In recent weeks a few deluded individuals within the fascist 'British People's Party', in particular their National Secretary Kevin Watmough, have (as they have in the past) taken it upon themselves to start issuing threats on behalf of their mythical "friends in Ulster". Threats have been issued on the Blood and Honour/Combat 18 site Watmough runs, on Indymedia, and on the UK section of the racist forum VNN, which the BPP control. The threats have accompanied smears, slander, and spurious allegations. We should expect nothing better from this rabble.

What follows is a statement issued by Belfast Loyalists. It was originally posted on another thread at  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/02/334026.html


A Statement (of sorts) which the BPP forgot to read.
19.02.2006 19:47

On behalf of the loyalist community of W.Belfast I would like to issue this following statement through a third party:

(To authenticate this statement, I would ask people to check tomorrow with registered sources.)

On behalf of the senior Command of the Ulster Volunteer Force and the directorate of the Progressive Unionist Party, I would like to make known here and now on this forum that we as a party and as representatives of a community of working class Protestant people, that we totally reject the far-right BNP and any of its English satellites.

The liberal media on the mainland has made many a connection between our people, and those on the mainland that choose for whatever reason, to associate with us for their own purposes.

We deny not, that there has been a history of "collusion" (often misrepresented) between sections of the Protestant leadership in Ulster and sections of the British mainland who have a vested interested in using working class Irishmen and women for their own benefit.


It has been drawn to our attention that on the "Indymedia" forums, as has been the history of these people, threats have been made against certain people (unknown to us) that these (unknown) people may be subjected to (in our name) forms of punishment or retribution synonymous with the Loyalist movement.

As we have often done, we would like to make clear that we reject entirely the motives and the reasoning behind fascist groups and indeed object entirely to their sectarian and fascist motivations.

That some people once on the periphery on the movement for working class Ulstermen and women may have once sought a common cause with these voyeurs does not mean in any way that we as a movement endorse their state-sponsored agenda to undermine our cause and our history of objection to their beliefs.

I would add, that many, if not all of our members live within the confines of a working class community unfortunately divided along lines that are no longer acceptable to the vast majority of people that live in this island.

As a result and previously, the leadership of the PUP has sought and received not only assurances from, but has also witnessed that we would not accept as a community the ideals of fascism.

That English voyeurs should purport to use our name to issue idle and worthless threats against voyeurs of another struggle of which we have obviously become intertwined, is offensive.

In 2003, members of the C18 and WNP were asked to leave Belfast by the UVF. They did so.

Any person using the governance of our organisation to therefore issue threats, is therefore to be treated with the disdain and the outright repudiation that such comments or statements made deserve
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The UVF and the PUP reject outright racism and fascism. We will not engage in squabbles on behalf of Walter Mitty types or those that cling to them.

I believe this is the second time such a statement has been issued.
Peter