Sunday 13 July 2008

Confused, baffled, haven't got a clue? I can help!

They are a confused and disorientated, some might even say intoxicated, bunch over at 'Lancaster Unity'. their world is quite bewildering judging by a recent post.


Their minds are full of turmoil and questions:-

"Why does BNP webmaster Simon Bennett run the BNP, NLP and Third Way's websites?
Why are the Accentuate and Solidarity websites served up by BNP insider Lambertus Nieuwhof?
Why did Nick Griffin ask Graham Williamson - not a BNP member - to chair the BNP's last conference?
Why did Harrington's NLP stand against the BNP in South Hornchurch?"



I will try to help these troubled souls (though not by postcard).

Third Way runs its own websites we pay designers and for web-hosting as we need it. Third Way doesn't discriminate in the award of contracts. In fact we have an equal opportunities policy!

Lambertus Nieuwhoff is Webmaster for Solidarity and Accentuate. He does a very good job and both Accentuate and Solidarity pay him for it. He is not even a member of the BNP! Many lies have been told about 'Bep'.

Lancaster Unity claim:- "The Solidarity website is served up by Lambertus Nieuwhof's company Noisy Dinosaur, as is Accentuate. Lambertus Nieuwhof, for those who don't recognise the name, was one of a trio of men who planted a home-made bomb at the Calvary Church School (in South Africa) in protest against the school's decision to become racially mixed. When the bomb failed to go off, one of them lost his nerve, gave himself up to the police and turned in his two associates, one of which was Nieuwhof. At the end of the resulting court case he received what Searchlight rightly stated was a derisory twelve-month suspended prison sentence".

Really? Are you sure about all this my friends? I suggest you check your facts. My information is rather different. Bep is a great guy with a young family. He has started a new life in our country and is not involved in conflicts in Africa. The likes of LU and Searchlight are stalking him simply because he is a personal friend of Arthur Kemp. It is a disgrace. We have made it clear that he has spoken with us about SA and his past and we are happy with his account. End of story.

Nick Griffin didn't ask Graham Williamson to chair the BNP's last conference. Why would he? Graham is not a member of the BNP but of the National Liberal Party which stands against them in elections. The source for this is, it turns out later in the article, the North West Nationalists blog. This band of disillusioned Nazis who hate Nick Griffin is scarcely reliable! Assuming that anything they say has any foundation in fact is rather foolish. LU also state that:- "We heard recently that he was asked by Griffin to watch over Richard Barnbrook at the London Assembly, to make sure he stays out of trouble." I think you are being led up the garden path Ketlan and Denise!

The National Liberal Party did not stand in South Hornchurch. It backed the Independent candidate Michael Burton who went on to win the seat. Michael is black and the NLP supported him with activists and a statement on his election leaflet because he was the best man for the job. The NLP has a long-standing relationship with Independents in the area. NLP recruits from all ethnic and faith communities. NLP has no electoral pacts or deals with the BNP. Simple enough one would have thought so why the confusion?

Saturday 5 July 2008

Solidarity, PayPal and Lancaster 'Unity'

"Never let the facts get in the way of a good story". That phrase could have been coined for the amateur journalists at 'Lancaster Unity'. Take a look at their article on the Solidarity PayPal account. It illustrates this general point.

The Solidarity PayPal account had temporary restrictions placed on it as a result of the automatic triggering of procedures designed to prevent money-laundering. These (as any ebay seller will know) are put into place when money coming in goes above a set limit.

Yet posters on 'Lancaster Unity' sought to give a different impression:-

"Paypal have already suspended the Solidarity account because of complaints."

and from another poster:-

"Allegations of money-laundering?

Sounds like Nick Grifin is somehow involved here.

The Paypal account is not the only likely fraudulent issue with Squalidarity."


How foolish they now seem. After the submission of the required documentation the restrictions were lifted and the account is now operating as normal. Go and make an online donation to Solidarity! Solidarity collects donations and membership subscriptions using PayPal but this represents only a small fraction. Once collected the money is used to pay bills or paid over to the Union account. All PayPal transactions are electronically stored in the 'History' section and can therefore be easily audited.

The great democrats at 'Lancaster Unity' also call for people to write to a bank asking them not to provide services to the Solidarity Union. Here they begin to cross into areas covered by anti-stalking and anti-terror legislation. Solidarity will request copies of all correspondance sent to any financial institution regarding the Union. Solidarity is carefully documenting their transgressions. These kind of fascist tactics go beyond acceptable debate and those involved should know they may face civil and criminal sanction.

Collusion, It's no illusion 2

Is there a plot to kill the independent Nationalist Trades Union Solidarity? That is now a question being seriously asked by many political veterans. For the first year of the existence of Solidarity little was done. Former President Clive Potter found reasons not to do things. He failed even to produce a membership card for those enthusiasts who joined despite his almost complete lack of promotional work.

When I took the position of General Secretary, Potter did everything he could to delay the progress of the Union using every bureaucratic objection he could. He sought to block every suggestion I made. As a non-BNP member (and indeed a member of a rival Party) I found myself in the curious position of having to argue with Potter (a BNP member) that we should attend BNP events for recruitment purposes. I was further alarmed when he started referring to Nick Griffin (the BNP Chairman) as 'our Beloved Leader' in a sarcastic tone. I wondered exactly what his agenda was! When I spoke to members of the Christian Council (which Potter was also an official of) I was told that they were also concerned by his lack of activity and drive. Nothing was being done. He appeared to be an obstacle to any progress.

When I looked into his personal background I became even more concerned. He was some kind of gnostic Christian, interested in ufos and living with a girlfriend who was a wacko jacko 'stalker' promoting celibacy! Now, as anyone will tell you I'm a pretty liberal kind of guy, but I wondered why Potter never spoke about any of this. I also wondered why he had promoted in the past a spoof march through one of the most Asian areas of Leicester. Alarm bells were starting to ring.

When he failed he tried to expel me and prevent the election of an expanded Executive team. Reason enough for many to suspect that something untoward was going on! Yet this is by no means the end of the story...

When the British National Party asserted that that agents were being used against the Union the State allied Searchlight magazine specifically responded:-

"Searchlight makes no comment about this allegation. However when Solidarity was set up, we examined its frules and wrote in an internal briefing note in January 2006: 'It would seem difficult for Solidarity to exercise firm control over who joins, and once people are members they can exercise thier democratic rights to elect the Executive Committe, etc. Any attempt to prevent members exercising their rights could result in a complaint to the Certification Officer [the regulatory authority for trade unions]'"

- 'Not so solid now' , Searchlight July 2007, p16.

In the light of this statement it is interesting to note that three people, Potter, McLinden and Mullen have made two 'Breach of Rule' complaints each against the Union in the same time period and in collusion to the Certification Office (CO). Additionally Potter and McLinden have brought about a financial investigation into the Union by the CO.

To give an example of the spurious nature of the complaints Mullen has brought one saying that the Union required candidates in Union Exec elections to be members of the BNP or Third Way. Of course the Union did no such thing. Statements in the Union bulletin and on the website made it clear any member could stand. Indeed one of the candidates was not a member of any Party. There is little doubt that this complaint will eventually fail - it has no basis whatsoever. Yet that is not the point - it is an attempt to muddy the waters in the meantime and waste Union time.

Solidarity is answering all such vexatious and unfounded complaints but nonetheless it is time-consuming and a diversion from the proper functions of the Union. Not only that but it appears to many that the Certification Office is being unwittingly misused as a tool to bureaucratically harass the Union.

On a side note one name keeps being whispered into my ear - Megan Dobney. Suggestions as to why this might be the case would be welcome!