Nick Griffin
The British National Party has caved in the legal case brought against them by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
The EHRC agreed to adjourn its case following a confirmation from the BNP that it will accept changes its constitution and membership criteria. The BNP has also agreed to not accept any new members until its new constitution comes into force. The changes must be carried out as soon as reasonably practicable, and no later than three months from today.
A court order states that from 15th October 2009, until the new constitution comes into effect, BNP Chairman Nick Griffin will close the membership of the Party to all new membership applications and prevent the Party from accepting into membership any new member.
A BNP spokesman told Nothing British: “We have no comment to Nothing British”.
UPDATE
The BNP have released a statement saying they have “outflanked” the EHRC. The BNP are saying that the court accepted a proposal by Nick Griffin to freeze membership until it has debated its rules in November at its party’s conference. The BNP are saying the EHRC’s actions are “highly malicious and clearly politically motivated”.
Tags: BNP, EHRC, Nick Griffin
I am seriously dubious about all of this. The EHRC is a quango to end them all and people will ask why this case was brought now and not at any time in the least few decades? I makes the state look like a bully, sand allows the BNP to present itself as the victim in all this.
It also allows the BNP to complain about other organisations that restrict their membership to certain ethnic groups.
Yes, I can smell trouble brewing over this one.
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The EHRC are a bunch of Empire builders who will always be looking for targets to justify their own existence, like turkeys they won’t vote for Christmas & one day they will target something closer to you.
The “you” is general one, not specifically Sam!
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whatever,lets make scotland bnp free.
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The can not accept new members until it changes the rules
It’s nice to see you have high standards of literacy.
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The whole thing was pointless anyway as the law was being changed, so why bring an action unless it was politically motivated & designed to bankrupt the BNP.
Even if they won the case, they would still have to change the membership criteria.
Most BNP supporters who comment aren’t bothered by this change anyway.
I am sure you can find die hard Tories who aren’t happy about ethnic minorities in their party or women in their clubs.
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I’m a BNP member and very proud of the fact that ethnic people can join our party to show their loyalty to our country,more than i can say about the people who run this site and of course ‘pami, or are you ’sami’ today.
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Great Photo of Nick Griffin.
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peggy have you got a crush on nasty nick,you bad boy you
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oi ‘Easy tiger’,you’re alright sami.
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