I understand the feeling of wanting to prevent the BNP or its supporters from posting here.

I've got into some nasty rows over racism here.

But I have changed my approach for two reasons.

1, the first thing that happened was that I read a coment by Bearded Bruce that I could not disagree with or the whole foundation of my world view would have collapsed.

It was this "I may utterly disagree with your opinion but I will fight to the death for your right to speak it."

Anyone who has read my posts will know that BB and I are on opposite sides of a grand political canyon, but on this point I utterly had to agree with him.

2, As a result of having to adapt my approach to support peoples right to give their point of view, I realized that there isn't really any need to panic, because on a written chat forum, attempts to advance a fascist ideology are very easy to dismantle.

This thread has confirmed that for me. I am glad that it is here as someone surfing the net one night, looking for info on the BNP, might stumble upon it.

If you read back over this thread and you imagine how it would look to anyone with an open mind, it is clerly an utterly one sided debate.

The anti BNP arguments are substantive, relevant, rational, and above all they are supported by verifiable sources.

The BNP supporter(s) on this thread haven't actually advanced an argument, they have just made a lot of unverified claims.

Every claim they have made has been disproved by verified counter claim.

It is good that BNP supporters be placed in this context as it shows them up for who they are despite their attempts to appear reasonable.

They would have been better off sticking to their own chat forums where there is no opposition to embarass them.

Any opportunity to discredit Nazi propaganda and to expose its lies is a good one as it reminds those who have forgotten why they should never be given any power.

A healthy democracy absorbs them.

Push them underground and they are like a baby alligator flushed down the loo ... they get bigger in the dark and emerge to find us unprepared.