Manchester -
The British National Party (BNP)
has secured two seats in elections to the European Parliament. The party leader Nick Griffin
(photo) was elected as an MEP for the North West region of England while Andrew Brons was elected for the Yorkshire and the Humber area also in the north of England.
Protestors hurled eggs and broke car windows in a furious rage after the BNP election victory in the North
West .
Griffin said: "Every different ethnic group in this multicultural, multi-ethnic society that our masters have imposed on us are all allowed groups to stand up on their behalf, but the indigenous majority are not.
... I don't believe that they
[the immigrants] can be English, Irish Scottish or Welsh because that is something that is ingrained. They are British citizens of Asian
origin. ... All indigenous people all over the world have certain rights and one of those is to control their own borders so their bloodline and their culture remains dominant in their country without being hostile to anybody else. It is a basic human
right".
In 1998 Griffin was convicted of inciting racial hatred and given a nine-month suspended prison sentence for publishing an article, which he termed the
'Holohoax': "I am well aware that the orthodox opinion is that six million Jews were gassed and cremated and turned into lampshades. Orthodox opinion also once held that the world is flat... I have reached the conclusion that the 'extermination' tale is a mixture of Allied wartime propaganda, extremely profitable lie, and latter
witch-hysteria." Griffin later condemned the Nazi persecution of Jews as one of the most appalling crimes of
the 20th Century.
