Holden Caulfield
20th October 2009, 13:04
For the second time in 12 months the BNP has lost its entire membership list.
The whole thing (http://wikileaks.org/wiki/British_National_Party_membership_list_and_other_i nformation%2C_15_Apr_2009) has been posted on Wikileaks:
This document contains nine spreadsheets of detailed, confidential party membership information, with dates ranging from December 2006 to 15 April 2009. The lists have been verified to be accurate in all cases examined by WikiLeaks, however it should not be assumed that every person with a BNP membership number is a current member of the BNP. For instance, journalists and opponents have sometimes joined the BNP to obtain information about it.
There are slightly over 16,000 unique membership numbers in the April 15 Updated spreadsheet, and based on membership number IDs, around 35,000 memberships ever awarded.
They dont even have Sadie Shady Graham to blame it on this time. Even the thickest BNP members must be now wondering how their infallible leadership in the form of Nick Griffin has managed to lose their entire membership twice.
So, who will the BNP blame for this spectacular piece of incompetence?
A. The Labour Party.
B. Zionists.
C. Searchlight.
D. Muslims.
Answer: they will blame anyone and everyone except themselves. Personally, I have no idea who leaked this latest version and, I suspect, neither do they. I doubt that its release this week was a co-incidence though.
Last time this happened this is what they said (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5187551.ece):
It is looking increasingly likely that this is the work of Labour Party supporters, said Simon Darby, the party spokesman. If they have not protected their IP [internet service provider address] properly, there will be an electronic trail leading back to the culprit.
It was nothing of the sort of course. Earlier this year Sadie Grahams boyfriend Matt Single was convicted and fined for leaking the first list. The charges against Sadie Graham were dropped. Funny that.
Hilariously, the judge in the trial then ruled that their address could not be published.
Anyway, as we saw last year this may be very embarassing for the BNP but it will do little to halt their current trajectory of moving toward the political mainstream. The months following the leak of the last membership list saw the BNP increasing their average vote in council by-elections then winning two seats in the European Parliament.
Unless it turns out that significant numbers of their members are convicted paedophiles, there is no such thing as bad publicity for the BNP. This sort of exposure will do them no harm in a week when everyone is going BNP mad anyway because (gasp!) Nick Griffin is going on Question Time.
Blog (http://nationofduncan.wordpress.com/)
The whole thing (http://wikileaks.org/wiki/British_National_Party_membership_list_and_other_i nformation%2C_15_Apr_2009) has been posted on Wikileaks:
This document contains nine spreadsheets of detailed, confidential party membership information, with dates ranging from December 2006 to 15 April 2009. The lists have been verified to be accurate in all cases examined by WikiLeaks, however it should not be assumed that every person with a BNP membership number is a current member of the BNP. For instance, journalists and opponents have sometimes joined the BNP to obtain information about it.
There are slightly over 16,000 unique membership numbers in the April 15 Updated spreadsheet, and based on membership number IDs, around 35,000 memberships ever awarded.
They dont even have Sadie Shady Graham to blame it on this time. Even the thickest BNP members must be now wondering how their infallible leadership in the form of Nick Griffin has managed to lose their entire membership twice.
So, who will the BNP blame for this spectacular piece of incompetence?
A. The Labour Party.
B. Zionists.
C. Searchlight.
D. Muslims.
Answer: they will blame anyone and everyone except themselves. Personally, I have no idea who leaked this latest version and, I suspect, neither do they. I doubt that its release this week was a co-incidence though.
Last time this happened this is what they said (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5187551.ece):
It is looking increasingly likely that this is the work of Labour Party supporters, said Simon Darby, the party spokesman. If they have not protected their IP [internet service provider address] properly, there will be an electronic trail leading back to the culprit.
It was nothing of the sort of course. Earlier this year Sadie Grahams boyfriend Matt Single was convicted and fined for leaking the first list. The charges against Sadie Graham were dropped. Funny that.
Hilariously, the judge in the trial then ruled that their address could not be published.
Anyway, as we saw last year this may be very embarassing for the BNP but it will do little to halt their current trajectory of moving toward the political mainstream. The months following the leak of the last membership list saw the BNP increasing their average vote in council by-elections then winning two seats in the European Parliament.
Unless it turns out that significant numbers of their members are convicted paedophiles, there is no such thing as bad publicity for the BNP. This sort of exposure will do them no harm in a week when everyone is going BNP mad anyway because (gasp!) Nick Griffin is going on Question Time.
Blog (http://nationofduncan.wordpress.com/)