The British National party today voted to scrap its whites-only membership policy in a move dismissed by anti-racist campaigners as “cosmetic”.
At an extraordinary general meeting held in Essex, members of the far-right party voted in favour of changes to its constitution that would theoretically allow black and Asian people to join.
Following the result, the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, said he expected a “trickle, rather than a flood” of applications. “Anyone can be a member of this party. We are happy to accept anyone as a member providing they agree with us that this country should remain fundamentally British,” Griffin told Sky News.
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Asked whether the BNP was no longer racist, [BNP spokesperson] Darby said: “Let’s put it like this: if, as a result of this, a court rules that we are now a bona fide party, that’s a great stamp of approval. If anyone says we are racist, we can say ‘no we’re not, it’s been proved in court’.”As for whether the BNP would genuinely welcome members of “all colours and creeds”, Darby said: “I’m not prepared to even say that until we have the court ruling. I’m not going to stray into the realms of that sort of terminology.”
Earlier Griffin said ethnic minority members would be accepted if they agreed with the party’s aims.
He told the BBC: “They’ll be accepted, they’ll be welcomed, providing they’re there to do the things that we want to do, and providing they accept and agree with our principles, which is that multiculturalism, we believe, has been a failure. It was imposed on the British people without any consent, by the political elite. It’s still going on, it’s madness and it’s time to shut the doors.”
Ha! We’ll accept you and welcome you, as long as you agree with our policy of having you kicked out of the country. The BNP apparently doesn’t have the cojones to fight the ruling.
It always amazes me how radical ideologies get taken seriously. Research shows that people who hold such ideas tend to have lower IQ scores and are looking for someone to blame. Even the news cycle on TV is low on substantive debate because of all the deception and hyperbole. No one wants to simply call on radicals to substantiate their ideas. Dick Cheney did it today and Sarah Palin is getting quite good at it. (captured in the little satire of her I posted, even if it is stupid)
#20-Greg Allen
Man-made global warming is a scam and always has been.
I mean how much of a fool do you have to be to fall for the line that it’s cold because of global warming?
It’s pure idiocy on the face of it.
Greg Allen,
The highest murder rates by country are Columbia, Jamaica, Venezuela, Russia, and the United States. The Russian rate sky rocketed after the fall of communism, rise of democracy, and the drop in atheism towards Christianity.
Obviously, Christians are violent. Only stands to reason, right?
100% of Muslim murderers have killed someone.
The head of the largest climate change study ever undertaken in Canada says the Arctic sea ice is thinning faster than expected.
“It’s happening much faster than our most pessimistic projections,” said University of Manitoba Prof. David Barber, the lead investigator of the Circumpolar Flaw Lead study. A flaw lead is the term for open water between pack ice and coastal ice.”
Last year was the second warmest in the last 150 years – remember you have to take temperatures over water, not just land. The thing that cracks me up about the goofs is that they think most of the planet is covered by dirt. Explains why they didn’t pass Grade 6 science class.
Re: qb #25, “Arctic sea ice is thinning faster than expected.”
…which proves the earth is male.
Top o’ the world to yea.
Skeptic, but the waistline is expanding.
qb… and the south pole isn’t getting any action.
… premature global aging. Now we just have to find out what is causing it. Maybe he’s not over Venus…
Skeptic,
It depends on which side of the south pole you look at. Apparently it’s a switch hitter.
BTW, viva la Bilodeau. And Groves ain’t too shabby. And did you see the women’s team last night? 16-0? Now, if the mens’ team will only play like a bunch of women.
Our first gold…. and he was flawless. I missed the women’s hockey. (working till wee hours on a tight deadline.)
Bilodeau won that gold for his brother. Quite a story.
>> Dr Dodd said, on February 14th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
>> #20-Greg Allen
>> Man-made global warming is a scam and always has been.
Hmmm. Should I take YOUR word for it or rely on real scientists who do real studies?
>> I mean how much of a fool do you have to be to fall for the line that it’s cold because of global warming?
Who says that? Global warming is a trend. It’s not debunked because it’s snowing a lot outside your window right now. It happens to be unseasonably warm where I am right now. But this doesn’t matter either.
What matters is real science. Not what Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck say — real science.
>> It’s pure idiocy on the face of it.
I don’t believe the bogus claims ABOUT global warming that the anti-science crowd makes. For example, what real scientist is saying that “line” about the cold? Did you just make that up or hear it on Fox?
>> qb said, on February 14th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
>> The Russian rate sky rocketed after the fall of communism, rise of democracy, and the drop in atheism towards Christianity.
Are you seriously claiming that more than 20 (or so) million people have been murdered since atheists quit running the Soviet Union?
>> Obviously, Christians are violent. Only stands to reason, right?
Christian are violent. Even though I am a Christian, I will not deny that. (I also condemn it.)
But I can’t abide historical-revisionist claim that atheism transforms societies into some form of higher-evolved enlightenment. For most of the 20th Century, atheism was the official and only-tolerated “religion” in several countries and they were hell holes.
This is personal for me since my religious group was murdered, raped, imprisoned and exiled by atheists because we where supposedly holding society back.
One cool thing about being a global warming denier is that you can destroy the lives of countless others with your wrongness, yet pay absolutely no personal price.
#32-Greg Allen-Should I take YOUR word for it or rely on real scientists who do real studies?
If you can find a real scientist not fudging the numbers under intimidation of losing grant money then you would have a point.
The good news is the global warming scam has been exposed for what it is. It’s done as a scare tactic and a way to pick people’s pockets and steal power.
More and more people are laughing at those who continue with the the global warming deception.
But since it never ends it should be interesting to see what the leftist come up with next as a global scare that must be fixed right now or we will die in 50 years.
So the BNP is like the GOP if you sprinkled KKK on them?
And what does being “fundamentally British” mean? That’s not a ethnic race, that’s a nationality. So anyone born and raised in “Britian” would therefore be fundamentally British.
A cold winter in the US and northern Europe no more disproves Climate change than a Hot summer in Australia proves it.
Weather is not the same as climate.
Scientists cannot not say “The evidence is in”. They can say “We have (some) evidence”. The two are not the same thing.
As an IT worker, I often have difficulty in persuading the determinedly ignorant to believe me. I am still right. I will give the scientific community the respect that I am denied. If they change their opinions, as scientists do, my opinion may well change too.
I will not allow my opinion to be formed by, right wing politicians, big business and other groups whose interest is in pretending that climate change is unreal.
Of course some scientists disagree. That is scientific debate. But for some voices, as Adam Curry used to say “follow the money”.
Greg Allen,
(start loud sarcastic voice) Christian countries have the highest murder rates, therefore all Christians are violent. Muslims have terrorists, therefore all Muslims are terrorists. (stop loud sarcastic voice)
Dr Dodd said “…it should be interesting to see what the leftist come up with next as a global scare…”
In Canada there is a grass roots movement concerned with climate change coming out of the prairies (especially farmers) from the folks who started the conservative Reform party. Number 1 issue for Christians under 30 in the US? Climate change. Hunters and anglers overwhelming support emission management bills.
There’s wing nuts on both sides of this issue, but if you keep spouting cold war rhetoric you’re no different than a smelly hippy who chains himself to a Hummer. You might drive a pickup but I bet there isn’t a spec of dirt on it.
The British Empire got us into this Islamic mess, along with other colonizing States. The US was late to the party, and screwed up mostly ex-Spanish colonies. Imperialist squeezed these nations for all they where worth. Only after WWII, and Europe was too broke to maintain power did they leave. How did that White Mans Burden work out Mr. Kipling?