Thursday 28 October 2010

BNP or BFP? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.........

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry! British Nationalism as we knew and loved is dead on its feet. The British National Party has all but been abandoned to Nick Griffin and his sycophants, as anyone who was anyone in the party has either been expelled or has left in disgust at what has been done to the party and ultimately to the people it purports to represent. Nick Griffin is guilty of the greatest of all crimes, in that he has betrayed his own people, as a result of his gross mis-management. Replacement parties, the most notable of which, the British Freedom Party, formed by disgruntled ex-members, are doomed to failure as has nearly always been the case and I take no pride in having been involved in the mis-guided renaming of the National Front to the National Democrats which subsequently disappeared into the dust.

I watched, with interest, for the time that Eddy Butler appeared to be in with a shout to take the BNP back for the true Nationalists, but again, as a result of Nick Griffin’s changes to the Party Constitution and underhand tactics, this too was doomed to failure as is Eddy’s stand that new parties should not be formed and we should wait until the party belongs, once again, to its members. It’s time to be honest and admit it’s never going to happen, is it?

Having spent nearly 20 years involved in Nationalist politics I feel betrayed that what could have been a great movement has come to nothing. Time and time again the mantra has been that, now more than ever before the time has been right for us to rise up and become a really major force to contend with. But no, missed opportunity after missed opportunity been squandered together with a multitude of screw-ups, either badly handled by poor management or deliberately badly handled to sabotage the impetus that existed. Admittedly, there were high points, councillors elected, even MEPs, but one wonders whether even these were stage managed and could have been even better results. I fear that the “powers that be” have instructed their lackeys “Don’t let those nasty Nationalists get any further than this piece of rope will let them” and although not one for conspiracy theories can’t help but feel British Nationalism, particularly the BNP has been managed to ensure those sympathetic to Nationalism have been corralled together and then systematically destroyed by those “powers”.

I ceased active involvement with the BNP for short periods on a couple of occasions, for various reasons which I will possibly come to in later blogs, but will simply say now that I did so quietly and without making public the issues contributing to those decisions as I did not wish for any use to be made of my reasons by those who live for undermining the Nationalist cause. However, times have changed and I can’t do any more harm to the cause than it seems to have done to itself.

One such short-lived withdrawal from active involvement occurred in 2006 and the reason for writing about it now is as a result of seeing the emergence of the British Freedom Party, the great pretender to the melted BNP crown. The appallingly poor introductory video which purports to be a casual interview with, according to,

The Electoral Commission web-site registration,

party leader Peter Mullins and the nominating officer Michaela Mackenzie, when the latter of the two is clearly speaking from a script. Nothing from the heart here then! Very cosy their relationship may appear but a few years ago nothing could be further from the truth and was partly the cause for my withdrawal from active service. I believe Peter to be an honourable man but Michaela to be manipulative, preparing bullets for others to fire and I would hazard a guess that the BFP is her idea as is Peter as leader.

Anyway back to 2006 and a couple of emails which relate to a meeting that took place in Exeter.

The first is an extract from an email that I replied to as follows:-

Thu, 3 August, 2006 16:27:38
Re: Fw: SW Meeting letter

From: Robert Baggs <*******@******.***>

To: Peter Mullins <************@******.***>
________________________________________
Hello Peter
Thanks for this, however, as I had had no confirmation that the meeting was going ahead I have made other arrangements and will not be available. However from the invitation letter is appears only a selected few are expected so there should be no problem.
Best wishes
Robert

Peter Mullins <************@******.*** Hello, Everyone. Having studied Sadie's E Mail it would appear that all of you have been committed from her list of recipients. As you are all active Party Nominated Officers I think you should be, at least, made aware of this Meeting. Perhaps you have received from Sadie the same invitation in a different format; I do hope so. Regards, Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: Group Development To: Edited out Cc: orgbulletin@bnp.org.uk

Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:07 PM

Subject: SW Meeting letter

END

It seems somewhere along the line the rest of the message disappeared, but it clearly refers to a meeting that was to take place and that some officials had not been invited.

My diary shows the meeting took place on Sunday 20th August in Exeter and I did actually attend, just to test out the reasons why I thought certain people had been omitted from the invitation list.

I will then refer back to a telephone call I received in the early evening of either the Saturday or the Sunday of the activist’s weekend a while before this meeting took place. The call was from Mike Howson who, with Michaela Mackenzie, was attending the activist’s weekend. He told me that he had had discussions with Michaela (and Sadie Graham) regarding their unhappiness with Peter Mullins performance as Regional Organiser. Mike said they were taking steps to get rid of him and thought I would be the best replacement and asked if I was prepared to take the role on. I said I would think about it and later rang him back to ask if anyone had actually discussed this with Peter as I didn’t want to be involved in back-stabbing events (similar to those I had been subjected to a couple of years earlier and in which Michaela had also been involved and which may be explained further later). I have had many years managing staff and was well aware of how to handle such situations the need to ensure suspected poor performance is discussed and chances given to rectify any problems if they existed before making rash decisions. I also said that if I accepted the job I would have to set out certain terms, nothing major like being paid back-handers or anything like that, no, simple terms to ensure me some protection against similar treatment in the future. Nothing more was ever said to me and I attended the meeting referred to above by default. I had predicted the outcome of the meeting in that the post of Regional Organiser came up for discussion and Mike Howson was duly nominated by, yes, you’ve guessed it, Michaela and it came to pass that Mike became the RO and presumably remains there still despite having “Organised” the total collapse of what had been built up before in the Region to the extent that Searchlight even ran articles on the “threat” we represented.

At the time I had had enough of those who wanted to run the party as though it were a private club and emailed Nick Griffin on Monday 21st August accordingly, although he was apparently having problems with his email account so I followed the email up by post. I also sent the following email to Mike Howson:-

Wed, 23 August, 2006 19:39:15

Resignation

From: Robert Baggs <*******@*****.***>

To: Mike Howson <*************@********.**.**>
Cc: Clive Wakley <******@******.***>
________________________________________
Hello Mike

Glad meeting went well last night.

I am writing to inform you that after considering recent events in the SW I have today tendered my resignation from all party activity with immediate effect to Nick Griffin.

This action has been taken after careful consideration but essentially is due to the deliberate withholding of information and the lack of common decency shown to me by local party colleagues and those I had counted as friends. In particular I am referring to our telephone conversation that took place whilst you were at the activist’s weekend some time ago when you advised that you and others were unhappy with Peter Mullins as SW Chairman. You continued to say that if he could be gotten rid of it had been agreed the best candidate for the job would be me and that I had the appropriate support to take this on. As you will recall I stipulated various conditions under which I would consider this, these conditions being to protect me from the back-stabbing incidents and general lack of civility to me by several members, when I carried out the role before.

After that conversation the subject has never been raised again nor was the fact that there was to be a meeting on the 20th to discuss the situation, a meeting I only heard about by default. This did not bode well for an honest and successful future working relationship, hence my decision.

To be honest, I would probably have declined the role had I been offered it.
I have written to all Calne members advising them I have stood down and asked them to contact you for information on future meetings.

Best wishes for the future.

Rob

END

I do have the originals of these emails should anyone doubt their validity.

Anyway apparently, somewhere along the line, I was told that nothing further had been said to me as I had stipulated conditions to my accepting the role and this was unacceptable.

For the record, I ceased active involvement with the BNP in March 2008 as a result of the treatment of the “Voice of Change Rebels” and my membership ended on 31st December of that year.

As far as my political future is concerned I will be deciding at the end of this year what I will do but the reader can be sure that it won’t be with the BNP or the BFP, I’d never know who was on whose side!

Perhaps there may be more on my political adventures in the near future, so watch this space.