"not allowing someone a job due to their political beliefs sure sounds like fascism to me"

I don't think that the majority of people here are saying that. What we are saying is that we believe the system will prevent any teacher who sympathises with the BNP from expressing racist, homphobic or other unnacceptable views to children. What you have to realise is, like I said previously, a large number of prominent BNP members have convictions for racism and violence which would mean they can never work with children. Here are some of them:

Tony Lecomber: top BNP official. Three years jail for nailbomb
plot and three years for stabbing a Jewish teacher.
12 convictions in all.
Kevin Scott: north east BNP organiser. Convictions for
assault and threatening behaviour.
Paul Harris: Barnsley BNP council candidate. Convicted of
using threatening behaviour towards a pensioner.
Jason Douglas: leading Greater London BNP candidate.
Convicted football hooligan.
Warren Bennett: BNP chief steward.
Convicted football hooligan.
Stephen Belshaw: Amber Valley BNP
candidate. Convicted of attacking a
Jewish solicitor.
Colin Smith: south east London BNP
organiser. 17 convictions including burglary,
car theft, possession of drugs and
assaulting a police officer.
Darren Dobson: Oldham BNP council candidate.Convicted
of racially aggravated assault.
Frank Forte: Waltham Forest BNP member. Convicted of
actual bodily harm.
Paul Thompson: former Durham and Darlington BNP
organiser.Convicted of criminal damage and for violence.
Neil Keilty: BNP member. Convictions for possessing an
offensive weapon and threatening behaviour.
Gary Mitchell: former Sunderland BNP secretary.Convicted
of racist attacks and possession of offensive weaponry.


So when people think that we're just dealing here with a difference in ideology, bear in mind that this is what we are opposing.