Bill Murray, SOTS Director and Leader of the BNP in Wales
“Soldiers off the Street“ (company number 07018818) is the latest and possibly most troublesome example of astroturfing (fake grassroots) by the BNP targeting veterans.
SOTS aims to care for veterans and aims to clothe, feed and provide shelter for homeless ex-servicemen. A noble cause.
However, the story doesn’t stop there. SOTS is run by the BNP husband and wife team, Bill and Marie Murray. Mr Murray is head of the BNP’s Welsh division and his wife is a seasoned activist for the extremist party. SOTS also works in association with FEBA (a Scottish veterans charity that accepted money from the BNP). Mr. Murray is, according to SOTS’s company records (available through companies house), Director and his wife is the Secretary.
Three weeks ago we reported SOTS to the Charities Commission and Trading Standards after we discovered it was claiming to seek charity status and for failing to mention its very close ties to the BNP.
In a letter to Dame Suzi Leather, Chair of the Charities Commission, we wrote that while, the objectives of SOTS were commendable, we were extremely concerned about its attempts to conceal its political connections and thus had the potential to solicit funds from the public under the false impression that it was an entirely unpolitical organisation with no associations to a political party.
In our letter we pressed for “urgent action” and for a thorough investigation. This week, we were informed by the Commission that it would be reporting back to us by October 10th. Trading Standards have acknowledged receipt of our letter but have not yet said whether they will be investigating.
As we have seen with Islamist “charities”, one concern is that members of the public are duped into donating money in good faith and that funds end up in the hands of extremists (in this case the BNP).
Another concern is the propaganda value of this association to BNP recruitment teams.
Lastly, we believe that fake organisations like SOTS that withhold information about their extremist links undermine the exceptional and genuinely selfless work of groups that are concerned for the welfare of our servicemen and women.
We hope that by reporting groups such as SOTS that socially-minded members of the public will be better protected from front organisations masquerading as authentic veteran groups.
Tags: Bill Murray, BNP, social action, Soldiers off the Street
they are underhand cheats and we should ban them,confidence tricksters of the bnp
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just like the conservatives and labour,both support the uaf, and yet our soldiers need help and the uaf are mindless thugs
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This is a pathetic attempt. Soldiers on the streets are in need of our help. Yet again we get a typical response because the BNP are involved, it must mean no good. BNP Scotland organiser is ex army so are a lot of their supporters and members.
What a pathetic attempt to stop our Soldiers from getting some help.
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I though being British was all about helping others in need, what are you doing “Nothing British” to help those more needy than yourself? All you do is sit there and moan about everyone else, why not get of your butt and help people more needy than yourself? then Britain might be a better place. Good luck to all charities or organisations that help our war heroes or any other people that are in need of help.
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You ask for donations, what happens to the money you receive. Are you a worthy cause. Why not give your donations to a charity, what about great olmand street, do you have a problem with them because someone you do not like might have donated to them?
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that’s right Martin, where does the money that this “antibritish” website end up?
they solicit money yet are an anonomous and shadowy group that are no doubt a front for the tories.
the BNP must have them running scared over there, otherwise they would not be throwing the resources into defaming BNP supporters as they do in all of these articles!
i urge anyone who supports the sentiment espoused by the BNP to join and become involved in the “revolution to reclaim Britain”, otherwise your islands will be lost to the massive influx of migration, which is occuring at a greater pace than ever seen before
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Oh dear, you will come a cropper on this one. The person you have named resigned from the BNP just so he could concentrate on this charity, which he felt was more important than politics.
Do try to stay up with the rest of the class.
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if the bnp are such a “party of the people”why would the scum collecting charity money not inform “the People” they allegedly are the party of,that they are collecting money for veterans,and are under the tentacles of the bnp,would it be something to do with cowardice perhaps?
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Thanks for that info, GA. Pretty much assures this hate-act shan’t succeed.
Tim Montgomerie, James Bethell and other people associated with this site should be ashamed: trying to sabotage a charity whose work they describe as laudable merely because (they believe) its directors are members of a rival political party. And their primary objection to that political party: it’s whiteness. Racism defined.
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I think we should commend their selfless devotion and hardwork. Our servicemen deserve better than they receive from the major parties. I can see, read or smell nothing, I repeat nothing, extreme about the BNP. I am not a member and have never previously voted for them, but I will next time.
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