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THE British National Party has announced Northern Ireland is a priority target for its recruitment drives and council election campaigns.
Leader of the far-right group, Nick Griffin, travelled to the Province for a secret rally in North Down where he said “Catholics, Protestants and dissenters” must unite to halt a mass influx of immigrants, the News Letter has learned.
Mr Griffin’s visit, blasted by local councillors, came one week before the launch of a multicultural forum in the borough.
A crowd of around 40 people, made up of members and their “trusted friends”, turned up at the meeting on January 15. It was held at a business premises which the party refused to name to protect the owner’s identity.
Ulster BNP organiser Kieran Dinsmore yesterday revealed: “Nick informed them that unless checked immediately [mass immigration] will eventually be to the detriment of everyone.
“He said now is the time for Catholic, Protestant and dissenter to unite as one to defend our collective, indigenous and cultural heritage.
“Nick explained how Northern Ireland was now a BNP target priority area in serious need of BNP representation.
He promised the crowd many more visits this year.”
Mr Dinsmore admitted there are only around 100 paid-up BNP members in Northern Ireland compared to the thousands in England.
But he said the flood of migrant workers into Ulster in recent years had spurred the party on to step up recruitment efforts.
The Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities estimates there are up to 60,000 migrant workers in the Province, but exact numbers are not recorded.
They have been widely praised for taking key jobs traditionally shunned by locals and adding billions to the economy in income tax and VAT.
But Mr Dinsmore claimed: “Immigrants and bogus asylum seekers are stretching every public resource and benefit available, especially in healthcare and housing.”
“Our volunteers recently put leaflets through letterboxes in south Belfast and a postman they met told them, ‘Give it up lads – it’s like little Poland round here’.”
The BNP denies charges of racism and links to neo-Nazi groups such as Combat 18, but wants to move black and Asian people out of the UK under a “voluntary repatriation scheme” aimed at slashing 15 million from the population.
It also restricts membership to “indigenous Caucasians”, opposes homosexuality and has promoted Holocaust denial.
Mr Dinsmore insisted it was an “offensive and sinister ploy” by the “liberal media” to brand the party fascist, and vowed it would soon field candidates for local government.
North Down mayor Stephen Farry said he was sickened by the move.
The Alliance councillor added: “The contrast between the positive spirit at the launch of North Down’s multicultural forum and the bitter negativity offered at the BNP meeting could not be more stark.
“If the BNP ever put forward a candidate in North Down I’m sure people here would give them extremely short shrift.”
Mr Farry’s deputy mayor, DUP councillor Wesley Irvine, added: “You only have to look at our hospitals to see how well immigration is servicing us. It seems the BNP is just trying to convince people immigration is out of control and then compound people’s fears.”
THE British National Party has announced Northern Ireland is a priority target for its recruitment drives and council election campaigns.
Leader of the far-right group, Nick Griffin, travelled to the Province for a secret rally in North Down where he said “Catholics, Protestants and dissenters” must unite to halt a mass influx of immigrants, the News Letter has learned.
Mr Griffin’s visit, blasted by local councillors, came one week before the launch of a multicultural forum in the borough.
A crowd of around 40 people, made up of members and their “trusted friends”, turned up at the meeting on January 15. It was held at a business premises which the party refused to name to protect the owner’s identity.
Ulster BNP organiser Kieran Dinsmore yesterday revealed: “Nick informed them that unless checked immediately [mass immigration] will eventually be to the detriment of everyone.
“He said now is the time for Catholic, Protestant and dissenter to unite as one to defend our collective, indigenous and cultural heritage.
“Nick explained how Northern Ireland was now a BNP target priority area in serious need of BNP representation.
He promised the crowd many more visits this year.”
Mr Dinsmore admitted there are only around 100 paid-up BNP members in Northern Ireland compared to the thousands in England.
But he said the flood of migrant workers into Ulster in recent years had spurred the party on to step up recruitment efforts.
The Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities estimates there are up to 60,000 migrant workers in the Province, but exact numbers are not recorded.
They have been widely praised for taking key jobs traditionally shunned by locals and adding billions to the economy in income tax and VAT.
But Mr Dinsmore claimed: “Immigrants and bogus asylum seekers are stretching every public resource and benefit available, especially in healthcare and housing.”
“Our volunteers recently put leaflets through letterboxes in south Belfast and a postman they met told them, ‘Give it up lads – it’s like little Poland round here’.”
The BNP denies charges of racism and links to neo-Nazi groups such as Combat 18, but wants to move black and Asian people out of the UK under a “voluntary repatriation scheme” aimed at slashing 15 million from the population.
It also restricts membership to “indigenous Caucasians”, opposes homosexuality and has promoted Holocaust denial.
Mr Dinsmore insisted it was an “offensive and sinister ploy” by the “liberal media” to brand the party fascist, and vowed it would soon field candidates for local government.
North Down mayor Stephen Farry said he was sickened by the move.
The Alliance councillor added: “The contrast between the positive spirit at the launch of North Down’s multicultural forum and the bitter negativity offered at the BNP meeting could not be more stark.
“If the BNP ever put forward a candidate in North Down I’m sure people here would give them extremely short shrift.”
Mr Farry’s deputy mayor, DUP councillor Wesley Irvine, added: “You only have to look at our hospitals to see how well immigration is servicing us. It seems the BNP is just trying to convince people immigration is out of control and then compound people’s fears.”
