The Myths of the Griffin

With just a few days left until the European elections, I think it is of paramount importance that we step up the campaign against the fascist BNP. You may have seen their recent party political broadcasts with Nick Griffin using the themes of the Battle of Britain, Winston Churchill and "traditional Christian values" to try and legitimise his racist views. This comes a week after Nick Griffin called black and Asian Britons, "racial foreigners" who should be "repatriated back to their own countries."

Unfortunately many people may be nievely taken in by this shallow attempt at associating all things British with the racist BNP, and with the recession affecting people's livelihoods, many people are looking for somebody to blame. Some are laying the blame firmly at the foot of the politicians by not voting at all. Some are going as far as to blame immigrants for all the problems in this country. Whilst I shouldn't need to go into the reasons why the latter is completely unreasonable and unjust, a protest of no vote because you believe that politicians are corrupt, plays into the hands of the BNP. The motto of "use your vote, or someone else will" rings true. Make no mistake, the election of a BNP MEP would be far worse than an MEP of any other political party. Full stop.

Therefore we all must make sure and use our vote on June 4th to deny the BNP a seat. If they were to win even one seat, the increase in funding they would receive will allow them to step up their advertising campaign, put a glossy leaflet through every door in Britain, and legitimise themselves still further. That is why they must be stopped now before their diseased hatred and lies is allowed to spread. We have already seen a so called "freedom march" in Luton on the 24th May, which BNP activists were involved in, and where many showed their true colours with Nazi salutes. We don't want to find ourselves in the same situation as Austria or France where openly neo-fascist and racist parties, whom incedentally have links with the BNP, are considered legitimate, receive state funding, and consequently a worrying share of the vote.