Quote: Tim Walker @ June 8 2009, 12:18 AM BSTYes, but if you don't apply the same level of rights and protection to a (let's remember) currently legal political party, then you give them and their supporters further grievance. You don't protect one person's legitimate rights by denying those to another.
Anti-BNP demonstrators are as counter-productive as the anti-Nazi demos were in the 1980s. They just ended-up give publicity to the NF (even improving recruitment). These groups are better defeated by being ignored as far as possible by the majority and, where they incite hatred or threaten peace, to be dealt with by rational argument and enforcing existing legislation.
The NF eventually became a mess because it could only recruit losers, had no coherent policy and was broken apart due to in-fighting.
I'm actually a bit glad they won, drag them and their sorry policies into the light of day and let people see what they're about. I have faith that the British people are broadly liberal, fair and democratic and the biggest result for this will be a lot of embarrassment for those who voted BNP.
And I think we should be paying way more attention to just how fearsome Labour's stand on immigration is becoming.
to pound Griffin's face into the ground. These people have used physical violence for years before becoming 'legit'. I think he'd quietly welcome it. 