Entire BNP Membership List Leaked Online

Via Unity@LC. Lancaster UAF have the story, excerpts-

…this breach of data security is startlingly bad for the BNP, not simply for the fact that the party has lost data – almost everyone seems to have managed to do that recently – but for the nature of that information.

Not only does the data, now available online, include the entire membership list with full names (and former names where there have been changes for any reason), addresses, contact numbers, email addresses and in many cases the member’s age, particularly where those members are under eighteen. Yes, that’s right. This list includes members as young as fourteen, male and female. Where a family membership is bought and paid for, the whole family is listed.

As if this isn’t bad enough, the notes that are attached to many of the entries leave a lot of the members open to difficulties in their jobs, some of them being in the armed forces or the police and the BNP too – an illegal combination, and where not illegal, frequently frowned upon. Other members are noted as construction managers, receptionists, district nurses, lay preachers, police officers, company directors and teachers among many others.

Like this wasn’t enough, the BNP has also listed hobbies or interests where for some reason they are deemed relevant. Thus we have short-wave radio hams, amateur historians, pagans, line-dancers and even a witch (male).

It’s been suggested that the party’s former treasurer John Walker is responsible for posting the list up publicly. We wouldn’t know but by doing so, the poster has stuck a stick of dynamite under Griffin’s rear end. The consequences and the repercussions may be interesting to watch.

Just as a complete aside, I should point out that we do not have a copy of this list, nor do we want one. The information we had was obtained online and appears suddenly to have been removed, at least for the moment…

nb. I will not post links to the list or let comments include links, should any slip through they will be deleted when I find them. It is not impossible to find the list on the intertubes if you must, no one should be persecuted or molested because of their membership but asking people to justify their views and membership of a racist fascist organisation with ties to terrorists is perfectly legitimate. They should be challenged and debated openly. I am happy to rock my politics out in the open as should anyone. And if they are in a sensitive job (of course some professions prohibit membership anyway) it would be correct to review their behaviour and terminate employment if they were manifesting their racist and fascist beliefs to those they have power over or their work colleagues have felt to be discriminated against, as the law sets out.