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The British National Party (BNP) have posted a response to the threat from Unilever to take out an injunction against them for the use of a Marmite jar in the online version of their 2010 General Election campaign party political broadcast, the statement contains the following:

“The clip shown last night on the BNP website is essentially the actual broadcast, but apparently one of the people to whom we had given the broadcast to review, inserted the Marmite jars in reaction to the disgraceful smear advertising campaign being run by Unilever, which smeared and spoofed the BNP and its Euro 2009 TV broadcast,” Mr Griffin said.

Now this is interesting as the BNP continually love to talk about their BNPTV team who are their own in-house production crew, so the people with access to the footage are all BNP people, and their website is controlled by another BNP member and Spokesman Simon Bennett and the version that appeared on their website last night also contained the Marmite Jar.

And another interesting point to note here is that Nick Griffin gave the following quote to the BBC today:

BNP leader Nick Griffin told the BBC the broadcast was created as a spoof.

So Nick Griffin claims it was created as a spoof to the BBC yet in the BNP statement claims ‘Some Joker’ inserted the Marmite Jar without their knowledge, the BNP really should get their stories straight.

Yet another contradiction can be found in Nick Griffins Twitter feed in which he boasts about the issue:

The question should be was this really the work of ‘Some Joker’ or a designed plan to gain extra publicity for the BNP? it seems this one could backfire in a very big way on Nick Griffin and the BNP, it would seem that the BNP claims that it was out of their control are going to be very difficult to prove should Unilver decide to take the action any further than the proposed injunction. The statement also says:

A disgraceful smear campaign against the British National Party, launched by the manufacturer of Marmite, has backfired after a joker amended the party’s previewed television broadcast on the Internet last night to include a jar of Marmite.

Now the BNP want to try to claim that Unilver/Marmite has intentionally produced it’s latest advertising campaign as a direct smear campaign against the BNP, I know they love conspiracy theories but this is a bit rich really, and besides that Unilver remained directly with advertising standards codes and made no direct reference to the BNP in any commercials unlike the BNP who used a trademarked product in the election broadcast.

The BNP goes on to make a direct threat to Unilver:

“If Unilever want to make a scene of it, we will ensure that from now on all of our media spokesmen will appear with jars of Marmite. We hope it does not come to that, and ask Unilever to withdraw their internet advertising campaign in a gesture of good faith, as we have pulled the one containing the Marmite jars.

So it seems the BNP want to take on a company the size of Unilver by threatening to appear on TV with their representative holding Marmite Jars, you would have to question the logic of the BNP trying to make demands of such a large company and then threatening to continue to abuse their trademark.

And in this last quote we see the BNP have clearly contradicted themselves, initially they claimed “some joker” did it, and here we see them saying “we have pulled the one containing the Marmite jars” seems they can’t seem to get the story straight in their own heads here.

The BNP are directly responsible for the content that appears on their website, so even if by some accident this video containing the Marmite Trademark appeared on their website by ‘Mistake’ they are still responsible for it, even to the point of the video still being available on their website until about an hour ago, as many of the online BNP army where still advertising the link to the video directly on the BNP website.

The BNP Statement also includes:

“Unilever’s advertising campaign is a blatant interference in the democratic process and their attack video is blatant incitement to violence,” Mr Griffin continued.

“We are also submitting a formal complaint to the police over that video and have already taken legal opinion on it.”

So the BNP are complaining to the police about the Marmite advert, surely they should have done this weeks ago as the adverts have been running for at least two weeks that I have seen them, and this also wouldn’t be a police matter the BNP should complain to the Advertising Standards Authority if anything as they would have had to have approved the Marmite advert for broadcast in the UK.

I can see this story developing into another expensive court action for the BNP, and another series of begging emails sent out by the BNP to get more money from their supporters to pay for it.

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Cherrie Shepherd, discovered a British National Party (BNP) stamp on the bank note she had withdrawn from a cashpoint which read: “Know the truth – BNP.org.uk.”

The 34-year-old, who is mixed race with family from Barbados in the Caribbean, said she had been “shocked and disgusted” by the discovery.

“This is not right,” she said. “People should not be allowed to get away with this. I am mixed race and it is offensive.

“I was just going to the bank to get my wages out, I earned the money, I don’t expect to have to see that on a bank note. Why should I have to look at their advertising on my wages?”

The money was withdrawn from the Lloyds Bank branch on the corner of Bramford Road and Chevallier Street on Tuesday.

Miss Shepherd took the bank note back to the branch to ask if it could be taken out of circulation to prevent others being offended by the far right party’s message.

But staff at the branch said all they could do was to swap the note.

Miss Shepherd, a sales advisor, said: “I feel disgusted by the stamp, it’s like we are living in another world. I am really concerned there may be more out there and I don’t want other people to have to see one.

“It is just not appropriate, they should not be putting things like that on our money.

“No one should have to be forced to see this kind of advertising on the hard-earned money they make at work. I had to explain it to my kids, they saw me upset and to have to tell them about it was really hard.”

Chris Mole, parliamentary candidate for Ipswich branded the stamp a “tacky gimmick”. He said: “I know it would be a mammoth task but I would hope that the Bank of England would want to take defaced notes out of circulation if they can.

“I am quite shocked, it is a new tactic and not a very clever one.

“It is an offence to deface the currency of the realm. You have to question whether this can be shown to be something 
the BNP has done officially.”

The BNP was unavailable for comment.

Here is a picture of the actual £10 note with the offending stamp on it, which the Evening Star Article hasn’t published.

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Today (18th April) the British National Party (BNP) published an article on their website entitled “The Lies of Gordon Brown” in which they claim Gordon Brown lied about the Net Migration Figures during the TV Debate on Thursday.

A Quote from the BNP article:

Lie Number 1: Mr Brown claimed that net inward migration had fallen for the past three years in a row.

The truth is that the most recently available figures only date from 2008, two years ago already. Mr Brown could therefore not have been quoting figures for 2009.

It seems the BNP really couldn’t be bothered to do the research, as just one minute on the good old Google Search Engine produced me the following report:

Migration Statistics
Quarterly Report
No 4: February 2010

Which clearly shows the net migration figures to June 2009: (read the report here)

Net migration to the UK (the surplus of people immigrating over people emigrating) in the year to June 2009 was 147,000. This compares with 168,000 in the year to June 2008

So it seems the BNP either couldn’t be bothered to do the research, or they just decided to say it was a lie based on no evidence what so ever, I think we can safely say that with the opening statement on the BNP article being a lie that the rest isn’t exactly full of facts either, so frankly I won’t bother correcting their figures as you will be able to read the real figures for yourself in the above report.

Just another reason NOT to vote for the BNP on May 6th.

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BNP Facts has produced a new blog today entitled ‘People like you voting BNP‘  it seems many people think it’s nothing more than a spoof blog, unfortuneatley that couldn’t be further from the truth.

The content of the blog is all factual, Lee Barnes really is the legal director of the British National Party, and everything you see on the blog about him he really did say. But worst of all in the case of Lee Barnes is that Nick Griffin the BNP Leader supports him wholeheartedly and doesn’t see any reason for him not to be a part of the British National Party.

You can read a bit more about Lee Barnes here, and also see the evidence that Nick Griffins supports Lee Barnes here.

The BNP is full of strange people, lets not forget the recent expelling of the parties Publicity Director Mark Collett who apparently threatened to kill Nick Griffin and Jim Dowson the parties fundraising man, read more on that here.

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