BNP "FESTIVAL" FLOPS!
Marxist_Mike | 20.08.2002 11:12
THE British National Party's "Red, White & Blue" rally last weekend flopped in the face of Anti Nazi League protests. Fewer than 400 Nazis turned up for the Lancashire event - less than half the number predicted by BNP führer Nick Griffin. Some 100 Anti Nazi League protestors broke through the 5km exclusion zone imposed by the police and mounted a picket next to the rally site.
Last year's "Red, White & Blue" attracted 300 Nazis to Griffin's farm in north Wales. This year the BNP could only muster an attendance of 400 - despite being only 10 miles from Burnley, where 10,000 people voted BNP in last May's local elections. This is a major setback for the Nazis - they had hoped to capitalise on their electoral support and use their so-called "festival" to consolidate their base.
Griffin was visibly rattled during his "keynote" speech. The BNP leader lost his composure and delivered a garbled racist rant - at one point yelling: "Who is Stephen Lawrence anyway?" Griffin ended his speech begging his hardcore Nazi audience to "bring along one or two of your friends next time".
In his final rally, Griffin announced that the BNP is now "the only socialist party in Britain". This rhetoric mirrors Hitler's pronouncements in the 1920s and 1930s. Hitler's "national socialism" led directly to the gas chambers. But the fightback against the Nazis is working - as the poor BNP turnout their "festival" of race hatred demonstrates.
Last year's "Red, White & Blue" attracted 300 Nazis to Griffin's farm in north Wales. This year the BNP could only muster an attendance of 400 - despite being only 10 miles from Burnley, where 10,000 people voted BNP in last May's local elections. This is a major setback for the Nazis - they had hoped to capitalise on their electoral support and use their so-called "festival" to consolidate their base.
Griffin was visibly rattled during his "keynote" speech. The BNP leader lost his composure and delivered a garbled racist rant - at one point yelling: "Who is Stephen Lawrence anyway?" Griffin ended his speech begging his hardcore Nazi audience to "bring along one or two of your friends next time".
In his final rally, Griffin announced that the BNP is now "the only socialist party in Britain". This rhetoric mirrors Hitler's pronouncements in the 1920s and 1930s. Hitler's "national socialism" led directly to the gas chambers. But the fightback against the Nazis is working - as the poor BNP turnout their "festival" of race hatred demonstrates.
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