Calls for BNP ballerina to be sacked
Remember the BNP ballerina, Simone Clarke? Since she was outed as a member of the BNP there have been calls to sack her.
Lee Jasper, equalities director for the mayor of London and chairman of the National Assembly Against Racism, said: "The ENB must seriously consider whether having such a vociferous member of an avowedly racist party in such a prominent role is compatible with the ethics of its organisation. I seriously doubt that it is and that should lead to her position being immediately reviewed. I think she should be sacked." He called on funders and David Lammy, the arts mnister, to intervene.
Lee, you are aware that she wasn’t vociferous until she was outed as a BNP member? Has she been in any BNP party election broadcasts? Has she been giving BNP leaflets out at the place where she works? Has she been giving any leaflets out? What makes her so vociferous other than responding to the media about her private and personal opinions?
Inayat Bunglawala, of the Muslim Council of Britain, said people had a right to their private political views but added: "This will taint the ENB in the eyes of many minority communities. Questions need to be asked about how someone in that position can be allowed to abuse that position to promote the BNP."
When was she promoting the BNP through her position? Was she dancing with a BNP rosette on? At the end of the show did she bow and say ‘thanks for coming. Now vote BNP’? Of course not. She was never using her position to promote the BNP.
Jon Cruddas, Labour MP for Dagenham in east London, where the BNP forms the official opposition on the council, said: "We need to know how these statements square with the more laudable positions taken by the ENB and other leading arts organisations. What she completely ignores is the underbelly of the BNP in terms of the violence, the physical attacks and the criminality of many of its supporters."
The BNP should stop supporters? Don’t you think that’s a bit hard? Anyone can be a supporter. Infact there were 800,000 at the last European election whereas the BNP have about 15,000 members or over 24,000 if my membership number is the number of ACTIVE members. The Lib Dems get millions of votes. How many of them are criminals?
Hat tip: The Last Ditch.
6 comments:
"What she completely ignores is the underbelly of the BNP in terms of the violence, the physical attacks and the criminality of many of its supporters."
This statement is surely libellous.
He should be arraigned for "hate speech."
I'm not holding my breath.
It appears to be a journo-political article of faith that the BNP can be slagged off with impunity and must be - at every opportunity.
This principle seems to apply as much to competent journalists like Mel Phillips and Peter Hitchens as it does to the likes of Crud and co.
She gives a good account of herself in a piece on the Daily Mail website. There is the usual snide comment about the BNP including a comment about a tiny minority. Funny, in the same article it mentions 7%, minority yes, tiny, hardly. I think people have had enough of hearing insulting comments from the MSM and MP's when describing the BNP. People want the facts. If the BNP is guilty of the sort of things consistently referred to, give us the details so we can make up our own mind. Let's make 2007 the year that these people either put up, or shut up.
Anyone who suggests that a person (male or female) should be punished for expressing themselves is by definition a raving fascist pig!
the physical attacks and the criminality of many of its supporters."
If the BNP are so obviously 'thugs in suits' you will have no reason for failing to post evidence to that effect.
Be specific....post some URL's or fuck off!
many of it's supporters
Name one!
Labour hate the BNP though. It is a rite of passage for them.
So to the anti-fascist league types, many of whom went on to become Journalists.
The BNP will always get this type of attack, no matter what it does.
Don't vote for them anyway as they are mostly loons and incompetents. At least UKIP have a small shred of respectablity if you want to join the tin foil hat brigade.
"Don't vote for them anyway as they are mostly loons and incompetents"
No they are not. The BNP are not incompetants or loons. If they were why would they have so many councillors which they didn't have when Labour came to power in 1997?
I am a member of the BNP. I can tell you that my local branch has many intelligent people including 2 teachers.
"Don't vote for them anyway as they are mostly loons and incompetents"
Unlike 'Brain of Britain", eh?
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