Last Friday, there was a brief interlude of excitement in London’s fashionable West End, when a middle aged man walked into the offices of Advantage Training Services with what he said was a bomb, and held the staff hostage. It was said that he had failed his test for an HGV drivers license – which he had trained for with the company – and had “nothing to live for”, as a result.
You will be wholly unsurprised to learn that the arrested hoaxer, Michael Green, was the British National Party’s candidate for Stevenage.
Green said on election day: “I strongly support bringing back corporal punishment, getting out of the EU because of the amount of money we are ploughing into it which could be used in this country, and stopping immigration. This country is clearly full up at the moment.”
Asked about extremism in his party, he said: “I think any party has extreme members in it – but that is not the majority. Most of the people who belong to the BNP are people like myself – people who have had enough of the three main parties. The main parties are not addressing immigration and people in the country are fed up of it.”
Well, he is certainly due a sound thrashing for what he put a group of terrified London workers through, last Friday.
This was not the first time in recent years that former BNP candidates have been involved with terrorism. Green, I suspect, has something of Michael Douglas in Falling Down to him. A more disturbing case was Robert Cottage, who hoarded chemicals which he was planning to use to make explosives in the event of a “civil war”.
via Hope not Hate
