Dark Family Secrets Of BNP Leader Nick Griffin

[Nachtengel]

BNP leader Nick Griffin, who last week branded gypsies “anti social and criminal”, can trace his roots to travellers hawking cheap goods from a horse and cart.

The controversial MEP’s great-grandfather George Griffin roamed from town to town in a horse-drawn caravan with his wife Esther and their children, selling china and crockery.

Census reports show he spent years living the gypsy life, never settling in one place because as an impoverished traveller he was on the margins of society and never fully accepted anywhere.

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[velvet]

"Travellers" are not equal "gypsies", although they were handled the same way. The new paper that demands for 'equal or better health care' mentions both groups, if it were the same, this wouldnt be necessary.

I guess Griffin will just laugh about that 'sensational finding'

[Horagalles]

]"Travellers" are not equal "gypsies",[/B] although they were handled the same way. The new paper that demands for 'equal or better health care' mentions both groups, if it were the same, this wouldnt be necessary.

I guess Griffin will just laugh about that 'sensational finding'

Exactly and I am amazed (or rather amused) to what extent they will investigate Nick Griffins family history just to find some "dark family secrets".

[SaxonPagan]

This is one of many anti-BNP pieces to be found in the Daily Express on a regular basis. Its Editor, Richard Desmond, was a porn baron who traded in filth before buying this newspaper (which is arguably worse!) and I think he still owns a couple of TV porn channels to this day.

His family history is pretty straightforward though. He’s a Jew, his parents were Jews and his grandparents were Jews. So, no surprises there then!

[Sigurd]

Well, besides the point that not all travellers are gypsies, they're serving him a rebuttal on a silver plate. All he'd need to say to retain the upper hand would be sth like: "Yea it's true, but the difference is, our family settled at some point to lead an orderly lifestyle. If we took only three generations to climb the ladder, so can bloody well they."

[Hamar Fox]

I must say, though, that I love the article's implicit racism:

George habitually lied about his age, describing himself as 25 in the 1871 Census, 41 a decade later, 47 in the 1891 Census and 58 in 1901. He plied his precarious trade in Devon and Cornwall and could often be found parked outside the London Inn pub in Liskeard


His lifestyle would not have fitted with the intolerant views of Mr Griffi n and the British National Party which does not accept black people as members.

So, according to this journalist, lying about your age on a national census means that you're 'black'. Now by 'black' I'm sure the simpleton meant 'Gypsy'. So the guy is basically saying his great-grandfather was dishonest and therefore necessarily ethnically Gypsy

[Patrioten]

"Travellers" are not equal "gypsies", although they were handled the same way. The new paper that demands for 'equal or better health care' mentions both groups, if it were the same, this wouldnt be necessary.

Back when a certain member on here was peddling this idea of travellers being different to gypsies in their behaviour I could only provide my uneducated guess work that they must have alot in common considering their shared reputation. As of now though I have not only common sense but also experience to tell me that travellers are up there with the gypsies in terms of antisocial behaviour.