"the BNP are nothing to worry about, and that they will always be on the political periphery"

try telling that to several cities where there are more than one BNP member sitting on council, Stoke-on-Trent comes to mind.

While I'm posting this,I'm listening to Sandy Denny's wonderful recording The North Star Grassman and the Ravens, Late November at the moment, and I got to wondering what, if anything, Sandy would have made of all this.