The BNP’s 2010 campaign has descended into a fratricidal bloodbath after Simon Bennett, the BNP’s web-master, attacked the BNP leader Nick Griffin MEP on the party’s website and nationalist internet forums.
The extraordinary episode started yesterday, when Bennett removed the BNP’s website replacing it with an angry message aimed at Griffin and Jim Dowson. He wrote:
It is with regret that I have been forced to pull this website due to several attempts of theft today with regards to design work and content owned by myself.
It is no secret that I have been in dispute with some elements of the management of the party for sometime now, but had hoped to resolve these issues amicably and AFTER the elections.
However, due to several attempts to steal my work today and combined with the recent deliberate copyright infringement I feel I have been left with no alternative to this action and feel wholly justified in doing so.
“What’s worse, is that I believe I was deliberately put in the frame and left to carry the responsibility whilst those that were responsible went to ground for four days leaving me to stew in my own fear and uncertainty.”
“Nick Griffin and Jim Dowson deliberately set out to pick this fight with Unilever – not me. I advised strongly against it. Nick proceeded to goad Unilever into action when Unilever wanted a quick settlement and seemed happy with an undertaking not to do it again. That wasn’t enough for Nick, he wanted a public fight and a media circus.”
“There is no one on the top table in the party who have any idea of what they are doing, that goes for all of them Jefferson, Wingfields, Collett, Butler, Dowson. The only thing they have, is they’re in Nicks clique. All they do in the Euro office is figure out how they can claim more expenses. I could not be part of this. Standing in meetings and telling supporters that everythings good ,give us your money. Their main objective, I truly believe, is to get Griffin re-elected in 5 years for one reason only; to keep there noses in the trough.”
“In short the party needs to get rid of the idiots who run it,stop lieing to the membership and supporters and get serious about saving our country.”
This could not have happened at worse moment for the BNP, particularly on the eve of a General Election, which they expected to make a series of breakthroughs both locally and nationally. What started as “Marmite-gate” and has now turned into “Bennett-gate” shows how the relative success of the BNP during the Euro elections was more to do with luck than a revival of neo-fascist politics in Britain.
Maurice Cousins
Are you sure this is not one of your fantasies?
I was on the site yesterday & saw no disruption or anything out of the ordinary.
Who runs “Griffin watch”, Dominic Carman?
It is difficult for me to take seriously anything from an anti BNP website.
Obviously the mainstream want division & argument within the BNP at this time, because voters arre reluctant to vote for the mainstream candidates.
As for the “Marmite” hitting the fan, it was a lot of nothing, blink & you missed it.
Marmite started all that nonsense in the EU election with their advert spoofing the BNP.
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@BNPers,
Don’t say we didn’t warn you!
Griffin has taken you all for a ride.
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Same for me folks I visited yesterday on and of most of the day.I actually found it very
informative,I was however left feeling a little let down that I couldn`t catch them
out on putting out lies and misinformation. You see I do like to check the fact using
the www before I believe any old B.S. Not like the old day when people could be expected
to fall for some pimpley second rate hacks properganda.
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Looking over your website Maurice, I feel sure you must have plenty of credit left on Dave`s gold card.Why not approach Mr Bennett, you must secretly envy his ability to produce a website that ranks 630 (Alexa today) in the UK, on a shoestring!
This site ranking ….41,308
On a “vote per buck” basis how do you think the BNP are doing?
Time will tell.
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I feel sorry for you long-suffering ultra loyalist BNP members. You have invested so much into this farcical con that you do not dare admit to yourselves that you’ve been had.
What pitiful figures you BNP members cut right now, clearly you have been exploited by your own leadership.
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Well let’s see what story Friday brings.
If it is 2 MP’s then I am right & you are wrong.
But if no MP’s then you can feel very pleased with yourself.
I would be surprised if this website lasts much longer because if there are 2 BNP MP’s then you have failed but if there are none then job done & you can go do something else until the next election?
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Well Peter I have yet to see your warnings amounting to anything.
I know I have been taken for a big ride by the LibLabCon & that will continue.
Simon appeared to be active on the site recently & where are the outburts you speak of?
I fnd it very difficult to believe Simon would do anything like that at such a crucial time & I saw no evidence of that.
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As I said in my post at the time, there appears to be some truth to the matter because the site is down and is replaced by a placeholder, I didn’t say it confirmed it, I said it appeared to confirm it. It also appears from todays reports that the Facebook and other accounts have followed. It stands to reason that something is going on, you have your beliefs, I have mine, that’s fine.
Personally, especially considering Mr Griffins rather embarassing third place today, I’d suggest the BNP take a long, hard look at the people it is using to represent itself, even if the party was formed around altruistic ideals, there’s something going on, you cannot deny that the party has a reputation as a magnet for racists and bigots, regardless of intention, but then,the Conservative party had a similar reputation some years ago, that can, with hard work, be repaired, but only under effective leadership, and, if what this reports states is true, which I can neither confirm nor deny, then it seems the BNP needs to ask itself some very hard questions about itself if it wants to become a serious voice of British interests.
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[...] 2010 at 8:25 pm In the run up to the elections, the BNP have proved their competence once again after their webmaster quit: The BNP’s 2010 campaign has descended into a fratricidal bloodbath [...]
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I agree, let all the foreigners in to our country and take our jobs and strain our schools and NHS. Any fool that don’t vote BNP is blind and their children will see what this country will be like soon. You have been warned! VOTE BNP
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bnp website was down. then put back up with stories no later than 4th May. NO UPDATES AT ALL
Later on 5th May it was taken down and replaced by a ‘temporary’ one page of drivel and bluster from Gri££in.
seems ‘no smoke without fire’
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Checked there today, and it’s been replaced by a ‘temporary’ site, which just has a note from Griffin on it, so it seems there’s some validity to the story.
Makes the case for Karma that much stronger
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Its all hyped up to destroy the BNP, its not democratic to allow all this twisted negative press and the physical demonstrations and disruptions to the BNP in public.
If it happened to the other party’s then the Police would soon put a stop to it.
I have not voted for them in the past but am certainly going to vote for them from now on.
In several years time this country will be over run by immigrants and there will be chaos.
We will be the minority and England will be no more. I am so worried.
I do not want to live in a multicultural or European country, I was born in a country that has a Queen or King that is British.
God help us !
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Ah yes, the Royal Family. No non-English blood there, is there?
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The BNP is a small party, it does not have the resources of the other parties.
The access to vast amounts of public money that seem to be the lot of the Labour party
The foreign millionaires who support the Conservatives. Heavens knows who supports the
Liberal Democrats because their campaign is far more expensive than member subscriptions
can provide.
So the BNP have problems. The party is evolving. You people cannot stop it. In fact
the establishment and the sheer dishonesty of the main political parties will lift the
BNP into government. Just wait till this recession really starts moving.
I complement ‘Nothing British’ about not gloating over that spitting business.
Nasty thing that, I mean what did they expect Mr Bailey to do after being spat upon. Say to the spitter.
‘ Lets all go and have a cup of tea in the local cafe and you can tell me why you spat on me’.
No someone that does not ring true. I was impressed that a man of his age could move so fast.
That’s my opinion.
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