Jobbik leader Gabor Vona flanked by a black-shirt

Austrian media is reporting that the FPÖ and Jobbik have started to strengthen their ties.

Anti-extremist web-site Engage writes:

“Serious papers maintained that the FPÖ will reject racism and Anti-Semitism and would refuse to collaborate with the NPD in Germany, the National Front in France or Jobbik in Hungary. They were wrong.

Jobbik is openly and explicitly anti-Semitic while the FPÖ strives for social acceptance. Jobbik hallucinates about Jews wanting to occupy Hungary. Unlike the Nazis Jobbik does not maintain that biology prevents Jews from changing their behaviour; they even have a few ‘good’ Jews in their ranks, which serve as fig-leafs against the accusation of Anti-Semitism. Yet Jobbik is explicitly racist, to the point that its program proposes between other measures also the “segregation” of young Roma.”

Nick Griffin MEP also dined with the extremist FPÖ, Jobbik and Front National officials for a Burns Night supper in Brussels. Chris Beverley – chief of staff to Andrew Brons MEP – (see video of Beverley here) also met with FPÖ, Jobbik and FN officials a few weeks ago at Brons’ offices.

Beverley with Jobbik and FN officials

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The RBL wants nothing to do with the BNP

The British National Party have been slammed by a Bedfordshire branch of the Royal British Legion after the extremist party attempted to hold an undercover meeting at its local club.

A furious Leighton branch of Royal British Legion Club told its local paper that it had been “hoodwinked” by the BNP after it had booked the war veteran’s club under the name ‘British Heritage’.

It wasn’t until Monday that Leighton’s local Conservative MP Andrew Selous, who also a member of the club, discovered the real identity of the group and stepped in to ask the Legion to cancel the date.

Mrs Johnson, the Legion’s secretary, told her local newspaper: “As soon as I heard we cancelled them. We don’t want those sort of people here. Our members wouldn’t be at all happy.”

Mr Selous said:

“The British Legion were tricked into taking the booking and I’m worried that people will still turn up thinking the meeting’s on.

I have had complaints from people who fought fascism in the Second World War and the British Legion isn’t prepared to give fascism promotion in any way… A BNP meeting in the Royal British Legion Club is not something we want in this town.”

This news comes after several veteran/Armed Forces stories relating to the BNP have resurfaced after we exposed the party’s attempts to hijack the Military and the honour of veterans back in October.

The author Bonnie Greer, who appeared alongside Nick Griffin on Question Time, told the London’s Evening Standardthat she was talking to several servicemen who have complained to her about the “considerable amount of pressure” they face to join the neo-fascist party. On Sunday the News of the World carried a story about a soldier from Prince Charles’s regiment. He was described as a “Nazi fan and BNP supporter” after he had posted pictures of his Swastika tattoos and his admiration for the ultra-nationalist party on his Facebook account.

A senior officer told the paper: “There is a lot of anger about the shame he has brought upon us all. He’s not fit to wear the uniform.”

After speaking to many veterans over the past few months, Nothing British has learnt that the extremist views of the BNP are widely held in contempt by Britain’s Armed Forces and our veterans. Several members of the public have even complained to us about the party’s attempts to exploit the war dead in Afghanistan for political advantage.

Despite the exaggerated claims of the BNP, most veterans are horrified by the admiration the BNP’s core supporters have for the Nazis and other enemies of Britain. The very fact that BNP members attempted to conceal their true identity to the Legion, a charity for war heroes, shows how they feel some shame about their extremist values.

Please read Stolen Valour for more information about the BNP’s efforts to hijack the Armed Forces.  Also read our dossier on the BNP’s astro-turf homeless veterans organisation Soldiers off the Street.

Maurice Cousins

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Gordon Brown in Afghanistan

The recent confusion from the Government over its anti-terror funding in Pakistan, while Gordon Brown reaffirmed the government’s committment to the “crucible of terror”, is understandably creating disillusionment about the fight against Islamic extremism.

As more news like this continues to flow, it is becoming increasingly hard for the public to comprehend why we’re in Afghanistan. An October 2009 opinion poll for The Times found more than a third of voters (36%) believe that troops should be withdrawn immediately — up from 29% in mid-September 2009.

It comes as no surprise, therefore, that populist extremists like the BNP have decided to exploit this growing gap between the government and public.

The BNP’s analysis of the global terror crisis is, as Andrew Brons MEP revealed to the European Parliament this week, as follows: It’s the West’s fault. If Britain and America wish to remain safe from Islamic violence it must stop fighting wars in Muslim lands. It should repatriate all its Armed Forces. It should cease its support for Israel. And in order for the world to remain stable, it must be segregated along racial lines so that differing interests do not collide.

Besides the striking similarity between Al-Qaeda’s worldview and the BNP’s (although AQ would segregate us along religious lines), what’s surprising is that an anti-Muslim party that claims to be “tough on terror” is so easily prepared to sell us out to Islamists and their associates. This point of view was once held on the fringes of the far-left, the Islamists and isolationist conservatives. Now it is filtering its way into the mainstream media and political discourse and becoming increasingly popular with the public, as the Times’ poll reveals.

This is why it is important for extremists ideas to be challenged to see if they stand up after examination:

1. “Muslim lands”

British soldiers fighting the Taliban

This is not true.

During the first Gulf War, Britain and America were called to the Middle East after a request from Saudi Arabia - an Islamic orthodox regime - to help protect it from the secular non-Muslim Baathist dictatorship in Iraq headed by Saddam Hussein.

Nothing British has spoken to experts in the area of Islamism and they have told us that the defilement of “Muslim Lands” argument is used by Islamists who seek to claim an extremely diverse region as their own to cleanse it of indigenous non-Muslims. Thus, to accept this Islamist argument, as the BNP do, legitimises their racist and intolerant views on a region where many other non-Muslim religions, ethnicities and races also exist (Jews, Christians, Druze, Arabs, Kurds, Persians, Turks and Africans).

2. “Bring back the troops!”

The BNP’s 2010 campaign is called “Bring back the troops”. The party claims that our troops in Afghanistan is a waste of time. They conspiratorially believe we are only there to serve the interests of multinational companies, to serve the interest of America and Israel and that the real security threat is back home in the UK. They also add that our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan has turned Britain into a target for terror.

Mohammed Sadiq Khan in 2001 in Yorkshire on a terror training expidition

This again is false.

Both 9/11, which killed nearly sixty Britons, and 7/7 were planned before we ever set foot in Afghanistan or Iraq.

Mohammed Sadiq Khan, the ring leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorists responsible for 7/7, first came across West Yorkshire Police’s radar in 2001 (see photo left) during an investigation into terrorism (please see the Joint Intelligence Committee’s enquiry into 7/7 here). The report also said that it knew that Khan had gone to Pakistan at least twice for training and to Afghanistan possibly once.

It is therefore vital we stay in Afghanistan to shut down the terror training centres where they can develop skills and knowledge to kill British civilians on Britain’s streets.

3. Cease support for Israel

The accusation that Britain and America faces the threat of Islamist terrorism because of its close friendship with Israel ignores the fact that Bin Laden declared war against the West because of our friendship with Saudi Arabia. During the first Gulf War, Bin Laden was furious with the Saudi’s for rejecting his Muhajideen forces to fight Saddam Hussein, favouring of Western troops instead.

Nonetheless, Israel’s relationship with Britain and America is often distorted by extremists (left, right and Islamist) whose theories are based on conspiracies. European and American neo-fascists often describe Israel as having a malign influence over British foreign policy and is accused of exploiting the Holocaust to get its own way.

Milliband criticised Israel over Gaza

If this was the case it hasn’t been very effective.

For example, during its intervention in Gaza during January 2009 to stop Hamas rockets being fired into Israel, British government officials were quick to condemn Israel for its actions. David Milliband, Labour’s Foreign Secretary, said Israel was using “disproportionate force” against Hamas. Bill Rammell, who was a Foreign Office Minister at the time, called the operation “unacceptable” (watch his remarks to Iranian television here). William Hague, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, said: “The shelling of the UN Headquarters in Gaza is unacceptable. This undercuts efforts to bring relief to the people of Gaza and is against Israel’s own interests.”

The UK government has also used controversial food labelling on produce from Israeli settlements to force Israel to stop building in the West Bank. In response, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the UK government’s actions were “catering to the demands of those whose ultimate goal is the boycott of Israeli products”.

3. Segregate people along racial and religious grounds

Hamas terrorists relaxing: Islamists support the BNP's worldview

The BNP subscribe to ethnopluralism. This neo-racist theory believes that people are equal but different and so the world would be more stable if races were kept separate.

Its policy to create international racial barriers would not only be impractical, but would also be economically ruinous, turn us into a failed state and create enormous global instability. Britain has become politically, economically and socially more integrated into the global system we have benefited. Our economy has grown giving us a higher standard of living, creating new opportunities in the job market and cheaper food and holidays.

Conclusion

No wonder every time Bin Laden and his followers hear the likes of Andrew Brons echoing their worldview in the European Parliament, they think to themselves how weak we are and how their lives are being made just that little bit easier. They know there are people from all over the political spectrum (left, right and Islamist) who are prepared to do their jobs for them.

Maurice Cousins

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Simon Darby is angry about being asked about his party's dodgy accounts

Fiona Hamilton writes a very interesting and revealing piece in today’s Times that has caused a quite stir with the Party’s hierarchy. 

According to Hamilton, the BNP faces possible prosecution after providing accounts to the Electoral Commission that “failed to give a “true and fair view” of its financial circumstances.”

Figures released by the Commission “reveal how the party exaggerated its spending during the European elections”.

Throughout the European election campaign Nick Griffin claimed that the BNP spent more than £500,000 attracting voters. But, as Hamilton writes, “In fact, the party spent much less, £282,843 — only £54,000 more than it did during 2004.”

On the Times’s online article Simon Darby, the BNP Deputy-Chairman and senior Press Officer, blames bureaucracy for the errors and said the party needed to exaggerate its spending because “if we had said we wanted to spend 10p, it wouldn’t do us any good. … there’s a bit of hyperbole with politics”. He refused to comment further on the discrepancy, saying that it was not a “worthy question”.

Over on his blog an hysterical Darby still fails to address the central issue and shows just how well he gets on with the Press by making Alistair Campbell sound like a whimpering pussycat.

Having dealt with the BNP’s petulant Deputy-Chairman on a number of occaisions, Nothing British knows how fond he is a slamming down phones and how impossible he can be to get even the most basic of information from.

The BNP often complain that they are not treated fairly, but if they want this to change then senior figures like Darby are going to have to stop getting sensitive every time he is challenged and start grasping the fact that he lives in a democracy with a free press and that it is perfectly reasonable to be probed by journalists in the national media over his Party’s dodgy accounts.  

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Melanie Phillips

The Spectator and Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips has written an excellent piece on the failure of Westminster’s elite to get to grips with the BNP. 

According to Phillips, the BNP’s ”opponents have settled upon the wrong strategy.” She says that instead of trying to legislate or suppress the BNP it should be taken head on. And the Liberal Establishment’s failure to do so is “precisely why Griffin has made the headway that he has.”

Phillips also points out the futility of attacking Nick Griffin for being a racist. Even though he is one. Phillips believes, quite rightly, that Griffin’s appeal is not built on his racist beliefs but on his opposition to “mass immigration, Islamisation and the loss of sovereignty to the EU.” 

As Phillips says: “These are all legitimate concerns which are widely held by people who fear the loss of Britain’s historic identity — but which are stigmatised as beyond the pale by an intelligentsia which considers any such expression of nationalistic sentiment to be a form of racism.”

The liberal elite’s flawed theory that “bigotry and imbecility of ordinary people” are responsible for the rise of BNP is condemned for being narrow minded. Phillips says it is the fault of the elite for turning ”patriotism from a civic virtue into a racial crime” and it “has driven thousands of decent, patriotic British people, both white and dark-skinned” into BNP supporters.

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48 people were arrested in Manchester

48 people were arrested over the weekend in Manchester, says the Guardian.

According to some estimates, 2,000 people attended the protests, by the English Defence League (EDL) and members of Unite Against Fascism (UAF) on Saturday afternoon.

Most of those who were arrested were for public order offences, but there were a few detentions for racially-aggravated offences, possession of weapons and drugs.

UAF protesters are believed to have outnumbered the EDL by nearly two to one.

Before the protests kicked off, the BNP released a strategically worded statement distancing itself from the “anti-Islamism” group. The BNP conspiratorially claims that the EDL is a Zionist front organisation, or is some other form of conspiracy run by “some dark hand” , quite possibly the State. But new evidence has emerged from UAF which claims that many of the EDL’s members have close associations with the BNP.

What isinteresting about the tactics of the EDL are its similarities to those of the National Front during the 1970s, who would attract supporters through their immediate concerns, in this case it the rise of Islamism in the UK, and then introduce them to a wider ideology of nationalism and race. Many lower level members of the NF would then pursue a course of violence and whipping up tension within fragile communities. So it comes as no surprise that Saturday’s protest saw some protestors sporting NF flags.

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Gordon Brown: put mums in care

Britain’s national socialists have claimed that Gordon Brown’s authoritarian “pregnant mums policy” was borrowed from the BNP.

On the BNP’s web site it says that the PM’s announcement was the “most generous possible tribute” to the neo-fascist’s “hegemony in the battle of ideas”.

Not for the first time have Labour been accused of using the BNP’s language in a populist effort to claw back supporters. In 2007, Gordon Brown was caught out for using the slogan “British jobs for British workers” and at this year’s conference Labour have chosen the unfortunate title of ”Operation Fightback”, which was also the name of a BNP campaign to tackle what it terms as “smears” against the party.

The BNP’s and Labourpolicy on telling parents of ferrel children that they risk losing access to benefits unless they agree to accept support to improve their parenting skills, smacks of a Big Brother-esque approach to parenting. 

Most people would agree that totalitarian policies such as forcing mothers into care, unless they abide by official parenting guidelines, is deeply un-British. However, unless we address the wider issues on areas such as immigration, education and the economy there is a strong risk that the BNP will play an increasing role in our political system where illiberal policies, such as these, become part and parcel of our society.

Court date fixed for battle with BNP

EHRC will meet the BNP in court on October 15th

Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, has announced in an email to party supporters that his court battle with the Equality and Human Rights Commission is set to resume on October 15th 2009.

The BNP are being taken to court over its restrictions on allowing non-whites to join its party.

But at the beginning of September the case was adjourned after the court had decided to allow the party more time to prepare a defence.

Since then there has been much speculation as to whether the party are capable of fighting the case to the ”bitter end” over fears that the party may financially implode, which we believe to be simply that, speculation.

The day after the case was adjourned, Nick Griffin said that fighting the court case was costing the BNP too much and that attending another hearing would mean “raising and risking at least £80,000″. 

And last week the BNP’s chief ideologue Arthur Kemp, the South African white supremacist and foreign affairs spokesman, said that the EHRC’s case would be a “huge own goal” and will help the party to “destroy one of the biggest arguments against it”, namely that it will no longer be labelled as racist. 

Only time will tell about what happens in the row between the EHRC and the BNP, but one thing is for certain -you will not defeat Nick Griffin and co by legislating them out of existence. Only by addressing the concerns of the people who vote for them will stop the BNP.

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