In which the Queen gives Nick Griffin enough rope …
Regular readers of this blog will know that I am not a fan of ‘no platform’ for the BNP. I believe that it allows the party to throw the mantle of victim-hood around their shoulders and is counter productive. However I cannot hide the fact that I was upset on being woken with the Today programme telling me that Griffin would be visiting the Buckingham Palace garden party today, nor my little smile when I heard that he was now to be turned away after ‘politicising’ the event.
Although I was upset by Griffin receiving an invitation in the first place, I had to grudgingly admit that he had to be invited if all the UK’s MEPs were to receive such an invitation. And for all the BNP leader’s protestations that he had been banned for political reasons, it was made clear that BNP MEP Andrew Brons’s invitation to today’s garden party had not been revoked as he had not ‘exploited’ it for political reasons.
A Buckingham Palace spokeman said:
“Mr Griffin’s personal invitation was issued to him as an elected Member of the European Parliament. The decision to deny him entry is not intended to show any disrespect to the democratic process by which the invitation was issued. However, we would apply the same rules to anyone who tried to blatantly politicise their attendance in this way.”
Anyone who believes Nick Griffin’s pleas of innocence had not read his blog post about his invitation, not seen or heard his puffery on the broadcast media over the past 24 hours (his appearance on GMTV this morning being particularly cringeworthy). His triumphalist comments on his BNP blog yesterday, where he asked BNP members what he should say to the Queen if their paths crossed, included:
“This event shows just how far this party has come in the last few years but I won’t be at the Palace for myself or my family. No! I will be there to represent the patriots who made this possible; I’ll be there for you.”
After describing the decision as ‘an outrage’ , the BNP leader said:
“This is quite amazing news. At no time was I informed that I wasn’t allowed to talk to the media about this. Other people have talked about attending. Why a double standard here? To say that one person in the country cannot speak to the media is an outrage. I am held to a different standard to everyone else in the country – that is thoroughly anti-British.”
Over the past few years, I have often mused that the BNP could have been far more successful with a more savvy leader. Thank goodness Griffin remains at the helm! Yet again, Griffin has shown that he really isn’t a very good political operator. He has preened and blustered around. flashing the garden party invitation, trying to milk maximum political advantage. Of course had he kept his mouth shut, then made the most of the opportunity afterwards, there would have been nothing that Buckingham Palace could have done. Or he could have simply displayed the very British quality of discretion, and gone along and enjoyed the day without making a party political point.
I’m not sure why Griffin would want to meet the Queen anyway. Isn’t her family contributing to what the BNP web site calls ‘The Third World Colonisation of Britain: At Least 60% of New Babies Now of Immigrant Origin’.
At least 60 percent of all new babies in Britain in 2009 were born to non-indigenous recent arrival immigrant mothers or to second or third generation immigrant parents, a BNP News analysis of birth rates and population statistics has shown. The shocking figures, which mean that projections on how long the Third World will take to utterly overrun Britain will have to be revised downwards once again, are based on a comparison between new Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures and existing data.
So there you are. The Queen was probably protecting Nick Griffin from the trauma of meeting her immigrant origin husband, children and grandchildren. How nice of her.
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