…part of BNP drive to elect Jennifer Agnew, Andrew Harris and Dr Alan Patterson to the EU Parliament on 10th June…

BNP regional organiser, Kevin Scott, fields 17 British National Party (BNP) candidates for June 2004 local elections.

Gateshead is an area with a very strong and well established Jewish community. Scott and many of the remaining leadership of the BNP, including party head Nick Griffin, deny the reality of the Holocaust in Germany during the Nazi Third Reich.

So, Scott and friends, the death of 6 million Jews at the hands of the Nazis didn’t really happen? - Fascism and Holocaust Denial: Holocaust Denial

Photo: two children murdered at Majdanek concentration camp ©The History Place.

With candidates fielded in every ward, the BNP has again chosen Sunderland as its main North East target for June’s elections (2004).

Last year’s attempt at gaining a seat on Sunderland Council failed. This year’s stakes are higher - the BNP are fielding 3 additional candidates in June’s Euro elections.

Photo: Peiman Bahmani, an asylum seeker murdered in the run up to the 2003 BNP campaign in Hendon ward Sunderland.

Candidte Nigel Batten campaigns aggressively for white power in Britain and like the BNP, aims to harness anti-asylum fears whipped up by national media.

As part of the campaign to elect a far-right MEP from the North East of England, the National Front (NF) organised a march of supporters that took place in Newcastle City Centre on Saturday 17th April 2004.

NE Euro candidate Alan Patterson and BNP Leader Nick Griffin (Euro candidate in the North West) were forced ‘to go underground’, by local protesters, and abandon the launch of their NE Euro campaign.