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This is a crosspost from Nothing British about the BNP

There’s a growing backlash against the British National Party’s attempts to hijack the military and the honour of Britain’s Armed Forces in the run up to the 2010 General Election.
Saturday’s The Sun reported our story about the BNP’s attempts to exploit the image of Fusilier Tom James, who has suffered [...]

This is a crosspost from Nothing British

Rt. Hon. David Blunkett MP has called on the British National Party and Mark Collett, its General Election candidate in Sheffield Brightside, to distance themselves from foul-mouthed remarks aimed at the Queen made by a BNP blogger and supporter.
Yesterday, Nothing British exposed the BNP-supporting Green Arrow blog, run by Paul Morris, for calling Her [...]

This is a cross post by Edmund Standing
As regular readers will be aware, about 6 months ago I decided to give up on anti-fascist blogging, in large part due to getting tired of swimming in the sewers of the far-right. At the time, I wasn’t really able to give it up as I received a [...]

This is a cross post by Nothing British
The BNP would lift the income tax allowance to £15,000 as a first step towards abolishing it completely. To make up for this revenue, they’d increase consumption taxes such as VAT and tariffs. (source) They would increase the inheritance tax threshold to £1,000,000. (source)
The BNP [...]

First, watch Charlie Brooker’s brilliant anatomy of a media controversy: in this case, Anjem Chouhdry’s supposed march in Wootton Bassett.
Then, watch this rather more depressing video, seized by the anti-terrorist police in Manchester but probably filmed in South Asia in which a man allows two children aged about three and six, to play with a [...]

This is a cross post by Edmund Standing
The BNP, desperate to convey a ‘tradional Christian’ image, has found the answer to the fact that every Christian denomination in Britain rejects its message of hate in the form of the ‘Christian Council of Britain’ (CCoB), an organisation run by BNP candidate ‘Revd’ Robert West, who preaches [...]

A few nights ago, Charlie Brooker showed a clip of a pop-psych show, in which various people with different perspectives on social issues were wired up to a machine and shown pictures of various human subjects. Their brain activity was measured, and ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ responses to photos were displayed, graphically. One woman, who [...]

This is a cross post by Edmund Standing
The BNP was given a last chance to change its whites only membership policies at a Central London county court session yesterday:
The Equality and Human Rights Commission, which challenged the whites-only membership criteria last year, said the changes proposed still fell foul of equality laws.
John Wadham of the [...]

It is quite telling how some people’s politics change, but their obsessions remain the same. Take the strange case of Anthony McRoy. In his response to Joe Weissman, Dr McRoy admits, cryptically:
“we have all done things when we were young that we later regret, myself included, although I was not a Born-again Christian at [...]

This is a cross post by Edmund Standing

The BNP website has announced that BNP Head of Publicity, Mark ‘I am evil’ Collett, is to stand against David Blunkett in Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough.
They’ve put up a short biography, which includes this:
He moved to Leeds to study Business and Economics at Leeds University where he graduated [...]