Nick Griffin, the BNP Leader is on record as saying that; “Winston Churchill would embrace the BNP…. Especially as he was an ardent anti European and would have blanched at the prospect of us surrendering our Sovereignty to the European Union”.

It defies belief that this idiot managed to get a degree in Law from Oxford. You have to be intelligent to do that? Surely?

Rich and I were discussing this the other night and I wondered if Griffin, David Irving and other such headbangers are thick, deluded or just plain liars.

Mr. Robinson equates it to psychics and the such like. They know they are misleading people but just do it anyway to serve their own selfish ends.

So it must be with the BNP, and indeed UKIP who invoked Churchill’s image for the 2009 European Parliamentary Elections, as the quote below demonstrates that far from being anti Europe, Churchill saw the inevitable benefits of us coming together as a counter weight to the USSR and USA Super Power blocs, today it would be China and the Far Eastern economic powers.

The quote is from Hansard and is reproduced in Dennis McShane’s very readable (if flawed) 2008 biography of Ted Heath.

“We are prepared to consider, and if convinced, accept the abrogation of national sovereignty. It is not inviolable, and it may safely diminished for the sake of all men in all countries finding their way home together”.

Plain as day. The Old Boy was nothing if not pragmatic when it was required.

The BNP’s invocation of our greatest British Hero proves that they will stop at nothing to propagate lies for their sick and twisted ends.