Griffin’s day ends in disaster

Waiting: Angry BNP supporters wait for their leader to save them

Held on Lambeth Bridge for an hour and hurried out of Whitehall before he could desecrate the nation’s war memorial, BNP leader Nick Griffin’s plans for for a major London march and demonstration by the BNP today ended in disaster.

On Thursday night, as his plans for a march in Woolwich came crashing down around him, Griffin had turned to his arch nemesis Stephen Lennon, leader of the rival English Defence League (EDL), for help.

Unsurprisingly, the EDL leader rebuffed him. Since the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, there has been a desperate race by the two competing group’s to cash in on the tragedy. Today, the EDL declared themselves the winners.

133 BNP supporters and members- thousands less than Griffin had promised them, waited for two hours under a hail of abuse and even women dressed as badgers until Griffin could show his face.

Griffin spoke of Kung-fu Muslims, “reds” and a host of bizarre other things until the point when the Metropolitan Police pulled the plug on him shortly before 1600hrs. He was not even allowed to lay his tatty wreath at the war memorial. His supporters were furious with him for making them wait. Among his biggest detractors was the BNP’s under-fire National Organiser, Adam Walker.

Griffin knew deep down that this humiliation was coming. Everybody did.

Tonight the BNP are licking their wounds at a cheap buffet in a pub in south London. Griffin, unsurprisingly, reserved his most bitter hatred for the EDL leader Stephen Lennon, who abandoned Griffin after suffering year’s of abuse from the BNP chief. This afternoon the BNP re-hashed their Jewish conspiracy theories about the EDL and no doubt, the rest of the world

The horror of their day will last for a lot longer.

Humiliated: Griffin before leaving with his tail between his legs