May 25, 2011

Spineless Brons lets Griffin off hook

BNP MEP Andrew Brons has refused to make public a video showing embattled party leader Nick Griffin gatecrashing and abusing BNP members at a meeting addressed by Brons in Brussels on Sunday.

Griffin, variously described by witnesses as "aggressive", "in a real temper" and "abusive", stormed into the meeting to confront Brons, Eddy Butler, leadership challenger Richard Edmonds and others, apparently as Brons addressed the gathering, which had been on a weekend jolly to the European parliament organised by Griffin's enemy-in-chief Butler.

According to Michael Barnbrook, Griffin was "deliberately confrontational", calling Andrew Brons a liar and ordering Richard Edmonds to shut up before attacking Eddy Butler as the meeting broke up prematurely and attendees booed and shouted at Griffin - of whom Butler remarked: "It seems likely that he is having some sort of breakdown."

The meeting was videoed and Griffin's angry outbursts were recorded for posterity. Supporters of Butler and Edmonds had expected it to be released as damning evidence against the BNP leader, but according to Barnbrook Brons is refusing to make the video public because of the "embarrassment that it would cause the British National Party".

The majority opinion of those who witnessed Griffin's extraordinary behaviour is that the video's release would have been a decisive blow in the campaign to oust Griffin and should have been used.

Brons's decision to sit on the video could prove an expensive one for Richard Edmond's leadership hopes, since it is a golden opportunity lost - and not for the first time by the ineffectual Brons, whose record of dither and vacillation is legion in far right circles.

However, let's not jump to hasty conclusions. The BNP is something of a hall of mirrors at the moment, with both sides in the politically deadly dispute generating large amounts of spin and bluff. While Brons may be spineless, neither he nor his allies are stupid.

Brons still has to work with Griffin, though we must assume their relationship is ice cold, and has attempted (or at least attempted to appear) to remain above the worst of the vicious faction fighting, despite coming out in favour of Richard Edmond's challenge. It isn't beyond the bounds of possibility that his allies have every intention of making the video public while allowing Brons the time to publicly distance himself from the decision.

As we and our friends have been repeating for years, Griffin will never be beaten by those who think that playing fair will win the day. Griffin does not operate like that. He will only be beaten by opponents as cunning as he is and as ready as he is to land low blows.

Have the anti-Griffin forces within the BNP finally learned that truth?

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

According to Michael Barnbrook, Griffin was "deliberately confrontational", calling Andrew Brons a liar and ordering Richard Edmonds to shut up before attacking Eddy Butler

I can't picture Griffin attacking anybody sober. Anybody who knows him realises that he is a physical coward who will run a mile at the first sign of trouble. The only scenario where he would attack somebody would be if he was drunk and/or had his heavies to back him up.

Anonymous said...

I find it disgusting that Paul Morris aka the green arrow is being allowed to run his hate site from a family orientated holiday park. The parks owners Parkdean holidays must have a contract on tenants and their behaviour? His site has recently contained several homophobic articles and surely a large portion of Parkdeans clients will come from both the gay and ethnic communities. A friend that owns a caravan near Morris at trecco bay, porthcawl in Wales informs me that he has brought this to Parkdeans attention with no action taken to date. A demo maybe?

Anonymous said...

Brons always was a coward.

Anonymous said...

Harrington, leave the nice Paul Morris alone. I am sure your Leith neighbors would be very upset to find out your 'form'

NewsHound said...

YAXLEY-LENNON LET OFF A CRIMINAL CHARGE ONCE AGAIN BY THE COURTS: -

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/edl-founder-assault-case-dropped-2288062.html

THERE'S SOMETHING FISHY GOING ON!

ex-fascist said...

"It isn't beyond the bounds of possibility that his allies have every intention of making the video public while allowing Brons the time to publicly distance himself from the decision."

Fuck me, these people are so stupid it takes LU to explain to them how to get around their predicament!

Anonymous said...

Griffin is a schemers, he will always come out on top of the other Nazis, you do wonder though, does he have help from behind the scenes?

Anonymous said...

Yep, Brons is a whimp. He can only pick on the vulnerale, which is why he's a Nazi in the first place.

Anonymous said...

That's Brons, always takes the coward's way. Still, it means the BNP's crisis will go on longer and longer, and while it does more and more of them will leave forever.

Win win for us whatever happens.

Anonymous said...

Anyone heard the rumor of Lee Barnes and Peter Staffords alleged gay love affair.


intheknow.

Anonymous said...

Harrington, leave the nice Paul Morris alone.

Yay!!! Harrington reads this blog?!

Mr. Harrington, if you'e reading this, let me wish you, and your lady wife, all the best in leading the BNP in the coming years.

As a stauch anti-fascist, it comforts me no end that somebody like you is at the top-table!

Anonymous said...

"Mr. Harrington, if you'e reading this, let me wish you, and your lady wife..."

I think I'd put the words "lady" & "wife" in inverted commas there mate. Have you seen a picture?

Anonymous said...

They really are a bunch of gormless idiots.

Anonymous said...

I agree with all of this. The people who run nationalism in this country are stupid and they will never get anywhere. All we have to do is sit back and laugh at their antics. Why stop Paul Morris? He promotes losers.