BNP hostility to EDL?

[Andy Bowden]

http://simondarby.blogspot.com/2009/09/ putting-down-marker.html

Fascist blog so broke the link.

It's a link to a radio show done by Simon Darby and Nick Griffin, the Leader and Deputy Leader of the BNP. The bottom line is far from sympathy to the EDL, the BNP leadership - in this case Nick and Simon - are expressing hostility to EDL, at least in public.

Thinking about it, I have never seen any BNP banners at the EDL demos despite the fact they'd be made more than welcome.

So why the hostility? Perhaps it's drawing some of the casual element of the BNP who always wanted violence over elections back into riots etc, in contradiction with BNP "respectability".

Or possibly it's because Griffin and Darby are worried that EDL might stand in elections and split their vote.

Griffin blames it all on "Zionists" :lol:

[Holden Caulfield]

The EDL exists as something seperate from the BNP because of the policy of the BNP to make it so. They boots to suits mantra got them off the streets and making gains disguised as a 'normal' party.

However fascism always will have a violent element, the EDL at the moment are just this. The BNP can dam them in public, can denounce them from the tallest tower but they serve each other purposes.

All the BNP had previously said when they had mustered large numbers was they disagree with the EDL confrontational methods. Now the EDL muster a core 20-30 pissed casuals and get chased out of everywhere they go the BNP starts to attack them properly. Not that this point (in this paragraph) even matters, what I said before is what is important.

[Batman]

EDL makes the BNP out to be the acceptable face of fascism.