{"id":8015,"date":"2014-10-02T13:25:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T13:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/02\/nick-griffin-expelled-from-bnp\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:46:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:46:35","slug":"nick-griffin-expelled-from-bnp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/02\/nick-griffin-expelled-from-bnp\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Griffin Expelled From BNP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The former leader has been expelled from the party he led for 15 years<\/h3>\n

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The former leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin, has been expelled following allegations of harassment of members and having lied about the BNP’s top officials.<\/p>\n

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Mr Griffin, 55, was found guilty of a number of offences in an investigation by a party conduct committee which said in a statement that Mr Griffin had been \u201ctrying to cause disunity by deliberately fabricating a state of crisis\u201d in the party.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\/Released on Wednesday evening, the statement accused Mr Griffin of spreading \u201cdamaging and defamatory allegations\u201d via the internet and besmirching the party’s image \u201cthrough public statements\u201d and bringing it into disrepute.<\/p>\n

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In addition to these charges, the BNP statement identified Mr Griffin, who stood down as party leader in July, to have disobeyed his successor, Adam Walker, and also found the former head guilty of \u201charassing members of BNP staff and in at least one case making physical threats\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Mr Griffin, who led the party for 15 years, turned to social media to voice his defence and rejection of the committee’s findings, he claimed via Twitter that his expulsion, which he described as \u201cplastic gangster games\u201d, had been \u201cwithout trial\u201d and for calling a fellow party member a \u201cuseless, lazy tw*t\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The ex-head of the BNP became honorary president of the far-right party upon resigning as leader after losing his seat in the European Parliament in May and declaring bankruptcy, resultant of legal bills related to a number of court cases.<\/p>\n


\nA spokesman for the party said: \u201c”This has been a difficult decision to make and not one taken lightly.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cAlthough we all appreciate that Nick has achieved a lot for our party in the past, we must also remember that the party is bigger than any individual. <\/p>\n

\u201cNick did not adjust well to being given the honorary title of President and it soon became obvious that he was unable to work as an equal member of the team and alarmingly his behaviour became more erratic and disruptive.”<\/p>\n

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The former leader has been expelled from the party he led for 15 years The former leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin, has been expelled following allegations of harassment of members and having lied about the BNP’s top officials. Mr Griffin, 55, was found guilty of a number of offences in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015","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=8015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/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=8015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}