{"id":24839,"date":"2010-11-05T14:32:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T12:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=24839"},"modified":"2023-07-26T12:13:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T09:13:46","slug":"bnp-leader-nick-griffin-could-lose-euro-seat-as-party-faces-bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/05\/bnp-leader-nick-griffin-could-lose-euro-seat-as-party-faces-bankruptcy\/","title":{"rendered":"BNP leader Nick Griffin could lose Euro seat as party faces bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Tom Mctague<\/div>\n
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Griffin could lose Euro seat as party faces bankruptcy<\/strong><\/div>\n
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BNP leader Nick Griffin faces being axed as a Euro MP as he fights to avoid bankruptcy over his party’s soaring cash crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He is among top officials thought to be personally liable for the racist group’s \u00a3700,000 debts – which it admits it cannot pay.<\/p>\n

Anyone made bankrupt is legally barred from being an MP or Euro MP.<\/p>\n

The BNP’s money woes were laid bare by ex-chief fundraiser James Dowson in a letter seen by the Mirror.<\/p>\n

Mr Dowson told North-East printers who produced its newsletter that the finances were like “a shipwreck”<\/p>\n

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He added: “Cash is in very short supply… [it is] impossible for the BNP and persons associated with it to pay outstanding bills in anything like a normal timescale, if indeed at all.” The “very grave” crisis meant it could only pay 20% of what it owed, he added.<\/p>\n

Its money problems have been made worse by having to settle a legal row after illegally using Marmite in an ad and the cost of fighting the Equality and Human Rights Commission over its whites-only admission rules.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, electoral chiefs are still probing its 2008 accounts as they contain gaps that breach the law.<\/p>\n

The BNP’s debt meltdown comes amid a spate of defections and expulsions.<\/p>\n

Mr Dowson and media officer Paul Golding have left while campaigns chief Eddy Butler and London Assembly member Richard Barnbrook were recently expelled.<\/p>\n

Mr Griffin was not responding to our requests for a comment last night.<\/p>\n

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