BNP

The 1948 level of Black, Minority and Ethnic (BME) was under five per cent and intensive research has proven that at that level the minority populations integrate fully with the British population – which is what happened after the war.

However, time has shown that once the BME population rises above that threshold the BME community naturally separates itself, making a divided community. This has proven disastrous for social cohesion – Bradford, Oldham, etc.

I hope this has added rational clarity to any confusion. Not racist, but simple facts. In terms of repeatedly branding the BNP racists, the BNP has opposed Labour’s treatment of the Gurkhas from the outset. They have earned the right to live here and should be made welcome, indeed treated as heroes. So I ask, who are the racists now?

Read the BNP’s fair and common sense policies, you may be surprised.

Ian Moore, Spennymoor, Co Durham.

I’M glad Pete Winstanley was impressed with my brother Mark Walker’s ability to evade awkward questions on television (HAS, May 14).

If Mark’s political career does take off, hopefully he won’t descend to the abysmal levels of dishonesty currently fashionable in Westminster, particularly when it comes to fiddling expenses sheets.

As for Mr Winstanley’s claims that the British National Party is racist because it wants a white UK, this is not policy and, indeed, false logic. Racism is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as the belief that one race is superior to another, and/or hatred or discrimination based on the latter belief. The fact of wanting to preserve everything British (race, culture, etc) does not prove a belief in the superiority of a particular race.

Moreover, what is wrong with the belief that some races are superior to others? Negroes win all the sprint events at the Olympics. Do I get locked up for saying that? Jews have won about 50 times as many Nobel Prizes as Arabs, plus Jews are successful in business. I conclude that Jews might have brains (a point which was recognised in Roman times). Is there something immoral or wrong in the latter conclusion?

Adam Walker, MEP Candidate, British National Party, Spennymoor, Co Durham.

PETE Winstanley (HAS, May 14) makes a number of interesting points about the BNP.

The nature of politics is that someone of one party seeks the opportunity, whenever possible, to back up their own claims, while discrediting, disproving and destroying those of another.

So why didn’t Sedgefield Labour MP Phil Wilson take advantage of such an opportunity by sharing a platform with BNP member Mark Walker on the BBC’s Politics Show in January?

The only conclusion I can come to is that since such situations cannot be controlled, Mr Wilson knew that Mr Walker would respond by raising legitimate questions, the very questions which have been repeatedly raised by ordinary people from differing political opinions, but which the three main parties refuse to address or even acknowledge.

The BNP is gaining public support because no one else is listening. Equally, if BNP members are truly what they are claimed to be, then the only way to deal with them is to start addressing the issues they and the public raise, not avoid them or follow some party line which hopes that everything will somehow sort itself out.

CT Riley, Spennymoor, Co Durham.