Posts Tagged ‘Nick Griffin’
The BBC’s Question Time Makes BNP Leader Nick Griffin A Celebrity
HAVING invited BNP leader Nick Griffin to the big Question Time debate, the BBC has achieved its intended goal of getting the media to talk about its show.
Maybe if Question Time can develop its policy of featuring leaders of actual political parties, however odious they are, there will be no need to hire celebrities to sell politics to a slack-jawed audience.
Today’s update comes from former Army generals have written a letter warning that political extremists had no right to share the Armed Forces’ proud reputation.
War is no place for extremists!
The open letter is signed by former heads of the Army, General Sir Mike Jackson and General Sir Richard Dannatt. As Sky News notes:
The move follows the British National Party’s (BNP) tactic of using images of Winston Churchill and wartime insignia during recent European election campaigns.
Remember that picture of the Spitfire? As Anorak noted at the time:
“Battle for Britain,” bellows the legend. That’s a Spitfire soaring thought the skies, strafing the fascist scum. Hurrah! It’s a Romeo Foxtrot Delta Plane, as flown by Polish pilots in the great fight. Poles of the famous 303 Squadron of the RAF – the group made up of Polish airmen. The Kościuszko squadron that claimed 126 enemy kills (fascists) more than any other unit during the Battle of Britain.
Who says the BNP is not inclusive, it having embraced a Jewish hippy, a far-right American nutter, climate sceptics, anti-fascist fascists, a desk off a corridor in Brussels, break dancers, coppers, Poles, the kids and fools.
The top brass’s letter to the Times goes thus:
“The BNP is claiming that it has a better relationship with the Armed Forces than other political parties. How dare they use the image of the Army, in particular, to promote their policies. These people are beyond the pale.“
Beyond the pale? An unfortunate choice of words, or may an attempt at a pun.
But if the BNP can be easily undone, it is with humour and ridicule. Treat them with the contempt you usually reserve for Labour and the Tories.
Russell Brand Appears On Question Time To Debate Ashley Cole, Nick Griffin And The BNP
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Posted: 20th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (3)
Russell Brand Appears On Question Time To Debate Ashley Cole, Nick Griffin And The BNP
How Russell Brand skewered the BNP’s Nazi Boy as the Dail Mail kicks the BBC, and Question Time invites Nick Griffin to the debate…
THE Daily Mail rarely misses a chance to wallop the BBC, and today delivers the news that two BNP Herrenvolk have created a “BBC storm” as they are “invited on Radio 1 to insult Ashley Cole”.
Overlooking the obvious reaction that an invitation to insult Ashley Cole is not needed, and that black, white, Nazi or Commie, we can all unite behind a common cause, we read on:
This is the BBC’s own full transcript of the Newsbeat interview:
Randle: Do you think it’s OK for people who aren’t white in this country to call themselves British?
Joey: Civic-ly British they are. You cannot say they are ethnically British. It’s denying our heritage. It’s taking that away from us.
Randle: At what point do they become ethnically British? How long do they have to be here?
Joey: Well, I think it would be an awfully long time before someone would become ethnically British.
Randle: So when you see someone like Ashley Cole play for England, are you happy to watch him?
Joey: If he wants to come to this country and he wants to live by our laws, pay into society, that’s fine.
Randle: But if he wanted to call himself British that would be a problem?
Joey: He cannot say that he’s ethnically British.
The Mail on Sunday has discovered the full background of the two ‘young BNP supporters’ identified by the BBC only as Joey, 24, and 28-year-old Mark.
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Posted: 11th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (3)
BNP Organzier Has NAZI Car Sticker
MORE news from Blackburn, and that Robin Evans, the BNP’s Blackburn organiser, drives about town with a “Nazi sticker” on his car.
The former councillor for Mill Hill in Blackburn, who now lives in Darwen, said he did not know who had stuck the letters on his metallic green Volkswagen Golf, but thought it was “quite funny”, adding: “It doesn’t bother me”
The Volkswagen is in keeping with the theme. But if he did not stick the stickers, who did?
Blackburn MP Jack Straw said the sticker “exposed the true colours of the BNP”.
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Posted: 18th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (4)
Fascist BNP And Anti-Fascists Fascists
THE BNP are an odious bunch. But they were voted in. And now their monocular leader Nick Griffin has been hit by an egg – a good egg hitting the bad egg, puns the Sun.
But what of the egg chuckers? Listen to them speak and then wonder if their garbled argument is as fascistic as the fascists:
Donna Guthrie from Unite Against Facism has spoken to the BBC:
And this from Martin Smith:
The bad egg good egg:
Posted: 10th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (7)
BNP Does The Apprentice
MATT Buck looks at the BNP and the elections:
“Only idiots could fail to see the symbolic importance of Britain returning its first fascist members to the European parliament after yesterday’s elections.
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Posted: 9th, June 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comments (4)
The BNP Is The Peta Of Politics
THE BNP is trying to appeal to the Jewish hippy demographic with a poster of Jesus Christ on the cross and a quote from John’s Gospel (John 15:20) in which Jesus says: “If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.”
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Posted: 24th, May 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (15)
