I don’t think the government banning a notorious anti-semite and racist who has compared non-whites to cancer is going to make the BNP more popular.
The fact that they are associated with such a man would more likely serve to remind disgruntled yet fundamentally decent British people of the BNP’s true origins as a National Socialist party which is now posturing as a party of freedom in the same way that the ‘formerly’ socialist Labour Party under Blair and Brown has tried to posture as the party of the free-market....
I saw the power gain by the BNP is a good thing in the sense that people will rebel against them and lead to some moderation in the same way they rebelled against the far left.