BNP:War hero Johnson Beharry Only Got Medal because He’s black
Any doubts the BNP is racist? The Victoria Cross is arguably the most selective award for valor there is.
“The BNP, led by Nick Griffin, called Johnson Beharry “an immigrant” and claimed his heroics, which saved the lives of 30 fellow soldiers, were simply “routine”.
On its website the far-right political party states that Lance Corporal Beharry only received Britain’s top military honour because of “positive discrimination by the PC-mad government”.
It comes just days after the party held an Armed Forces Awareness Day to try to portray themselves as “the only party that supports our troops”.
Grenada-born L/Cpl Beharry was honoured in 2005 after twice saving lives under enemy fire. He became the Army’s most high-profile war hero when he received the VC for “repeated extreme gallantry and unquestioned valour” for the two rescues in May and June 2004 “despite a harrowing weight of incoming fire”.
He was at the head of a five-vehicle convoy when it came under attack in the town of al-Amarah on 1 May 2004. He