""Just a quick note to let those in the UK know that the moral maze at 8pm on radio 4 is discussing whether BNP members should be banned from certain occupations - will be interested to read anyone's reactions here - I have to be careful what I say as I work in a political environment myself so I will probably not be able to contribute much to the discussion but will be watching with interest.""

As soon as someone starts talking about banning people of one political persuasion or other, from anything, it starts alarm bells ringing for me.

I loathe the likes of Griffin and his slimy cohorts, but I can't support the idea that repressive measures are justified on that basis.

Once you start down that road in a "free" society, it becomes a little less free, and how far do you allow it to go, before you suddenly wake up to find that the last opposition to the ruling party has been vanished, and you are living in a dictatorship?

I don't have any answers as to what one can reasonably do, but I rather think that the answer is in a concerted effort to ignore, and exclude, in the hopes that without publicity they will wither and die.

Don T.