As Herr Trevor Phillips, head of the EHRC prompted legal action against the BNP for our white-only membership, so ethnic minorities staff in the EHRC have been urged to apply for membership of the BNP, the only party representing the indigenous population of this country and could, by these politically motivated, underhand and sleazy machinations be accused of racial discrimination.
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A month ago we received an anonymous letter from insiders at the Equality Commission concerning an incident during an EHRC staff meeting a few weeks before the BNP were forced to go to court to fight a case initiated by the EHRC.
This whistle blower in the EHRC named Tim Wainwright, the EHRC director of the English regions, as holding a formal EHRC meeting on the 10th July 2009 where he asked the Black, Asian and other ethnic minority EHRC staff who were present at that meeting to join the BNP, asked them to ask other ethnic minority staff members of the EHRC to join the BNP and asked them ask the friends and family of ethnic staff members of the EHRC to also join the BNP.
This was done so that ;
1) The EHRC could then use the fact that they had been turned down for membership of the BNP as evidence to bolster the EHRC legal case against the BNP
2) To allow them to then apply to the EHRC for tax payer funded legal representation provided by the EHRC and initiate civil court actions against the BNP for Direct Racial Discrimination in relation to its membership policy
3) This would then allow the EHRC staff and family members to claim racial discrimination against the BNP and claim hundreds of thousands of pounds from the BNP in compensation and bankrupt the party
4) At the same time the staff of the EHRC would make vast amounts of money personally from the scheme in compensation and the legal costs awarded against the BNP in relation to the fees of EHRC lawyers would then go back into the EHRC coffers to fund more cases against the BNP
So we can see that the plan was that EHRC staff would be able to personally enrich themselves by using EHRC lawyers to run the cases, which would be funded by the EHRC and with tax payers money.
There is at present a formal investigation underway in the EHRC into the allegations.
Until now we couldn’t confirm this story and some Daily Telegraph’ bloggers denied the existence of this plan.
However Personnel Today not only confirmed that but reported a story claiming that the equality watchdog is conducting an internal investigation into allegations that a director requested names of ethnic minority staff that could be asked to join the British National Party (BNP).
A source told Personnel Today that the director asked colleagues in a teleconference to identify employees at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) from black and ethnic minority backgrounds who could be asked to join the far-right BNP.
The EHRC allegedly wanted to gather evidence that the BNP refused membership to minority applicants, in the build up to its legal case against the party’s rules. The far-right party has subsequently agreed to change its constitution and membership rules.
In a letter to Personnel Today, the source said: “[The director] clearly ignored the legal, ethical and public safety implication of [his or her] advice. We have learnt that all staff present in the teleconference rejected the advice of [the director] and have officially complained against [that person].”
Personnel Today contacted members of staff allegedly involved in the teleconference, who confirmed the incident was currently being investigated, but refused to provide further details.
The source claimed the staff involved in the teleconference have since been “treated with suspicion” and labelled “troublemakers”.
“Some directors have even chosen to make derogatory remarks against [the staff] rather than taking any firm action against [the director],” the source added.
Jeya Thiruchelvam, employment law editor at XpertHR, warned the alleged actions by the director could constitute race discrimination.
She said: “Ironically, the act of requesting or instructing non-white employees to join the BNP, even if the aim is to highlight the assertion that the BNP is continuing to restrict its membership on racial grounds, and is therefore inherently racist, may well constitute direct race discrimination.
“This is because you have a situation where employees are being selected on the grounds of their race (or ethnic or national origin) and being treated less favourably – by being requested to a join a far-right extremist political party – than their white colleagues.”
An EHRC spokeswoman did not deny the allegations, but said: “An internal investigation is ongoing at the moment. It is not, and has never been, the policy of the commission to encourage anyone to join or attempt to join the BNP. The commission has never authorised anyone to issue any such instructions.”
Pressure grows on EHRC chairman
Meanwhile, the behaviour of the EHRC’s chairman, Trevor Phillips, is under scrutiny by the Joint Committee on Human Rights, following accusations he “isolated” and “intimidated” other commissioners, some of whom subsequently resigned. Phillips is due to give evidence to the committee of MPs on 10 November.
This is a scandalous episode in the EHRC.
The buck ultimately lies at the top with Trevor Phillips.
The EHRC is the most institutionally racist and corrupt public institution in Britain.
It is not only above the law, it is able to issue rules and regulations under the Race Relations Acts that bypass Parliament entirely.
There is no democratic accountability at all by the EHRC.
It receives a yearly budget of 70 million per year from the tax payer and employs 400 staff.
In recent months various senior officials have resigned due to bullying and amidst calls of internal incompetence at the senior level.
The case against the BNP was a politically motivated case – we all know that.
But to have a situation where EHRC senior staff are using the resources of the EHRC to personally enrich EHRC staff using tax payer money is a disgusting abuse of power.
The fact that a cover up is underway using the FOI legislation designed to ensure transparency and accountability for public bodies and public servants is scandalous.
The ethnic minority members of staff at the 10 th July meeting refused point blank to go along with the plan of Tim Wainwright.
They realised that the plan was a criminal conspiracy as defined under the Fraud Act 2006 – “Fraud by abuse of position” is defined by Section 4 of the Act as a case where a person occupies a position where they are expected to safeguard the financial interests of another person, and abuses that position; this includes cases where the abuse consisted of an omission rather than an overt act.
They had the integrity to refuse the plan and also to whistle blow the plot.
It now appears that senior EHRC staff are now bullying, victimising and harassing those people in the EHRC that they suspect of leaking the information to the BNP.
Trevor Phillips is clearly following Lenin’ footsteps, after all he is a fan of the communist master.
GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS
I watched the film LAND GIRLS last night, so ENGLISH where did we go wrong.
One man out of a population of 61 million trying to get us back to being ENGLISH again.
(Bring on the man called GRIFFIN)
Let's hope the BNP can 'cheaply' tie the ECHR on knots using its own barmy rules. I hope further precedents can be set over the BNP being technically a racial group worthy of legal protection before the door closes on it being an exclusive party.
The BNP will need to crystallise its methods on filtering out any ethnic troublemakers who would wish to join the party to turn things upside-down.
I remember reading one Leftist blogger who thought it amazing that only long-standing paying members could be eligible to vote on party policy at BNP conferences. At first I agreed, seeing as any old member used to be able to turn up and propose things at Labour conferences, but I think the BNP needs some kind of filter. After all, how many potential Quislings could join the party, doing nothing until conference time, at which time they could all jump up and block-vote to water down the BNP's pro-British positions.