BNP Fail: Party picks 'Falklands veteran' for Mayoral Candidate...

[Sam_b]

...Except that he appears to have fought for Argentina and refers to the Falklands as the Malvinas. You couldn't make it up.

http://londonist.com/2011/09/bnp-pic...te-sort-of.php

The British National Party have named their candidate for next year’s London mayoral election (you’ll forgive us, we’re sure, if we don’t link to the announcement).And in what looks at first glance like a clever move they’ve chosen Carlos Cortiglia, a Uruguyan former party press officer of Spanish and Italian descent. Not only is Cortiglia rather more international than we’ve come to expect from the BNP, he’s also a great patriot – volunteered, it seems, to fight in the Falklands war.
The only slight problem, if sources are to be believed, is that it was for Argentina.
You can kind of see the logic in the party’s choice. The party’s many opponents are united around the idea that it’s just a bunch of racists, obsessed with protecting the “indigenous white race”, a meaningless notion that’s offensive to modern Britain and absolutely alien to modern London. By picking Cortiglia, they must have thought, they’d undermine all that at a stroke, despite the Uruguayan’s rather vexing commitment to creating “a British Britain”.
But Cortiglia has been around long enough to shoot his mouth off a little. In 2004 he apparently told Argentina’s La Nacion newspaper:
“Soy argentine oriental, o dicho de otro modo, uruguayo de nacimiento, y me siento muy ligado emocionalmente a la Republica Argentina. En 1982 me ofreci como voluntario par ir a las Islas Malvinas”
That roughly translates to:
“I am east Argentine, in other words, Uruguayan by birth, and I feel very emotionally linked to Argentina. In 1982 I volunteered to go to the Falkland Islands”
In other words, the BNP have picked a mayoral candidate so dedicated to this country that, the last time he had the chance, he wanted to go to war against it, at least if the linked source is accurate. That should neatly upset the party’s supporters, without convincing anyone else to change their minds.
A pity, perhaps, that Cortiglia is no longer in the BNP’s press team. They seem to need all the PR help they can get.
(Hattip: the Lancaster Unity blog), photo by McTumshie from the Londonist Flickr pool
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[scarletghoul]

Interesting. Though its possible his ideology is that 'all races should keep to their natural homeland' type thing, in which case he might oppose british people in the maldives just as he opposes non-whites in britain.

[agnixie]

That will end about as well as the attempts to make a fascist caucus in the european parliament

[Nox]

Ahahahhahahhaha this made my day!

[Vanguard1917]

This made me chuckle. I wonder if it's all true. If it is, the 'revolutionary defeatist' in me would make this my favourite BNPer.

The Malvinas are Argentina's!