Nick Griffin Explained

From: Martin Webster <martinwebstir@virginmedia.com>
To: Martin Webster <martinwebstir@virginmedia.com>
Subject: Griffin to call EGM to change BNP leadership election rules
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 02:46:41 +0100
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Griffin calls another BNP ŒEGM¹.
Why?
To change the party¹s leadership election rules (again).

When
...er.... Just before the impending leadership election!

The loony crook Nick Griffin plans to stage yet another an ŒExtraordinary
General Meeting¹ for what remains of the British National Party. These EGMs
have become a more frequent event than BNP Annual General Meetings.

Griffin does not explain what is the Œextraordinary¹ or Œemergency¹
circumstance which makes an EGM necessary. He merely states that the date
for this meeting ³will shortly be announced².

He has been fending off a queue of soon-to-be-heard High Court, County Court
and Industrial Tribunal hearings concerning payment of Damages and/or Costs
awards against him/the party, plus new court actions by sundry trade
creditors such as printers.

In that effort he has doubtless deployed some of the tricks of the
swindler¹s trade he learned during his first bankruptcy after he managed to
squander with breathtaking speed a £300,000 inheritance from his grandfather
Edwin during the early 1990s.

As you will see from the BNP web site posting below, Griffin will use the
EGM to propose yet more Œlately made-up rules¹ to regulate the party¹s
leadership elections, including:

* All candidates except the current office holder (i.e. himself) to pay a
£500 Œdeposit¹. (Will the cash be lodged in the bank account of an entity
not vulnerable either to Griffin¹s predations or to the just claims of
his/the BNP¹s creditors?)
* All candidates to get ³equal coverage² in party¹s media (which he
controls).
* The voting to be by means of a ³secret ballot² (invigilated by persons
appointed by him).
* The winner gets a ³fixed four- or five-year term² (i.e. plenty of time for
yet more EGMs & rule changes).
* BNP members get only 6 days to submit EGM motions. (Why this time-limit
for a meeting whose date has not been set?)

All this is not being done to ³save the party² but to prevent anybody but
himself and his immediate family having a legal right to follow up (with the
help of forensic accountants) the Œpaper trail¹ of the way in which he has
conducted the management of party funds since he became its Chairman more
that a decade ago. Huge sums of cash have Œdisappeared¹.

Nick Griffin has done massive damage to the BNP and to the nationalist
movement generally. That he would inflict such financial and political
damage was predicted by me in September 1999 in the printed Loose Cannon No.
1 pamphlet and in my subsequent Electronic Loose Cannon e-bulletins.

That he would inflict the damage he has inflicted is precisely the reason
why the Establishment¹s media accorded him such tremendous promotion up to
the last general election and precisely why information ‹ abundantly
supported Œsmoking gun¹ evidence ‹ about numerous shocking incidents of
criminality involving him were routinely ignored by the media.

Some of these incidents ‹ one in particular involving a potentially lethal
asbestos clearance in which he deployed innocent unprotected nationalist
youngsters ‹ make the hugely publicised Parliamentary Expenses scandal or
footballer Ryan Giggs¹ Œswordsmanship¹ look trivial.

The Establishment did not want to push Griffin off his perch until he turned
the national movement into a midden. That Establishment strategy has been a
total success, just as I predicted.

Martin Webster.

P.S.: A Quiz:

QUESTION:
Who spoke and voted FOR Griffin¹s last set of corrupt and tyrannical rule
changes at last year¹s EGM (held at Elm Park, East London on Sunday 14th
February 2010) and who now rail against those rules as ³unfair² and
³tyrannical²??

ANSWER:
1) Eddy Butler ‹ last year¹s ³leadership challenger² (after Griffin purged
him in April of that year);
2) Richard Edmonds ‹ this year¹s ³leadership challenger². (Griffin has
expelled virtually everybody else Œqualified¹ to stand);
3) Andrew Brons MEP ‹ who backs Edmonds¹ current ³leadership challenge² but
says he will retire from politics in three years (when his lucrative post as
an MEP expires);
4) Sundry other opportunists, nincompoops, pompous farts and idiots.

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http://www.bnp.org.uk/news/%E2%80%9Clet%E2%80%99s-have-leadership-election-s
ummer-and-may-best-man-or-woman-win%E2%80%9D
Thursday 26th May 2011 ­ 16.27

³Let¹s have a leadership election this summer
‹ and may the best man (or woman) win!²
by News Team, BNP Website

Nick Griffin uses meeting ³banned² by police to unveil plans for rapid
constitutional reform through Extraordinary General Meeting.

³Millions of British people are coming to view the British National Party as
a sort of insurance policy, or like the fire brigade: they don't think they
need us right now, but they're really pleased to have us around, just in
case.

³And the way things are going, with the steady toppling of financial
dominoes, the Chinese growth bubble about to burst, energy scarcity, and the
political elite's meddling in the Middle East guaranteeing future Islamic
terrorist bombs in Bluewater and other British shopping centres, they'll be
calling for the political fire brigade and claiming on the insurance policy
quicker than anyone thinks.²

This was Nick Griffin¹s message of hope to the determined and enthusiastic
audience of more than forty who came despite the inconvenience and
uncertainty caused by the police attack on freedom of assembly in Dagenham
and the consequent hasty move to a new venue several miles away.

Both the meeting chairman, defiant and dynamic Barking & Dagenham Organiser
Paul Sterdy, and Mr. Griffin explained in different ways how this kind of
pressure shows increasing desperation by the Powers That Be as they realise
that their earlier attempt to use personal grievances, manipulated ambitions
and black propaganda to destroy the party from ³within² has failed.

Great importance

At the end of his informative and well-received political speech, Mr.
Griffin turned to a matter of great importance to the staunch activists
present and to our wider audience of British National Party members and
supporters.

The whole meeting applauded when he told them that, now that the election is
over and the dust has settled, the date will shortly be announced for the
EGM which will vote on constitutional changes fleshed out from the
principles agreed by an overwhelming majority of the Voting Members at the
last Annual Conference.

The aim is to bring the way the party leadership is chosen firmly within the
British tradition of participation and responsible democracy.

A key motion will be proposals to have a significant part of the Advisory
Council elected by Regional Councils which are in turn comprised of
delegates from all groups and branches that meet simple requirements of
activity and efficiency.

The other central plank of the proposed reforms and amendments is ³to deal
with the unfortunate unintended consequences of our desperate scramble to
protect ourselves against the threat by Equality Commissioner and Operation
Black Vote boss Simon Woolley to have his people swamp us and destroy our
party².

³The signature hurdle that we agreed was necessary to protect us against
that was a vital precaution then, but it¹s time move on. We¹ve found to our
cost that some people tried to get their challenger over the hurdle by
exaggerating real problems and inventing fictional ones; they then had to be
disciplined, which led to bad blood and suspicion among those who thought
this was too harsh, and anger among those who thought the leadership was
being too lenient with dishonest troublemakers. It¹s a flawed system, and we
need to change it.

³We¹ve beaten the CEHR¹s attempts to remove other key defences against their
proposed takeover bid,² Mr. Griffin said.

Better system

³So I believe we can now safely move to a system modelled on the familiar
British parliamentary by-election. That means just ten nomination
signatures, a £500 deposit (returnable to all candidates who secure five per
cent or more of the vote), equal coverage as candidates from the party
publicity machine and a secret postal ballot of all paid-up members.

³We intend to do away with the problem of a long campaign of divisive
one-sided meetings by having a back-to-back programme of one formal hustings
meeting in each region, to which all paid-up members from the region in
question are invited and at which all candidates have equal time to set out
their stalls.

"No other meetings will be necessary ­ in fact it¹s likely that most
potential candidates wouldn't have the energy for more than the eleven
formal meetings in about a fortnight. The whole thing will be demonstrably
fair and quick, and then we can all get back to work.²

Finally comes the bit that produced the loudest cheers: ³We should replace
the permanent instability and uncertainty of annual challenges by amending
the present section and introducing a fixed four- or five-year term. The
first election would take place early this summer. And I¹ll be standing with
a view, if elected, to serving the full term because, regardless of my
personal preferences, if that is what the members vote for, that is what
they are entitled to get.

³The fantastic response I received all over the country during the recent
election campaign made me realise that for me to step down before a
successor has developed a degree of recognition and respect from voters
would do immense damage to the public¹s view of our party.

³I said last year that I thought that we should make the change late in
2013, but the ever-growing sympathy I encounter every day out on the streets
of our nation has made me believe ­ somewhat reluctantly ­ that it would be
too soon.

³If the members disagree and think we should have a new leader earlier, this
change will give them the perfect opportunity to choose a new one right
away, rather than probably waiting for another two years under the present
system.

³I¹m looking forward to the campaign and hope that a number of candidates
will come forward who will engage in constructive criticism and open debate
about our perhaps differing views on the way ahead. We need to develop a
culture of vigorous discussion within the bounds of civility and
responsibility, where in the end the interests of the party overall come
before the ambitions of any individual, and all involved agree to respect
the democratically expressed wishes of the membership,² Mr. Griffin told our
News Team this morning.

Contest this summer

³I am of course aware that a few individuals have recently been canvassing
for signatures to support a leadership challenge under the existing system.
It is also clear that they are struggling to secure enough support to be
able to stand. I believe that this is an unhealthy situation, which is why I
am pushing for the fixed-term amendment which would automatically allow
their candidate ­ and as many others who wish to throw their hats in the
ring ­ to stand for election this summer.

³If the members do choose someone else, that¹s fine. I¹ll serve under them
for as long as they¹ll have me. But I'll be fighting to win this contest,
because I¹m the best man for the job.²

Mr. Griffin has asked for anyone with constructive proposals on details as
to how to maximise fair and equal contact between all candidates and party
members during the campaign to submit them in writing by June 1st to PO Box
14, Welshpool, SY21 0WE.

In order to be fair to all potential candidates in the event of the
constitutional reform proposals or the present system leading to a
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