BNP targeting Ireland

Just when you hoped that the continuing spread of racist ideology was being relegated to the outskirts of society, the British National Party (BNP) has launched a campaign to establish a white nationalist party in Ireland.

The BNP claim that they have been contacted by Irish people asking for help in setting up a political party to run candidates in both the European elections and Leinster House.

The right-wing extremists have launched an 'Eire first fund' on their website, designed to finance an Irish party along the same racist lines as the BNP.

"We have been contacted by Irish people who are concerned at the number of third world immigrants coming into Ireland," said a BNP spokesperson. "They know that we are a political party that wants to maintain Britain as a white society."

"There is no advantage to a white society like Ireland's becoming a multicultural society."

In a convenient reversal of their previous anti-Irish, anti-Catholic doctrine, the BNP website now claims that the "fight" with Britain is over and that both countries are now involved in "a new battle" against multiculturalism.

And in spite of its longstanding and well documented links with unionist paramilitary groups, the BNP goes on to say that its new campaign "aims to encourage Irish patriots to... organise into a new party which will give the Irish electorate the chance to vote to keep Ireland Irish".

The BNP has even drafted a declaration based heavily on the Easter Proclamation of 1916 — in a reprehensible corruption of Irish republicanism — designed to encourage Irish people to support the BNP's doctrine of racial intolerance, violence and societal exclusion.

"Immigrants bring with them poverty, illness, crime and their genetic ancestry — which is different to ours," said the BNP goon. "I don't think Irish people want Negroes and Afghans coming to their country."

Sinn Féin's Alex Maskey described the BNP's use of the 1916 Proclamation as an abuse.

"Irish people across the world have suffered from racism at the hands of groups such as the BNP," said Maskey. "We cannot avoid the fact that across Ireland there is a growing campaign of intolerance, racism and xenophobia.

"The BNP 'Keep Ireland Irish' campaign is feeding on this negative agenda."