BNP Watch Shining a bright light on policies and conduct of the British National Party

In September 2009 the government announced an investigation into whether the BNP is racist. The answer is: "yes".

Back in July 2009 I covered how their manifesto says BNP candidates do not want to get elected to get their snouts in the trough and not to get fat on the gravy train;. It seems that the BNP are having trouble showing themselves to be the financially transparent party they set out to be.

Prosecutors claim releasing information about 1998 case would breach BNP leader's data protection rights, according to The Guardian.

Griffin was given a suspended prison sentence in 1998 after being convicted of "publishing or distributing racially inflammatory written material", an offence under the 1986 Public Order Act. The following year he was elected leader of the BNP.

Quoting straight from The Guardian:

Reports of racial and religiously motivated crime rose following the election of British National party councillors in several far-right strongholds, police statistics have revealed.

Time to call bull-shit on the BNP's "green" manifesto pledge.

No jokes about skin-colour here — only Nazis. I'm not entirely sure what the punch-line of Nick's joke is, but can only suggest that he keeps his humour more "mainstream" (just as he's trying to make the BNP's politics seem more "mainstream") lest people mistake his patter for something else entirely.

It seems that BNP Watch has attracted somebody's attention:

Nick Griffin (nickgriffinBNP) is now following your tweets on Twitter

Of course, it might not be the Nick Griffin MEP... but consider us amused!

Dr Evan Harris, an MP for the Liberal Democrats, today expressed the opinion that banning members of the BNP from teaching is the wrong thing to do.

This article is a slight diversion from our usual look at the BNP. I'd like to draw attention to the words of Frederick Forsyth discussing patriotism.

Following on from my previous article about EHRC v BNP, it appears that the BNP might be about to change its membership policy.