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The 10 most stupid things said about the UK riots

7:00pm Wed August 10th

As the smoke clears, and clean up operations in cities up and down the land manage the fallout of this week’s rioting – let us take a moment to remember that while the media can be a mine of up to the minute information, it can just as easily be an echo chamber for garbage.

Here we present Political Scrapbook‘s five stupidest things said about the UK riots, and as a bonus, the five dumbest solutions as reported by our readers.

Perhaps it is a sad reflection of society that clothes shops were looted but not book shops.less than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyJody McIntyre
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@acarvin Probably too early to judge, but any sign of Anonymous connection in Sony fire? There’s some history btwn the two…less than a minute ago via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet ReplyAdam Peck
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I guess that Planet of the Apes poster will have to go!less than a minute ago via txt Favorite Retweet ReplyNick Griffin MEP
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Local English activists keeping out of way. So must all of ours, let the colonists cause all the trouble.less than a minute ago via txt Favorite Retweet ReplyNick Griffin MEP
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. . . as people wake up to the scale of the Black Blitz.less than a minute ago via txt Favorite Retweet ReplyNick Griffin MEP
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And some readers suggestions for the most idiotic solutions.

@psbook Sending rioters to fight in Afghanistan has to be my favourite so farless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyPhil
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@psbook Releasing bees.less than a minute ago via Twitter for Mac Favorite Retweet ReplyIan M Scott
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@psbook I actually heard someone on a radio phone suggesting releasing angry bulls into the middle of it.less than a minute ago via Mobile Web Favorite Retweet ReplyAaron Stebbings
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@psbook Someone on the Telegraph website suggested dropping a neutron bomb on London. #RiotSolutionsless than a minute ago via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet ReplyDick Mandrake
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@psbook spraying rioters with coloured dye you could put that on your list my sugg! #RiotSolutionsless than a minute ago via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet Replytony walker
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You know it’s been a weird week when Boris Johnson doesn’t make either of these lists.

Nick Griffin “hopes” for suicide bombing in House of Commons

1:26pm Wed June 29th

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With tweets a few minutes ago, it seems the BNP leader has managed to surpass even his own base standards, writing that he hopes controversial cleric Raed Salah, speaking today in Parliament “blows himself up there”:

It should come as no suprise, however, that the BNP leader has form for such a low remark:

In 2009 he implied former army chiefs Sir Richard Dannat and Sir Mike Jackson could be hanged for attacking the BNP.

Nick Griffin attacks his own BNP colleagues in European Parliament

3:40pm Thu June 16th

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Thank you to the commenter who drew our attention to the astonishing video doing the rounds on far-right and anti-fascist websites. Nick Griffin is apparently so paranoid about plots against him within the BNP that he gatecrashed a meeting in the European Parliament to harangue an MEP colleague and nearly fight with a party member he expelled.

In a 30-minutes of leaked footage boiled down to highlights below, a visibly rattled Griffin argues with BNP members and his fellow MEP Andrew Brons, who he accused of “outrageous lies”, before squaring up to former member Eddy Butler who is heading an insurgency against his increasingly autocratic leadership.

“Various things Andrew was saying … a couple of days ago were outrageous lies”

Prior to the publication of the film on YouTube, Brussels’ New Europe newspaper reported on the meeting of what it referred to sarcastically as “the cream of the white race”:

“Brons is being urged not to let anyone release the video as its contents, said one, could finish the party off.”

The BNP’s most senior elected representatives are barely able to share the same platform without fighting with one another.

More BNP splits emerge as supporter details leaked for third time

2:09pm Sat May 28th

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The BNP have suffered their third leak of supporters’ confidential data in four years. After subscribers to the party’s email list received an unsolicited message from an organisation called Britain First, BNP top brass have accused a former regional organiser of stealing membership data to set up a splinter group.

South East Regional organiser Andy McBride quit in March over the “present direction of the party” and apparent jealousy over “those who have been placed into high office” by Nick Griffin. A former loyalist, McBride helped lead efforts to expel insurgents such as Eddy Butler but his departure (with membership data) raises the prospect of the party shattering into several unsustainable cliques.

The BNP apologised to supporters this morning, admitting:

“It seems likely that at least some of the data being abused by this small group of people originated with us.

The news, which comes after the names and addresses of party members were published by Wikileaks in 2008 and again a year later, recalls a similar incident of sabotage where the party’s online chief killed their website along with Twitter and Facebook pages.

With the party apparently in chaos, Griffin’s fellow MEP Andrew Brons has now hinted he might support a leadership challenge.

We may finally be entering the end-game for Nick Griffin.

BNP destroyed at local and Welsh Assembly elections

12:26pm Fri May 6th

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A disastrous night for Nick Griffin saw the BNP lose 8 councillors, and poll just 0.8% in Wales. The schadenfreude is underlined by Griffin’s pre-election claim that the BNP has a “tremendous chance of winning a Welsh seat”:

“Unless there’s enormous fraud, we’ve got a seat down here.”

Here’s the video of Griffin before the election, in which former BNP councillor Simon Darby claims that supporters were “mobbing the car.”

To compound Griffin’s misery, Hope Not Hate report the party’s last remaining councillor has discussed going independent in recent years.

Is this finally the end of the BNP?

Bizarre BNP election pledge: Nick Griffin will grit icy roads

12:48pm Wed April 20th

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With Britain set to bask in sun this Easter we can reflect with amusement on yesterday’s BNP broadcasts for the Scottish and Welsh elections. On the hottest day of the year so far the political geniuses advising Nick Griffin decided to make, erm, icy roads and snow the centrepiece of their prime time TV slot!

And in what must surely be one of the most bonkers election pledges in recent memory, Nick Griffin pledged to drive a gritting truck “near accident blackspots, schools and high streets”.

“You’re deciding to vote for people who will buy tons of road salt, out of their own salaries, and take our trucks to grit roads and pavements”

With no candidates and no money, the BNP are willing to say absolutely anything to shore up their dwindling support.

We’ll sadly never see Griffin shovelling snow in wellies and a donkey jacket.

BNP meltdown: party loses 70% of candidates in heartland areas

3:43pm Thu April 7th

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Yesterday we showed how the British National Party was running out of money, today we can reveal that it is running out of candidates as its activist base is decimated by defections and infighting. Research by Political Scrapbook shows the party has lost 70% of its in its candidates in target “heartland” areas.

A comparison between 2007 and 2011 for councils where the party previously stood five or more candidates shows ward nominations reduced from 545 to 166. The most dramatic collapses include:

Sunderland: 27 nominations reduced to 0.
Leeds: 33 nominations reduced to 2.
Kirklees: 22 nominations reduced to 4.
Bradford: 17 nominations reduced to 1.

Charnwood in Leicestershire, home to the largest number of BNP members in the country when the membership list was leaked three years ago, sees 14 running under the BNP banner reduced to just 3. Among the growing list of councils to confirm that they have no BNP candidates are Gateshead and Oldham, a huge blow for Nick Griffin. After winning a seat in the European Parliament he said:

“We will be in Oldham as often as there are local people, good people, willing to campaign for what we see as winnable seats. I definitely think we can get on Oldham Council.”

Errr, so why don’t you field any candidates, Nick?

The only Union Jacks most people will see on election day, will be left over bunting from the Royal Wedding.

BNP run out of money for leaflets in Welsh Assembly elections

10:40pm Wed April 6th

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Regular readers will be familiar with the financial problems of Nick Griffin and his rapidly shrinking band of followers. As we hurtle toward Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections, he has boasted on Twitter that the BNP is up to date with its tax obligations.

With a limited number of free postal deliveries provided for by election legislation, he is also reassures everyone that the party has its leaflets ready for the postman:

“Party tax & N.I. bill now paid up to date again. 75O,OO [sic] Welsh Assembly leaflets paid for up front & presses rolling.”

Assuming he means 750,000 leaflets, Nick still has one problem — there are 1,476,000 voting households in Wales. Clearly getting his excuses in early, he has now alludes to problems with Royal Mail:

“Spare a thought for our Clive Jefferson, Alwyn Deacon and Angus Matthys who had a mad, nightmare day fending off a vicious attempt by Welsh Post Office to sabotage our big leaflet drop.”

So when voters are sadly deprived of their BNP literature Griffin will presumable lay the blame with CWU trade unionists.

But more than half the leaflets never existed in the first place!

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