The government has finally broken the BNP...
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 4:24 pm
I read today that the BNP is refusing to contest a Court Case brought against it by the Commission For Racial Equality (CRE) where the CRE were challenging them over their 'whites only' policy. The CRE say it is illegal and were taking them to Court. It is interesting how this never happened before, but as soon as the BNP get 2 seats in Europe the CRE spring into action and sue them.
This is nothing less than the Labour Party using public money to try and bring down an organisation they don't like. I don't like them either but I do believe in democracy. If I was from Northern Ireland and if my close relative had been killed by the IRA I would still accept, and respect the legitimacy of, a Sinn Fein MP to my area (Sinn Fein is of course the political wing of the IRA). So I respect the legitimacy of the BNP having 2 seats in Europe because they, after all, got a million votes at the Euro elections this year.
Did you know it is illegal to tamper with one ballot form, or to pretend an extra person lives with you when they don't (when doing postal voting) or if you went to a Polling Station and tore up a couple of crossed forms - you could be jailed for any of these things. Yet it now seems ok to effectively throw in the dustbin one million votes that were got this year by a party, and that be ok. The BNP said todayon the news that it will cost them about ?1 million to contest this case in Court and that would mean they will have no money to fight a future election campaign.
When their 'whites only' policy is lifted, which it looks like it is bound to be, ethnic minority pressure groups have said they will join the BNP in huge numbers in an attempt to bring down the organisation from within. I personally find a 'whites only' policy on anything very abhorent, but I remember the BNP's leader saying that he would be barred from joining the Black Police Officers Association because he is the wrong colour and the CRE don't care about that, nor do the CRE care that a young white Police officer would be denied help by that organisation because he or she is white.
I applaud any legitimate attempt to bring down the BNP, but the way this has been done has involved the politicisation of supposedly non-political bodies, it smacks of double standards, and it is a sad day for democracy. Other people views please...
This is nothing less than the Labour Party using public money to try and bring down an organisation they don't like. I don't like them either but I do believe in democracy. If I was from Northern Ireland and if my close relative had been killed by the IRA I would still accept, and respect the legitimacy of, a Sinn Fein MP to my area (Sinn Fein is of course the political wing of the IRA). So I respect the legitimacy of the BNP having 2 seats in Europe because they, after all, got a million votes at the Euro elections this year.
Did you know it is illegal to tamper with one ballot form, or to pretend an extra person lives with you when they don't (when doing postal voting) or if you went to a Polling Station and tore up a couple of crossed forms - you could be jailed for any of these things. Yet it now seems ok to effectively throw in the dustbin one million votes that were got this year by a party, and that be ok. The BNP said todayon the news that it will cost them about ?1 million to contest this case in Court and that would mean they will have no money to fight a future election campaign.
When their 'whites only' policy is lifted, which it looks like it is bound to be, ethnic minority pressure groups have said they will join the BNP in huge numbers in an attempt to bring down the organisation from within. I personally find a 'whites only' policy on anything very abhorent, but I remember the BNP's leader saying that he would be barred from joining the Black Police Officers Association because he is the wrong colour and the CRE don't care about that, nor do the CRE care that a young white Police officer would be denied help by that organisation because he or she is white.
I applaud any legitimate attempt to bring down the BNP, but the way this has been done has involved the politicisation of supposedly non-political bodies, it smacks of double standards, and it is a sad day for democracy. Other people views please...