A splinter group aiming to form a new-style version of the Nazi British National Party has been forced to recruit black supporters… from a well known photo library.

The soon-to-launch British Freedom Party has emerged from the BNP Reform group set up by disaffected former BNP members who have fallen out with BNP leader Nick Griffin. The BNP Reform group gathered around former BNP website administrator Simon Bennett, would-be challenger to Griffin Eddy Butler and former BNP legal officer Lee Barnes.

No real difference…

Aside from the in-party BNP squabbling over Griffin’s leadership and financial matters, the “reformers” seem to have no real differences with the fascist BNP and its poisonous politics.

Now some of the splinter group are forming a new party. An announcement from BNP Reform dated 14 October 2010 says:

We, in our group, always knew that the likelihood of a successful negotiation with the Leadership was a very remote possibility and had accepted the fact that a completely new party may have to be formed. That situation has now come to pass.

The new party – which will apparently launch without Eddy Butler – has been dubbed the British Freedom Party and has already established a website (see screenshot, above – click to enlarge).

But in a departure from BNP tradition, the website of the British Freedom Party features a group of cheery people, two of whom are black.

Perhaps the new outfit is mindful of the long-running court case brought by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission that has seen the BNP wriggle about over clauses in its once explicitly “whites-only” constitution.

Where has the British Freedom Party found these black people? It seems unlikely that black people would rush to join an organisation set up by those who until very recently were leading figures in the BNP…

The answer is simple. There’s no need for any real black supporters: the BFP has found just the mixed race group it needs. It’s the “happy friends” from the iStockphoto picture library!

Not sure? Click here to see them in the pose used by the BFP.