Stop the BNP

Published: 21 March 2008

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The British National Party, it likes to tell us, is unfairly maligned by its many political opponents. Why, far from espousing antisemitism, it merely seeks to restore British values that true patriots - among them loyal Jews - would naturally share (and whose handful of misguided Jewish-identifying members serve conveniently to emphasise the point). We are not so sure. The party has been working hard to remake its image, contesting council-ward, parish-council and local by elections using blonde local school activists or well-spoken middle-class family men, and is simply waiting for its electoral breakthrough so that it can gain its first sniff of political influence. That cannot be allowed to happen, and every JC reader needs to understand the significance of their casting their vote on May 1 - for any party other than the BNP and its fellow extremists. Apathy will only play into the fascists’ hands. So, from Amber Valley to Wrexham, from Broxbourne to Blackburn - and other areas where the BNP is likely to be active - you have a duty to turn out and vote. And especially in London, where they think they may just claim a victory, if you let them