BNP claim leaked membership list is a forgery

The BNP are claiming that the latest leak of their membership list is a fake:

The so-called “new BNP membership list” published today on the Internet is a malicious forgery, party leader Nick Griffin has announced.

“We have had a chance to examine the list in detail and can unequivocally say that it is not a genuine BNP list,” Mr Griffin said.

“It is a concoction of the ‘old’ list plus a number of inquiries received, but, most disturbingly, it contains thousands of names of people with whom the BNP has had no contact whatsoever,” Mr Griffin said.

“The list includes thousands of people with renewal and membership numbers next to their names which are totally false and made up,” Mr Griffin said.

“We have no idea from where this information has been drawn. Some of it looks like random items drawn from a telephone book,” he said, adding that part of the list looked like information which was taken from the home of an ex-BNP employee by police during an earlier investigation.