Watch: Griffin in trouble over Generals threat
9:26 am - October 21st 2009
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ITN News had this report last night on Nick Griffin threatening Army Generals, which we highlighted earlier.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson asked Griffin about the threat, who has since back-tracked since we first highlighted this story.
The leader of the BNP Nick Griffin has told me that he does not, after all, want to see two former heads of the British army put on trial and hanged for war crimes.
Earlier Mr Griffin was reported on the BNP’s website comparing Generals Sir Mike Jackson and Sir Richard Dannatt with Nazi war criminals hanged after the Nuremberg trials. The BNP’s leader now says that this was “black humour”.
Black humour indeed. It’s political correctness gone mad!
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This is electoral suicide on behalf of the BNP and I’m delighted it happened so close to Griffin’s appearance on Question Time.
Unlike the mainstream right, which can at least maintain a semblance of rationality, the far right can’t help themselves. They’ve even managed to offend their own natural constituancy by appearing unpatriotic.
Chuffed!
Hitler’s generals were political generals.
No different from ours then.
They like ours got into illegal wars.
Time was when the senior military kept out of politics in this country.
Not any longer.
Bad show.
Bad officers.
No wonder we are starting to lose wars.
Bloodnokk
The Bunker
Hindhead
‘Time was when the senior military kept out of politics in this country.’
The generals were dragged into this by the BNP when they started appropriating military iconography into their promotional material.
You can hardly criticise them for defending their honour.
Be interesting to see if the BNP drop their red poppies this year.
This is nothing about honour. It was stage-managed by Tory Central Office. Dannatt was appointed a Tory adviser just six weeks after leaving his old job. The group ‘Nothing British about the BNP’ is a Tory front group. Dannatt clearly has political ambitions and has been playing politics for some time now.
AAAGGHH!!! Being from Burnley myself you have no idea how much in pains me every single time people like the BNP hold it up as being the very quintessence of racism. Believe me most of us are perfectly reasonable people and not racist nobs.
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