Wannabe BNP councillor has a bad night

Antifa | 26.09.2004 11:51 | Anti-racism

After an election defeat, a wannabe BNP councillor's night gets even worse.

At the recent Laindon ward council election in Basildon (23/09), David King, a former BNP treasurer was standing for a seat. Unite Against Fascism held a meeting a week prior to the election, with fifty people present, but no picket of the election count was organised. On the night it was announced that King had come third, and the twenty BNP members and supporters left the town hall defeated, but unopposed. Two minutes down the road, were seven anti-fascists who just happened to be drinking in town. When the two groups met (despite being outnumbered three to one), a ‘full and frank discussion’ with King and other members ended with them on the floor, and later receiving treatment from an ambulance crew. One of the BNP “security” entourage panicked and managed to spray two anti-fascists with mace, as well as half his mates. No arrests were made.
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Hurrah 4 Antifa.

26.09.2004 13:05

Nice one lads..... All other Anti-fascists take note...

pirate

violence begets violence

26.09.2004 15:12

So you're now suggesting that violence should be used to subvert the democratic process, that's very democratic and fair of you, NOT..

If people vote BNP then that is their right, and you do not have a holier-than-thou say in what happens, you are just individuals like the voters are and have no right to bully your way around our democracy. If we get BNP councillors so be it that is just democracy and if you don't like it go and live in Cuba or somewhere! Idiotic thugs.

sceptical

That's right.

26.09.2004 15:20

Nick Griffin ran the BNP as a party of violence from the very beginning:

"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. When the crunch comes, power is the product of force and will, not of rational debate."

Surprised that those on the receiving end can kick and punch back, are you? Or did you think we'd forgotten, and should take Nick Griffin and his arsehole skinhead pals to be changed men, following his recent pathetic marketing exercise?

Schoolyard bullies, that's all you'll ever be. You speak for no-one but your own sad selves.

Ian

contradiction

26.09.2004 15:30

Fighting back? Fair enough, except you weren't attacked according to the story, the communists attacked the BNP not the other way around. The councillor was standing for election in a democracy not starting a fight or beating people.

It seems you agree with that Nick Griffin quote, defending your right to dictate to voters who they should vote for with "well directed boots and fists" eh? As if you are more important than the people doing the voting and have any kind of right to dictate this! Thats exactly why the left are a flop.

The BNP tactics these days, in case you've been asleep until recently don't involve gangs of skinheads, anyone could tell you that who's read the newspaper or watched the news. So these people are nothing but a gang of thugs with the arrogance to think they have a right to attack people standing for election because they disagree with them.

sceptical

Oh, bless!

26.09.2004 15:43

Hahahahahaha!
Let's have a review of the past few months achievements by the poor, misunderstood, victimised BNP:
- Ian Leadbitter, BNP candidate for Sunderland, arrested for assault
- Joey Owens, BNP party organiser in Merseyside, arrested for assault
- Tony Wentworth, leader of the Young BNP and the party's candidate in Salford, arrested for common assault
- BNP activists filmed by BBC, boasting of violent attacks on Asians, along with BNP council candidates describing how they wanted to kill Asians (in the case of one man on a total of 24 separate occasions) and a newly elected BNP councillor conspiring with other party members to torch a vehicle carrying the Searchlight election newspaper.

What was that you were saying again? "nothing but a gang of thugs with the arrogance to think they have a right to attack people"

Yes, arrogant gang of thugs, a good description, thank you.

Ian

he wasnt a councillor

26.09.2004 18:22

david king isnt a coucillor, he lost the election.
were does it say in the report that the anti-fascists were communists, out of interest?

you wring your hands if you want

27.09.2004 11:52

and don't bother to thank the sort of people that remove the threat of fascism from our streets - they are too busy actually doing something.

Or perhaps you could sit down with the bnp and 'explain' to them why their policies spread hate and division, I mean, looking back through history - if only some middleclass lightweights had sat down with hitler and his chums, he could have been talked out of it.

fuck the bnp, and fuck 'em up at every opportunity.

non-violence is nice - but at this juncture in time, utterly useless.

make a difference or ... not

karen eliot

Useful guide for future reference

27.09.2004 12:22

ANYONE who EVER posts on IMC under the handle "Sceptic" or "Sceptical" or any similar nomenclature is inevitably a pathetic and reactionary WANKER of the most abject kind and should be treated with the contempt and pity that they deserve.

This is, and has always been so, as long-term IMC readers will attest. Sadly, he/she/they are very unlikely to have friends, partners, or what sane people would term "a life" and will therefore hang around sniping unconvincingly at other posters, and spouting stale, red-baiting nonsense for the rest of their sordid and futile lives.

Its a shame, but there you go.

For my own part, I detest violence. Except when its directed against the sort of people who would round us all up and have us shot, if they had their way.

Sorry, but I'm afraid fascists forfeited their right to "democratic" treatment a VERY long time ago. About 80 years ago, to be precise.

You can't reason with a rabid dog. Or a twatty "sceptic", come to that!

Sorry, but that's just the way it is.

Septic Wank

Stop the Nazis

29.09.2004 16:28

With no disrespect intended to Antifa, clearly from these comments there are some people who would like to get involved in opposing the fascist BNP without having to engage in, er, shall we say, such physically robust tactics.

For people preferring peaceful protest a better home might be Unite Against Fascism.

This really isn't meant as a pop at Antifa! It's just another option. Each their own way, unity + diversity and all that, like in the anti-war movement.

Unite Against Fascism:

http://www.uaf.org.uk

trade unionist