How Nick Griffin Made His Millions

Nick Griffin is a wealthy man. He has never had to complete an honest days work in his life. When he is not jetting around the world, or travelling round the UK (in a crappy Rover 75 I would hope!) spreading the word of hate he can more often than not be found at his South Wales estate. It is here that he plays at being a country squire and hosts the annual BNP Red white and Blue Rally... Sorry I mean Festival.

Some of this cash is old money. The Griffin's are not a a poor family. Nick's father is a successful accountant and the family trust no doubt pays out a nice annuity... This helps explain the estate, private education and most crucially why the BNP has been able to sustain deposit crunching defeats like the 3.6% vote share bludgeoning at the by-election Henley in 2008. As a point of reference turnout was just over fifty percent and the Green party won 3.8% of the votes cast.

This is not to say that Nick Griffin is just a spoiled brat who has used his daddy's money to further a frankly quite pathetic political career. No, Nick Griffin has been quite successful at adding to the family pot and by extension the coffers of the British Nationalist party. Nick Griffin is the high powered co-owner of an employment agency and foreign language school.

How decent and sensible of him you might think. Mr. Griffin is clearly a true gent, a real country squire who just wants to help all those poor, displaced White British who have been put out of a job by the unwashed hordes of French-Canadian bankers and Indian Computer Science PHD's. His language school must be a work of genius. You can just see it now, rows of nicotine stained old women on long term sickness benefit and paunchy skinheads sitting in a class room learning to know their enemy. May be Richard barnbrooke could set up a film school so they can learn how to shoot, soft, gay porn flicks? Help finance more election defeats.

However this is not how the Griffin business empire works....

In 1980, Nick Griffin became close freinds with Roberto Fiore a key suspect in the Bologna Railway Station Bombing. The Bologna bombing was carried out by Neo-Fascists in a city famous for its communist links, 85 people were killed and 200 injured in what remains one of Europe's worst peace time terrorist attacks.

Fiore moved in with Griffin and the two shared rooms for several years (and possibly more if the bisexual rumours are true). The two of them developed a new ideology called 'The International Third Position'-essentially a poisonous mixture of Roman Catholicism , Neo-Nazism, Neo-Fascism and the occult. It is somewhat like the Ku Klux Klan.

In more recent times Griffin and Fiore have gotten into business together. It is Fiore who manages the day-to-day running of their businesses. Easy London (Londra Facile) is an employment firm that assists Italian speakers in finding employment in Britain! It is also involved with advertising in Italian speaking countries for immigrants and provides advice and naturalisation classes for those who have come over. Speaking from a liberal perspective this is a noble undertaking-but a bizare one for two virulent nationalists and noted xenophobes to be involved with. Especially if you consider the recent British Jobs Campaign.

The language school is another bizarre undertaking. CL Languages, specialises in Italian but in the 10 years since it was founded has expanded into teaching other languages. The school gets a lot of its custom from new immigrants; many of whom are of African or Asian Origin.

Even more bizarrely for a successful company (it has 100 students at a time who pay £30 an hour for tuition). Its accounts, which are managed by Griffin senior showed a profit of only £2,214 for the 2007 financial year. This leaves you wondering; where does that money go?

Edgar Griffin, who was expelled from the Conservative Party in 2001 because of his links with the BNP, admits that his clients business is 'substantial'. Citing confidentiality he refused to tell the Guardian newspaper what the school did with its money. In the same article Simon Darby refused to comment on speculation that the BNP was receiving funds from the school. He stopped short of saying that in refusing to comment on the allegations he was 'just following orders' by stating that 'he had never met the man', but that he knew 'that [the Griffin family] knew him well'.

I have presented the case it is up to you to make up your mind as to whether or not the leader of a party that bases much of its its anti-immigration stance should be helping immigrants get work and become naturalised. I for one feel that it is highly ironic that immigrants are being made to donate to people who publically state that they don't think that they should even be allowed into the country in the first place. That Nick Griffin and Fiore should be involved with those who actually want to intergrate (like almost all immigrants do) and that these brave souls money might end up being used to agitate against them is quite frankly macarbe.

The Guardian Article

Easy London (Site is in Italian)

CL English (refrence on a listing site)