Spokesman rejects claims of 'racist scaremongering'

THE British National Party's national organiser in Northern Ireland has rejected claims that is "scaremongering with racist motives" and trying to "whip up a frenzy" over the proposed immigration detention centre in Larne.

Stephen Moore was responding to the allegations of SDLP politicians Justin McCamphill and Ald Danny O’Connor in last week’s Larne Times.

He said his party was “simply highlighting an issue which was brought to our attention by citizens of the borough of Larne” and that he found it “very hard to believe that the council has been kept in the dark about this proposal up until now”.

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Mr Moore accused Ald O’Connor of “employing the usual tactic of the Left” in painting as racist “anyone who questions immigration, never mind illegal immigration” and said the BNP had no other “sinister” solutions, as inferred by Mr McCamphill in “schoolboyish” fashion.

He added: “To those from Larne Council who made the ludicrous statement that the BNP would not influence the debate on this issue, we say we started the debate and neither we nor the citizens of Larne are an irrelevance.

“We demand that a public meeting should be held by the council in front of the people of Larne.”

The Larne Times has received two authenticated letters objecting to the holding centre plan.

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Correspondent A Ray wrote: “There are no legal asylum seekers in this country, just illegal immigrants who should immediately be refused entry and sent back across the border to the Republic from where they came via the unmanned border.

“To try to claim asylum, one should have fled a country in fear of persecution and settle in the next safest country to the one they left.

“There are no such countries that come under this banner on Northern Irish shores.

“These undesirables have made their way to our country to avail themselves of our generous benefits system, free health care, education and housing at the tax payers’ expense.”

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R Irwin branded “an absolute disgrace” what he perceived as “the deafening silence of the council” on the issue of the holding centre which, he claimed, would “effectively will turn Larne into a dumping ground for Illegal aliens”.