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In the witness box, Nick Griffin, defended himself by quoting passages from the Qur’an, backing his argument that his comments describing Islam as a “vicious, wicked faith” were attacking not a race, but a religion.
In 1998, Griffin was convicted of violating section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986, relating to the offence of ‘publishing or distributing racially inflammatory written material’ in issue 12 of The Rune, published in 1996. Fellow BNP member Paul Ballard was also charged, but entered a guilty plea and did not stand trial.
I am well aware that the orthodox opinion is that six million Jews were gassed and cremated and turned into lampshades. Orthodox opinion also once held that the world is flat.
—Nick Griffin
He once referred to the holocaust as “the Holohoax”
‘I say boats should be sunk’
“Racial hatred” is defined as hatred against a group of persons by reason of the group’s colour, race, nationality (including citizenship) or ethnic or national origins. Section 18 of the Act says:
A person who uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or displays any written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting, is guilty of an offence if—
(a) they intends thereby to stir up racial hatred, or
(b) having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby
Also contravened equality and human rights commission.
Kevin Scott, the BNP’s North East regional organiser, has two convictions for assault and using threatening words and behaviour.
Joe Owens, now expelled but previously a BNP candidate in Merseyside and former bodyguard to Nick Griffin, has served eight months in prison for sending razor blades in the post to Jewish people and another term for carrying CS gas and knuckledusters.
Tony Wentworth, former BNP student organiser, was convicted alongside Mr Owens for assaulting demonstrators at an anti-BNP event in 2003.
Colin Smith, BNP South East London organiser has 17 convictions for burglary, theft, grand theft auto, possession of drugs and assaulting a police officer.
In October 2006, unemployment rates in POLAND were 14%.
Polish workers work on average 7 hours longer than British workers.
The EU needs 14million new people of working age each year to maintain the worker/pensioner balance.
In fact, nearly half of America’s venture-capital-backed start-ups have immigrant founders.
The World Bank calculates that in countries where foreign workers sending home money account for a large share of the economy (11% of GDP on average) they slash the poverty rate by a third.
Migrants from poor countries give their countries £50 billion more money then western countries give in aid through remittance, that’s double the amount.
A recent NBER study by Ottaviano and Peri finds that the influx of foreign workers between 1990 and 2004 raised the average wage of US-born workers by 2% in America.
Economists calculate that removing immigration controls could more than double the size of the world economy. Even a small relaxation of immigration controls would yield disproportionately big gains.
Birth rate: 10.7 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate: 11.0 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate: 4.1 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Population growth rate: 0.4% (2005 est.)
Population: 5,094,800 (2005 est.)
Scotland needs approximately 18850.76 immigrants per year to keep the population at the same level.
Average annual economic growth for 2006 was at 2.2% in Scotland
Twenty-one of Britain’s Nobel-prize winners arrived in the country as refugees.
Unemployment in Scotland fell by over 12% in 2006.
One in two new doctors are immigrants.
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