I also explained that his behaviour will not change. He will not ‘grow up’ or ‘mature’. He is who he is. I will illustrate this by looking at his political career.
THE CRANK
Nick Griffin loves crank politics. For nationalism to be ‘sellable’ it has to be relevant to the modern age and not propose all sorts of outlandish, never-before-tried solutions to secondary problems. Nick Griffin will try and tell you that these ‘secondary’ issues are in fact primary issues.
As a base line we need to get our people to vote for a party that will stop immigration and deport foreign criminals and bogus asylum seekers. It must also promote our national identity instead of ‘celebrating’ every other ones of the world’s cultures in preference to our own.
It must repeal the raft of discriminatory, so-called ‘anti-discriminatory’ legislation that has created an entire ‘race relations industry’. It must secure our national sovereignty by withdrawing from the European Union.
These are big enough pills to get our people to swallow. Not because our people naturally oppose these sorts of policies – I am certain that the overwhelming majority do support them – but because there is a feeling of hopelessness, a feeling that nothing can be done.
It has to be said that organised political nationalism as represented by the BNP and before that the NF has gone a long way towards feeding that feeling of hopelessness.
The nationalist cause by its often stupid behaviour has driven a wedge between it and the people. It has made the task of our enemies that much easier by conforming to negative stereotypes and by addressing the populist issues that I just listed in an inappropriate manner.
Nick Griffin’s predilection for crankishness first became apparent back in the mid 1980s. He was one of the prime movers in a split in the old National Front that happened in 1986. Nick Griffin’s faction was afterwards widely known as the ‘Looney Front’ due to how it conducted itself.
Just as with his financial untrustworthiness, I had hoped that Nick Griffin had left his political imbecilia in the past. I hoped it was something he would have grown out of. I was naive. There have been warning signs for several years.
WOOING THE THIRD WAYERS
In 1989 the ‘Looney Front’ split into various warring factions. Nick Griffin stayed with his grouplet (called the International Third Position) until he fell out with them about a year later.
However Nick Griffin must have harboured regrets about the cleaving of ‘Looney Front’. Soon after he managed to insinuate himself into the BNP and take it over, he began by hook or by crook to try to get his erstwhile comrades into the BNP. They have stubbornly resisted his entreatments although they are not averse to taking his money (and him and us for a ride).
Clearly they regard him with utter contempt for whatever happened back in 1989-90. Interestingly I sometimes get messages from the residue of the International Third Position warning about Nick Griffin’s perfidy.
In 2005 Nick Griffin decided to use scarce BNP resources to set up a bogus trade union which was to be called Solidarity. Patrick Harrington was immediately given a major role in the ‘union’. Patsy Harrington was one of the ‘Looney Front’ members who played a big part in causing the 1986 split and had separated from Nick Griffin in 1989. His faction, the Third Way, eventually became the ludicrous National Liberal Party.
Despite being in a rival political party, and despite steadfastly refusing to join the BNP, Nick Griffin has showered Patsy Harrington with ‘favours’. He has put him on his European payroll. He has given him high office in the BNP to the extent that he now effectively runs the party. When a squabble broke out in Solidarity in 2007, Nick Griffin backed Patsy Harrington and expelled the BNP loyalists from the ‘union’ and from the party. Their crime was that they had attempted to defend that party’s interests against those of Patsy Harrington.
In other words Nick Griffin has ‘bent over backwards’ to protect and promote his close friend from all those years ago, Patsy Harrington. And in return Patsy Harrington refused to leave his little sect, the National Liberal Party.
GLA ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS
The election of Richard Barnbrook to the Greater London Assembly in 2008 was the occasion of an undignified scramble for jobs. Each member of the GLA is allowed a staff budget. As he was a solitary member, Richard’s staff come under the central administration. Although the staff are employed by the GLA, the member has a great deal of input in who would be selected.
Nick Griffin’s big idea was that Richard Barnbrook should take on a member of the National Liberals from Havering (the only place in the country where they have a branch). I will not mention this person’s name, but he is fairly well known – it wasn’t on this occasion Patsy Harrington. When I and several others voiced opposition to this, Nick Griffin tried to get Richard to use one of his budgets to use this person as a public relations consultant. For some reason, after the BNP had striven for months and months to get someone elected to the GLA, Nick Griffin’s primary concern was to use the position to entice and buy support from a few members of the National Liberal Party.
This also illustrates the utter contempt that Nick Griffin has for members of the BNP – he evidently thinks no one in the party was capable of doing the job. We are capable of winning the seats (unlike the National Liberals) but incapable of providing administrative support for the elected member – apparently.
The other person that Nick Griffin tried to persuade Richard Barnbrook to take on was another one of his old contacts from his crankish days of yore. Again I will not say who he is, but he actually lived in Germany. Believe it or not Nick Griffin wanted to fly this person in for two days a week every week.
I had to use all my tact to dissuade Nick Griffin from employing these two. It would have caused uproar in the party. It showed that he was absolutely desperate to get these people as part of his team and their reluctance to be bought (which to be truthful was just as important in scuppering the scheme as my efforts at diplomacy) spoke volumes about their true regard for him – as did their refusal to join a party that he led.
EUROPEAN STAFF
When more staff opportunities opened up after the election of two BNP MEPs, Nick Griffin again endeavoured to get the erstwhile friend from Germany a researcher job. Again, despite offering this individual more money than any other member of staff, the job offer was refused. This person’s reluctance to work for Nick Griffin is clearly in reverse proportion to Nick Griffin’s desire to have him on board.
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| Pat Harrington, with his wife Mich "Bondage" (the highest paid BNP member of staff) at an IRA memorial in the republican Falls Road, Belfast. |
Nick Griffin has done all he can to drive some nationalists out of the BNP. Patsy Harrington cannot claim this as an excuse for his lack of a BNP membership card.
While I was in a senior position within the BNP I had to fight a constant rearguard action against Nick Griffin’s desire to shower financial and political favours on the National Liberal Party. These favours were never reciprocated. It was and is a one sided love-affair. It has been detailed before how during the last round of local elections the BNP had to step aside in a key ward in the Dagenham and Rainham constituency in favour of a NLP nominee (at Nick Griffin’s insistence), and the NLP double crossed the BNP by failing to step aside in the neighbouring ward which was part of the deal.
For some reason, Nick Griffin is constantly trying to curry favour with Patsy Harrington. Something must have happened back in 1989 that left a deep impression. Why else were BNP activists during the General Election ordered to deliver tens of thousands of Solidarity leaflets, not just in Barking and Dagenham but up and down the country? They were terrible leaflets with a big dagger stabbing a heart on the front. Didn’t Nick Griffin realise we had an election to fight? One that he had already done his best to sabotage with his fake murder plots.
CARELESS EXTREMISM
Nick Griffin has long been known for his careless extremism. We saw it during his Question Time debacle, when he praised a 'moderate' section of the Ku Klux Klan. We saw it with the ill advised statements about sinking boats full of immigrants. This incidentally led to Margaret Hodge’s remark that it was BNP policy to throw people out of planes. Due to Nick Griffin’s idiocy, no action could ever be taken against Hodge for her claims.
Nick Griffin’s careless extremism creates the climate where a BNP member has been arrested for burning the Koran. Please remember that our personnel are serving in many Islamic hot spots and the burning of the Koran by an American led to vicious reprisals against ‘Westerners’ in Afghanistan. We may rightly oppose Britain interfering in other countries' internal affairs, but so long as our people are serving there we do not want to endanger them. Mouthing platitudes about our right in our own country to do as we please will not be much solace to the families of bereaved victims of any suicide attacks that may be provoked by this action.
Then there is the Holocaust, to which, as again was seen on Question Time, Nick Griffin consistently fails to give a straight answer, partly no doubt as he refuses to back down over his claims in the early 1990s to be Britain’s leading Holocaust revisionist. He also made remarks about the Holocaust in a magazine called ‘The Rune’ that contributed to his conviction under the Public Order Act in 1998. Nick Griffin had said:
I am well aware that the orthodox opinion is that six million Jews were gassed and cremated and turned into lampshades. Orthodox opinion also once held that the world is flat.
As ever he is a prisoner of his past.
The hostility Nick Griffin shows to this day to boring electioneering - to those stuffy old fashioned methods such as canvassing – is mirrored by his remarks back in the early 1990s regarding the Millwall by-election (the BNP’s first ever victory), which Griffin had absolutely no part in:
The electors of Millwall did not back a post modernist rightist party, but what they perceived to be a strong, disciplined organisation with the ability to back up its slogan "Defend Rights for Whites" with well-directed boots and fists.
We also see that Nick Griffin has a continuing predilection for strutting around with a team of heavies. He likes to direct these heavies when occasion suits him into other people’s houses (invariably members who he has fallen out with) via their misdirected boots and fists.
YOU SAY GADDAFI I SAY QATHAFI
An article in the current issue of the slim line Identity magazine claims that the internal problems in Libya are caused by the Rothschilds and the ‘banksters’ (one of Nick Griffin’s cranky terms). It couldn’t be that Gaddafi is a bit of a tyrant could it? No, Nick Griffin recently said he was no worse than anyone else. Indeed Nick Griffin has shown considerable sympathy with the old rogue Gaddafi lately.
This is not very surprising. One of the hallmarks of the ‘Looney Front’ was its fulsome praise for Gaddafi, or as they liked to call him Colonel Muammar Qathafi (although I see he was also referred to as Colonel Muammar Al Gadhafi – I suppose it depends which Bedouin dialect you have learnt).
The ‘Looney Front’ featured regular articles in its theoretical magazine ‘Nationalism Today’ that sang the praises of Gaddafi. One declared that parliamentary democracy was bad and the Gaddafi system of people’s power good. Hmmm. That's where he got the idea for the BNP's constitution.
Another article said that we should arm the people, in conformity with Gaddafi’s Third Universal Theory as set out in his Green Book. Do you remember when Nick Griffin ‘borrowed’ that policy and put it in the 2005 BNP manifesto and humiliated every single BNP member with his crankish nonsense?
The 'Looney Front' boasted that it was the sole UK distributor of the Green Book which comprises the idiotic rantings of Gaddafi. It was more or less the 'Looney Front’s' bible.
Then as now Nick Griffin likes a camera. When he went on his infamous trip to Libya to solicit funds from Gaddafi in 1988, at the height of Libya’s funding of the IRA, he made sure he was pictured here, there and everywhere. Sometimes his colleague Derek Holland managed to get in the photo as well.
But there were three out there. Who, craftily, was on the other side of the lens every time? Who to this day is camera shy and likes to the try and sue anyone who uses an image of himself? Why, our old friend Patsy Harrington, that’s who!
Besides Gaddafi, the Looney Front also regularly praised the Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran and Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam movement in the United States. That puts the true extent of Nick Griffin’s opposition to militant Islam into some perspective.
To give a taste of the obnoxious degree to which Nick Griffin fawned over these repellent third world despots I have reproduced several images of his magazines here. It was not one isolated incident. He is true to the same belief now. He may have fooled us for a while but we can now see that he has not changed a bit since then.




















