Griffin's career sleeps with the fishes

Following the devastating Panorama expose, broadcast yesterday evening, Nick Griffin's career is now as dead as any fish you might be handed wrapped in a newspaper.

Last night's documentary, which contained damning testimony from former senior officers, contractors and employees of the British National Party to the incompetence (let us call it this and nothing worse, for now) of Griffin's leadership, is a "Sicilian message" to the members:  Griffin's career is defunct.

It now only remains to give it a decent burial, and to move on.

If any members have any lingering doubts about this then the fact that the party's main web site, http://www.bnp.org.uk/, has been down for much of the day should help them to make up their minds.

Griffin, true to form, is selfishly continuing to drag the BNP down with him into an abyss of insolvency and public discredit, while at the same time his mercenary creatures, such as the non-member Harrington, dismiss any criticism as coming from "dark forces", or "useful idiots". Such is the contempt in which those of us who have the party's best interests at heart, and are not mere hirelings, are held by its so-called leadership.

 If only Griffin himself were a "useful idiot" instead of a useless one the party might still, against all the odds, survive.  But then, perhaps being useless to us makes him useful to those "dark forces" to which he invariably refers whenever any member presumes to impeach his disastrous maladministration of the BNP.

Our party has urgent tasks to perform. We owe it to ourselves to look to the future and to prepare ourselves properly for the challenges that lie ahead. We cannot do that with the burnt-out case Griffin hanging like an albatross around the party's neck.

Change is never easy, but it is only through change that progress comes, and it is progress that we, the BNP and our people need above all else.