Hungarian Guard members marching

Jobbik, the Hungarian fascist party with close links to Nick Griffin MEP, have responded to Nothing British via its English website.

Jobbik deny that money was raised for the Hungarian Guard and that no member who was present at the session was wearing jeans with Nazi insignia sewn onto the back. 

A local journalist for the Camden News Journal who was present at Jobbik’s pub meeting has also given his take on Sunday’s events. Tom Foot reports that the meeting was used to raise money for the New Hungarian Guard. 

Foot also writes that the Gloucester Arms’ landlord, John Coyne, has said: “They are not National Front or anything like that. They are just Hungarians doing their stuff. They put their flag up and sing their anthem.”

Unfortunately, Jobbik are not just ordinary Hungarians. The Hungarian Guard, the para-military wing of the extremist party, is an organisation that is proscribed by Hungarian courts after it ruled that past marches have fuelled ethnic tensions and led to a disruption of public order. Many of Jobbik’s leaders regularly incite hostility towards Hungary’s vulnerable minorities. Sunday’s meeting did little to dispel their neo-fascist reputation.   

Meanwhile, the Jewish Chronicle have reported that Great Ormond Street Hospital, who the British-Jobbik Association claim to have made a £230 dontation too, are yet to recieve any money from the organisation. 

Great Ormond have yet to receive any money

A hospital spokesman said: “If we were to become aware of such a donation, we would investigate carefully and judge on the principles given above.”

For further information on Jobbik please see our dossier.

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