BNP’s Newest Recruit

The Centre for Social Cohesion explains.

BNP “Christian Council” uses God to justify racism

Read about this on There is Nothing British about the BNP.

Stormfront discuss Norwich North

On Liberal Conspiracy, Cath Elliot draws attention to the neo-Nazi discussion board Stormfront, who want to deport her in response to her article on the BNP’s lies in Norwich North, where the BNP’s clergyman Robert West ran for election.

Eliot notes an interesting contribution on the Stormfront message board from a BNP supporter:

“Its time to drop the reverend. Having a fake vicar puts us down with the crank candidates and thats where our vote has ended up.

People aren`t stupid ( well actually they are on the whole) but they have seen through this fake Reverend gimmick.”

And it seems that BNP supporters aren’t the only ones not entirely convinced by Robert West’s Christianity.

Have a look at this discussion:

Combating the BNP

Edmund Standing writes:

In 2000, BNP leader (and now MEP) Nick Griffin stood before an audience of American ‘white nationalists’ and proposed that while he had no intention of ’selling out’ the BNP’s principles, he now wanted to ’sell’ the party. So, he stated, the BNP would now use ’salable’ words such as ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, and replace discourse about ‘racial purity’ with talk of ‘identity’. In recent years, particularly following the 7/7 terrorist atrocities, the BNP has sought to align itself with what is loosely termed the ‘anti-jihad movement’ and to shift its focus from attacking Jews and black people to opposing ‘Islamification’.

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When it comes to Islam, the BNP hasn’t exactly had to work hard to whip up anti-Muslim bigotry and paranoia about ‘Islamification’. Looking at the scare stories on its website’s news section, a large number of them are drawn straight from mainstream media sources, and the party is being greatly assisted by the grossly disproportionate coverage given in newspapers to the outrageous statements and provocations of Anjem Choudary and his motley crew of social misfits who go under a variety of names but are essentially Al-Muhajiroun. In hysterical report after report (some of which I have documented here and here), a tiny minority of bin Ladenist fanatics and fantasists have been presented as a serious threat to our society.

The fact is, of course, that while Al-Muhajiroun is a dangerous group with many links to terrorism, it represents only the tiniest handful of Muslims in Britain, not that you would know that given the amount of time Choudary gets in the media. So, when the BNP claimed in its European election material that it would ‘ensure that British troops are not abused on the streets of our cities by Muslims’, it was in particular cynically appealing to the concerns of those who get the majority of their understanding of the world from reading simplistic and hyped up tabloid stories.

Read on.

Congratulations to HOPE Not Hate NORFOLK…

…For running an excellent campaign in Norwich North. Thank you!

More on Robert West’s campaign in Norwich North

Also posted on HOPE Not Hate NORFOLK

The constitution of Robert West’s Christian Council of Britain contains scandalous comparisons with the African slave trade. In Norwich North, where West is running for a seat, it now emerges that the BNP has apparently been lying about council housing, claiming that locals are losing out to African immigrants.

“I really like the Welsh BNP logo. I bet Rev West did also.”

This post also features at HOPE Not Hate, Norfolk.

A hat tip to Edmund Standing, who has helped me with much the information for this post. Edmund Standing blogs at Pro-British Anti-Extremist, and has just written a report for the Centre for Social Cohesion entitled ‘The BNP and the Online Fascist Network.’

The BNP’s very own “reverend” Robert West recently addressed the Swansea branch of the BNP. This video is featured on the Green Arrow blog, run by BNP activist Paul Morris, who also promotes antisemitic material. Morris comments:

“I really like the Welsh BNP Logo. I bet the Reverend West did also.”

The BNP Wales use a celtic cross as a symbol; a symbol often used by neo-fascists.

You can see it here:

What is curious about the BNP is, although they are essentially a fascist party, they have attempted to use Christian identity politics and racial versions of Christian theology in an attempt to win Christian votes. For more on this phenomenon, you can read this compilation of anti-fascist articles about BNP Christianity.

Here is Rev West addressing the Wales BNP:

West cites Genesis 10 and Acts 17 as proof that ‘each race has its own space’. Genesis 10 is a rather self-defeating passage for Rev West, as it claims all ‘races’ are descended from Noah, and thus all have a common ancestry. D’oh! Acts 17 describes Paul and Silas visiting a multi-cultural Athens, Berea and Thessalonica and speaking with Jews, Greeks and foreigners.

Whilst West uses this to support his anti-immigration views, what is interesting to note here is that West he completely sidesteps the question of race (perhaps the elephant in the room for those who believe in Welsh/Celtic racial supremacy). Morris, meanwhile, waxes lyrical about the ‘Welsh Resistance’ Youtube channel:

Currently its library of videos is rather small but I am assured that it will soon be bursting at the seams as the site owners move old footage into its new home.

Can I ask that all patriotic Youtube activists subscribe to this channel and establish links with their people to ensure you maximise our viewing base in order to promote the cause of the British National Party.

As usual, can I request you to go here, rate and leave a comment for our Youtube activists.

Amongst the friends of Welsh Resistance, we find pembrokeshiresspark, who thinks ‘Nick Griffin is God and Simon Darby is Jesus.’ She informs us that she is a Christian, and tags the above video of Robert West as a Youtube favourite. Yet is this the kind of Christian whom West is proud to count as a supporter?

Rev West was recently challenged about his interpretation of Christianity, given that Jesus was Jewish:

At the end of the clip, you will notice he makes reference to the constitution of the Christian Council of Britain. There’s plenty to say about the constitution, but one point particularly grates:

Though the significant differences between the two ‘isms’ of Islam and ‘Political Correctness’ were recognised it was noted that both alike oppose: true Christianity, the rule of law, a genuine and conserving liberalism in a true democracy; and the proper concept of free Nations and of the open and liberal societies nurtured therein and thereby. It was particularly borne in mind that, in the two hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the Negro slave trade within the British Empire, a worse form of slavery (of the mind) should not be imposed upon the peoples who had withstood absolutism and totalitarianism in their history, both at home and abroad. The Christian Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland therefore resolved not to regard our inalienable freedoms and rights as negotiable; but rather to be preserved, conserved and held-in-trust for our progeny, and for all peoples.

These words are shocking and disturbing for black Britons, and other Britons utterly appalled by the slave trade and ashamed of this aspect of British history. Yet they are also an insult to British Christians, of whom none other than William Wilberforce is one of the most famous:

Rev West surely owes the people of Britain an apology.

Huge BNP turnout to support West – 20 descend on derelict pub – intimidated by 3 anti-fascists

From Great Yarmouth HOPE Not Hate:

Three HOPE not hate campaigners surprised and angered the BNP in Norwich on Saturday when they arrived to monitor what the BNP supposed was a secret meeting point at the Duke of Norfolk pub in Mousehold Lane. Unknown to the fascists, who snuck into the area for a leaflet and canvass session, the closed public house had been watched since early that morning.

The arrival of the fake “reverend” Robert West – the BNP’s candidate in the Norwich North by-election – prompted the three anti-fascists to move in closer, and it was several minutes before the BNP noticed we were clicking away.

We approached the ropey reverend to ask who ordained him, but the prefabricated prelate went all sheepish on us and demanded that we address him as “reverend”. We decided to address him as “liar”.

We also asked him about Leader Nick’s call for the sinking of refugee boats, because we couldn’t find the verse in the Bible which states: “Blessed are those who torpedo black people on the high seas, for they shall inherit the Earth.”

Needless to say West wasn’t too interested in answering that point and went off to pretend to look through some BNP “literature” – a shoddy leaflet claiming that blacks are being housed ahead of whites by Norwich City Council (if they knew anything about Norwich North they’d know it’s within the boundaries of Broadland District Council, and the housing policies of Norwich City Council have no effect in the constituency).

Those fellow fascists of West’s who approached us all began with the “I’m not a racist” spiel then proceeded to justify blasting black people out of the water, one idiot talking about the New Testament’s justification for Nick’s sink ‘em policy, then going on about the Old Testament when, quelle surprise, he found himself out-brained by a real Christian who’d done more than read the Bible’s title.

While this was going on one or two of the motley assembly of 20 race haters were obviously losing it, and one of their goons suddenly jumped the wall separating us and attacked one of the HOPE not hate trio from behind, grabbing him around the neck, wrenching his arm behind his back and hustling him along the pavement.

When I pointed out he was committing a serious criminal offence the goon retorted “I can do what I fucking well like” – just as we saw outside Parliament the other week, when BNP goons ordered the public out of the way while they escorted Griffin and Brons to an egg-pelting party, and then again when they felled and trampled a black woman as they rushed their terror-struck Leader away from the scene.

The attack on our man prompted two of the BNP, including West, to call the police to claim that the three of us were victimising the 20 of them, and in minutes three police cars came blazing into the scene.

The lies quickly agreed to by the BNP didn’t compute with the police, and the officer who interviewed us was quite ready to arrest the BNP goon. I’ve got to say I was in favour of it, but it would have meant hours at Norwich police station and the loss of our cameras, so our man declined to press charges.

Edith Crowther, who stood in King’s Lynn Gaywood in the county council elections, explained that she had a degree in Arabic and that her goon mate was a “working class man from a poor council estate who doesn’t know any better..”

The kind of poor council estate where everybody owns a petrol-hungry 4×4 with a personalised numberplate, eh, Edith?

Crowther (”My husband sometimes lets me out of the house”) was peremptorily told to stop talking to us. We can’t say whether it was her husband who gave the order.

The turnout for the BNP was pathetic. Despite a national call for help most of the twenty belonged to Norfolk BNP, with few of them from Norwich – and almost all of them had out-of-county accents. Until recently, while the rest of the BNP prepared to fight elections Norfolk BNP prepared to order lunch, but we still couldn’t help but notice the absence of some of Norfolk BNP’s biggest online loudmouths, who, like most of the BNP, are too ashamed to show their faces in public and prefer to do their politicking from the anonymity of a keyboard.

After that not much happened. Everybody, including us, had to give their details to the police, and that kept the BNP corralled on the pub car park for more than an hour. When told they were free to go, the BNP cars waited around while a number of mobile phone calls were made, leading the HOPE not hate trio to suspect that something else was being planned, then they made a number of unsubtle feints (we’re not that stupid, West) and finally drove off in convoy.

As we had no chance of reaching our cars in time to follow, and as the police were still watching, we decided to call it a day at that point, happy that we’d acheived what we set out to do – but there’s a way to go in the Norwich North by-election yet, and we’re pretty sure we’ll be meeting up again with the BNP and its deceitful devil-dodger some time very soon.

West refuses to answer questions about his ordination

First-hand HOPE not hate witness account posted at HOPE Not Hate NORFOLK:

Three Hope not hate campaigners went to meet the fake Reverend Robert West in Norwich today.

The three campaigners approached Robert West and asked him to explain where he got the right to use the title “Reverend”. The BNP activists, who were rallying in a car park at a closed pub, The Duke of Norfolk on Mousehold Lane, were surprised and angry that Hope not hate were there to greet them.

The BNP asked for volunteers to come to Norwich today. Only about twenty actually turned up, and it seemed their idea of a day of action was to attack local Hope not Hate campaigners.

Robert West, who as well as believing himself to be a Vicar, also now appears to believe that he is Winston Churchill, held out the V for victory sign.

West told one Hope not hate campaigner that he would only talk to us if we called him Reverend.

Whilst West was talking to us, one of his minders leapt the wall of the pub and attacked one of the three Hope not hate campaigners. The minder said that unless we “fucked off” immediately he would headbutt one of the campaigners.

During the kerfuffle, West, obviously fearing that his minder was out of control, contacted the police along with another BNP member.

Within two minutes, three police units had arrived at the public house, having been told that public order was under threat. They were somewhat surprised to see that the only casualty was a Hope not hate campaigner with a bad cut to his hand where he had been attacked by the minder.

The police were not surprised to hear that the three Hope not Hate campaigners were the victim of the attack rather than the perpetrators, given that they were outnumbered by approximately 7 to 1, and they were the only people with injuries.

After making enquiries, the police offered the Hope not Hate campaigner the opportunity to press charges for assault but we declined in order not to further waste police time.

The campaigners expected the BNP to set off leafleting after the police informed them that we were not pressing charges, but they stayed for another hour in the pub car park, obviously waiting for someone to arrive. The BNP were extremely anxious for Hope not hate not to meet their VIP as they set off in dummy decoys on several occasions before sheepishly coming back to the pub car park.

Who were they waiting for? Well if national BNP figures are too afraid to meet three local Hope not hate campaigners armed only with a few Nick Griffin quotes, then perhaps they really are worried about how the public sees them.

After the initial assault by the BNP minder, the rest of the BNP declined the chance to talk to Hope not hate for over an hour, preferring to stay corralled in the pub car park. One BNP activist, apparently a BNP county council candidate for Kings Lynn, did venture over to say that she was sorry about the assault but that the BNP minder was a “working class man from a poor council estate who didn’t know any better. . .”

The BNP seemed to believe that even talking to Hope not hate would contaminate their minds with truth and honesty.

What the electors of Norwich will make of the BNP attacking a Christian Hope not hate campaigner who asked the fake Reverend to explain his title will have to be seen.

BNP’s “Reverend” West arrives in Norwich

 

HOPE Not Hate, NORFOLK writes:

 

The questionable cleric performs for the camera today in Norwich

 

A rag-tag group of about twenty BNP supporters met Robert West on the site of a derelict and boarded-up pub. A fitting metaphor for the BNP’s dead-end policies of despair.

Three HOPE not hate, Norfolk members were ready to record the event, but as Robert West performed for the HOPE not hate cameras, a stereotypical BNP thug shouted that he was calling the police. Three HOPE not hate supporters armed only with a camera must have seemed a fearsome threat to him for some reason.

The people of Norwich North have been completely neglected by their BNP candidate, the “Reverend” Robert West, so far into this run-up to the by-election 23 July. Robert West has been whiling away time in Wales giving speeches on the Biblical justification of racism.

Whilst other candidates have been meeting the people of Norwich North, discussing issues, problems and solutions, each blogging away, responsive to local concerns, Robert West has been conspicuous by his absence.

These few supporters must be unusually forgiving political party members to have remained so loyal to such an uncommited and unengaged candidate.