BNP
meeting at the Cricketers Club,Sandown Lane,Wavertree. Liverpool
Antifascists including Cllr Joe Anderson(leader of Liverpool City
Council)2nd right, demonstrating against the BNP outside the Cricketers
Club.
CITY leaders are attempting to have a Liverpool club’s licence revoked
after it hosted the annual conference of the British National Party
(BNP).
They are applying to licensing bosses to come down hard on the
Cricketers Club in Wavertree after the October event, which prompted
protests outside its Long Lane site.
Merseyside Police are also bidding to have the licence curbed on the
basis of incidents of alleged under-age drinking and assault in the
premises.
But the club denied the underage drinking allegations, while the BNP
accused city bosses and the police of a “sinister” witch-hunt.
The club’s spokesman said he had not been aware it was the far-right
extremist group who had booked the venue – for around £1,000 – until a
week before, and it had been booked in the name of a “private
individual”.
A copy of the booking request form, obtained by the ECHO, was signed in
the name of party leader Nick Griffin six weeks before the event.
The ECHO has also obtained photographic evidence that the BNP has held
other meetings at the clubhouse, but the club said it did not receive
payment for those.
Wavertree Cllr Jake Morrison, who is leading the campaign to see the
venue stripped of its licence, said: “I think the licence should be
removed altogether. It’s clear from the 45 residents who have also
objected to the licence that they’re terribly unhappy to have the BNP in
the area.”
Council leader Cllr Joe Anderson, who joined the protests outside the
venue for the two-day conference, has also submitted an objection to the
renewal, writing that by hosting the BNP the club had “caused a
potentially dangerous situation to develop with no regard for the
community in which their pub is based
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