From the BBC:
"Mr Hain has written to BBC director general Mark Thompson arguing the BNP was "an unlawful body" following a court ruling on its membership policy. The BBC said it would respond to Mr Hain's letter "in due course"...
... in his letter, Mr Hain, a prominent anti-apartheid activist before becoming an MP, said the decision should be reconsidered in light of a legal case about ethnic restrictions on the BNP's membership rules. The party has agreed to amend its constitution after the Equalities and Human Rights Commission sought an injunction, claiming the BNP was breaking the Race Relations Act by restricting membership to "indigenous Caucasian" people...(1)
As well as Mr Griffin and Mr Straw, panellists are expected to include Conservative peer Baroness Warsi, Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne and playwright and critic Bonnie Greer (2).
*Ahem*
(1) The BNP's membership policy may well be in breach of the RRA (even though it can't be in breach of the Equality Bill because that is not enacted yet) and hence unlawful, but that does not make the entire organisation unlawful.
(2) Maybe I should write to the BBC myself and claim that my application to be Bonnie Greer was turned down because I am neither American, a woman, nor 'of African descent', in which case Ms Greer is also an 'unlawful organisation' and should be prevented from attending. Anyway, how many votes did she get at the last elections?
Classy
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"...but that does not make the entire organisation unlawful."
Pity there are hardly any qualified lawyers in the Cabinet that he could have asked for advice on that before making a fool of himself.
Oh. Wait...
Unless everyone is expected to be packing a piece at the event, JuliaM could attend as lynch coordinator. Bonnie sees red anyway but that will be all the more certain if Nick appears in traditional white shroud and pointy hat.
Hain just goes to prove what many of us have known for quite sometime - that Labour are a party of selfishness and bullying.
It's being spotted all over the shop.
The BBC have told Hain to get stuffed. They are not going miss out on the viewing figures for this one.
So General Hain will have to rely on his UAF drones to do his dirty work for him.
The really scary part of all this is that, to the ordinary bloke, the BNP don't look so bad compared to the thugs in power now, and it has not escaped notice that all the street violence comes from the 'anti-fascists', not the so-called 'right wing'.
Nobody could advance the BNP's election chances better than those who claim to be trying to oppose them. Surely someone in government realises this? What are they up to?
@ Leg Iron: "Surely someone in government realises this? What are they up to?"
The 'big three parties' need the BNP as much as the BNP needs them - the two reinforce each other. Without lefty liberalism, no BNP; without the BNP, no excuse for funding the race relations industry; without the race relations industry, not as much racism; without so much racism, no BNP; without the BNP, no excuses for authoritarian measures to clamp down on them, erode democracy (of which UKIP are victims as well), take people's minds of the real issues with staged UAF protests etc.
Wonder how long "in due course" is?
JH, the BBC are media, they love a bit of publicity (viewing figures for this week's QT will be very high) so they'll keep batting this back and forth until after the broadcast at the very least.
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