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First Labour stole ‘British Jobs for British Workers’.
Now Labour steal the [...]

Dear Nick Griffin,
I’m not quite sure whether the decision by BNP members to scrap your whites-only membership rules is the beginning or the end of this saga.  Your hand had been forced by the threat of a court injunction from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and you will now have to go back to court [...]

“The BBC has handed the BNP the gift of the century on a plate and now we see the consequences. I’m very angry.”
- Peter Hain, Welsh Secretary, after a poll suggested support for the BNP has risen after Nick Griffin appeared on Question Time.  A YouGov poll in the Daily Telegraph, conducted just after the show finished, suggests [...]

Before Question Time last night, we knew that:
(a) Nick Griffin was a twat.
(b) Unite Against Fascism were a bunch of illiberal, anti-democratic loons who choose violence over discussion every time.
(c) The BNP’s policies and record would not stand up to any serious scrutiny.
(d) The Question Time audience were clearly going to be rigged against the [...]

“Question Time is scheduled for 10.35pm tonight and will be a milestone in the indomitable march of the British National Party towards saving our country.  Our violent opponents on the far left have promised to lay siege and barricade the studio venue, because they know only too well that this could be the key moment that [...]

“We want to be clear that the BBC should not be handing the BNP this invitation to political respectability.”
- a spokesman for Unite Against Fascism, who will be holding a day-long protest at Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time.  The programme’s producers are to push ahead with next week’s show, despite UAF’s plans to protest outside [...]

“…the only measure, sooner or later, which is going to stop immigration and stop large numbers of sub-Saharan Africans dying on the way to get over here is to get very tough with those coming over. Frankly, they need to sink several of those boats.”
- Nick Griffin, BNP leader, when speaking to BBC Parliament.  Shirin [...]

Dear Nick Griffin,
My goodness me, you must be loving all this.  Talk about free publicity.  As if ‘Unite Against Fascism’ didn’t stimulate enough of a sympathy vote for your perfectly legitimate party, we now have the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) trying to change the law on race hate crimes just to make it easier to [...]