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European elections 2009: BNP leader Nick Griffin BNP profile
He denied the Holocaust as a “Holohoax”, called for “whites to defend their rights with well-directed boots and fists” and condemned homosexuals as “repulsive”.
He has gone from befriending Colonel Gaddafi and supporting Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini to denouncing Islam as a “wicked, vicious faith”.
The murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence was not racially motivated, he suggested, and none of the black footballers who represent England can truly be classed as “English”, he said.
However the Nick Griffin who stands on a political stage now as leader of the BNP, is the persuasive, Cambridge-educated family man, who wears a suit and tie, and seeks to distance himself from all those words.
A political chameleon, even his former allies admit his ideologies change like the wind. But has he really changed?
The International Third Position (ITP), a splinter group of the National Front which he founded in 1981, recently declared: “He has been a conservative, a revolutionary nationalist, a radical National Socialist, a Third Positionist, a friend of the ‘boot boys’ and the skinhead scene, a man committed to respectable politics and electioneering, a ‘moderniser’. Which is he in reality?”
Born in 1959, Mr Griffin went to a small private school in Suffolk and by the age of 13, he was reading Hitler’s Mein Kampf and making notes in the margins. “Adolf went a bit too far,” he conceded in 2006.
He read history and law at Downing College, Cambridge, where he founded the university’s Young National Front Students group. He became the NF’s national organiser and when it fell apart in the late 1980s, started the ITP.
It was in 1995 that he joined the BNP, soon editing its magazine called The Rune.
In 1997 he co-authored a pamphlet about Jewish conspiracies to brainwash people in Britain and was found guilty of distributing material likely to incite racial hatred. He was given a suspended prison sentence.
In the witness box Mr Griffin said: “I am well aware that the orthodox opinion is that six million Jews were gassed and cremated and turned into lampshades.
“Orthodox opinion also once held that the world is flat… I have reached the conclusion that the ‘extermination’ tale is a mixture of Allied wartime propaganda, extremely profitable lie, and latter witch-hysteria.”
Mr Griffin became leader of the BNP in 1999, and has been keen to promote a modernised pro-British and anti racist group. Claiming he is not a Holocaust denier, his sights have turned to Muslims.
In 2004 he was secretly filmed describing Islam was a “wicked and vicious faith”. He claimed gangs of men were drugging and raping white girls as part of an Islamic plot to take over Britain. He was charged with incitement to racial hatred but was acquitted, claiming his target was fundamentalist Islam, not Asians.
Way to go Britain - What a nice guy you elected!
This belongs in shoddy wiring, way to go Britain!
For Everything Else, There's TasterCard
Cashier: “That’s £26.50, please.”
Customer: “Can I pay by card?”
Cashier: “Sure. Please enter your card into the machine, and then put in your pin code.”
Customer: “Right, are these machines waterproof?”
Cashier: “I’m sorry, sir?”
Customer: “I wouldn’t get an electric shock from one, would I?”
Cashier: “Err, no?” (Suddenly, the customer bends his head down and uses his mouth to cover up the keys. He then uses his tongue to try and push down the numbers of his pin code.)
Cashier: “Sir, I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to stop! That’s incredibly unhygenic.”
Customer: “But it’s the only way to keep it safe!”
Cashier: “Have you considered covering the keys with your hand instead of your mouth?”
Customer: “Yes, but it’s not as safe!”
Cashier: “I’m afraid we’re just going to have to risk that. We can’t have you licking our machines.”
Customer: “Bah!”
(via notalwaysright.com)
20 ridiculous complaints made by holidaymakers
A tourist at a top African game lodge overlooking a waterhole, who spotted a visibly aroused elephant, complained that the sight of this rampant beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel “inadequate”.
A woman threatened to call police after claiming that she’d been locked in by staff. When in fact, she had mistaken the “do not disturb” sign on the back of the door as a warning to remain in the room.
“The beach was too sandy.”
A guest at a Novotel in Australia complained his soup was too thick and strong. He was inadvertently slurping the gravy at the time.
“Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women.”
“We bought ‘Ray-Ban’ sunglasses for five euros (£3.50) from a street trader, only to find out they were fake.”
“No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled.”
“It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England it only took the Americans three hours to get home.”
“My fiancé and I booked a twin-bedded room but we were placed in a double-bedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked.”
“I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment to our friends’ three-bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller.”
“The brochure stated: ‘No hairdressers at the accommodation’. We’re trainee hairdressers - will we be OK staying here?”
“There are too many Spanish people. The receptionist speaks Spanish. The food is Spanish. Too many foreigners.”
“We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as yellow but it was white.”
“We had to queue outside with no air conditioning.”
“It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel.”
“I was bitten by a mosquito - no-one said they could bite.”
“I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts.”
“It’s lazy of the local shopkeepers to close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during ‘siesta’ time - this should be banned.”
“On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food at all.”
“We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our swimming costumes and towels.”
Living on a Mediterranean island I’ve heard some good ones but these are simply amazing. Stupidity knows no bounds.
Daily Telegraph
Jail guards in the US state of Georgia searching for an escaped inmate did not have to look very far - the fugitive was caught sneaking back into prison.
Guards spotted Harry Jackson, 25, trying to creep back in with 14 packs of cigarettes allegedly stolen from a nearby store.
The alarm had been raised earlier after a jail door was found unlocked.
He had opened a door to the exercise yard and climbed an outer fence to get away, Sheriff Tommy Gregory said.
Jackson now faces new charges of breaking out of prison and burglary, reported AP news agency.
He was in jail in Woodbine, Camden County, on charges including possession of a controlled substance and violating probation, reported AP.
