The Bigoted Nasty Party

That is what the BNP really stands for. They offer hate when what we need is unity and common purpose. They offer an agenda of hopelessness when what we need in these turbulent times is hope. They trade in vicious attacks on our fellow citizens when what we need is a vision for the future.

Their incessant playing of the immigration, immigration, immigration track, leaves only them dancing to it. We need a whole policy album in these turbulent times.

But let us imagine that the BNP were ever able to implement their one policy. How would it be enforced? Would we witness dissent in the ranks of the police and army? Would we see riots on the street that would make the Poll tax riots or the riots of 1981 or 2001 look insignificant? Would the Queen allow the BNP to enter a coalition government (if Britain ever adopts a PR electoral system)?

Let us imagine that they were able to implement it. Who would protect us? Who would look over the sick and elderly? Who would educate our children?

The reality of the BNP's narrow-minded policy is that it would make the current shortages in frontline service staff worse and leave some of the most vulnerable in our society even more vulnerable.

There are 7 days until the polls close in the European elections. We must not allow the sun to rise on June 5th to BNP gains. But at the same time we must take this message to those places that, for right or wrong, feel abandoned, forgotten or sidelined by the mainstream political parties. We must shout down the BNP chants until we are hoarse and fight them with every fibre in our bodies.