Cash for medals
The Sun and the Telegraph have both commented on the BNP selling replica Victoria Cross medals for £12. It’s not illegal, although the Ministry of Defence has condemned the sale as “an insult to both he Queen and our brave personnel“.
The problem is that ‘fake’ or replica VCs are already sold by the National Army Museum, at Chelsea, although at least the proceeds go towards running the charitable institution, rather than into the pockets of a political party like the BNP.
Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry won the VC four years ago, after saving 30 colleagues in Iraq. He condemned the BNP, saying: “Selling fake VCs is very disrespectful. The honour of the medal and its history shouldn’t be tarnished like this“.
The BNP’s own web site suggested that “the only reason that Beharry was singled out for a VC was because of a made-up “positive discrimination” directive by the PC-mad government. The less kind critics might now say that possibly Beharry should be the one to be wearing a replica VC instead of a real one“. Surely the BNP dosn’t have a problem with a black serviceman who was born in Grenada risking his life for Britain?
It does all seem a little tawdry, but then the BNP have never been the arbiters of good taste! BNP deputy chairman Simon Darby defended the party’s actions. He said, “We don’t get donations from dodgy foreign businessmen or the trade unions – so we raise money in other ways.” Let’s hope that the BNP don’t ever get into government – just think what they might do with a couple of peerages and a knighthood.
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