BNP’s Liverpool mayor candidate Mike Whitby arrested on suspicion of electoral fraud following ECHO investigation
Mike Whitby THE BNP’s Liverpool mayor candidate Mike Whitby was arrested at his North Wales home on suspicion of electoral fraud – following an ECHO investigation. Police broke down Mike Whitby’s front door in North Wales yesterday, after he refused to cooperate for six hours. He was questioned at a police station in Wrexham on … Read more
Liverpool BNP mayoral candidate Mike Whitby rents pigeon shed in city to be eligible to stand
THE British National Party candidate for Liverpool mayor Mike Whitby is only eligible to stand in the election because he rents a redundant pigeon shed in the city. Mike Whitby, who claims to put “local people first”, is also standing for a seat on Wrexham council on May 3. As Mr Whitby lives in North … Read more
Stoke-on-Trent BNP leader Michael Coleman on race charge
BNP leader Michael Coleman has appeared in court on racism charges. The former councillor will go on trial accused of causing racial harassment over a seven-month period. It is understood the allegations relate to comments made on the defendant’s website. The 45-year-old lost his Meir North seat on Stoke-on-Trent City Council in last May’s elections. … Read more
Liverpool leaders attempt to withdraw licence from Wavertree club that hosted BNP conference
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1326407570.html BNP meeting at the Cricketers Club,Sandown Lane,Wavertree. Liverpool Antifascists including Cllr Joe Anderson(leader of Liverpool City Council)2nd right, demonstrating against the BNP outside the Cricketers Club. CITY leaders are attempting to have a Liverpool club’s licence revoked after it hosted the annual conference of the British National Party (BNP). They are applying to licensing … Read more
Council leader threatened after BNP meeting
A council leader has received death threats after opposing a BNP meeting at a charity-run hall. It comes after the far-right party compared the Labour-run administration to the ousted Gaddafi regime. The BNP accused Labour-run Hastings Borough Council of prompting a protest at St Baldslow Memorial Hall in St Leonards. The party has now vowed … Read more
BNP plans Irish wing to oppose immigration
RIGHT wing British Nationalist Party is agitating for the establishment of an ‘Irish National Party’ and believes there are already like-minded groups in existence here. The leader of the anti-immigration lobby Nick Griffin has pencilled in a visit to Trinity College later this month. The BNP, which grew in popularity in the UK at the … Read more
BNP leader Nick Griffin to speak at Phil debate on immigration
The leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin, has been invited to speak at Trinity College. The invitation was extended by college debating society, The Philosophical Society, to a debate entitled “This House Believes Immigration Has Gone Too Far” on October 20. The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right, nationalist political party … Read more
“I’m no Nazi,” says BNP candidate snapped at far right concert
Twickenham’s BNP parliamentary candidate has denied he is a Nazi, after an undercover newspaper sting caught him giving a right-arm salute at a Hungarian pop concert. Chris Hurst, of Whitton, claimed he was drunk and just copied everyone else in the crowd when he was pictured saluting far-right Swedish singer Saga, whose lyrics were said … Read more
BNP faces meltdown at local polls after defections and infighting. Party to field 450 fewer candidates than in 2007 as leader Nick Griffin comes under pressure over organisation’s finances
The British National party is facing political meltdown in next month’s local elections after a string of defections and growing concern over its finances. Dozens of prominent BNP figures have either been suspended or have resigned and in the past few weeks several former members have announced they are to stand for rival far-right and … Read more
Cash-strapped BNP ‘turns to racist hardcore’
The BNP was last night accused of turning to “a hardcore group of neo-Nazis and racists” to stand as candidates in next month’s local elections. The anti-BNP campaign group Hope not Hate said it had compiled a dossier of extremist postings of candidates standing on 5 May, either in council elections or those to the … Read more
