He was interviewed by human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, on his weekly TV programme, Talking With Tatchell at the weekend.
The neo-Nazi British National Party is fighting a record number of seats in the May 3 local, Scottish and Welsh elections – over 800 seats in total. It is aiming to double its number of councillors.
Mr. Collins reveals that the BNP’s makeover as an ostensibly respectable British patriotic party is a con.
The BNP may have discarded its ‘bovver boot’ image in favour of slick city suits, and toned down its street thuggery, but behind the smiling face of its leader Nick Griffin lurks a hateful Islamophobia, racism and homophobia, Mr. Tatchell said.
The BNP is a menace to democracy and to minority communities; posing a particular threat to the security of Black, Asian, Jewish, Muslim and gay people, he suggested.
Mr. Collins explained the BNP’s strategy: it preys on deprived white working class communities; exploiting and manipulating their grievances – often fabricating claims of preferential treatment for immigrants and asylum seekers, in order to stir up a white racist backlash that it can then take advantage of.
The key to defeating the BNP is youth education in diversity and tolerance, the promotion of multicultural projects where people of all races work together to benefit all sections of the community, and government action to address the neglect and deprivation that prompts some alienated white working class people to turn to the far right, the programme suggested.
Mr. Collins also warns that in order to win broader electoral appeal the BNP has, at least publicly, dumped its more extreme policies, such as the repatriation of non-white people.
Now, he revealed, it has a more subtle, covert strategy to drive black people out of Britain – a secret plan for a regime of de facto apartheid, whereby non-white people will face gradually ever-increasing restrictions, exclusions and deprivations.
The BNP’s aim, Mr. Collins suggested, is to make life in Britain so unbearable for black people that they will want to return to the countries from which their forebears migrated.
http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/07/April/3001.htm
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Cunts
30.04.2007 22:27
Activo
Anti-Semitic BNP Website
01.05.2007 08:05
After the hero lecturer was murdered by the psycho killer on the American campus, this heroic man, having saved many lives by holding the door, the aptly-named BNP "CUNT" blogsite (COVERT UNDERCOVER NUISANCE TACTICS) posted a sick racist story about how glad they were that the hero had died...... because he happened to be Jewish......
This vile racism was beyond words......
Unlike Redwatch, this website isn't proscribed by the BNP. The bloody thing's run by the BNP, folks..
So much for the BNP renouncing their sick and evil anti-semitism.
If the BNP took power, as recent revelations prove, they would start persecuting (and ultimately murdering) all minorities, including black, Asian, Muslim, gay, and Jewish people.
AND BEWARE THE NAZI TROLLS.................
And don't believe the numerous nazi troll comments which will undoubtedly follow this thread, once Stormponce gets a whiff of this posting. White supremacist trolls don't have a social life, and spend all day at their computer spewing hatred on any internet forums discussing immigration, race, or the BNP.
Linda Lovelace
Spinning for whom?
01.05.2007 16:43
http://18doughtystreet.com/talk_tv/programme/314
18 Doughty Street is Tory TV, so Peter's been a committed socialist (don't laugh), a Green parliamentary candidate in Oxford East (No, please) and now a media tart for conservative party on-line broadcasts.
Even right-wing bloggers like Guido see Tatchell as a fig-leaf to give the station a credibility that it otherwise lacks:
http://www.order-order.com/2007/04/doughty-street-moves-away-from-tory-tv.html
Doughty Street claims:
Does 18 Doughty Street back the Conservative Party?
18 Doughty Street is independent of all the political parties. While the four directors of Doughty Media Limited are members of the Conservative Party, they are small “c” conservatives first and foremost. This means that, on occasions, 18 Doughty Street will be very critical of the direction of the Conservative Party and its current leader, David Cameron and, on other occasions, 18 Doughty Street will applaud the approaches adopted by the Liberal Democrats, UKIP and the Labour Party
Tatchell's puff piece not only fails to mention this, but it is presented uncritically as news on indymedia?
What next McDonalds and Barclay's getting advertising on here? The original post is nothing more than an advert for a right-wing TV company and Indymedia failed to spot it.
As for Michael Collins well just remember Nick Griffin and Charlie Sergeant have also been a Searchlight and/or police/MI5 informer in the past, may be Peter Tatchell will be interviewing them in future?
Bermonsey Bill
Do Not Adjust Your Computer
02.05.2007 13:21
Why does everyone have to work for MI5 in the minds of the lazy bastards?
Spinning Jenny