From The Metro:
The BNP could face a legal injunction over a potential breach of race discrimination law relating to its membership policies, it was announced today.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission said it had demanded that the party took action to address its constitution and membership criteria, employment practices and provision of services to the public and constituents. The BNP was asked to provide written undertakings by July 20 that it will make the required changes or it could face a legal injunction.
If I were the BNP (which I'm not, obviously) I'd just cave in right now and save myself all the legal hassle - it's not like they're going to be swamped with applications from non-whites is it?
What have we wrought in the UK?
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Let's just ignore for a sec that the BNP are a politcal party, but I have never understood why a private business or organisation should not be allowed to choose its employees and customers by whatever criteria it likes.
Those that choose not to employ non-white (for example) employees will only hurt themselves as other employers will snap up those to whom they will not offer a job and out compete them. Ditto customers.
What's it got to do with the State?
Interesting thought though. I wonder how many do?
I wonder if a similar letter was also sent to the Black Police Groups...
AC1, whites are allowed to join the BPOA, it's just that few of them do.
@MW: on that basis perhaps the BNP should change its constitution to allow any colour applicants but change its name to the White Peoples Party?
As I have said many a time before I agree with the one policy form the BNP.....the crux of their ethos is that they stand for "indigenous peoples of Britain"..........great I am up for that....remove anyone who is not part of that specific genetic background (Hold on).....
I support that 100% we should remove everyone from Celtic, Roman, Saxon, Viking and Norman decent because the are immigrants and that means that Nick Griffin and co will have to throw themselves out or Britain!!!!!!.....
Leaving these fair isles to the Welsh and Cornish.....that would solve all our problems leaving plenty of housing, agricultural land to feed its population.
Good old BNP......fuckwits
If I were the BNP (again not actually) I would threaten a countersuit of racial harrassment on the grounds that the EHRC haven't put up a similar threat to the Black Police Officer's Association. One rule in such things is not simply to defend but to counterattack & if you can get "racial harrassment" into your case you have light up all the boxes.
A new law of internet commentary: if the topic of a thread is 'are the BNP racist', then the chances of some ignorant twat who doesn't understand that white people are allowed to join the BPOA jumping in with the belief that he has a good point approaches 1.
Nonetheless, Neil wins special idiot points for being the second person to make the point *after someone else has already pointed out that it's nonsense*. Normally that only happens on CiF...
Actually John the topic wasn't "are the BNP racist" but "is it the quangocracy's job to control political parties". Whatever buzz words the BPOA have used I would be really interested to know how many of the Black Police Officers are white. Perhaps you could enlighten us.
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