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Vortex

This is a distortion of the facts. This was a protest against an organization called "Stop The BNP", run by the disreputable Searchlight organization, whose latest campaign slogan is "Hope Not Hate". The BNP protesters would have demonstrated against Searchlight/John Cruddas and their interference in the democratic process. They always love to demonstrate against BNP Meetings, the only difference is that the far left/UAF/Searchlight mob try and physically stop BNP meetings like they did at Brinsley last year or intimidate owners of venues into cancelling meetings by a lawful political party by threats and abuse like they did at Tempsford.

RTSTN

Well said, Cruddas is a total scumbag who bought a council house in Dagenham to make it look like he lives there. When in fact he lives in his half million house in Notting Hill, so depriving one family in his constituency of a council house.

The shocking BNP demo!

Tom Wilde

Although I am no friend of the BNP I think it is quite cruel of Searchlight to have put this video onto YouTube.

It shows the BNP demonstrators as a small gaggle of anoraks led by a pompous clown with a bull(****)horn, who boasts hilariously about how the BNP is going to capture the parliamentary seat of Labour's "M.P. Cruddas" and rants about the anti-BNP conference being "illegal". This is really playing the men not the ideas. Amusing, but below the belt!

RTSTN

The illegality he was referring to are the third party hate leaflets put out during elections which the BNP contest, which the trash at this conference are responsible for.
They are put out by an alliance of the far left, the violent thugs of the SWP, Class War and the Labour party.

The leaflets are full of hatred, bile and lies which if anybody else had put out, they could find themselves arrested, there being a thinly veiled threat of violence in them.
These leaflets are put out by people not contesting the elections. Even though they usually urge voters to vote Labour, they do not show up on the Labour party expenses for the elections, there is supposed to be a limit on what can be spent in a election.

Complaint after complaint has gone into the Electoral Commission, who have acknowledge that the third party leaflets are illegal, but they do nothing.

As for Cruddas parliamentary seat, he thinks it is under threat and that is why he spends a large amount of his time attending conferences like this and similar events, all at the taxpayers expense.

In case you are not aware of the 12 council seats the BNP have in Barking and Dagenham, 11 were won in Cruddas constituency, many with more than 50% of the total vote.
So he has every right to be worried.

blueblood1920

The commissions bark is worse than its bite, its simply a dog without teeth. Well it was a fairly good PR coup by the BNP, they got their Vote BNP cards on regional news for hundreds to see.

Vortex

Well at least Mr Wilde refers to these nasty vicious neo-nazi-thugs merely as anaraks. Good grief some of them actually look like normal everyday people!

Tom Wilde

I wouldn't go as far as that!

What a lot of folk don't get is that the BNP actually did quite well in the past out of its well-justified reputation for neo-nazi thuggery. It meant they attracted votes from angry people who probably weren't fascists themselves but who wanted to lash out at the system and cause a stir. Even more, it meant they attracted a disproportionate amount of media coverage for such a small party, and that any minor local success they had used to get written up in a sensationalist way by the papers. However, now they've notched up a few dozen local council seats, without showing any sign of talent or even basic competence, the shock value has mostly worn off, but without being replaced by any kind of credibility or affection. The reporters snap shut their notebooks saying "that bloke is wearing an anorak - he doesn't even look like Goebbels! Where is the interest for our readers?"

Vortex

Certainly the "sensationalist" angle of reporting the BNP has undergone what appears to be an editorial decision agreed among the major newspaper proprietors. It appears that any news is almost good news in some quaretrs. The NUJ has written in its code of conduct a directive to its members not to report on any BNP news story positively.

Actually I think the British people are as sceptical about the press as they are about politicians, and I don't blame them.

Hunter

Strange how no mention was made of Cruddas and the 'Hope not Hate (UAF) protesting against the right of BNP members to have free speech at the Oxford debate.

This should be seen as a prime example of the bias the media put on anything to do with the BNP. The conference had nothing to do with 'hope not hate' but was used to work out ways to defeat the BNP. The methods used by Cruddas and his crew are illegal, but because the 'system' has been geared against the BNP all we can do is get on with the job in hand.

Cruddas knows he is going to lose his seat at the next election and is doing his utmost to stifle the BNP from taking his votes, if not the seat itself.