Why I Won’t Be Voting For The BNP
I thought they were just racist, which would have been bad enough. Now it seems their members have sunk even lower:
Following the death of Ivan Cameron, Jeffrey Marshall, senior organiser for the BNP’s London European election campaign, claimed in an internet forum discussion: “We live in a country today which is unhealthily dominated by an excess of sentimentality towards the weak and unproductive. No good will come of it.”
Later, in response to comments made by others on the site, Marshall is alleged to have written: “There is not a great deal of point in keeping these people alive after all.” He said the comments were private and some had been paraphrased and taken out of context. He admitted making the former comment, but said he could not recall making the latter one in an email to the forum, a copy of which is in the Observer’s possession.
I’m Muslim, so I’ve always known that if the BNP came to power, I’d be on a plane out of England. But I never dreamed they would want me dead! There’s no way on Earth I’ll ever vote for them.
Same Difference 
Sarah
Outraged to read this. Just too angry for words really.
Perhaps if Nick Griffin or the other leaders of the BNP were to, for example, step out and into the road and get knocked down by an angry Blue Badge holder and end up in a wheelchair or paralysed from the neck down, would they then change their point of view?
Or should we all book a ticket to Holland now? and Exit stage left!
Vote for anybody but them, because by not voting you give these morons a chance at power.
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Just a quick modification to my previous comment. We should be exiting to Switzerland, Not Holland as previously suggested. Though of course Holland is very liberal and has some great coffee shops that sometimes sell more than coffee, so perhaps Holland would be a better option – particularly for those with MS perhaps …
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These sorts of comments echo the Nazis’ extermiantion programme for disabled people back in the 1930s and 1940s. However they might try to look respectable, the BNP’s true selves seem to ooze out every so often.
They are not doing well in the opinion polls – one out tomorrow will put them on just 2% of the European election vote – but this may vary round the country and it will be important for people to vote to minimise their chances of, for example, getting Griffin himself elected in the North-west of England region. The voting is done by a form of proportional representation, and the way it works means that it is a struggle between the BNP and the Green Party candidate, Peter Cranie, for the final MEP position in the north-west. This video explains more:
I hope people will vote for the Greens. As well as their environmental policies, they are supporting greater social justice, including for disabled people: http://www.greenparty.org.uk/policies/equalities.html and so you can vote positively as well as stop the BNP.
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Hi Adrian
Thanks so much for sharing all this very useful information with us. I didn’t know anything about Green policies on disability before. I’m very impressed. I think it should be shared with as many DisAbled people as possible, so I’m going to post it as a post in itself.
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I sincerely hope you stop the BNP dead in there tracks. As a white South-African I want you to experience the tranquillity of a multiracial utopia, I hope you settle another 2 million Pakistani’s and another 2 million Turks and another 10 million Nigerians and hopefully some additional 5 million Somali’s just to make sure.
I have seen your future, and I am orgasmic about your destruction!! Down with the BNP the Nazi scum!!!!
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The problem is that these comments were obtained by Searchlight who routinely spied on a private discussion group and then distorted the remarks from their original context.
I have no idea why the Muslim chap who wrote the original post thinks that anyone in the BNP would want him dead.
The notion of nazi-style eugenics which has been deliberately implanted into these comments is a creation of Searchlight.
By the way, I am horrified by the white South African – Adriaan’s – comment. Just because his country has become a crime-infested nightmare thanks to black majority rule there is no reason why he should wish the same fate upon us.
I can only assume that the ‘tranquility of a multiracisl utopia’ is intended to be a joke.
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If by ‘the Muslim chap who wrote the original post’ you mean me, the reason why I think that anyone in the BNP would want me dead is that as well as being a Muslim, I am disabled. and the Searchlight comments suggest that the person who made them- you, if you really are THAT Jeffrey Marshall- doesn’t think there is much point in me, or any disabled person, being alive. Which suggests to me that at least one person in the BNP wants me dead.
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Perhaps if this guy is THAT Jeffrey Marshall, he should explain his party’s policy regarding disabled people to the disabled people here and see if it holds up to scrutiny.
But there is always the danger that he will shoot himself in the foot, and the BNP’s policy will show them up to be the intolerant bigots they are – I hope so!
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Hardly surprising, any of this. Whenever we faced the fascist threat from in the inter-war years, their bugbear was that we had given the vote to women. This was the undue sentimentality towards the weak, when it should have been the men in control. Now we have the disabled, the different, anyone who stands up to them – anyone recognising a pattern that we’ve already seen on this continent before?
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