Tom Flynn, the Labour party PPC for Southend West, was told he was “going to die” by a leading member of the BNP last Tuesday.
On 9th June, BNP leader Nick Griffin was forced to abandon a press conference on College Green in Westminster when protestors organised by Unite Against Fascism pelted him with eggs and chanted “Off our streets, Nazi scum.”
Mr Flynn was involved in another, non-violent demonstration taking place at the same time against the BNP press conference.
Later that day, Mr Flynn was confronted by a group of BNP activists, in the presence of the deputy BNP leader.
A member of the group said to Mr Flynn that they knew where he lived, and that the next time he set foot in Southend he was “going to die.”
In response to criticism that the demonstration against the BNP was stifling free speech, Mr Flynn wrote on the LabourList blog:
“I will engage with the BNP in the normal spirit of political debate once they offer me the same courtesy.
“I will never share a platform with the BNP when doing so risks more of the same death threats I have already received.
“I won’t be intimidated by you and your thugs Mr Griffin.”
Mr Flynn told CouncilBust.com that he gave a statement to the police yesterday, and said that they were taking the matter “quite seriously.”
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Sadly, he’s not the only one to get on the wrong side of these lunatics. At Lancaster Unity, we seem to come in for more than our fair share – take a look at the comments to this post: http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2009/06/of-eggs-invisible-bricks-and-call.html
It is becoming alarming how these lefties are constantly trashing the bnp. Death threats, they are fascist etc, but the only people been seen to be violent is the left wing uaf – stop this silly nonesense. The bnp are here, get over it.
These aren’t ‘lefties’ trashing the BNP for Political gain. These are people who have been threatened by Nazi thugs.
The BNP are here, you are quite right but there will never be a rightful place in British politics for the BNP because they are Fascists and Nazis. British Soldiers died in WW2 to prevent this kind of filth. You ought to be ashamed of yourself for not only propogating it but pretending it is remotely ‘British’, it is the furthest thing from ‘British’ that I can possibly imagine.