That list of BNP members ‘should be public’ – ASLEF

THERE is no reason why details of British National Party members should not be made public, according to Keith Norman, general secretary of train drivers’ union ASLEF. Speaking after details – including names, addresses, job titles, telephone numbers and email addresses – of more than 10,000 members of the BNP were published online, Mr Norman said: “If they are ashamed of belonging to such an organisation, they should get out. If they regret being one of this group, they should resign. If, however, they are happy to peddle extreme right wing racism, then they should be happy to be identified as such.”

by Tribune Web Editor
Thursday, November 20th, 2008

by Keith Richmond

THERE is no reason why details of British National Party members should not be made public, according to Keith Norman, general secretary of  train drivers’ union ASLEF. Speaking after details – including names, addresses, job titles, telephone numbers and email addresses – of more than 10,000 members of the BNP were published online, Mr Norman said: “If they are ashamed of belonging to such an organisation, they should get out. If they regret being one of this group, they should resign. If, however, they are happy to peddle extreme right wing racism, then they should be happy to be identified as such.”

BNP leader Nick Griffin said he had lodged a complaint  with Dyfed-Powys police on the grounds that publication breached human rights legislation and data protection laws. The list of members, which dates from December 2007, includes doctors, lawyers, teachers, vicars and a number of serving police officers who have been prohibited, since 2004, from promoting the neo-fascist party.

Mr Norman said the argument that people might seek to discriminate against BNP members is nonsense. “It is their stated aim to discriminate against other people. It is only fair that their intended victims should be forewarned.”

ASLEF took the Government to the European Court to establish the right of a trade union to expel BNP members because they acted contrary to the aims and objects of the union. Mr Norman said: “I hope the release of this information will enable other unions to identify and remove individuals who wish to subvert, divide and discriminate.”

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  • john

    not a comparisson as the BNP unconditionally condemned stephen lawrence death and said they would do everything they could to help his killer be caught, But suppose every muslim who said the 7/7 bombings or 911 were good ,should their names ber revealed.

  • john

    not a comparisson as the BNP unconditionally condemned stephen lawrence death and said they would do everything they could to help his killer be caught, But suppose every muslim who said the 7/7 bombings or 911 were good ,should their names ber revealed.

  • john

    not a comparisson as the BNP unconditionally condemned stephen lawrence death and said they would do everything they could to help his killer be caught, But suppose every muslim who said the 7/7 bombings or 911 were good ,should their names ber revealed.

  • Frank McGill

    I do not see why the names of ALL members of ALL political parties are not in the domain.
    I mean, nobody in the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Parties have anything to hide do they?

  • Frank McGill

    I do not see why the names of ALL members of ALL political parties are not in the domain.
    I mean, nobody in the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Parties have anything to hide do they?

  • Frank McGill

    I do not see why the names of ALL members of ALL political parties are not in the domain.
    I mean, nobody in the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Parties have anything to hide do they?

  • Frederick

    Ah! another load of pseudo intellectual verbal diarrhoea from another Marxist, Ruskin College ‘two ‘O’ Level’ wonder. I remember the days when ASLEF was a fine union that cared about it’s members and it’s country. That was the 50′s/60′s when I was in it.
    Today, most union leaders are Marxists and would spout off that Alexander-the-Great’s horse was called Trigger, if they read it in a Marxist pamphlet. Most BNP members are good, caring people who only want their country to be a decent place to live again. This man has a serious problem: his idiotly conceipted faith in his own importance.

  • Frederick

    Ah! another load of pseudo intellectual verbal diarrhoea from another Marxist, Ruskin College ‘two ‘O’ Level’ wonder. I remember the days when ASLEF was a fine union that cared about it’s members and it’s country. That was the 50′s/60′s when I was in it.
    Today, most union leaders are Marxists and would spout off that Alexander-the-Great’s horse was called Trigger, if they read it in a Marxist pamphlet. Most BNP members are good, caring people who only want their country to be a decent place to live again. This man has a serious problem: his idiotly conceipted faith in his own importance.

  • Frederick

    Ah! another load of pseudo intellectual verbal diarrhoea from another Marxist, Ruskin College ‘two ‘O’ Level’ wonder. I remember the days when ASLEF was a fine union that cared about it’s members and it’s country. That was the 50′s/60′s when I was in it.
    Today, most union leaders are Marxists and would spout off that Alexander-the-Great’s horse was called Trigger, if they read it in a Marxist pamphlet. Most BNP members are good, caring people who only want their country to be a decent place to live again. This man has a serious problem: his idiotly conceipted faith in his own importance.

  • left888

    Marxists? If they were Marxists, they would never sell out a strike (like they do) and they’d try to coordinate to create a general strike (like they don’t) and they would make much more radical reform programmes, along the lines of Trotsky’s transitional programme (like they don’t).

    Bob Crow is probably the only really Marxist union leader. Which is a shame, because we need all the unions to be led by true Marxists, then the workers would get a better deal and maybe even a revolution.

    Workers of the world unite!

  • left888

    Marxists? If they were Marxists, they would never sell out a strike (like they do) and they’d try to coordinate to create a general strike (like they don’t) and they would make much more radical reform programmes, along the lines of Trotsky’s transitional programme (like they don’t).

    Bob Crow is probably the only really Marxist union leader. Which is a shame, because we need all the unions to be led by true Marxists, then the workers would get a better deal and maybe even a revolution.

    Workers of the world unite!