Ulster branch gets new BNP boss

Sunday World by Steven Moore | Tuesday, 6 July 2010 | Click here for original article

OUT WITH THE OLD: Steve Moore (right) has been made boss of the Ulster branch of the British National party while Kieran Devlin/Dinsmore (left) is stepping down due to "family pressures"

THIS is the new Ulster boss of the British National Party and he’s called Steve Moore.

Standing posing in front of an Ulster flag he is flanked by his dejected predecessor Kieran Devlin who’s standing aside.

We can exclusively reveal the far-right party have picked a bloke with the same name of a reporter who has written countless stories about them, to take them forward in Northern Ireland.

Fortunately (for me) far-right Steve is a ‘step-hen’ – spelling his name the ‘wrong’ way.

Still it was quite a shock to take a call from someone asking if I was the new Ulster BNP leader!

Far-right Steve takes over from Kieran Devlin who has had enough of trying to get more people here to join the fascist party.

Devlin, who was so shy about his BNP involvement that he used the name Kieran Dinsmore as cover, stepped down from his role as regional organiser, apparently due to “family pressures”.

Unmasked

He’s stepping down just eight months after we unmasked him in the Sunday World.

At a recent BNP meeting – held in Carrickfergus – far-right Steve thanked Kieran Devlin/Dinsmore for his work.

According to the BNP Kieran will take “a less demanding role in the party organisation”.

And in an article posted on their website the party stick the boot into the Sunday World for daring to report what they have been up to.

Their website states: “The meeting was kicked off by Mr Dinsmore thanking the membership for the impressive turnout and the generous donations to party funds.

“Despite the hateful and infantile attacks by the controlled media and political elite in Northern Ireland, BNP membership in Ulster had now risen to treble figures,” Mr Dinsmore said.

“For his part, Mr Moore thanked Mr Dinsmore for the hard work he had carried out for the party in Northern Ireland.

“Mr Moore, who is a married family man with a University Diploma in European Humanities, then went on to outline his new approach and encouraged the Ulster membership to stand up and be counted in the days ahead.

“I have sought and obtained assurances from the party chairman that Northern Ireland would get as much support as was required in order to have local candidates standing for future elections,” Mr Moore said.

The BNP led by Nick Griffin are claiming to have reached over 100 members in Northern Ireland.

Impressive

Even if that figure is true it’s not particularly impressive considering that Kieran Devlin/Dinsmore has been trying to get new members for the last five years.

In 2005 he came to our attention when he started putting hideous anti-Muslim posters around Bangor.

The leaflets,which tried to scare locals into thinking Muslims were trying to turn the area into a squalid ghetto, were plastered on notice boards of the Castle Leisure Centre in the town.

When we ran the story about how the leisure centre manager was “appalled” at the posters, we also put in Kieran’s mobile number, which was advertised on the poster.

The week after Kieran sent the Sunday World a Christmas card thanking us for being the best recruiting sergeant he could have wished for.

But sadly Kieran – just like his party’s pathetic propaganda – was being economical with the truth as the Ulster branch of the party is widely regarded as an embarrassment to the rest of the party due to its lack of members.

Kieran has also claimed in the past that the police tried to recruit him as a tout when two plain clothes officers followed him home from work and asked him for some information on an Ulster BNP member.

He apparently refused adding: “I know their game – all friendly and reasonable to start with, but once they’ve got you to give them just a few scraps of harmless information, they use a mixture of threats and bribes to force you to tell them anything they want.”

Last year Kieran, whose family comes from the north east of England, complained to the PCC after we wrote and article stating that a BNP member was responsible for a series of race attacks in north Antrim.

Jumping to the defence of the party Kieran – using his ‘secret’ identity of Dinsmore – cried to the PCC that we had “sullied” the name of the BNP, which is a bit rich considering his own leader has a conviction for a race hate crime.

Meanwhile the man in charge of fundraising, Dowson, has a list of criminal convictions including breach of the peace in 1986, possession of a weapon and breach of the peace in 1991 and criminal damage in 1992.