The e-mail linked below was received from John Tyndall as dated. As will become apparent, there was an attachment, which led to a considerable amount of superfluous coding within the file. I could have removed this, ditto the headers, but have left them to preserve authenticity.

The letters dated March 5, 2002 and March 26, 2002 were sent to JT as dated. They are included in one file.

My letter of January 3, 2003 to Nick Griffin was published on this site in HTML format as far back as August 13, 2004. 

I am afraid I did not keep the postcard Griffin sent me that prompted me to write this.

JT is correct that we met on one occasion, but it was not at Griffin’s committal; I believe I only saw him twice in the flesh. I attended the BNP’s annual rally in 1990 in my capacity as a journalist. I received a commission from the OBSERVER to cover this, although the article I phoned in was not used. (I got paid, that’s what matters). We did not speak on this occasion, as I recall.

The occasion we did meet was several years later when I was speaking at a BNP meeting; I made a point then of thanking him for his support during the time I experienced considerable unwarranted persecution at the hands of the Metropolitan Police (henceforth The Filth).

What can I say now about Nick Griffin? Frankly, there is nothing I wish to say, as far as I am concerned, and as far as most informed observers are now concerned, both he and the BNP are a spent force in British politics for a number of reasons, but a man who will betray his true friends so readily can hardly be expected to deal with the electorate, or indeed anyone else, fairly. As Griffin was at one time my biggest fan, literally, this is a statement I take no joy in making.

There is no significance in the timing of my making this correspondence public. JT has now been dead for over five years, and over the past couple of years I have been concentrating on putting my old material - published and unpublished - on-line, writing for a music database, and researching and publishing on matters that are still of significance, in particular the reform of the corrupt, debt-based financial system, and matters related to it.

There are two or three other documents related to this correspondence, but I don’t have time to dig them out at the moment, and as I said, I have other, more pressing priorities.

Sydenham,
London

October 5, 2010

(This page was re-edited May 19, 2023)