Is the new BNP constitution worth anything? New information would suggest not

It’s been a few days now since the British National Party appeared in court for what was to be the final hearing regarding the amendments to the BNP Constitution to allow the party to comply with the Race Relations Act 1976, it would seem from reading all the available documents that have become public over this weekend that the last minute changes made to the British National Parties Constitution v12.1 are all but just cosmetic as it would seem that the BNP have managed to produce a work around solution that pretty much makes the BNP Constitution all but pointless.

Under the new BNP Constitution (v12.1) they have created a number of new organisational structures under which the British National Party falls, those new organisations are as follows:

The Founders Association

The Shieldwall Foundation

The Indigenous Forum

The BNP’s new constitution now states:

“our Party is a member of the association known as The British Shieldwall Foundation along with the Founders’ Association and the Indigenous Forum”

This raises a series of questions that in my opinion have fairly straight forward answers, Nick Griffin has indeed removed the portions of the BNP Constitution that Friday’s Court Injunction Required them to remove, therefore making the current version of the constitution legal under the required laws, however the creation of these new organisations means that anyone who should join the British National Party under it’s current constitution (V12.1) will gain no rights in terms of deciding on the parties structure or future.

It would seem that all rights to elect the BNP Chairman have been transferred to the Founders Association, meaning that only members which the BNP choice to be members of the Founders Association will have any ability to elect the chairman of the BNP, which at it’s basic level means anyone who becomes a member of the BNP as of it’s re-opening of membership will have no voting rights within the BNP as those voting rights are only open to members of the Founders Association.

This was obviously designed to subvert any attempt by groups of non-white people who may or may not have decided to join the party in an attempt to either change it from within or to vote Nick Griffin out as it’s leader as this is no longer possible under the new constitutional rules.

As the Founders Association is not a registered political party there is no legal requirement for the BNP to publish the constitution of the Founders Association or the two other new bodies it has created, so we can safely assume that there are some serious protections in that organisations make up and rules that will permanently restrict membership of that controlling body to whites only.

In essence all the BNP have done is edit the Constitution of the British National Party to fit the court judgment and the Race Relations Act, and by moving certain powers to the new organisations makes these changes basically irrelevant and cosmetic as clearly anyone joining the party that isn’t white will never have any opportunity to vote on anything within the party.

So what is the reality of what has actually happened?

In reality the BNP have become on non racist party on paper, but the new ‘Founders Association’ clearly remains racist and seeks to protect the original values of the BNP, in that if you’re not white then you’re not welcome, it could be read that the BNP as it stands now is nothing more than a front organisations that just masks the real organisation hidden by the three new internal organisations the BNP has created.

So have they changed? in my opinion it is pretty evident that the BNP haven’t changed in the slightest all they have done is mask the original BNP behind this new structure so that the core membership and leaders/people can maintain their original ethos and believe systems, but they now have the ability to claim the public face “British National Party” isn’t racist and accepts non-whites without restrictions, with the party now being controlled by the Founders Organisation which can run as it see’s fit as it doesn’t have to comply to the Race Relations Act or the forthcoming Equalities Act as it isn’t a registered political party.

From information I have arsing from conversations with the EHRC and the Courts it is not clear whether Griffin’s membership list decision is legal or whether he will face a contempt-of-court sanction from the Courts, as warned by the judge.

Which means we remain in a watch this space position until such time as all the legal beagles etc have looked at everything and a decision is made, as anything changes I will of course update my readers.

The current documents that are available for you to read are as follows:

The Judgment issued on Friday 12th March by Judge Paul Collins Click Here

The British National Party (BNP) 12th Constitution Click Here

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