Gay Nazi Watch: Lest We Forget

The Mail - no friends of Nazism or historical revisionism they - sent some undercover reporters to a top secret meeting of holocaust deniers in London this week.

They didn't make much of this, but you'll never guess who they spotted there.

Only Martin Webster, national organiser of the National Front - and some say de facto leader of - during their glory days in the 70s!

He got jackbooted out of the party in 1983 for being a poof (like no-one knew!) - and later claimed to have been the bumlover of a teenage Nick Griffin.

Can't link to much bar Webster's Wikipedia page, as it looks like Mr W has had a load of stuff about him removed under that Google Right To Be Forgotten thing.

Funny that.

PS Lest we forget too...

'Parading hateful Blackshirt insignia...'

Nick Griffin: Bankrupt

Thanks to @josephwillits

• Hope Not Hate.

Pope Benedict: Fashion Icon!

Pope Benedict: his true legacy is his fashion sense

The former pontiff has had his critics over aspects of his teachings – but style-wise he dragged the papacy out of a 70s time warp

You may want to read that again while it sinks in. 

From The Guardian's Fashion Blog - sadly I can detect no sense of irony or parody in the piece.

What next, Cooking With Nick Griffin? 

PS Fagburn was reminded of Alexander Cockburn's piece where Andy Warhol interviews one Adolf Hitler over lunch for Interview magazine. Except that was a parody. 
HITLER: 'Just a salad for me, thanks.' etc etc.

Nick Griffin: University Challenged

On Friday, Leeds Student, the paper I edit, printed an interview with Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP. Later that day, the NUS published an open letter demanding that I remove the piece from our website immediately, arguing that fascists should not be granted a platform to express their political views.
The NUS claim that: "Leeds Student risks giving legitimacy to a fascist organisation, and boosts the BNP's attempts to join the political mainstream." Adding: "We... demand the editor of the Leeds Student reconsider this grave error and remove the interview with fascist Nick Griffin from their website and newspaper immediately."
During the speaker-phone interview, Griffin was as vile as you might expect. His responses prompted much outraged gesticulation within our paper offices as we all tried to stay quiet. He told our interviewer James Greenhalgh, who is a gay student, that the sight of two men kissing is "creepy".
Of course I considered the effect these comments could have on, say, a vulnerable, first-year student who is struggling to come to terms with their sexuality – and I mitigated this risk as much as possible. The interviewer spoke to LGBT committee members before printing, and we decided to include the fact that the interviewer is gay in the piece. We also wrote an editorial explaining why we believe it is important that student papers do not shy away from confronting extreme politics...

Lucy Snow, writing for Guardian Education.

I'm with Lucy Snow, for what it's worth.
The NUS has often taken a childish, censorious "no platform" position on free speech. 
Although the interview was done in the wake of Griffin tweeting the addresses of the gay couple in the latest B&B case, it does seem odd/off that more than half of the interview is given over to his views on homosexuality.
I also would have liked it to be more hard-hitting - actually I'd much prefer it if he'd just smashed Nick Griffin's fugly face in with a shitty shovel* - but well done to James Greenhalgh for challenging this Neo-Nazi shitbag's attempts to windowdress his racist and homophobic views as the voice of moderate reason.

* Legal notice: This is a fantasy and not an incitement to violence. Fagburn is a pacifist along Gandhian lines. Thank you.

Barbara Ellen: Heterophobia

Does Nick Griffin really live in a dark parallel universe where heterophobia needs to hear the word "No"? Where straight-bashing is on the rise – innocent heterosexual men leaving pubs, to be confronted by hordes of pissed-up Marys in Kylie T-shirts swinging baseball bats, crying: "You women-fancying perverts are going to pay!"? 
On Planet Griffin, are straight couples campaigning for the right to marry, straight parents frowned upon everywhere save for a few trendy London boroughs?
Moreover, are schoolchildren thoughtlessly taunting each other with slang such as: "That's just straight"? Are some of these children committing suicide rather than facing coming out as "non-gay"? 
Is there is a culture in film and TV for there to be a token straight, who spouts straight cliches and affects straight mannerisms and has little else to do but be an amusing straight best friend for the lead gay characters to bounce off?

Barbara Ellen, The Observer.

Oh, Miss Babs, let me count the ways I love you. x

Christian Institute: We're Not The BNP At Prayer Honest!

From Christian Institute's laugh-a-minute website.
Fagburn loves the idea this implies that CI think this racist neo-Nazi shitbag has finally gone too far.
A plague on both your houses!

Equality: B&Bigotry Victory

A gay couple turned away from a bed and breakfast have said it "feels like a triumph" after a court ruled they were discriminated against.
Michael Black, 64, and John Morgan, 59, were told they could not have a double bed at the Berkshire business in March 2010.
The couple, from Brampton, near Huntingdon, were awarded £1,800 each at Reading County Court for "injury to feelings".

BBC News.
2-0!
Olé, Olé, Olé! etc etc.
And here's the website for the Swiss Bed & Breakfast in Berkshire.
Where "a warm & friendly welcome awaits all guests..."
Ha ha.

Update: BNP leader Nick Griffin has just tweeted Michael and John's home address in what sounds like an invitation to violence.
Cue TWITTER MELTDOWN!!!
What a cunt.
I hope people will tweet how Griffin was fucking the National Front leader Martin Webster in the 70s (Google it - or watch a secret filming of Webster talking about it here).

European Diversity Awards: Ever Had The Feeling You've Been Cheated?

"More than 50 demonstrators bearing placards proclaiming “The Great European Diversity Swindle” congregated outside the Savoy Hotel in the Strand to object to a corporate event marking the European Diversity Awards. Individuals nominated for awards included journalists Julie Bindel and Paul Burston. Corporate nominations included RBS, Vodafone, Lloyds and United Health Group. The nomination of Ms Bindel attracted particular fury; Bindel has previously been criticised for her controversial views about transsexual people, her article claiming Asian men habitually groom white girls for sexual abuse and her commentary on “Stickergate”, the response to the Gay-Free Zone sticker campaign in Tower Hamlets earlier this year.
"Protestors explained that the minimum £250 per head junket represented the worst excesses of corporate Britain. “These events are supposed celebrate to the work and commitment of passionate individuals, groups and businesses that have made a positive impact in improving the lives of others. That may be true of some of the nominees. However others are questionable. The presence of some, in addition to Ms Bindel; £6bn tax dodgers Vodafone, and United Health Group, would-be profiteers from the NHS sell-off, suggest an agenda of mutual self-gratification rather than social inclusion. “This is not a celebration of diversity as we would recognise it,” said organisers Natacha Kennedy, Ronan McNern and Rebecca Shaw.
"The European Diversity Awards was promoted by publishing group Square Peg Media in aid of the charity the Inclusive Foundation. Square Peg titles include G3, which has previously featured articles by Julie Bindel. Enquiries of the Charities Commission reveal that the Inclusive Foundation was founded in February 2011 by Linda Riley and Sarah Garrett, both of whom are directors of Square Peg."

Statement by Queer Resistance and others.
Fagburn is holding its first annual awards ceremony in December.
Tickets cost just £300 - Nick Griffin has agreed to host.

David Cameron: Butching Up Liberalism

"Frankly, we need a lot less of the passive tolerance of recent years and a much more active, muscular liberalism. A passively tolerant society says to its citizens, as long as you obey the law we will just leave you alone. It stands neutral between different values. But I believe a genuinely liberal country does much more; it believes in certain values and actively promotes them. Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, democracy, the rule of law, equal rights regardless of race, sex or sexuality. It says to its citizens, this is what defines us as a society: to belong here is to believe in these things..."

David Cameron gave his speech at the Munich Security Conference today.
Wooh! - he said "or sexuality".
His tilting at "state multiculturalism" is a well-rehearsed riff of the Right.
Fagburn wonders if this "Muscular Liberalism" is meant to be analagous with Muscular Christianity - a new Victorian value?
Who knew what liberalism needed was a little butching up?
Much of Cameron's Munich speech would have gone down well if Cameron was addressing the English Defence League rally in Luton today.
It's been lauded on the BNP's website; 'Cameron’s ‘War on Multiculturalism’ Speech – Another Milestone in the ‘Griffinisation’ of British Politics'
Nick Griffin called it; "A further huge leap for our ideas into the political mainstream.”
Indeed, Cameron's "assimilate or else" message echoes the ideology of Europe's new far right anti-immigration parties, such as dead gay cunt Pim Fortuyn's List in the Netherlands.
Islamism has replaced homosexuality as the chief cultural bogeyman of the Conservative Party; further, respecting gay rights appears to be a new Cricket Test.
Not in my name, "Dave".