BNP fails to publish European parliament expenses
David Blackburn 3:45pm
I’m aghast. I never imagined that even Griffin and Brons would fall at the first, and eminently negotiable, jump. The Telegraph reports that Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons have given insufficient detail of their expenses, worth nearly £500,000. All other parties provided detailed returns.
Griffin stood on an anti-sleaze ticket last June, and successfully exploited the widespread contempt for mainstream politics. Griffin has abused those disenfranchised voters’ trust. For which we should be grateful, but there is a possibility that some will respond by completely disengaging with politics and embracing deeper extremes; mainstream parties must ensure they do not and take the opportunity they have been presented. Griffin cannot save face. He can hardly say he meant ‘whiter than white’ in its alternative sense.



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Wilhelm
March 12th, 2010 3:59pm Report this commentDavid
Another fair and balanced comment about Nick Griffin. Ho Hum .
The constant slagging by the chattering, wittering luvy hacks of Nick Griffin backfires all the time. We dont like bullies in this country and the media are bullies. So there !
Herbert Pocket
March 12th, 2010 4:14pm Report this commentNo, David, you're not aghast. You're probably quite pleased. Nothing wrong with that, of course, and no one likes a gloater, but why pretend?
As for 'deeper extremes': you'd better start dusting down your thesaurus, then. You've pretty much exhausted 'vile', 'disgusting', 'depraved' and 'wicked' when talking of the BNP. Difficult to see what tones of moral outrage are left for anything else.
You could use 'very', but that hardly has the same force.
Moraymint
March 12th, 2010 4:15pm Report this commentAren't they just gangsters anyway?
Frank P
March 12th, 2010 4:16pm Report this commentJeez, if they continue like this they'll descend to the corruption levels of the Conservative and Liberal Parties. They'll have to go some yet to reach Stygian of Labour Party sleaze, though.
Dan
March 12th, 2010 4:24pm Report this commentI'm not a fan of the BNP, but aren't you jumping the gun in judging them at this stage?
Publius
March 12th, 2010 4:30pm Report this commentOh do shut up with your bogus outrage, Mr Blackburn. It is far too selective to convince.
Andy H
March 12th, 2010 4:33pm Report this commentWell said Frank P.
Andy H
March 12th, 2010 4:36pm Report this commentAre we not talking about the same organisation that has not had it's accounts signed off, er, ever? If the EU think it is a trivial detail then who cares? There is a hell of a lot more money at stake then the piffling expenses of Nick Griffin......
Annabel Herriott
March 12th, 2010 5:02pm Report this commentAnyone woken up yet, to the news that Edward McMillan Scott has now joined the LibDems. I now hear that he is complaining about David Cameron sort of facing both ways over that defence carry on in Europe. As the LibDems normally face both ways, I'm sure he will be very happy with them.
In2minds
March 12th, 2010 5:03pm Report this commentPerhaps the BNP will be allowed to get away with this? I see the CPS will not charge Baroness Uddin.
Kenny Dee
March 12th, 2010 5:08pm Report this commentAndrew Brons sends letter to the Telegraph about their misleading and mischievous article.
http://tinyurl.com/yl39q6h
Vulture
March 12th, 2010 5:10pm Report this commentI don't think the political Establishment -
(including Mr Blackburn, a wannabee Establishment man) are doing themsleves much good by persecuting the BNP. (Viz. today's court decision abt their ethnic members).
This all just looks are though the putrid mainstream are worried by the BNP's rise and are trying to trip them up with pettiness: People in glasshouses really shouldn't throw stones.
Jez
March 12th, 2010 5:19pm Report this commentOh just f*ck off you boring bastards.
Life. Get. A.
Percy
March 12th, 2010 5:34pm Report this commentNice to see the Nazi-apologists out in force this afternoon.
Paul B
March 12th, 2010 5:37pm Report this commentGood article David, showing up Griffin & co to be the hypocrital shits they are. I note their usual bleating apologists are out in force. There must be a group day pass from the local nuthouse.
TrevorsDen
March 12th, 2010 5:39pm Report this commentInteresting to see all the loony tunes jumping to the defence of the racist BNP
paul sharpe
March 12th, 2010 5:42pm Report this commentOh dear, looks like Andrew Brons reply to this article has left the egg on someones face...
pete-s
March 12th, 2010 5:51pm Report this commentGriffin got publicity by having entries in the BNP manifesto that had to be challenged. Now he will get EU publicity being challenged by an organ that has not had it's accounts signed off for 13 years. From my viewpoint he is running rings around the media and playing the system as good as many.
Verity
March 12th, 2010 5:56pm Report this commentI love the use of the word "fails" in the headline. I'm sure this is supposed to be a subconscious prompt to the readers.
The BNP's a legal party. They've opened up their membership to all. I read there is queue of people waiting to join, including W Indians, Sikhs and a couple of Chinese.
Noa Zrk
March 12th, 2010 5:57pm Report this commentIt ill becomes the political establishment and it media hacks to adopt a faux outrage at the BNP.
The corruption is demonstrably with the Lib/Lab/Con coalition.
One suspects the completely anti-democratic attempts by Labour and its union paymasters are inspired by the growing realisation that, in abandoning its core voters to the BNP by ignoring their valid concerns, Labour knows that its incompetence and intolerance has ensured it will be out of power soon. hopefully that will be forever.
Noa Zrk
March 12th, 2010 6:00pm Report this commentTreversden
As Verity has told you many times Islam is not a race and the BNP is not racist.
Repetez vous....The BNP is not racist...zzzz.
TomTom
March 12th, 2010 6:06pm Report this commentAll other parties provided detailed returns.
in which Parliament, did you say ?
Politics, like Banking, is a branch of Organised Crime
Jez
March 12th, 2010 6:07pm Report this commentNo Trevors Den,
Just really bored.
Your machine has f*ck all to say anymore and it's always saying too loudly.
Time to move aside?
THX1138
March 12th, 2010 6:16pm Report this commentWell done David & Paul B we need to come down hard on the BNP scum and the morons that vote for them and support them on blogs.
They make me want to puke, filthy racist scum we should them on the first boat out of the country.
Verity's Terrace
March 12th, 2010 6:27pm Report this commentTrevor's Den - Could you give us the genetic code for Islam, please?
Wilhelm
March 12th, 2010 8:07pm Report this commentTHX666
Why are sooo full of hatred for your fellow caucasions ?
It aint good karma.
Wilhelm
March 12th, 2010 8:09pm Report this commentTHX666 squeeels
''We should put the waaaycists on the first boat out of here.''
Where would you send them, Africa ?
TrevorsDen
March 12th, 2010 9:19pm Report this commentDear Darling Verity and Noa and all your jolly racist fellow travellers --- many many thanks for condemning yourselves out of your own mouths.
'the BNP are not racist ...' a hoot, beyond parody. You will be saying a certain Bavarian corporal was not racist because he only murdered jews and gypsies...and slavs.
Still this thread has become very useful, just to see how all the anti Cameron trolls really think. I self censor myself by saying 'trolls' of course since a number of other epithets immediately spring to mind.
Jon
March 12th, 2010 9:49pm Report this commentThey will be well aware of the fact they would have to be very careful with expenses as biased journalists like yourself would hold them to a different standard compared to the LibLabCon who seem to have very adaptly missed out on punishment for their deceit, only 5 out of 650 being sent to court what a joke, the latest to be let off 'Baroness' Udin. The fact is, if either Nick Griffin or Andrew Brons had done what loads of these MPs have they would have been locked up months ago.
George Laird
March 12th, 2010 9:54pm Report this commentDear David
I am sorry to hear that you are aghast, two aspirin and stay out of bright light, 72 hours and you will be right as rain.
As to Nick Griffin and Co not giving sufficient details, they must stop acting like Labour MPs.
Might you its only £500,000, they probably forgot.
Although Griffin stood on an anti-sleaze ticket last June; and you correctly point out he successfully exploited the widespread contempt for mainstream politics.
He was at it!
People get what they vote for unfortunately, there is no recall.
Despite entering the world of mainstream politics he has picked the habit of being less than transparent very quickly.
Maybe a Labour punter left a ‘training manual’ lying round.
Griffin is a symptom of a problem, nothing more, let him enjoy himself while he can, he will be back on the street soon enough.
Acting like a Labour MP who would believe it!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Noa Zrk
March 12th, 2010 11:47pm Report this commentTreversden
"I self censor myself..". Not enough Den, not enough.
Jez
March 13th, 2010 12:05am Report this commentDear trevorsden,
"Dear Darling Verity and Noa and all your jolly racist fellow travellers"
Great bit of condescending pal. You win hands down mate, honest..... but there's more?.....
"many many thanks for condemning yourselves out of your own mouths."
What you on about you dick?!... Condemned because they disagree with you?.... ok, maybe they do......
"'the BNP are not racist ...' a hoot, beyond parody. You will be saying a certain Bavarian corporal was not racist because he only murdered jews and gypsies...and slavs."
Will they?.... are you saying that they will defend Hitler because he carried out the Holocaust?
Pretty strong Trevorsden. If you don't mean that then what exactly do you mean?
"Still this thread has become very useful, just to see how all the anti Cameron trolls really think. I self censor myself by saying 'trolls' of course since a number of other epithets immediately spring to mind."
Is anyone anti-Cameron, 'the person'?
Who can be? The guys a nice guy (ish). Ambitious, wants to get to the top and push his family into a realm of self-sufficiency.... but the worlds changed since 1997.... WAKE UP.
The inner-cities are fracturing ESPECIALLY London.
Boris is in charge of a patchwork of completely seperate cultral enclaves.
Listen to me Trevorsden.
I have three young children approximately 4 miles from a rapidly expanding Muslim centre called Bradford. In my area all is well. It has its problems- but nothing to what is happening in places like Bradford, Dewsbury, Keighley or Halifax.....
This is only an opinion; Our children, when they become young adults- if they are left behind in these areas have to submit- or are targets.
21st Century UK politics.... evolve.
Roy Smith
March 13th, 2010 1:26am Report this commentThe first sniff of scandal around the BNP and it's in to it 'boots an all'. Not a mention of the hurdle they have had to surmount in the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) court case. Or the amount of catching-up they have to do to come down to the same level of the other main parties. Or the amount of blindness shown by the other parties in many aspects of the UK domestic scene.
Yorkie
March 13th, 2010 1:37am Report this commentI wish the media would just stick to reporting the facts without the theatricals. They don't do themselves any favours and probably hep to win sympathy/support for the BNP, just as Question Time did.
As for the BNP not being racists (chokes on coffee)well just a 2 minute browse aroud web sites like http://saynotothebnp.moonfruit.com/ soon confirms exactly what type of group the BNP really is.
Verity's Plantains
March 13th, 2010 3:40am Report this commentNoa Zrk: Treversden
"I self censor myself..". Not enough Den, not enough.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Also, what is "I self-censor myself"? How is Trevor's Den going to "self-censor" anyone else?
Why are the left so dull-witted? We can't even have fun.
Paul B
March 13th, 2010 8:13am Report this commentCall him what you will, but Griffin is scum. He`s a holocaust denier and a replusive piece of human flotsam. Those people who are stupid enough to find something attractive about him and his scumbag party are plainly barking. Anyone who thinks this is the first bit of scandel about the BNP hasn`t really been following the news for the past 20-30 year.
Jez
March 13th, 2010 11:10am Report this commentPaul B.
Tonight i'm going to get a Chinese meal and a few beers.... because i want to.
If events were horribly different and i had cancer- i would not be having that but chemotherapy.... because i had to.
The majority of People do not vote for (or look toward) an entity like the BNP because 'just feel like it' one morning... just as i would not 'just feel like' getting a taxi to the local MacMillan hospital and volunteer for extensive cancer treatment- if i didn't have to.
You people have absolutely no answers.
You are completely redundant when attempting to think outside of your establishment funded boxes and your paralysis means you are being left behind at an ever rapid rate.
Enjoy.
Michael Booth
March 13th, 2010 11:45am Report this commentDoes the court ruling against the BNP only apply to political parties, or will the Black Police Officers Association have to open up its doors? Just a question...(lights blue touch-paper)
Fergus Pickering
March 13th, 2010 1:14pm Report this commentPaul B, your post could be shorter, punchier. It ought to read:
Griffin is scum. Those who vote for him are mad.
Now what about this one:
Brown is scum. Those who vote for him are mad.
And then there's this one:
Clegg is scum. Those who vote for him are mad.
Paul B
March 13th, 2010 2:18pm Report this commentJez, forget the emotional blackmail me old china, because I had chemo treatment just over ten years ago.
What do you mean byt "you people" What do you know about me or about anyone else? Don`t be so bloody presumptuous to speak for the majority, as if you are some genius that has a unique understanding of the zeitgeist of the nation. I`m also not interested in what you are eating tonight, which I suspect you only mention to garner some form of multicultrual credibility. Look at me, I`m having an exotic Chinesse meal. Big whoopie deal. So bloody what. I care not a jot.
If you want to to vote for the BNP fine, thats your right and I would support that. But equally , don`t expect me or others not to point out what bunch of toe rags the BNP are. Griffin is a lowlife racist , holocaust denying, centralist,statist totaliarian, perverted politician. If you or others vote for him or his party or even contemplate voting for him, then you have no respect for yourself or this country of ours.
Enjoy your Chinesse while you can, cause if Griffin or his party where to seize power, foreign food wouldn`t be on the menu for much.
Verity
March 13th, 2010 3:14pm Report this commentPaul B - What's a Chinesse? Is it a female Chinese person?
Verity
March 13th, 2010 4:48pm Report this commentI believe one of the members of the BNP's executive committee is married to a Chinesse.
Noa Zrk
March 13th, 2010 6:00pm Report this commentJez.
As ever the cogent voice of Northern realism in the brave new UK Islamic world created by successive generations of uncomprehending political incompetents of all hues.
You see and experience what is best described as the early stages of Islamic conquest in Yorkshire, I can assure you that the situation is no different in west Lancashire or indeed I suppose the rest of the North. Its impossible to understand the real and growing threat unless you live with it, as we do.
However since New Labour came to power the social and cultural fault lines have become very apparent. Real and profound cultural and social problems exist and are growing far, far worse and these are not merely confined to the working class but are threatening the white collar middle class in competition for wealth property and work.
Indeed, lefties like Treversden don't need to believe the likes of us, if he cares to he can visit the likes of migrationwatch to read informed, objective and unbaised evaluation of the adverse effects of migration.
But the usual tired epithets are trotted out by the liberal left. Those who object to being cleansed by the third world peasant followers of a violent and intolerant religion and their mittel europa co-religionists are condemned variously as racist or facist. Funny that, never communist, stalinits, trotskyites, Polpotists or Mugabbers. Of course the left doesn't ever want to confront or indeed draw attention to the motes in its own eyes.
But in that world where the heads of the liberal left are located the sun of reality never shines. There is no problem so there is no solution.
The BNP are variously dismissed with the street battle slogans of the nineteen thirties and not the only party which consistently seeks to address the three key issues of concern to the British people, so studiously ignored by the political class and their MSM supporters.
Immigration, Islamism and EUrabism.
Why is it that Gordon, Dave and Nick so resolutely refuse to acknowledge, discuss and address these issues? There are a number of reasons: a general shift to the idealology of the left, very noticable particularly in the Tory party but evidenced also in the number of ex communists and socialist workers infesting the upper reaches of the Labour party and its TU succubus. The unholy alliance beyween the left and Islam. This unholy marriage of convenience, this new same gender partnership, has served the left well in maintaining it in power. However the divorce will be acrimonious when Islam turns against the left to seize direct political control.
The real reason I believe is that even the politicians are now too afraid to even atempt ot address the severe corrosion of UK society. They realise they are sitting on a powder keg that can be ignited at any time by an incident of mass terrorism and which, when it happens, will result in the most profound social disorder, probably leading to political revolution. Their panacaea is to pour
vast amounts of taxpayers money in benefits on both a debauched and drugged indigenous working class and the the new fast breeder urban third world ghettoes created by Labour.
All fine as long as the boom continued into the twilight, but that's all over now. A lack of tax oil to pour on troubled waters is likely to exacerbate future violence.
Coeur de Lion
March 13th, 2010 6:56pm Report this commentI think we should try and keep calm about Islam. They've knocked down a couple of skyscrapers and killed about 4-6000 people so far (incl a sensible proportion of Muslims)and shown themselves to be thoroughly mediaeval otherwise. It's a sad reaction to the tide of history. We should be sympathetic and try to help them forward.
Wilhelm
March 13th, 2010 6:57pm Report this commentPaul B screeeeeeeams
'' The BNP will ban Chinese food.''
Now you are being silly, son.
David Ossitt
March 13th, 2010 7:51pm Report this commentCoeur de Lion
My wife and I do like your cheese; in particular your Pie d'Angloys.
But to get back to your post and your mention of:-
“They've knocked down a couple of skyscrapers and killed about 4-6000 people so far (incl a sensible proportion of Muslims) and shown themselves to be thoroughly mediaeval otherwise.”
Not quite sure just what you meant by “a sensible proportion of Muslims”?
Did they, “the bombers” choose an amount or a proportion?
What to one man looks sensible, to another might appear to be foolish.
I suppose it is a bit like cooking and just what is to your taste (I’m not on about the cheese again) for me a good balance, a sensible proportion would have been 100%.
Jez
March 13th, 2010 10:48pm Report this commentPaul B;
"forget the emotional blackmail me old china, because I had chemo treatment just over ten years ago."
I'm very sorry to hear that Paul... my family is going through the same right now. I aint going to talk bullshit now- lets do business.
As an opinion, the country is f*cked through a bunch of retarded overeducated establishment vermin that would mug their own grandparents to further their own agenda's..... Cameron (i maybe mistaken) seems out of this pool of sh*t... and sincere in his direction- but at the same time utterly out of his depth with zero concept of inner city urban realities of the day.
"I`m also not interested in what you are eating tonight, which I suspect you only mention to garner some form of multicultrual credibility. Look at me, I`m having an exotic Chinesse meal. Big whoopie deal. So bloody what. I care not a jot."
Very good.
Maybe you read a bit too much into that one Paul..... I went for an Italian with the Mother in law- for Mothers day, it was cool.
"If you want to to vote for the BNP fine, thats your right and I would support that. But equally , don`t expect me or others not to point out what bunch of toe rags the BNP are. Griffin is a lowlife racist , holocaust denying, centralist,statist totaliarian, perverted politician."
Have you met the guy?
"If you or others vote for him or his party or even contemplate voting for him, then you have no respect for yourself or this country of ours."
What respect would i have for my family if i voted for any political party that resent's the existance of my children as British kids in Britain as the Neathergate revelations have proved?
What respect would i have for my family if i voted for any political party that denies any debate / will refuse to even debate the existance of the Neathergate meteorite strike?
"Enjoy your Chinesse while you can, cause if Griffin or his party where to seize power, foreign food wouldn`t be on the menu for much."
I reckon that may not happen..... we need to knock the anti British bastards of track with a vote that'll stop them in their tracks....
- as an opinion.
David Ossitt
March 13th, 2010 11:21pm Report this commentJez
Well said; sir, keep it up.
Paul B
March 14th, 2010 10:11am Report this commentJez, I think we may enjoy a British pint of beer,during the course of an Indian , if we ever met. As to meeting Griffin, I could equally ask of anyone on here who criticises DC with such the same question. You take my point I trust without elaboration.
I don`t accept the country is kiboshed, but its in a bad way after all these years of Labour rule.
Verity, couldn`t resist getting a dig in could you, you pathetic and pedantic enbittered old crone. If you lived in England rather than the deserting to foreign climes then you would know what I referred to. Enjoy your Mexican.
Wilhelm
March 14th, 2010 11:03am Report this commentPaul B
Would you be happy if England was 100 % African muslim ? and all the caucasions kicked out ?
And the Isle of White called the Isle of Black ?
Verity
March 14th, 2010 1:46pm Report this commentPaul B - As it happens, I don't like Mexican food. I could eat Tex-Mex on a daily basis, but they don't have it in Mexico. Just Texas. But that is life in this vale of tears.
As to the rest of your typically badly written hymn to vacuity, you seem to be blind to the violence that has been practiced on our formerly cohesive and civil society. One intuits that, given the repugnant and sly nature of the players, there are even more draconian manipulations being planned. David Cameron will go with the flow, hoping that they will give him his turn. I might mention in passing that I despise the man as much – even more, because I would have expected more bravery and patriotism from a Conservative – as Jack Straw and that is going it some.
Perhaps you should lose some of your smug ignorance and try to figure out who created the society that is awash with child abusers, muggers, murderers, burglars, tormentors of helpless old people, ever more draconian controls on a formerly decent and cohesive society and ever more destruction planned of the underpinnings of our country.
Britain is being destroyed, deliberately, from within and all you can you is make silly jokes about Mexican food. In Mexico we have a strong, fiscally responsible, conservative government. Read it and weep.
Jez
March 14th, 2010 2:34pm Report this commentLets face facts, not one contributor here is a bad egg..... but the state of the nation is dire.
It's gloves off- and the coming election (hopefully) will blow this fact wide open.
Pot Head
March 14th, 2010 4:11pm Report this commentVerity bleats "In Mexico we have a strong, fiscally responsible, conservative government"
And the highest murder rate in the world with over 2600 people murdered in the border city of Juarez in 2009 alone. I doubt that any Brits will want to trade places however broken Britain is supposed to be and however "fiscally responsible" your conservative government is. Anyway I'm surprised to read you defending the BNP after all haven't sid in the past that the BNP is a fat left party?
Jez
March 14th, 2010 6:15pm Report this commentPot Head.
Mexico has such a high rate of murder due to the Cocaine trade made exceptionally lucrative by a lax, liberal driven border policy that would make any globalist cream in his or her pants.... maybe. As an opinion.
Jez
March 15th, 2010 11:15am Report this commenthttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7061983.ece
Could this be connected to the 'in-thing' that any serious globalist wants to be seen with this season;
a porus border?
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