BNP invite to Queen’s garden party.
Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 6:20pm
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I have just had the press release below through from the organisation Republic. Its very worrying indeed, and poses yet again more questions about the current state of our democracy- an unelected representative of an archaic institution inviting a blatatly racist party to an event which probably costs a fortune to organise ( scrutiny please!)
Nick Griffin is attending according to the Mail online, and there is also a story in the London Evening Standard.
I don’t often quote from the Mail, but I think this one is quite pertinent in this instance-
‘The invite will be an acute embarrassment to the Queen, whose aides invited the London Assembly to the annual function en masse’.
Giving more legitimacy to the BNP is not what is needed at this juncture. The BNP are a racist party, and have no place in British democracy.
And by the by, are the BNP aware of the Royal family’s ancestry?
Press Release 20th May 2009 ROYAL BNP BLUNDER SLAMMED BY REPUBLIC
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Republic has today attacked the Queen’s decision to invite senior members of the far-right British National Party to a Buckingham Palace garden party.
Spokesperson Graham Smith said:
“This is a catastrophic blunder by the Queen.”
“British democracy is facing its biggest crisis for generations and the Queen decides to welcome extremists to Buckingham Palace.”
“This gaffe will ensure the BNP will get acres of free publicity. It beggars belief that this could happen so close to an election.”
“We’re often told that the Queen doesn’t put a foot wrong, but by inviting the far-right to the Palace she’s really let the country down.”
“This divisive move will cause huge offence and will force many to
question the future of the monarchy.”
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WHAT IS REPUBLIC?
Republic is a membership-based pressure group calling for the democratic replacement of the monarchy by an elected head of state.
Republic lobbies politicians and opinion-formers, undertakes original research on the monarchy, comments on Royal stories in the media and provides information on republicanism.
Republic is a non-party-political organisation with members from all the main parliamentary parties. Its distinguished supporters include 20 MPs, as well as leading figures from politics, law and the arts. A full list of Republic’s supporters can be found at http://www.republic.org.uk/supporters.
Bethan,
Nick Griffin is not a member of the London Assembly. The invite was to all London Assembly members, one of those was the BNP’s Richard Barnbrook. He invited Griffin as his guest.
Hopefully the Royals will do the right thing and rescind the invitation based on security grounds with regards Griffin’s previous convictions.
Pam ar wyneb y Ddaear fydde Mrs Windsor yn neud fath beth?! Odyw hi di colli’i meddwl? Na’r peth ola sydd ishe ar y BNP yw’r fath cefnogaeth ag hwn oddiwrth Palas Buckingham!
As I understand it, the invitee was Richard Barnbrook, a member of the GLA who has selected Nick Griffin as his “plus one”. The Palace has said it has yet to approve the guest list.
well given the duke of edinburgh’s alleged nazi views i would have thought nick griffin would be in good company!!