I sense a new campaign coming

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Wednesday, 8 April 2009, 19:52

The BNP’s propensity to score political and legal own goals shows no signs of abating after the mock up of their latest insulting billboard. Following the Archbishop of York’s blistering attack on the BNP in the Sun yesterday, BNP deputy leader Simon Darby reached low into the gutter once more. Describing Archbishop John Sentamu as Idi Amin, (simply because they both were born in Uganda – yes, it is as ridiculous as me calling Darby Jack the Ripper), Darby superimposed the Sun article on a billboard.

If Darby thought his cheap joke would attract votes he was badly mistaken. Unlike the racists in the BNP, the vast majority of Britons have a lot of time for John Sentamu, who devotes much of his time to helping good causes. Compare that to Darby, who only this week showed his true political affiliations by cavorting with a convicted fascist terrorist and Holocaust denier in Italy. Luckily for the voters of the West Midlands, where Darby heads the BNP European Election list, our West Midlands leaflet hasn’t gone to the printers so I’ve been able to rewrite it so the voters know exactly what Darby is all about.

Darby could well be in further hot water. I wonder what Clear Channel, Britain’s largest billboard advertising company, will make of the repeated use of their boards by the BNP? Luckily, I’ll probably find out very shortly because I plan to speak to the company and ask them if the BNP have sought permission to use their company name to insult the Christian church. Obviously I wouldn’t want to prejudge their answer but my guess is that they won’t be too pleased. They might even consider legal action – a course I’ll be actively encouraging.