Membership Court Case: BNP Proposal Accepted as Nick Griffin Outflanks CEHR
The Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) was today outflanked when the Central London County Court accepted a proposal from British National Party leader Nick Griffin to freeze all membership applications pending an Emergency General Meeting to discuss the party’s membership criteria.
In terms of a settlement proposed by Mr Griffin in a letter to the court, the membership change will be put to the EGM within the next month. If accepted, the constitution will be changed within three months or whenever the new Equality Bill comes into force.
Accepting Mr Griffin’s proposal, the court further allowed the BNP ten days to submit a signed undertaking confirming the proposed changes. As a result, the case was adjourned until 28 January 2010.
The outcome of the proceedings today comes as no surprise. The court case — which effectively forbids the indigenous population of Britain from organising politically in its own interests — could have been fought by the BNP, and probably won under current legislation.
However, the costs of fighting such an action against a foe with access to unlimited state (taxpayer) funding would have been prohibitive. In any event, the new Equality Bill, which completed its Commons Committee stage on 7 July this year and is set to replace the current law, would have made the BNP’s current membership criteria illegal.
It was thus highly malicious and clearly politically motivated of the CEHR to have launched the case to argue something that was going to be law in a few months’ time. The motivation was obviously twofold: firstly to try and bankrupt the BNP through court proceedings, and secondly as a hysterical attack on the party after its recent electoral successes.
As the court pointed out to the CEHR during the first appearance, the BNP has been in existence since 1982, yet the race police have never yet taken the party to court for its membership rules.
The election of two BNP MEPs and the gathering together of a million votes for the party in the June elections this year has clearly terrified the establishment. Their state funded attack dogs were ordered to try and financially cripple the BNP through this legal channel.
This attempt has now been destroyed by the party’s decisive action which will avoid massive legal costs and allow the party to prepare unhindered for the upcoming general election.
The move will also, ironically, take away one of the far left’s arguments against the BNP and in that sense is a massive own goal. There is no danger that the party will be “overrun” or have its core values changed, as revealed in a recent article on this website.
The CEHR and the rotten establishment had realised after the June elections that they could no longer beat the BNP in the democratic process so they resorted to this act of political cowardice.
The ruling has implications for all other groups and organisations formed to promote ethnic interests, and will most likely shut down state-funded organisations such as the Black Police Officers Association and the myriad of similar bodies.
The CEHR’s maliciousness in bringing the case was further revealed by the news that a telephone conference recently took place between very senior members of that body in which nonwhite people were incited to try and join the BNP with the idea of suing the party after the fact.
The EGM to discuss the changed constitution might be held at the party’s conference, due to take place over the weekend of the 14/15 November.
