Sunday, 17 July 2022
Hope Not Hate, British Security Services and misguided politicians and political operators created National Action
Thursday, 5 August 2021
What are the criteria for registered political parties in the United Kingdom?
While Britain First has been repeatedly denied electoral registration despite being an active political organisation, having to go to the courts to challenge the Electoral Commission, the Electoral Commission has no qualms in having the British National Party as a registered political party despite repeated irregularities regarding the way those in charge of the British National Party are actually managing the organisation.
The situation has been so serious that auditors have often refused to give their assent when they have audited the accounts of the British National Party.
Reported irregularites have had to do with the way monies donated presumably to the organisation have ended up being spent. This includes party membership feeds, legacies made to the organisation, management of expenses making monies pocketed by private individuals being registered as expenses for the purpose of tax avoidance.
Individuals linked to the organisation have even accused of signing applications for public grants under false pretenses and of using monies collected by organisation for the organisation to pay for private mortgages.
Despite repeated attempts to launch an investigation into the ways whatever is left of the British National Party is actually run, years have passed and the organisation is suspected of being used by two private individuals as a cash-cow without any serious political commitment. A website continues to hosted, but of recent those in charge of maintaining the website walked away after they stopped being paid. Despite efforts made by a Labour Party MP to raise the issue with the Electoral Commission and the talk of a Police investigation, nothing was actually done. This raise the issue of the role the Electoral Commission is playing in the whole affair, on the one hand putting obstacles to registration of new political parties and on the other ignoring serious accusations of wrongdoing involving the British National Party.
Saturday, 12 October 2019
The Fall of the BNP and the rise of National Action
The Fall of the BNP and the rise of National Action
Thursday, 21 March 2019
EU Referendum Campaign:Who spent the most?
According to the Electoral Commission itself, those campaign against Brexit spent more than a million more in their political campaigning and this without adding tax payers moneys paid to the BBC and Channel 4 which - unknown to many - is also publicly funded.
Monday, 30 October 2017
British National Party - still around but only just
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Paul Sturdy - London Region |
For many, including the mass media, the British National Party has practically disappeared. Since Adam Walker took over in 2014 as Leader, with National Treasurer Clive Jefferson as Deputy Leader, not much has been happening in terms of political activities.
Adam Walker has not been the most active of political leaders, usually carrying out interviews without telling interviewees on the streets that he is actually Leader of the British National Party.
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Adam Walker |
In 2017, at the General Election, the BNP only managed to stand 10 candidates but things are even worse. It is not just about the lack of people willing to stand in elections. It is also about the way that several years monies (i.e. membership fees, donations and legacies) have been used. With barely two employees, apart from the Leader and the Deputy Leader that also get paid), the BNP managed to squander hundreds of thousands of Pound in salaries and "Administration Costs". Not that the local or regional branches - where there are still branches - get any kind of financial support from Central Office. In places like London, for example, branches have to manage to survive with whatever they get from collections and activists usually have to buy leaflets taking monies out of their pockets. They get no support whatsoever from Central Office.
The party is supposed to have four sessions of its National Executive every year and is also supposed to have a National Party Conference every year. It has been reported that the NEC hardly meets and that in 2017 there is not going to be a National Party Conference. For this reason, the London Region is organising a Regional Party Conference and has invited members of other regions.
Pictures of properties reportedly acquired by Adam Walker - at the moment Adam Walker's income is made up mainly of what he gets from the British National Party and from Karate Lessons- have been published. You would say that such income would not be enough to buy properties worth hundreds of thousands of Pound.
A brief look at the BNP Statements of Accounts presented to the Electoral Commission shows quite a few things that do not add up. (This information is readily available because it has been posted by the Electoral Commission on its website).
We have spoken with the Electoral Commission and with Members of Parliament about what is going on and sooner than later the Inland Revenue will have to intervene (and most probably also Police authorities will have to intervene). If as we suspect the present Leadership is taking monies as 'personal income' without declaring that it is 'personal income', this would be a clear case of false accounting and tax evasion and Adam Walker and Clive Jefferson would be liable for it.
In an effort to salvage the British National Party and prevent Adam Walker and Clive Jefferson from using the British National Party as a cash cow for their own private benefit, the London Region will have its own separate Regional Party Conference.
There is more to come and we will be reporting it as it happens.
Thursday, 21 September 2017
BNP: The reality BNP members should know about
Statement of Accounts 2016 Electoral Commission
The British National Party was run from a room in an industrial park in Cumbria until head office was moved to a room above a supermarket. Looking at successive Statements of Accounts presented to the Electoral Commission members and those making donations to the British National Party will be shocked when they know exactly what is being done with their membership monies and donations.
The picture is just a sample of the full Statement of Accounts presented to the Electoral Commission. As it appears, three people - the Leader Adam Walker, the Deputy Leader Clive Jefferson and the PA to the Leader pay themselves 122,691 Pound a year. But this is not all. Given how the party is run, it is very difficult to justify 162,162 Pound spent in what is labelled in the Statement of Accounts as Branch. For a party that barely appears on the news and given the fact that local branches of the organisation - the few that are still around - self-finance themselves - and given the fact that the party was merely able to stand less than 10 candidates in a General Election and took part in a few by-elections, the amount of 27,948 Pound as Campaigning fund is even more difficult to justify. Then comes 45,381 Pound claimed to have been spent in Commercial Activities.
But apart from the issue that after an initial analysis the numbers that appear on the Statement of Accounts 2016 are not credible, the question arises about where the monies actually go and serious doubts arise about what amount of money the Leader and the Deputy Leader are actually taking home and how much income they are actually declaring in their Income Tax Declarations sent to the Inland Revenue, in which case we could be talking about tax evasion.
Looking at past and present Statement of Accounts, the Deputy Leader Clive Jefferson, who at one point asked the party for monies to be used for private purposes, now appears to have become a lender to the party. Here comes the issue of legacies. Are legacies made to the party as an organisation or are legacies that should be made to the organisation being made to Clive Jefferson that then proceeds 'to lend money to the party'?
What is the situation from a legal standpoint? Is this done in accordance with present legislation regarding political parties and taxation for both political parties and individuals?
However, the bigger issue involves the members and those who continue giving money to the British National Party. Be very much aware of what is being done in your name and of who is benefiting from your hard earned money. If you are somebody thinking about becoming a member, about making a donation or writing a legacy to the British National Party or giving you legacy to the Deputy Leader of the British National Party, think very carefully because apart from publishing a website and organising phantom political campaigns with the few people still willing to stand in Elections, the organisation is being run for the sole benefit a few individuals at the top - less than five - who are cashing in monies that are supposed to be used for political purposes, monies that end up being used for private purposes.
We have no doubt that within the organisation and especially at local branch level there are true believers that are not there for private interest but have a legitimate interest. Unfortunately, the one body that was supposed to oversee the actions of the Leadership and what is done on behalf of the organisation - the National Executive Council - is now namely Clive Jefferson himself that also happens to be the Deputy Leader and National Treasurer.