BNP reaching out to Scotland
Gary Raikes (right) shaking hands with Tommy Moffat of FEBA, the Scottish veterans charity.
Acutely aware of its image as a provincial English party, the British National Party are attempting to branch out into Scotland.
Gary Raikes, leader of the BNP in Scotland, has announced that his party is to appoint a new deputy leader in Scotland and brand new regional organiser. According to the BNP’s web site, Joe Finnie is the new regional organiser for Renfrewshire and Walter Hamilton will take up the role of Scottish deputy leader of the BNP.
The BNP are hoping to build on their relative success in Scotland during the European elections, where they made a modest 0.8% gain in votes giving them 27,000 in total. The party are reporting buoyant membership figures in Scotland and say they have the “highest number of active members” in the party’s history.
In the up coming by-election being held in Glasgow, caused by the resignation of Michael Martin as speaker, the BNP have brought in Nick Griffin’s regional organiser Clive Jefferson, who helped organise the party’s electoral win in June 2009 in the North West region.
For the 2010 general election the BNP are targeting a total of 23 seats in Scotland. The list has been drawn up by the party’s “think-tank“, an unidentified cadre of men not known to the wider membership, though it is believed to be run by the violently extreme South African duo Arthur Kemp and Lambertus “Bep” Nieuwhof.
Also present at the meeting was Simon Darby, the BNP’s Machiavellian deputy leader, who discussed the proposed changes to the party’s constitution and the importance of Nick Griffin’s appearance appearing on QT.
Simon Darby responds to Baroness Warsi by calling her a “malleble Pakistani”
Simon Darby: Baroness Warsi is a "malleable Pakistani"
An unusually loose lipped Simon Darby has responded to Baroness Warsi’s speech at Conservative Party conference and revealed how the BNP are attempting to allow petty racism and bigotry to enter into everyday political discourse.
The BNP deputy leader bizarrely started off by saying that both Baronesses Scotland and Warsi, who are both non-white, didn’t instantly remind him “of a by-gone age of heraldry and chivalry”, going on to say that in “politically correct Britain” nothing surprised him anymore. What could Mr Darby possibly mean by such a remark?
In response to her remarks about the BNP’s values being not British, Darby retorted by saying she was “probably towards the bottom of the list of people who could and indeed should be deciding who is and is not British”. He then disrespectfully referred to Baroness Warsi, who was born in Britain and whose grandfathers fought in the British army during the Second World War as a “malleable Pakistani”.
