MEP responds to UKIP’s campaign of misinformation
Posted on 02. Nov, 2009 by Martin Wingfield in Constituency News
NICK Griffin MEP has responded to an extraordinary outburst from Paul Nuttall (left), the chairman of UKIP, which was published in the Rochdale Observer on 29th October.
Worried by the huge increase in media coverage for the British National Party and its strong showing in the polls with a 50% increase in support for the Party in its strongholds, UKIP have launched a campaign to spread misinformation about the British National Party.
In the newspaper Nuttall claimed:
“The BNP remains a fascist party, despite its election success in Europe and Nick Griffin’s appearance on BBC television’s Question Time“.
Nick Griffin told the Rochdale Observer
“The British National Party is not a fascist or racist party but a democratic political party, pledged to uphold the democratic principles of our Parliament. In fact the British National Party is the only political party that will restore to the British people our ancient freedoms and inherited liberties as are denoted in Magna Carta and the 1688 Bill of Rights which have been compromised by Britain’s membership of the European Union.
“ It is rich that Mr Nuttall calls the BNP ‘fascist’, when his own party has allied itself in the European Parliament to other parties which include holocaust deniers, extreme anti-semites and those who have called for the death penalty for homosexuals.
“UKIP’s selective five year monatorium on immigration will do nothing to preserve our nation state because, as a result of mass immigration – and the birth rates of those immigrants here, within 40 years there will be no nation worth preserving.
“Immigration has to be completely stopped and those immigrants who arrived in Britain illegally must be returned to their own countries. Also those immigrants who feel unable to accept Britain’s Christian values and traditional way of life would be given financial assistance to help them find a country that would be more suitable to the type of lifestyle that they which to lead.
“With regard to Question Time, the BBC were hardly generous to me as Paul Nuttall claims. For the first time in 30 years, the programme’s format was deliberately altered to ensure a full frontal attack on me, without opportunity to make reply. The audience was carefully selected and then given leaflets by the programme’s producers encouraging them to jeer and heckle when I was speaking.
“The UKIP chairman is also being economical with the truth over the elections fought by both our parties. In local council elections over the past two years, not only has the British National Party fought twice as many seats as UKIP but BNP candidates have, in the main, trounced UKIP candidates whenever they have stood against each other.”
If you see any similar misinformation in your local newspaper please make sure you alert your local British National Party representatives so that they can respond.
