BNP crime and hysteria mount as polling day nears

| Monday, 7 June 2004 Source: Searchlight

The election campaign has clearly brought out the best in the "law and order" BNP. Two candidates – Joseph Owens and Tony Wentworth – have been arrested on assault charges and another, Ian Clegg, appeared before magistrates charged with public order offences after a football match.

Now a fourth has come to light. Alan Bailey presents himself in the London Assembly elections, where he is seventh on the BNP's list, as a wholesome family man. In reality he is just another BNP thug. Arrested for a assault in February in Harold Wood he swiftly pleaded guilty when he appeared at Havering Magistrates' Court in April. Bailey, who is also eighth on the BNP's European candidates' list for London, admitted the offence not out of remorse but because he wanted the case out of the way before the elections. He was fined £350 plus £50 compensation and £51 costs.

Bailey is also a branch officer of the BNP's Havering, Barking and Dagenham group. His conviction has not stopped him throwing his weight around. So much for the "crime and disorder" party.

Meanwhile, as the BNP's election hopes fade, hysteria in the party is rising. At one stage the BNP leaders were fulsome in their praise for the pollsters. But as the public started to wake up to the fact that the BNP was a bunch of losers and criminals and the BNP's rating in the opinion polls started to plummet, their tune changed dramatically, with accusations of conspiracies and plots against the party.

Their latest target is YouGov. Also accused is the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, which is renowned worldwide for its social research.

The BNP bosses are threatening to set their legal department on anyone who so much as looks at them the wrong way. That no one has taken any notice of this threat may be because the BNP's legal department is run by a jerk called Lee Barnes who has a law degree but no right to practise. Barnes is well known for entertaining his fellow nazis on various websites with praise of the Legion of St George, the wartime SS outfit comprised of British traitors.

Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, hurls himself up and down the country like the demented failed used Japanese car salesman that he is, posing in front of any available war memorial and hypocritically insulting our war dead on the 60th Anniversary of D-Day. Was it not Griffin who referred to the handful of ex-servicemen who used to lead the Remembrance Day march of the National Front, when he was running that organisation, as "that bunch of f****** cripples"?

More hypocrisy reigns over BNP's policy to allow people of non-British descent to join the party. Having welcomed them in, Griffin found that his members at large had difficulty over the concept of a racist party with non-British members. So in true fascist style he covers up the facts. Profiles of BNP candidates Nick Geri, Lawrence Rustem and Carlos Cortiglia make no mention of their respective Anglo-Italian, Turkish and Uruguayan backgrounds. And Julie Russell goes on about the importance of race but the ethnic origin of her own mother is unclear.

One of the issues the BNP has exploited in its election campaign is "Muslim terrorism". We know that it is not terrorism as such that they object to, after all David Copeland and Tony Lecomber were both bombers and BNP activists and Griffin's political mentor is the Italian nazi terrorist Roberto Fiore. So their problem must be Muslims.

Except that Griffin was happy to share a platform at a Cambridge seminar in July 2002 Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri, the reviled Muslim fundamentalist, currently awaiting deportation to the USA for alleged terrorist crimes. The subject for discussion was whether people like them should be given a media platform.

With three days to go keep watching this space for more on the dirty world of Nick Griffin and his criminal conspirators.