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.
