“New BNP Membership List” Is a Malicious Forgery
The so-called “new BNP membership list” published today on the Internet is a malicious forgery, party leader Nick Griffin has announced.
“We have had a chance to examine the list in detail and can unequivocally say that it is not a genuine BNP list,” Mr Griffin said.
“It is a concoction of the ‘old’ list plus a number of inquiries received, but, most disturbingly, it contains thousands of names of people with whom the BNP has had no contact whatsoever,” Mr Griffin said.
“The list includes thousands of people with renewal and membership numbers next to their names which are totally false and made up,” Mr Griffin said.
“We have no idea from where this information has been drawn. Some of it looks like random items drawn from a telephone book,” he said, adding that part of the list looked like information which was taken from the home of an ex-BNP employee by police during an earlier investigation.
Mr Griffin pointed out that the party had been the subject of extensive attacks by the state during the entire European election period.
“Over that time, twenty sacks of mail disappeared in the post, and were only delivered six weeks after the election date after we threatened to call in the police,” Mr Griffin said.
The BNP leader said that the high degree of fraud used in compiling the list was a serious criminal offence. “In the interests of the totally unconnected people named in this list, we will not be confirming or denying any details contained in this new attempt to subvert the BNP.”
Mr Griffin also criticised the media for sensationalising the publication of this list.
“Government departments, including the ministry of defence, have time and time again lost sensitive data on laptops left in trains, or have thrown lists into skips for cleaners to find. Recently, the entire Royal Air Force payroll was up for grabs on the Internet.
“These events are sidelined with a cursory reference in the media. Yet, when we, as a legal political party have our data stolen, the media makes a circus of it. It is hypocritical in the extreme,” Mr Griffin said.
