A BNP leader has called for kissing between men to be banned in public. The BNP leader in East Sussex, also attacked the "morals and honesty" of a gay Tory MP.
A BNP leader has called for kissing between men to be banned in public. Nick Prince, the BNP leader in East Sussex, also attacked the “morals and honesty” of a gay Conservative MP. Prince attacked Bexhill and Battle MP Greg Barker after criticising gay adoption and same-sex public displays of affection.
Barker responded by saying:
“The BNP is completely beyond the pale and I have no intention in entering into a debate with that sort of people.”
Prince’s bigotry follows Iain Dale’s recent interview with Nick Griffin in which the BNP leader claimed his party are “not anti gay” and “have got gay members”, this despite describing men kissing in public as “creepy”, echoing his remarks on Question Time in which he the sight of two men kissing in public was “really creepy”.
In the interview, Griffin’s mask further slipped when he came out against civil partnerships, ranting about “the left’s war against marriage and the family” and the “hard core Marxist left who have infiltrated their ideas into all aspects of our society”.
Elsewhere, a well-connected Tory councillor has also been exposed for making homophobic remarks. Writing on Facebook, Wirral borough councillor Denis Knowles, who defected from Labour in May, said:
“An unusual group of young boys leafletting … of the limp wristed variety and definitely NOT local.”
He later wrote:
“Just joined Chris Grayling MP and Leah Fraser on a visit to the Allandale “Youthworks” in Seacombe…”
And last week, Tory leader David Cameron floundered badly in an interview with Gay Times, broadcast on Channel Four News. In it, he failed to commit to supporting the Alli amendment in the Lords which would allow civil partnership ceremonies to be performed on religious premises and once again defended the Tories’ far-Right allies in the European parliament.
17 Responses to “BNP candidate’s homophobic attack “beyond the pale””
Ed
Yes Simon, it is. It’s you. For good measure, you’re not just a bigot but a moron. You seriously expect to be taken seriously when you’re going to use terms like homosexualist? Jesus Christ.
Pitbull2k8
The extremist British National Party has been diligently cultivating its new image of smart suits and ‘legal’ respectability over the last decade. But their MEPs elected in 2009, leader Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons respectively, contradict this image. Griffin studied history and law at Cambridge and Brons lectured in politics and law at Harrogate college, but they have had run-ins with ‘the law’ over their totalitarian racist ideas. In the 1960s Brons was a member of the National Socialist Movement, open admirers of Adolf Hitler, who were responsible for an anti-semitic arson campaign against synagogues. He then joined the National Front where he stood as candidate and edited their far-right manifesto in the 1983 election. In October 1983, Brons led NF supporters handing out virulently intolerant leaflets in Leeds city centre, shouting slogans including “white power” and “death to Jews”. When a police officer of Malaysian origin asked them to disperse, Brons replied: “I am aware of my legal rights. Inferior beings like you probably do not appreciate the principle of free speech.” Brons was convicted of using insulting words and behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace and was fined £50. Nick Griffin had read Hitler’s Mein Kampf by the age of 13, and joined the NF when at public school. He later led a breakaway NF faction with notorious nazi terrorist Roberto Fiore, who was wanted by Italy’s police after the bombing of Bologna railway station in 1980 which left 85 dead and 200 injured. The BNP has considerably ‘moderated’ its public image, but its leaders’ violent, fascist past will always come back to haunt it.