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With the local elections well underway we’d like to ask Unity regulars to help us bring our visitors the best coverage possible.

From close of polls on May 1st Lancaster Unity will be updating “live” throughout the night with results and news. Comment moderation will be almost instant.

Anybody attending a count can send us results by email from mobile or regular email. Even if you aren’t attending a count, but know somebody you can trust who is and who can transmit results to you, that’s fine.

Television and radio

Local television and radio coverage will continue for much of the night in most regions and will give more detailed coverage of BNP results than the national programmes. We’d like you to keep an eye on what the media are saying in your locality and get the news – no matter how trivial – to us.

Internet

Some local council websites and forums devoted to politics will be updating throughout the night. As we at Lancaster Unity are going to be very busy, we need supporters to keep an eye on them – including BNP websites and Stormfront.

After the election

Results will continue to come in throughout Friday, and so will news concerning the BNP’s performance. Help to keep us up to date!

The temporary email address we’ve set up for you to get in touch is elections@unitywebring.com

Come along to keep us company at Lancaster Unity on Thursday night – and don’t forget to vote yourself!!

Yesterday, with just three days to go until polling day, two leaders of the British National Party took time out from the campaign to attend a secret meeting in London with three leading European neo-fascists, one of whom has a recent conviction for Holocaust denial.

Initially billed as a press conference, its true purpose seems to have been to further the ambitions of Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, to become a Member of the European Parliament by building links with far-right MEPs.

A week ago Simon Darby, the BNP’s deputy leader and press officer, announced that the party was “honoured to be playing host to a special press conference to be held on the afternoon of Monday 28th April 2008” with “a number of guests from allied Parties from Europe”. They would include Bruno Gollnisch (above left), a French MEP and vice president of the far-right National Front, and Andreas Mölzer, an Austrian MEP and leading member of the Austrian Freedom Party.

Yet four days later the BNP had pulled the plug on the press conference, with Darby lamely declaring: “It looks like we’ve lost the venue, but our foreign friends have been most understanding about this.”

Searchlight’s mole, who had drawn our attention to the European fascists’ visit long before Darby announced it, was convinced that this was a smokescreen to cover up Darby’s breach of security in publicising the event so far in advance.

Our mole was right. Yesterday afternoon Gollnisch, Mölzer and Georg Mayer, an Austrian far-right political fixer, arrived at St Pancras International station on the Eurostar and were whisked off, not to a press conference but to a private meeting with Griffin and Richard Barnbrook, who heads the BNP’s candidates’ list for the London Assembly.

The meeting revealed the true face of the BNP, which has recently been making vigorous attempts to con Jewish voters in London into voting for the party. In January 2007 a French court handed Gollnisch a three-month suspended prison sentence and fined him €5,000 (£4,000) for denying the Holocaust. The court in Lyon found he had “disputed a crime against humanity” in remarks he made during a news conference in the city in October 2004.

Gollnisch had questioned the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust and said the “existence of the gas chambers is for historians to discuss”.

Mölzer is the publisher of Zur Zeit, an Austrian political magazine in which racism, antisemitism and xenophobia are staple features. Its recent promotion of openly Nazi and antisemitic books prompted the Berlin weekly Junge Freiheit, on which Zur Zeit was originally modelled, to sever all connections.

Georg Mayer is another Freedom Party officer and spokesperson for the far-right Identity Tradition Sovereignty group in the European Parliament until its collapse late last year when five far-right Romanian MEPs walked out in protest at anti-Romanian remarks by their Italian colleague Alessandra Mussolini. Gollnisch had been the group’s leader.

Searchlight would normally have informed the Home Office of an intended visit to Britain of a convicted Holocaust denier, but as we found when the BNP played host to Jean-Marie Le Pen, the leader of the French National Front who has several Holocaust denial convictions, MEPs enjoy a privileged status and cannot be excluded.

Instead Searchlight passed the information to the Evening Standard, with which we had been working on the story.

We later tracked down the visitors at the plush Rembrandt Hotel in South Kensington where they were staying the night and even managed to speak to Mayer about the event.

This latest confirmation of Griffin’s continued espousal of Holocaust denial follows days of revelations about Barnbrook’s bizarre personal relationships, his drunkenness and his incompetence as the BNP opposition leader on Barking and Dagenham council. It is typical of Griffin that he should attempt to boost his European aspirations regardless of the further damage that exposure of this meeting may cause to Barnbrook’s electoral prospects.

Today’s Daily Mail, which reveals the marriage that Barnbrook had hoped to keep hidden, to a woman who hates his politics, will be seen by millions of Londoners. At the same time, more than 700 Searchlight Hope not Hate volunteers are giving out 250,000 leaflets at 200 tube and railway stations across Greater London, making it Britain’s biggest ever anti-fascist drive on a single day.

Later today the Searchlight and Daily Mirror Hope not Hate bus will visit Downing Street, where Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Cabinet members will sign up to the campaign and endorse our message of Hope not Hate.

Searchlight

County football chiefs have called for an honorary vice-president to be kicked out of the FA after learning he is standing for election as a BNP candidate.

Stan Leese is representing the far-right party in Stoke-on-Trent’s Northwood and Birches Head ward in Thursday’s polls.

Mr Leese, of Woodhead Road, Abbey Hulton, told electors in his campaign leaflets that he has dedicated most of his life to local football, and was recently made a life vice-president of the Staffordshire Football Association in recognition of his efforts.

However, the admission has earned him the red card from the FA’s directors, who are outraged at his political stance. They point out that the FA has a strict policy of tackling racism and inequality, and that they are bitterly opposed to the BNP’s policies.

Mr Leese’s campaign leaflet says: “I have lived in the city all of my life and have been involved with local football since 1946, now becoming a life vice-president for Staffordshire FA.”

His letter to electors is attached to a campaign poster warning of the supposed impact of the city’s growing Muslim population, and calling for the Shelton mosque development to be stopped.

Staffordshire FA chief executive Brian Adshed said he has now asked Mr Leese to quit or face disciplinary action. “The chair of the association has spoken to him regarding both his continuing membership of the association and his affiliation to the BNP,” he said.

“He has also been written to asking him to withdraw his membership of the association before polling day. Subject to that not being received, he will be dealt with by the board of directors at their next meeting on May 22.

“Everything about the political party he is standing for is inconsistent with the aims and objectives of the FA. It really does fly in the face of everything we are trying to achieve. We operate a policy of inclusivity and equality for all, whatever their race, gender or sexual orientation.

“I was very disappointed when I saw Mr Leese’s leaflet as he has been an FA member for a long time and is more than aware of what we are trying to do.”

Mr Leese was unavailable for comment.

The Sentinel

A BNP member from Calderdale has been locked up for a cocaine-fuelled orgy of destruction at a young woman’s Bradford home.

Dominic Jardine, a £50,000 a year company director, was jailed in February of breaking into the property in Low Moor, Bradford, and causing more than £4,000 damage. Jardine received a nine months prison sentence and ordered him to pay £3,300 compensation to the victim. Jardine, of Southowram, Halifax, was also ordered to pay £750 legal costs.

The jury at Bradford Crown Court heard that Jardine ransacked all the rooms at the flat. Windows were smashed, bathroom fittings broken, the microwave oven damaged and kitchen cupboards attacked. Jardine’s barrister, said he was taking cocaine at weekends at the time of the burglary on June 17 and 18 2006.

Judge Robert Bartfield told Jardine he did terrible damage to the home of a young woman who lived alone.

“She had recently moved in, decorated and made the premises her own,” Judge Bartfield said.

While she was away for the weekend, Jardine smashed the door in. The judge said Jardine’s motive would never been known.

Kirklees Unity

It’s not a good time to be a member of the National Front.

Only 40 of them turned out on April 13th for a long advertised St. George’s Day march in Newcastle, and just seventeen showed up on the 19th for a “major” mobilisation in London – so few that the NF were outnumbered not only by their police escort but also by anti-fascist demonstrators.

Unimpressed police ordered the NF to stay on the pavement, and after only ten minutes of shepherding what looked like a large family on a shopping trip called the whole thing off.

Luckily for the demoralised Fronters, the booze-loving Nutzi guys and gals of the equally tiny British Peoples Party were having a shindig in London on the same day, and they invited their humiliated racial comrades along – unfortunately, it wasn’t a good day for the BPP, either.

According to fat super-chav Sid Williamson, he and other BPP members decided to confront the “Red scum” who came along to demonstrate against the BPP’s divisive presence in the capital.

Chipmunk-cheeks Williamson, a professional dole-scrounger, spends a lot of time making threats of violence against his fellow racists, which – as far as we know – have never been followed up. He loves the cultivate the image of Nutzi hard man, which doesn’t hang well with his endless whimpering after last year’s Brighton Pride that the police had failed to protect him and his mates from “the poofters” and that his head had got in the way of a discarded bottle of soft drink.

Sid’s “hard” credentials were on display in London last week when, having marched up to confront the “Red scum”, the BPP Nutzis got the worst of it from the off, and the first to have it away on his toes was the superhero Williamson – motto: “We shall never surrender – not while we can run fast”.

We’re hearing that Sid never actually landed a blow and kept himself at a safe distance while his dimwitted mates got clobbered when the antifascists defended themselves.

Sid the Superhero’s various explanations for what happened are, as you’d expect, not exactly on nodding terms with the truth, and, as usual, he manages to gloss over his own failure to engage with the enemy.

Back in my fascist days we’d be mighty suspicious of somebody who shouted “Charge!” but never got close to the enemy guns himself.

And there’s so much about Sid that is suspicious.

I’ve mentioned before that no convincing explanation has ever been given for his admission into and quick departure from the BNP. I’ve also mentioned before that Sid can be counted on to kick the ball for BNP leader Nick Griffin, even if it’s at the expense of one of his own BPP members.

In the Stormfront Britain thread devoted to the BPP’s London meeting, member Reaction65 gives a short account of what happened, but quickly finds himself under attack from thug (and 100% genuine low-life) Tommy Williams, one of Nick Griffin’s unofficial attack dogs and part of the moronic Covert Underwear Nicking Turkeys team.

Williams, posting as Shove the Dove, kicks off by telling Reacton65: “According to someone within the BPP you ain’t even a member and they have no idea who you are. So whats all that about then?”

The “someone within the BPP” is Williams’s mate, the heroic SuperChav himself.

Reacton65’s credentials are backed up by other BPP people, but that’s not good enough for Williams, who insists he’s been told Reacton65 isn’t a member, and goes on:

“Quit talking like you are something…..If you want to talk membership list safety I still have the BPP/NA/WNP membership lists on disk passed on by an ‘ex’ member, yeah its that easy. Now where were we? ….oh yeah! Like I said I spoke to a ‘high ranking’ BPP member who assured me that you, Reaction65 is nothing to do with the BPP. Now why would they tell me that?”

Why would Sid Williamson tell him that indeed?

Possibly because Sid’s a real wrong ‘un?

Undaunted, Reaction65 comes back with: “Is the fact that you’ve got hold of the membership list supposed to be some sort of threat? Accusing me of basically being wrong’un without any solid evidence on the open web is a tad out of order, wouldnt you say so?”

Strangely, Sid enters the fray – not to defend his BPP mate, but to attack him: “…if Reaxction65 IS a BPP member then he he definitely not a spokesman for us. I want BPP members to concentrate on the mess our country is in and the scum that infests it. I do not want to read messages against other British Nationalit groups written by people claiming they speak for us. Because they don’t.”

A bit odd, as Reaction65 hadn’t attempted to speak for the BPP and hadn’t attacked anybody – he was Tommy Williams’s victim, as the Saltdean SuperChav pretended not to notice.

Touchingly, Reaction65 declared: “And I also hope that I am entitled to my own opinion, I primarily post as an individual but will always back the BPP up when and where I can on SF. And yes, I am a member. I think you will find that it was another individual that started this row, I cetainly had no intention of this happening and unfotunately it doesnt seem like the first time that somebody has been working on trying to portray me as sime kind of divisive splitter.”

Which is about the point at which SFB moderator Number Five closed the “discussion”.

Number Five was the Great White Hope of the Stormfront Nazi set. He was going to bash the living daylights out of the Griffinites and return SFB to its true path of good honest Hitler worship.

But in the weeks since he attained his god-like status as SFB moderator he seems to have undergone a strange transformation noticed even by anti-fascist Stormfront watchers, and now steps in like a fireman whenever things threaten to blow up for the incendiary Griffinite tendency.

Curious.

Not so long ago Number Five would have been with Reacton65 all the way, eager to find out which leading member of the BPP breached the law to pass the party’s membership list to the odious Williams.

He’s become a bit of a pussy-cat, that Number Five.

Stormfront member Raffles is anti-Griffin to the marrow of his bones, and seems to be getting himself out and about in support of a BNP rebel “independent nationalist” candidate – about the worst crime you can commit in Griffinite eyes (unless you happen to have been born with the name “Gerry Gable”).

Posting that his girlfriend had received a threat from a BNP official, he said: “The threat was part of a message informing us that I was secretly filmed today commiting the heinous crime of leafleting for an Independant Nationalist Candidate. These events were given an unexpected twist by a ‘fellow’ StormFront member who goes by the name ”brilliantwhite” taunting me about this threat on another thread. He seems to know a lot about todays events. I refere you to post 38 onwards [link]… This latest developement comes after a campaign of intimidation was launched against ex-Sunderland BNP Organiser Ian Leadbitter, a small part of which was conducted here on StormFront….”

Sure enough, Post 38, linked to by Raffles, has this from BNP man “Brilliantwhite”: “Today Raffles our stormfront member was filmed leafleting in a main winable ward for the BNP against the BNP. The film hopefully will be available for all to see. This true Raffles? camera never lies.”

Raffles hits back: “Do I require your permission to do this? By the way, should I go to the Police and the electoral commision with the Physical threat that was sent to my Girlfriend tonight or would you rather discuss these matters in person?”

Raffles’s faithful friend Maximilian then enters the fray: “Once again we witness the BNP mask slipping with threats to peoples girlfriends, and talk of posting film on the net and the like. Intimidation is not becoming I can assure you! Sounds like you have been sharing Pot Noodles with Barnes.”

Ah, the Medway Madman!

I did wonder myself if Brilliantwhite was another of BNP legal lunatic Lee Barnes’s many Stormfront identities – mostly because of his own stupidity, as in:

“Why not contact the number of the phone the txt came from…”

…The giveaway being that nobody had mentioned text messages until that point.

Predicably, the imbecilic BNP crowd, having ruined their own thread (which was about their party political broadcast) and rumbling themselves as liars, began to whine: “Can we ban any talk on here that does not relate to the broadcast?”

And Number Five, removing a lot of incriminating posts in the process, did just that.

From where I’m sitting, Number Five’s new Stormfront Britain is looking more like the old Stormfront Britain every day!

A Barnsley BNP candidate was thrown out of the police force in disgrace and conned an 80-year-old woman out of £1,000 as he awaited trial for perverting the course of justice.

This week, after the Chronicle tried to ask Simon Goodricke, 45, of Darton, about his past, he was arrested on suspicion of possessing a fire arm after our photgrapher saw him brandishing what appeared to be a handgun from his front door.

The former Solihull Detective Constable, who is standing in the Hoyland Milton Ward at Thursday’s council elections, was sentenced to 18 months at Birmingham Crown Court in January 1998. He was found guilty of perverting the course of justice after he tipped off fraudsters attempting to swindle £100m from Columbian drug barons.

An international police investigation was underway but collapsed after the fraudsters were tipped off. Mr Goodricke was a gambling addict who had borrowed £200,000 from one of the fraudsters, to whom he later gave insider information. The judge at the time said evidence against him was overwhelming.

While on bail he tricked a pensioner into loaning him £1,000. He had first met her some years before while investigating a broken window at her house. When Mr Goodricke tried to beg more money from the woman she became distressed and wrote a letter asking him to leave her alone.

He admitted a charge of dishonestly obtaining money.

Last week when the Chronicle first approached Mr Goodricke about his convictions he said he would not confirm or deny anything and that he was not prepared to discuss anything other than his political views and election nomination.

On Wednesday night this week the Chronicle went to his Pennine View home to question him further. At first he shouted that he had nothing to say from an upstairs window. Then he came downstairs to his front door and in a raised voice told the reporter: “It was more than ten years ago” before refusing to make any more comments and slamming the door shut.

As the reporter walked to the photographer, who was inside his car, the photographer saw Mr Goodricke come back to the front door brandishing what appeared to be a handgun. The photographer was not close enough to determine whether the gun was real.

As the Chronicle reported the incident to the police Mr Goodricke was also ringing 999. Police said he had claimed there were people in his street taking pictures of children.

A police car arrived within minutes but officers were given proof of the Chronicle staff’s identity and told the real reason for their presence. Armed police were also on their way to the scene following the allegation Mr Goodricke was in possession of a gun.

Chief Superintendent Andy Brooke said: “A man was detained and his house was searched, he is presently on bail.”

Mr Goodricke’s house was searched about an hour and a half after the incident, the Chronicle understands nothing was found on the night. Yesterday Barnsley BNP leader Ian Sutton, who is also Mr Goodricke’s election agent, was asked how he felt about his candidate’s convictions.

Mr Sutton, who is standing in Darton West, said: “It is a spent conviction and that is all I can say.”

Mr Goodricke’s wife Lisa is the BNP candidate for Wombwell.

Barnsley Chronicle

Criminal past of BNP man

The BNP today defended a candidate with a criminal record who is standing in Barnsley in the local council elections.

Simon Goodricke, the BNP candidate for the Hoyland Milton ward, was jailed for 18 months for perverting the course of justice 10 years ago.

But Barnsley BNP organiser Ian Sutton today insisted the offences were all in the past and that Goodricke hADVERTISEMENTad paid his debt to society. He said: “That is a spent conviction, Simon has moved on since then and we believe he is a good candidate who has a great deal to offer the local community. We are happy with him as our candidate and have given him all our support.”

Goodricke declined to comment.

He is standing for election in Thursday’s Barnsley Council ballot.

The party contested a number of seats at the last election, but failed to gain any places on the local authority. This years they have a record 21 candidates for seats on the council – almost a representative in every ward.

A spokesman said they were confident that they would win at least one seat.

Goodricke is a former West Midlands detective who was kicked out of the force and jailed for 18 months for perverting the course of justice and conning a pensioner out of £1,000.

Described in court as a ‘gambling addict’, he borrowed £200,000 from a crooked businessman to try to deal with his massive debts. He was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court after being found guilty of tipping off two corrupt businessmen, including the one who had loaned him money, that they were the centre of an international police inquiry into a money laundering plot and scam to swindle £100million from Colombian drugs barons.

Goodricke, aged 46, who now lives in Pennine View, Darton, used his position as a CID officer in Solihull to get information from the National Criminal Intelligence Service which he then passed on to a fraudster Graham Alexander.

Charges of plotting to obtain the £100million against Alexander and his accomplice John Butler, both from Solihull, were subsequently dropped. But they were later each jailed for six years after being found guilty of conspiracy to obtain money by deception.

At court Goodricke was found guilty of perverting the course of justice and he admitted dishonestly obtaining £1,000 from an 80-year-old pensioner he had first met when as a police officer he was investigating a broken window at her home. He was said to have duped her with a sob story telling her he owed £3,500 on his mortgage and his house was going to be repossessed.

The court was told he was not in arrears and there had been no threat of repossession. He had used half of the £1,000 to pay of loans and gave his then wife, from whom he subsequently was divorced, the other £500 to pay bills and feed them and their three children.

Goodricke, described as ‘an unremarkable detective’, was thrown out of West Midlands Police in 1996, two years after being suspended on disciplinary charges.

He is standing for the BNP in the Hoyland Milton ward of Barnsley Council.

The Star

British National Party district councillors have been slammed as a “disgrace to the council and the community” after condemning a multi-faith forum representing various religions which has been set up in the district.

BNP councillor Rod Law told Tuesday’s council meeting: “Forums like these are an absolute waste of resources for the council and are only put together to promote diversity and multi-culturalism which we feel is absolutely detrimental to the very fabric of society.

“I would like to think there are enough councillors here to very much vote against this motion and not let this council be bogged down with politically correct clubs like these as we see in many inner city councils.”

BNP group leader Pat Richardson said: “The idea is it’s a matter of freedom of choice, those who wish to mix and exchange views are free to do so and that’s the key word here, freedom. To be brow beat into accepting the concept that the public purse, the taxpayer, has to fund this seems a little bit off.

“There might be some people who do not agree with this so why should they have to fund it? These forums are in the area anyway and they are self reciprocating. I don’t see that the public council tax payer would see this as a priority for their money.”

Council leader Di Collins branded the BNP comments “disgraceful”.

Independent Loughton councillor Stephen Murray said: “In 26 years (as a councillor) that was one of the most disgraceful contributions I’ve heard in this chamber.

“Because of a contribution like that there’s even more reason why we need a multi-faith forum like this. We want to work together, we want community cohesion and we recognise that there is more that links faiths together than divides them.”

Deputy council leader Chris Whitbread said the comments were “an affront to freedom”.

“This is a motion at a time when we are in election mode that brings the council together because we all agree with it because it is about our wider community and the things we care about and the reasons we become councillors to start with.”

He added: “It’s about the wider good, and you as a party are not about the wider good.

“We’ve sat through meeting after meeting where you’ve sat silently and do nothing for your community. When we discuss the needs of your community you disappear and tonight you come here and you talk about dividing our community, and you don’t even turn up when we discuss The Broadway or anything else.

“You are a disgrace to this council and you are a disgrace to our community.

“I am so cross that you could say that tonight, and for a start get your facts straight. This council is not paying for this body, this body is for the good of our community, you should retract your remarks.”

Conservative councillor Mitch Cohen, a Jew on the 58-member council which also has a Sikh and a Muslim among its numbers, described the BNP comments as “disgraceful” and “disgusting”.

Liberal Democrat group leader Jon Whitehouse said: “It’s extremely important that we do take every opportunity to work together as a community and get the different strands of belief, backgrounds in the community talking together, sharing together, because what we have in common is far more greater than what divides us.”

Mrs Haigh said: “It’s very regrettable to hear the (BNP) words spoken. They (the forum) are coming together because they believe in the community, it’s right across the district. I think it’s very sad that people feel able to make statements like that without actually doing the research first.”

The forum was established following multi-cultural Celebration of Faith services held by councillors Ann Haigh and Brian Sandler during their time as council chairman.

The two councillors have been appointed chairman and vice-chairman of the forum.

A motion noting the formation of the forum was supported.

Epping Forest Guardian

Nobody ever accused Patrick Harrington of hiding his light under a bushel.

His towering self-regard and assessment of his own importance have long been a source of mirth to anti-fascists used to dealing with the inflated egos predominating on the extreme right.

Nobody does more to maintain his own Wiki page than Harrington (he prefers to be called “Pat”), the mystery being why he, Wiki, or anybody else should imagine the serial failure to be worth 2,571 words, and why Harrington thinks anybody could care enough about him and his obscure doings to read the self-penned personal bio he seems to paste at the drop of a hat in various places on the web.

As we’ve often noted, to read anything penned by Harrington is to step outside hard reality. His personal bio gives the impression of a man of political substance and achievement; his writings on the fake union Solidarity’s website are of what you might charitably term the overblown variety; and over on the Third Way website we could be forgiven for believing that this fifth-rate National Front successor organisation, of which Harrington accounts himself a “Director”, really is some vital think-tank throwing up ideas essential to the good of the nation.

The truth is rather more mundane.

“Success” and “Harrington” are words rarely found in close proximity. The “militant fighting union” Solidarity is largely reduced to issuing General Secretary Harrington’s pompous and unremarked press statements and making appeals for funds (a telephone “hotline” – with answering machine – being the latest Must Have for the One Big Union and its 211 members).

And of the Third Way – what does one say about a “party” of 20 members that bores the Electoral Commission to tears with its windy account of its local election performances (successes = 0), admits to having only £88.17 in the kitty (2006), but which allegedly raised £1400 from membership subs (yet £15 x 20 = £300! – go figure), somehow managing to spend £560 of that on vague “internet services” (we thought Wordpress and the Masterplan theme – the very same as used by the BNP – were free).

Harrington is very much a man who rose without trace to lead organisations that campaign without trace.

The Third Way, of course, goes by the dishonest name of “National Liberal Party”.

Many entirely honourable and respectable political parties use the word “Liberal” in their titles – most obviously, the Liberal Democrats and the rump Liberal Party. Quite why the Electoral Commission ever came to allow Harrington’s “National Liberal Party” to contest elections under that name is a mystery, since the EC normally refuses to allow sound-alike parties to campaign when they believe a title has been adopted with the intention of confusing or misleading voters.

The name game may soon be up, however, for the “National Liberal Party”.

On Stormfront Harrington uses the moniker “Doublethink”, and – we believe – that of “Completely Blank”. On the Green Bigot’s forum the poster “Completely Blank” denies being Harrington, despite “Completely Blank” managing to sound in every way like Harrington, even down to the evasions and inflated claims regarding the bogus union Solidarity. At any rate, when Norfolk Unity insisted that Harrington was “Completely Blank”, the great man took the matter no further and contented himself with trying to force Blogger to remove a picture from this website.

Giving Harrington the benefit of considerable doubt, we’ll say no more on the provenance of “Completely Blank”, but go on to highlight a declaration recently made by that entity on the Nazi Stormfront website:

The National Liberal Party intends to contest ten marginal Lib Dem seats at the next general election. In some of these the Lib Dems have a majority of only some hundreds.

There was a National Liberal Party in the early part of the last century so the Third Way’s claim to the title could be said to have some historic basis. There is a Liberal Party and a Liberal Democratic party so why not a revived National Liberal Party. After all, in Ulster there is an Ulster Unionist Party, a Democratic Unionist Party, a UK Unionist Party a Progressive Unionist Party and until recently a Northern Ireland Unionist Party. As the EC allows all these varieties of unionism I can see no reason to prevent a liberal nationalist party from using ‘Liberal’ in its title.

Ignoring the feeble attempt at self-justification as to why a fascist party lays claim to the title “Liberal”, the first paragraph of Completely Blank’s posting leaves no doubt whatsoever that the National Liberal Party intends to go into the next general election purposed on conning votes away from the Liberal Democrats by confusing itself with the mainstream party, and – they hope – losing the sitting Liberal Democrats their seats.

There can be, and is, no other reason for the NLP to target itself so specifically – only against Liberal Democrats, and only in marginals where a small number of votes will decide the sitting MPs’ fates.

No other no-hope party, to the best of our knowledge, has ever gone into a general election fixed purely on unseating MPs by use of deceit and obsfucation.

In our opinion this amounts to a clear intention to mislead voters and to abuse the democratic process on the part of a nasty little organisation made up of no-hopers and fantasists closely connected with the BNP and complicit in the running of the racist party’s bogus front groups.

It is also reason enough for the Electoral Commission to strip Third Way of the right to campaign under the spurious “National Liberal Party” title.

We have already alerted the Liberal Democrats to the underhand intentions of the squalid NLP, but visitors (of all political persuasions) to this website can help by complaining to the Electoral Commission, and by bringing this post to the attention of Liberal Democrat MPs and LibDem organisations.

Follow this link to the Electoral Commission’s contact web-page, where complaints can be made to each national EC outpost in writing, by email, or by telephone.

Harrington and company may well have over-stepped the mark with their premature blustering. Let’s ensure it comes back to haunt them.