Paul Burke. "Don't forget that you can check out their (very strange) membership: download a spreadsheet of their membership a couple of years ago at Wikileaks."

That list has been useful to me on a couple of occasions. In particular, a former member of a one time famous English folk group (I won't name him for fear of causing embarressment), told me the other day that a cousin of his had been a member of a fascist organisation in the early 1960s. He then explained how said folk group had gone to a public meeting to hear a speaker from the newly created republic of Ghana. Some nutter at the back throws a bottle of acid at the platform. The group chase him outside. There, on the other side of the road, is a fascist demonstratation and in the middle of the demonstration is this bloke's cousin. All in the past, he thinks. Nothing more than youthful folly, in fact.

I asked him what the bloke's name was. He told me. I looked him up. Name, address and former occupation all tallied. The guy is still alive and still active and he is now a member of the BNP.

Never trust the leopard to change its spots.

Anne. "I particularly liked the statement on the leaflet by the hospital doctor who had seen what immigration "has done to the NHS". Yup. Provided a lot of doctors, consultants and nursing staff, that's what."

That struck me too. I've just spent a couple of days in hospital and I can tell you the proportion of "non-Britons" on the hospital staff far outweighed the proportion of "non-Britons" in the hospital beds.