The BNP cash cow

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 06:35

It seems that the HOPE not hate campaign will soon be benefiting from a new stream of funding – from a surprising quarter.

The BNP is telling its supporters to deluge Searchlight (and other organisations) with Data Protection requests, its long awaited response to the publication of its membership list. In an article to be published in its next members’ bulletin, due out this week, it is hoping that thousands of supporters send out a number of letters to organisations such as ourselves using the Data Protection laws.

Quite aside from the futile nature of this action (Searchlight always thought this a possibility and ensured that it didn’t download the list) it might offer us a source of new money. Each request under the Data Protection Act must be accompanied by £10, so we would welcome thousands of BNP enquiries – accompanied by the £10 – as a contribution towards our anti-BNP campaign.

More amusing still, the BNP’s action might actually backfire. To my knowledge no-one used the email addresses of BNP members that were on the list. The same could not be said of Thurrock BNP who repeatedly sent out emails to a list of UAF supporters and councillors it obtained. Now, that might well be a case for legal action.