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If a prospective MP knocked on your door and said this:

"The criminals, the scum and the parasites of the old order… are beyond saving because they dont want to be saved - they revel in their degeneracy - - we can only work with those worth saving, not pretend we are some messianic movement for everyone… We need a hard 23% to take power in this country - and that’s the minority we are after… What counts is building the 23% voting base to get into power. They and they alone are our constituency."

Would you vote for him?

I would not vote for such a bloke. I wouldn’t want to have someone representing me who was cynical enough to be concerned only with the “hard 23%” needed for people like him “to take power” in the country and that “they and they alone” were that prospective MP’s “constituency." Nor would I want anything to do with someone who thought that every member of “the old order” were “criminals, scum and parasites” who revelled “in their degeneracy”.

If you told the would-be parliamentarian that, even though you despised Blair and Brown and thought they had more in common with Mrs Thatcher than Keir Hardy or Clement Atlee, Labour was still better than the Tories or the Liberals, would you vote for the chap who responded as follows?

“The scum all vote Labour and they do so as scum only vote for parties that represent their interests as scum. Therefore there are no votes for us in scum."

If your child was addicted and you asked this would-be politician what he was going to do about the drug problem in this country, would you vote for a man who replied like this?

“I dont need a lecture on liberal compassion for junkies and criminals… They enjoy their depravity. They chose depravity… They would rob you and piss you on in an instant if they wanted what you had… You feel compassion for monsters and they turn you into a monster… It’s the next generation that counts… not the scum and the shit that chose to be scum and shit."

Ladies and gentlemen, anyone who aspired to be the leader of the British National Party ought to be able to say that the movement was full of typical British people, "just like you".

The leader, I would have thought, would want to stress this to counteract the spin disseminated by the politicians, the PC Crowd and the media over the last 50 years. The top chap ought to be able to say that those who lied us into war with Iraq would, just as easily, lie about the true nature of those who would put the British first in Britain. He ought to be able to say, with confidence, “come inside, take a look around, we are the best there is”.

Well, the three quotations cited above we’re not the thoughts of the “best there is”, were they? They were the opinions of someone who, if his innermost thoughts were broadcast, would not inspire many to vote for him. I should imagine that very few would care to vote for a party that appeared to sympathise with such thoughts either.

The Orwellian unpleasantness quoted here emerged in a series of emails sent to me in June 2006 by Lee John Barnes.

Barnes is a prominent BNP spokesman whose brutish opinions and behaviours have, for a good few years now, been encouraged and pandered to by the party’s leader. This against the advice and wishes of an increasingly bewildered grass roots majority, most of whom, I can assure the casual observer, are indeed “just like you”.

At important in-house events, Barnes can be seen sitting on the right hand side of the Chairman. His name features prominently at the BNP web site, where he once had a regular column, and the site is linked to his own blog. He has been an irritatingly censorious moderator of the BNP forum and the “legal eagle”, as he likes to be known, also dispenses advice and opinion in and out of the courtroom on behalf of the BNP.

The bloke who thinks “the scum all vote Labour” is 42 years old, 6ft 2ins, weighs about 20 stones and sports a goatee beard, a ponytail and, as can be seen here, the foulest of foul mouths. I suspect that most folks could live with the size, the beard and the ponytail but the bad language? I don't think so. Not from one who acts as a spokesperson for British Nationalism anyway.

Check this out:

“Pimp; junkie scum; Stormfront scum; Nazis; drunken fat idiot; anti-semitism; sexual jealousy; maggot farm; reds, searchlight trolls; morons; big mouthed; cockroach; cockroaches; sh*t;  cowards; filth; wanker; fuck off; big mouthed maggot; reds; malcontents; bullshits; lies; wanker; maggot;  malcontents; degenerated; swamp of red trolls; searchlight spies, scumbags; sectarian filth; gutless cowards; gutless scum; slime; gutless bastard; big mouth; keyboard warriors; big mouths; enemies of nationalism; lies and bullshit; the hag; bonkers people; V is for Vendetta; mad captain jack;  keyboard warriors; irritating arse rash; silly boy; spitting your hate on the internet; shut up; red; bottling it;  the rat; searchlight sponsored; little red rat; rats; the red rat; traitorsad bunch of wankers; dickheads; keyboard warriors; Ugliest Lesbian In Britain; ugly whore; save up for plastic surgery; you fucking need it bitch; you could ugly for England; dickhead; proffesional hog fondler; Oink ! Oink ! arseholes; arseholes; pet monkey;   big gobs; talking shit; pair of twats; red scum bag; morons;  mouthy know nothing moron; stop arse kissing the morons; in the pay of the police and Searchlight; mutal wank fest; wankers; pet arsewiper; poor manic depressive little saddo; wanker; sheep fondling ex-pat; mint sauce to smear on his pet sheep pre-coitus; sniffing at… knickers; sad little pervert; you idiot; nothing but shit; gutless attacks; gutless scumbags; fucking cock; pack of dogs;  fucking arsehole; a nothing; big mouthed keyboard warrior nothing; you are mental case; you complete cock and someone who has mental health issues.”

And:

"We can find out anyones address in the country within ten minutes; those that piss on the shoes of real natonalists; who lie and spread lies about real nationalists; we have people in every city, every town and every village; whatever you do to try and improve securty on the site we will infiltrate, usurp and undermine."

Now then, is there anyone out there who would invite a man who could write such things into their house for a cup of tea and a chat?

Would any red-blooded British man be able to restrain himself if such foul invective was hurled at him within earshot? Well, Lee Barnes treats us all, not only those he dislikes but the casual onlooker as well, to the above awfulness in just one thread at his own internet blog! I mean, does this chap really expect to win us over with this kind of language and behaviour? More to the point, why does the leader of the British National Party allow him to behave in this crude and patently vote-losing way? The thread in question was begun on 11 March 2008 and, as of 27 March 2008, 16 days later, the aforementioned rubbish still disgraces, not only Lee Barnes’ site, but the BNP web site that links to it and the BNP leader who tolerates it.

Oh and by the way, Barnes was attacking HIS FELLOW NATIONALISTS here! He was raging against those who would not bow before the Griffinite bully-boy within the British section of Stormfront, the most powerful White Nationalist forum in the world.

Check out this somewhat less robust email opinion of his fellow British Nationalists:

"The old nationalist guard are the enemy of my people… They and their idiotic politics, their stupid fucking tactics and their absurd ideas… There will come a time when the old guard will surrender… or they will be brought down.  They have had their chance and they failed - now the old guard can fuck off.  It’s time for the wolf pack to bring down the old lions."

And here is what he thinks of the Yanks:

"Cunts like David Duke and the rest of those demented fucking arseholes that run the nationalist movement in America."

Now I ask you once again, ladies and gents, could Nick Griffin put the spotlight on such an unreconstructed thug and say to a prospective voter, "that man is just like you"?

Not unless he secretly wanted that voter to vote for someone else, he couldn’t! There is no way in the world such lunatic profanity and belligerence would attract the vote of anyone but the simple-minded and the unsavoury.

In stark contrast to the above, here is what Mr Barnes thinks of himself:

"I am a warrior - a good general knows when to attack in order to win a battle, but a great general knows when to retreat in order to win the war!"

And:

"I am Lee Barnes - my family are Viking, Anglo-Saxon and Celt and fought in every war this nation had!"

So why does Nick Griffin not jetison this quintessential vote-loser?

Well, I can think of three reasons: Barnes is intensely loyal; he is happy to berate those Nationalists his boss wants marginalised and he is, at a time when Griffin himself has been assiduously courting the Jewish community, aggressively Judaeophilic. Whilst his boss was cuddling up to Barbara Amiel, (the Jewish wife of the disgraced and, subsequently imprisoned media tycoon, Conrad Black) Lee Barnes would rather have cut off the Pope’s head than criticise our Hebrew chums.