More trouble for the BNP (updated)
Internal conflicts resurface on the eve of the election - and candidate is filmed fighting with Asia
By Daniel Trilling Published 05 May 2010 17:01Another acrimonious split has emerged in the British National Party, on the eve of the general election. The Nothing British blog reports that the far-right party's website was taken offline yesterday evening and replaced with an angry message from the BNP's webmaster, Simon Bennett:
It is with regret that I have been forced to pull this website due to several attempts of theft today with regards to design work and content owned by myself.
It is no secret that I have been in dispute with some elements of the management of the party for sometime now, but had hoped to resolve these issues amicably and AFTER the elections.
However, due to several attempts to steal my work today and combined with the recent deliberate copyright infringement I feel I have been left with no alternative to this action and feel wholly justified in doing so.
The dispute relates to the BNP's use of a Marmite logo in a recent party political broadcast -- and the subsequent legal action by Marmite's parent company, Unilever.
The BNP has been beset by internal conflict in recent months. In April, Mark Collett, the party's publicity director, was arrested on suspicion of threatening to kill the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, and its fundraiser, Jim Dowson.
Earlier this year, the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight published a full investigation into the divisive role of Dowson, a hardline Protestant anti-abortion campaigner from Northern Ireland.
UPDATE: as of this morning (6 May), the BNP website is down again, replaced by a "temporary" message. The party has also been locked out of its Facebook and Twitter accounts, with the latter now bearing the message "BNP - Bennett's Nationalist Politics".
In other developments, Bob Bailey, the BNP candidate for Romford has been filmed by a BBC news crew fighting with hecklers on the campaign trail in East London.
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The BNP website is always down their webmaster must seriously take some advance web design courses to improve in his abilities. -Alexwebmaster
I am so shocked by this non-story that I am only going to vote for the BNP once tomorrow!
David "Clowns" Wearing big yellow trousers?
Five votes for the British National Party in this house!!
Me too. BNP all the way.
Im voting BNP too, no dodgy website will stop me.
Dodgy, any critisism of the BNP = vast media conspiracy.
I suppose that is one way to evade critisism.
Despite of course this story being true.
BNP for me as ever. All good, great party. C'mon Nick.
I am voting BNP, these all of aq suden lies wont change my vote, lets remeber all the thives we have ripping us of in parliment.
The first poster talks about criminal clowns, who is he kidding, have a look at labour they have loads of convicted criminals.
I am voting BNP
BNP here - can you say media conspiracy!.. lol do i get the feeling they are a little nervous1
Every party has its freaks who cause trouble -- what about that Scottish Labour MP who was deselected?
This is just another weirdo trying to sabotage the BNP, but it will do nothing to stop my family voting BNP.
BNP has increased it's share of the vote and PR is just around the corner - win, win!
When the liars cheats and embezzlers of Westminster tell the people not to vote for the BNP the British people should vote for the BNP
When the perverts and paedophile of the churches tell the people not to vote for the BNP then the British people must vote fore the BNP
The voters of our country can think for themselves and see through those who want to destroy our country
I would be worried about all these BNP voters, but I'm safe in the knowledge that most BNP voters can't spell X.
Enjoy watching all those lost deposits sockpuppet!
NO SEATS! And no more Barking councillors either. You lose, trolls.
Good to see BNP candidate Bob Bailey getting the positive message out to voters in East London today:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/england/8663681.stm
Another John, and another family voting for the BNP. We are just seeing the birthing pains of a future great party. This is a good thing!
True of not who cares, millions of ordinary people are now represnted by the BNP, they at last have a voice that strikes fear in to the opposition.
A minor squabble between members is not a problem 3 BNP Votes in this house.
Another day, another attack. Well, I see the website is back up so this must be another one of those huge splits in the Party we keep hearing about! When will these media liars learn that nothing will stop the BNP? We are fighting for Britain, not dodgy expenses and cushy company 'executive director' jobs. We are united and we are here to stay. Vote BNP tomorrow!
I gather that the BNP were expecting something like this yesterday, there has been a lot of hacking of BNP related web pages, mainly on Facebook in the last few day, they were in fact thinking of closing all their web sites down today because the hacking was expected to get a lot worse. I suspect that the dirty tricksters are at it again here, and in turn giving the haters of the British people like the media and other British KGB organisations more to drivel on about. Their site goes down misteriously, day before the election, no one smells a rat, scandel, scandel, so tiresome, who cares anyways?
You know, I would never have voted for the BNP a few months ago, but all this bashing has made me want to vote for them more than ever, they stand for something, not nacessarily on immigration, or EEC withdrawal, or illegal wars...........they stand for the last, dieing but still audible gasps of free speech of the people of Britain!
Just think for a moment people, what sort of a world is this, many Nations and peoples are virtually banrupt, and yet today in new york an oil painting, yes just one, set a new record at auction of £106,000,000, and there were many bidders. Yes the cridit cruch is very much over for a select few, in fact this insidious elitist club that runs the world has got even richer!
with you all, I am voting bnp
You freaking looosers. Still supporting me? I really love loosers and I am the king of loosers.
How exactly is this story a lie?
I have been made to feel bad so many times now and guilty about wanting to vote BNP,and mainly by rather ignorant and small minded people. But I am proud now, I have seen through all the victimization very clearly. You know, the media say that the BNP are thugs, but my word, you HAVE to be a hard man to go out and make a stand, its a jungle out there as we saw in that video.
So much hate has been generated by the media and other organisations, that its simply not safe for the rest of us, the thouands, yes, thousands of peace loving BNP supporters who simply have to hide away for fear of this sort of abuse.
Remember, back in the 70's the BNP manifesto could have passed for a Tory one, whats changed so much that its now called all these vile names?
Aparently the BNP are to be immune from all media critisism as any amounts to a vast conspiracy against them.
Or
Lib/Lab/Con do the same.
For a party which is supposed to be better than Lib/Lab/Con their seems to be an awful lot of scandals, convictions etc.
The BNP is not whiter than white after all (no pun intended)
Wow the lefties are really getting desperate..............
Come on Liam, its been a non stop attack, mis quotes, lies, hackers, hate campaigns. If any organisation had tried any of this on another party there would have been an almighty scandel.
Also, no free debate, its realy sad, look at question time, it was a lynching! Why cant they let ordinary people make up their own minds?
Free speech in the UK is dead, we might as well be living in Tibet.
Come on BNP - let's have some Westminster seats! The worm is turning and people are waking up to the reality that our country is being recolonised by third world people, while our industry is going overseas and our roads and other infrastructure dilapidated.
Save our homeland from recolonisation - VOTE BNP!
Come on BNP! Lets bleach Britain
Because the LibLabCon establishment are afraid of being replaced by the BNP gradually over the next 20 years, they fund it in order to destroy it. This isn't the first riff within the BNP I've read about, and it won't be the last.
Lets not mess around using grammer here. If your not white please pack your suitcase and get the F out of here. BNP BNP BNP
BNP are not racist, labour are racist, not with words but with their actions in silencing the British public.
2 more votes for the BNP on Thursday ;)
After seeing a gang of asian thugs attack a BNP candidate I will certainly be voting BNP!
The BNP gave them a few "Prescots" and the asian thugs went on the back foot.
Big yellow clown trousers would be ideal for Labour MPs as they have enormous pockets for stashing all the loot that they steal from the British public.
I am voting labour because my dad did, my grandad did, and I am braindead.
refering the the video link.Im sorry but if i was on the street going from door to door...reagardless of what i was doing...and someone with ATTITUDE came up to me and SPAT at me..he would of got exactly the same treatment, the other parties have heavies around them to do their work, so fair play to BOB...
TWO BNP VOTES IN THIS HOUSEHOLD.
After seeing that those asians attack nick, i'm voting BNP!
In this shared household of bachelors, all the election leaflets got put to one side.
Except for the BNP leaflet. Pushed through our letter box and then straight into the bin along with the rest of the rubbish.
BNP ALL THE WAY!!!! COME ON!!! ONE HEART, ONE BNP!!!
Presuambly all these clowns suggesting that they are going to vote BNP are just being wind-up merchants?
you BNP voters are all clowns. stupid, dumb and very stupid (thought i will say that again). instead of hating one another you should try to find common ground, and not act a retard and blame everyone else but yourself
We get this all the time near an election. Lies by the desperate newspapers.All my family will be voting BNP
Bob Bailey was quite right in his response to those asian thugs. Any ordinary man with a bit of backbone would respond in the same way to someone spitting in his face. Bob is an ex Royal Marine and i find it quite ironic that if he had been serving now in Afganistan he would be fawned over by the media as one of 'Our Boys'. But as a BNP supporter hes just a 'racist thug' beating up poor innocent little teenagers. Teenagers who swagger over to him with intimidating body language ready to start a fight. Oh the media hypocrisy. A proud decent man who was provoked and fought back.
Just to get the facts straight.The Daily Mirror has organised a cyber attack today on the BNP website.
The BNP are working on this problem and wiil have the site up asp.
Dirty tricks by the Daily Mirror,they must be bloody desperate to stop the BNP.Can we all say well done Bob Bailey for standing up to this group of Muslims he's a true hero.
@Jak, John HW et al. BNP voters are all clowns, stupid and dumb etc??? If you are prepared to vote for a group of parties that have bankrupted our country, destroyed its infrastructure, divided our people socially, sold off our industry, given away our sovereignty to an unelected communist totalitarian superstate, overseen the largest gap between rich and poor in history, indulged in corruption to the highest degree etc etc.You people have the blind cheek to insult our intelligence?? One phrase comes to mind 'Pot calling the kettle black!'. So sit there all smug but when British society finally collapses (which it inevitably will at this rate) you have nobody else to blame but yourselves.
Er, this isn't a lie.
Fair play to the BNP though. They have one of the best organised email lists to get people to unquestionably have a pop at a negative article.
I think they were encouraged to say how many votes there were in each house. Not sure why.
Also not sure why they were encouraged to all sound like paranoid nutters with the conspiracy stuff.
What are all these fascists doing on a New Statesman website anyway? Paranoid about leftist conspiracies but always trying to belittle the left themselves. Snooping around all these left-wing websites, pathetically trying to undermine genuine reporting. Or is it just because their own website has been shut down by one of their own small minded bigots?