Those Tory generals who today attacked the British National Party should remember that at the Nuremberg Trials, the politicians and generals accused of waging illegal aggressive wars were all charged — and hanged — together.
This was the reaction of Nick Griffin MEP to the announcement that Tory lackeys Sir Richard Dannatt and Sir Mike Jackson had broken all military protocol with their statement attacking the BNP.
Mr Griffin also pointed out that it was under Sir Richard’s tenure as Chief of the General Staff that the British Army put a limit on the number of serving foreign troops so as to preserve the “British essence” of that force.
“There is a prima facie case for charging Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, William Hague and David Cameron with waging aggressive war against Iraq,” Mr Griffin said.
“The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials set the precedent when the leaders of Nazi Germany were charged with invading other countries which represented no military threat to Germany.
“Along with the political leadership of Nazi Germany, the chiefs of staff of the German army, Alfred Jodl and Wilhelm Keitel, were also charged with waging aggressive war.
“Sir Richard and Sir Mike fall squarely into this bracket, and they must not think that they will escape culpability for pursuing the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Mr Griffin said.
“These two gentlemen are Tories who have seen the traditional Conservative vote in the army, from private level up to senior officers, dissolve away and turn into BNP votes,” he said.
“These same generals said nothing when the news broke that Tory and Labour politicians were spending millions on personal expenses courtesy of the taxpayer, despite the army being underfunded.
“Sir Richard said nothing when Mr Cameron charged the taxpayer £680 to clear wisteria from his house’s chimney. Sir Richard said nothing when Jack Straw charged the taxpayer £8000 for a new plasma screen TV.
“Sir Richard said nothing about the fact that low-paid British soldiers have to buy their own kit because the Government has deliberately underfunded the army, despite sending our soldiers to foreign conflicts which have nothing to do with us.
“Yet now Sir Richard sees fit to wade into the public arena with a statement about the BNP. This exposes his typical disgusting Tory hypocrisy and his utter disregard for the ordinary British soldier,” Mr Griffin said.
“It is ironic that in September 2008, the British Army under Sir Richard’s watch, issued instructions to limit the number of foreign recruits,” Mr Griffin continued.
“At the time, official army documents said that the nation must maintain ‘Armed Forces which are predominantly British and whose members reflect and share the culture and values of British society’.
“This is BNP policy, as endorsed by Sir Richard when Chief of Staff. Yet now, because he has been given a job with the Tory party, these same policies are now reprehensible in his eyes.
“This hysterical attack on the BNP is nothing but a dying Tory toady gasp as the ordinary brave and loyal soldiers turn their backs on that party,” Mr Griffin said.
* Mr Griffin also dismissed as “sour grapes” complaints about the use of the Spitfire and quotes from Winston Churchill during BNP campaigns.
“The Spitfire represents the British fighting spirit against Continental totalitarianism. Winston Churchill’s comments on Islam, the European Union and unrestricted Third World immigration are the same as BNP policy, and he would have been expelled from today’s Tories for those views,” Mr Griffin said.
* Mr Griffin also dismissed as “disgusting” the launch of a Poppy Day appeal by Gordon Brown today.
“The Poppy Day appeal is supposed to go to help maimed and injured ex-servicemen, Mr Griffin said. “Mr Brown is the one who has sent our soldiers to war in unfit-for-service vehicles. He is the primary cause of so many injured soldiers in the first place. It is outrageous.”
Mr Griffin said he continued to wear a Poppy Day badge because he was asked to do so by injured soldiers, black and white, at the Birmingham Selly Oak military hospital. He was requested to do so to highlight the fact that these soldiers are charged money to watch television despite being bed-ridden while recuperating from serious wounds.
“I will not stop wearing my poppy badge until this disgrace is rectified,” Mr Griffin said. “This is something else ignored by Tory General Sir Richard who is totally out of touch with the rest of the army.”
* Both Sir Richard and Sir Mike received BNP information packs during the run-up to the June elections.
