Nick Griffin

Nicholas John Griffin

Nicholas John Griffin (born March 1, 1959) is a British politician, former chairman of the British National Party (BNP) and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England from 2009 to 2014, when he was expelled from the BNP.

Quotes

• There is no doubt that hundreds, probably thousands of Jews were shot to death in Eastern Europe because they were, rightly or wrongly, seen as Communists or potential partisans or partisan supporters. That was awful. But this nonsense about gas chambers is exposed as a total lie.
  • The Cook Report (1997)

• I do not just believe I am right, I know I am right.
  • Cited by Kevin Toolis in "Race to the right" The Guardian (20 May 2000).

• We believe not just that our people are different from others, but that such genuine diversity is worth preserving. It is not a matter of 'superiority' or 'inferiority'.
  • "Nick Griffin, The BNP: Anti-asylum protest, racist sect or power-winning movement?" British National Party (c. 2003)

• We do not demand for our own people any more than the basic human rights which we would extend to every nation, people and tribe on this planet: the right to preserve their own territory, traditions and ethnic identity. The right to preserve, in other words, the things which, by marking their differences from the mass of humanity, make them human and turn their society from an ant heap into a community. 'We believe, in a nutshell, in the human right to discriminate.
  • Nick Griffin, The BNP: Anti-asylum protest, racist sect or power-winning movement? British National Party (c. 2003)

• The soft seduction of consumer global capitalism reduce the nations of the West to a rootless mass of Americanised consumers, without identity, without pride and without a future. Children identify with the grotesque and vulgar instead of noble heroes and beautiful princesses in castles. Teenagers ape the antics of degenerate pop-stars whose example leads hundreds of thousands into the living death of drug addiction, not to mention the tragedy of the image conscious girls (mainly) who feel compelled to starve themselves to get "the look" and of course the spiralling number of abortions. Adults perform meaningless jobs, in conditions of mind-destroying boredom, to earn enough money to buy the latest needlessly created want to be pushed on television as the thing without which their neighbours will regard them as worthless failures. Old folk die unnoticed and lie rotting for weeks, even months, in barred and bolted flats in inhuman tower blocks, unofficial prisons which become tombs for those who no longer have any economic value. Do not be fooled by the glossy packaging of the consumer society. Where state socialism was a creed of terror and stagnation, capitalism is one of apathy and death.
  • Nick Griffin "The Deadly Twins" (August 2004)^{[specific citation needed]}

• As for 'racism', the modern BNP opposes mass immigration and multi-culturalism on the grounds that human biocultural diversity is being exterminated by global capitalism. It demands for every single people and culture on planet Earth the right to self-preservation which it seeks for its own. Such a position is clearly out of step with the extermination-through-assimilation model of multi-culturalism promoted by the dominant ideology of the USA, but it equally clearly has nothing to do with 'hate' or wishing to harm others.
  • Nick Griffin, Civil liberty – the indivisible right.^{[specific citation needed]}

• In Britain and indeed the entire West, today, we are part way through a process – artificially imposed by a dogmatic liberal ruling class - that is steadily destroying the very possibility of preserving our racial and cultural differences, and the unique nations to which they have given rise.
  • Nick Griffin, The BNP: Anti-asylum protest, racist sect or power-winning movement?

• I'm not in politics for cheap cheers; if I was I could probably have had a safe Tory seat years ago. I'm in it, among other things, because I want to help stop the immigration which is destroying this and every other white nation in the world. Then I want to see that deadly tide turned.
  • Nick Griffin, No More Time For Peter Pan.^{[specific citation needed]}

• Yes. There is a wider range of takeaway food. That's it.
  • Nick Griffin, The Battle for Barking.^{[specific citation needed]} When asked if there was anything good about immigration.

• The BNP isn't about selling out its ideas, which are your ideas too, but we are determined to sell them. Basically, that means to use saleable words – such as freedom, identity, security, democracy. [...]
  Once we're in a position where we control the British broadcasting media, then perhaps one day the British people might change their mind and say, 'yes, every last one must go'. But if you hold that out as your sole aim to start with, you're not going to get anywhere. So, instead of talking about racial purity, we talk about identity. [...]
  There's a difference between selling out your ideas and selling your ideas, and the British National Party isn't about selling out its ideas, which are your ideas too, but we are determined now to sell them, and that means basically to use the saleable words, as I say, freedom, security, identity, democracy. Nobody can criticise them. Nobody can come at you and attack you on those ideas. They are saleable.
  • – talking to the American Friends of the BNP — Burgess, Kaya (12 June 2009). "White supremacist gunman James W. von Brunn had links to BNP". London: Times Online. Retrieved on 12 June 2009. 
  • 10 things you should know about the BNP when you watch Question Time tonight. The Independent (Thursday 22 October 2009). Retrieved on 19 January 2015.
  • {{cite web|title=PANORAMA: UNDER THE SKIN [Transcript]|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/panorama/transcripts/transcript_25_11_01.txt%7Cwebsite=news.bbc.co.uk%7Cpublisher=BBC%7Caccessdate=19 January 2015}

• Western values, freedom of speech, democracy and rights for women are incompatible with Islam, which is a cancer eating away at our freedoms and our democracy and rights for our women and something needs to be done about it.
  • "BNP's Griffin: Islam is a cancer", by Cathy Newman, Channel 4 News (9 July 2009)

• [The Koran is] not a religious book, but a manual for conquering other people's countries.
  • Nick Griffin: 'I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm anti-Islam', BBC (19 April 2010)

• Same-sex marriage isn't about rights of gay people. It's fundamentally an attack by a Trotskyite-Leftist and capitalist elite which wants the pink pound and the pink dollar. It's an attack on marriage. It's an attack on tradition. It's an attack on the fabric of our society. [...] Teach them about homosexuality? That's not in any way for the rights of homosexuals. That's some dirty pervert trying to mess with the minds of my kids, and I think it's great that a major European power has stood up and said: Leave our kids alone!
  • Germany: Ukrainian nationalists are being used by the EU - Nick Griffin

• The man's not perfect, but he's streets ahead of any other possible winner.
  • From a post on the X, as cited by Helen Pidd in "‘The ultimate protest against Labour’: George Galloway’s bid to win Rochdale", The Guardian (11 February 2024).
  • On George Galloway who was a candidate for the Workers Party of Britain in the 2024 Rochdale by-election held on 29 February 2024.

Quotes about Griffin

• I destroyed the British National Party - we had a far-right party in this country who genuinely were anti-Jew, anti-Black, all of those things, and I came along, and said to their voters, if you're holding your nose and voting for this party as a protest, don't. Come and vote for me - I'm not against anybody, I just want us to start putting British people first, and I, almost single-handedly, destroyed the far-right in British politics. If I hadn't been around, and done what I'd done, that strain of opinion would've been represented by (former BNP leader) Nick Griffin, and the BNP, and would genuinely have been motivated by hate. I'm not motivated by that, I'm not against anybody.
  • Nigel Farage, In an appearance on RT (earlier known as Russia Today), as cited in "Nigel Farage: I destroyed far-right in British politics" The National (Scotland, 12 August 2016)