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BNP's canoe fundraiser sinks without trace...

Tom the gossip | 22.08.2006 15:32 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | Liverpool

...and a BNP member misses the bus!

A week or so ago, an item appeared on the BNP's website about a fundraising event to raise money for the party. Yorkshire BNP members Tom Linden (Candiate on the Stormfront nazi forum) and Steve King were planning to canoe the entire length of the Liverpool/Leeds canal. The trip was to last seven days and was intended to raise money for the BNP to continue spreading their lies around. In fact the BNP raised a fair amount in donations, which were mostly given to the BNP directly rather than to the rowers themselves. The BNP typically sent them on their way with this glorious quote: 'The tenacious 'bulldog spirit' of Waterloo, the Blitz and countless other battles lives on in brave men such as Tom and Steve.'

Let's hope not because it was all over by that evening. The caravan they were meant to be staying in had been broken into and clothing and £77 in donations that had been collected from those who had waved them off had been nicked. Steve King's bulldog spirit had apparently dissolved and he'd gone home with a sore back and a blister or two, leaving Tom Linden stranded in Wigan until one of his colleagues could get him and the canoe back home.

This farce points up a couple of different issues. One is that the BNP are as full of shit as they ever were and the other is the way they gather donations from events that don't seem to happen or for things that promptly disappear. This event fits into the former category but the latter could refer to the famously-invisible Boadicea, the BNP's 'battle bus'.

Way back in February 2006, the BNP was begging its members to donate vast amounts of money for all kinds of crap to make the bus roadworthy. Here's the list:

SPARE BULB KIT - £5.50
CHAMOIS LEATHER - £7.00
12 X MUGS AND CUPS - £14.00
KITCHEN EQUIPMENT - £22.00
PNEUMATIC LIFTING BAG - £35.00
ALUMINIUM LADDER - £40.00
GARDEN CHAIRS AND TABLE - £55.00
TEA AND COFFEE MACHINE- £77.00
VACUUM CLEANER - £82.00
SPARE WHEEL AND TYRE - £112.00
T.V.MONITOR AND DVD PLAYER - £212.00
RACKING AND STORAGE - £360.00
FRIDGE/FREEZER - £370.00
CALOR GAS COOKER AND BOTTLES - £460.00 (how much???)
VINYL DECALS (OFF-SIDE) - £580.00
VINYL DECALS (NEAR-SIDE) - £580.00
SLIDE-IN MESSAGE BOARDS (OFF-SIDE) - £640.00
SLIDE-IN MESSAGE BOARDS (NEAR SIDE) - £640.00
7 METRE FOLDING AWNING (NEAR-SIDE) - £1,770.00
240 VOLT GENERATOR AND CABLING - £2,300.00
CCTV SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM +ALARMS - £3,300.00

Pretty hefty, huh? We're told that a LOT of donations were made but the bus has never reappeared or been mentioned again.

Not wanting to join and post on the hardcore nazi forums that most BNP members seem to post on, we'll ask our questions here in the hope that one of the many, many BNP members who troll Indymedia can provide a sensible answer or two.

We're told (by a disgruntled BNP member) that thousands of pounds have been donated to the Boadicea fund. His questions were - how much has been donated, where's the money and where's the damn bus?

Or is this all yet another BNP lie?

Tom the gossip
- Homepage: http://82.69.12.18/lancasteruafblog/

Comments

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No case to answer

22.08.2006 22:07

If you expect me or anyone else to answer the questions of a slimebag like you, certainly you are more stupid are incompetent that we thought. lol

BNP sympathiser


On Occasion

22.08.2006 23:34

I usually only occasionally read this scumbag site out of pure morbid curiosity really, and as a yard stick to see just how low the human being can actually sink.

Now I’ve got a comment for you. Every time a nationalist reads your filth, it fills him with an ever greater sense of purpose; so please keep up the work.

Smell you outside Leeds Crown Court.
Race&Nation.
Ps fuck the bus, because who really cares?

James


BNP vermin

23.08.2006 00:07

No-one expects answers from scum like you or your party because you're all a bunch of thieves and liars, from Griffin all the way down.

Sloane


Worthless Nazi cretins

23.08.2006 10:15

Maybe we should try harder to piss these fascist scumbags off, if they're filled with a "greater sense of purpose" they might even make it past Wigan next time and we can sink the fuckers!

Bad-back Tom


Yawn

23.08.2006 15:02

Did you write that all yourself? Prat

James


BNP anger

23.08.2006 15:13

It's amazing how the usual suspects get so angry over such a little question. I think we can safely assume the money has been used for something other than the renovation of the old bus. Perhaps it's been spent on some more 'renovation' down on Griffin's farm. ;-)

Boadicea


Eek - the police are coming

23.08.2006 17:03

The BNP, who once criticised Lancaster UAF as being 'un-British' for reporting them to the police for attempting to persuade its members to commit criminal acts, appear to have come over all 'un-British' themselves. Their website reports that; 'Police are investigating a lead following a posting on an anti-British Marxist website [we assume that's a reference to Indymedia] yesterday in which the exact sum of money stolen from the caravan was mentioned.'

It might interest them to know that the figure was obtained from the VNN nazi forum. Here's the relevant thread  http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=37309 started by SicViresco.

Presumably their most prominent new member, nazi pisshead Sid Williamson, can give them a bit more information as he's the moderator for VNN's UK section.

Tom the gossip
- Homepage: http://82.69.12.18/lancasteruafblog/


Canoe sinks?

23.08.2006 17:06

Perhaps they should have gone by bus!

Bill and Ben


Fash n cops

23.08.2006 18:35

The fash are always the same, for all their tough talk about 'honour' and 'ZOG', they ALWAYS run squealing to the cops - and often saying the most ridiculous things (witness the shite put up on the BPP site and Redwatch by that cowardly low-life Kevin 'Gluebag' Watmough.)

ACAB


Bitter shoe

23.08.2006 19:27

Police are reportedly looking for a one-legged man as only one of scumbag Linden's trainers was nicked. Perhaps if the person responsible sent it to Antifa they'd get a reward?!

After Shelf we never doubted your "bulldog spirit" Tom! LOL! Rumour has it you needed a new pair of trousers then as well!

Cinderella & The Ugly Sisters


Pant-filling Nazis

23.08.2006 19:33

"Every time a nationalist reads your filth, it fills him with an ever greater sense of purpose"

Most of you seem far more adept at filling your pants! Sid Williamson isn't the only Nazi who pisses himself.

Felix


The NEW Nazi uniform

23.08.2006 19:39


Rumour has it that Britain's Nazis are trading in their jackboots and swazi armbands for a NEW uniform! Mind you, we have to admit you clowns frquently have us pissing ourselves!

Benny & the gang


Nice nix - and so practical

23.08.2006 22:56

So stylish - and soooo Sid. What a pity the fat bastard isn't modelling them. LOL

Oh God no. Perhaps not. :-(

Tom the gossip (again)
- Homepage: http://82.69.12.18/lancasteruafblog/


What?

23.08.2006 23:34


What do you mean?

Sid


Sid

24.08.2006 00:17

Is there no end to your grossness Sid? Ugh!

Hardacre


Aarrgh...

24.08.2006 01:32

and a lot more aaarrrggghhh!!!

Good job HE didn't try the canoe trip! LOL

Tom the Goss
- Homepage: http://82.69.12.18/lancasteruafblog/


BNP Black Hole

02.09.2006 11:01

And what about the £7.000 raised for Sharon Ebanks court case that has apparently disappeared? Griffin is thieving scum.

Val


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