Dunno who russ is - but it seems like he is making the point that we shouldn't trivialise the potential Danger that the BNP poses.

They are a serious bunch who bring violence and hatred into our communities and who would be more dangerous if they weren't held in check by people who are active in campaigning against them.

I believe that you share this view Richard, or have I misunderstood your take on the subject?

I read the comment before yours as a response to Ake's usual irrelevant capitalizing on whatever tenuous link is available to spew up his usual predictable tirade agqinst liberals and the PC Brigade.

I would have read his post as being more about how new labour are no better than the tories if he hadn't poured so much bile into his description of liberal mudcatters.

For the record, - I ain't got much, I'm a single parent and I live in new cross (in south london). Milwall Stadium is just up the road and I can see just how the petri dish of the inner city could easily grow a culture of racism, fear and paranoia if people like the BNP were to be ignored and trivialized.

The threat that the BNP poses is tangible to the point that you can taste it on the air when you are on their turf.

Ake never responded to my evidence on a previous thread which demonstrated that if there was a correlation between immigration and unemployment (which by the way there isn't), then according to the statistics, periods of high immigration have coincided with periods of low unemployment suggesting that immigration, in that context of this facile argument, causes low unemployment.

It is obvious to me that employment levels are influenced by numerous and much more significant other factors than immigration.

I provided this evidence because Ake was suggesting that the opposite was the case - i.e. that foreign immigrants are coming over here taking our jobs etc.

I wonder does he still hold that view?