Simon Darby is angry about being asked about his party's dodgy accounts
Fiona Hamilton writes a very interesting and revealing piece in today’s Times that has caused a quite stir with the Party’s hierarchy.
According to Hamilton, the BNP faces possible prosecution after providing accounts to the Electoral Commission that “failed to give a “true and fair view” of its financial circumstances.”
Figures released by the Commission “reveal how the party exaggerated its spending during the European elections”.
Throughout the European election campaign Nick Griffin claimed that the BNP spent more than £500,000 attracting voters. But, as Hamilton writes, “In fact, the party spent much less, £282,843 — only £54,000 more than it did during 2004.”
On the Times’s online article Simon Darby, the BNP Deputy-Chairman and senior Press Officer, blames bureaucracy for the errors and said the party needed to exaggerate its spending because “if we had said we wanted to spend 10p, it wouldn’t do us any good. … there’s a bit of hyperbole with politics”. He refused to comment further on the discrepancy, saying that it was not a “worthy question”.
Over on his blog an hysterical Darby still fails to address the central issue and shows just how well he gets on with the Press by making Alistair Campbell sound like a whimpering pussycat.
Having dealt with the BNP’s petulant Deputy-Chairman on a number of occaisions, Nothing British knows how fond he is a slamming down phones and how impossible he can be to get even the most basic of information from.
The BNP often complain that they are not treated fairly, but if they want this to change then senior figures like Darby are going to have to stop getting sensitive every time he is challenged and start grasping the fact that he lives in a democracy with a free press and that it is perfectly reasonable to be probed by journalists in the national media over his Party’s dodgy accounts.
Tags: Electoral Comm, Simon Darby
The BNP face “possible” prosecution not prosecution as your misleading header says, as if dodgy accounting is anywhere near as serious as the fraudsters in westminster…
Close this site down, it’s an embarrassment to the word BRITISH, you are a bunch of snivelling idiotic 2-faced turds, god help Britain if the tories come to power!
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Oh yes, because a party whose members show prejudice to anyone who isn’t “normal” in their eyes is a much better option.
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The tories are prejudiced against the white working class and the poor…
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So being prejudiced against non-Christians and anyone classed as not “normal” is better? My opinion is prejudice is wrong whoever the victim is.
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“My opinion is prejudice is wrong whoever the victim is.”
It’s just some forms of prejudice are better than others eh Edmund? To hell with the poor and the white working class whose backs this nation was built on, we must show outsiders more respect, we must put laws in place to protect these individuals, we must give them jobs, we must never criticize them…
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I don’t think anyone should face prejudice Davey, yet judging by the comments of some on here as long as the prejudice isn’t aimed at indigenous Christian British people they aren’t bothered.
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Prejudice already exists in society, just look nat all the laws, rules and regs to protect ethnics and perverts…
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So you’d rather everyone but the indigenous population were stripped of any rights or protection? I’m not saying white people should face prejudice, I’m saying NO-ONE should.
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In a nutshell – YES!
Normal white people have no rights, yet ethnics and perverts are given special treatment!
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That’s a slightly hypocritical position to simultaneously be anti-prejudice against one group and pro-prejudice against another.
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“Thousands of illegal immigrants from almost every Third World country imaginable have been given jobs in the public sector while indigenous British unemployment continues to creep up towards the three million mark.”
Don’t preach to me about prejudice!
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Davey, you can’t say prejudice is wrong, while saying we should be prejudiced against people. Being anti- AND pro-prejudice is an entirely contradictory position to take.
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I have never said I am anti-prejudice, I pointed out that we are on the receiving end of it and would like to turn the tables!
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Oh, well that makes your position FAR better than the government one. “Prejudice against white people is awful. To correct this we’re going to turn the prejudice on everyone else.” My position is simple: Prejudice is wrong period, whoever the victims or perpertrators are.
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Prejudice means to pre-judge, far better to judge a terrorist before he commits an atrocity than after.
It’s a well known fact that white people are discriminated against whilst ethnics and perverts are given preferential treatment, to commit a crime against them is taken more seriously than if the victim were white!
We want a level playing field!
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I agree, it should be a level playing field, i.e. no-one faces discrimination or prejudice. Its not a level playing field if any side is given preference over another.
I’ve heard on this site people ASSUME, purely for the group someone belongs to, that gay people are perverts/paedophiles, pagans support Stalin and co, and Muslims are terrorists intent on overthrowing the country. There probably are people who match those stereotypes, but its incredible prejudice to say ALL are.
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I am not stereotyping anyone, I am sick to the back teeth of people carping on about discrimination and then bringing about changes in the law which in turn openly discriminates against us!
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And my point is NO-ONE should face discrimination, funnily enough I’m including white people in the list of those who shouldn’t face discrimination, a fact that may well shock you.
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Northerners face discrimination especially under a tory government!
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‘Close this site down, it’s an embarrassment to the word BRITISH, you are a bunch of snivelling idiotic 2-faced turds, god help Britain if the tories come to power!’
As much as i agree with your statement Davey lets keep the site going, the articles are so funny. The stolen valour campaign just shows how ineffective the tories are. Only 766 signatures hardly successful and they are still running it, it’s been going on for months, even the fascist uaf did better with their silly campaign when Nick and Andrew got elected . It got better publicity for the BNP than it did for the snobs who run this joke of a site.
Nothing British about the tories and their leader cabbage patch cameron.
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“The BNP face “possible” prosecution not prosecution as your misleading header says, as if dodgy accounting is anywhere near as serious as the fraudsters in westminster…”
Actually it would be BNP member Jenny Noble, the BNP treasurer at the end of 2008, who would be prosecuted because the accounts do not comply with the requirements of PPERA 2000, the relevant legislation. No doubt the BNP will leave her to face the music on her own, as she is no longer much in favour with Griffin and Darby. That’s what they usually do, as Sharon Ebanks could explain at length.
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I don’t know what the truth is of this but it seems to indicate that the BNP got a lot of bang for their buck then?
So if the BNP can be prosecuted over this, presumably to keep them out of the election, then why can’t MP’s etc be prosecuted for fraud that amounts to a lot more than £500,000?
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WTF, last I heard the CPS was still deciding whether to prosecute, so they may well end up prosecuting them as well.
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What about the eu accounts that they refuse to allow an audit of?
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Unfortunately I suspect that only the EU could audit them, whether or not the government wished to.
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I know, but that is some of our nations cash.It just shows how corrupt it is. How can anyone who has respect for themselves allow themselves to be governed by crass criminals?
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Not all of them are corrupt, I’m sure there are plenty who are but I suspect thhere are those who oppose the EU’s actions but who aren’t important enough for their voices to be heard.
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Exactly,you are now getting the point, that is what is going on in a daily basis. The ordinary decent person has no chance in this eu dictatorship. That is what it is, a dictatorship.Have no doubt about that. Now if I want to keep the cows quiet just feed them. Simple.
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But some of the cows are saying “Bullocks to that”?
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We should be thankful PMQ’s isn’t like the EU President’s question time, in effect he can avoid any awkward topics by simply ensuring they keep to set topics.
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I lifted my head out of the borrowed grass some time ago and realised what was going on. What we need is a really good stampede.
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Or angel dust.
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I think PMQ’s never really ask very awkward questions as they all basically follow the same agenda.
Maybe a BNP MP would ask one?
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The problem with PMQs is that almost no questions are allowed without having been given to the Prime Minister in advance, hence why he is constantly looking at his notes.
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Prime ministers are a protected species. Just look at the last one.
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Well in recent years we have had the odd President shot, blown up or sent to the Hague, so maybe a few Prime Minister will go the same way soon.
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WTF, bearing in mind people like the nail bomber and the Lewington guy found with a bomb factory in his house (added to security experts claiming these two weren’t alone) I wouldn’t be giving them any ideas, nevermind Muslim extremists.
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The BNP website says:
“The British National Party spent £282,843 on the campaign trail and received one vote for every 29p of expenditure.”
So they admit to that figure in public, I think the BNP could have raised £500,000, maybe the remainder is still in the bank?
Can that be kept for a GE campaign that is about to start?
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I don’t know WTF, but since you clearly believe they’ve done nothing wrong (and I’m still a believer in innocent until proven guilty) I say if they have nothing to hide then they shouldn’t fear people looking at their accounts.
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Me give anybody ideas?
I doubt it, I am too busy ripping off other peoples ideas!
Plagiarism the highest form of flattery!
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Davey,
You are a totaly brainless cretin….. How do you judge someone before they have commited a crime or atrocity? You and your hate filled creed are just as bad as the people complain about.
We fought the second world war against scum like you and I despise you just as much as al quaeda. So why don’t you just crawl back under the stone you came out from.
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@ Stu(pid)
Unless you are in your 80’s you never fought in WW2, so don’t come the “WE” nonsense. I have relatives who fought in that conflict so are you telling me they were fighting against their own great-grandson who wasn’t even born?
Go back to your snivelling left-wing website you sperm gargler!
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‘We fought the second world war against scum like you and I despise you just as much as al quaeda’
Some people just don’t have a clue. Most BNP members or supporter have had family or themselves who fought and died in WWII and idiots like you come out with comments like the one above and you call Davey a brainless cretin. I think its you who is the brainless cretin.
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I had a relative who was a Spitfire pilot & died on his 20th Birthday & is buried at Ilford, I would love to know what he would think of it now.
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Its a pity my grandfather died last October, I suspect he would’ve been interested in joining this debate, he was always ready to debate even with those whose views opposed his.
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The BNP have got to learn to dot their i’s and cross their t’s.
It would be a shame to see all the gains be made for nothing: if the media are able to tarnish the BNP with the charge of financial impropriety, it is bound to stick in some prospective voters’ mind.
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As I said Aussie, I’m not going to declare them guilty while they haven’t actually been charged with anything. I suspect people will be more suspicious if the BNP refuse to hand over their accounts.
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@ AussieAl…
The media is rapidly becoming an irrelevance in this country!
Word of mouth is the best media to put a point across, thats why the government are hell-bent in closing the pub trade down…
They want us isolated and living in fear, they dont like us socializing!
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the twat dressed up is a wee bit early for halloween surely?what is he meant to be?
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No St George’s Day is in April just before the election!
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Do you think anyone’s ever pointed out to the BNP, or any other English patriots, that St George was a Turk who never came near England? Just curious.
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well when you say he was a turk, are you trying to suggest he was a moslem? because he was a devout christian who was executed for refusing to deny christ, and is well worthy of reverence. in fact he is the patron saint of about 15 countries including russia and ethiopia. sorry ed, just had to speak out (couldnt let the horrible pedo muslims claim him)
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I’m not suggesting he was a Muslim, my point is that he not only wasn’t English but he never even came here. Compare that to (honestly no bias intended here) St Edmund: born in England, was a king of Northumbria, and died at the hands of the Danes DEFENDING England. Who sounds a more appropriate English patient saint?
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Yes I don’t think St George was a Turk in the modern sense, maybe Syrian.
I think it is more to do with his ideals, I have seen references in Barcelona to him by Gaudi & he is also on Russian Kopek coins & on the doors of Moscow police cars amongst other things.
But thumbs up to St Edmund anyway, I guess St George had a better PR agent?
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Dunno WTF, the irony is that St Edmund was once our patron saint…someone decided St George would be better. Every so often there’s a campaign to reinstate him.
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its a pity we havent got people like st george and st edmund to lead the church today, instead of the weak and cowardly liberal wimps weve got today. Is it any wonder that the muslims are stepping up to fill the moral vacuum
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What would you do to help Britain then?
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vote for the heroic bnp, theyve taken such a battering from the commie media in the past, that you cant help sympathising with them even though i dont agree with everything they say. reminds me of our heroic ancestors who stood alone against hitler and stalin in the battle of britain. commies say that hitler was beaten by stalin but they conveniently forget that they were allies at first
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vote for the heroic bnp, theyve taken such a battering from the commie media in the past, that you cant help sympathising with them even though i dont agree with everything they say. reminds me of our heroic ancestors who stood alone against hitler and stalin in the battle of britain. commies say that hitler was beaten by stalin but they conveniently forget that they were allies at at that time
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vote for the heroic bnp, theyve taken such a battering from the commie media in the past, that you cant help sympathising with them even though i dont agree with everything they say. reminds me of our heroic ancestors who stood alone against hitler and stalin in the battle of britain. commies say that hitler was beaten by stalin but they conveniently forget that they were allies at that time
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WTF
he may have been from present day Georgia
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The BNP are going to need word of mouth PR, and grassroots stuff, as the big parties,and their media mates, are going to try every dirty trick in the book between now and election day. The BNP is going to face one hell of a baptism of fire as they try to step up with the big boys.
Good luck to them…. you lot in Britain have got to realise that you are only a generation away from losing Britain as you know it.
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Perhaps that’s why the Georgian flag has 5 red crosses on it?
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If anyone is interested, but for St George this would probably be the flag of England:
http://www.flagman.org.uk/shop/html/images/stedmundshop.jpg
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Whether he was from Georgia, Syria or even Lapland misses my point. My point was he has no ACTUAL link to England, unlike Saint Edmund.
I’m yet to be convinced the BNP will help Britain…unless you belong to their category of “normal” British people that is.
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To paraphrase Edmund!
“I’m yet to be convinced that the mainstream parties will help Britain…unless you belong to their category of “normal” British people that is.”
I suppose the English loving a foreign icon means that they are not too racist?
Does St Edmund have a flag?
I think if he has a good flag then we could promote him?
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I posted a link to his flag, unfortunately its still “waiting for moderation”.
Hmm…interesting point about loving a foreginer WTF, never thought about it like that lol. One of my more curious moments on here was, when pointing out that the BNP seem to be less keen to talk about crimes by white people, I used the example of a gay trainee police officer beaten up by a gang of white youths. Rather than anyone just saying it was awful and they should be locked up the immediate response was to attack the victim for being gay.
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I see alongside St Edmund, King Cnut gets a mention, there’s a name people could get behind & wear with pride!
It worked for FCUK.
My PC education always called him King Canute!
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Yeah…that might not go down quite as well as FCUK though WTF. I have the worrying feeling there’s probably a very bad pun in my last sentence.
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What going down on Cnut?
Never!:)
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I spose its not as bad as my comment, when talking about the nail bomber, that someone had “hit the nail on the head”
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I did hear about the trainee PC being murdered & I think the people who did such a pointless thing should be given life at the very least, I don’t think there was any excuse for what they did.
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Hitting the nail on the head is better than the nail hitting you on the head!
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I would, just to prove I’ll happily correct any mistakes I make, like to point out that (thankfully) in spite of being beaten to within an inch of his life the young officer is alive and well. Not that the fact he survived the attack makes it any better.
Just in case anyone thinks I only care because the victim was gay, if the same thing had happened to a BNP member I’d be equally disgusted at the attack.
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“Just in case anyone thinks I only care because the victim was gay, if the same thing had happened to a BNP member I’d be equally disgusted at the attack.”
Very funny Edmund… You know the police prohibit BNP members from joining!
Gays and the police – Two groups disliked by the white working class, don’t expect any sympathy from us!
I’m glad it’s people like him getting the kicking and not some poor old age pensioner!
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Oh well I hope there wasn’t a second one who did die then but do them for attempted murder at least.
Talking about violent white crime, one that the BNP do talk about is a UAF member who hit a prominent BNP member over the head with a claw hammer & that has been used to criticise the Conservative (& others) support of the UAF.
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I’d condemn that attack as loudly as the police officer, no-one deserves getting assaulted. There are better ways to voice your disagreement with someone than to beat them up.
Davey, there’s no excuse for what happened to that officer, if you read up on his injuries you’ll realise he was incredibly lucky he managed to walk out of hospital alive again. I don’t care whether people are pro- or anti-gay, that attack was indefensible in my opinion, if for no other reason than assault was against the law last I heard.
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My point is it’s better him getting the kicking than some pensioner!
From what I hear he was done over while off duty, so what was he doing to warrant this beating I wonder????
For too long we have been forced to accept and tolerate people we find abhorrent whilst our own lives are being made more and more miserable…
Somethings got to give at some point, and some gay policeman receiving a comprehensive drubbing wont make me lose any sleep thats for sure!
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What he was “doing” was standing outside a gay bar, when a load of white teenagers decided to vent their anger on him.
If that’s your opinion Davey how about you go to his family and tell them he got what he deserved since that seems what you think? As I said disliking someone’s lifestyle is not a defence for beating them half to death…in fact bearing in mind that’s illegal NOTHING is a defence to beating someone half to death.
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1) How come you like to emphasis that they were ‘white teenagers’ when you know fine well most homophobic crime is committed by young blacks and asians?
2) Family? What family – He’s gay FFS!
3) I am not condoning violence, I am pointing out that if you suppress freedom of speech and force people to accept something they vehemently disagree with, expect repercussions!
4) In this country now ‘hate’ crimes are given priority over other crimes of equal ferocity. People get beaten to death on a regular basis, why is it worse when it’s an ethnic or a poof on the receiving end?
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I’m not saying its worse, my point was I find it bizarre that crimes against whites don’t get attention from the BNP if the victim is gay or their attackers were white. I suppose the problem with those attacks is that it doesn’t fit the anti-ethnic minority/Muslim/immigrant agenda very well.
Blacks and asians probably do commit most, however this attack was carried out by white teenagers, its an inconvenient fact I know.
Family? How about his mother and father, or his siblings? How do you think they’d take being told their relative deserved being left for dead?
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Yes blacks & Moslems can be very homophobic but the media try to play this down.
One Jamaican rapper was banned from entering Britain for his song about killing “Batty” boys.
Well I guess on the family issue, every one is a Mother’s son?
Having been on the receiving end of a similar attack & seen slapped wrists handed out all round, I would like to see GBH treated seriously & severely for all cases equally & no special cases.
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Yes admittedly the BNP didn’t cover the story, but that was probably due to the fact that a homosexual policeman getting clobbered doesn’t stir up much sympathy with anybody let alone nationalists!
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I agree about GBH WTF, if he’d died they’d be facing murder charges and certain jail, whereas now they could easily get away with a slapped wrist. We need to get priorities right on who should be in jail and who shouldn’t, on the same day a hit and run driver got away with a slapped wrist and a fine while a man who moved a road sign a few yards down the road found himself in jail.
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Maybe that should be the BNP slogan: “If you want to beat people up pick on gay policeman, we won’t care less.” In my opinion defending those attackers makes you no better than them.
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Edmund the bnp are scum,this proves the point.Anyone not meeting their racial sterotype is a legitimate target
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Much that I am all for law & order, I absolutely despise the modern politically correct incarnation of the old bill and couldn’t care less when they get their comeuppance!
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See you have stumbled across what is going on, can you see what the difference is in the 2 crimes is?
One is a crime against a common person, the other is a crime against the state!
The state doesn’t care about common people, it will protect itself & its supporters against any challenge or attack, hence the disparity in the sentencing.
In fact a crime against the common man often results in a fine which the state gets, so win/win for them.
A bit like Stalinist Russia or Stasi East Germany or Nazi Germany.
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So GBH and murder is fine as long as its aimed at people you couldn’t care less about then Davey?
I do love when people’s defence for breaking the law is they don’t like it. That’s not a defence, it doesn’t say in the law that you can pick and choose what laws to pay attention to.
I personally think all crime should be treated equally, I’d class GBH and murder as hate crime whatever the victim or attacker is, you don’t do it because you like someone.
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I agree WTF, a policeman actually told the family of the girl the driver hit that a car is the only thing you can kill someone with and not face automatic jail sentences.
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Twisting my words again Edmund…
Where have I defended those attackers?
What I have said is if you suppress freedom of speech and free thought expect repercussions! By ramming homosexuality down peoples throats(not literally I hope) it only breeds resentment which will manifest itself in the form of violence.
These people should keep their perversion behind closed doors!
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I think there are still some old school Conservatives who wouldn’t be keen on gay policemen too.
I have also heard about a union official who mouthed PC dogma but in reality had no time for women in his male bastion.
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I personally think all should be treated equally, i.e. no discrimination or intolerance. I don’t find religion saying something is despicable as defense for treating someone differentely. I am yet to meet a single gay person trying to force people to listen to them (as I keep saying no-one is MADE to watch gay pride parades, you can avoid it if you want to), I have met plenty of Christians quite keen to make people listen to them though. Don’t suppose we could ban Christians from trying to make people convert?
I should point out I’m not suggesting we allow sex acts in public, I wouldn’t defend allowing ANYONE to do that, but I think trying to ban anyone kissing in public is ridiculously prudish.
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Male police officers are not allowed to strip search female suspects…
So why are homosexual male officers allowed to strip search men?! Surely this breaks some code of conduct?
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Are you implying gay police officers would only strip search for sexual reasons? Thought I’d double check what you meant before responding.
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Are you implying straight male officers would only strip search for sexual reasons?
I am implying that if women must not be stripped in front of someone who might get sexually aroused then the same should apply to male detainees as well!
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The important word there Davey is MIGHT, to my knowledge gay men don’t want to bed every single man in Britain, although I suppose on equality grounds that argument works. But then again surely we should stop female police officers from stripsearching too, I’m sure women are equally capable of becoming sexually aroused by a naked body.
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Well I think anybody getting sexually aroused in those circumstances is quite possibly a pervert!
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The only way to avoid people getting sexually aroused at all by it is to outlaw stripsearching altogether, anyone fancy suggesting that to the government?
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The fundamental issue here is that one group is GIVEN CHANCE to ogle their preferred sexual type whilst the other is prohibited from doing so by law…
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