BNP Candidate Pleads Innocence
Kirklees Unity | 30.04.2007 10:13 | Anti-racism | Migration | Workers' Movements | Birmingham
BNP Candidate Pleads Innocence-We dont believe him
A MIDLAND BNP candidate who likes to dress up as a German trooper to re-enact World War Two battles, has denied having any sympathy with Adolf Hitler or the Nazis.
A MIDLAND BNP candidate who likes to dress up as a German trooper to re-enact World War Two battles, has denied having any sympathy with Adolf Hitler or the Nazis.
BNP Candidate Pleads Innocence-We dont believe him
A MIDLAND BNP candidate who likes to dress up as a German trooper to re-enact World War Two battles, has denied having any sympathy with Adolf Hitler or the Nazis.
Double glazing boss Karl Newman, aged 48, who is standing as a BNP candidate for Redditch in Thursday's local elections, collects and sells Nazi memorabilia on his website.
"If I thought there was any link between the BNP and Nazis, I would resign tomorrow," said Mr Newman, who is standing in Redditch's Greenlands ward.
"I don't agree with what the Nazis did and the Holocaust was appalling. I used to take part in battle re-enactments but I haven't done much of that lately. I have only been in the BNP for a year. I am not a racist. I have Jamaican and Asian friends and a Polish employee."
Mr Newman, who runs Redditch-based Mount Pleasant Windows Ltd, has now removed several photographs bearing swastikas from his website and erased Nazi memorabilia.
But a spokesman for the group Unite Against Fascism, said: "Karl Newman's Nazi obsession is sickening."
And Jaqui Smith, Labour MP for Redditch, said: "Redditch people are decent and tolerant. I am shocked that someone seeking to be an elected representative celebrates the Nazis."
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A MIDLAND BNP candidate who likes to dress up as a German trooper to re-enact World War Two battles, has denied having any sympathy with Adolf Hitler or the Nazis.
Double glazing boss Karl Newman, aged 48, who is standing as a BNP candidate for Redditch in Thursday's local elections, collects and sells Nazi memorabilia on his website.
"If I thought there was any link between the BNP and Nazis, I would resign tomorrow," said Mr Newman, who is standing in Redditch's Greenlands ward.
"I don't agree with what the Nazis did and the Holocaust was appalling. I used to take part in battle re-enactments but I haven't done much of that lately. I have only been in the BNP for a year. I am not a racist. I have Jamaican and Asian friends and a Polish employee."
Mr Newman, who runs Redditch-based Mount Pleasant Windows Ltd, has now removed several photographs bearing swastikas from his website and erased Nazi memorabilia.
But a spokesman for the group Unite Against Fascism, said: "Karl Newman's Nazi obsession is sickening."
And Jaqui Smith, Labour MP for Redditch, said: "Redditch people are decent and tolerant. I am shocked that someone seeking to be an elected representative celebrates the Nazis."
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POLISH WORKER
30.04.2007 12:05
polish
BNP man's FREEPHONE number
30.04.2007 14:12
PS. Don't give the receptionist a hard time, it's not her fault her boss is a fascist twat. The aim is to stay on the line as long as possible and cost him money!
Anti_BNP
BEWARE UNDERCOVER NAZI TROLLS
01.05.2007 07:44
Don't be fooled by the nazi trolls, folks. It's all part of their "covert tactics" of the white supremacist loser lobby.
Agent provocateuring is the name of the game, when the price is right.
It wouldn't surprise me if "Anti-BNP" is Watmough himself, trying to justify the hate-site Redwatch through such childishly smear tactics.
BEWARE THE DEVIOUS, DECEITFUL NAZI TROLLS..................... THEY DENY THE HOLOCAUST HAPPENED, AND WILL TRY ANYTHING TO JUSTIFY THEIR HATRED......
linda lovelace
Let's Defeat The Trolls
01.05.2007 08:12
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The nazi loving BNP candidate in the article, sounds like an older, more eccentic version of Hitler-fetishist (who wants all black people dead!), Mark Collett.
Mark Collett Worships Hitler
slay the trolls
01.05.2007 08:15
Dave-o
What's unethical?
01.05.2007 09:49
Bill
Your the Nazi's
01.05.2007 13:46
As for Bill, Guess what he is Gay, yeap Gay as can be, I also know where he lives and I am sure many out there would just love to get this info, But guess what, I wont be drawn into acting like the Nazi's you lot are. Just ask him how he spends his Friday evenings? lets see the truth Billy Boy, everyones hiding something if we know where to look!
Caz
Just Suppose...
02.05.2007 14:58
Is it wrong to utter these concerns? Is it wrong to ask why, precisely, people who are admittedly in fear and fleeing from an oppresive regime choose to travel through numerous countries / places of safety and come here? Is it not safe in France / Spain / Italy etc? Can our economy sustain this rate of immigration?
I am here to learn. I am not a racist / troll / BNP fifth columnist; I'm just a hardworking bloke who worries about the future, but has never really shared his concerns. I'd be grateful if someone with more knowledge than myself could answer / respond to my concerns.
Andy