A Reply To Nick Griffin

Dear Nick,

I have read your latest missive on the BNP web site and have the following to say ;

1) As you know I resigned my position in the BNP and posted the resignation letter online on this blog.

Link here ;

http://leejohnbarnes.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-resignation-letter-from-bnp.html

I also have the e mail you sent me an hour and three quarters later sacking / expelling me for resigning.

It undermines your entire credibility when you peddle such falsehoods to the BNP membership that I was 'sacked'.

If you are prepared to lie about something as trivial about why and when I resigned, my position in the party then your whole credibility on the issues of concern to myself, the reform group and senior officers of the party is also in question.



2) I also note that yet again the media are doing the best to bolster your position as chairman of the party.

First of all Sky News have lied about the level of debt in the party, it is not £150,000 as they assert but over £500,000 as you yourself have stated in a filmed public meeting a few weeks ago. One wonders why they would downplay the level of debt if they were so 'hostile to the party'.

Its as if the media want you remain as BNP chairman, as with you running the party they continue to contain and 'ghettoise' and undermine our electoral support in society whenever they wish too.

I note also the Sky news and the media have not mentioned the serious allegations of sexual assault, fraud etc in their report, which is very odd to say the least if they were so 'hostile to the party' and neither have the rest of the MSM mentioned such issues.

In fact it appears that when the Leadership Challenge was underway the media chose to downplay the serious issues aired in the leadership election in order to assist you to remain as the leader of the BNP, whilst now the reform group is beginning to get organised, its website is drawing in massive views and support from the members, that they now want to get the Griffinites in the party to rally around you by pretending to 'attack' the BNP.

The fact it was not an attack at all by the MSM at all, and in fact has allowed you to pretend it is and then to use the members to consolidate your power in the party, tells us all we need to know about the media and their support for you as chairman.



3) On the issue of the accounts I have only on thing to say ;


IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE, THEN WHY ARE YOU HIDING THE ACCOUNTS !


I challenge you to put the entire accounts for the last three years in front of both the members and the reform group.

But we all know you wont, and that you will continue to lie / suspend members / expel members who ask to see the accounts.

I also believe the Electoral Commission would like to have a look at the accounts as well, seeing as the fines outstanding against the party for not giving them the accounts is growing every day.

For a party £600,000 in debt as you admit, for you to incur fines for not revealing the accounts to the EC is either Gross Incompetence or deliberate prevarication - either way, both of those issues require you to step down as chairman - for the buck stops with you Nick.

If the accounts are correct, then why havent the EC been given them ?

It is simple logical questions like this that should concern the members, not your trite, desperate and false propaganda peddled on the BNP website.



4) Here is my challenge to you Nick ;

Hold a public BNP meeting for all members to attend.

At that meeting bring Dave Hannam and all the accounts for the last three years and details of what BNP assets have been transferred out of the party and into Jim Dowson run companies like Ad Lorries and the many other 'companies' he 'runs'.

Also bring a copy of Jim Dowsons contract.

I will ask Shelley Rose to attend so she can ask you personally to initiate an independent internal party investigation into her allegations of sexual assault by the BNP employee Jim Dowson.

Then the members can have simply what they have asked for all along - transparency and accountability.

If you do not that Nick, then you are simply bring the entire party into further disrepute with your lies, prevarications and gross incompetence.