Shades of Grey

We got a folded A3 “Morley Patriot” through the door recently but it is the usual mish-mash of “blame everyone else for everything, vote for us and we’ll sort it all” variety, not worthy of even fisking.

A more interesting development is a letter in the paper informing us of a new (unofficial) BNP blog, called Morley Patriot. It mentions discussion about local food production, but when you go over there, the lead story is a link onto another site called Morley Borough Independents Exposed.

This anonymous site mimics the MBI site somewhat in colour scheme (and uses some of the images, probably without permission) but is much more vitriolic, unsurprisingly. However it doesn’t really have teeth, simply rehashing old (and newer) news stories and even letters to the Press.

Of course, lots of people may not know (or may have forgotten) about some of these goings on so as usual, if you throw enough mud some of it sticks.

I checked out the registrant of the domain- an individual who has chosen to withhold his name and address. (not that it will protect them from a court order of course).

So, who is behind this site? They seem to have transcribed most of the articles, rather than cut & pasted them. It could be another Party Activist (probably Labour or BNP) or as MorleyPatriot puts it:

It could well have been created by one of the many disgruntled people who the MBIs have made bitter enemies of over the years.

I am not certain who these bitter enemies might be, other than Labour activists. Whilst myself and several other “politically independent community activists” might dislike their  words and deeds on occasions, they are infinitely preferable to what the mainstream parties have to offer.

(I can assure readers it wasn’t me, I know how to spell “Finnigan”.)

If it is someone from the BNP, then I trust that they will ensure that they find out who it is and stop them in the next week or so before the election starts, after all they complained to the Electoral Commission about Searchlight targeting them during elections outside the scope of electoral regulation and this would be double standards if they knew who it was. (I blogged about this before, but all mention of their discussions with the EC has now disappeared from the BNP website).