"Another Griffin Lie

A few mnutes ago he said it is illegal to register an English charity.

I am waiting for the BBC to apologise for this slanderous comment."

I'm not exactly sure what that statement was supposed to mean. If he's suggesting that an organisation which identifies itself as English cannot be eligible for charitable status, the EFDSS is one example which proves him wrong.

"I know people from my own working class background, who read The Mail, who are young, and have been brainwashed into beginning to take notice of what the BNP say."

They're not all young. I remember having these conversations with my ex-father-in-law, who was in many ways the loveliest man you could meet. But he was a white, working class Daily Mail reader, and although he lived in a suburb of Birmingham where he didn't see a black face from one day to the next, he was convinced that the immigrants (just the brown ones, of course - I was okay) were threatening his way of life and ruining the country. Where did the paranoia come from? Well, I would suggest it was in large part due to the paper he was reading, whose stock in trade is the politics of fear.

I remember a very difficult conversation with him once when he said that he was actually considering voting for the BNP. They were the only party looking out for the white man, apparently.

Now, one thing I would suggest is that it's bad enough for someone like him to be flirting with the idea of voting for the BNP. It's a very different thing for someone to be committed enough to actually join the party, and be an activist (like my neighbours) or stand for office (like MBS George). The former can be a misguided act, influenced by the party's softly-softly PR. But to really commit yourself to the BNP, you must have a pretty good idea of what they're all about, beneath the respectable veneer.