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	<title>Political Scrapbook &#187; nick griffin</title>
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		<title>French jobs for British workers: Nick Griffin&#8217;s irony free holiday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Trout</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it appears the MEP we just love to hate has been having a little time off with his family in France. And who can blame him, what with the stress of his party wanting to boot him out, pending legal cases and Her Majesty the Queen telling him to f*** off when he&#8217;d already rented [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/griffin_car_rental.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6615" title="Car rental the BNP way" src="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/griffin_car_rental.jpg" alt="" width="530" height="333" /></a> So it appears the MEP we just love to hate has been having a little time off with his family in France. And who can blame him, what with the stress of his party <a href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/07/pressure-mounts-on-nick-griffin-to-resign/">wanting to boot him out</a>, <a href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/07/bnp-finances-fails-to-pay-staff/">pending legal cases</a> and Her Majesty the Queen <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10723764">telling him to f*** off</a> when he&#8217;d already rented a morning suit for her garden party. Apologising for his lack of <a href="http://twitter.com/nickgriffinmep">Twitter posts</a>, Griffin had this to say about his time abroad:</p>
<p style="font-size: 150%; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>&#8220;Ex pat Brit in car hire place very pro Bnp and so upgraded my pre booked car to a convertable [sic] for free.&#8221; </strong></p>
<p>Notwithstanding the fact that the BNP leader is setting himself up for a possible breach of <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+RULES-EP+20091201+ANN-01+DOC+XML+V0//EN&amp;language=EN&amp;navigationBar=YES">European Parliament gift rules</a>, it would appear Mr Griffin is a firm supporter of &#8220;French jobs for British workers&#8221;. These racist &#8220;indigenous&#8221; Britons working as car hire clerks in France.  </p>
<p><em>Just where are they flocking from?</em></p>
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		<title>Nick Griffin ambushed by Peter Tatchell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Scrapbook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has confronted BNP leader Nick Griffin, calling him a &#8220;gutless coward&#8221;. Mr. Griffin was emerging from BBC studios in Westminster when Mr. Tatchell approached him, asking &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it about time you apologised to the British people for your party&#8217;s long history of anti-Semitism, homophobia and attacks on the Muslim community?&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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<p>Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell <a href="http://news.pinkpaper.com/NewsStory/3494/23/07/2010/bnp-leader-nick-griffin-ambushed-by-peter-tatchell.aspx">has confronted</a> BNP leader Nick Griffin, calling him a &#8220;gutless coward&#8221;. Mr. Griffin was emerging from BBC studios in Westminster when Mr. Tatchell approached him, asking &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it about time you apologised to the British people for your party&#8217;s long history of anti-Semitism, homophobia and attacks on the Muslim community?&#8221; Two of Mr. Griffin&#8217;s entourage then grabbed and pushed Mr. Tatchell as the BNP leader left the building.</p>
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<p><em>The presence of camera lenses has <a href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/02/media-relations-the-bnp-way/">never deterred</a> BNP thugs.</em></p>
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		<title>BNP hit with £170,000 bill for Marmite legal case</title>
		<link>http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/07/bnp-hit-with-170000-bill-for-marmite-legal-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Political Scrapbook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sunday Mirror reports today that Unilever have reached an out of court settlement with the British National Party over the unauthorised use of the Marmite brand in an election advertisement, understood to be worth up to £170,000. Given the party&#8217;s extant financial troubles, what led Griffinfurher on the kamikaze course of a legal dispute with [...]]]></description>
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<p>The Sunday Mirror <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/07/18/bnp-hate-party-face-ruin-over-joke-marmite-ad-115875-22420867/">reports today</a> that Unilever have reached an out of court settlement with the British National Party over the unauthorised <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8637473.stm">use of the Marmite brand</a> in an election advertisement, understood to be worth up to £170,000. Given the party&#8217;s <a href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/07/bnp-finances-fails-to-pay-staff/">extant financial troubles</a>, what led Griffinfurher on the kamikaze course of a legal dispute with a multinational corporation?</p>
<p>It seems the oiks were obsessed with revenge against Unilever, whose advertising campaign (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE5GW8uByLc&amp;NR=1">video</a>) featuring the leader of a fictional &#8220;Hate Party&#8221; bore, it was claimed, a remarkable resemblance to Mr. Griffin.</p>
<p><em>Scrapbook wonders what gave him that impression?</em></p>
<div id="attachment_6361" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/marmite_bnp_hate_party1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-6361" title="Marmite BNP Hate Party" src="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/marmite_bnp_hate_party1.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="281" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A clasped-hand pose surrounded by the book shelf and desk stand, the flag and the war medals. Just where have we seen that before?</p></div>
<div id="attachment_6362" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/marmite_bnp_hate_party2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-6362" title="Real BNP election broadcast" src="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/marmite_bnp_hate_party2.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="281" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Déjà vu!</p></div>
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		<title>BNP finances in disarray as party &#8220;fails to pay staff&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomscholesfogg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The finances of the British National Party are lurching from bad to worse following reports its staff were not paid last month, sparking speculation on nationalist websites that the party could go bankrupt. With the leadership struggling to manage a ballooning turnover, profligacy and calamitous legal cases have laid waste to a reported income of £1.9 [...]]]></description>
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<p>The finances of the British National Party are lurching from bad to worse following reports its staff <a href="http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2010/07/bnp-staff-not-paid-while-consultant.html">were not paid</a> last month, <a href="http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t721350/">sparking</a> <a href="http://advanced-ape.com/2010/07/bankrupt-bnp-its-not-impossible/">speculation</a> on nationalist websites that the party could go bankrupt. With the leadership struggling to manage a ballooning turnover, profligacy and calamitous legal cases have laid waste to <a href="http://www.bnp.org.uk/news/building-our-%E2%80%9Cnew-model-army%E2%80%9D-was-never-going-be-popular-among-our-enemies">a reported income</a> of £1.9 million.  While BNP staffers work out how to get by without any money, a fundraising consultant brought in by Führer Griffin is <a href="http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2010/07/bnp-staff-not-paid-while-consultant.html">still being paid</a> £162,000 per year.</p>
<p>The string of cock-ups that have brought the party to the precipice have been reported elsewhere but are worth recapping. The party faced a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/12/bnp-racist-membership-rules-outlawed">bill of up to £100,000</a> after its legal struggle with the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. Even after members voted to ditch whites-only membership <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8514736.stm">in February</a>, the equalities body claims the party has not gone far enough. If the High Court finds the BNP in breach of the EHRC&#8217;s order then it faces <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jun/28/bnp-finances-contempt-court">having its assets seized</a>. The costs the party would face until it complies are eye watering: up to £1,000 per day for a legal commissioner and £3,000 per day for its assets to be held. A settlement for an unfair dismissal case brought by former staffer Michaela Mackenzie has <a href="http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/bnp/78896-michaela-mackenzie-employment-tribunal-statement.html">still not been paid</a>.</p>
<p>With his organisation up financial sh*t creek, what was the Great Leaders&#8217;s masterplan? Nick Griffin&#8217;s next move was to deliberately start another legal dispute with a multinational corporation! The unauthorised use of Marmite branding in a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFxWpdJVWyM">party advert</a>, a reference to the party&#8217;s supposed &#8220;love them or hate them&#8221; appeal, <a href="http://advanced-ape.com/2010/07/marmitegate-could-destroy-the-bnp/">cost the BNP a reported £168,000</a> [The Mirror mow <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/07/18/bnp-hate-party-face-ruin-over-joke-marmite-ad-115875-22420867/">report</a> that a settlement, between £70,000 and £170,000 has now been reached] after legal action by Unilever. The party first <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8637473.stm">claimed the advert was a spoof</a> before &#8211; realising the financial implications of their stunt &#8211; denying responsibility for adding a jar of yeast extract to the video:</p>
<div id="attachment_6258" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 540px"><a href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bnp_marmite.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-6258" title="BNP Marmite advert" src="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bnp_marmite.jpg" alt="" width="530" height="298" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Legal action over the BNP&#39;s use of Marmite in a party ad cost the party £168,000</p></div>
<p>The tale of the BNP&#8217;s financial troubles has been given added piquancy by the emergence of the head of the party&#8217;s elections department as a leadership challenger to Nick Griffin. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Butler">Eddy Butler</a> has the backing of heavyweights such as Nick Cass, described as the &#8220;face of the party&#8221;owing to the <a href="http://theconnexion.net/wp/?p=3642">use of his family in leaflets</a> and their appearance on the documentary <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic6jNS_40pw">BNP Wives</a>. The insurgency against Griffin raises the hilarious prospect of  disgruntled oiks doing the job of anti-fascists such as <a href="http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/">Searchlight</a> for them by washing the BNP&#8217;s dirty linen in public.</p>
<p><em>Butler has already </em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS0jLnfo-KM"><em>likened the party&#8217;s finances</em></a><em> to &#8220;the Bermuda Triangle, where all this money goes into it and nothing comes out again&#8221;!</em></p>
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		<title>Pressure mounts on Nick Griffin to resign</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nathan Trout reports on the growing threats to the BNP leader After Mark &#8220;Nazi boy&#8221; Collett&#8217;s fantastic assassination plots turned into a public relations nightmare, senior members of the BNP are seeking a more traditional route to oust Chairman Nick Griffin. In numerous articles on his website, BNP elections officer Eddy Butler is urging fellow oiks to call for [...]]]></description>
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<p><em><a href="http://twitter.com/nathan4791">Nathan Trout</a></em><em> reports on the growing threats to the BNP leader</em></p>
<p>After Mark <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbAKUdEWzq8">&#8220;Nazi boy&#8221;</a> Collett&#8217;s fantastic <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/04/bnp-mark-collett-nick-griffin">assassination</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/04/bnp-mark-collett-nick-griffin"> plots</a> turned into a public relations nightmare, senior members of the BNP are seeking a more traditional route to oust Chairman Nick Griffin. In numerous articles on <a href="http://eddybutler.blogspot.com/">his website</a>, BNP elections officer Eddy Butler is urging fellow oiks to call for Führer Griffin&#8217;s resignation, clearing his own path to the leadership.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 241px"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kScIKyVopAg/TC8f88KHLhI/AAAAAAAAAOk/jfUMpM8dee8/s320/leadership.jpg" alt="" width="231" height="286" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Eddy Butler</p></div>
<p>Butler is sniping for Griffin following an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/07/nick-griffin-bnp-pressure-quit">abysmal performance</a> in this year&#8217;s local and national elections and <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8515261.stm">legal struggles</a> which have left the party up financial shit creek without a paddle. He also claims the BNP has effectively been out of action for a year, which does seem a little unfair. After all, they <a href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/05/head-of-london-bnp-resigns-in-disgrace/">beat up</a> an Asian boy on the campaign trail and <a href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/02/media-relations-the-bnp-way/">threw a reporter</a> out of a press conference in February because he wrote mean things about them.</p>
<p>As the party&#8217;s so-called &#8220;Election guru&#8221;, for Butler to blame someone else for the BNP&#8217;s trouncing is for the pot to call the kettle <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">coloured</span> black. He should reflect on a defeat grounded in the vast majority of British people finding his party&#8217;s policies to be utterly abhorrent.</p>
<p><em>Thankfully, Britains Nazi&#8217;s seem to hate each other as much as they hate immigrants.</em></p>
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		<title>Media relations the BNP way</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moments after receiving a personal invitation into a BNP press conference from Deputy Chairman Simon Darby, a reporter for The Times was promptly set upon by party enforcers, one of whom &#8220;tried to remove [the reporter's nose] from [his] face&#8221;: &#8220;I’ve just looked in the mirror at the Burger King where I am filing this [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Times reporter Dominic Kennedy assaulted by BNP security staff" src="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00684/Dominic_Kennedy_684617a.jpg" alt="" width="525" /></p>
<p>Moments after receiving a personal invitation into a BNP press conference from Deputy Chairman Simon Darby, a reporter for <em>The Times</em> was <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7027047.ece">promptly set upon</a> by party enforcers, one of whom &#8220;tried to remove [the reporter's nose] from [his] face&#8221;:</p>
<p style="font-size: 150%; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>&#8220;I’ve just looked in the mirror at the Burger King where I am filing this story and spotted the blood drying on my face. I never thought I would actually get my nose bloodied trying to cover a press conference for a British political party — but that is the true face of Nick Griffin and his BNP.&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7027047.ece">Dominic Kennedy</a></strong></p>
<p>Kennedy was assaulted as London Assembly member Richard Barnbrook took exception to an article by one of the reporter&#8217;s <em>Times </em>colleagues. The <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/election_2010/article7025463.ece">item in question</a> quotes Barking MP Margaret Hodge, the target of an election challenge by Nick Griffin, as saying: &#8220;I am really fearful that if they get a hold here, Barking would become a no-go area for the rest of Britain. They bring division and violence.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Way to prove her wrong, eh Nick?</em></p>
<p><em><strong><span style="font-style: normal;">UPDATE 14:41</span></strong><strong> </strong>Just found this video showing the incident:</em></p>
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		<title>Quote of the day: Welsh carpetbagger edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The announcement that Welshpool resident Nick Griffin is to stand against Margaret Hodge in Barking led Hopi Sen to suggest putting the BNP leader on the other end of an anti-immigration campaign: &#8220;These Welsh fascists eh?, they come over here, don’t even try and fit in, try and take our jobs, probably be bringing their [...]]]></description>
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<p>The announcement that Welshpool resident Nick Griffin <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/nov/15/nick-griffin-barking-general-election">is to stand against Margaret Hodge in Barking</a> led Hopi Sen to suggest <a href="http://hopisen.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/barking-politics/">putting the BNP leader on the other end</a> of an anti-immigration campaign:</p>
<p style="font-size: 150%;"><strong>&#8220;These Welsh fascists eh?, they come over here, don’t even try and fit in, try and take our jobs, probably be bringing their wife and family over next. Send them back to Wales, that’s what I say….&#8221; &#8211; Hopi Sen</strong></p>
<p><em>Living in Wales didn&#8217;t stop our racist carpetbagger from standing in the North West either.</em></p>
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		<title>Irony free zone as BNP copy campaign website from &#8220;Afrocentrist racist bigot&#8221; Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://politicalscrapbook.net/2009/11/bnp-copy-campaign-website-from-afrocentrist-racist-bigot-barack-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scrapbook had this timed to autopost on Monday but Alex Smith has run it over at LabourList. It appears great minds think alike keep an eye on the BNP&#8217;s website! Nick Griffin called Barack Obama an &#8220;Afrocentrist racist bigot&#8221; but it&#8217;s amusing to see this didn&#8217;t stop him from the wholesale thievery of  the American president&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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<p><small><em>Scrapbook</em> had this timed to autopost on Monday but Alex Smith has <a href="http://www.labourlist.org/bnp-steal-barack-obama-design">run it over at LabourList</a>. It appears great minds <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">think alike</span> keep an eye on the BNP&#8217;s website!</small></p>
<p>Nick Griffin <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&amp;sid=alwNADeugDwY">called Barack Obama</a> an &#8220;Afrocentrist racist bigot&#8221; but it&#8217;s amusing to see this didn&#8217;t stop him from the wholesale thievery of  the American president&#8217;s website (see evidence below). To compound the hilarity, <a href="http://www.bluestatedigital.com/">Blue State Digital</a>, who developed Obama&#8217;s site, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jan/26/bnp-obama-griffin-european">have lent their services</a> to anti-fascist campaigners <a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/">Hope Not Hate</a>.</p>
<p><em>Honestly. Where the BNP are concerned the blog posts virtually write themselves.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bnp_obama_comparison_1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2538" title="Barack Obama website" src="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bnp_obama_comparison_1.jpg" alt="Barack Obama website" width="525" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bnp_obama_comparison_2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2539 aligncenter" title="New BNP website" src="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bnp_obama_comparison_2.jpg" alt="New BNP website" width="525" /></a></p>
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		<title>Nick Griffin: &#8220;we were wrong to use Churchill imagery&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://politicalscrapbook.net/2009/11/nick-griffin-we-were-wrong-to-use-churchill-imagery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;just kidding! This is the banner image from Herr Griffin&#8217;s latest email, which is signed off &#8220;Yours sincerely for Britannia&#8221;: They&#8217;re not going to stop with the Poppy Appeal either.]]></description>
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<p>&#8230;just kidding! This is the banner image from Herr Griffin&#8217;s latest email, which is signed off &#8220;Yours sincerely for Britannia&#8221;:</p>
<p><a href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/griffin_churchill.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2532" title="Nick Griffin with Winston Churchill" src="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/griffin_churchill.jpg" alt="Nick Griffin with Winston Churchill" width="525" height="297" /></a></p>
<p><em>They&#8217;re not going to stop <a href="http://morleypatriot.blogspot.com/2009/11/councillor-joins-royal-marines-for-day.html">with the Poppy Appeal</a> either.</em></p>
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		<title>From deputy chairman to making the tea (shirts): the fall and fall of BNP bag carrier Mark Collett</title>
		<link>http://politicalscrapbook.net/2009/11/from-deputy-chairman-to-making-the-tea-shirts-the-fall-and-fall-of-bnp-bag-carrier-mark-collett/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With an aquittal on race hate charges and not one, but two documentaries under his belt, Nazi loser Mark Collett is something of a high flyer in the world of white nationalism. This is certainly reflected in the BNP membership list leaked in November 2008, where he is listed not only as the &#8220;Head of [the] Publicity [...]]]></description>
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<p>With an <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/6135060.stm">aquittal on race hate charges</a> and <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7842826632184074561#">not one</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbAKUdEWzq8">but two</a> documentaries under his belt, Nazi loser <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Collett">Mark Collett</a> is something of a high flyer in the world of white nationalism. This is certainly reflected in the BNP membership list leaked in November 2008, where he is listed not only as the &#8220;Head of [the] Publicity Department&#8221; but also a &#8220;Deputy Chairman&#8221; &#8211; one rung down from Herr Griffin:</p>
<p><a href="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/collett_mark_list.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2475" title="Mark Collett on the BNP membership list" src="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/collett_mark_list.jpg" alt="Mark Collett on the BNP membership list" width="360" height="209" /></a></p>
<p>Mark also works on the production team for <a href="http://www.identitymagazine.org.uk/index.html">Identity</a>, the BNP&#8217;s very own magazine. At some point, however, the &#8220;Deputy Chairman&#8221; bit appears to have goes missing from his online biography:</p>
<p><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.identitymagazine.org.uk/editorial.html"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2479" title="Mark Collett in Identity magazine" src="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/collett_mark_identity.jpg" alt="Mark Collett in Identity magazine" width="525" height="158" /></a></p>
<p>Things appear to be unravelling quickly for our fascist paladin. Fast-forward to October 2009: as Collett&#8217;s namesake <a href="http://bible.cc/mark/14-72.htm">once wrote</a>, will the Dear Leader deny him three times before the rooster crows?</p>
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<p>So &#8220;he&#8217;s not&#8221;, eh Nick? How embarrassing! So, if he&#8217;s not in charge of publicity (or a deputy chairman) anymore, what does Mark Collett actually do for the BNP?</p>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/TheBNP/status/5401806406"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2486" title="Mark Collett makes the T-shirts!" src="http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/collett_mark_tshirts.jpg" alt="Mark Collett makes the T-shirts!" width="525" height="251" /></a></p>
<p><em>From deputy chairman to making the tea (shirts)!</em></p>
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