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A BNP thug who ran for council has been given a year’s community service for assaulting two female pacifist campaigners.

David Clarke, who got 518 votes when he stood in Heathfield for this year’s local elections, was sentenced on four counts of assaulting anti-racism campaigners.

Clarke, of Dunley Drive, New Addington, pushed and shoved Lorna Nelson-Homian, James Cox, Nigel Green and Silvia Beckett in two separate attacks last May outside East Croydon train station.

Croydon Magistrates’ Court handed the 41-year-old a 12-month community order last week and ordered him to pay costs of £650.

Clarke denied attacking the Hope Not Hate campaigners but was found guilty on April 30.

Giving evidence in relation to the first incident on May 27, campaigner Nigel Green said: “I saw him [Clarke] walking towards me.

“He was walking right towards me and I could see there would be problems. I decided to stop and put the leaflets behind my back.

“But he gestured for me to give him a leaflet and he basically snatched them out of my hand. They were thrown down on the street and that was quite a shock to me.

“Then he sort of pushed me and grabbed my arm and twirled me around. I was very shaken because I had done nothing to provoke him.”

Prosecutor Daniel Irving told the court how after the first assault Clarke left, only to return to repeatedly shove Ms Beckett to get to Mr Green.

The court heard Clarke almost knocked the woman off her feet.

Mr Irving told the court that when Clarke spotted other Hope Not Hate campaigners two days later he screamed at them: “F****** scumbags, filth on our streets, taking all our jobs.”

Then Clarke again snatched leaflets, threw them on the floor and shoved Ms Nelson-Homian and Mr Cox.

Nick Griffin British National Party (BNP) Leader and MEP has told a party conference that he intends to stand down as party Chairman in 2013, (from the BNP website):

Nick Griffin MEP announced his intention to step down as leader by the end of 2013 to concentrate on his re-election campaign to the European Parliament.

Mr Griffin made his leadership decision announcement at the end of the first day of the proceedings.

“By then I would have been leader of the BNP for 15 years and that is long enough,” Mr Griffin said.

“It will be time to make way for a younger person who does not have any baggage which can be used against the party.”

Mr Griffin said the timing of his move was predicated by his desire to bring about what he called the putting into place of the last “building blocks” of the BNP’s administrative and political machine.

“This is going to take at least 18 months to implement and after that I intend to hand the party over to someone who will be able to drive support up to where it can be a serious contender for power,” he said.

Although this may placate certain elements of the party, in particular those who have been making the calls for Griffin to go ever louder since the crushing defeat the BNP took during the 2010 General Election and Local Council elections, I don’t see it being enough to quash the demands for financial transparency and total reform of the party.

One would also question why 2013 ? after all that’s another three years of the Nick Griffin image constantly associated with the party that already has what can only be described as a ‘neo-Nazi and Racist’ party which Nick Griffin has been at pains to get rid of for over 10 years, without any real degree of success.

Surely Nick Griffin has all but taken the BNP as far as he possible can, and currently one of it’s biggest blocks to gaining any ground in mainstream politics is Nick Griffin himself. Another questionable aspect of standing down in 2013 has to be, why so long? in the statement on the BNP website Nick Griffin claims it will take 18 months to complete the modernisation of the party machine, so the question has to be why hang on after that point?.

From an anti-BNP perspective Nick Griffin holding on as long as possible can only be a good thing, after all it’s the image of Nick Griffin that keeps the BNP back, it’s his own history that really stops the BNP making any further gains, which has been evidenced recently with the catastrophic failure of the 2010 Elections.

The BNP have been slipping backwards since the European Parliament Election in 2009 where the BNP gained two MEPs on a smaller share of the vote than they took in the previous EU Elections. They have failed to gain any further council seats since the 2009 EU Elections, which ended in the 2010 Elections with the BNP taking something of a hammering coming out of the elections with around 15 elected councillors left, a well over 50% loss of elected positions for the party.

The BNP need a radical overhaul if they are to achieve any kind of electoral success in the coming years, just changing tactics to copy the Labour Party machine isn’t going to do it, it really isn’t how they campaign it’s the image the party has that has to be changed, and frankly that is going to be one of the hardest jobs to do.

If we look at some of the names at the top of the BNP pile there really doesn’t seem to be many candidates that could even attempt to change the image of the BNP, unless some new blood arrives that hasn’t been in the front line of Nationalism, someone that no one has heard of, and someone who has the guts to strip the BNP apart from the top down, getting rid of everyone that could possibly have ANY past history that could be used against the party.

And from what I have seen there isn’t anyone currently within the BNP, or on the fringes that has any chance of making a big enough impact on the BNP image, even less so if that person is only going to be given the short period of 2 years to get the job done from when Griffin steps down in 2013 and the next General Election in 2015.

Bob “it’s all a conspiracy” Bailey has resigned as head of London BNP after losing his seat and getting arrested for assault. According to to a statement by London BNP, Bob stood down in order to:

“concentrate on clearing his name following unfounded allegations of assault during the recent London Elections”

Before claiming that:

“Bob leaves London BNP in good shape”

Under his leadership the BNP lost every single seat they held in the capital. These included his own and the council seat of the BNP’s only London Assembly member Richard Barnbrook. Barnbrook has so far failed to mention this defeat, although he does admit that:

“We didn’t do nearly as well as we’d hoped.”

However, all is not lost. As he puts it on his blog:

“the result, disappointing as it was, doesn’t actually change anything”

Oh dear. I think we’re stuck in the first stage of grief here Richard.

Source: Tory Troll

After admitting anti-Muslim postings, he faces historic charge of religious intolerance

A BNP supporter could become the first teacher to be struck off for religious intolerance next Monday. Adam Walker will appear before a General Teaching Council (GTC) panel on Monday, charged with making anti-Muslim comments on a website while using a school laptop.

Mr Walker, who used to teach at Houghton Kepier Sports College at Houghton-le-Spring, near Sunderland, quit the school in 2007. He admits writing the comments – made under a pseudonym – but claims they had no link to his work as a design and technology teacher.

Legal wrangles have been going on for over a year, and his team has succeeded in removing former NUT president Judy Moorhouse from the disciplinary panel, arguing that her union’s policies mean she would be biased against him. Fears of clashes between the BNP, protesters and police led to the case being postponed at the beginning of last year. But his lawyers were unsuccessful in their claim that website administrators were wrong to reveal his identity and his posts should not be used in evidence.

Mr Walker, now working as campaigns co-ordinator for BNP MEP Andrew Brons, has vowed to take the case to the “highest level” if found guilty.

Teaching union the NASUWT has accused the GTC of allowing the BNP to use the case to attract publicity.

Mr Walker’s brother Mark, who taught at Sunnydale Community College in Shildon, County Durham, lost his employment tribunal case for unfair dismissal last month. He claimed he had been fired for his political views and involvement with the BNP. But the panel said the school had been justified in its actions on account of his sickness record.

Wildly flailing about for ideas to head off growing rank and file disaffection and to find scapegoats for the widespread demoralisation of the BNP membership in the wake of a disastrous general election performance, Nick Griffin has determined to fix much of the blame for his own abject incompetence on ousted webmaster Simon Bennett.

In an email sent on Friday afternoon, Griffin writes:

At the height of the General Election campaign, at a time when millions of leaflets were hitting doorsteps around the country, our website was destroyed by a treacherous former employee.

This unforgiveable act of treason contributed to the loss of dozens of election deposits around the country. [Our emphasis]

For several weeks a group of loyal Party officials and volunteers have been working hard getting the entire BNP internet operation up and running once again.

“It has been a hard slog but now things are moving once again. Instead of depending on one person to run the entire BNP cyberspace presence we now have a team of people working together, technicians, designers, writers and moderators,” said BNP webmaster Paul Golding.

The idea that the loss of the BNP’s website cost the party any votes at all is inane and is already being ridiculed for the fiction it is by formerly loyal Griffinites.

In the past few days leading figures in the BNP have taken out a free blogspot called “The BNP Truth Chronicles – Countering the smears, lies, crackpots and traitors” aimed squarely at vilifying Simon Bennett. The location of the blogspot has been widely disseminated, not least by tame poodles “Bev Kerry” of the snake-pit VNN, and the cringingly sycophantic Paul Morris (who has sacked the entire moderating team of his barely visited grovel-fest of a forum).

Scales have been falling from previously unquestioning BNP eyes by the hundred since the magnitude of the BNP reverse became apparent as the hours of May 7th ticked on. The myth of Nick Griffin’s infallibility has been firmly pricked. Formerly pliant members are now admitting that his Question Time performance was a disaster, that the BNP’s Euro “success” was not quite what it seemed, and that the party’s Griffin-led general election “strategy” was a complete failure.

The more intelligent of the grass roots and middle-ranking members aren’t buying Griffin’s excuses or his crude attempts to scapegoat Simon Bennett, and seem fairly resolute in their demand that Griffin stand down from the leadership.

Griffin is undoubtedly watching and waiting to see who comes forward to head up any putative rebellion, the name most talked about being that of Eddy Butler, who left the Barking and Dagenham count openly discussing ways and means of deposing Griffin with Richard Barnbrook.

Butler, of course, is already in the frame to take a share of the blame for Griffin’s ineptitude, while it is believed that Barnbrook continues to smoulder that he was abruptly shoved aside as the BNP’s Barking PPC by the carpet-bagging Griffin on the promise that he would lead the BNP group on Barking and Dagenham Council – an empty promise, as it turned out, and one which inevitably angered drink loving street-fighter Bob Bailey, the sitting group leader, who resigned as the BNP’s London organiser this week.

In the meantime the beleaguered Griffin has launched his standard containment strategy of shifting the blame for his own yawning deficiencies and smearing his enemies as traitors and plants, a strategy he has deployed with unimaginative predictability ever since he first rose to exceedingly minor prominence in the 1980s National Front.

Previously untroubled backwaters of the Internet, where BNP members debated in a quietly deranged way among themselves while contending with the odd anti-fascist interloper, have become targets for blunt but counter-productive Griffinite and Covert Tactics trolling, notably the BNP sub-forum at the British Democracy Forum, where BNP members and supporters are overwhelmingly in favour of change at the top of the BNP. A rash of quickly banned new arrivals whose presence threatened to turn BDF into a replica of VNN caused the forum’s owners to institute a “zero tolerance” policy in tandem with “draconian moderating”.

Zero tolerance is something long practiced by Nick Griffin throughout his turbulent, purge-filled years as leader of the BNP. Self-preservation was never so well embodied in the being of one man. He isn’t big enough to admit his failings and walk away. Self-sacrifice for the good of the cause isn’t a thought that ever entered into his head. With a year to pass before local council elections are due, and several years to come before the next Euros, he has all the time in the world to identify his real and potential internal enemies and isolate them before danger threatens.

The question is, now that the spell of Griffin has been broken for so many, will those preparing to topple him – as we know they are – just for once have the wits and strategic sense to attempt to outsmart him on their own terms instead of his; that is to say, will they realise, as they fight over whatever remains of the BNP, that from the beginning a desperate Griffin can be relied upon to play dirty, and that there’s very little point to upholding the Queensberry Rules when the man they are fighting has loaded his gloves with lead?

Source: Norfolk Unity