Amid the doom and gloom, don't lose sight of the fact that the BNP didn't increase their polling numbers over 2004. The reason why they won is that the overall numbers of votes went down. Given the amount of despondency which the expenses scandal and the recession have generated it is actually very encouraging that more people didn't run flying into their arms. In any event, this might be just what we need to galvanise people into stopping them from getting any further.

" http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/the-real-bnp/Andrew-Brons.php " It's welcome news to hear that Colin Jordan is dead at last. I hadn't realised. he was quite a force in the ultra-right up to the early '70s. Then he was caught stealing three pairs of women's knickers (coloured red, funny enough)from a Tesco store, and faded into utter discreditation. He said in his defence that it was a frame up by a Jewish owned company.