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BPP Standing For Election In Leeds Bramley Ward

Red N Black | 03.04.2006 11:08 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

As the BPP launches it's electoral campaign in the Leeds Bramley ward, there can be no room for complacency.

Morrison - Conducting his own campaign in Bramley
Morrison - Conducting his own campaign in Bramley


The British People’s Party (BPP) have begun their campaign to get Fuhrer Eddy Morrison elected as a councillor for the Bramley-Stanningley ward in Leeds, leafleting the area and the local shopping precinct (they claim) on a daily basis. While this is something that should be of concern, it will be met by howls of complacency by some Indymedia readers (and IMC moderators), who have recently reached the conclusion that fascism is an irrelevance, and that the best thing to do is ignore it.: Something that being white, almost certainly middle-class, and a long way from the streets of Bramley, they will no doubt find easy to do. For those of us who do not fit into those categories, and others who have more political insight, the reality is that there is never a time for complacency in the face of organised fascism.

The BPP may be a small fascist party, made up of misfits and idiots, with little chance of electoral success, but they should not be tolerated for one instant on our streets. Eddy Morrison has already admitted that he has little chance of election on this occasion, but for hard-line Nazis like the BPP, electoralism is only ever a tactic, a way of stretching their slimy tentacles into working-class areas and stirring up racial hatred. It is about ‘street presence’, something which fascists should always be denied.

Like the British National Party, the BPP, are using local issues to get their foot in the door, and lying to people about their real politics. In Bramley, their key issue has been the possible closure of a local shopping precinct, something which councillors from the mainstream parties care little if nothing about. They are of course, also blaming local problems on an influx of asylum-seekers and immigrants (though in truth the BPP only oppose immigration from people who aren’t white.)

The reality is that the BPP cares more for Adolf Hitler than it does for Bramley. Morrison and his fellow Nazis may be cranks, but they are also dangerous. This is a party whose leadership spew out the most vile racist filth on a daily basis, who deny the Holocaust, who advocate and glorify racist attacks, and who venerate David Copeland, the ‘Brixton Bomber’. Anyone who thinks this Nazi outfit should be ignored is simply ignorant of the facts.

The BPP may be small; every reason to smash them now, before they can poison more young minds with their racist filth. Antifascists should be doing everything possible to counter their lies and stop them organising in Bramley. Morrison may ultimately get a pitiful number of votes in the May elections, but every vote for fascism is one too many.

Red N Black

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03.04.2006 15:36

The nazi (or white nationalist) group, the British People's Party, have announced that they have submitted the nomination papers to stand for the Bramley/Stanningley ward in Leeds. Its leader, Eddy Morrison, known as 'Unsteady Eddy' to friend and foe alike (a reference to his alleged drink problem) is well-known to the fascist movement, having been involved with and thrown out of so many bits of it. One interesting post on a nazi forum had this to say of him:

'Eddy Morrison has indeed had a remarkable career. He has been fighting for 'Nationalist Unity' in the National Front, [the notoriously violent] National Democratic Freedom Movement (his own), British National Party (his own) circa 1977, National Front again, British Movement, National Action Party (his own), National Front (again), New National Front, British National Party, National Front (again), Aryan Unity, White Nationalist party, Spearhead Support group, Spearhead Group, Nationalist Alliance and finally British Peoples Party...'

Not exactly Mr Popular, then?

Morrison is a Holocaust-denier (and consequently a supporter of the appalling David Irving) and claims the late John Tyndall, the founder of the British National Party, as his and the BPP's spiritual leader.

The BPP is full, as most nazi groups are, with the cast-offs from other nazi groups. One prominent member is convicted electoral fraudster, Steve Smith, who was, until fairly recently, the Burnley British National Party organiser, but resigned, according to him, over the party's treatment of his thug of a nephew. His nephew is former BNP councillor, Luke Smith, who has just been jailed for football hooliganism and related violence. Smith's main claim to fame however, apart from being a hopeless councillor, is that he smashed a bottle into the face of someone with whom he was having a disagreement at the BNP's annual Red, White and Blue Festival last year.

Another reject from the (many) other white nationalist groups to join forces with the BPP is Mark Cotterill, former fundraiser for the BNP via the now defunct American Friends of the BNP, who went off in a huff to start his own group, the England First Party (EFP), after a fall-out with Griffin and his acolytes.

EFP stood a candidate (Paul Bamford) in Lancaster City Council's Heysham South ward a couple of years ago, when they failed to win the seat. Cotterill's EFP, having now formed an uneasy alliance with several other fascist groups, is now putting Cotterill himself up under the BPP banner in Blackburn's Meadowhead ward, which he also failed to win last time he stood back in 2004.

Although it's easy to make jokes about groups like the British People's Party, they should not be underestimated. They are a hardcore nazi group and many of their supporters condone terrorism (without criticism from the leadership). One quote from a thread on their forum makes this clear:

'Real modern English NS heros like Ian and David Copeland have shown us the way...it's about destroying the multi-racial state.'

NS is shorthand for National Socialist, or nazi. Ian is a reference to the thankfully late Ian Donaldson, of the nazi band, Skrewdriver. David Copeland is the ex-BNP member who nail-bombed (among other places), the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho, killing four people, among whom was a pregnant woman. These are the heroes of the BPP.

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BPP Bramley Bullshit Leaflet

03.04.2006 15:49

BPP LIES
BPP LIES

The text of one of the leaflets Morrison & co have been distributing in Bramley is reproduced below. It's about as dishonest and disingenuous as it gets, and shows the way Morrison plans to fight this election: The BPP pl;an to fight on bullshit. There's no mention of the Holocaust or ZOG (the "international Jewish conspiracy" the BPP are obsessed with, no mention of Adolf Hitler, no swastikas, no raving about "mudslums" or "n____ers" or "kikes" or "queers", no glorification of David Copeland or the Shankhill Butchers. Antifascists should be exposing the BPP for the vile Nazi scum they are.

"Eddy Morrison, 56, is your May 2006 Leeds City Council elections Candidate of the 'BPP - Putting Britons First’ Party.

Vote Morrison, we believe, and you’ll get Bramley and Stanningley Ward action from a no -nonsense, locally aware, spokesman. Vote in a Labour, Lib-Dem or Conservative Candidate, or anyone else who is boringly familiar, as your Councillor and old habits will get you old results. Vote Morrison and you vote for Change...real change of the sort which WE know YOU want.

For several months now, only the BPP (the British People’s Party) and its National Organiser, Eddy Morrison, have, on YOUR behalf, publicly asked what is happening at Bramley Shopping Centre? Even before our doorstep canvassing confirmed local anger about the Centre, we were campaigning, on the BPP website and in locally-compiled and targeted leaflets, against the changes underway there.

The BPP alone has exposed outrage over the new Bramley Shopping Centre leases which forced some popular traders to close up shop. Other traders could close soon. Even if new tenants are found, the higher rents we revealed will mean extra costs being passed on to already-grumbling shoppers. On our website and leaflets the BPP has asked: Is the Centre closing or being improved? Is it earmarked for redevelopment as commercial offices or expensive, private flats? Or will we have a centre too expensive for we shoppers to afford?

The BPP recently issued local Labour MP, Mr. John Battle, a challenge: to confront the Centre owners and to publicly speak up for his local shoppers. He has failed to do so. Our locally-compiled website article on the subject, in contrast, was published by an international Internet news agency. Yet New Labour’s MP in Bramley and Stanningley Ward still offers no public defence of his own constituents! The Council, he says, does not own the Centre and cannot interfere in how it is run. So much for New Labour in Bramley and Leeds. So much for Democracy.

Bramley and Stanningley Ward has thousands of low-income families with children. Many are single parent families. John Battle says that this Ward has almost 15,000 senior citizens. How have these struggling locals coped with the loss of a butcher’s shop and a hardware store, with the transfer of Morrison’s to Somerfield and the resultant higher prices? How will they and others cope as Centre rents and prices continue to rise?

Bramley Shopping Centre’s owners should remember that we live and shop here. Our Council Tax pays for the utility services, the emergency services and the policing support from which the Centre owners benefit. We, too, pay for the road networks and the public transport services which bring thousands of shoppers to the Centre. The people of Bramley and the BPP in Bramley therefore demand answers from Bramley Shopping Centre’s owners. We demand to be part of and to influence the discussion process, to keep our popular traders, to be heard and to have our views acted upon.

Unlike Tony Blair in far-off Westminster, Mr. Battle is the man who supposedly carries the political can for the householders and shoppers, the workers and voters of Bramley and Stanningley. Over and over, however, he and local Labour Councillors have ignored the Voice of the People in this area. In spite of this, New Labour’s local MP and his City Council cronies have somehow, until now, survived in office.

Having consistently ignored the Bramley Shopping Centre issue, around which Eddy Morrison and the BPP are now attracting such growing support, Labour's City Hall will, in the 04 May 2006 municipal elections, discover the price of that deafness. Their arrogance will have provoked rebellion by their angry and abandoned Council Tax payers and their former voters will, like YOU, be listening to and voting for Eddy Morrison and the BPP.

Vote Morrison – Vote Action

Support Our Local Traders! Save Bramley Shopping Centre!

Vote BPP - Putting Britons First"

NaziHunter


NAZI BPP OUT OF BRAMLEY

03.04.2006 15:55

The following text is taken from a leaflet distributed in Bramley by Antifa:

"NAZI BPP OUT OF BRAMLEY!

Who Are The British People’s Party?

The so-called British People’s Party (BPP) are not a party for the British people at all. What they are is a small bunch of Hitler-worshipping fascist cranks intent on lying to and manipulating people while keeping their real agenda secret. The BPP are an insult to anyone’s intelligence.

Until recently the tiny BPP was called the ‘White Nationalist Party’, but they were unable to register that name with the Electoral Commission, so they began calling themselves the Nationalist Alliance. After 2 months, they were already squabbling, and after a split the BPP was set up. Two months later, the BPP’s own chairman left after yet another falling out, with the new leadership now accusing him of sexual misconduct and mental instability, and him accusing his usurpers of stealing party funds. The new Fuhrer of this shower is Eddy Morrison, who has repeatedly been accused of being, among other things, a drunken and corrupt police-informer, who would sell his own mother for beer-money.

Hitler’s Dog

Morrison hopes to win political power in Bramley this year, and will say whatever he thinks is necessary to get people to vote for him, he is a twisted and ruthless individual. Even Morrison’s fellow Nazis know that he is a man who cannot be trusted.

Like the rest of the BPP leadership, Morrison is obsessed with Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator our parents and grandparents fought World War 2 to destroy. On fascist internet sites he calls himself ‘Wolf 88’ after Hitler’s dog! The 88, with which Morrison also signs his posts, stands for ‘Heil Hitler’ (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet.) Morrison is a sad fantacist and a fascist bigot, his ravings have no relevance whatsoever to ordinary people in Bramley. Don’t be fooled.

Morrison’s Dog

Morrison’s own lapdog is Kevin Watmough, another swastika-wearing ‘Master Race’ fantacist, who can’t even dress himself properly. Like Morrison he has a track-record of involvement in cowardly racist violence, though as with all these BPP idiots, they can bark, but find it easier to run than bite. Take one look at any of this pitiful fascist sect, and ask yourself if they measure up as the ‘master-race’ of their bedroom fantasies, or if they are more like the cast of the film ‘Deliverance’, a pathetic and shambling bunch of mentally subnormal degenerates and perverts.

The BPP In Bramley

That is the reality of the so-called ‘British People’s Party’, just the latest bunch of fascist morons on the block. They are hoping to exploit poverty and neglect in Bramley, to recruit teenagers to their twisted Hitler-worshipping cause. What possible relevance could the insane ravings of a dead German dictator have to working-class people in Bramley? Don’t trust the Nazi BPP, don’t be fooled by them, and don’t let them near your kids. Recently they have been boasting about how their stickers and posters are not being ripped down in the area, it is their way of stamping a jackboot impression on Bramley, which they hope to build on in the next election. Don’t let the BPP organise, tear off their racist stickers, rip down their lying posters, and tell them to shove their fascist politics where the sun doesn’t shine.

NaziHunter


mobile number

03.04.2006 16:37

just wondering if anyone could make out the mobile phone number in the background?

is it perhaps: 0795 108 3914?

respect to anyone standing up to fascism btw.

pete


What the BPP really think

03.04.2006 18:52

BE WARNED - The following post contains some of the vilest racist and homophobic language you may ever have encountered. The reason for that is that it is made up of recent quotes from the leadership of the BPP (and they were not hard to find.) Not the sort of thing they're printing on their election leaflets, but their REAL politics. These quotes are being posted to allow people to see just what scum the BPP are, and to aid in the production of antifascist propaganda. All spelling mistakes are coutesy of the BPP, and are reproduced to show just how thick these morons are.

What the BPP really think:

On elections: “There is a good reason to stand in elections, think about it. If there are only a few thousand or even a few hundred votes for the WN [White Nationalist] organisation, then the scum know how much we don't want them here. How else do we get a voice that cannot be denied?”

On Jews: “Jews are the most butt ugly things on planet earth. Not since Thalidamide was given to pregnant women was there ever an uglier spectical than a kike, male or female, kikes are ugly fucking scum.”

On the Holocaust: “The Hollohoax.”

On Turkish people: “The Germans don't want the fuckin Turks, and neither do we!!!”

On homosexuality: “Death to all faggots!”

On multiculturalism: “These non white's are non Brits, they speak of a multicultural society here in Great Britain this is of course bollocks. If one community (i.e. the indigenous white British community), has to hide its traditional symbols of celebration in favour of another, (i.e. the hoards of Muslim invaders and their offspring), then how can they possibly refer to it as multicultural. Multiculturism is bad enough in itself, but the selective multiculturism enforced by British ZOG is both hypocritical, and bigoted. The end game is genocide, first they destroy the very building blocks of our society, and then they turn us into aliens in our own country, sooner or later they know these policies will bring about our demise. And just like the red squirrel, we will be extinct in this country.”

On trade unions: “1979 was THE time for British nationalism, we could have had it all. The laboour/liberal alliance had made a real fuckin mess. The trade unions run everything. There were three workers for every job in industry, most of which had been nationalised. The National Front was massive at the time, then came Margaret Fuckin Thatcher. She said she would beat down the unions, she fuckin did too. I remember the greedy bastards in Scunthorpe, steel workers striking for a twenty percent wage rise, yes twenty percent!”

On repatriation: “Enforced repatriation IS on our policy list.”

On David Copeland (from ‘National Recruitment Officer Sid Williamson): “Copeland did what so many of us would love to do. Seems he had less to lose than most of us. But in his shoes, and with his bottle? I think he is a bloody hero.”

On World War 2: “Had we chose to side with "the forces of light, against the darkness in a holy war", this place wouldn't be so full of wogs. And the Kikes wouldn't be pulling any strings.”

On the EU: “The EU is a massive red machine that aims to take over nation states and turn Europe into another Soviet Union.”

On tolerance: “We are for Aryan White Power, nothing else will do. Niggers, Mongrels, Jews, Paki's, Chinks, Turks, Homosexuals, Lesbians, we hate them all, as we do to an even greater extent red bastards.”

On immigration: “The ideology of white nationalism is the same as was the original BNP. A Great Britain occupied by the indigenous white population, with the obvious shortage of labour being met by white European immigrants. Not Jews, Not Paki's, Not Nignogs, and deffinately not homosexuals.”

On European migrant labour: “If there was a choice. Keep the Paki's and Niggers, or replace them with Pole's, Germans, Italians, or any other Aryan. Would it not be preferable to do the latter?”

On the recent rape of two teenage girls (one of whom was murdered): “Painting little crack whores white is like painting the rest of us black. If those lasses were coon bait then they were already lost. The fact their coon mates killed them should serve as a warning to all young whites, not to hang with niggers. Let other white youngsters see the reality of life, warts n'all. Making up excuses for them and holding them up as poor little white race victims is an insult. An insult to REAL white victims of the silverback scum that walks our streets!”

On the 2005 Kashmir earthquake: “Itz all good – dead paki’s!!”

On Brighton Pride: “Don’t be straight or white in Brighton. If you are a wog or a poof, then Brighton city council will bend over backwards for you, pun intended."

On the arrest of Nazi Ernst Zundel in Austria: “It just gets worse doesn't it? Arrested in the mighty Adolf Hitler's birthplace. ZOG are scum. May all their babies be born dead!”

On the death of Labour MP Tony Banks: “Look at that geezers schnozzle, surely he was also a Kike? Anyway, hears hoping for many more dead red bastards in 2006.”

On Nazi propagandist William Joyce AKA Lord Haw-Haw: “A proud and brave man. Resolute and steadfast in his beliefs until the very end.”

On inter-racial relationships (by Sid Williamson): “OI NIGGER! Now tell me what you are going to do about it coon boy. You say you have a white partner? Well that person is now damaged goods, any white who screws a nigger is a non white forever more. You have infected this person (male or female) with your stinking nigger cock. You are vermin and should be treated as such. The fact you boast about screwing whites makes you the first nigger on the list for the firing squad. You understanding me boy?”

On gun control (Sid Williamson to an American Nazi): “You guys are so damn lucky you are already armed. In the UK laws will soon be passed to stop people owning sharp kitchen knives!!”

On dead Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic: "Milosevic obviously had his heart in the right place, he wanted Serbia to be free of the Gypos and Muslims. RIP Slobodan Milosevic!”

On Winston Churchill: “Adolf Hitler new that the closest Aryan race to the Germans was the British. He didn't want a war with us. It was our sick zog government, Churchill in particular, that was hell bent on a war with him.”

On Nazism and the British public: “The ideology of National Socialism is still hard to sell to the brainwashed British public.”

On the death of black youngster Damilola Taylor: “Why the fuck should we care about a dead spooklet?”

On racial violence in Birmingham (by Sid Williamson): “The Paki's and the Niggers are killing each other on the streets of Birmingham tonight. This could well be the state of things to come. Personaly the longer this goes on the better I'll feel, and if it spreads, then thats great. Just think, dead coons and dead Joe's, and nothing to do with us. Maybe there is a god (or something of the like.)”

On ‘political activism’ (Williamson again): “I hear she is quite partial to a bit of dog shit through her letterbox! HE HE!”

On litter (and again) Brighton & Hove city council have just hired a team to remove 'racist stickers'. Looks like me n Buster will have to work a little faster!”

On Peter Mandelson: “A Jewish homosexual with a taste for mud men? Fire the ovens!!”

On barrister Sarah Mansoon: “Another bloody mud!”

Auntie


Mobile number

03.04.2006 18:56

I don't think Eddy will be answering that phone again Pete!

RedSkin


Morrison's site

03.04.2006 19:41

I notice that Morrison's personal 'Aryan Unity' site, (featuring Mein Kampf amongst all the other racist filth on there), has been down for a while. Not sure if that's because he still hasn't paid confessed child-molestor (see his autobiography on the internet) Simon Sheperd, who set it up, or because it contains too much politically 'inconvenient' material. I bet he's glad that idiot Williamson doesn't live nearer to Leeds - He is threatening to come up, but particularly with all the people he's upset lately (there are other Nazis baying for his blood), I reckon he'll find an excuse not to come as usual - which probably suits Morrison. Williamson doesn't have the brain of a hamster, and would be guaranteed to upset people.

Red N Black


A squalid little enterprise - How familiar it all is.

03.04.2006 20:05

I note that on the front page of the BPP website there is a photo of deceased Nationalist John Tyndall, who despite the fact that he was a member of the BNP and not Morrison's outfit, the BPP are now claiming as their "spiritual leader". This is just another of Morrison's lies, it was no secret in White Nationalist circles that JT loathed Morrison. The following article is proof of that, and it was written BEFORE Morrison confessed to passing information to the police in return for beer money.

THE WANDERINGS AND POSTURINGS OF THE PATHETIC MR. MORRISON
JOHN TYNDALL looks at the career of an inveterate disrupter [Spearhead, April 1983, pages 12, 13 & 17]
READERS OF SPEARHEAD will know that our magazine has consistently followed a policy of opposing any fragmentation of the forces of British Nationalism into separate parties. That fragmentation is already bad enough as it is, and if it is to proceed further this can bring nothing but harm to the Nationalist cause. That simple truth, however, has evidently not got home to some people, and we are now confronted with the emergence of yet another Nationalist splinter group, this time calling itself the ‘National Action Party’. As I know something about the origins of this squalid little enterprise, I am in a favourable position to give a warning about it to unsuspecting Nationalists.

The National Action Party solemnly announced itself to the world in a scruffy leaflet the punctuation of which straight- away identifies its author (or authors) as semi-literate. The leaflet begins by condemning the leaders of other Nationalist parties for squabbling and fighting and goes on to say that it (the NAP) “is not a splinter group” and has “no need or wish to attack other Nationalists.” These claims will immediately be recognised as absurd from a reading of the leaflet, which identifies the NAP as quite clearly a splinter group and bristles with attacks on other Nationalists in almost every line.

Undoubtedly the leading motivator in this ludicrous little organisation is a man called Eddy Morrison. I know a good deal about the career of Eddy Morrison and I think that some of the features of it would be of undoubted interest to Nationalists.

Mr. Morrison, before his encounter with Nationalism, was a member of the Young Communist League. That is not in itself a cause for his condemnation. Many young innocents become attracted to Communism when they are at an age of not knowing what it is about, and then later with maturity shed their Communist beliefs and become sincere anti-Communists. As to whether this was the case with Eddy Morrison, we shall see from a study of his subsequent political record.

RAPID SWITCHES OF LOYALTY

The outset of the 1 970s saw Mr. Morrison now a member of the National Front and very active on behalf of that party in the Leeds area, where he then lived. Sometime around.1971-72 he then defected to British Movement, led at the time by Cohn Jordan. Less than 2 years later he was on the road again, leaving BM and asking to be readmitted to the NF. In recent correspondence with Mr. Jordan, I have been able to establish that his departure from the former to the latter took place a matter of just two or three days after he was observed at a BM meeting affirming his loyalty to that organisation and bitterly attacking the National Front.

I had not very long been elected Chairman of the NF when Eddy Morrison made his application to rejoin. In view of his past switches of loyalty, we were not inclined to welcome him back as a member unconditionally, and I. wrote and told him that I would like to meet him and have a talk with him before deciding upon the question of his readmission to the party. I asked him to come down to London and meet me, which he did. In our discussion he was at pains to convince me of his sincerity in regretting his previous defection and his resolve, if allowed back, not to betray the trust re-established in him. I was not wholly won over, but decided to give him the benefit of the doubt, as I saw him as a young man of energy and talent which it would be a desirable thing to harness to the promotion of the party.

Mr. Morrison then became active again with the NF in Leeds. During this period the• local branch there acquired a headquarters premises which it paid for out of its own funds. Eddy Morrison, however, was the individual in whose name the lease on the premises was negotiated.

Mr. Morrison’s second term as an NF member did not last very long. By about 1974-75 he was ready for another move and, despite all his previous undertaking to stick by the party, he left and formed his own splinter group which he called the ‘National Democratic Freedom Movement’. Using his position as official tenant of the local NF headquarters building, he converted that building into a headquarters for his new group — partly financed from hard-won NF funds!

The National Democratic Freedom Movement made little attempt to engage in~ serious politics but concentrated its activities mainly upon acts of violence against its opponents. In due course Morrison, along with some of his leading supporters, was arrested for being in possession of stolen office equipment. He was remanded in custody for 2 weeks while awaiting trial but when he came to court was only fined.

Before very long the NDFM had degenerated into nothing more than a criminal gang, and Morrison was forced to acknowledge that it had been a failure. He thereupon launched another venture which he called the ‘National Socialist Study Society’. This was intended by Morrison to be something of an ‘elite’, and his infection as stated to his seven followers was that when he felt strong enough he would reform the society into an openly National Socialist party. This never even got off the ground and in September 1975 we find Eddy Morrison presiding over the formation of another organisation, ironically enough called the ‘British National Party’. Needless to say, this organisation never had any connection with the current party bearing the same name.

BACK TO THE N.F.

By 1978 Morrison’s BNP had become totally eclipsed by the successes of the National Front and he was fast losing members to the NF. He decided to try once again to get into the latter party and managed once again to negotiate himself into membership by promises of past lessons learned and future good behaviour and reliability. The decision once more to admit Morrison into the NF was made by the party’s Directorate but I had a part in it and, with certain strong inner reservations, approved of it. The main thought in my mind was to remove a rival organisation from the scene which, though it had lost many members to the NF, still was something of an irritant to us in the North of England. If Morrison got up to his old tricks again, he could always later be dispensed with.

In due course he again became active with the Leeds NF branch. Towards the end of 1978 he was again remanded in custody on charges àf causing an affray at a disco promoted by the Anti-Nazi League. With him were a number of other NF members sand supporters. In the outcome all the others were found guilty and received prison sentences but Morrison was acquitted. At about the same time he started trying to recruit punk-rockers into the NF and founded a publication called Punk Front.

When in 1979 Andrew Fountaine attempted to split the NF by forming his breakaway ‘Constitutional Movement’ he managed to take a quite substantial number of Leeds branch members with him, including most of the older ones. In later enquiries I was able to establish that the main factor in causing this defection was the dissatisfaction of these members over the behaviour of Eddy Morrison who, I was told, seemed intent on recruiting the scum of the earth into the party and, to that end, was deliberately setting out to give the party an image that would appeal to these elements and alienate decent people.

When in January 1980 I resigned from the NF Chairmanship over the refusal of the Directorate to give me the powers necessary to deal with the disease of homosexuality in the party, Eddy Morrison, I was later informed, spoke at a meeting of the Leeds branch and called upon the branch to support me. Very shortly afterwards he did a complete about-turn and started campaigning against me and in support of the Directorate. This may have had something to do with the fact that the Directorate had offered him the post of Yorkshire Regional Organiser!

His loyalty to the Directorate, however, was short-lived. After a regional activity in Halifax in August 1980, he was on the return journey to Leeds when he got into a fight with another member on the coach. Ho demanded of the then NF Chairman that his adversary in this fight be suspended but this demand was refused. It was a matter of days afterwards that Morrison contacted me and again changed sides, offering to leave the NF and join the New National Front, which had been formed a short time before.

Again for purely tactical reasons, I consented to Morrison being allowed in — my thought being that he was probably less harm to us as a member (for the time being at least) than he would be working for the NF Directorate faction. This decision I can now acknowledge was a wrong one, for it cost the NNF a great deal of support in Leeds, so low had Morrison’s stock become in that area.

CREDIBILITY RUN OUT

Morrison in time came to recognise the latter fact and came to believe that on his home soil at least his credibility had run out. He moved in early 1982 to London and informed me that he was eager to get active in the capital. Could he have some kind of position which would enable him to act more effectively?

By this time I had come to form an opinion of Eddy Morrison which completely prohibited his being given any party rank which would place him in a position of responsibility and trust or any kind of seniority to other members. I decided, however, to appease his vanity by conferring upon him a meaningless title called ‘recruitment officer’ and hoped that that would provide him with some incentive at last to do something useful for the party. He was given the assignment of using his persuasive tongue and rapport with young working class folk to talk youngsters over to the. British National Party (as we had then become) who had previously supported other Nationalist factions. However, knowing the types that Morrison had tended to recruit in the past, I resolved that we would keep a careful watch on the quality of those who joined the party as a result of his persuasion.

At this stage I still had — I must confess — just a little flicker of lingering faith in Eddy Morrison. I deplored his past inconsistency and knew that he would for ever be a weak and unreliable character. I recognised at the same time that he did have some talent and I hoped at this late hour that it might still be possible for me to harness this talent to some constructive purpose if I could really gain his confidence and motivate him in the right way. With this in mind I had shortly before invited him to my home for the weekend with a view to establishing a better understanding between us. It was during this visit that he told me that he had in the past had a try at being ‘party leader’ and realised that he was not suited to the role and had no intention of coveting it again!

My lingering faith in Morrison was to prove futile — as the more realistic side of me told me it probably would. Before long he again started causing trouble.

We were contacted in about mid-1982 by a group of youngsters in the Brighton area who said that they were disaffected with the National Front and wanted to come over to us. As is normal procedure with the setting up of new groups, two representatives of this circle were met by our National Organiser Charles Parker and, as an outcome of this contact, it was agreed to set up a larger meeting in Brighton at which Mr. Parker would meet the other members of the group.

In the meantime Eddy Morrison had made his own contact with the same group and arranged a meeting at which he would feature as the main speaker and of which Mr. Parker was not even given the courtesy of being informed. As soon as 1 heard of this I wrote to Morrison and told him that, although there was no objection to him assisting in the forming of this new party unit, he should do so in liaison and co-operation with Mr. Parker, whose proper function in the party that was, and not act independently. The tone of this letter was friendly and only mildly admonitory. In the same letter I proposed that when I next visited London—which was in a few days’ time — Morrison and I meet in order that we may discuss the matter further and work out amicable lines of demarcation so that his function in the party did not collide with, but complemented, that of Mr. Parker.

WHIPPING UP DISAFFECTION

I received no reply to this invitation to a meeting and in the meantime heard that Morrison had started to circulate among party members trying to whip up disaffection against me and against Mr. Parker. I wrote him a second letter proposing that we meet in London (he was not obtainable by telephone). To this I received a reply but not from Morrison himself; he got a friend of his to ‘phone me on his behalf saying that he could not make the proposed meeting. I then wrote a third time and suggested yet another date. This time Morrison, instead of using his friend, disappeared behind the skirts of the lady he was then living with and who I understand was his fiancee and got her to ring me with a message that he was again indisposed.

Clearly the fellow not only had not the guts to meet me face-to-face to discuss our problems but did not even possess the gumption to speak to me himself on the telephone. I really had no idea that I was that terrifying! During this period I received further reports about his campaign of disruption and I thereupon wrote him a letter informing him that he was suspended from membership and would be called to face a disciplinary tribunal to answer charges of disruptive activities.

I knew of course that he would never appear before such a tribunal but would resign first and in all probability try to cause a split by forming yet another splinter group. This he duly did, and the ‘National Action Party’ came into being.

This organisation will of course enjoy just about as long a life, and achieve just about the same political usefulness, as the various other bodies launched by Mr. Eddy Morrison in the past. Indeed so pathetic and irrelevant is it that I know some of my colleagues in the party will question the point of my using this space to expose and condemn Morrison, telling me that it will only give him a sense of importance that he does not deserve.

Maybe they will be right, but in the course of promoting yet another flop Morrison may well mislead and dissipate the time and money of well meaning Nationalists, particularly of the younger generation, and if I can do anything to prevent this it will be worthwhile. I hope that any youngsters that Mr. Morrison calls upon to support his schemes acquaint themselves with his political record, on which I have endeavoured to shed a little light here.

There is also another factor. Though Morrison himself may not be important, the tendency that he represents in the camp of Nationalism is important enough for it not to be ignored. For years we have been plagued by these splitters and splinterers, and they all follow a common bent. Everything they get into they subvert and disrupt. They always claim of course that there are righteous and valid grievances underlying the disaffection that they constantly promote. Yet when called upon to come out into the open and discuss these grievances man-to- man they always find an excuse for not doing so. Morrison is a specimen who has constantly ratted on everyone who has posed trust in him, and always in an atmosphere of shady plotting and intrigue. If he has been consistent in one thing, it has been as one who incites others to disloyalty and mutiny — and he has done it so many times that we. have long lost count over the years.

I mentioned earlier on in this analysis Mr. Morrison’s Communist past. Has he reality broken with it? In his own mind it is possible that he may have done. But in the minds of the promoters of Communism in this country his work over the years in the Nationalist camp must surely earn him the Order of Lenin.

Val


Lying BPP

03.04.2006 21:11

On the BPP website they also claim they "are not connected with any other party." That's bollocks - Mark Cotterill of the 'England First Party!' is described as a 'leading BPP member' and they're pushing for his election in Burnley, They are total liars.

Busta


What the Bpp really think

03.04.2006 21:39

Isn't it incredible that known British fascists get away with plastering this filth all over the internet simply because the servers for their hate sites are located outside the uk? On some of the sites they routinely talk about breaking the law and even killing people. The British People's Party are up to their necks in the Blood & Honour/Combat 18 site, Redwatch, and the Vanguard News Network, which must be among the worst sites on the internet.

Tony R


Wuh?

04.04.2006 14:28

Are we talking about the same BPP that last month was reported on this site about a dozen times as falling apart on account of their leader being a nonce? Now suddenly they are standing candidates, and there was me thinking they were yet another bunch of obscure Hitler-fetishists.

BTW I still hold firmly that the three biggest threats to ethnic minorites are (1) The UK governement and it's racist policies, (2) The BNP, who give their vile views a sugar coating, and (3) a certain minority section of the white working class who generally hang around making and though their behaviour make life a misery for their fellow proletarians.

the middle finger


No room for complacency

04.04.2006 19:29

"Are we talking about the same BPP that last month was reported on this site about a dozen times as falling apart on account of their leader being a nonce? Now suddenly they are standing candidates, and there was me thinking they were yet another bunch of obscure Hitler-fetishists."

There's no doubt that, as reported on Indymedia, the BPP are an absolute shambles, even their fellow-fascists are taking the piss out of them. I've only seen one reference (and it wasn't on here) to their leader being a nonce, he's a drunk, a police-informer, mentally unstable, and a Nazi, but I don't know about him being a nonce. The nonce is their so-called "National Recruitment Officer", the Saltdean Beast, Sid Williamson. The BPP are standing ONE candidate - Eddy Morrison in Bramley.

The BPP certainly aren't the biggest threat faced by black people, asylum seekers, Gays, Asians and other ethnic minorities in Britain, that's a claim I've not heard made by anybody. They are however, doing their best not only to stir up racism in small, mostly white pockets such as Bramley (and nationally/internationally through the internet), but they are engaged in actively encouraging racist attacks. There is every reason to confront them, and no reason whatsoever to be complacent about them organising, simply because New Labour or the BNP are a greater threat to asylum seekers, or because they are a bunch of degenerate nutters.

Charlie


Come on...

05.04.2006 08:24

Look the BPP are an obscure pathetic little cult. They have next to no membership or any chance of it growing significantly. The people of Bramley are not stupid or inherently racist.

I do hope the UAF wont be changing that by their antics.

The way to deal with idiots like these is to follow the 635 group and Antifa's example- show them the pavement.

Fashtrapper


Bramley

05.04.2006 09:19

The BPP should indeed be 'shown the pavement' as you say. I agree. But they also need to be exposed (as in the Antifa/635 leaflet reproduced above.) The people of Bramley are not stupid, but Mr Morrison and his friends are being dishonest. They are campaigning on an issue which will be of some concern to local people, and which they may be representing. They are right when they say that the main partys don't care about ordinary folk. We need to let people in Bramley know what this group are really about, and deny the BPP a presence there, along with the BNP who are also standing in Bramley.

Harry


Memoirs

05.04.2006 10:13


I see Eddy M's having a final go at flogging his book.

Towsa


Yeah right

05.04.2006 13:30

...The way to deal with idiots like these is to follow the 635 group and Antifa's example- show them the pavement....

Yeah right. We're really going to follow the advice of these morons and wind up in the inside of a cell.

If anyone actually wants to do anything meaningful to beat fascism other than acting like some neaderthal then UAF is organising a major national day of action on the 29 April.

If you want to get involved in activities in your local area on these days, please contact the UAF office on 020 7833 4916 or 020 7837 4522

635 Group and fash are not invited.

Cambridge UAF
- Homepage: http://www.antinazi.eu.org/


UAF

05.04.2006 14:45

That last post shows the reason that militant antifascists don't want to work with the UAF-SWP: You're a bunch of arrogant back-stabbing wankers, who, for the most part, can't even organise a leafletting session properly. Who the hell are you to be characterising antifascists as neathanderthals? You're not exactly in the thick of it in Cambridge are you?

Black N Red


Cambridge UAF

05.04.2006 14:55

Judging from your website I'd say you've been doing next to sod all, mind you since "The last time the BNP stood in Cambridge, in the Euro elections, they got their lowest vote in all of the UK, 1.28%" you're not exactly 'in the thick of it' are you?!

Alright from you to be slagging off other antifascists from the other end of the country. LMHR must be a good money-earner for the SWP.

Big Vern


UAF

05.04.2006 15:00

I have got a bit of time for Lancaster UAF, at least they bother to make decent points from what I've seen on here, and maintain a blog. But that Cambridge UAF character sounds like a right w***er

Jim T


Day of "action"

05.04.2006 15:22

"a major national day of action on the 29 April."

A bit bloody late isn't it? Do you suggest that those who oppose the fascist groups sit around twiddling their thumbs and leave it to the hierarchical, ineffective, SWP front, the UAF, to organise some probably inefectual non-action (wouldn't want to risk getting nicked) a few days before the election?

The SWP have always been into this kind of gesture politics rather than genuine 'get your hands dirty' anti-fascism.

Anti-fascist


uaf

05.04.2006 15:25

nice one uaf, seems like a good time to introduce some sectarianism

Leeds antiracist


UAF action

05.04.2006 16:31

"a major national day of action on the 29 April."

AKA selling papers and waving lollipops!

Busta


The BPP number

05.04.2006 19:06

The BPP number is actually 07951083919, I just got it off their site.

Retro


BPP campaign

05.04.2006 19:11

I see their #campaign' is mentioned on here:  http://uk.novopress.info/?p=294

Is this novopress a fash group?

Retro


BPP campaign

05.04.2006 19:11

I see their #campaign' is mentioned on here:  http://uk.novopress.info/?p=294

Is this novopress a fash group?

Retro


Novopress

05.04.2006 21:42

Yes, that IS a fash site

Rob


Sectarianism indeed...

06.04.2006 00:37

Sectarianism - if that's the word for it - doesn't happen for no reason. Perhaps Rose (Cambridge UAF) has had some bad experiences before. But nothing I'm prepared to openly spell out here.

Phil


B&H guestbook

06.04.2006 07:53

I've just seen these entries on the B&H guestbook:

Name: Realist
Link: www.bppuk.org
Sent: 7:50 GMT on 6 April
Topic: Pakis in the BNP!

I was going to vote BNP in May, I thought that the BNP leadership are traitors but there are some decent folk in it but not now, I'll spoil my vote. The BNP can't criticise the BPP now can they? R&R





Name: HONEYMONSTER88 EMAIL
From: UK
Sent: 7:10 GMT on 6 April
Topic: Pakis in the BNP!

Check out the candidate list for Bradford

 http://www.stopthebnp.org.uk/index.php?location=ec2006

Bradford

Bowling and Barkerend

Sharif Abdel Gawad

BNP R&R

Retro


Cambridge UAF

06.04.2006 09:30

"Sectarianism - if that's the word for it - doesn't happen for no reason. Perhaps Rose (Cambridge UAF) has had some bad experiences before. But nothing I'm prepared to openly spell out here."

I doubt anybody really cares. But Rose's language seems quite inappropriate on this thread. The terms "moron" and neathanderthal" are normally reserved for people you've actually had some experience, and Rose has had absolutely no experience whatsoever of the 635 Group. It is rather typical of opportunist liberals trying to defend their turf, to try and characterise militant antifascists in this way.

K.Bullstreet


The many faces of Eddy Morrison

08.04.2006 06:31


A couple of months back, Eddy Morrison's pants were publicly pulled down by the 'Jewish Telegraph'. Unsteady Eddy's credibility with fellow Nazis was left in tatters after, when being challenged about an anti-Semitic leaflet, Morrison capitulated, and told the JT, he was "not anti-Jewish" (and presumably he's not bald and a drunk either.) He was not questioned about the presence of Mein Kampf on his personal 'Aryan Unity' website, or about his many and frequent anti-Jewish rantings.

Now, Morrison's integrity has been dealt another blow after a photo of him palling up black TV cook Ainsley Harriet was published on the internet. The BPP's Fuhrer-In-Chief appeared on Harriet's 'Can't Cook, Won't Cook' programme, together with his daughter. Clearly the BBC weren't aware who they were hosting, and it seems Eddy kept his mouth shut (for once) and his fingers crossed.

We understand that Eddy's next TV appearance will be in the new series of 'Queer as Folk', when he might have to cross more than his fingers.

Laughing at the BPP


BPP Arrest

08.04.2006 07:58

News just in that the BPP's South Wales organizer has been arrested and charged with 'incitment to racial hatred'.

Love the pic of Ainsley and Morrison. It's funny viewing after all the ranting Eddy's been doing this week about the BNP's non-white candidate in Bradford (who must be a right fucking idiot.) I think it was on a couple of years ago, but it'd be great to see the video!

Auntie


Sofa Soaker

08.04.2006 20:47

LMAO Morrison cant be elected, hes a drunk wets peoples sofas when he sleeps over. So whoever does decide to vote for him "Remember DO NOT offer him your sofa for the night" It will end up pissed on.

Come on Eddy had your latest Manicure, i hear you like to be feminine.

Fred Bloggs


Realist & phone numbers & Morrison

08.04.2006 20:56

Realist & Redwatch on the B&H Guestbook are both Mr Kevin Richard Watmough.

Phone number : 0783023161

Morrisons phone numbers are : 01132939559 - 07708861198

As for John Tyndall he hated Morrison, and had absolutely NOTHING to do with the BPP. He hosted ONE meeting with the BPP. And that was 10 days before he died. Morrison DID NOT attend that meeting & Morrison was NOT a FRIEND of BEST FRIEND of Tyndall.

I know ALL


"I Know All"

09.04.2006 11:11

Of course those idiots at the BPP don't know that I, John Griff Wood, aka "Mentor", am in fact "I Know All".

Please don't tell them or they might stick my phone numbers on Indymedia and that wouldn't be very nice.

John Griff Wood


John Wood?

09.04.2006 11:38

Everybody knows yours and Morrison's details anyway Watmough. Why don't you get your 'comrades' to help pay your debts off, and save yourself yet more embarrassment, instead of being taken to court over a stolen computer? What a shower the BPP are - A drunken grass for a leader, an incontinent moronic cowardly sex-offender as 'National Recruitment Officer', and you, a hunchbacked, glue-sniffing, pervert. So much for the 'master-race'!! And as for the asylum-seekers stealing your jobs, what jobs, when was the last time anyone in the BPP leadership worked?

Bigsy


The BPP Leadership

09.04.2006 11:49

Unsteady Eddy Morrison
Unsteady Eddy Morrison

Kevin 'Gluebag' Watmough
Kevin 'Gluebag' Watmough

Peter 'Sid' William AKA The Saltdean Beast
Peter 'Sid' William AKA The Saltdean Beast

What a shower - The BPP leadership!!

anon


UAF.

01.05.2006 13:32

I can't comment on UAF in other parts of the country, but in Wakefield it definatly is not SWP controlled. The organising meeting had less than 1/4 of the people from the SWP, many of the people there were just ordinary people. It organised local days of action on everyweekend and quite a lot of weekdays, and then split into smaller groups to organise yet more leafletings. It's not hierarchical other than having one person in charge of ordering the leaflets/posters/etc that the group wants from the national UAF office. The only sectarianism we experienced was the socialist party refusing to join in and just sitting down watching us while smoking, giving the reason 'it doesn't tell the people who to vote for'... If it had done that most of the people would have left as we have many labour and lib dem supporters, as well as SWP, non-affiliated, respect and green supporters involved.

Sean Spurr


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