Michael Easter expelled from the BNP?

I just received a text from a longtime BNP organiser friend who stated that Michael Easter has been expelled from the BNP.

It was rumoured for a few weeks that Easter had charges of financial mismanagement leveled against him (for not providing local account, receipts or similar).

I needn't mention that the national BNP hadn't delivered their accounts for a long time (in danger of being fined for it) or the kerfuffle over the (two) Solidarity Union(s) and the receipts and accounts mismanaged by an Executive member who then went off to form his own new version of the Union!

Some said Easter would be expelled and that the trumped up charges were a convenient smokescreen - no matter what defence he gave, because of his involvement in the democratic process of being the election agent of the BNP leadership challenger Chris Jackson, for which all involved were labelled "vermin" in the Blog of the BNP leader.

And so we see how democracy works... you are free to have your own opinions, only don't air them or you'll be expelled (remember how a sitting councilor was forced out recently, ostensibly for openly debating 911).

After the resignation of Jonathan Bowden over scurrilous attacks on his reputation (BNPer "loyalists" openly called him a paedophile on a website - an outright lie) and now this (Mr. Easter was, so I understand a founding member of the BNP) one has to wonder: who's next?

It's sad that nationalism has to be like this, after all one reader said after my post on the worship of "Choice" he was upset that this blog made so much sense yet continued to have a go at the BNP.

There is a dilemma there, because others in the BNP - including modernisers - often say "why don't you join the BNP" (often whilst belittling our efforts - either they want us or they don't!!!) but the sad fact is that a post like the one on Choice would see anyone expelled from the BNP (for anti-Semitism if nowt else) as well as condemned for being Christian extremists, pro-Muslim conspiracy cranks, Pro-Life extremists, anti-homosexual bigots and all the rest of the liberal mantra which seems to hold sway these days.

As a colleague said recently, when we see Bowden, Smith, Easter, the Edwardses, Newlands, Ebanks and the other myriad of intelligent people who have been dumped on by the BNP (primarily over issues linked with accounts and finance - not policy) one does tend to think "there but for the Grace of God go I..."

The debate will go on, of course, but as long as a nationalist party contains practicing known homosexuals, as long as a nationalist party soft-soaps on Israel and Zionism, as long as a nationalist party takes an unclear line on race-mixing and immigration... I and many others cannot give it our support.

To be honest even if we did, as "neo-Nazis, anti-Semites, bigots, political dinosaurs" and all the other pc buzz-words attached by liberals, how long before such support were thrown back in our face?

I'll ask Mr. Easter...

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