A CONVICTED racist is boasting about his leading role in the British National Party's campaign to win votes in this week's European elections.
Roy West, from Dukinfield, pleaded guilty to racial harassment at Tameside Magistrates' Court in February after telling his German next-door neighbour to 'go back to Krautland and kill some more Jews.'
Now West, who has stood for the BNP in council elections, in bragging about how he has handed out 10,000 BNP leaflets in Rochdale in one of his internet postings.
He claims to be the 'elections co-ordinator for the North' although senior BNP figures have denied the party has such a post.
The campaigner has also driven a promotional truck which he calls the 'BNP truth truck' around Dukinfield and Hyde.
He has been promoting the extremist party - which bans Black and Asian people becoming members and campaigns to make non-white Britons leave the country - in the run-up to Thursday's ballot.
After he was convicted of racial harassment in February, he was fined £125 and ordered to pay £215 costs and £50 compensation to the victim, Bernd Kugow.
Mr West launched into the tirade after attempting to put a Union Jack flag on Mr Kugow's shed.
During sentencing the judge described his behaviour as 'wholly unacceptable, vile, offensive and distasteful'.
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Mr West has posted a number of videos on the internet talking about his canvassing for the BNP.
In the most recent video, posted on Sunday, Mr West boasts of a 'great response in Rochdale' and an 'even bigger response' in Bury.
After Mr West's arrest last year, the BNP condemned the Crown Prosecution Service as 'viciously anti-British'.
Quotes on the outfit's website attributed to leader, Nick Griffin, said: "The BNP has it on good authority that the political masters of the Manchester Police and the CPS in the North West have been told to find anything at all to try and destroy the BNP in that city and the region."
As reported in the M.E.N., Eddy O'Sullivan, Salford organiser for the BNP, has been 'disciplined' for posting racist comments on the internet.
Speaking of Mr O'Sullivan, the group's deputy leader, Simon Darby, said: "It's an internal matter - he regrets what he's done and he has been severely disciplined by the party. He will not be an MEP, not under any circumstances. That's his punishment and he understands that."
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Bigkecks (02/06/2009 at 08:40)
Can you not see you are having the opposite effect on your moral crusade?
If you keep printing these stories you are promoting the BNP......
Acid, Chadderton (02/06/2009 at 09:38)
Laura Norder, Didsbury (02/06/2009 at 10:09)
Can you not see you are having the opposite effect on your moral crusade?
If you keep printing these stories you are promoting the BNP...... - Bigkecks,
Tosh!
Most of us don't want to be treated like mushrooms: kept in the dark.
To identify the enemy is to free the mind.
zarquon, bramhall (02/06/2009 at 10:35)
Knowledge is power, the people now have the knowledge of what the few have attempted for so long to keep hidden.
Bigkecks (02/06/2009 at 12:06)
The extent of your political information is the MEN website?
This is where you come to brush up on the parties manifestos and plans for European politics?
Seriously, if this is your main source of information that you class as bonafide political guidance then we have MASSIVE problems
Most people wouldn’t have given two hoots about the BNP because they don’t care about politics anyway, so they come on here to see what 17 year old gangmenber got shot this week, see BNP stories start getting all KKK then vote for them
Clevers, Manchester (02/06/2009 at 12:09)
"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then... they came for me... And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
Never forget Hitler was democratically elected...........
if you vote BNP it could be the last vote you ever cast.
Baron Greenback (02/06/2009 at 13:18)
There is a reason these guys all panicked when their members list was released. They do NOT like independent public comment. They are desperately trying to control their image. If no-one reported on it like this then the only press coverage out there would be their own.
Let's make sure they get nowhere on Thursday and then laugh at the pathetic excuses for people who voted for them. Yes, this country has issues. No, the BNP are not the answer. There is nothing British about their racist standpoint.
Dean, Swinton (02/06/2009 at 15:00)
JMP, Manchester (02/06/2009 at 18:17)
Jean M Purdy,
Euro Candidate and Secretary to Bury BNP
Cookie Monster (02/06/2009 at 19:44)
the wisdom of cookie
markyboy, manchester (02/06/2009 at 20:21)
lest we not forget that is what democracy is built on.
sugar n spice, manchester (03/06/2009 at 00:45)
Todd, heywood (04/06/2009 at 14:53)