BNP leader Nick Griffin could lose Euro seat as party faces bankruptcy

 

 BNP leader Nick Griffin faces being axed as a Euro MP as he fights to avoid bankruptcy over his party’s soaring cash crisis.

He is among top officials thought to be personally liable for the racist group’s £700,000 debts – which it admits it cannot pay.

Anyone made bankrupt is legally barred from being an MP or Euro MP.

The BNP’s money woes were laid bare by ex-chief fundraiser James Dowson in a letter seen by the Mirror.

Mr Dowson told North-East printers who produced its newsletter that the finances were like “a shipwreck”.

He added: “Cash is in very short supply… [it is] impossible for the BNP and persons associated with it to pay outstanding bills in anything like a normal timescale, if indeed at all.” The “very grave” crisis meant it could only pay 20% of what it owed, he added.
Its money problems have been made worse by having to settle a legal row after illegally using Marmite in an ad and the cost of fighting the Equality and Human Rights Commission over its whites-only admission rules.

Meanwhile, electoral chiefs are still probing its 2008 accounts as they contain gaps that breach the law.

The BNP’s debt meltdown comes amid a spate of defections and expulsions.

Mr Dowson and media officer Paul Golding have left while campaigns chief Eddy Butler and London Assembly member Richard Barnbrook were recently expelled.

Mr Griffin was not responding to our requests for a comment last night.

From the Daily Mirror. 03.11.10. By Tom Mctague

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5 Responses to “BNP leader Nick Griffin could lose Euro seat as party faces bankruptcy”
  1. w.k moss says:

    GRIFFIN N BRONS SHOULD BOTH BE KICKED OUT OF MAINSTREAM BRITISH POLITICS FOR GOOD,BECAUSE BACK IN THE DAYS OF NATIONAL FRONT/BRITISH MOVEMENT THESE 2 HALF BAKED FOOLS WERE INVOLVED.THEIR INTENTIONS WAS TO STIR UP HATRED WHILST CONNING THEIR MISGUIDED UNEDUCATED MEMBERS FOR THE MONEY.THEY SEEM TO FORGET I WAS IN THEIR FORUMS/CHATROOMS READING THE PLOT.SINCE 2008 WHEN THEIR MEMBERS LIST WAS UPLOADED FOR GOOD REASONS,IT WAS THE CATALYST TO WHAT WE ARE EMBROILED IN NOW.THE EDL CAME FROM DISLOYAL JUMPSHIP NAZI SALUTING BIGOT BEERBOY FOOLS.IRONIC THE LIST WENT UP IN (BEDFORD)BEDFORDSHIRE AND THAT THE EDL STARTED IN (LUTON)BEDFORDSHIRE.i did what i did for all to realise what was quietly been plotted by a wannabe HITLER called NICK(hitler)GRIFFIN,money grabbing racist bigot leech.THANKYOU LIVERPOOL AS USUAL LOYAL

  2. Mark says:

    Should we have a whip-round? :-) )

  3. Rob says:

    Yeah, we could offer to pay their debts off… provided they leave the country.

  4. Marmite says:

    Is it my imagination, or is Nick Griffin starting to show a resemblance to Bela Lugosi in his most enigmatic film role – that of Dracula?

  5. Marmite says:

    Ah, so that’s the reason Old Nick isn’t looking so good these days. According to a Daily Mirror report of last Saturday, 6.11.10, he’d been wizzed into hospital just the day before, to have his kidney stones removed.

    The strange thing is that he’s due in court today, Monday 8.11.10, to find out whether the BNP’s constitution is still unlawful, and whether he’ll face the awful prospect of a custodial sentence, for failing to uphold British law and British justice.

    Given the BNP’s track record of prevarication when legal matters are likely to go against them, Marmite can’t help wondering whether those kidneystones might have been conveniently force fed.

    Whatever. Anti-fascists everywhere will doubtless be sending lots of get well cards – to the kidney stones.

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