Who is the BNP’s “soldier”?
The far-right party exploits the war in Afghanistan for a propaganda stunt.
By Daniel Trilling Published 12 April 2010 12:44
Today's Metro reports that the BNP leader Nick Griffin, who is standing for parliament in Barking, Essex, was criticised for campaigning alongside a man in army uniform at the weekend. The far-right, anti-immigration party, which is hoping to pick up votes by playing on people's disquiet at the war in Afghanistan, was criticised by a soldiers' charity, ABS, which said there was "no place in the army for racism or politics".
Metro claims not to know whether the man pictured with Griffin is a serving soldier. However, I can reveal he is no such thing: his name is Adam Walker, 41, a BNP member and former teacher who faces being struck off by the General Teaching Council for posting racist messages on the internet during a lesson.
On Saturday he was parading in front of news cameras gathered in Barking to cover the BNP's campaign launch. Asked if he was a real soldier, he admitted he wasn't. "I'm wearing this uniform in solidarity with our boys in Afghanistan," Walker said.
You can read a full report on the BNP's campaign in Barking in Thursday's magazine.
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77 comments
Peter,
Who says I don't have a job? Have YOU got a job? I repeat, he does NOT have the right to wear uniform in order to pass himself off as a serving member of the armed forces; the Uniforms Act of 1894 says so.
http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Primary&PageNumber...
As for wanting a fight, OK, the comment was made in jest, although I am truly annoyed by the ploy and I DO consider it an insult to my former colleagues.
Steve,
Are you walt-hunting?
I really did serve, for just short of 15 years. You are right about the 12 year point, but I was disillusioned, bitter about the way the Forces are/ were being treated and I had doubts about the validity of some of our deployments. My position was becoming untenable, and, unwilling to be a martyr to the pension, I voted with my feet. Simple as that.
Colin I see your point, but this law was paseed in 1894, it is not used and rather out of date. hundreds of builders wear the uniform and so does prince charles who is not technicaly in the armed forces. Have you not tought there are thousands of illigal immigrants roaming the streets working illigaly avoiding tax, but they dont get arrested, so why should this man. I peronaly have served my country and dont mind him wearing it. the reason being he represents the country I was born in to and not the lefty marxists that are ruining this country. I dont want to sound rude, but your energy would be better served trying to campain for tougher laws against all the pedo rapists and drug dealers that this country is swamped with. Yes I too got disulutioned with the armed forces since they runed it with human rights.
I think you'll find most of the tax 40 billion pa tax avoidance is perpetrated by pukka anglo saxon public schoolboys, your betters in the racial hierarchy not some poor bloke cleaning the bogs at Euston station. But why let facts get in the way of a good paranoid fantasy. B
I was in the cub scouts but I don't wear the uniform now because it's a mockery of real cub scouts. That Walker has no entitlement to wear the uniform any more. It's a mockery. BNP pretend to be patriots, but all they do is continually run this country down and mock others.
It is pretty insulting and a lie to claim that "the BNP are the only ones" to support ex-Army personnel.
Just like the BNP claim to be "the only true patriots" and then run down our country without mercy.
People see through BNP lies, just as they see through some silly teacher wearing the uniform of the Army he left some years ago.
What a twat!
@Barbara
You are ripped apart with every comment you post on nothing british. The site is run by torie modernisers who have nothing in common with the core support of the party. The site itself is anti british and the site also has links with a sex offender who is serving time.
Stolen valour was a big fail, it done more for the BNP than it did for the site. The articles used on that site are taken from far left extreme sites, most articles are just copy and paste jobs without any checking of the facts which seems to be normal when reporting the BNP.
Back to the article in question. I think that Mr walker has every right to wear the uniform. Given that it is BNP ploicy to bring the troops home.
This stunt is so contemptible it hurts.
Can't say I'm bothered. It's not like the other parties are beyond playing knee-jerk patriotism for all its worth.
I probably shouldn't be surprised byu how low these pond-scum can go but this is extraordinary.
I've just looked him up and Walker's an ex-soldier, who became a teacher when he left the army.
So what does this tell us about his party?
that they will use any pretext to drum up votes for their extremist views. using the uniform of our soldiers who wear it on combat operations is to be frank distasteful and immoral.
anyone with any commonsense at all would understand having an idiot wearing a uniform he isnt fit to wear following him around is misrepresenting our Armed Forces.
having worn that uniform on operations i feel it insults me and every one of us in the armed forces wo are entitled to wear it with pride.
It's the Liblabcons Ltd who are sending our kids to their deaths NOT the BNP. So the "Nu-left" admire British troops now? Aye right!
He should be arrested and prosecuted. What he is doing IS against the law with (I believe) a maximum of 1 month jail as the sentence. Its about time we started enforcing existing laws instead of making up nonsense new ones all the time.
Maddy
As the ex teacher and I are ex soilders, I think we are more experienced to make that judgement, and exacaly who is insulted? the soilders that will never come home because labour have failed to provide equipment? as an ex vet of two wars I think I know a thing or two about lack of equipment, crap food. people like you make me sick, you have not got a clue about what its like being a soilder, to be faced with hardship and being let down by a country that sends you to fight while you sit in a nice cosy home watching it on TV.
Remeber the BNP are the only ones calling for them to come home, after the next election, remeber every soilder that gets killed will have your vote all over it.
He Certainly got the desired effect !What is the saying "Any publicity is good publicity "
Second rate journolism yet again from this dissapointing blog..
From the TIMES
Adam Walker, a former soldier.
Please get a life lazy Hack, this is embarrasing.
He served he can wear it, come on BNP
Who cares? So the BNP play the patriotism game. Tell me the others haven't....
At least he didn't send a nation to war and get fellow countrymen killed based on a total fabrication of lies. Our morally bankrupt politicians will do anything to capture a few more votes.
You might fined most people that serve or served in the armed forces do so because they feel proud to be British and every thing it has stood for. They see the union flag as something worth fighting for and not something that is hated. I can tell you this you wont have manny people left who will be willing to fight for a third world slum thanks to labour. I have not let my son join the army, thats the effect of the lefty anti british labour party. I can trace my ancesty back to the crimian war 1st and second world war. my son wanted to join too, but no way will I let him fight for a country not no longer represents him me or his ancesters.
Im a BNP member. Once at a meeting where 100 attended i asked for a show of hands "of those who have served in one of the forces. 27 people raised their hands. More then 1 in 4. On Tyneside we have at least 3 members that i know of who served in ww2. Many of our local and parliamentery BNP candidates are X servicemen. I have a family member who has also just joined the Army. He told me,"many of his mates support the BNP" He takes BNP newpapers to the Barracks for his pals.
Adam Walker is an X service man. He has every right to wear that uniform!
He's not wearing much more 'uniform' than your average brickie, plasterer or scaffolder does to work!
It's another blatant attempt by the appalling BNP to associate itself with the honour and glory of the Armed Forces.
Sorry. Stolen valour doesn't fool anyone.
If you think Adam Walker's bad just wait till you find out about his brother, Mark
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/8093116.Judge_says_BNP_teacher___s...
Like I said: "It is pretty insulting and a lie to claim that "the BNP are the only ones" to support ex-Army personnel."
I don't have a problem with the average brickie wearing combat trousers he picked up at the surplus store, my beef is with this guy walking down the street side by side with the leader of a political party. The aim was to mislead.
And as for my point about the BNP not being all that popular in the forces, go to the ARRSE website and search the discussion boards for BNP and you'll see what I mean. (Of course, Arrse is unofficial but it does give a feel of general popular opinion).
That's my tuppenceworth, for all it's worth (tuppence).
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(((Stolen valour doesn't fool anyone.))))
You will find most of the army suport BNP, there is no valour amonst the cowldly UAF. If he want to wear it he can, have you not looked in the army surplus stores recently. but I forgot the left want to stop any freedom of expression
i can tell you some facts. As an ex serviceman of some 26 years service, most servicemen hate the Marxist Left, dislike useless Tories, ignore the other lot but most support The BNP! Fact!
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Since when did the new statesman give a damn about the army? You hypoctrites. If the red cranks at this rag had their way they would disband our forces and spend the money on foreign aid,on bribing islamists not to attack us or maybe even on squandering billions on the man made climate change lie that they peddle daily. (Yes it is a fat fraud used as battering ram against the "nasty" western world by white guilt Liberals)
13 years of squalid political correctness has seen our armed services relegated and treated with contempt in appalling accomadation while we spend millions on the prevent strategy trying to appease our home grown treacherous enemies.
Outrageous Labour betrayal.
I don't believe for a minute that most of the army support the BNP. Most of the army will be appalled that this man is wearing a the uniform to promote Griffin.
@ nick and john.... would the army still support them knowing they'd be pulled out of combat to implement some kind of "final solution" policy should the BNP get into power? Because there's really only one way to make Britain 100% white....
Well obviously he isnt a soldier as they are not allowed to wear uniform when involved with politics..
And you say racist messages is why he got sacked... produce tyhese racist messages cos i can guarentee you they are nbot racist!!
None of the soldiers I know support the BNP.
Btw, one of the soldiers is my best g/f. When that fake BNP soldier said "I'm wearing this uniform in solidarity with our boys in Afghanistan," he is insulting all the women in the Army.
None of the soldiers I know support the BNP.////// Realy?
funny how you all seem to know about the armed forces. fact I have served and unless you have you wont understand squadie mentality, trust me I will say it one more time the army is full of BNP supporters, I have served and still have many mates who suport the BNP in the army
in most walks of life in any job you will have a varity of diferant voters, but most soiders (my mates) I know are sick to death of the imigrants flooding the country taking resouses, such as housing so when they leave the forces they have to jump to the back of the housing queue or have to spend more to get on to the housing ladder, there is going to be a lot of battle hardened ex soldiers who yet have to face up to this reality that awaits them.
but I will say this dont come running to me when the country breaks in to a cival war, as I am off to cannada, I am out of here. would not fight for this country now its finished
Dearest Johnney Boy:
You contradict yourself heavily in your posts, one moment you are full of how someone cannot speak on behalf of the whole army as they dont know them, yet then in the same post proceed to do so yourself.
Now having served and still serving I find very few BNP supporters, and the ones that do only do so for cern policies, just not the make the UK White.
Also you shoul have got down to the Army Education Centre: Your spelling is shocking
"most soldiers support the BNP"
Utter utter bollox
Off to Canada to become an immigrant..
Good toilet cleaners are in short supply in Canada I hear.
Well, i for one am still a serving soldier. No way do i support the BNP. They are the lowest form of life out there. I know i can't speak for the other soldiers out there (as john seems to be able to do). The ones i know though do not, and would not support the BNP if they were the ONLY political party out there. you say you have mates who still serve and are BNP suporters, well, yobs and bullies do always tend to feel bigger and better in groups of like minded people.
and labour dont mislead anybody?
anyits a web sight, so is this one, most of the army are young men and small percentage of women, dont think many of them will be botherd about a boring web site, as they will be getting drunk.
If you go to arse you will also see a big suppoert for the EDL and loads of labour haters, anybody can join this site so it has no representation of the army, I wonder how many soilders are actualy members??
I'm also a serving soldier, and I for one do not support the BNP, they are a bunch of racist scum.
Funny how loads of so called serving soldiers apear, but we can all say we are this or that, I bet its all fantacy if not tell me how many numbers are in the army number and what is the first drill for a blockege on your rifle????????
secondly the BNP does not state it wants a all white country, a lie spun by you lefties.
anyway wont waste anymore time. all I will say is just wait and see what happens in the general election. it down to the voters and most are controled by the media.
maybe you should vote SDP nick has said he is going to give a amnesty for all the iligal imigrants, so you can pay more tax to support them. best of luck. you will need it.
BLOCKAGE, It's a BLOCKAGE. One E, no K.
Must have been in the TA because the regulars give you a better education then that.
You do know how liberal Canada can be, right?
It's amazing how many racists plan to go to New Zealand or Canada . They frequently rant about "not being asked" about non-whites in Britain; have you asked the Maoris or Native Canadians how they feel about having semi-literate bigots flooding their lands?
I for one have too much respect for our armed forces to accept that they're 'full of BNP supporters'. If they were, they'd be full of traitors and terrorists, and they're not.