BASILDON BOY

You will need to ask Brian Lee - ex Chairman of UKIP in this part of the world for an honest apraisal of UKIP in South Essex.

marcus

Seriously any BNP supporter you don't want to know. Every UKIP supporter whether you like it or not is an ambassador for the party. People who hold racist views are not the people you want in the party. Hence as Nigel says we refuse entry to anybody who has anything to do with the BNP. Any party who offers white only membership... i mean come on, say no more.

BASILDON BOY

Now he is claiming he was misled and after doing some in depth research realises what a terible mistake he has made!

BASILDON BOY

Church Leader Stupid To Sign Up To The Bnp (from Echo)

Church leader ‘stupid’ to sign up to the BNP
By John Geoghegan

A FORMER council chairman and church leader who joined the British National Party as a local organiser has dramatically turned his back on the far-right party.

The Rev John Stanton, who was Lib Dem chairman of Rochford District Council in 1997, admitted he was "stupid" for not knowing what the BNP really stood for when he signed up to the party about a year ago.

In yesterday's Echo, Mr Stanton, 75, who was the BNP organiser for Rochford District, said he joined the party because he agreed with their positions on Europe and immigration.

advertisementBut he has now said: "I have ended my involvement with the BNP after finding out more about them at the weekend.

"It was very stupid of me, but I only read what they said about themselves, which I agreed with.

"Friends have contacted me to say: Those people are nasty.' My daughter rang me sobbing and said: What have you done?'"

Mr Stanton, who also heads the Rock Dene Christian Fellowship, a house church at his home in Leicester Avenue, Rochford, said it was the BNP's views on race that turned him off.

He said: "I had no idea party leader Nick Griffin has been convicted of inciting racial hatred. I also discovered the party was anti-Semitic and homophobic.

"I was misled by what they said about themselves. The impression I got when they joined was that it was just a very British, Christian organisation. Now, I don't really trust anything that they say.

"If a West African came here and adopted British values and customs, the impression I got was he would be welcome, but according to the BNP he wouldn't be."

Mr Stanton, who spent four years as a Lib Dem councillor in Rochford in the 1990s and five years as a Conservative in the 1970s, said he intended to formally finish with the party by writing letters to the BNP's hierarchy.

No one from the BNP, which plans to field a candidate in Hullbridge in next month's election, was available for comment.

9:45am Saturday 1st March 2008

Ea of Dune

What a farce , how the hell could he not be aware of the controvesy around the BNP if he has been involved in politics for as long as he has?

Ea of dune

brian lee

Thanks BB.

Here it is.

If my memory is better that that of the Rev. he and his wife were still paid up members of UKIP at the end of 2006. (I can't remember when they joined). I have just referred to photos taken at the South Essex Branch St. George's Day Dinner in Leigh-on-Sea in 2004. His wife Joy was sitting next to me and the Rev. John was sitting next to Margaret Titford. At another dinner, Robin Page, guest of honour, called him something like, "the sruffy looking vicar", during his speech. He didn't seem to mind.

He came to a few of our dinners. A very likeable chap; he said a very good Grace.

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kernow

Yet more proof you should never mix Religion with politics!

blueblood1920

What he means is that he has been intimidated into backing down by numerous far left cranks. Anti-semetic when we have jewish members and councillor, if he believes that then he is a tosser. We also have gay members, also after being in a part for a year as an ORGANISER he must of met numerous BNP members and obviously they must not of expressed any anti-semitic, racist or homophobic views or he would of left ages ago.

Maybe this silly old coffin dodger was a searchlight operative planted to get this type of publicity just before the elections? Because either this guy is deaf and blind or just completley and utterly stupid and put in a straight jacket how could he not know of Nick's previous history when its always quoted by the media and on left leaflets.

Vortex

Unless presumably they are ex-tennis "stars" like Buster Mottram who was a National front activist espousing views which the modern BNP would term extreme.