Party are besuited and deliver news grabs in pollie-speak. The times may have changed but their anti-immigration, whites-only message remains the same. Dismiss them, as you might, as far-right loonies, but support for the BNP is increasing. In fact, analysts are suggesting that in future elections up to 20% of the UK's population would consider voting for them. Can a political leopard change its spots? Dateline sent Evan Williams to find out. REPORTER: Evan Williams In the British town of...

Ideologues can parody themselves more effectively than any satirist. Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, is sipping sparkling water in a hotel lounge and comparing himself to Mahatma Gandhi. The BNP aims to send nonwhite Britons "home." At private BNP rallies, Griffin, convicted in 1998 of incitement to racial hatred, warns adherents that Muslim men are plotting to defile underage British girls, peppering his invective with concocted statistics such as this one: "The average racist murderer in this country is 40 times more likely to be a member of an ethnic minority than the other way round."

An American extremist has been banned from entering Britain to attend a controversial BNP festival. Preston Wiginton, a close associate of BNP leader Nick Griffin, was turned away at Heathrow because officials believed his presence would stir up racial tension. He was meant to be teaming up with Mr Griffin at the Red, White and Blue rally, the BNP's annual summer party which takes place in Codnor, Derbyshire this weekend Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1206618/Extremist-banned-entering-UK-BNP-festival.html#comments#ixzz0OFLZIvT4

A leading Italian neo-fascist with a nine-year conviction for conspiracy after the bombing of Bologna train station in 1980 has taken a seat in the European Parliament. Roberto Fiore, 49, came to Britain in the wake of the bombing, which left 85 people dead and over 200 wounded. The attack was carried out by the Nucleus of Armed Revolutionaries, a far-Right terrorist group. Although Mr Fiore, a member of the Third Position cell, was not directly involved in the execution of the bombing, he was convicted for conspiring to carry out an armed attack. He lived in the UK for...

BNP 'does not want all-white UK' Nick Griffin tells Andrew Marr he no longer wants to see an all-white United Kingdom British National Party leader Nick Griffin has said he no longer wants to see an all-white United Kingdom. Mr Griffin, who is due to take up his seat as an MEP for the North West, said the idea of a UK without ethnic minorities was "simply not do-able". Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Griffin said: "Nobody out there wants it or would pay for it." He said claims that he was a fascist were "smears" but...

A possible ban on teachers in England from being members of the British National Party is under consideration, a government spokesman has confirmed. A spokesman for the Department for Children, Schools and Families says ministers are investigating a ban. But the profession's watchdog, the General Teaching Council, has said membership of a legal party cannot be seen as "unprofessional conduct". A BNP spokesman said moves for such a ban were "naked intimidation". There have been calls from teachers' unions for a ban on teachers belonging to the BNP.

Sending shock waves through the mainstream political parties, the British National Party won a seat in the European Parliament for the first time in its history after receiving 120,139 votes in the Yorkshire and Humber region. The far right party's Andrew Brons took the last of the six seats up for grabs. Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP, said that the presence of his party in Brussels would "transform British politics". He added that Britain had become a "bankrupt slum" under Labour. "The party is going to go on and grow very rapidly," he said. "We're going to be...

The British National Party sent shockwaves through mainstream British politics last night by winning their first seat in the European Parliament. Also, in a terrible night for Labour, the Conservatives became the highest polling party in Wales for the first time since 1918. With six regional results in across Britain, Labour looked set .........................................

BNP wins European Parliament seat The British National Party has won its first seat in the European Parliament after gaining more than 120,000 votes in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Labour could be on course to dip below 20% of the vote in what Harriet Harman has called a "very dismal" night. After the first three English regions to declare, Labour is third on 15.9% of the vote behind the Tories on 26.8% and UKIP [UK Independence Party] on 18.1%. There are still nine regions to declare their results. But if repeated across the UK it will pile pressure on...

European Fascist Movements are Led by Homosexuals According to Gay Journalist Says gay men have been at the heart of every major fascist movement that ever was - including the Third Reich By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman BRITAIN, May 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - With the rise of an increasingly militant and even violent homosexual movement which has threatened and assaulted Christians for their opposition to their political agenda, homosexual activists in the U.S. and Europe have been increasingly accused of "homofascism." Now, a self-described "gay left-wing" journalist in Britain has admitted that the fascist tendency of homosexuals is far more than...

Members of the BNP should be banned from being nurses, according to a motion passed at Unison’s Health Care Service Group Conference today. Delegates voted unanimously in favour of the motion, submitted by the National Nursing Sector, which calls for a law to prevent BNP members becoming nurses. It also calls for support from the NMC, which states that nurses should not discriminate against patients on the basis of race, but does not ban BNP membership outright. Proposing the motion, Mick McKeown, nursing sector committee member, said that the racist views of the BNP were incompatible with the public service...

Police are preparing for a "summer of rage" as victims of the economic downturn take to the streets to demonstrate against financial institutions, the Guardian has learned. Britain's most senior police officer with responsibility for public order raised the spectre of a return of the riots of the 1980s, with people who have lost their jobs, homes or savings becoming "footsoldiers" in a wave of potentially violent mass protests. Superintendent David Hartshorn, who heads the Metropolitan police's public order branch, told the Guardian that middle-class individuals who would never have considered joining demonstrations may now seek to vent their anger...

The UK's mosques are out of touch with British Muslims and failing to root out extremism, a think tank has claimed. The Quilliam Foundation, a group which opposes radical Islam, quotes a study saying 97% of imams were born abroad. It says the lecture before Friday prayers in 44% of mosques is not in English, while nearly half have no women's facilities.

A shock win for the far-right British National Party yesterday sent a tremor through Labour amid growing fears that the recession is driving angry voters into the arms of extremist parties. The BNP seized a Labour seat in a district council by-election in Sevenoaks on a substantial turnout, encouraging fears that the party could make significant advances in the June local and European elections. The Kent town is a Tory stronghold at Westminster and local politicians had previously dismissed the likelihood of a breakthrough for the BNP. But the result will be seized on as evidence that Gordon Brown's ill-judged...

The governing body of the Church of England, the General Synod, voted overwhelmingly to follow the lead of the police and bar ordained priests, trainees and lay staff from becoming members of racist political parties, specifically including the BNP. It will require discplinary rules for vicars to be rewritten, and some critics claimed the move could still breach human rights and trigger employment tribunal cases because the BNP is a legal organisation. Others warned that far-right parties could get around the rules by changing their names, or by claiming their members are merely supporters rather than official members. ... Earlier...

The wave of wildcat strike action that has swept across the UK escalated today as hundreds more workers walked out in the protest against foreign labour. Contract workers from the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, the Heysham nuclear power station in Lancashire and a site at Staythorpe, in Nottinghamshire, joined the unofficial action over the hiring of Italian and Portuguese workers on a Lincolnshire power station project.

<p>Fox news ran stories last night based on some of the things we were tracking right here in this post. Here is their on line story.</p> <p>As unfinished as my research is, I feel compelled to release what I've found so far as the story cannot wait any longer.  I am not looking for a scoop on anyone or anything, but at the same time I don't want anyone thinking I made this stuff up after the fact either.</p>

12 representatives of a legal political party in England were arrested on trumped up English terrorist laws. They were distributing leaflets for the British National Party in Liverpool city center, and were consequently detained under recent laws presiding within the umbrella of 'promoting racial hatred'. The story can be found on the BNP website, and the leaflet in question which had apparently already been thoroughly vetted from an English legal standpoint, can be downloaded at: The BNP Website (http://www.bnp.org.uk/thumbs/Racism_Cuts_Both_Ways.pdf) Following the illegal distribution of a BNP members list recently, the BNP web site was ranked #1 political website in the...

A male police officer in Merseyside is the first alleged BNP member to face consequences at his job after the far-Right party's full membership list was leaked online. ... Police are banned from becoming members of the BNP because it would damage race relations, according to the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo). ... Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, showed little sympathy over the leak. She told Sky News: "It probably says something about the BNP that people don't want to have it known that they are a member." ... Teachers, doctors and serving members of the Armed Forces are...

The British National Party has lost its membership list - the whole thing has been published online. The list includes names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all members up to September 2008. It also includes some people's ages, especially those under 18 - the BNP offers family membership for £40. Many entries also contain more personal comments about jobs or hobbies. That's how we know that that BNP members include receptionists, district nurses, amateur historians, pagans, line dancers and a male witch. Members have unsurprisingly reacted with outrage. One commenter said: "I'm also on the list, what the...

A police officer, more than a dozen soldiers, a vicar and a Chelsea pensioner have been named on a list purporting to comprise the entire membership of the British National Party. They were exposed after bloggers posted around 10,000 names, together with home addresses, telephone numbers, jobs and even hobbies on the internet.The leak led some BNP members to fear that they may lose their jobs or face other reprisalsAt least one serving police officer is on the membership list, along with several retired officers. The Association of Chief Police Officers has banned police officers and staff from belonging to...

(edit) Critics have accused the Government of failing to prepare cash-strapped councils for the influx of immigrants by giving them the resources to invest in public services.  This has left schools, health facilities and transport struggling to cope with greater numbers.  The resurgence of the BNP will also spark fears among the main political parties that the radical group could prosper at future by-elections in the run-up to the next General Election.  In a result which revived huge concerns, the far-right party won its first district council seat in Lincolnshire in the Fenside ward of Boston.  BNP candidate David...

Barack Obama appears to have personally benefited from funds originating in Saddam Hussein's regime. It's a complicated connection, but one that deserves the consideration of Americans voters. Two similar figures, Nadhmi Auchi and Antoin S. "Tony" Rezko, served as the intermediaries. Both are Middle Eastern males of Catholic Christian heritage who left Baathist dictatorships for Western cities (Auchi from Iraq to London, Rezko from Syria to Chicago). Both became successful businessmen who hobnobbed with politicians and promoted Arab interests. Both have been convicted of taking kickbacks and both stand accused of other shady dealings. Auchi, born in 1937, is the...

Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama was quick to blame the bankruptcy of Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers on Republicans’ “failed philosophy”. Obama’s September 15 comments were repeated throughout the media--yet reporters have not noted Obama’s glaring conflict of interest—the Lehman debt owed to a bank owned by the financier who loaned millions of dollars to Tony Rezko. Jockeying among the other debtors seeking repayment under Chapter 11 bankruptcy rules is BNP Paribas, a large French bank whose largest single private shareholder is Nadhmi Auchi’s General Mediterranean Holdings (GMH). BNP Paribas is owed $250 million by Lehman. Nadhmi Auchi is an...

The financial system could face a meltdown of 1929 proportions unless US politicians succeed in their efforts for a $700bn rescue scheme, experts added. The warning came as Republicans and Democrats met in Washington for a rare weekend debating session to attempt to seal agreement on the contentious plan, aimed at preventing a long-lasting recession in the US. Officials close to Paulson are privately painting a far bleaker portrait of the fragility of the global economy than that advanced by President George W Bush in his televised address last week. One Republican said that the message from government officials is...

Cameron hails by-election victory   Conservative leader David Cameron has hailed an "excellent result" in the Henley by-election, which saw Labour beaten into fifth place.Mr Cameron said his party's win showed people were starting to think of the Tories as an alternative government. But Gordon Brown - speaking a year after he became PM - said "by-elections come and by-elections go". Labour lost its deposit with just 1,066 votes - fewer than the BNP, Greens, Lib Dems and Tory victor John Howell. Mr Howell took the seat with 19,796 votes - a majority of 10,116 to the Lib Dem...

The British National Party sought yesterday to present the killing of one of its activists by a Muslim elder as an act of white martyrdom. On the steps of Stafford Crown Court, Michael Coleman, a BNP councillor and organiser of the party’s Stoke-on-Trent branch, said: “We advise anybody who gets angry: get involved with the BNP.” He was speaking at the end of the trial into the killing of Keith Brown, 52, a former boxer and friend of the BNP leader Nick Griffin, who collapsed and died after being knifed in the back by his next-door neighbour Habib Khan. Mr...

When "brown" Islamo Nazis knock on "white", "Aryan" Nazis' doors Evil allianceIt's not really all new, "white Aryan" Arch-Nazi Adolf Hitler already embraced "brown" & "inferior" Arab Muslim Haj Amin Al-Husseini the 'MUFTI'. That genius-of-evil knew already how to exploit the Arabs, ready to gas them (too), just as soon as they are "done" with them. David Puke Then we read in the late 1990's that the loser KKK's 'David Duke' couldn’t find a "fertile" ground for his feces hatred only in Arab countries (that are full of anti-non-Arab racism). The 'rise' of the HATERS - ALLIANCE came about after...

In this file photo Simone Clarke (L) adjusts her ballet shoe ribbons as she stands beside a guard before at Buckingham Palace in London, December 14, 2004. Protestors staged a noisy protest on Friday outside a London theater where Clarke is performing. The English National Ballet's principal dancer was named in a newspaper last month as a member of the British National Party (BNP), a minority anti-immigration party. (Ben Gurr/The Times/Pool/Reuters) Around 50 protesters shouting the slogan "Ballet not bigotry!" staged a noisy protest on Friday outside a London theater where a ballerina and member of a far-right British...

Chancellor Gordon Brown says race laws may have to be changed after British National Party leader Nick Griffin was cleared by a jury of stirring up racial hatred. The far-right politician sprayed champagne and declared a victory against the Government and the political establishment after being found not guilty. An all-white jury took five hours to clear Mr Griffin and BNP activist Mark Collett of stirring up racial hatred in a series of speeches in Keighley, West Yorkshire, in 2004. The speeches were filmed by a BBC undercover reporter at BNP meetings in pubs in the town. The Crown Prosecution...

BRITISH National Party leader Nick Griffin told a crowd that Islam was a "wicked, vicious faith" and Asian Muslims were turning Britain into a multiracial hell as they tried to conquer the country, a court heard yesterday. Griffin urged the gathering in Keighley, West Yorkshire, to vote BNP to ensure "the British people really realise the evil of what these people have done to our country". The 47-year-old BNP chairman and fellow party activist Mark Collett face a series of charges arising out of speeches filmed by BBC journalist Jason Gwynne, who posed as a BNP supporter in Bradford, for...

British National Party leader Nick Griffin told a crowd that Islam was a "wicked, vicious faith" and Asian Muslims were turning Britain into a multiracial hell as they tried to conquer the country, a court heard today. Griffin urged the gathering in Keighley, West Yorkshire, to vote BNP to ensure "the British people really realise the evil of what these people have done to our country". The 47-year-old BNP chairman and fellow party activist Mark Collett face a series of charges arising out of speeches filmed by BBC journalist Jason Gwynne, who posed as a BNP supporter in Bradford, for...

TWO Pendle men have appeared before Pennine magistrates accused of having "a master plan" after what is believed to be a record haul of chemicals used in making home-made bombs was found in Colne. Robert Cottage (49), of Talbot Street, Colne, and David Bolus Jackson (62), of Trent Road, Nelson, made separate appearances before the court charged with being in possession of an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose. The offences are under the Explosive Substances Act 1883. Both men were remanded in custody to appear at Burnley Crown Court on October 23rd. Cottage was arrested at his home on...

A MEMBER of the British National Party was convicted yesterday of racially abusing an Asian woman, although the victim has never been traced and the exact words that he used could not be heard by the only witness.

There are those in the Nationalist movement, both in the UK and elsewhere around the world, that regard the dispute in the Middle East between Hezbollah and Israel in Lebanon as a ‘war’. For a start this is not a war. This is nothing more than a bad tempered border dispute. 60,000 British soldiers killed and wounded in just one day on the battlefield of the Somme is a war. This is a bad tempered spat. More people die every day in Iraq than in this dispute. What is happening in Iraq is not described as a war, but this...

News & Viewsby Srdja Trifkovic Nick Griffin’s Long March The British National Party did very well at local elections in England on May 4 and now holds 32 council seats across the country. In some areas—notably in East London—it has replaced Labour as the dominant political force among the ethnically-British working- and lower-middle class. According to the Spectator (April 15), Labour voters are switching to the BNP in such large numbers because they believe that only the BNP articulates what they are thinking: “Today’s BNP possesses the local campaigning skills and ability to make a personal connection with the...

Up to 25% of voters may support the far right British National Party, a new report is claiming. The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust said that anger with the main political parties had led to increasing numbers indicating they might vote for the BNP. It attributed the support to feelings of "powerlessness and frustration". The party, which has 24 local councillors, said 356 candidates would stand in local elections next month. It is claimed that just a 5% swing to the BNP could result in up to 70 more council seats for the party. On Good Friday, the BNP launched its...

White voters are deserting us for BNP, says Blair ally By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor (Filed: 16/04/2006) White working-class families feel so neglected by the Government and angered by immigration that they are deserting Labour and flocking to the British National Party, a minister admitted yesterday. In a sensational claim, Margaret Hodge, one of Tony Blair's closest allies, said that eight out of 10 white people in her east London constituency of Barking are threatening to vote for the far-Right party in next month's local elections. Once traditional Labour supporters are angry at a lack of affordable housing -...

I posted Robert Locke’s report last October indicating that the once seriously anti-Semitic British National Party has been in the process of reforming itself, and I quoted at length a column by BNP chairman Nick Griffin last December in which he criticized anti-Semitism at length. However, I also heard that Griffin socialized with David Duke and other Nazi types at the end of the recent American Renaissance conference. Some people tried to excuse this by saying, “How can he reform these people unless he talks with them?” The excuse didn’t work with me; were we really to believe that Griffin...

The British National Party is launching a leaflet campaign featuring the controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.A BNP spokesman said the images illustrate how Islam and Western values do not mix - but were not intended to cause offence. The 12 cartoons, which initially appeared in Denmark and were reprinted in other European countries, have sparked violent protests across the Islamic world. They have not been published in the British press, but at least 50 people have been Advertisement killed during demonstrations around the world. A Pakistani Muslim cleric last week offered rewards amounting to more than £600,000 for...

By Matthew Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The leader of the far-right British National Party was cleared of two race hate charges on Thursday, but faces a retrial after the jury failed to reach a verdict on two other, similar counts. Nick Griffin, 45, was greeted by cheers from flag-waving supporters and boos from opponents as he left Leeds Crown Court. The BNP commands nothing like the influence of similar far-right parties across Europe but holds several seats on local councils. Griffin had been prosecuted for remarks he made at a private meeting that had been secretly filmed by an undercover...

BNP duo to face race hate retrial BNP leader Nick Griffin will face a retrial on two race hate charges after being cleared by a jury at Leeds Crown Court of two other charges. Party activist Mark Collett, who was acquitted of four similar charges, will also stand trial again on a further four race hate charges. Mr Griffin, 44, and Mr Collett, 24, had denied using words intended to stir up hatred in West Yorkshire in 2004. The jury was sent home after failing to reach verdicts on all of the charges. The Crown Prosecution Service later said it...

A jury at Leeds Crown Court has cleared BNP leader Nick Griffin of two racial hatred charges and BNP activist Mark Collett of four others. The jury has been discharged after failing to reach verdicts on the remaining charges - four against Mr Collett and two against Mr Griffin. Mr Griffin, 44, and Mr Collett, 24, had denied using words intended to stir up hatred in West Yorkshire in 2004. Mr Griffin said the verdicts were a "tremendous victory for freedom". Their six speeches were filmed by an undercover BBC journalist for a documentary on the BNP. Mr Griffin told...