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The BNP’s bad news week

Any pretence that the British National Party is anything other than a pale copy of the Nazi party it strenuously claims not to be ended with the pre-ordained expulsion of Roger Robertson (left), campaign manager for Councillor Colin Auty’s doomed leadership bid. Reflecting the attitude of the BNP to all normal concepts of justice, Robertson was [...]

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Fighting to preserve a nation’s heritage

When Tobias Jasetas was a small child, his family emmigrated to England. One summer his mother decided to go back to Lithuania for an extended holiday to visit relatives. She took Jasetas, who was then nine years old, with her. It turned to be one of the saddest decisions made by anyone, anywhere, ever. The [...]

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The Right Goes All In to Stop Marriage Equality in California

As we have noted over the last several weeks, the Religious Right’s response to the California marriage ruling has been noticeably over-the-top, even for them. Throwing out everything from Nazi metaphors and warnings that the end of the world was upon us to hateful language and ridiculous scare-tactics, the Right’s response has consisted almost entirely [...]

Nine years of vision and vermin

In 1999 Griffin claimed to be running an "open and honest" leadership challenge based on "positive ideas for the future", calling himself the candidate with "flair and vision". This certainly struck a chord with the BNP's newer members, and even appealed to some hardline BNP veterans all too aware of Tyndall's advancing years and of the tiredness of his leadership. It did, however, obscure Griffin's woeful record in the National Front, where he spent much of his time engaged in factional activities, seemed to view political positions as expendable commodities, and was even then the subject of much disquiet in the matter of finance.

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• Former BNP councillor hanged himself before appearing in court for attack on pub landlord. A disgraced ex-British National Party councillor has hanged himself - just days before he was due in court over a savage attack on a pub landlord. Convicted football hooligan Luke Smith, 26, was arrested after punching the publican in the face when he was thrown out of his bar for being drunk. But as he awaited sentence former gas fitter Smith killed himself just opposite the scene of the crime in Lancashire. Full story at the Daily Mail
• Target of BNP hate refuses to be bullied. A Sheffield councillor says she was left "sick and frightened" after far-right extremists threatened her children and grandchildren. Labour councillor Jackie Drayton says she was bombarded with abusive emails after she criticised a British National Party meeting in Sheffield. Her name appeared on the BNP's national website - and within hours her inbox was full of angry emails. Today Coun Drayton said although she was scared, she refused to be bullied. "Despite the threats I believe in democracy and free speech so I'm going to stand up and keep saying what I think. They are not going to quieten me with their bully boy tactics." Full story at The Star
• Report back from Anti-Racist Action on David Irving NYC Event. Initially canceled at its original venue due to a phone jam initiated by Anti-Racist Action, Holocaust revisionist David Irving was able to dupe yet another New York City venue into hosting his hateful speaking tour. However, thanks to the great investigative work of members of Anti-Racist Action and our friends, we were able to properly greet David Irving and his fascist guests when they arrived at their back-up location - St. Stephen of Hungary Parish, 414 East 82nd. Even with only about 10 hours notice, ARA was able to pull together a counter-demonstration outside the church and expose David Irving for the fascist, hateful neo-Nazi scumbag that he is. See Infoshop News for full report
• Exley reveals divisions around Auty and BNP. Former Kirklees BNP councillor David Exley has lifted the lid on turmoil at the heart of the local party. Mr Exley, ousted from Heckmondwike at May’s local elections, told of the internal strife within the Kirklees BNP. Mr Exley said he quit as local organiser after he was ordered by the party hierarchy to discipline Coun Auty over comments he made to newspapers when he announced he was to challenge BNP chairman Nick Griffin for the national leadership. "I was told Colin had to be disciplined, it was more an instruction than a request," said Mr Exley. "They said he had brought the party into disrepute but I read everything that was in the press and a lot of what he said was unpalatable but you cannot hide the truth." Full story at The Press
• US White-power groups recruiting from military. White-supremacist groups have recruited 203 people who served in the U.S. military or who claim to have U.S. military backgrounds, according to a new report by the FBI. The unclassified FBI Intelligence Assessment, issued last week and obtained by NBC News, cautions that white-power extremists are trying hard to recruit active-duty soldiers and recent veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. More at MSNBC
• Race-hate pair flee to US for political asylum. Two men convicted of publishing race-hate articles on the internet have skipped bail and fled to the United States to claim political asylum, the Yorkshire Post can reveal. Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle were given bail by a judge at Leeds Crown Court on Friday, despite having been found guilty of a series of race-related offences. Last night Sheppard, 51, and Whittle, 41, were being held by immigration officials at Los Angeles Airport – outside the jurisdiction of the British court system. See the Yorkshire Post
• Voters turn out in force to reject BNP. Corsham voters turned out in force to keep British National Party candidate Michael Howson out of the town council. Liberal Democrat candidate Isabel Langsford, 51, won Thursday's by-election, called after the resignation of Coun Jasvir Singh. Town council chairman Allan Bosley was delighted with the 43 per cent turnout. He said: "People have turned out because they realise it is their duty to take part in the electoral process and the effort that the candidates put into canvassing also helped." More at the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald
• Colin Auty's BNP leadership challenge collapses after two months of inertia. Almost two months to the day after announcing that he was to challenge Nick Griffin for the leadership of the British National Party, Colin Auty, councillor for Dewsbury East on Kirklees Council, has finally had to admit defeat after he failed to obtain the required amount of signatures that would enable him to go ahead while conforming with the bizarre rules of the BNP. Full story at Lancaster Unity
• BNP Legal Director Lee Barnes’ June bout of anti-Jewish madness. It’s been a busy month for Lee Barnes, the self-appointed, unemployed and unqualified head of the BNP’s dysfunctional legal department. Whilst he’s not making apocalyptic pronouncements about the impending end of the world, issuing keyboard threats against rivals within the BNP or telling us about his plans for the esoteric revival of pre-Roman indigenous pagan religions to revitalise the White race, Lee Barnes has been indulging in one of his other favourite pastimes: Jew-baiting. Summer is here and Lee Barnes has informed us in his very own plagiaristic and racist style that silly season has indeed begun with three-four June articles tinged with anti-Jewish sentiment. More at Lancaster Unity
• Leading BNP member resigns stating 'the party is corrupt' and undemocratic. Scottish BNP webmaster Paul Johnson has resigned from the BNP, citing the party's corruption and lack of democracy among his reasons for leaving. His resignation statement cane be seen here.