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Searchlight reveals how the BNP lost no time in getting its noses into the European Union expenses trough
Punish the pigs, urged the British National Party as it sought to win election to Europe last year on the back of the MPs’ expenses scandal. For weeks the image of two men in suits with pink pigs’ heads and red and blue rosettes, grubbing at a pile of bank notes, featured ubiquitously on the party’s website, election literature, posters and even the side of the A-frame advertising lorry that it misnames the “truth truck”.
The public can be assured that no one in this party is in it for the money, declared Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, at the party’s European manifesto launch. And the party’s website stated: “The public can throw all these pigs, thieves, liars and crooks out of their sties by voting for the British National Party on June 4th. The time has come for change.”
Once elected, Griffin and his fellow MEP Andrew Brons were quick to set up personal websites to publicise their work. Griffin’s had a page headed “accounts & expenses”. For many months it carried the promise “All accounts and expenses will be published on this page for complete transparency as soon as they become available”.
Pigs in the trough stunt at the BNP’sEuropean election manifesto launch in Essex on 11 May 2009 photo: David Hoffman
They were not. Only after Chris Davies, a Liberal Democrat MEP in Griffin’s North West region, challenged Griffin in The Bolton News in March to make his expenses public, did Griffin post a few figures. Brons has maintained his silence.
One reason for Davies’s concern was that Griffin receives an allowance of £175,000 a year to pay staff, but lists only three employees on his website, of whom one is part time and another also works for Brons in Yorkshire. It seemed that they were grossly overpaid.
But the truth is more alarming. Griffin revealed that he employed eight full-time and part-time staff, disclosing an impressive sounding list of job titles but no names. Six were paid between £10,000 and £20,000 and only one fell into the “£20,000 to £30,000” band.
Searchlight has discovered that all of them hold senior positions in the BNP. In fact most of the BNP leadership is on the two MEPs’ parliamentary payroll.
One is Simon Darby, who splits his time between both MEPs while acting as the BNP’s deputy leader and press officer and speaking at party functions around the country.
Emma Colgate is the party’s “manager”, in charge of staff management and administration, and Eddy Butler is the BNP’s national organiser and national elections officer. These are major party roles, yet Butler and Colgate combine these functions with jobs for both MEPs. And both of them live in Essex, a long way from the regions Griffin and Brons represent. Colgate even manages to find time to be an active BNP councillor in Thurrock.
Griffin also employs Martin Reynolds and Clive Jefferson. Reynolds heads the BNP’s security department and acts as Griffin’s chief personal minder. Jefferson is the party’s regional organiser in the North West.
It gets worse. Of the 11 BNP staff being funded by the taxpayer, ten are prospective parliamentary candidates for the BNP in the general election, most of them in target seats. Darby is contesting Stoke-on-Trent Central, one of only two seats where the BNP has any prospect of doing well.
Not only are we, the taxpayers, funding the BNP’s organisational structure, we are also helping to pay for the BNP’s election campaign through the EU payroll.
Employees of MPs from the mainstream parties resign or take unpaid leave if they stand in elections to avoid any suggestion of improper use of public money. But not the BNP’s EU-funded staff. Griffin claimed to be elected on an “anti-sleaze” ticket, yet he has lost no time in muscling himself into a first class seat on the gravy train.
Another BNP election candidate receiving EU money is Andrew Moffat, though he is not on the payroll but receives part of the £18,000 Griffin declares as “consultancy fees”. Moffat’s claim to fame is that he shared a flat with Griffin in Pimlico, central London, in 1981, together with other far-right extremists. One of them was Roberto Fiore, the convicted Italian terrorist who was Griffin’s political mentor. Moffat was working for David Irving, the Holocaust denying writer, at the time. He has denied acting as a consultant to Griffin but Griffin has confirmed it.
It is ironic that one of the main planks of the BNP’s general election campaign is withdrawal from the EU. The BNP’s economic policy argues that personal tax is “far too high” and could be reduced by “ending the billions pumped into the EU swindle”, though in its reaction to last month’s Budget the BNP preferred to devote the saving of a claimed £15 billion” in “EU membership fees” to taking “a scythe” to the UK’s national debt.
The day after the Budget, Griffin gave a similar message to the European Parliament, though the amount he hoped to save by withdrawing from the EU was substantially lower. “British taxpayers are fleeced to the tune of £6.4 billion in net direct payments to the EU annually,” Griffin told the EU’s budgetary session.
The difference in the figures is not surprising. The BNP makes a habit of plucking figures out of the air to suit the moment. For example, Griffin has often said the party spent more than £500,000 on its European election campaign, especially when asking his members and supporters for more money. But its official account of its election spending showed it had only spent £282,843. When challenged Darby claimed the party needed to exaggerate and dismissed the discrepancy as “a bit of hyperbole”.
The BNP’s lack of transparency extends to its accounts for 2008, which remain under investigation by the Electoral Commission after the party’s independent auditor stated that they not only did not give a true and fair view but also did not “comply with the requirements of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000 as adequate records have not been made available”. Even Griffin was forced to admits the accounts were “inadequate”.
Just like the pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the BNP promised to work for ordinary people and be better than Britain’s political masters. The only difference between the BNP and Orwell’s pigs is the speed with which the BNP moved into the farmhouse.
Dodgy dealings
The BNP has a long history of financial failings and lies.
The party’s 2008 accounts appeared nearly six months late, for which the party was fined £1,000. This was not the first time such a fine was imposed on the BNP. Its 2006 accounts were just as late.
The BNP’s 2007 and 2008 accounts received an adverse audit report. Independent auditors stated the accounts “did not give a true and fair view of the state of the party’s affairs”, because they could not verify all the figures.
Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, wrote that members raised £26,550 to enable the party to buy its “truth truck” advertising lorry and put it on the road. It was a lie: the party doesn’t even own the vehicle. No wonder opponents call it the lie lorry.
Last year Griffin received a donation of £5,000 from a woman who wanted to remain anonymous. Donations of over £1,000 to individual party members have to be declared to the Electoral Commission but Griffin failed to do so.
Many BNP councillors attend few meetings yet draw their full allowances. For some the payment equates to over £1,000 per meeting attended.
The BNP MEPs are quick to take taxpayers’ money but the party owes thousands of pounds to taxpayers in unpaid VAT and tax and national insurance on staff pay.
The BNP’s deputy treasurer was widely criticised by party colleagues as “incompetent”. Instead of sacking him, the BNP promoted him to national treasurer.
© Searchlight Magazine 2010
The fascists are always whining about being discriminated against. It's quite simple, if the fascists dont want to be descriminated against, they should stop discriminating against others.
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The bnp are pathetic. I look forward to seeing there suport go down soon. look at the lack of suport in elections, they thought theyd do well!
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Be thankful we arent using proportional representation then because if the BNP's percentage of votes were translated into seats they would now have 6 or 7 I believe with 1.9% of the overall vote, which was 1.2% up on last election. The 5th most popular party in the UK (by percentage of overall vote), which I hope is mostly a punishment vote against Labour rather than actual support.Originally Posted by Electionguy
The richest man is not he who has the most but he who needs the least.
...or is nature 'racist'?
Searchlies Magazine, hmm, the election is over Neo. You looking to win Traitor of the Month or something?Animal farm
Searchlight reveals how the BNP lost no time in getting its noses into the European Union expenses trough
Punish the pigs, urged the British National Party as it sought to win election to Europe last year on the back of the MPs’ expenses scandal. For weeks the image of two men in suits with pink pigs’ heads and red and blue rosettes, grubbing at a pile of bank notes, featured ubiquitously on the party’s website, election literature, posters and even the side of the A-frame advertising lorry that it misnames the “truth truck”.
The public can be assured that no one in this party is in it for the money, declared Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, at the party’s European manifesto launch. And the party’s website stated: “The public can throw all these pigs, thieves, liars and crooks out of their sties by voting for the British National Party on June 4th. The time has come for change.”
Once elected, Griffin and his fellow MEP Andrew Brons were quick to set up personal websites to publicise their work. Griffin’s had a page headed “accounts & expenses”. For many months it carried the promise “All accounts and expenses will be published on this page for complete transparency as soon as they become available”.
They were not. Only after Chris Davies, a Liberal Democrat MEP in Griffin’s North West region, challenged Griffin in The Bolton News in March to make his expenses public, did Griffin post a few figures. Brons has maintained his silence.
One reason for Davies’s concern was that Griffin receives an allowance of £175,000 a year to pay staff, but lists only three employees on his website, of whom one is part time and another also works for Brons in Yorkshire. It seemed that they were grossly overpaid.
But the truth is more alarming. Griffin revealed that he employed eight full-time and part-time staff, disclosing an impressive sounding list of job titles but no names. Six were paid between £10,000 and £20,000 and only one fell into the “£20,000 to £30,000” band.
Searchlight has discovered that all of them hold senior positions in the BNP. In fact most of the BNP leadership is on the two MEPs’ parliamentary payroll.
One is Simon Darby, who splits his time between both MEPs while acting as the BNP’s deputy leader and press officer and speaking at party functions around the country.
Emma Colgate is the party’s “manager”, in charge of staff management and administration, and Eddy Butler is the BNP’s national organiser and national elections officer. These are major party roles, yet Butler and Colgate combine these functions with jobs for both MEPs. And both of them live in Essex, a long way from the regions Griffin and Brons represent. Colgate even manages to find time to be an active BNP councillor in Thurrock.
Griffin also employs Martin Reynolds and Clive Jefferson. Reynolds heads the BNP’s security department and acts as Griffin’s chief personal minder. Jefferson is the party’s regional organiser in the North West.
It gets worse. Of the 11 BNP staff being funded by the taxpayer, ten are prospective parliamentary candidates for the BNP in the general election, most of them in target seats. Darby is contesting Stoke-on-Trent Central, one of only two seats where the BNP has any prospect of doing well.
Not only are we, the taxpayers, funding the BNP’s organisational structure, we are also helping to pay for the BNP’s election campaign through the EU payroll.
Employees of MPs from the mainstream parties resign or take unpaid leave if they stand in elections to avoid any suggestion of improper use of public money. But not the BNP’s EU-funded staff. Griffin claimed to be elected on an “anti-sleaze” ticket, yet he has lost no time in muscling himself into a first class seat on the gravy train.
Another BNP election candidate receiving EU money is Andrew Moffat, though he is not on the payroll but receives part of the £18,000 Griffin declares as “consultancy fees”. Moffat’s claim to fame is that he shared a flat with Griffin in Pimlico, central London, in 1981, together with other far-right extremists. One of them was Roberto Fiore, the convicted Italian terrorist who was Griffin’s political mentor. Moffat was working for David Irving, the Holocaust denying writer, at the time. He has denied acting as a consultant to Griffin but Griffin has confirmed it.
It is ironic that one of the main planks of the BNP’s general election campaign is withdrawal from the EU. The BNP’s economic policy argues that personal tax is “far too high” and could be reduced by “ending the billions pumped into the EU swindle”, though in its reaction to last month’s Budget the BNP preferred to devote the saving of a claimed £15 billion” in “EU membership fees” to taking “a scythe” to the UK’s national debt.
The day after the Budget, Griffin gave a similar message to the European Parliament, though the amount he hoped to save by withdrawing from the EU was substantially lower. “British taxpayers are fleeced to the tune of £6.4 billion in net direct payments to the EU annually,” Griffin told the EU’s budgetary session.
The difference in the figures is not surprising. The BNP makes a habit of plucking figures out of the air to suit the moment. For example, Griffin has often said the party spent more than £500,000 on its European election campaign, especially when asking his members and supporters for more money. But its official account of its election spending showed it had only spent £282,843. When challenged Darby claimed the party needed to exaggerate and dismissed the discrepancy as “a bit of hyperbole”.
The BNP’s lack of transparency extends to its accounts for 2008, which remain under investigation by the Electoral Commission after the party’s independent auditor stated that they not only did not give a true and fair view but also did not “comply with the requirements of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000 as adequate records have not been made available”. Even Griffin was forced to admits the accounts were “inadequate”.
Just like the pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the BNP promised to work for ordinary people and be better than Britain’s political masters. The only difference between the BNP and Orwell’s pigs is the speed with which the BNP moved into the farmhouse.
Dodgy dealings
The BNP has a long history of financial failings and lies.
The party’s 2008 accounts appeared nearly six months late, for which the party was fined £1,000. This was not the first time such a fine was imposed on the BNP. Its 2006 accounts were just as late.
The BNP’s 2007 and 2008 accounts received an adverse audit report. Independent auditors stated the accounts “did not give a true and fair view of the state of the party’s affairs”, because they could not verify all the figures.
Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, wrote that members raised £26,550 to enable the party to buy its “truth truck” advertising lorry and put it on the road. It was a lie: the party doesn’t even own the vehicle. No wonder opponents call it the lie lorry.
Last year Griffin received a donation of £5,000 from a woman who wanted to remain anonymous. Donations of over £1,000 to individual party members have to be declared to the Electoral Commission but Griffin failed to do so.
Many BNP councillors attend few meetings yet draw their full allowances. For some the payment equates to over £1,000 per meeting attended.
The BNP MEPs are quick to take taxpayers’ money but the party owes thousands of pounds to taxpayers in unpaid VAT and tax and national insurance on staff pay.
The BNP’s deputy treasurer was widely criticised by party colleagues as “incompetent”. Instead of sacking him, the BNP promoted him to national treasurer.
© Searchlight Magazine 2010
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RULE BRITANNIA!
I think you"ll find their support will increase, thanks to Cameron, Glegg and Brown.
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How MP's?
The fascists are always whining about being discriminated against. It's quite simple, if the fascists dont want to be descriminated against, they should stop discriminating against others.
RULE BRITANNIA!
With the likes of Nick Glegg and David Cameron, that equals a very liberal society. Pretty much what Gordon Brown and Tony Blair have delivered over the last 13 years. Vast amounts of cash given away to overseas goverments, very soft on crime, immigration, political correctness gone mad and the breakdown of society; all the time the economy getting worse, and worse. The voting public had the chance to to endorse tradtional values, but frankly, were scared to leave their comfort zones, and elect parties that have no measures to deal with these problems. I challenge them to prove me wrong - I would love that. But I know I am right. They have expertise, but nothing to offerHow MP's?
I personaly voted UKIP. UKIP is a new party, but where they lack in exprience, they gain in what they have to offer: Pride in country, fight PC, curb immigration, a vote on major issues - including the Death penalty and ending the needless waste of public money of unnecessary projects like the EU - £45 million a day. UKIP is very inexperienced even compared to the your friends the BNP - who do share some UKIP policies.
Although, UKIP and the BNP have their differences , both parties and their voters care about our great country, and this shows in both manifestos. THE MAIN PARTIES COULDN"T GIVE A DAMN! The main goal every UK citizen, should be to save our country.
When people lose their jobs, their homes, when they can"t have their two weeks in the sun, their children being brought up to believe it is the norm, to lie, to steal, to take from the state - brought up like scroungers and hooligans, when their towns and cities are being made into immigrant "shanty towns". Their whole world will collapse over the next 10 years, like Germany in the 30s. The top three will just retire with all their millions.
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BNP are no different to the main in that they don't care either. The BNP got their noses in the trough.
They say power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts completely. That's why What ever the problem, fascism/BNP aint the solution.
UKIP are a democratic party.
The fascists are always whining about being discriminated against. It's quite simple, if the fascists dont want to be descriminated against, they should stop discriminating against others.
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I have voiced my theory on the BNPs growing support base several times, the UAF and its claims, attacks and propeganda against the BNP are in fact helping the BNP garner support, Id go into more detail but I am going over to Mikes house to release the "Green Fairy"!!!Have a good un!!
RULE BRITANNIA!
UKIP ARE a democratic party. Besides the BNP, they are only party to admit we have a problem, with mass immigration - AND BY GOD WE DO!
If we are to avoid a complete take-over of our society, the new goverment (whoever they end up being) must put in measures to stop mass immigration, and this
invasion. If not peoples interest in the BNP will continue to grow. What you have to understand is that a lot of people think of UKIP as a one issue party, so will go to the BNP for help. I am not guessing this, I know this. We are now in the hands of Brown, Cameron and Glegg, who don"t have a glue on these, and other issues.
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"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money."
- Gordon Liddy.
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Just as long as the Blighters don't steal any Tory seats, then good luck to 'em I say!
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