Nick Griffin Quits

Nick Griffin, the curiously ineffective and utterly repellent leader of the BNP, is going to stand down. In 2013. Fuck me, that makes the Labour leadership contest look positively urgent in its timescale. You wonder what Griffin is thinking about, announcing his departure years before it is actually due to happen.

Still, in a sense, the BNP is losing its most effective weapon. Because while Nick Griffin maybe a smug, boorish dickhead, he stands out from most of those in his party in that he isn't a shaven-headed cunt and he is capable of stringing a sentence together (even if it isn't often a coherent sentence). I can't help wondering who will replace him. Richard Barnbrook is the obvious choice, but, as Tory Troll's work points out, he's hardly hitting Griffin's criterion for a leader who is "a serious contender for power". Still, the BNP's got some time to work out who this "serious contender for power" is going to be. About three years, in fact.

But is this the icing on the cake - the prime cut of grade-A bullshit from Nick Griffin that cracks me up:

"It will be time to make way for a younger person who does not have any baggage which can be used against the party"

Yeah, without any baggage... except being not only a member of an ignorant, vile and deeply racist party but being passionate enough to run for the leadership. Yeah, your replacement won't have any baggage at all.