{"id":4714,"date":"2010-06-17T15:36:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T15:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/06\/17\/asian-millionaire-slams-bnp-palace-invite\/"},"modified":"2010-06-17T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T15:36:33","slug":"asian-millionaire-slams-bnp-palace-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/17\/asian-millionaire-slams-bnp-palace-invite\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian millionaire slams BNP Palace invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>&#8216;There should be no place for the BNP at Buckingham Palace&#8217;, says Mo Chaudry<\/h3>\n<div><strong>ASIAN entrepreneur and \u2018Secret Millionaire\u2019 star Mo Chaudry thinks that it is wrong that the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, has been invited to a Buckingham Palace garden party.<\/strong> <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThe Queen has been gracious in inviting Nick Griffin because he is an MEP for the North West but he is a beaten political force and his politics are repugnant to most people,\u201d said Mr Chaudry, who led a successful, one-man campaign to expose the discriminatory membership criteria of the BNP earlier this year. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cGriffin was trounced by Labour\u2019s Margaret Hodge in Barking at the election and the BNP lost ground everywhere,\u201d said Mr Chaudry. \u201cHe is quite rightly close to throwing in the towel and he has even announced his retirement for 2013.\u201d <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMr Chaudry, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, had tried to join the BNP before the election but had had his membership publicly blocked. He had objected to clauses in the Party\u2019s constitution that required prospective members to pledge support for the integrity of \u201cthe indigenous British people\u201d and submit to a two hour interview with party officials. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNick Griffin told the BBC Today programme at the time: \u201cThere is an Asian millionaire who has vowed to confront us and to wreck us. He will not be allowed to join because he is a trouble maker.\u201d <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMr Griffin will attend the garden party on 22 July with his wife, Jackie, and his two daughters, Jennifer and Rhiannon. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLast year, he was due to attend a Palace garden party as a guest of his BNP colleague, Richard Barnbrook. Following a public outcry, he pulled out claiming he had \u201cno wish to embarrass the Queen\u201c. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nOne of the water slides in Mr Chaudry\u2019s expansion plans at his WaterWorld aqua tourist attraction is to been named \u2018The Griffin\u2019 after the BNP leader. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cBecause he is so wet,\u201d said Mr Chaudry.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;There should be no place for the BNP at Buckingham Palace&#8217;, says Mo Chaudry ASIAN entrepreneur and \u2018Secret Millionaire\u2019 star Mo Chaudry thinks that it is wrong that the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, has been invited to a Buckingham Palace garden party. &#13; \u201cThe Queen has been gracious in inviting Nick Griffin because he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}