Griffin’s “sink migrants” comments show the British National Party’s true Nazi colours

From Unite Against Fascism – www.uaf.org.uk

Nick Griffin, leader of the fascist British National Party (BNP), has let slip what his party really stands for with his call to sink boats carrying African migrants to Europe. Speaking to the BBC, Griffin called on the European Union to “get very tough with those coming over”, before spelling out what these “tough” measures meant: “Frankly, they need to sink several of those boats.”

When BBC journalist Shirin Wheeler protested that this would mean murdering people at sea, Griffin replied: “I say boats should be sunk, they can throw them a life raft and they can go back to Libya”. He added that Europe had to “close its borders or it’s simply going to be swamped by the Third World”.

Weyman Bennett, joint secretary of Unite Against Fascism, said: “Griffin’s comments show all too starkly that the BNP’s claims to have ‘moderated’ its politics are lies. Griffin remains a committed Nazi and the BNP remains a fascist organisation. His brazen contempt for the lives of Africans stem directly from his white supremacist Nazi beliefs. For Griffin, black people are subhumans – ‘untermenschen’ whose lives are worthless.
“This is the kind of thinking that underpinned Hitler’s Holocaust. And it is not a mistake or a slip of the tongue on Griffin’s part. Just as when Jean-Marie Le Pen called the Holocaust ‘a detail of history’, Griffin is being deliberately provocative in order to harden up those drawn to the party over the course of the European election campaign.
“All this underlines that the BNP is not a legitimate or democratic organisation and should not be treated as such. Anyone repelled by Griffin’s comments should come to the anti-fascist conference called by UAF in Manchester on 18 July and to the protests against the BNP’s fascist rally in Derbyshire on 15 August.”