"Rather intrigued to know why the BNP Candidate thread in BS has been closed? I thought it was very typical of many Mudcat threads in that it contained robust disagreement."

If it has, I think it's no bad thing. I'm all for robust debate, and I'm all for exposing the BNP as a bunch of fascist thugs. But the way these threads keep descending into mud-slinging matches is regrettable to put it mildly.

On the question of incitement to violence, this is a very dangerous policy to pursue. Whatever its internal makeup, the BNP for the moment outwardly poses as a peacable constitutional political party. I have no doubt it will shed that image when the political time is right. When that time arises, egg throwing and "duffing them up in the street" (if that's what Bragg actually said), will have given them just the opportunity they need to form their own paramilitary wing, and take their idiotic ideology onto the streets. There they will wreak havoc, not just amongst anti-fascists, but against all liberal/left opinion, to say nothing of Muslims, Asians, gays, trade unionists and anyone else they disapprove of.

Remember, it took just one half crazed Dutch anarchist to burn down the Reichstag. That gave Hitler all the excuse he needed to trigger off the bloodiest pogrom in history.