When I saw this story in the paper the other day I really had to check it was April 10th and not April 1st, although anybody who tried to make it up as an April fool’s joke would have a pretty warped sense of humour. Apparently the BNP are now actively chasing the Jewish vote in London.
Their argument seems to be along the lines of “You Jews don’t like Muslims. We don’t like Muslims either, so vote for us.”
This is a party that still hero-worships Germany’s Nazi regime, albeit behind closed doors. Wasn’t their former youth leader, Mark Collett, caught on TV saying that Nazi Germany was a better place to live than Oldham or Bury? And wasn’t their leader, Nick Griffin, convicted of incitement to racial hatred when a magazine he published denied that the Holocaust even happened?
The BNP are fond of racial stereotypes. Isn’t there a some sort of stereotype about Jewish collective long memories? They are not going to forget something like a government that systematically tried to eradicate their entire race by murdering millions of them and then go out and vote for a party that secretly thinks genocide was a valid policy while publicly denying it happened.
The BNP found one Jewish person stupid or gullible enough to join them and become a councillor; that does not mean the rest will be as easily fooled. The BNP’s contribution to world peace might be in making Jews and Muslims in London realise they have a lot more in common than they thought.
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29 responses so far ↓
1 Gert // Apr 14, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Last year I pondered how many Polish people would be voting BNP. I suspect that there are rich pickings for the BNP amongst the Polish community. Although, the thought of it, with its philosophical conundrums makes me glad I’m not of that political bent….
2 skud's sister // Apr 14, 2008 at 6:23 pm
In Bradford they even managed to get a sikh candidate. Again the theory was that my enemy’s enemy is my friend - Sikhs and Muslims are allegedly not best of chums… The trouble is that your average BNP supporter knows a vanishingly small about about any religion - to them you are white or non-white and a turban is not going to mean anything to them!
3 Skuds // Apr 14, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Strange isn’t it? Not so much like turkeys voting for Christmas, but like having a turkey standing for the Santa party and actively campaigning for it.
It is true that there can be friction between Sikhs and Muslims - possibly a hangover from the Punjab being split in half during partition or something - but there its possible to leave that baggage behind. Surely one purpose of emigrating is to escape the problems and tensions of home and not to bring them with you.
4 jams o donnell // Apr 14, 2008 at 9:13 pm
I was thinking tukeys, Christmas and voting but your allusion is more appropriate Skuds. I would hope that only a few jews are so dim that they cannot see through the BNP’s lies. I wish the people of Barking & Dagenham and Harold Hill could have done the same
5 DavidCH // Apr 23, 2008 at 2:45 am
What a primitive interpretation of events. Continue on believing your enemy is inferior boys and girls.
6 skud's sister // Apr 23, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I have two BNP coucillors and they sit in council chambers looking confused about the debate going on around them - but then bin collection is a bit tricky.
7 Minnijaf // May 2, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Yes, nick griffin was sent to court for intent to cause racial hatred.
And what happand, He was found NOT GUILTY!
So i suggest you media groups stop complaining about the BNP being natzi’s and publish something worth-while.
Obviusly the bnp are not fond of muslims but they arent going to kill them all like the natzi’s did.
And except from muslims themselves who does like muslims? They dont exactly create a good image for themselves do they, 7/7 9/11.
Everytime i look at the news about bomb plots its always about muslims. Also about the “mega mosques” and who’s paying for all of them? yeah, exactly, us
The bnp are not racist, They dont like muslims, and muslims are of all races.
8 Skuds // May 2, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Exactly the sort of pig-ignorant, illiterate bigot we all expect to see supporting the BNP. They expect us to believe that just because they can’t even spell ‘nazi’ that they can’t possibly be one.
In 1998 Nick Griffin received a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for two years and a fine of £2,300.
As a 14-year-old (I am guessing, based on your writing ability) you were probably not aware of anything other than the 2005/6 trials.
9 skud's sister // May 3, 2008 at 5:38 pm
And, as any 14 year old should know for their own safety, Jacko was tried for sexual abuse of minors and was found not guilty. Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, just that money can sometimes get a lawyer to bend the reality of truth.
10 chrisgreen // May 5, 2008 at 1:56 pm
i have supported labour all my voting life,never will i vote labour again bring on the bnp,lets sort the country out,we are marching on.
400 thousand votes spoiled in the gla elections?
london elect formed by red ken,and his cronies?
labour you are a dead force,you stuck your nose in the trough and got found out.roll on 2010.
52 year old working man
11 Danivon // May 5, 2008 at 5:36 pm
chrisgreen - no, considerably fewer than 400,000 votes were spoiled in the GLA elections.
Good lie, though, where did you pick it up from?
12 Skuds // May 6, 2008 at 5:55 pm
By my reckoning 5.3% of the ballot papers were spoiled by having a cross against the BNP. It will be interesting to see if Barnbrook actually does anything. With most elected BNP types its rare for them to even turn up to anything.
13 Danivon // May 6, 2008 at 8:08 pm
He’s been described as the equivalent of Boris - the best advert against his own party on the basis of incompetence.
But we will wait and see…
14 Jabbadacant // May 6, 2008 at 11:38 pm
The BNP got 200 000 first and second preference votes. If you assume that the vast majority of these where indigenous British give or take a jew and a sihk, then that equates to about 20% of indigenous British who voted in London’s mayoral election. That is huge!
15 chrisgreen // May 8, 2008 at 11:21 am
i see somebody cannot admit the truth.
labour are truthful arn’t they.
we went to war over a lie wmd,remember.
labour said it will not raise tax,rembember.
the best thing that happened to the BNP is new labour.thank you.
bnp website now gets more hits and more support than they could ever dream of.again i thank you.
liblabcon have the same agenda,get in, get rich,and get out, and sod the working man.
you lot let us get a foot in the door.thank you
all publicity is good publicity.
keep it up.
and the best you can do is attack a 14 year old on their writing ability ,perhaps 11 years of labour has not helped their education?
iv said before i voted labour all my life, never ever again,i will not forget what labour done to us.
new labour= old conservative.
good bye and god bless the working man.
or should that be under labour god help us?
16 skud's sister // May 8, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Once again an undereducated BNP supporter blames labour for the fact that he didn’t pay any attention at school. I’m sure all the lessons he missed on spelling, grammar and basic puctuation were under a Tory government, and probably in a school where teachers failed to punish rascist abuse (because the bullies knew where they lived). And, as for the working man, most of the BNP supporters I have had the misfortune to meet think that the world owes them a living (and all the benefits in the book).
17 Roger rabbit // May 9, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Isn’t it funny, a Labour supporter can be a thick as two short planks and no one calls him undereducated, but woe betide him if he decides to abandon the rotting hulk and vote BNP, then he’s called everything under the sun.
Any working person who earns under £15,000 a year and votes Labour must be brain dead.
I’ve just heard the Labourites are more unpopular than the 1930’s…you just gotta laugh.
18 Richard // May 9, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Isn’t it funny, a former left-wing Labour supporter turns into a rabid right-wing BNP supporter.
19 skud's sister // May 12, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Last time I looked I was definitely not brain dead. Just sometimes, it isn’t about money…. There’s a little thing called principles.
20 brirish soldier/veteran // Jun 12, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Guys I have been to Afghan and I can tell you first hand it is a lie fed to you to incite these very arguments! their was no Al Qaeda hiding in the caves. Yes BNP have had some bad press but hey labour has slaughtered /sent to their death 100 YOUNG british servicemen in Afghanistan alone. All in the “War on Terror”. you need to wake up. THERE IS NO WAR. It is simply a skirmish held open to take away your civil liberties bit by bit while you argue on who’s to blame!! You need to do some real historical research (not the lies fed to you by corrupt state education) and look at who is pulling the strings of both sides. Both us and the muslims are being used in a sick game called GLOBALIZATION.
a good reference: The Nameless War by Cpt A Ramsay. For god’s sake question what they tell you and get mad when you find that it is all lies.
Please for the sake of humanity and whats left of this once great country WAKE UP…
Love will conquer
Long Live England
Long live Great Britain
Love Thy Country!!!
21 brirish soldier/veteran // Jun 12, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Incidently if you were wondering who has published details about the spoiled votes? The Daily Telegraph has published it on their web site.
Oh and before I get some snot bag sprog telling me what for, 2 of my very close friends died in Afghan like many other soldiers we will carry the burden of this war for many years to come and unless we say NO and question what they tell us, things are going to get alot worse closer to home Mark my words.
Love thy country.
22 Danivon // Jun 13, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Mate, if you love your country so much, how come you can’t spell ‘British’ properly?
Nice rambling rant though…
23 brirish soldier/veteran // Jun 13, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Fantastic critisism there. Maybe you should write a column. Roll over my friend. I’m not sure which of my gramatical errors you were looking at there. I was sure this was ablog on something specific other than peoples spelling or grammar. Maybe I was wrong.
First they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because i was not a Jew
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
for I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Trade Unionists
and I did not speak out
for I was not a Trade Unionist
Then they came for me
and by then there was no one left to speak out for me.
German Anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemueller.
Whilst I am certainly not a fan of any of the above mentioned groups/parties, there is a clear message. Thankyou for your input DANIVON however your uneducated comments are somewhat “out of their depth”. If you are concentrating on spelling and grammar so much maybe you should sew on your leather patches to your tweed jacket and get in line with the rest of them….. oh, you are already, sorry.
24 janeskuds // Jun 13, 2008 at 11:36 pm
A close friend’s son was one of those killed in Afghanistan last year and he joined the army because he understood that people of all nationalities and faiths should and could learn to live together. I think he would probably agree with me that saying the BNP have ‘had some bad press’ is like saying the Third Reich weren’t best friends with the Rabbi. Your suffering is real but so was that of the soldiers who fought in World War 2 (when we fought alongside Poles, Sikhs, Muslims and most of the other groups hated by the BNP) - they fought against fascism; not to get it described as ‘bad press’.
25 Danivon // Jun 14, 2008 at 11:40 am
And now the guy who can’t spell is calling my comments ‘uneducated’.
As Sir Richard of Littlejohn would say “You couldn’t make it up!”.
26 The Heirophant // Jun 16, 2008 at 6:11 pm
You cannot blame the Muslims for the 9/11 ‘terrorist attack’ on the World Trade Center.
27 Nimrod // Jun 18, 2008 at 2:12 am
Quote :
We have every faith in our Squire Richard ‘the Lionheart’ Barnbrook, doing more to save the sacred Isles of Albion than you lot of limp-wristed pin-cushions . .
“Richard Barnbrook successfully claimed his first victory when,after his request,Boris Johnson decided to prevent the RISE festifal from delivering anti-racism messages(attacks on the BNP).
http://torytroll.blogspot.com/2008/…ctory-over.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/…17/boris.london
http://www.richardbarnbrook.com/200…mely-slap-down/
28 Skuds // Jun 18, 2008 at 2:31 am
Make your mind up what you are called - that’s two different aliases from the same IP address already this week. Transparent sock-puppetry.
And why do you give Barnbrook the name of a Frenchman as a nickname?
29 Nimrod // Jun 27, 2008 at 7:33 pm
” It will be interesting to see if Barnbrook actually does anything. With most elected BNP types its rare for them to even turn up to anything. ”
GLA member Barnbrook talks to BNPtv ;
http://www.bnptv.org.uk/news3.php?go=fullnews&newsid=444
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