bnp is the most corrupt & racist of all...theyre not even a real party.
the bnp "is wholly opposed to any form of racial integration between British and non-European peoples" and is therefore committed to "restoring, by legal changes, negotiation and consent the overwhelmingly white makeup of the British population that existed in Britain prior to 1948". To achieve this aim, the BNP advocates the use of "firm but voluntary incentives" to remove ethnic minorities from the UK. Membership of the party is restricted to "Indigenous Caucasians". A British National Party European election candidate in the Eastern region had close links in the 1980s with a convicted criminal and two notorious paedophiles.
Sid Chaney, an elderly former Londoner and Islington National Front officer who now lives in Essex, is sixth on the BNP's list for Eastern England and a council election candidate in Basildon. In the 1980s his circle of friends included Desmond Fenwick, who was involved in a number of police investigations into horrific murders of gay men, and George Wilson, who had a liking for very young boys.
Chaney was around when a gang of teenage armed robbers, who were politically involved with both the NF and the extreme nazi British Movement, were frequent visitors to Wilson's flat, which doubled as the local NF headquarters.
Paedophilia is one of the most dreadful crimes against children. The BNP has made paedophilia a major plank of its 2004 election campaign and has tried to barge in on local campaigns on the issue. Now Searchlight reveals the BNP's own dirty secrets as a service to voters to warn them of the type of people who are campaigning for their votes.
Searchlight published the full story of Chaney and his disgusting circle of friends and fellow fascists in Islington in September 1985 in conjunction with the Daily Mirror. Space precluded us from reproducing it in this month's Searchlight but you can read it here on our website and make up your own mind about the BNP's criminal hypocrisy. The British National Party will be fielding a total of 21 candidates in London on 10 June although some of them are doubling up. As Searchlight went to press the party had named candidates for all 11 London-wide seats in the London Assembly, a mayoral candidate who is also standing for the Assembly and a full list of nine for the London constituency in the European election. The BNP website includes photographs and short biographies of the party's candidates around the country except that, with four weeks to go until polling day, some photos and several biographies for the London candidates were still missing. This may be because many of the candidates' past activities are rather embarrassing for Nick Griffin's new "clean" BNP. The many candidates with criminal convictions and a penchant for the policies of Hitler's Third Reich reflect how poorly organised the BNP is in London. In pole position on the London European list is Chris Roberts. Not a serious choice, this former alleged City high flyer has been described as a man from some village that is missing its idiot - and this was by a fellow BNP member. He is the brother of the notorious Barry Roberts, who is number 2 on the London Assembly list. Whereas Chris lives in leafy Essex and has long abandoned London, his brother still resides in southeast London where he grew up in the company of the openly nazi and violent British Movement and the National Front. After belatedly turning to the BNP, Barry Roberts was among those who guarded a meeting addressed by the arch liar and Holocaust denier David Irving, alongside leading violent members of the nazi terror group Combat 18, such as Charlie Sargent, who is now serving a life sentence for murder.
Chris Roberts is very coy about his early politics but a rumoured early link with US extremists may account for his love of the USA and his abandoning of the London election campaign in favour of a family holiday in the States. He has refused to give press interviews; we wonder why. Heading the list of London Assembly candidates is Jason Douglas, who on his own admission realises the media are only interested in him because of his football hooligan convictions and his close links to Tony Lecomber, the BNP's national development officer and convicted bomb-making terrorist. He is also close to Julian Leppert, the lacklustre BNP candidate for London mayor and third on the London Assembly list. Douglas was pulled from an ITV interview by his masters at the last minute after he had told the media that he was unlikely to win anything in London for the BNP. Naturally for a BNP criminal, he is standing on a law and order ticket. Richard Barnbrook, alias Brook, the BNP's London coordinator and fourth on the London Assembly list, is having problems coping with the pressures of the campaign and is apparently finding solace in a bottle. Perhaps he is worried that the media might reveal that he is a director of a London-based charity and also sometimes works as an art teacher. Ian Edward from Hillingdon had worked very hard for his place as number two on the European list but was unceremoniously dumped after he allowed John Tyndall, the former nazi boss of the BNP and Griffin's arch rival, to address the party's flop of a May Day rally. He too has been suffering a few sleepless nights after Paul Carman, a BNP activist from Surrey, fingered him for receiving documents Carman had stolen from the office of an aide to the mayor of London. The second impending disaster for the BNP was its choice of John Bean for the number 5 position in Europe. A career hater and fascist, Bean once described himself as the British Dr Goebbels, after Hitler's propaganda chief. He was also dropped at the last minute. The BNP list for the Eastern region includes one of the party's most sinister candidates. Sid Chaney, an elderly former Londoner and Islington NF officer who now lives in Essex, is a self-confessed liar. However it is the company he kept in London in the 1980s that gives rise to most concern. His circle of sick friends included George Wilson, who had a liking for very young boys, and Desmond Fenwick, a convicted criminal and notorious paedophile, who was involved in a number of police investigations into horrific murders of gay men. Chaney was around when a gang of teenage armed robbers who were politically involved with both the NF and the British Movement were frequent visitors to Wilson's flat which doubled as the local NF headquarters. (The full story can be read on www.stopthebnp.com.). Another pervert is Assembly candidate Carlos Cortiglia. His lurid website proves you have to be a sucker to join the BNP. Bottom of the London Assembly list is Gareth Jones, who recently did badly in the South Ruislip by-election. At number 2 for Europe is a nod in the direction of the BNP's very few women members in London. Tess Culnane from Lewisham is also number 5 on the London Assembly list and the only woman BNP candidate in London. Her presence is further evidence that the BNP is drawing candidates from a narrow band around the outer edges of the capital. The absence of any BNP branches in central London has not assisted the party's campaign, nor have the political and financial differences that have led to accusations of theft of party funds and the occasional punch-up in the past couple of years. Events in recent weeks have demonstrated with remarkable clarity what Searchlight has argued for years: that despite pretending to be a political party offering 'solutions' to 'white workers', the National Front is little more than a meeting ground for thugs, villains and psychopaths. Their close links with Italian terrorism are now a matter of public record. Some members in north London were behind a wave of armed robberies from 1980 to 1982, terrorising building societies' office staff with sawn-off shotguns. ther members in London have recently been gaoled after a brutal sexual assault on a woman they imprisoned in a council flat. Judge Popplewell has declared that NF activity at football grounds is a major factor in football violence, and intends to investigate it further before producing his final report. These, of course, are all just the dramatic tips of a very large iceberg. Asian families in Britain's inner cities have for years now borne the brunt of their increasingly violent campaigns, usually carried out, in their typically gutless fashion, under cover of darkness. Only last month they planned a commando-style attack on people leaving a London meeting where anti-fascist campaigning was being discussed. Happily, they were given a taste of their own medicine, although it probably will not deter them from trying their luck again. The decision of that meeting (see page 13) to establish a national organisation which can arrange self-defence and conduct wider campaigns against the nazis is clearly well-timed. It enjoys support, even at these early stages, from an impressive range of bodies and deserves our good wishes and support. But the very fact that it is necessary itself gives the lie to so many of the Front's outrageous claims that it is a victim of a media smear campaign. Even within their own movement, their propensity to employ shady tactics reveals itself: they currently have their former organiser, now arch-enemy Martin Webster, under surveillance, and there is talk of "friends" being brought in from Ulster paramilitary groups to "sort him out permanently". It would not be any exaggeration these days to see the Front itself as nothing more than a criminal conspiracy. The robbers, most of them Front activists from Islington and Camden when Webster ruled the roost in the party, ran wild in north London between 1980 and 1982, robbing small building society offices of thousands of pounds. Only a fraction of the money stolen was ever accounted for by police. At the time, the case received very little publicity, and the fact that most were active in the Front was never publicly disclosed. But these recently obtained photographs show clearly not just their involvement with the Front, but also how close they were to leading members of the party. Altogether, eighteen people appeared at the Old Bailey during 1982, accused of a spate of armed robberies which netted almost £70,000, and possessing firearms. But reliable reports indicate that these charges represented only the tip of the iceberg. In total they are thought to have stolen about a quarter of a million pounds. And not all of those involved were actually arrested: some of them were charged with carrying out robberies with "other persons unknown". Our photographs, taken at an NF gathering in a bar at the home of local Front leader George Wilson, show some of those heavily involved in the robberies on extremely friendly terms with National Front leaders like National Activities Organiser Martin Webster and prominent local official Sid Chaney. The robberies were carried out in a clinical, ruthless fashion, using revolvers and sawn off shotguns. Their targets were usually small building society offices although on one occasion a British Rail booking office was held up. Invariably they picked offices with only women staff behind the counter. Three of the shotguns used were supplied by Maurice Castles, proprietor of the notorious Ferndale Hotel in Kings Cross, which has become a haven for British and foreign nazis.
Amongst those convicted were:
Carl Colin Roberts, 20, active NF member, 6 months suspended for 2 years.
Keith Howson, 23, secretary Islington NF branch, 10 years. Howson instructed Christopher Codd and Michael Coulson, two other fascists, to shoot at a local black man. The court heard that if the man had not ducked, he would have been hit by the shotgun blast.
Ignatius "Sonny" Arnold, 16, 6 years. An active member of Islington and Camden NF, he was also in touch with Column 88.
Derek Higgins, 19, 7 years.
Brian Thomhill, 18, 4 years.
Michael Gorman, 19, 4 years.
Pat Fitzsimmons, 18, borstal training.
Warren Hammond, 17, borstal training.
Kenneth Logan, 23, fined £100 and received a 6 months' suspended sentence for supplying firearms to the youths.
Maurice Castles, 39, fined £600 for supplying firearms to the youths. Castles is manager of the Ferndale Hotel in Kings Cross.
The flying squad, who initially investigated the gang, called in the Special Branch who found some connections with Northern Ireland. In October 1982 a second batch of gang members appeared at the Old Bailey. These included:
James Howson, 20, 6 months. Howson was the NF member whose rescue from the French Foreign Legion had led to the formation of the gang.
David James Howson, 35, 7 years.
Christopher Codd, 19, NF member, borstal training.
Michael Edward Coulson, 43, 18 months.
Michael Couison, 23, NF member, 1 year.
Desmond Clarke, 16, 3 years. Proceeds from the robberies listed at the Old Bailey trial came to just over £68,000, but this is thought to have been less than a third of the total haul. Even the extravagant expenditure of some gang members could not account for the major part of their takings.
In an effort to track down where the surplus money - almost £200,000 - had gone, robbery squad police officers raided the homes of leading NF officials in north London seizing branch financial records and bank statements. Martin Webster went to the High Court for an order for their return.
The gang apparently first got a taste for their short but lucrative lives of crime when they staged a number of robberies to finance an operation in France, springing one of their nazi friends, James Howson, who had joined the French Foreign Legion, but now wanted out. The whole enterprise was judged an unqualified success but some of the team decided to put their newly discovered talents to further use. Others, however, withdrew from the gang once the initial French job had been accomplished.
Defence counsel for one of the younger members of the gang told the court that they had been put up to it all by "older men", who "introduced them to the temptation of easy money". Who these "older men" were, and their exact connection with the National Front, still remains clouded in mystery.