Monday 3 October 2011
Went down a treat!
The Simon Darby show thing went down a treat, especially amongst ex-BNP members/supporters. They love it!!
The BBC Ambush, a rant.
Wasn't planning on talking about Panorama until after it was broadcast. But the Turkey's have been pestering me to say something about the way in which the BNP ambushed the programme's producers a few weeks ago. So let's have a look at it all. (Just so you know, this doesn't flow too well, it's just a collection of thoughts on the whole thing, and probably isn't worth your time reading).
Do we all know the story? The BBC are doing an expose on the finances of the BNP, looking at financial irregularities and what not. The BNP invited the BBC to a questions and answers session with several high ranking boneheads, somewhere in the Midlands, I think. My research isn't all that great. Frankly, I can't be arsed. Anyway, instead of hosting this questions and answers session, Griffin decided he was going to read out a statement to the BBC, and then kick them out. Getting one up on them sort of thing.
Simon 'Eyebrows' Darby featured quite prominently in the video. Simon Darby is the BNP's useless (yet handsomely paid) press officer (and failed treasurer and ex deputy chairman), in fact, he isn't even a fucking member of the BNP? But he insists on being addressed 'Press Officer Simon Darby, (Press Officer) Press Officer to the British National Party'.
Now what the BNP didn't seem to realise here, is that this was its one chance to actually maybe 'set the record straight', they were given the opportunity to say something back. Maybe the BBC, convinced with the new evidence provided would have pulled the programme, or changed its focus to 'The Financial Wonderfulness of the British National Party and the Honest Leadership of Nick Griffin'. Who knows. The thing is, the BNP blew this chance, making fools of themselves in the process. It could have gone on for hours, Nick Griffin answering all the questions, filling in the blanks, like he always claims he does. Eddy Butler is always keen to point out that Griffin hasn't addressed one claimed falsehood published on his blog. He says that they're lies, but never goes any further. But you know what? This is all most BNP supporters need to here "Nick didn't say/do/eat that, he said so, so fuck off, you communist".
However, it was quite well choreographed (for the BNP anyway). They were all sat there in nice £25 suits, even Clive, who wasn't drunk for a change. The room was half decent, not a dingy pub like usual. They held a vote, everybody agreed that the statement should be read out, they removed Clive from the front (probably worried he would say something), replaced him with some middle aged umpa lumpa and then let the BBC in. They blocked the door with some meat head (a Walker I think) and then Mr. Griffin read out his statement, and sat still whilst the BBC tried to leave, having realised they were flogging a dead horse. Mr. Darby didn't like this, he started a tirade against the BBC people, asking them why they aren't looking at some murderers, paedophiles etc. who used to be in the employment of the BBC. We'll get to this later. One of the BBC men was physically shaking, clearly scared and sweating (yet carried on filming). Darby took great pride in this. Makes him feel like a man, apparently (his blogging had an added burst of testosterone).
I have a turkey working on some number crunching to back all this up, however, for now, lets look at the bigger picture. The BBC is a massive, gigantic, huge corporation, with thousands of employees. Their employee turnover will be higher than the BNP's all time membership! There are bound to be some shady types amongst all those workers. They could add a question to their interview process along the lines of 'In the future, do you plan on killing anyone?', and if they answer is Yes, or Maybe, then they will have to say "sorry, we can't give you the job, because we don't like that sort of thing", and the interviewee will be all "oh shit, I knew I should have said no". However, this is the real world. And to get back on point, the BBC is huge, and any number of murderers, paedophiles etc amongst them are not even going to represent a tiny minority of the BBC, because there isn't that many of them, and once in a while, they get jobs.
This doesn't apply to the BNP. Only last month, a BNP council candidate was arrested for possessing child porn, a crime he would lose his head for under a BNP government. The BNP has a higher than average number of paedophiles, arms smugglers, convicted criminals, pornographers than most other organisations (excepting maybe the EDL, who are now more significant on the scene and are therefore attracting all the nut cases the BNP used to) because these people are just attracting to crank politics. They thrive off hate, and something like the BNP is their kind of thing. That isn't to say that all BNP members and employees are like this.
Darby didn't realise, because he was too taken up in "wow, I discovered something by doing a FOI request that we must let the world know! Invite the BBC round so I can take down their corporation", what he didn't realise, was that it's almost totally pointless. Sure, he may well feel like he got one up on the BBC, but he didn't. If anything, he's made a fool of himself and shown the BNP to be the rabble of unprofessional bonehead's they actually are. This was their chance to say something, something sensible, something in their own words. They didn't, they chose to do it Nick's way, the way which hasn't really got the BNP that far, by being stupid, by not thinking more than one day ahead.
So what is the outcome? Well, the BBC went away with one more thing to write about, it might not even come up, maybe they have all the juice they need regarding electoral fraud etc.The video is on youtube for you all to see. The comments are quite highlighting. I wanted to source some of them for this article, but time is pushing on. We'll get some quotes from Darby's blog too.
Do we all know the story? The BBC are doing an expose on the finances of the BNP, looking at financial irregularities and what not. The BNP invited the BBC to a questions and answers session with several high ranking boneheads, somewhere in the Midlands, I think. My research isn't all that great. Frankly, I can't be arsed. Anyway, instead of hosting this questions and answers session, Griffin decided he was going to read out a statement to the BBC, and then kick them out. Getting one up on them sort of thing.
Simon 'Eyebrows' Darby featured quite prominently in the video. Simon Darby is the BNP's useless (yet handsomely paid) press officer (and failed treasurer and ex deputy chairman), in fact, he isn't even a fucking member of the BNP? But he insists on being addressed 'Press Officer Simon Darby, (Press Officer) Press Officer to the British National Party'.
Now what the BNP didn't seem to realise here, is that this was its one chance to actually maybe 'set the record straight', they were given the opportunity to say something back. Maybe the BBC, convinced with the new evidence provided would have pulled the programme, or changed its focus to 'The Financial Wonderfulness of the British National Party and the Honest Leadership of Nick Griffin'. Who knows. The thing is, the BNP blew this chance, making fools of themselves in the process. It could have gone on for hours, Nick Griffin answering all the questions, filling in the blanks, like he always claims he does. Eddy Butler is always keen to point out that Griffin hasn't addressed one claimed falsehood published on his blog. He says that they're lies, but never goes any further. But you know what? This is all most BNP supporters need to here "Nick didn't say/do/eat that, he said so, so fuck off, you communist".
However, it was quite well choreographed (for the BNP anyway). They were all sat there in nice £25 suits, even Clive, who wasn't drunk for a change. The room was half decent, not a dingy pub like usual. They held a vote, everybody agreed that the statement should be read out, they removed Clive from the front (probably worried he would say something), replaced him with some middle aged umpa lumpa and then let the BBC in. They blocked the door with some meat head (a Walker I think) and then Mr. Griffin read out his statement, and sat still whilst the BBC tried to leave, having realised they were flogging a dead horse. Mr. Darby didn't like this, he started a tirade against the BBC people, asking them why they aren't looking at some murderers, paedophiles etc. who used to be in the employment of the BBC. We'll get to this later. One of the BBC men was physically shaking, clearly scared and sweating (yet carried on filming). Darby took great pride in this. Makes him feel like a man, apparently (his blogging had an added burst of testosterone).
I have a turkey working on some number crunching to back all this up, however, for now, lets look at the bigger picture. The BBC is a massive, gigantic, huge corporation, with thousands of employees. Their employee turnover will be higher than the BNP's all time membership! There are bound to be some shady types amongst all those workers. They could add a question to their interview process along the lines of 'In the future, do you plan on killing anyone?', and if they answer is Yes, or Maybe, then they will have to say "sorry, we can't give you the job, because we don't like that sort of thing", and the interviewee will be all "oh shit, I knew I should have said no". However, this is the real world. And to get back on point, the BBC is huge, and any number of murderers, paedophiles etc amongst them are not even going to represent a tiny minority of the BBC, because there isn't that many of them, and once in a while, they get jobs.
This doesn't apply to the BNP. Only last month, a BNP council candidate was arrested for possessing child porn, a crime he would lose his head for under a BNP government. The BNP has a higher than average number of paedophiles, arms smugglers, convicted criminals, pornographers than most other organisations (excepting maybe the EDL, who are now more significant on the scene and are therefore attracting all the nut cases the BNP used to) because these people are just attracting to crank politics. They thrive off hate, and something like the BNP is their kind of thing. That isn't to say that all BNP members and employees are like this.
Darby didn't realise, because he was too taken up in "wow, I discovered something by doing a FOI request that we must let the world know! Invite the BBC round so I can take down their corporation", what he didn't realise, was that it's almost totally pointless. Sure, he may well feel like he got one up on the BBC, but he didn't. If anything, he's made a fool of himself and shown the BNP to be the rabble of unprofessional bonehead's they actually are. This was their chance to say something, something sensible, something in their own words. They didn't, they chose to do it Nick's way, the way which hasn't really got the BNP that far, by being stupid, by not thinking more than one day ahead.
So what is the outcome? Well, the BBC went away with one more thing to write about, it might not even come up, maybe they have all the juice they need regarding electoral fraud etc.The video is on youtube for you all to see. The comments are quite highlighting. I wanted to source some of them for this article, but time is pushing on. We'll get some quotes from Darby's blog too.
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