THE MEN today exposes the hateful policies of the BNP as it attempts to win your vote.
The extremist right-wing group, which only allows white people to join, is targeting our region at the European Parliament elections on June 4.
It needs just eight per cent of the vote across the north west of England to win one of eight seats in Brussels - bringing them taxpayers' money and a platform for its racially-divisive views.
The BNP has tried to reform its image by campaigning on local issues and hiding its true colours. If the BNP gains power it wants to create 'firm incentives' to make British people who do not have a white skin to leave the country.
Party leader Nick Griffin claims that black and Asian Britons - including heroes like boxing star Amir Khan, football legend Rio Ferdinand and Victoria Cross winning soldier Johnson Beharry - 'do not exist'. He dismisses these proud Britons as 'racial foreigners'.
Griffin is a former leader of the National Front who was given a suspended jail sentence in 1998 for distributing material likely to incite racial hatred. He has previously described the Holocaust, in which Hitler's Nazis killed six million Jews, as 'Allied wartime propaganda'. He has since attempted to distance himself from these comments.
Griffin, from London, is now top of his party's list for the Euro-election in the north west. That means if the BNP gains enough votes in our region, he and his party will be representing you in Brussels.
The party is trying to use anger at mainstream politicians to gain a foothold in Greater Manchester - which has never elected a BNP councillor.
In a recent by-election in Moston, Manchester, the party finished second with 815 votes. Only last week - in Irwell Riverside, Salford - the BNP increased its share of the vote to 17 per cent.
Yet the party has long been reluctant to talk about its views on race.
In its manifesto for the 2005 general election, the BNP made clear it would create 'firm' incentives for 'immigrants and their descendents' to leave Britain. Yet the proposal was only mentioned on page 48 of 53, under the heading of 'Environmental Policies'.
When asked by the MEN to confirm that the BNP wanted non-white Britons to leave the country, Simon Darby - Griffin's deputy - said 'essentially, yes' before refusing to talk about the issue any further.
The party's constitution includes in its 'political objectives' the aim of creating an 'overwhelmingly' white country, by changing the law as well as 'negotiation and consent'.
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BNP - the truth
May 26, 2009
BNP leader Nick Griffin
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barca99, Salford (26/05/2009 at 07:35)
Perhaps the MEN should be exposing the wasteful policies of our current Government, its illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its negligence for wrecking our economy, its MPs greed in claiming ridiculous amounts of our money to lavish there lifestyles, the inner city poverty that exists on our own doorstep, the gang/youth culture that has wrecked Britain and has left us in fear of walking our streets or the vast amounts wasted on the Millenium Dome and the Olympic project.
I find it bizarre that the MEN wants to 'expose' the policies of a party who we all know about anyway, we are 'exposing' nothing we don't already know.
Black Flag (26/05/2009 at 08:38)
MUFC-herefirst-1878, Wilmslow (26/05/2009 at 08:44)
I am a conservative voter and have been for some time but I personally do feel the more votes the BNP get - the more awareness it brings to the goverment that an awful lot of people in this country are sick and tired with the way this country is won towards Immigration, the cotton wool treatment of hate preachers like "the hook" Hamzad.
I will never vote BNP because 95% of their views are extremist and I totally disagree with but the more votes they get the better just simply for raising awareness that we as a nation are getting narked off with 10 Downing street
Voice of Sanity (26/05/2009 at 08:53)
Democracy should not include bias.
Andy., Bury (26/05/2009 at 08:54)
Rather than voting for these dangerous people in protest at the undoubted inadequacies of our current Parliament, why don't people vote FOR something? There are plenty of options out there which don't involve lending support to such divisive and hateful ideology. Make no mistake the party will read a vote not as a protest against others, but support for itself.
Please vote for something you believe in in - not against something you don't. Otherwise you risk giving these people and their hate filled politics not just a platform but access to funding with which to further promote division.
Jay B, oldham (26/05/2009 at 08:59)
while these lot have major faults with them. why dont you spend time picking out all the major faults with the other parties? other than the expensies scandal!
especially our current leadership!
maybe start with something closer to home? like a certain city council leader who still has not done what he promised?
ian obrien (26/05/2009 at 09:09)
Sandra Cheshire (26/05/2009 at 09:10)
I'm with Barca99 on this....only I don't find this kind of "scoop" bizarre. No more than the two (black and white unite and fight) bishops wheeled out over the weekend at the behest of the great and the good in an attempt to influence out votes, it's to be expected more and more in the days leading up to the elections.
It was interesting that, to coincide with the "divine intervention", the BNP website was subject to a sustained and very strong denial of service attack. I wonder how that happened?
Free and fair elections, how do you do? If this kind of caper happened in a Central American election the EU leaders would be running around in small indignant circles and despatching envoys to give the errant country a stern talking to.
Memo to the editor - save your headlines for some proper news; I don't need you to tell me who to vote for.
Ralphmilneshead (26/05/2009 at 09:18)
PS Who owns the MEN? Go on dare you to tell us?
Mark Roazhar (26/05/2009 at 09:25)
stephenc, prestwich (26/05/2009 at 09:27)
AI73, Rochdale (26/05/2009 at 09:30)
WhoKnowz, Manchester (26/05/2009 at 09:35)
Tideswell Man (26/05/2009 at 09:37)
It's important that the media continue to hold the party accountable for their past and hold their views up for public scrutiny,
luvpump, mars (26/05/2009 at 09:40)
Voter (26/05/2009 at 09:41)
willing to listen, Middleton (26/05/2009 at 09:44)
Johnstone (26/05/2009 at 09:56)
Horatio Dogsbody, Flixton (26/05/2009 at 10:00)
Guest tickets, although not spelt out in chapter and verse, are intended for an invitee's spouse (to be), partner or close relative to attend.
I take issue with the often quoted vote threshold of 8% needed to secure a seat in the European Parliament.
One might need only 8% to be the eighth person candidate elected but one could need a much higher percentage. It all depends on how the votes pan out for the other parties contesting the election. I have tried running the D'Hondt process (that used to allocate the British seats in the European election) to select eight people using various combinations of figures for what the main and fringe parties might relistically poll but with one party on 8% each time. Only once did 8% result in a seat.
It seems that someone has plucked a theoretical possibility out of thin air and everybody takes it at face value without question. Who originally suplied this figure? Have any media people checked the working and the figures for themselves or did they just accept it?
Eight percent is certainly possible and is certainly being milked for all that it is worth but just how much is it worth?
Donna. Harpurhey, Nr Mostonbique (26/05/2009 at 10:02)
I think it only fair that they have as much coverage as all political parties regardless of there views, we live in a democracy and everybody should have their say, we never banned Sinn Fein or the loyalist parties in Northern Ireland who waged war on our streets and wrecked our own city centre, nor do we ban the Muslim extremists who preach anti-western messages on our streets. Perhaps the MEN should be exposing the wasteful policies of our current Government, its illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its negligence for wrecking our economy, its MPs greed in claiming ridiculous amounts of our money to lavish there lifestyles, the inner city poverty that exists on our own doorstep, the gang/youth culture that has wrecked Britain and has left us in fear of walking our streets or the vast amounts wasted on the Millenium Dome and the Olympic project. I find it bizarre that the MEN wants to 'expose' the policies of a party who we all know about anyway, we are 'exposing' nothing we don't already know.
Orb the Impaler, Rochdale (26/05/2009 at 10:15)
MEN - who's TOLD you to publish this article?
Are the big parties and people in power now running so scared that they need to employ the MEN as their mouthpiece? I thought they used the BBC for this?
How about you let people make their own minds up?
Laura Norder, Didsbury (26/05/2009 at 10:23)
Bad suits, skanky haircuts and a lack of common decency, they are a nasty, racist bunch and I wish them nothing but ill will and lost deposits.
This country's asylum and immigration policies are far from perfect, but we used to be a beacon for the oppressed and maltreated of the world. I'd like to see us become that shining light again, though not as a haven for the workshy and scammers looking for a free ride - we have enough of our own.
Dean, Swinton (26/05/2009 at 10:24)
zarquon, bramhall (26/05/2009 at 10:35)
The BNP may have unpalatable truth to some, however it is not an inalienable right for those who prefer to accept lies by their political party to decry the innocent.
The Very Cheeky Monkey, in the trees (26/05/2009 at 10:41)
Your gross mis-calculation is the that there are more racists in our society that anyone likes to admit. What you have done is clealry explain to this silent chunk of the electorate what the BNP represent.
Another brilliant MEN campaign - just like your rabib support for the COn Tax.