Now many main Griffinites claim that Pete Rushton is Lowles. Rushton is very easy to identify. So are the Griffinites wrong ?

Also, how come he, Lowles, can get access but very many real nationalists are banned ?

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Author: Nick Lowles | Date: September 2004




Risking the elements


The middle of August means only one thing for British fascism, the annual Red, White and Blue (RWB) festival, the British National Party’s major political event of the year. The weekend event, which was held for the third year in succession in a field in Swaley, in the picturesque Ribble Valley, is meant to portray the BNP in a positive, family-orientated light. As in previous years however, the leadership had not counted on the drunken nazi-saluting exploits of their followers. Searchlight’s Nick Lowles reports from inside the RWB.
It was late on the Friday evening when I approached the site. The rain had gone but it had left its mark on many of the neighbouring fields and gardens. Even in the darkness it was clear that much of the RWB field was a quagmire.


This was the third festival that I have attended and I approached it with some trepidation. The BNP know I attend but have not, so far, identified me. Last year, master of proceedings, Kevin Scott, even called for me to reveal myself from the stage. As I drove up to the BNP security team, I would be lying if I didn’t admit to some nerves.


My concerns proved to be unfounded. I was duly checked in, handed my orange wristband and waved through. I was surprised to see several hundred people already there, but I was less surprised to see that most of them were drunk. Drunkenness was to be the predominant feature of the weekend.


I erected my tent, mingled for a while and then turned in for the night. I lay down with some nervousness, thinking about the fact that, only days before, the police had raided this farm and found an illegal firearm and silencer. A man has since been charged.


There was a hive of activity on the Saturday morning. The final touches were being put to the main stage, which this year was a 40-foot lorry, local regional stalls, a go-kart track and a bouncy castle. Between the main stage and the beer tent, Just Joes and Brooklyns Catering were already doing a brisk trade in burgers and bacon butties.


In all there were about 1,600 people there, slightly more than last year. Many stayed in the 160-odd tents dotted around the site, others in B&Bs in nearby Clitheroe. The party had helpfully provided us with a list of local cab companies to help BNP supporters to get to and from the site. To make sure we “bought British�, they also listed local Asian firms to boycott.


The mood, however, was quite different. There was none of the optimism that dominated last year’s event. There was no talk of the impending political breakthrough, of dozens of new councillors about to be elected and certainly no talk of the UK Independence Party being “yesterday’s party�. This year the mood was subdued and bitter. We were bombarded with the tear-jerking stories of failed election candidates who had been cheated out of victory by a conspiracy that involved virtually everyone.


The demeanour of BNP leader Nick Griffin summed up the mood of many. His face was drawn, red and puffy. His shoulders were hunched and he was without the confident exuberance of last year. It is not surprising really as he had been expecting to attend this year’s RWB as a Member of the European Parliament and to be surrounded by dozens of new councillors. Instead he has seen his party falter in the polls, his own leadership undermined by his underhand attempt to allow non-whites into the party, and the media onslaught following the BBC Secret Agent programme.


His keynote speech was equally downbeat. He riled against the political opponents who had used every “illegal tactic� to try and shut down the BNP. His next targets were the banks and supermarkets, which, according to Griffin, were plotting with the agrichemical industry to force farmers into high-density production. This, he continued, had led to the fall in the nutritional benefit from the food produced and caused many illnesses including chronic depression.

All interesting stuff but way beyond the audience. Griffin had started with an audience of about 900. By the end, 45 very long minutes later, this had dwindled to 600.


The other major feature of his speech was anti-social behaviour and youth crime. Offering us the virtues of birching, he also suggested that the culprits should be offered the chance to work in the community. He cited the example of one lad from East Anglia who had been given the chance of restoring a barn instead of being punished through the courts.


Let’s just hope that the working conditions were better than those offered to the NF activists who Griffin had put to work in the late 1980s. Back then, and passed off as a party fundraiser, NF activists tore out asbestos without any protective clothing and rebuilt a barn…on his father’s farm.


One group who were less than pleased with their leader’s speech were the Keighley contingent. Despite winning two councillors in the two wards contested in June, Griffin denounced the branch. He claimed that they had made many mistakes and contained many “bad apples�.


Griffin’s speech was long and boring and even I could not wait to the end. I slipped out of the audience and wandered around the site.


Despite the hype that this year’s event was going to be the biggest and best, I was surprised how little was actually there. Few of the party’s regions had answered the call to provide displays and the much-publicised stalls for commercial letting lay empty. What was there was hardly scintillating. John Gregory, from Halifax, had his box of racial eugenics books, and the West Midlands region were dishing out their usual fare of strange looking food. Not to be outdone in the bizarre food stalls was London who were serving out “thick crust sandwiches�. I think they missed out the stale in the title somewhere.


West Country activist Mike Howson had provided the children’s assault course. A former solider who has served in Northern Ireland and is now heavily involved with ex-servicemen groups, he is a rising star in the party.


The children’s entertainment was organised by Ian Collinwood, the new Merseyside organiser. He has recently replaced the totally ineffective Joe Owens, who appears to be taking a back seat while he writes his autobiography. Before anyone gets too excited about the startling admissions, Owens has announced that he is only covering his political life between 1978 and 1988. Quite what he has to write about given that the BNP achieved nothing in Merseyside during this time, or since, is anyone’s guess.


At the far side of the field, Sean from Scunthorpe was raising money for the party by offering punters the opportunity to pose with his 7-foot snake. Given that he was charging a quid a time and he appeared to have very few takers when I walked past, it is unlikely that he will be having to register his donation to the party with the Electoral Commission.


Next to Sean were the two London stalls. Richard Barnbrook and Bob Gertner appeared to be doing most of the work here though I did see the 17-times convicted criminal Colin Smith popping up from time to time.


Missing from the line-up was the Bradford stall. I overheard talk of an argument between Bev Jones and Bradford BNP boss Paul Cromie over his plans to have a raffle on his stall. The Bradford man was told that this contravened the licensing agreement and in disgust, Cromie refused to set up the stall. Given that Cromie likes to boast of being a millionaire, Griffin and Jones might come to rue their rudeness.


For the first time, the BNP had obtained an entertainments’ licence and the beer tent proved to be the biggest attraction for most of those present. Given the almost paralytic state of so many supporters the organisers must have sometimes wished they had not bothered. On the Friday evening one man was so drunk that he appeared to mistake a tree for his tent and climbed up and went to sleep.


How times have changed. Headlining the Saturday evening’s entertainment was Steven Calladine, better known in fascist circles as Stigger. A former member of the notorious nazi band Skrewdriver, and strong supporter of Combat 18, he has since transformed himself into a keen supporter of the ‘new’ BNP. So new, in fact, that he actually refused to play because too many of the assembled football yobs (mainly from Chelsea, Leeds and Burnley) were giving nazi salutes. Even a furious Griffin, who leapt on stage to denounce the football crowd, did little to reduce their exuberance.


Others were less upset by the assembled nazis. Doc Madness was quick to fill the void. He was later followed by Griffin’s daughters who “entertained� the crowd with some songs in Welsh. The night drew to a close with Stuart Russell’s fireworks display, which, even I had to admit, was better than last year’s.


Sunday was supposed to be the political day, the day when Tony Lecomber, Mark Collett and Jonathon Bowden et al. shared their political vision with the lowly membership. But it went wrong even before it had started. Collett was in no mood for anything after being rudely and publicly humiliated in the ‘Weakest Link’ competition, the previous evening. Lecomber was also in a foul mood but this owed more to the fact that about half of Saturday’s audience decided not to hang around for the Sunday. Many of those that remained were more interested in the car boot sale in the adjoining field.


In hindsight, Lecomber must thank his lucky stars that so few people heard, or cared, about his Q&A session. By now the event was bordering on the ridiculous. In answer to a question about Barclays Bank’s decision to shut out the party, we were informed that the BNP was to join forces with their continental counterparts to set up their own nationalist bank. I looked around the room in bemusement only to find half the audience nodding enthusiastically. The other half simply fiddled with their shoelaces or scratched their noses.


Sunday was an utter disaster. The organisation was shambolic, everything was delayed, if it happened at all, and tempers amongst the leadership were getting frayed. The prize-giving ceremony and closing speeches appeared to have been forgotten, not that this bothered the assembled audience. Fighting their way out was by now occupying most peoples’ minds. Mine included.


Politics had taken second place to a big booze-up but, given the poor election results and the despondency of many of the leadership, perhaps this was just as well.


© Searchlight Magazine 2004

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Any of this crap true folks ? :confused:

If Searchlight were really there, why did they not comment on Griffins 'foul mouthed' outburst ?

Why indeed? And I'd be curious to know when this was writen. Are we really expected to believe that he was there for three days and nobody noticed? If that is the truth then something needs to be done about security :eek:

My guess is that Lowles has been trawling the internet for articles writen by members, and that he made the rest up.

Some stuff I noticed that was taken from Stormfront Britain :)

That fact he didn't mention the foul mouth outburst by Nicky Boy...why not ? Even so too much detail in the story for him not to of been there.

I have to say the bit about Mark Collet was funny. The weakest link! :D

Aye "Young, Nazi and an Idiot" :D

Yeh, but his sister is a 'hot un' ! :D

Yeh, but his sister is a 'hot un' ! :D

Can we have a photo posted - please :)

Now many main Griffinites claim that Pete Rushton is Lowles. Rushton is very easy to identify. So are the Griffinites wrong ?

Also, how come he, Lowles, can get access but very many real nationalists are banned ?

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Author: Nick Lowles | Date: September 2004




Risking the elements


The middle of August means only one thing for British fascism, the annual Red, White and Blue (RWB) festival, the British National Party’s major political event of the year. The weekend event, which was held for the third year in succession in a field in Swaley, in the picturesque Ribble Valley, is meant to portray the BNP in a positive, family-orientated light. As in previous years however, the leadership had not counted on the drunken nazi-saluting exploits of their followers. Searchlight’s Nick Lowles reports from inside the RWB.
It was late on the Friday evening when I approached the site. The rain had gone but it had left its mark on many of the neighbouring fields and gardens. Even in the darkness it was clear that much of the RWB field was a quagmire.


This was the third festival that I have attended and I approached it with some trepidation. The BNP know I attend but have not, so far, identified me. Last year, master of proceedings, Kevin Scott, even called for me to reveal myself from the stage. As I drove up to the BNP security team, I would be lying if I didn’t admit to some nerves.


My concerns proved to be unfounded. I was duly checked in, handed my orange wristband and waved through. I was surprised to see several hundred people already there, but I was less surprised to see that most of them were drunk. Drunkenness was to be the predominant feature of the weekend.


I erected my tent, mingled for a while and then turned in for the night. I lay down with some nervousness, thinking about the fact that, only days before, the police had raided this farm and found an illegal firearm and silencer. A man has since been charged.


There was a hive of activity on the Saturday morning. The final touches were being put to the main stage, which this year was a 40-foot lorry, local regional stalls, a go-kart track and a bouncy castle. Between the main stage and the beer tent, Just Joes and Brooklyns Catering were already doing a brisk trade in burgers and bacon butties.


In all there were about 1,600 people there, slightly more than last year. Many stayed in the 160-odd tents dotted around the site, others in B&Bs in nearby Clitheroe. The party had helpfully provided us with a list of local cab companies to help BNP supporters to get to and from the site. To make sure we “bought British�, they also listed local Asian firms to boycott.


The mood, however, was quite different. There was none of the optimism that dominated last year’s event. There was no talk of the impending political breakthrough, of dozens of new councillors about to be elected and certainly no talk of the UK Independence Party being “yesterday’s party�. This year the mood was subdued and bitter. We were bombarded with the tear-jerking stories of failed election candidates who had been cheated out of victory by a conspiracy that involved virtually everyone.


The demeanour of BNP leader Nick Griffin summed up the mood of many. His face was drawn, red and puffy. His shoulders were hunched and he was without the confident exuberance of last year. It is not surprising really as he had been expecting to attend this year’s RWB as a Member of the European Parliament and to be surrounded by dozens of new councillors. Instead he has seen his party falter in the polls, his own leadership undermined by his underhand attempt to allow non-whites into the party, and the media onslaught following the BBC Secret Agent programme.


His keynote speech was equally downbeat. He riled against the political opponents who had used every “illegal tactic� to try and shut down the BNP. His next targets were the banks and supermarkets, which, according to Griffin, were plotting with the agrichemical industry to force farmers into high-density production. This, he continued, had led to the fall in the nutritional benefit from the food produced and caused many illnesses including chronic depression.

Wow, they are being very nice these days, no calling Griffen an evil fascist or a nazi thug. Sounds like his tactics are working and they are starting to like him... It must be all that jew ass kissing he and his loyal followers have been doing! :mad: Next thing you know they will be praising his ANTI MOSLIM speeches. Worring times for WN.

If Searchlight were really there, why did they not comment on Griffins 'foul mouthed' outburst ?

Because the jews will not be against his new LOVE the jew HATE the MOSLIM speeches. Do you think they want JT back in charge? Seems to me Nicks gaining some new friends.

How times have changed. Headlining the Saturday evening’s entertainment was Steven Calladine, better known in fascist circles as Stigger. A former member of the notorious nazi band Skrewdriver, and strong supporter of Combat 18, he has since transformed himself into a keen supporter of the ‘new’ BNP. So new, in fact, that he actually refused to play because too many of the assembled football yobs (mainly from Chelsea, Leeds and Burnley) were giving nazi salutes. Even a furious Griffin, who leapt on stage to denounce the football crowd, did little to reduce their exuberance.

Well I know a few of our (old B&H) guys hung around to hear Stigger who sadly has thrown in this lot with the sellouts. Ian would not be happy with that if he was till alive. I knew him well enough to have a good guess at his reaction to this shit. Just heard from them that Stigger didn't play. As for the NS salutes "maybe"? I know those that stayed were getting really pissed off.

We did not kick off only because there were children there, but we were sure very unhappy about the rip-off prices being charged and lack on any real WN direction. We just when home feeling ripped off, never to return.

Bunch of Torry Wannabees was our overall view of the new BNP!

Because the jews will not be against his new LOVE the jew HATE the MOSLIM speeches. Do you think they want JT back in charge? Seems to me Nicks gaining some new friends.
You got it.

As Sherlock Holmes observed ...

"What was interesting was the fact that the guard dog did not bark".

... never to return.
That's exactly what they want.

Rather than leaving (which is what white people always tend to do), stay in, make contacts and network.

I agree with Librarian. 'WE' need to rescue the BNP and all the hard work that has gone into the party.

That's exactly what they want.

Rather than leaving (which is what white people always tend to do), stay in, make contacts and network.

Maybe IF JT returned, but JT did not always give us a warm welcome either to set the record streight. At least with JT most of us agreed he had a good heart and was an honest man. So we would support him when needed. If he need security to get him into a meeting he has been banned from then maybe some of us could help (depending on where it was). ;)

Maybe IF JT returned, but JT did not always give us a warm welcome either to set the record streight. At least with JT most of us agreed he had a good heart and was an honest man. So we would support him when needed. If he need security to get him into a meeting he has been banned from then maybe some of us could help (depending on where it was). ;)

I am in contact with about 30 of my old B&H comrades and they are in contact with others, so maybe we could help if he wanted our help to take back the BNP?

The children’s entertainment was organised by Ian Collinwood, the new Merseyside organiser. He has recently replaced the totally ineffective Joe Owens, who appears to be taking a back seat while he writes his autobiography. Before anyone gets too excited about the startling admissions, Owens has announced that he is only covering his political life between 1978 and 1988. Quite what he has to write about given that the BNP achieved nothing in Merseyside during this time, or since, is anyone’s guess.

Wonder how Joey"Pain and Plenty of it" Owens is enjoying his new home in North Wales ?