A quick peek at the dark side...

Newspaper turns down BNP advertising

The Croydon Advertiser has turned down advertising from the British National Party, despite accepting political adverts from other parties. Editor Ian Carter said: 'The BNP are a legitimate political party and will no doubt argue they should have the same right as the others. But we've turned them away on the basis I'd feel deeply uncomfortable with any of their material appearing in our publications.'

Bravo. Let's hope other papers follow suit.

The Young BNP keeps up the usual standards

Readers may recall the article we had a week or two ago on the establishment of the new Young BNP group and its new website. Since then, the BNP's young bloods have been busy creating new pages all over the place, including on Facebook and Bebo. Sadly, nothing changes, and the racism and contempt for anyone who doesn't conform to the party's bizarre ideas of perfection are prominent.

Listed related groups for the Facebook site include 'I Was Born In The Uk. So Why The Fuck Do I Have Less Rights Then Immigrants' and 'If you don't like England then fuck off back to where you came from!'

Nice. Just what you want your youngster to be reading. Although perhaps we shouldn't worry too much, as most of those in the BNP, young or old, tend to be barely literate. The gem below appears as the tagline on the Bebo page.

'I will only add you if I can see your profile, just purly because we dont want extreamist on here'.

Er, quite.

Recipe time

Take a roomful of anti-EU obsessives, brought together by Ukip members and particularly by our friend the former tennis player Buster Mottram, who as a short-lived talisman for the National Front did so much for multiracial Britain. Add into the mix Richard Barnbrook, the mayoral candidate for the BNP, who joined them all last weekend at the Hurlingham, the private members' club in London, for supper and lively discussion. Allow them to stew in their own juice while we consider again the notion that there is as much to unite the two parties as to divide them. And what do you get? Something pretty unsavoury. Hugh Muir

What does the BNP's Advisory Council actually do?

According to Nick Griffin, it 'has the right to look at the accounts...and in the event that the Leader appears to be going stark, staring bonkers, to call a vote of no confidence...that hasn't been necessary so far - but I'm working on it.'

So true. He IS working on it.

Lee Barnes' blog - a look at his own comments

'Four threads on stormfront all about me on 19th march - thats gotta be some sort of record.'

'Blimey its FIVE threads on me on stormfront - thats more then Hitler got on his birthday. He got a cake though, I didnt. BLIMEY - thats gotta be a record.'

'SIX threads now. Blimey i think a strange form of Stormfront Autism has broken out.'

'SEVEN THREADS - Is their no end to their obsessions ! Amazing. I must be the most debated nationalist on the planet at the moment. If anyone wants an autograph then e mail me and I will send you one.'

I don't think we'll bother, thanks all the same.

And finally...

The near-defunct rebel group within the BNP, headed by Sadie Graham, Matt Single, Steve Blake and Uncle Tom Cobbley, has cost the taxpayer a lot of money one way or another. An application under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that Notts police force had to cough up £12,000 worth of policing for the first Voice of Change 'conference'. Why? To protect them from the thugs of the BNP, of course.

If you didn't laugh, you'd cry for a week.

More info here.