Nick Griffin
North West Region:
Biographical Details:
Nick Griffin has an honours degree in Law from Downing College, Cambridge, where he was also awarded three ‘Blues’ for representing the university in the annual Varsity Match against Oxford in three successive years, losing on points in the first year and winning with first round knockouts in the other two.
Nick is fifty years old and married to a community nurse, ,Jackie, who was born in Preston and grew up on the Wirral. They have four grown up children.
Since being elected to lead the BNP in 1999, he has turned it into the modern, mainstream and moderate party that is today reshaping British politics in favour of ordinary people instead of out-of-touch political elitists.
Regional Issues:
SECURING regeneration funding for the North West will be top of the agenda for the region’s British National Party MEPs when they take their seats in the European Parliament.
Last year membership of the European Union cost British taxpayers £65.675 billion and it is vital that this contribution is drastically reduced and that more EU funding finds its way back to Britain. The Common Agricultural Policy costs Britain £16.8 billion each and every year yet many of the region’s farmers are still being forced out of business. The Common Fisheries Policy costs Britain £3.275 billion
a year, yet many of our region’s fishermen have had no choice but to sell their boats because of quotas, imposed by Brussels, that favour foreign fishing fleets.
EU red tape not only costs British businesses £28 billion a year but now, with the collapse of the global economy, it is the final straw for many small businesses in the North West. It is this sort of unfairness that British National Party MEPs will tackle as a priority. The North West has borne the brunt of illegal immigration, bogus asylum seekers and refugees with the authorities in the south of the
country fast-tracking their settlement to the region’s towns and cities. BNP representatives would call for the scrapping of the Schengen Agreement because the removal of border controls between the participating countries has allowed illegal immigrants, heading for Britain, to cross Europe unhindered.
British National Party MEPs would also seek to change the law regarding the free movement of labour to allow countries the right to refuse migrant workers entry to their home markets. While our MEPs will campaign within the European Parliament to get a better deal for Britain, outside of the European Parliament they will be campaigning to take Britain out of the European Union.
Personal Details:
1. Have you any pets, if so what?
Cats
2. What’s you’re favourite colour?
British Racing Green
3. Who is your favourite historical person?
Alfred the Great
4. What football team or sports team do you support?
England rugby team
5. What is your favourite film?
Michael Collins
6. What is your favourite book?
Atlas Shrugged
7. What is your favourite type of music?
Folk
8. What is your favourite meal?
Fresh Cromer crab
9. Who is your favourite actor/actress?
Brigitte Bardot
10. What is your favourite TV series?
Torchwood
11. What is your favourite holiday location?
France
12. If you could go out for a meal with one living person who would it be?
Jackie, his wife
