20 April 2008

Fascist party aims to con LibDem voters

Nobody ever accused Patrick Harrington of hiding his light under a bushel.

His towering self-regard and assessment of his own importance have long been a source of mirth to anti-fascists used to dealing with the inflated egos predominating on the extreme right.

Nobody does more to maintain his own Wiki page than Harrington (he prefers to be called "Pat"), the mystery being why he, Wiki, or anybody else should imagine the serial failure to be worth 2,571 words, and why Harrington thinks anybody could care enough about him and his obscure doings to read the self-penned personal bio he seems to paste at the drop of a hat in various places on the web.

As we've often noted, to read anything penned by Harrington is to step outside hard reality. His personal bio gives the impression of a man of political substance and achievement; his writings on the fake union Solidarity's website are of what you might charitably term the overblown variety; and over on the Third Way website we could be forgiven for believing that this fifth-rate National Front successor organisation, of which Harrington accounts himself a "Director", really is some vital think-tank throwing up ideas essential to the good of the nation.

The truth is rather more mundane.

"Success" and "Harrington" are words rarely found in close proximity. The "militant fighting union" Solidarity is largely reduced to issuing General Secretary Harrington's pompous and unremarked press statements and making appeals for funds (a telephone "hotline" - with answering machine - being the latest Must Have for the One Big Union and its 211 members).

And of the Third Way - what does one say about a "party" of 20 members that bores the Electoral Commission to tears with its windy account of its local election performances (successes = 0), admits to having only £88.17 in the kitty (2006), but which allegedly raised £1400 from membership subs (yet £15 x 20 = £300! - go figure), somehow managing to spend £560 of that on vague "internet services" (we thought Wordpress and the Masterplan theme - the very same as used by the BNP - were free).

Harrington is very much a man who rose without trace to lead organisations that campaign without trace.

The Third Way, of course, goes by the dishonest name of "National Liberal Party".

Many entirely honourable and respectable political parties use the word "Liberal" in their titles - most obviously, the Liberal Democrats and the rump Liberal Party. Quite why the Electoral Commission ever came to allow Harrington's "National Liberal Party" to contest elections under that name is a mystery, since the EC normally refuses to allow sound-alike parties to campaign when they believe a title has been adopted with the intention of confusing or misleading voters.

The name game may soon be up, however, for the "National Liberal Party".

On Stormfront Harrington uses the moniker "Doublethink", and - we believe - that of "Completely Blank". On the Green Bigot's forum the poster "Completely Blank" denies being Harrington, despite "Completely Blank" managing to sound in every way like Harrington, even down to the evasions and inflated claims regarding the bogus union Solidarity. At any rate, when Norfolk Unity insisted that Harrington was "Completely Blank", the great man took the matter no further and contented himself with trying to force Blogger to remove a picture from this website.

Giving Harrington the benefit of considerable doubt, we'll say no more on the provenance of "Completely Blank", but go on to highlight a declaration recently made by that entity on the Nazi Stormfront website:
The National Liberal Party intends to contest ten marginal Lib Dem seats at the next general election. In some of these the Lib Dems have a majority of only some hundreds.

There was a National Liberal Party in the early part of the last century so the Third Way's claim to the title could be said to have some historic basis. There is a Liberal Party and a Liberal Democratic party so why not a revived National Liberal Party. After all, in Ulster there is an Ulster Unionist Party, a Democratic Unionist Party, a UK Unionist Party a Progressive Unionist Party and until recently a Northern Ireland Unionist Party. As the EC allows all these varieties of unionism I can see no reason to prevent a liberal nationalist party from using 'Liberal' in its title.
Ignoring the feeble attempt at self-justification as to why a fascist party lays claim to the title "Liberal", the first paragraph of Completely Blank's posting leaves no doubt whatsoever that the National Liberal Party intends to go into the next general election purposed on conning votes away from the Liberal Democrats by confusing itself with the mainstream party, and - they hope - losing the sitting Liberal Democrats their seats.

There can be, and is, no other reason for the NLP to target itself so specifically - only against Liberal Democrats, and only in marginals where a small number of votes will decide the sitting MPs' fates.

No other no-hope party, to the best of our knowledge, has ever gone into a general election fixed purely on unseating MPs by use of deceit and obsfucation.

In our opinion this amounts to a clear intention to mislead voters and to abuse the democratic process on the part of a nasty little organisation made up of no-hopers and fantasists closely connected with the BNP and complicit in the running of the racist party's bogus front groups.

It is also reason enough for the Electoral Commission to strip Third Way of the right to campaign under the spurious "National Liberal Party" title.

We have already alerted the Liberal Democrats to the underhand intentions of the squalid NLP, but visitors (of all political persuasions) to this website can help by complaining to the Electoral Commission, and by bringing this post to the attention of Liberal Democrat MPs and LibDem organisations.

Follow this link to the Electoral Commission's contact web-page, where complaints can be made to each national EC outpost in writing, by email, or by telephone.

Harrington and company may well have over-stepped the mark with their premature blustering. Let's ensure it comes back to haunt them.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellent work Norfolk Unity!

We urge that all visitors to this blog take just a few minutes to write or phone up the Electoral Commission (which Norfolk Unity has kindly supplied the appropriate web link) and submit their complaint to the disingenious and deceitful attempt by Patrick Harrington and his Third Way/National Liberal Party fascists to try and defraud the electoral system by operating under a name deliberately close to the Liberal Democrats.

This is how Harrington and his Third Way political crooks operate - by infiltration and cynical abuse of power and by deception. They try to be like some kind of National Bolsheveks with their nucleus of diehard activists who try and take over regimes by winning control of the most powerfiul areas of an organisation or system.

They must be stopped and they way to do it is through complaining to the EC.

Anonymous said...

"And of the Third Way - what does one say about a "party" of 20 members that bores the Electoral Commission to tears with its windy account of its local election performances (successes = 0), admits to having only £88.17 in the kitty (2006), but which allegedly raised £1400 from membership subs (yet £15 x 20 = £300! - go figure), somehow managing to spend £560 of that on vague "internet services" "

The figure of £560 spent on "internet services" is interesting. This is almost certainly spent on Patrick Harrington's telephone and internet connections at his home in Edinburgh for his own personal and political use.

Third Way subsidise his telephone/internet services as he is voluntarily self-unemployed and as a Director of Third Way they pay for these services essential to his political work for Third Way and the Solidarity Trade Union.

Third Way also allegedly subsist on a figure of several thousands of pounds donated to them from an former NF individual who supported them when they disbanded the NF and set up Third Way.

Their "Judge Learned Hand" foundation should also bear attention as it is claimed to be a charity, yet is not registered as such. It is a private body run from Belfast where Third Way/Solidarity Executive member and Director of Ulster Nation, David Kerr, resides. It's sole purpose is to act as a channel for funds and to allegedly evade the tax system.

These Third Way/National Liberal Party clowns are a real subset of cunning players.

Anonymous said...

This will hopefully be pay-back time for the disgraceful way that Harrington tried to attack Norfolk Unity by squealing to Blogger and whine about his copyright being infringed - all for the fact that Norfolk Unity used a photograph of Solidarity's AGM that Harrington had already publsihed on the internet on his own site!

The chickens are coming home to roost Mr Harrington - and when they do they're gonna **** right over you and your squalid little world.

Anonymous said...

Does anyone have any information on claims that Patrick Harrington and his Third Way/National Liberal Party organisation have any connections to the extreme Catholic fundamentalist organisation known as Opus Dei?

It is known that Harrington has some weird beliefs and dubious connections with some very dubious cults.

Anyone have anything on Harrington's USA relatives who are said to be Scientologists? And on Harrington's mother who is said to be into witchcraft? And allegations of Freemasonry within the Harrington family?

Certainly the way that Third Way operate bears all the hallmarks of Freemasonry with their clandestine operations and small core of dedicated activists who work to infiltrate organisations and then take over their levers of power, then finally the whole organisation itself.

It happened within the old National Front, then Griffin went to take over the ITP and Harrington created the Third Way. Griffin went on to the BNP, getting rid of Tyndall and becoming leader and then removing senior figures, meanwhile leading an almost protected life from the police and Electoral Commission.

Harrington takes over the Solidarity Trade Union, without any intervention from any of the authorities, and then he involves himself in the political process using a group that shamelesly copies the Liberal Democrats in an attempt to deceive the local electorate, yet the Electoral Commission are doing nothing.

What's going on here?

Griffin may have escaped investigation from the Electoral Commission. Let's make sure that they don't turn their heads a second time and chicken out of pursuing the latest bit of deception.

Anonymous said...

The name of his party, the National Liberal Party (NLP), reminds me of the psychotherapeutics known as NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming).

Most unfortunate title that. Though maybe not entirely coincidental as NLP is concerned with changing one's mental programming.

A bit like Pat Harrington's fascist attempts at lying and manipulation of the electoral process really.

Anonymous said...

They must be stopped and they way to do it is through complaining to the EC.

This poster has more faith in the Capitalist system than I do. Why would they want to stop Harrington? He is probably working for them!

Anonymous said...

The National Liberal Party is liberal with a stiff right arm!

Anonymous said...

What is the difference between Patrick Harrington and Heather Mills?

Answer: They're both fantastists!

The similarity though is that one screws money from rich pop stars, and one tries to screw money from gullible members of a fake trade union.

Email sent to the Electoral Commission.

Anonymous said...

The name of his party, the National Liberal Party (NLP), reminds me of the psychotherapeutics known as NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming).

Most unfortunate title that. Though maybe not entirely coincidental as NLP is concerned with changing one's mental programming.


Harrington is said to have studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming over many years. The use of NLP is probably not coincidental and his twisted idea of a joke.

Anonymous said...

There's two things I don't like about Patrick Harrington.

His face.

Anonymous said...

I telephoned the Electoral Commission and they were less than forthcoming. They kept repeating the mantra "The Party name has already been registered. The Party name has already been registered." When I asked why it was registered a new mantra came forth: "There were no legal reasons to deny registration. There were no legal reasons to deny registration."

Relying on them to do anything is a waste of time imho.