Griffinwatch
Article published: Wednesday, March 3rd 2010
Barely a day goes by without people across the country wondering what their MEP is up to. So we at MULE thought we’d keep you up to date with exciting events in Strasbourg, home of the European Parliament. It just so happens that the Northwest is blessed to be represented there by everyone’s favourite glass-eyed fascist, the reputable Nick Griffin MEP – for the moment, at least.
Griffin has announced his intention to stand in the General Election as BNP candidate for Barking. This means that, if he wins the seat on the last possible date for the General Election, June 3, he’ll have served less than a year as MEP. In itself this possibility makes Griffin seem less than sincere in his repeated insistence that he is a representative of the forgotten white working class. After all, he is happily planning to forget the ones who elected him MEP in order to secure himself a much more prestigious place in parliament. Yet strangely, at the party’s annual conference in Wigan a few days before announcing his candidacy for Barking, Griffin claimed he would stand for Thurrock in Essex. At this rate, people are going to start doubting his consistency.
His record over in Strasbourg doesn’t exactly make him look like a man of the people, either, but rather someone trying to use the resources of the EU to pursue the vendettas of his party. In a written question to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in October he asked: “What specific links does the organisation maintain with the UK group ‘Searchlight’ or its subsidiaries?”, referring to the anti-fascist magazine that has hounded Griffin and his ilk for three decades.
Similarly, in a bizarre outburst in July he deviated somewhat from the topic of human rights abuses in Iran by demanding that the European Conservatives and Reformists (the parliament grouping of the Tory party, homophobes and other assorted weirdoes) condemn David Cameron for his support of Unite Against Fascism, who he called “an organisation of far-left criminals which routinely deploys intimidation and violence against nationalist dissidents in Britain.”
Since he’s gone that far, he may as well throw the Lib Dems and Labour into the mix. He does, of course – attacking them for funding and “supporting this [UAF] militia which breaks up opposition meetings and attacks their opponents with bricks, darts and clawhammers.”
The only sources that suggest UAF were responsible for the clawhammer attack on a BNP activist last March are, funnily enough, BNP blogs and websites. It says a lot about a political party when their leader treats David Cameron like a left-wing extremist, and a lot about a man who feels the need to hijack a debate about Iran by completely inventing human rights abuses against “nationalist dissidents” within the UK.
Of course, concocting bizarre fantasies of government-funded paramilitaries is not Griffin’s only talent. He also attempted to play global statesman, complaining about the European Parliament’s criticism of Russian militarism and human rights abuses, begging them instead to embrace Russia and unite in hatred against “Turkey, Europe’s ancient and eternal enemy.”
His place on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee allowed him a visit to the Copenhagen summit, somewhat ironic considering he denies global warming in much the same way he used to deny the Holocaust. He considers it to be a conspiracy “designed to provide the excuse for a political project of the globalists to replace national democracy with new-world-order global governance”, presumably the same goals as the “Holohoax”, eh Nick?
The only question Griffin has asked in Parliament that directly relates to his constituency was whether or not the EU would provide relief for the flooding in the Northwest last November, or if funds would instead go to building the infrastructure of Central European and Mediterranean economies “at the expense of the UK taxpayer”. The pot of money in question has been available to the UK as part of the European Union Solidarity Fund since 2002, and it is entirely up to the UK government whether or not to ask for it. But never mind the answer as long as the question looks good, right Nick?
Tom Fox
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