It was good to arrive home from Moira Furnace Folk Festival and find an email from Hope not Hate notifying me that the Luton protest had been prevented from going ahead.

The Hope not Hate campaign states its aims are two fold -

To celebrate modern Britain
and
To expose the extremism behind the BNP

I believe there is a strong need for the latter especially has there have been previous attempts to spread pernicious racist views on this site both above and below the BS line

Simply trading insults with the kind of people that shouted abuse at us at Codnor doesn't appear to me to serve any useful purpose and, counter productively, only serves to lose posts, such as the one Owen mentioned on the 24th - that the UK's equalities watchdog has begun legal action against the British National Party over concerns about ethnic restrictions on its membership - in a morass of mutual taunts.

A statement from The Equality and Human Rights Commission said
""The commission believes the BNP's constitution and membership criteria are discriminatory and, further, that the continued publication of them on the BNP website is unlawful.

"It has therefore issued county court proceedings against party leader Nick Griffin and two other officials."

Here is the Section of the BNP's constitution which deals with membership
Section 2