Time to renew the fight against the BNP

The past couple of days have been interesting for Lancaster Unity for a lot of reasons - not just the obvious ones. Our experiment with 'live' updating has been a lot of fun and a tremendous success thanks to our contributors who have plied us with information and laughs almost non-stop over this election period.

Thanks to Denise and her insatiable information-gathering, we have kept pretty much on top of things, giving our readers a snapshot of the current situation at any given moment. In fact, this election has been invaluable for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is by showing us that we can work in an entirely different way by embracing all the means that both new and old media can provide.

The results are not good - there's no getting away from that fact - though the BNP's net increase of ten councillors and the idiotic Richard Barnbrook's election to the London Assembly are more as a result of the rocky position in which the current government finds itself rather than anything the BNP has done or said. That said, the result is very far short of the BNP's expectation - they were hoping for forty new councillors and three Assembly members. And there is even more good news, as reported by Searchlight, which pointed out very clearly how the BNP's vote in many of its heartlands has gone down, in some cases quite considerably.Nevertheless, with the Euro-elections coming up, we need to remain alert and to keep working hard and continually against the ever-present threat of the far-right.

The election results themselves, though irritating, are not catastrophic. Given the usual disasters the BNP is prone to, we should lose half of the new input of BNP councillors within a year or so and Barnbrook will be sure to provide us with a constant stream of gaffes and idiocies to brighten the darkest days.

You can be sure that we at Lancaster Unity will be doing our bit in the fight against the BNP and that we will do as much as is possible to continue to spread the truth about the British National Party and its fascist links and followers, its covert racism and anti-semitism, and its continued internal corruption. The fight against the far-right is not over - it will probably never be over - but Lancaster Unity and its many friends and allies will be there at the front, with your help, doing its best to oppose it wherever we can.