BNP (From The Northern Echo)

BNP

10:25am Wednesday 8th July 2009

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J MOFFAT wonders whether organisations like the National Black Police Association (NBPA) and the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) are subject to the same race relations legislation as the BNP (HAS, June 27).

I do not know about the legal niceties, but I suppose the difference is that the BNP pretends to be a political party, which means that its elected representatives owe an impartial service to all constituents, regardless of faith or ethnicity, whereas the MCB and the NPBA are not political parties, but associations representing individuals or organisations of a particular faith or ethnic group.

It is interesting to note that the NBPA aims to “promote good race relations within the police services and the wider community”, and the MCB aims to “foster better community relations and to work for the good of society as a whole”.

Contrast this with the BNP’s commitment to resisting integration and disrupting good race relations. As stated in its constitution, the BNP “is wholly opposed to any form of integration between British and non-European peoples” (Note: For “British” read “white”. BNP leader Nick Griffin recently asserted that black people, even those born in Britain, are “racial foreigners” and can never be British).

Pete Winstanley, Durham.

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