Xley...

I get it now. The X in Chris X is taken as a hint to suggest eXley...

Here's how David Exley speaks:
""So how was this mild-mannered electrician drawn to the BNP?


"Well I was always a Conservative, I was a big Maggie Thatcher fan,
until she took that one-woman government role.


"Then I was unimpressed with John Major, I didn't think he was a
strong enough character."


Since he was elected, he's constantly claimed he's not racist. But he
is convinced that white "indigenous" people are discriminated against
in Britain.


Quizzed on whether he sees any good in living in a multicultural
society, he asks: "What, you mean learning about other people's
cultures?


"Well, that's what you go on holiday for."


He likes the Greek islands, and was impressed with Germany when he
visited for work.


Highly controversially, Clr Exley continues: "The problem is that the
Asian community won't integrate.


"They are all in their own little areas. If you walk into a shop and
they start talking in Urdu, it's plain ignorant.


"It's that sort of thing that annoys people. The Muslims have a total
disrespect for females, they regard them as second-class.


"The Hindus, meanwhile, are absolutely spot-on. They're totally
different in their attitudes towards life and people."


Clr Exley was born and brought up in predominently white Birstall,
where he now lives in a semi-detached house with wife Jillian and
their daughters aged two and seven.


Asked whether he has any black or Asian friends, he says: "Yes,
there's a lad I work with who's black as the ace of spades - that's
how he'd describe himself - and he's absolutely spot on. What does he
think of me being in the BNP? He just takes the mickey, we have a
laugh about it."


Clr Exley claims he has encountered little hostility when he's on
council business.


He says: "Some of the other councillors are stand off-ish but most are
fine. One Asian councillor refuses to talk to me. I think if you've
got a problem you should discuss it, but he won't.


"Before I was elected, people told me I'd be shunned, that people
wouldn't even hold doors open for me. But it hasn't been like that at
all.


"Most respect my politics, even though they don't agree with them.
When I chat to other members socially, it doesn't come up."


But he adds: "I have a thick skin. If I didn't, there's no way I'd be
doing this."


He says Jillian, who works in a clothes shop in Morley, has been
behind him all the way.


But his parents were initially "not happy" about him joining the party
and then standing for election.


Clr Exley says: "I talked to them about the policies and they came
round to the idea. But I don't know if they would vote for the BNP,
I've never broached the subject with them."


Clr Exley first perused the BNP's website a couple of years ago, after
he perceived law and order to have gone downhill in Heckmondwike.


"I'm someone who can see what's happening and I want to do something
about it," he says. He asked for an information pack and attended a
meeting.


"I was worried it would be all National Front types, skinheads, thugs
with tattooed knuckles, but it wasn't, it was all sorts of people."


Despite Clr Exley's claims, the recent BBC documentary Secret Agent
appeared to confirm the stereotype, as members bragged about physical
violence, shoving dog mess through an Asian takeaway's letterbox, and
their desires to "shoot Pakis."


After the film was broadcast, Clr Exley insisted he had never heard
such extreme views within the party.


Today he adds: "We can't puppy-walk everyone in the party."


Though he is concerned about immigration - "Our policy seems to be
`come on in!'" - he claims that for him, the race issue is secondary
to others.


Clr Exley says: "The important things to me are law and order and
things like what's happening in schools.


"I went to my daughter's sports day and it was a non-competitive one.
But life is full of winners and losers, what happens when they sit
exams? Will they start giving all the pupils 100% marks in case they
get upset?"


The BNP still has its sights set on Huddersfield, despite not gaining
any seats since Clr Exley's.


Requests by the Examiner to interview candidates at the last council
elections were turned down - would-be councillors were told press
inquiries had to be directed to organiser Nick Cass.


"We just wanted to make sure everyone was in line ... it could be
interpreted that we were worried about what our candidates would say
to the media, but that wasn't the case."


He continues: "We were really upset about not making any inroads in
Huddersfield.


"Two years ago, we didn't have a group as such. One year ago, we
didn't have a single councillor. Now we have 16 strong candidates.


Next up is a by-election for Mirfield Town Council.


Then, next year's general election.


"People have asked me if I'm going to stand," he says. "But I haven't
given it a thought. One thing's for sure, though, the BNP will be
fighting all four seats in Kirklees."


* The British National Party (BNP) is the largest political party of
the far-right in the United Kingdom.


* In October 1990, The British National Party was described by the
European Parliament's committee on racism and xenophobia as an "openly
Nazi party... whose leadership have serious criminal convictions".
When asked if the BNP was racist, Richard Edmonds, deputy leader of
the BNP, said, "We are 100 per cent racist, yes."


* Party chairman Nick Griffin at a BNP dinner in the TV programme
Secret Agent broadcast on July 15 was heard condemning Islam as a
"vicious, wicked faith" and claiming that he would face seven years in
prison if he made the comments in public.


* In the same programme member Steve Barkham admitted assaulting an
Asian man in the 2001 Bradford Riots; member Stewart Williams said he
wanted to "blow up" Bradford's mosques with a rocket launcher and
council candidate Dave Midgley confessed he put dog faeces through the
letterbox of an Asian takeaway. Griffin expelled Barkham and Midgley
(but not Williams) from the party.""

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