Jewish BNP Candidate Election Stunt Causes Turmoil
Steve Silver:
Election fever is sweeping the BNP as we head towards June and it is pulling out all the stops to maximise support. Nick Griffin loves a stunt, and the latest is the revelation that the fascist party intends to stand a Jewish woman in the council elections in June.
Pat Richardson, who lives in Loughton, is set to represent the nazi party in the Epping Forest district council election. Her husband is also involved in the BNP. Defending her actions in The Jewish News, Richardson, 58, claimed she had a Jewish upbringing and that members of her family had fought Mosley’s fascists. In response to revelations of the BNP’s Holocaust denial and antisemitism she said she believed that the “present party is different to the old party”.
As incredible as her involvement seems, she is hardly the only person to be fooled by the BNP’s image change and to become a dupe for its propaganda.
Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, should have been cock-a-hoop at his latest coup: a Jewish candidate for a nazi party. Surely this would take the sting out of the charges of antisemitism that the BNP finds so damaging.
But it seems Griffin can’t get anything right these days. Because the BNP is a nazi party he has caused an internal furore that shows no signs of abating. The hardcore nazis are in uproar that a “racial enemy” can be admitted to the party, let alone stand for election. Only a couple of months ago Griffin was trying to ameliorate the hardliners by telling them in the BNP house magazine Identity that changes in BNP policy to make the nazi party appear more mainstream had gone as far as they would go and no further. It seems that BNP members don’t mind lying to the public, but having it done to themselves is just too much.