FROM VIRGINIA   "Ake your last response to Joe - providing reasons why people support the BNP doesn't excuse the fact that those reasons are still racist."

But as explained, the reasons are not NECESSARILY racist....one can be against immigration on purely political grounds, for example , if it is being used as a tool by government to "make us more competetive in the global economy".

We are all members of one race or another, anyone who feels prejuciced against any particular race or skin colour is simply mad.

That does not exempt us from censure of our bad behaviour because we claim that any such censure is "racist"