Nick Griffin Followers In Their Own Words

Some may have found my earlier article on Nick Griffin a little harsh. Pointing out that a significant number of his followers consider him a waste of perfectly good carbon may have created a negative impression of the chap. In the interest of balance I've decided to allow some space for the genuine fans of Nick Griffin to let us know a little about themselves.

Below are Twitter biographies and Tweets from his real supporters, unedited and untruncated. They say you can judge a man by the company he keeps. Start by judging how some of Nick's followers choose to describe themselves in their Twitter biographies:

Nick Griffin - Liked or Loathed?

Few can have escaped notice of Nick Griffin's decision to tweet the address of a gay couple and encourage his followers to picket their house, promising them in his own words "a bit of drama". Their crime? They recently won a discrimination case against Christian B&B owners who refused them service when their sexuality became apparent. After taking a moment to revise downwards my faith in humanity, I found myself wondering what sort of folk follow this lumbering buffoon.

At present he has 18,991 Twitter followers, a dozen or so having unfollowed in the hour it took me to do some data analysis. This represents but 0.03% of the UK population but still seems a distressingly high number. With that in mind I asked myself how many of these fine folk actually like Nick.

Examining nineteen thousand Twitter accounts is not a task to which I would leap so I took the approach of assuming that these upstanding citizens would be honest in their interactions with Nick. When someone tweets directly to Nick and says "your existence sickens me and your party is a shambles of epic proportions", I judge it reasonable to assume they do not see eye to eye with the goals of the BNP or the philosophies of its leader. Equally, should someone address a tweet to Nick saying something like "Nick, plz dont get soft. U need to affirm that Britain is 4 the White British ONLY" we can safely say that they are of one mind on political issues.