Violent racist runs Penrith BNP campaign

HOPE not hate / Searchlight by Simon Cressy | Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Kevin Clarks current BNP membership card

The BNP likes to tell people that it is a mainstream political party, following the election in June of its leader Nick Griffin to the European Parliament.

Griffin has recently unveiled his new office in Cumbria, which is to be used as a base for the North West region that he represents as an MEP.

But, take a careful look at the BNP’s members in the North West and you find the same old violent racists as always.

The BNP is contesting an Eden District Council by-election on 8 October in Penrith West ward following the resignation last month of Colin Nineham, former leader of the council.

Of key importance in the BNP’s campaign is the party’s Penrith organiser Kevin Clark, whom Nick Griffin’s new European communications officer, Martin Wingfield, described recently as “a great BNP stalwart”.

Far-right stalwart he may be, but Clark is also a self-confessed convicted racist.

In 1996 Clark was found guilty of malicious wounding and jailed for 18 months for an unprovoked attack on a Gambian rugby player, Osman Cham, during a rugby tournament in Penrith.

Clark had shouted “Sambo” and made monkey noises. When Mr Cham went over to remonstrate, Clark struck him over the head with a bottle. The wound needed five stitches and Mr Cham fainted from loss of blood.

Clark showed no remorse and admitted that he was a racist bigot. “I don’t like coloured people”, he told police.

His spell of porridge seems to have made little difference however as Clark still appears to be a virulent racist.

On his Facebook page he likes to mock the Holocaust by making sick jokes about the notorious Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Over one million people perished in the death camp yet Clark feels it is a subject for ridicule.

Clarke posted: “Will people stop sending me Auschwitz jokes, my poor grandfather died a horrible death at Auschwitz … He fell out the machine gun tower.”

Another of Clark’s racist postings reads: “When is the only time you should wink at a Muslim? When your [sic] taking aim at the cunt.”

Clark also finds time after a hard day’s campaigning to take part in Facebook groups such as “FTP – Fuck The Pope” and “We are proud to call ourselves Aryan”.

No doubt the BNP will try its tried and trusted trick of declaring that Clark is not a member of the party and his details cannot be found on its databases.

Well the bad news for the BNP is that Clark has posted a picture of his current party membership card on his Facebook profile and it is still very much valid.

Once again, we await the immediate expulsion of Clark from the BNP.