'What I was feebly groping towards was my fear that where the BNP teachers will be found most frequently will be the places where those challenges won't be found.'

Understood Anne! - my point about the cluster of vocal BNP supporters in one school specifically mentioned the NE location of that school a largely white post industrial setting

'On the surface the ostensibly white compostion of the area may suggest that questions of racism, ethnicity migration and settlement are peripheral issues to a region that contains the lowest proportion of minority residents in the country'

- 'New geographies of race and racism' by Claire Dwyer, Caroline Bressey

However forced population movements as a result of 'ethnic cleansing' and genocide as well as well as the rise of Acession states to the EU has seen a recent more diverse population in this area too challenging previous assumptions of an homogenous culture and could create a fertile ground for someone wishing to promote a racist agenda so it is necessary to exercise caution.