The situation in the U.S. is not that much better. The principal difference (in portent for the future) is that: 1.) those who understand seem to be a somewhat larger portion of the population here; and, 2.) they have guns.

And accept the enormous HRA Article 14 (I think 10 & 11 also apply) case that would result. They would then need to prove that the ban was “(i>necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.”

They might have a push at the last – although I don’t think it necessary.

@Ian B – it really doesn’t matter what I think of the BNP. Or anybody thinks of them. As long as they do not break the law (or, in certain cases which I am not happy about, advocate breaking the law or support law-breakers.)

That (apart from the sheer insult to liberal democracy) is what pisses me off about this BNP malarky.

So the BNP would discriminate against certain people given the chance. Bah Humbug. Labour discriminates against those it doesn’t like, right now, and all the time. And they are in power. Its like Harold Shipman denouncing someone for conspiracy to murder.

Or are they _pushing_ the BNP vote for some reason?

After all there is now a precedent.

Good move idiots.

*Sarcasm.

Well, can’t speak for anyone else, but does the latter not pretty much go without saying?

The usual suspects aren’t likely to care, but if you point out that it isn’t likely to give them the result they want either, the more progress you”ll make..

We are in a deeply, deeply dangerous state. We have cast away any pretence of being some kind of a liberal democracy. The discrimination that our anglosocialist masters pretend to despise is now rooted into every part of our system, such that anyone found morally wanting, ranging from nationalists to smokers can be arbitrarily treated as inferiors by the state, and it is obligatory even for those of a liberal disposition who wish to mount some kind of defence to prefix it with a nullifying “even though they’re evil”. We are in the grip of a moral hegemony of mediaeval ferocity.

It is deeply ironic, that the Left gained power by demanding liberal freedoms such as freedom of speech. Feeble attempts to oppose communism were labelled a “witch hunt”, even though those communists were attempting to impose a system of the most awful kind. If the BNP are beyond the pale, what of the young communists many of New Labour were members of in their youth?

I am not a BNP supporter, neither do I agree with them- ooh look, there’s my obligatory disclaimer. But the state of our polity is now corrupted beyond recognition. There is no longer any illusion that it is liberal, democratic or representative. The post-marxist cultural hegemony is now absolute.

The future is a very scary place to contemplate.

As regards officials and the information they hold on the governance of the EU and the UK, it isn’t theirs to grant, or withhold. If they fail to respond professionally to any request of that nature they should be fired for insubordination.

/golfclap

But this also shows the extent to which our civil service has been degraded into a party political jamboree.