Locking Griffin up would be a mistake
Reports in the The Sunday Times have suggested that Nick Griffin and BNP Deputy Leader Simon Darby could face jail time.
Last October the BNP was ordered by court to change its constitution to become colour blind by January 28th, and it looks increasingly unlikely that they will be unable to meet this deadline. The Times reports that the Equality and Human Rights Commission is ready “to ask the court to impose crippling sanctions, including a heavy fine or possible jail term”.
The BNP itself has claimed that Griffin is “unconcerned” and that they will raise the matter with the court itself. The BNP’s legal director Lee Barnes went so far as to write that Grifin would “love sitting in jail working on his autobiography” and that “in a stroke [he] becomes our nations Nelson Mandela”.
While Nothing British does not think Griffin is any danger of being mistaken for Mandela, neither do we think that he should be arrested. Obviously, the BNP should abide with the law, and if it cannot do so in time, a fine seems a fair response. However, throwing Griffin into jail would not only be excessive but risk turning him into a martyr figure. The BNP are only too ready to portray themselves as victims of the establishment.
Tags: Lee Barnes, Nick Griffin, Simon Darby
I can hear Sam now saying “Don’t jail him, hang him!”
But no, this is ridiculous, if we can’t jail bankers & politicians who damn near bankrupted & looted the country, then why is he facing jail time because some overpaid jumped up QUANGO wrangler decides to wage some personal vendetta, which is also politically motivated by the Labour party because of the expected kicking they will get at the polls.
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I wondered how long it would take for this bunch of imbeciles to pick up on this story. You’re right Griffin is NO Mandela, Mandela was a black communist terrorist who should have been hung in the sixties!
If anyone is like Mandela, and should be jailed its that odious creep trevor phillips who uses underhand tactics to pervert the democratic process!
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Yes I never really understood the sainthood of Mandela & I really look forward to clever Trevor retiring & sparing us from his “fixing” of things.
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I went to see a legend,just the other night,at the Yankees stadium ,underneath light,i heard an old man speaking after years and years in jail,his name it was Mandela,and he came to tell a his tale.He said he hoped that he could join us as we walk down freedoms path,and those were hard years ,but they would be the last,and if we join hands together we can be as one,and give ourselves to the cause then this struggle can be won
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Mandela was a terrorist. The selous scouts were the best.
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Mandela was a freedom fighter
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Bollocks
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It would be interesting, though, to see Griffin jailed for refusing to let members of ethnic minorities join the BNP, then comparing himself to Mandela…
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Mandela should have been hung, in fact the tory party were the most voiciferous in calling for his execution, Google “hang mandela” on images and you’ll find the young conservatives poster for it!
One thing I will agree with the tories on, it’s just a pity the modern tories are a load of limp-wristed immigrant-grovelling fannies!
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Freedom’s path eh, Sam?
It seems things are leading back up the path to Mandela’s cell.
I was shown a African property development plan years ago & the smallest of the apartments was called a “Mandela”, so I wondered was that a replica of the floor space of his cell?
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>> The BNP’s legal director Lee Barnes went so far as to write that Grifin would “love sitting in jail working on his autobiography” <<
Presumably he'll entitle the book "My Struggle" ?
http://cogitodexter.wordpress.com
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Didnt DelBoy Rodney and Uncle Albert live in Nelson Mandela House?
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That says it all.
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english culture at its very best
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Yes I believe Sam is correct in saying that DelBoy Rodney and Uncle Albert lived in Nelson Mandela House which was supposedly in Peckham but I was told that the flats were actually filmed in Bristol!
The hostage sequence in the supermarket that got robbed was filmed in the Leytonstone Co-op that’s now a Matalan.
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This site is always late in picking up on the stories. I suppose everything on this site is just a cut and paste job anyway.
Nothing British about the Pro-EU Tories.
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Cogito Dexter
Crazy name, crazy guy?
No I think Nick will write a book entitled “Against all odds”, it has the advantage of having a theme tune & a film already!
It has the advantage of nostalgia as well, something we are big on, well at least I am.
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We deny the Holocaust and claim Hitler was misunderstood,but we re not Nazis.We wish to make britain a white Christian society where minority grioups ,such as Homosexuals,Gypsys ,single mothers,drug addicts will be treated as second class citizens with very few rights as human beings,but we re not Fascists.We deny entry into our “democratic” party to anyone other than white christians,but we re not racists.Who are We?you need a clue?B-P
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Just who is denying the holocaust?
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Griffin denied it ,in his past pre euro mp life
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He’s a believer now!
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Daydream Believer>
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Sam, try to view the world in realistic terms. If , for the past 50 years there had been the same mass immigration by whites into say saudi, and whitey was not using condoms, and whitey was preaching the gospel all around saidi condemning all that the saudis believed in, etc etc, do you think whitey would be tolerated and treated as the others are treated here? Would you have all those gravy train uni educated solicitors salivating at all those uman right, self abuse court cases, all those good chattering class hooligans with their funded quangoes picking holes in Britain, I think not. That is why we must vote BNP, because those bastard quislings are now standing on our throats and it is time they were relegated to nether regions.
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the bnp ARE not the answer,they are part of the problem
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Please explain how they are part of the problem as they are a democratic party. It just shows by this attitude that you have extreme fascist views and certainly should not be let loose on the public.Please report to your doctor asap.
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racial hatred from BOTH sides, Choudarry dosent represent the decent moslem people….Griffin dosent represent decent english people..id put them both on iam a celebrity keep them fucking in there
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They are a reaction to the problem!
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they are a slight irritation TO the problem
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Will Jewish rabbi’s be jailed for refusing entry to the KKK into the synagogue?
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Polly would jail them, no problem.
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the kkk are a bit of a farce are they not,bit like your mob,jay boy
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Can somebody tell me where the real Tory party went?
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underground and re surfaced as the bnp
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lets face it Sam, as WTF said, the BNP are a reaction to a problem. If there had not been this lunacy of unregulated migration and multiculturalism, we would not be having this discussion.
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AA we had this nonsense in the 60s wit old enoch,the 70s with the NF ,the 80s with irving,its just another excuse for racists to play their hate cards.history repeating itself.
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