Are The BNP Able to stand at the election?

Light blue touch paper and retire I suppose!

In this context, I have no comment to make on the BNP at all, or on any other on a public forum.

ATB from George

George
My question is nothing to do with the party concerned per se it is to do with whether constitutional law allows such a situation to happen.

George

Possibley I am a little bit less hesitant than you. General Elections usually bring out the sense in people, unlike mid term elections where all manner or protest and tactical voting takes place.

I hope the BNP stands for election and that they get well and truly trashed.

There is nothing like a General Election to bring out the true feeling of the electorate and this is the time when they get sent packing.

Regards

Mick

PS Bob

If they were banned, I suspect they would stand as BNP sympathisers rather than for the actual party.

I think they should be allowed to stand because democracy is more important than them.

Mick
At no point have I mentioned banning anyone.
I ask the question whether it is constitutionally acceptable for a party deemed to be unlawfully set up to contest an election.

Dear Mick,

I agree with your sentiments.

Dear Bob,

I suspect a better and less imflamatory place to ask this question might have been in a lawyer's office. I may be proven wrong, but I would give this thread a very short life before the standard of answer declines into the gutter, and it gets pulled.

ATB from George

The BNP have now altered their constitution to comply with European law. They already have a non-white member - a Sikh IIRC.

They are still a legal organisation and as such are entitled to stand in an election.

I agree with Mick (third time this week!) - the BNP are likely to get trashed in most, if not all, the places they stand (I think Griffin is standing in Barking, where he hopes to pick up disenfranchised white voters. We live in a democracy - if he gets elected as a Westminster MP (unlikely IMO) then that is something we all have to deal with.

Peter Hain's disgraceful attempts to stop the BBC allowing Griffin to appear on Question Time a few months back were profoundly undemocratic - we are all adults and can make up our own minds. Hain's tactics were almost as bullying and undemocratic as the BNP's.

Because most of us are adults, I, like Mr Parry, suspect the BNP will be hoist by their own petard and be sent packing.

Kevin-W
Their revised rules do not comply with UK race relations laws and they are currently banned from recruiting any new members. Are you in possession of later information than this from march. because if not you are wrong.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t...k/article7059840.ece

I'm not sure why George thinks this is inflammatory. If we were only allowed to discuss matters which fall within the members' collective area of expertise we wouldn't be allowed to discuss very much.

It's ok David, we'd still have the far greater range permitted by discussing areas outside our collective areas of expertise