The Thunderdragon doesn’t care who is a BNP member; I’d like to explain why TD should.
TD says, in short, that the BNP is a legitimate political party and membership of a party should, therefore, not impact on what job you can have. I think this is patent rubbish; some jobs have to take account of [...]

I’m not going to go over it in fine detail, although I recommend the posts and comments at Pickled Politics, Liberal Conspiracy and these two at the Wardman Wire. The second one deals with legal implications for blogs; look, listen and take heed. I commented on the subject at PP, and it pretty much sums [...]

Do you remember, a little while ago, that the Hackney Gazette and its owner, Archant, caused some unfortunate publicity for themselves when they agreed to run an ad from the BNP in the run-up to the Mayoral election? No?
LabourHome: Archant takes BNP cash
Liberal Conspiracy: It didn’t bother Sunny
Hackney Councillor Luke Akehurst: shock and concern
Guardian: Publisher [...]

Sunny Hundal asks a couple of interesting questions over at Pickled Politics; should a no-platform policy with regards to the BNP be continued and should that it be extended to groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir?
By way of a background, I understand a no-platform policy (in the instance of the BNP) to mean that no-one from an [...]

Mayor Johnson
The headline news is, of course, the victory of Boris Johnson. It is no secret (at least if you’ve been reading this blog!) that I was and remain a strong supporter of Ken Livingstone and that I have very grave doubts about the Johnson mayoralty. I have tried to draw a comparison between [...]

On May 1, Londoners will choose the Mayor and London Assembly for the next four years.
In 2004, low turnout in the London elections allowed the BNP to receive 4.9% of the London Assembly vote — dangerously close to the 5% threshold required to win a seat.
You can register to vote using the information on the [...]

The Oxford Union is a private debating society; only members can attend its proceedings. Its appeal for speakers is in being able to influence some of the top minds in the UK and the world and, of course, being recognised as worthy of such an opportunity. It does not matter a hoot whether people outside [...]

This is a very good argument for always having “Re-Open Nominations” (rather than “None of the Above”) as a candidate. Essentially, Corsham Town Council in Wiltshire is made up of people who don’t stand on party political platforms, in the main. There is a ward with one councillor and one Michael Simpkins has been elected [...]

Matt Sinclair echoes Norman Tebbit in saying that the BNP don’t fit on the right and by extension must be of the left.
Giving definitions such as ‘left-wing’ and ‘right-wing’ are not in and of themselves good, but only by the extent of the usefullness.
Is it useful to describe the BNP as right-wing?
I would say that [...]