Post by tiptoes on Nov 24, 2020 19:23:21 GMT
These days the BNP which he led in the noughties and became an MEP is spent force and its fall from the heights of publicity if not popularity (their website got more hits than any other political party) can be compared with John Leslie's dive into obscurity. Griffin himself has been ousted from the party since he didn't want to relinquish the reins and his former colleagues in the higher echelons of the party saw him as a political and financial liability. He has been made bankrupt twice. After his disappointing appearance on BBC QT things went downhill fast.
I was not unsympathetic to the party and its policies (although I've never voted for them) due to Blair's opening of the floodgates to immigration, his nutty neocon foreign policies plus his social liberalism which seemed to have its roots in the philosophy of cultural marxism than his alleged Christian beliefs, and attended one of his meetings with a BNP friend at the London Mayoral launch. These days I get sick of keyboard warriors decrying the state of the nation with its demographic mix but are/were too scared to put their heads above the parapet if it meant getting off their keyboards.
I'm not interested in your opinions on Griffin's policies, BNP or race. But one of the most interesting things about Nick is that having got into Cambridge on the basis of his academic abilities he won a Blue in 1980 at boxing in the Lightweight division. To gain an Oxbridge Blue at sport is quite an achievement. One of my friends at public school who like me was born in the same year and month as NG went to Cambridge at the same time (1977-80). This guy was a brilliant tennis player who played for the school 1st team from the ages of 14-17 and represented Somerset, but he never gained a Blue at Cambridge, to put things in perspective. And the point I'm leading up to that one of Griffin's Oxford opponents who he floored 3 times in the 1st round and beat was Stuart Gulliver.
So 2 Oxbridge students on the cusp of graduating with the world at their feet. Gulliver went on to become the Chief Executive of a FTSE100 company, namely HSBC and his annual earnings were £6 million at one stage while Griffin's jobs outside of politics which yielded nothing financially apart from his brief spell as MEP were in forestry and a few months in ASDA warehouse in Welshpool doing the night shift. It's a bit like 2 blokes doing an audition on Opportunity Knocks while the winner subsequently ends up doing some humdrum roles in his local am-dram group while the other guy goes on to become an Oscar winning film star.
I was not unsympathetic to the party and its policies (although I've never voted for them) due to Blair's opening of the floodgates to immigration, his nutty neocon foreign policies plus his social liberalism which seemed to have its roots in the philosophy of cultural marxism than his alleged Christian beliefs, and attended one of his meetings with a BNP friend at the London Mayoral launch. These days I get sick of keyboard warriors decrying the state of the nation with its demographic mix but are/were too scared to put their heads above the parapet if it meant getting off their keyboards.
I'm not interested in your opinions on Griffin's policies, BNP or race. But one of the most interesting things about Nick is that having got into Cambridge on the basis of his academic abilities he won a Blue in 1980 at boxing in the Lightweight division. To gain an Oxbridge Blue at sport is quite an achievement. One of my friends at public school who like me was born in the same year and month as NG went to Cambridge at the same time (1977-80). This guy was a brilliant tennis player who played for the school 1st team from the ages of 14-17 and represented Somerset, but he never gained a Blue at Cambridge, to put things in perspective. And the point I'm leading up to that one of Griffin's Oxford opponents who he floored 3 times in the 1st round and beat was Stuart Gulliver.
So 2 Oxbridge students on the cusp of graduating with the world at their feet. Gulliver went on to become the Chief Executive of a FTSE100 company, namely HSBC and his annual earnings were £6 million at one stage while Griffin's jobs outside of politics which yielded nothing financially apart from his brief spell as MEP were in forestry and a few months in ASDA warehouse in Welshpool doing the night shift. It's a bit like 2 blokes doing an audition on Opportunity Knocks while the winner subsequently ends up doing some humdrum roles in his local am-dram group while the other guy goes on to become an Oscar winning film star.