I’m inclined to meet lies with truth and propaganda with reason. If he BNP succeed in gulling the public it is how it should be: if the majority of society wishes it to become paranoid and racist then so be it: society will need to pay the consequent bill at some stage.

I think you are right. At the point where freedom of speech starts to become sinister and inciting hatred/violence, it should be banned. No Nick Griffin is not worth making a martyr of personally but it is the prinicple in general that should be upheld.

I do think that the BNP’s youth movement (coming in a period of economic hard ship caused by foreign agents, no less) is pointing down a very dark and dingy road. I think that’s a point where the dark face in the mirror starts to get very frightening and quite familiar.

A lot of the BNP is quite sad and disheartened but another part of it is quite scary, the whole party believes in a resurgent Britain but opinions differ greatly as to how that is achieved and what it would look like. The political movement is a lot more varied than is commonly assumed and different parts need different treatment whether that is leave it alone, let it come to your garden party, flee on sight from it or, if it comes to it, perhaps actually banning it.