Post by Boojum on Dec 13, 2007 23:01:04 GMT
The BNP has recently expelled its Head of Adminstration (Kenny Smith) and it's Group Development Officer (Sadie Graham). The reason for this is that they were found to have set up a blog with the purpose of attacking two other members of the party. Specifically, Mark Collet, the BNP's Director of Publicity and Dave Hannan, their regional treasurer. See here for details- http://www .bnp.org.uk/?p=66
Some people may remember Mark Collett from the Young, Nazi and Proud documentry.
You can find the blog of the dissidents here- http:// enoughisenoughnick.blogspot.com/
I'll let you read that yourself, but some quick notes to be going on with.
This seems to be gearing up to a real split. The followed members of the BNP have resigned their positions:
Andrew Gatward (West Lindsey Organiser)
Bev Jones (North West Regional Fund-Raiser, Tameside Secretary, Manchester North Fundraiser and Ex-North West Regional Organiser)
Brian Riley (Glasgow Organiser)
Charlie Baillie (Glasgow Fundholder)
Cllr Chris Beverley (Yorkshire Elections Officer, Leeds Organiser - Mark Collett's local Branch - and Advisory Council Member)
Cllr Dave Brown (Broxtowe)
Cllr Graham Partner (North West Leicestershire Fundholder)
Cllr John Ryde (East Midlands Press Officer and Education & Training Officer)
Cllr Lewis Allsebrook (Amber Valley Organiser)
Cllr Nina Brown (East Mids Regional Secretary and Broxtowe Organiser)
Cllr Roger Robertson (South East Regional Organiser and Advisory Council Member)
Cllr Sadie Graham (Head of Group Development, East Mids Regional Organiser and Advisory Council Member)
Danny Lake (YBNP Leader)
Dave Jones (National Data Protection Officer, North West Regional Secretary, Regional Press Officer and Tameside Fundholder)
Dave Taylor (Bradford Contact)
Gary Pudsey (Bridlington Organiser)
Ian Dawson (Yorkshire Regional Secretary, Former Head of Group Support and Advisory Council Member)
Ivan Winters (Bradford Fundholder)
Kenny Smith (Head of Administration, Scottish Regional Organiser, Scottish Elections Officer and Advisory Council Member)
Kieran Dinsmore (Ulster Regional Organiser)
Lee Haggan (Doncaster Organiser and Great White Records Recording Artist)
Lesley Dathan (Sunderland Fundholder)
Louise Scott (Scarborough Secretary and Northern Regional Voices Correspondent)
Malcolm Porter (West Lindsay Fundholder)
Mark Payne (Former Assistant National Treasurer)
Mark Wain (Melton & Rutland Press Officer)
Mark Westbury (Nottingham Secretary)
Matt Single (Department of Security Secretary and Training Officer)
Michael Clarke (Ashfield Organiser)
Mike Cooper (Hull Fund-Holder - Dave Hannam's local Group)
Neil Craig (Bradford Organiser)
Nicholla Smith (Managing Director of Excalibur, Falkirk Organiser and Nick Walsh (Hull BNP Organiser - Dave Hannam's local Group)
Paul Harris (Barnsley Organiser)
Peter (Boston, Holbeach & Spalding Fundholder)
Peter Hollings (Yorkshire Regional Fund-Raiser and Leeds Secretary - Mark Collett's local Branch)
Richard Chadfield (North West Regional Fundholder and Former Stockport Organiser)
Rick Foster (Lincoln Organiser)
Rob Walker (Wellingborough Contact)
Robert Walker (Huddersfield Organiser)
Sammy Shaw (Falkirk Fundholder and Forum Moderator)
Scott McLean (Former Deputy Chairman, Scottish Regional Organiser and Advisory Council Member)
Steve Blake (Web Editor, Head of Education & Training and Advisory Council Member)
Steve Thomson (Aberdeen Organiser)
Stuart Russell (Former National Press Officer and Advisory Council Member))
Tom Linden (Harrogate & District Organiser)
Trisha Scott (Scarborough Organiser)
Wendy Russell (East Midlands Regional Fundraiser, Regional Information Officer and Peacock Club Chairman)
The BNP leadership have now expressly stated that they monitor their members email accounts/phones. Also, there was a raid on Sadie Graham's house by the BNP security team. She was out, so they got a neighbour to let them in and took away things like her personal computer. Is that legal?
The main claims being made by the rebels are that Collet and Hannan are incompetent, unpleasant and generally a liability to the BNP. However, there is also a repeated claim being made (including by Danny Lake, until recently the leader of the Young BNP) that they tried to pressurise two underage girls into having sex with them at the recent BNP conference.
It also looks possible that the BNP leadership have access to the IP addresses of posters on Stormfront. While he quickly tried to backtrack, this is a comment from "Purging the Droid", who is widely believed to be Nick Griffin himself:
Finally, there's the interesting question of what exactly Graham is playing at. This allegation was made by the leftist/green parapolitical magazine 'Notes From the Borderland' (http://www.borderland.co.uk/) as far back as 2003. At this point, I'm merely going to reproduce it without comment-
Assets come in many shapes and sizes. Such as the charming Sadie Graham. Hailing originally from Brighton, she surfaced in the mid-1990's hunt-sabbing and anarcho-punk scene. Sadie worked for three years at a local law firm (Des Murphys) specialising in animal rights cases and even briefly took up (as reportedly did she) the Gandalf conspiracy case. Now a student at Nottingham University, Ms Graham apparently underwent a Damascene political conversion in 2000, and is a fervent BNP member and local election candidate. Indeed, her (Broxtowe) result in May 2003 was a creditable 43.36%, by far the best BNP East Midlands showing. A valued member of the partys crack by-election canvassing team, Ms Graham may well be just another former Leftist who has crossed over to the enemy camp, even though this switch of allegiance was not mentioned in a recent positive Daily Express profile when surely relevant. Set against this is a disturbing claim that Ms Graham not only gets on very well with the local constabulary (as she did in Brighton) but is also spoken of in glowing terms deep inside the Searchlight organisation, though never featuring in their tawdry magazine. Indeed, this would seem to be borne out both by the Express article (given the BNP series came largely from Searchlight) and the absence of any Nottingham University (or Anti-Nazi League) campaign against Ms Graham, unlike other prominent BNP students such as Lawrence Rustem, Mark Collett and Tony Wentworth. Ms Grahams affiliations are no secret - her candidature was announced on the Nottingham University website. One for Ross Bradshaw perhaps?
That's your lot for now. Updates as I get them.
Some people may remember Mark Collett from the Young, Nazi and Proud documentry.
You can find the blog of the dissidents here- http:// enoughisenoughnick.blogspot.com/
I'll let you read that yourself, but some quick notes to be going on with.
This seems to be gearing up to a real split. The followed members of the BNP have resigned their positions:
Andrew Gatward (West Lindsey Organiser)
Bev Jones (North West Regional Fund-Raiser, Tameside Secretary, Manchester North Fundraiser and Ex-North West Regional Organiser)
Brian Riley (Glasgow Organiser)
Charlie Baillie (Glasgow Fundholder)
Cllr Chris Beverley (Yorkshire Elections Officer, Leeds Organiser - Mark Collett's local Branch - and Advisory Council Member)
Cllr Dave Brown (Broxtowe)
Cllr Graham Partner (North West Leicestershire Fundholder)
Cllr John Ryde (East Midlands Press Officer and Education & Training Officer)
Cllr Lewis Allsebrook (Amber Valley Organiser)
Cllr Nina Brown (East Mids Regional Secretary and Broxtowe Organiser)
Cllr Roger Robertson (South East Regional Organiser and Advisory Council Member)
Cllr Sadie Graham (Head of Group Development, East Mids Regional Organiser and Advisory Council Member)
Danny Lake (YBNP Leader)
Dave Jones (National Data Protection Officer, North West Regional Secretary, Regional Press Officer and Tameside Fundholder)
Dave Taylor (Bradford Contact)
Gary Pudsey (Bridlington Organiser)
Ian Dawson (Yorkshire Regional Secretary, Former Head of Group Support and Advisory Council Member)
Ivan Winters (Bradford Fundholder)
Kenny Smith (Head of Administration, Scottish Regional Organiser, Scottish Elections Officer and Advisory Council Member)
Kieran Dinsmore (Ulster Regional Organiser)
Lee Haggan (Doncaster Organiser and Great White Records Recording Artist)
Lesley Dathan (Sunderland Fundholder)
Louise Scott (Scarborough Secretary and Northern Regional Voices Correspondent)
Malcolm Porter (West Lindsay Fundholder)
Mark Payne (Former Assistant National Treasurer)
Mark Wain (Melton & Rutland Press Officer)
Mark Westbury (Nottingham Secretary)
Matt Single (Department of Security Secretary and Training Officer)
Michael Clarke (Ashfield Organiser)
Mike Cooper (Hull Fund-Holder - Dave Hannam's local Group)
Neil Craig (Bradford Organiser)
Nicholla Smith (Managing Director of Excalibur, Falkirk Organiser and Nick Walsh (Hull BNP Organiser - Dave Hannam's local Group)
Paul Harris (Barnsley Organiser)
Peter (Boston, Holbeach & Spalding Fundholder)
Peter Hollings (Yorkshire Regional Fund-Raiser and Leeds Secretary - Mark Collett's local Branch)
Richard Chadfield (North West Regional Fundholder and Former Stockport Organiser)
Rick Foster (Lincoln Organiser)
Rob Walker (Wellingborough Contact)
Robert Walker (Huddersfield Organiser)
Sammy Shaw (Falkirk Fundholder and Forum Moderator)
Scott McLean (Former Deputy Chairman, Scottish Regional Organiser and Advisory Council Member)
Steve Blake (Web Editor, Head of Education & Training and Advisory Council Member)
Steve Thomson (Aberdeen Organiser)
Stuart Russell (Former National Press Officer and Advisory Council Member))
Tom Linden (Harrogate & District Organiser)
Trisha Scott (Scarborough Organiser)
Wendy Russell (East Midlands Regional Fundraiser, Regional Information Officer and Peacock Club Chairman)
The BNP leadership have now expressly stated that they monitor their members email accounts/phones. Also, there was a raid on Sadie Graham's house by the BNP security team. She was out, so they got a neighbour to let them in and took away things like her personal computer. Is that legal?
The main claims being made by the rebels are that Collet and Hannan are incompetent, unpleasant and generally a liability to the BNP. However, there is also a repeated claim being made (including by Danny Lake, until recently the leader of the Young BNP) that they tried to pressurise two underage girls into having sex with them at the recent BNP conference.
It also looks possible that the BNP leadership have access to the IP addresses of posters on Stormfront. While he quickly tried to backtrack, this is a comment from "Purging the Droid", who is widely believed to be Nick Griffin himself:
L, the spelling would appear to rule out Mr. Steptoe. We'll soon know if the post came in from Switzerland.
Finally, there's the interesting question of what exactly Graham is playing at. This allegation was made by the leftist/green parapolitical magazine 'Notes From the Borderland' (http://www.borderland.co.uk/) as far back as 2003. At this point, I'm merely going to reproduce it without comment-
Assets come in many shapes and sizes. Such as the charming Sadie Graham. Hailing originally from Brighton, she surfaced in the mid-1990's hunt-sabbing and anarcho-punk scene. Sadie worked for three years at a local law firm (Des Murphys) specialising in animal rights cases and even briefly took up (as reportedly did she) the Gandalf conspiracy case. Now a student at Nottingham University, Ms Graham apparently underwent a Damascene political conversion in 2000, and is a fervent BNP member and local election candidate. Indeed, her (Broxtowe) result in May 2003 was a creditable 43.36%, by far the best BNP East Midlands showing. A valued member of the partys crack by-election canvassing team, Ms Graham may well be just another former Leftist who has crossed over to the enemy camp, even though this switch of allegiance was not mentioned in a recent positive Daily Express profile when surely relevant. Set against this is a disturbing claim that Ms Graham not only gets on very well with the local constabulary (as she did in Brighton) but is also spoken of in glowing terms deep inside the Searchlight organisation, though never featuring in their tawdry magazine. Indeed, this would seem to be borne out both by the Express article (given the BNP series came largely from Searchlight) and the absence of any Nottingham University (or Anti-Nazi League) campaign against Ms Graham, unlike other prominent BNP students such as Lawrence Rustem, Mark Collett and Tony Wentworth. Ms Grahams affiliations are no secret - her candidature was announced on the Nottingham University website. One for Ross Bradshaw perhaps?
That's your lot for now. Updates as I get them.
