BNP’s Liverpool mayor candidate Mike Whitby arrested on suspicion of electoral fraud following ECHO investigation
Posted: April 30, 2012 Filed under: arrested, BNP, Liverpool, liverpool mayoral elections, mike whitby, Simon Darby, Wavertree, wrexham | Tags: arrested, BNP, Liverpool, liverpool mayoral elections, mike whitby, Simon Darby, Wavertree, wrexham Leave a commentTHE BNP’s Liverpool mayor candidate was arrested at his North Wales home on suspicion of electoral fraud – following an ECHO investigation.
Police broke down Mike Whitby’s front door today after he refused to cooperate for six hours.
He was questioned at a police station in Wrexham on suspicion of making false statements and faking signatures on nomination election papers – an offence under Section 65A of the Representation of the People Act.
The ECHO alerted police after several Wavertree residents living in three neighbouring streets told our reporter they did not support Mr Whitby even though he claimed they had.
Under electoral law, a candidate must gather a proposer, seconder and 28 other signatures from electors in order to be eligible to stand as mayor.
Detective Superintendent Martin Andrew said: “Following an allegation that nomination forms for the mayoral elections had been fraudulently filled in, a police investigation was launched.
“Officers conducted extensive enquiries in the Wavertree area of Liverpool over the weekend and interviewed a significant number of people.
“Following those enquiries and after taking advice from the Crown Prosecution Service, Merseyside police officers attended an address in the Wrexham area of North Wales at 7.30am today (April 30) to speak to the homeowner about the allegations.
“My officers made repeated attempts to speak to the occupant and, at around 1.30pm today, they arrested a 59-year-old man on suspicion of making false statements and faking signatures on nomination election papers – an offence under Section 65A of the Representation of the People Act.
“The man was taken to a police station in Wrexham where he was interviewed about the allegations. He currently remains in police custody.”
The BNP dismissed the claims as an attempt to discredit the party.
A statement on their website claimed Mr Whtiby was not able to arrange an early meeting to be interviewed by the police due to funeral arrangements for his mother.
Earlier this month the ECHO revealed how Mr Whitby, who lives in Wrexham, is only able to stand for mayor because he rents a redundant pigeon shed in the grounds of the Cricketers Club in Wavertree – which city bosses recently unsuccessfully tried to have shut down for allowing the BNP to hold their annual conference there.
The ECHO also revealed how Mr Whitby is due to go before the Welsh equivalent of the Standards Board for England over a complaint that he brought the local parish council he sits on into disrepute by being jailed for two weeks last year for contempt of court.
Mr Whitby had been at the hearing in Birkenhead of a Wirral man who refused to pay his council tax, when a group of far-right activists attempted to “arrest” the judge for “treason”. Mr Whitby was jailed for refusing to give his name and address to the court.
BNP spokesman Simon Darby did not comment directly in relation to the nomination form allegations, but added: “It’s suspicious so much of the resources of the political establishment are being used to undermine the BNP’s campaign.
“In light of the spectacular success of (French National Front candidate) Marine Le Pen in the French elections, various bodies have an interest in knocking the BNP.”
Liverpool Mayoral Candidate Arrested
Posted: April 30, 2012 Filed under: arrested, BNP, Election fraud, liverpool mayoral elections, mike whitby, Nick Griffin | Tags: arrested, BNP, Election fraud, liverpool mayoral elections, mike whitby, Nick Griffin Leave a commentThe Liverpool Mayoral candidate – Mike Whitby was arrested earlier today for alleged election fraud.
According to Nick Griffin in his usual foaming at the edge of his mouth style on twitter, he said :-
“Mike in Wrexham police station. Allegations of electoral fraud as a result of Liverpool Echo bullying signatories on our nomination papers. Old trick. Paper gets big money from Labour council. Corrupt.
Of course in Griffin’s world nothing is ever the fault of incompetence from within the party or their belief that the usual election rules are there to be bent.
And Now It’s Time To Look In The Anti-Fascists Online Gallery…
Posted: April 30, 2012 Filed under: Arthur Kemp, Arthur Kemp with a nazi eagle, BNP | Tags: Arthur Kemp, Arthur Kemp with a nazi eagle, BNP Leave a commentThank you for sending us all of your lovely pictures. We do look at them all, but sadly we can’t return any…
Racial hatred crimes on the increase in North East
Posted: April 30, 2012 Filed under: Darren Yateley, EDL, North East Infidels, Paul Duffy, race hate | Tags: Darren Yateley, EDL, North East Infidels, Paul Duffy, race hate Leave a comment
Hidden race hate crimes involving “home-grown neo-nazis” are on the increase in the North East, according to a leading academic.
Researchers said they have discovered a “growing attitude of intolerance and violence” in the region and expressed fears over the growing scale of the problem.
The warning comes as a 29-year-old was arrested a week ago over allegations he threatened an Oslo-style bomb attack on Muslims in South Shields.Just days earlier, anti-terror police arrested two men over the posting of alleged racist postings online.
Dr Bankole Cole, a reader in criminology at Northumbria University, has researched the topic of racial hatred in the North East for the Ministry of Justice and the Northumbria Local Criminal Justice Board.Dr Cole said: “Racial hatred is a serious issue.
My colleagues and I have researched racism in the North East and what we’ve found is that there has been an increase, although we did not compare our data with other counties, so we cannot say whether the problem in the North East is bigger than that in other counties.“Some people think there is no racism here as you don’t hear so much about it, but there is a problem.
“Statistics from the North East show it’s often against the Asian community rather than blacks. There are some predominantly young, male home-grown neo-nazis.“In the North East there has always been a big population of immigrants.
We’ve always lived with people of other ethnicity and yet these race hate crimes are happening more. I think there’s a growing attitude of intolerance and violence, which can manifest itself in this way.
“The internet is the medium that many use and I’m happy that the police are moving into that area and they should be commended.”
Officers from the North East Counter Terrorism Unit carried out synchronised raids at houses in North Tyneside and County Durham 10 days ago.They took 43-year-old Darren Yateley, of Backworth, North Tyneside, and 46-year-old Paul Duffy, from Elgin Avenue, Seaham, County Durham, to local police stations for questioning.
Yateley and Duffy have been released on police bail pending further inquires.The online posts allegedly related to posts on social network sites that could provoke racial hatred.
Dr Lee Barron, from Northumbria University, is an expert in online behaviour.He said: “I think there’s this notion where, if you are online, you are protected. People think they can hide behind the internet but of course they can’t as they are easily traceable.“If you look at the way Facebook and Twitter have developed, it’s like the old-fashioned ‘dear diary’, except that now it’s like putting it in the street on a billboard.
There are people who just don’t see their online behaviour as real life and post extremely offensive material.”
Last week’s arrests were part of nationwide raids which involved police strikes from the North East to London.The suspects are being linked with a splinter group of the English Defence League, known as the North West Infidels.
Searches were made at each of the houses and police recovered a range of items, including computers, laptops and mobile phones.
In November 2010, a race row broke out in Newcastle’s West End after a pig’s head was hung on the gates of a planned Islamic school and cultural centre. It happened at the former Bishop’s Palace in Benwell, Newcastle, which was later a pub called the Mitre, and also starred as the youth club in the hit BBC TV children’s drama Byker Grove.
A month earlier, seven men were arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred after a gang of masked men filmed themselves setting fire to the Koran, the Islamic holy book, in the backyard of the Bugle pub in Leam Lane, Felling, Gateshead, on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The footage was posted on the internet.However, the Crown Prosecution Service later said there was insufficient evidence to press charges.
Hari Shukla, vice chairman of the Newcastle Council of Faiths, said: “The North East has a good record of good race relations.“There’s plenty of understanding and also commitment among people to build a very stable, multi-racial society.“It’s small elements like this that cause a lot of damage to what has been created over a period of some 40 years and much hard work.”
Chief Inspector Steve Hails, of Newcastle Area Command, said: “There is no place for any sort of racial abuse or use of social networking to place inappropriate comments.“People should be aware we take any reports we receive very seriously and will carry out a full and thorough investigation to identify those responsible.”
Michael Green – Tottenham Court Road + the BNP
Posted: April 29, 2012 Filed under: BNP, Michael Green, Nick Griffin, Pin Green, Stevenage, Tottenham Court Road siege | Tags: BNP, Michael Green, Nick Griffin, Pin Green, Stevenage, Tottenham Court Road siege Leave a commentWith the news that the alleged “terrorist” was a member of the BNP and indeed a Parliamentary candidate for the party in 2010, I fully expect the usual BNP excuses to start dribbling out of the party machinery over the next couple of days.
He was only with the party a short time, it was down to a bad organiser who has since been sacked by the party for gross incompetence and the usual claptrap they spout when trying to cover up whatever misdemeanour’s their activists get up to.
We have seen and heard it all before and continue to scoff at the faithful gullible taken in by the lies. One problem that the party will face in the forthcoming cover up and washing of hands is that Michael Green also stood for the party in 2007 in the Pin Green ward of Stevenage Council.
That’s a tricky one to explain away isn’t it? I’d say 3 or 4 years membership of the party.
You can see the 2007 election results here
Tottenham Court Road suspect a BNP candidate
Posted: April 29, 2012 Filed under: BNP, BNP candidate, Michael Green, Stevenage, Tottenham Court Road siege | Tags: BNP, BNP candidate, Michael Green, Stevenage, Tottenham Court Road siege Leave a comment
We have received information that leads us to believe that the man charged over the Tottenham Court Road siege on Friday previously stood as a BNP parliamentary candidate.
Michael Green, 48, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, was arrested on Friday after the incident, during which parts of central London were evacuated.
His alleged offences include possession of a weapon for the discharge of a noxious liquid/gas or electrical incapacitating device. Green is also accused of false imprisonment, making a bomb hoax, causing criminal damage and recklessly endangering life.
He has been remanded in custody to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Monday morning.
Michael Green stood for the BNP in the Stevenage constituency in the 2010 General Election. He received 1007 votes, finishing in 5th place.
BNP Chairman on Friday posted the following three messages on his Twitter account ” Tottenham Court Road hostage situation. I bought my copy of the Koran there back in 2OO1.” “If hostage taker angry coz refused HGV licence then won’t be a Muslim bomber. They don’t work!” “Police say hostage taker is ‘mentally unstable’. No shit, Sherlock!”
More racism and homophobia from the BNP
Posted: April 29, 2012 Filed under: Alwyn Deacon, BNP, Coventry, Homophobia, John Hurren, Racist | Tags: Alwyn Deacon, BNP, Coventry, Homophobia, John Hurren, racist Leave a comment
We have had quite a few of these stories over the years, it seems the BNP candidates just can’t help let their racist and homophobic poison spew from their mouths.
This time the candidate is John Hurren who is standing for the BNP in the Upper Stoke Ward of Coventry City Council.
Hurren who also likes to use the curious moniker “SupaJohnny” also like to post offensive videos on Youtube as well as posting his bigotry on various social networks.
Hurren also goes on to incite the murder of his political opponents, perhaps we should pass his comments to the police?
We wonder if Alwyn Deacon, the BNP’s West Midlands organiser will claim that Hurren’s Facebook page has been hacked?
Simon Cressy – Hope not Hate
Kemp Takedown Notice – Our Response
Posted: April 29, 2012 Filed under: Arthur Kemp, Arthur Kemp with a nazi eagle, Nazi, nazi eagle, south africa | Tags: Arthur Kemp, Arthur Kemp with a nazi eagle, Nazi, nazi eagle, south africa Leave a commentA few years ago I was in contact with Kemp’s ex wife and she sent me a load of pics relating to their life together and Kemp’s political activity.
Amongst the photos was the pic of Kemp in a delightful cowboy hat happily perched by the side of an Eagle sat upon a swastika. I had the photo checked out by a couple of pretty successful photographers I know and a graphic designer and all three came back and said that the image wasn’t faked.
Anyway, because of the take down notice this website has received, I’ve decided to upload the photo to every free hosting site I can find and I will make a zip file of the rest of the info that his ex wife sent me, including the Skype chats that she allegedly had with Kemp.
You can view the image of Kemp with the Nazi Eagle here here here here
Obviously these images are not hosted on this site and I will be adding various links over time.
Shock Exclusive! I’ve Drawn You A Lovely Picture
Posted: April 29, 2012 Filed under: Arthur Kemp, Arthur Kemp with a nazi eagle, Massive Fool, not faked, Photograph, takedown notice | Tags: Arthur Kemp, Arthur Kemp with a nazi eagle, Massive Fool, not faked, Photograph, takedown notice Leave a comment
On an entirely unrelated note, self-styled “historian” and ex-BNP official Arthur Kemp has, as expected, issued a Takedown Notice against this site over the supposedly “unauthorised” use of a certain photograph of him. A photograph whose copyright he does not own in the first place (while knowing that ISP’s are far too lazy to look into such details, of course…).
Remember Cameron and the Bullingdon Club Photograph? It’s a group picture from his university days showing Dave, Boris, the Right Honourable Viscount Julian Ffawking – Riche and their chums looking smugger than Griffin with a pensioner’s pin number and caught in a pose that suggests they’re torn for something to do before High Tiffin between firebombing a council estate or just throwing rocks at a pauper.
Nowadays, of course, Cameron is keen to promote his mantra of “all in it together” by chowing down on Greggs’ pasties (their new “Swan and Asparagus Slice” is, I believe, a firm favourite), appearing in photo spreads with his fine range of Ikea furnishings (isn’t that the “Smugge” coffee table?) and hanging out with commoners like Jeremy Clarkeson, Tim Burton and Gwyneth Paltrow. Consequently, the Bullingdon Photo has become mysteriously “unavailable” to Picture Editors, who have to resort to recreating it with paintings, lookalikes, and stand-ins fashioned from wax, papier mache and an overbearing sense of entitlement.
In the way of these things, however, the strategy has backfired spectacularly: The Bullingdon Photo is now, probably, the most widely-recognised picture of any British P.M. Since Yousuf Karsh’s iconic “grumpy” portrait of Churchill.
In much the same way, Arthur Kemp’s feeble attempts to suppress a certain picture from his past was doomed from the outset. He lies about it’s provenance and history and claims sabotage in the form of “Photoshop” (the last refuge of the scoundrel, nowadays), and issues Takedown Notices like confetti, but it hasn’t worked.
There is still a picture out there in cyberspace that is – to anyone who’s at all bothered about the man – now the most widely-recognised image of Arthur Kemp.
In the meantime (and on an entirely unrelated matter) do you like my picture? It’s all mine. I own the copyright and everything – although you’re more than welcome to help yourself to it, if you like it…
Hunt not over for Kingston mosque attackers
Posted: April 27, 2012 Filed under: Kingston, Kingston Mosque, racist attack, wanted | Tags: Kingston, Kingston Mosque, racist attack, wanted Leave a comment
Exclusive pictures of some of the men still wanted by police in connection with the attack on Kingston Mosque, some wielding sticks, have been released by detectives in a fresh bid to hunt them down.
Witnesses said as many as 30 people may have been part of the threatening mob that threw beer bottles, sticks and bacon at the mosque on November 21, 2010.
But only three people have been convicted so far for the terrifying assault that left worshippers cowering inside the mosque.
Now police are calling on the public and the men who were acquitted to help catch the rest of the thugs.
Detective Sergeant Andrew ‘Charlie’ Morrow said: “There are people probably relishing the fact we have not got hold of them. That is not the case.
“It is better that they surrender themselves to Kingston police. It will be looked on favourably by the courts, as opposed to us knocking on the door at 6am in a few weeks.”
D Sgt Morrow said the six acquitted men, some of whom claimed they should have been witnesses, not defendants, should now give a fuller account of what they saw.
He said: “We have three convicted and six people who have told us and told the court they were present at the scene.
“I would appeal to those people to assist us in our inquiries.
“We have other suspects and with the addition of these two suspects and the six witnesses, hopefully, we can round up the rest of the nasty bunch.
“I find it extremely unusual that they say they saw nothing else. I cannot understand that.
“It matters for the community of Kingston. It matters for the community at the mosque.”
Detectives released a picture of a man in a grey jacket with a stick, as well as a bearded man in a camouflage jacket, who one of the acquitted defendants described in court as Ryan. He was one of the men at the front of the group walking toward East Road.
D Sgt Morrow said: “Somebody somewhere is going to recognise them. We have not given up at all.”
Rizwan Khaliq, mosque community liaison co-ordinator, said: “If police feel the people who were on trial were not the ones, the jury said they were not the ones and there are others out there who were responsible for the attack then we should all be looking for them.”
Call Kingston police on 020 21 5856 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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