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Below is a report printed in The Daily Express online newspaper that didn't quite go the way they wanted it to.
Normally MSM in Britain don't allow comments when they publish anything about the BNP on the net.
The Express on this occasion did allow comments, but when the comments were almost unanimously going in BNP's favour, comments were disabled.
Below is the whole article plus a few of the comments that were published.
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BNP leader Nick Griffin calls for police to 'get a grip' on protesters

By Graham Gurrin
Last updated at 11:52 PM on 10th June 2009

BNP leader Nick Griffin has called for greater police protection after his second press conference as MEP was targeted by protesters.

He urged police to ‘get a grip’ of demonstrators who forced the party's MEPs to abandon their first earlier joint press conference.

He held today’s meeting at a Manchester pub after being pelted with eggs at yesterday’s aborted effort at Westminster.
BNP leader Nick Griffin poses for the media with a box of eggs before giving a news conference at the Ace of Diamonds pub in Manchester

BNP leader Nick Griffin poses for the media with a box of eggs before giving a news conference at the Ace of Diamonds pub in Manchester

He spoke out after being besieged again by about 40 protesters at the Ace of Diamonds pub in Manchester.
A protester shouts ahead of the news conference by BNP Leader Nick Griffin at the nearby Ace of Diamonds pub

A protester shouts ahead of the news conference by BNP Leader Nick Griffin at the nearby Ace of Diamonds pub

Mr Griffin, who along with Andrew Brons was elected as an MEP, said: ‘There wasn't a huge police presence. The police let the mob run wild.

‘I think it's very sad that a hostile mob which is partly paid for by taxpayers and backed by Labour and the Conservatives is allowed to get away with mob violence on the streets of Britain in 2009.

‘I've got to go and visit constituents in places like Preston and Andrew Brons has to go to places like Bradford. The police need to get a grip on these people and stop them throwing eggs and bricks.

‘Like us or not, we are a democratic party elected by people who have specific concerns they think we will address properly.’

Greater Manchester Police confirmed that no extra officers had been drafted in for the anticipated demonstration.

A spokesman, who would not say how many officers were involved in the operation, said it was not possible to put a cost on it, as the officers would have been on duty anyway.

Mr Griffin warned: ‘Unless the police and the British political elite get a grip of the public disorder, the consequences could, as I'm sure you are aware, be extremely grave indeed.’

He claimed the party has seen a growth in membership applications and said its call centre received 20,000 phone calls in the first 15 minutes after a BNP party political broadcast was shown on television.
Though not in any great numbers, Greater Manchester Police were prepared for Nick Griffin's press conference

Though not in any great numbers, Greater Manchester Police were prepared for Nick Griffin's press conference

The protest outside the Ace of Diamonds was not as high-powered as at Westminster

The protest outside the Ace of Diamonds was not as high-powered as the previous day's at Westminster

Tina Wingfield, BNP membership secretary, said 2,000 people have joined the party in the last six weeks, increasing overall membership by about 25 per cent.

Mrs Wingfield, who is a BNP councillor in Cumbria along with her husband, said: ‘It's an absolutely huge rise in membership.

'We've got a backlog of calls to answer, of which we hope to translate about 20 per cent into new members.’
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COMMENTS BEST RATED

Mr.Griffin was elected democratically by the people of North West England as a Euro MP, and is entitled to Police protection from gangs of placard bearing soap dodgers who should be photographed and their pictures circulated to Job Centres.

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Free speech is a right of every person (or used to be). Like it or not, Griffin has a right to speak. El Hooky or whatever his name was, spouted all sorts or anti western views, he was allowed to do so. Let Griffin speak!

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He is entitled to police protection in exactly the same way as any other politician under threat would be.

Wouldn't it be easier for Plod to arrest the mob causing an illegal breach of the peace though?

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Like them or loathe them they ARE legitimate unlike the rentamobs who have absolutely no respect for a lawful democratic mandate.

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the police would soon be in there if it was BNP demonstrators abusing Liebor, cons, etc

Rating 764 Thumbs Up

God bless you Nick Griffin, our country needs you.

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COMMENTS WORST RATED

He's lost grip on reality, i doubt many bricks were thrown as he claims, nor that the "mob" was funded by labour. I'm so glad that most of this country sees sense.

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If Griffin can't take having eggs thrown at him, he wont be much use at anything else.

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thi 'man' needs to be stopped. what is this country coming to??

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"Nick Griffin calls for police protection" ..such a brave man ...NOT.

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Why should tax payers money be spent on protecting this bigot,he has made his bed now he must lie on it.

- Alan S, Uxbridge, England, 11/6/2009 8:00
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Crawl back under the stone you slithered out from under Griffin, youre NOT wanted!

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