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England is a strange place these days. A sort of political volcano has exploded, and the significance of it is not clear. According to pretty well everyone with access to free speech, fascism has erupted. The British National party has been making surreptitious headway for some time now, but restricted to winning a seat on some local council here or there. Suddenly in elections for the European parliament in Brussels, the BNP got about 900,000 votes, entitling it under proportional representation to two seats. One of those seats goes to Nick Griffin, the BNP leader. [....] Griffin has only one...

BRITISH National Party leader Nick Griffin told a crowd that Islam was a "wicked, vicious faith" and Asian Muslims were turning Britain into a multiracial hell as they tried to conquer the country, a court heard yesterday. Griffin urged the gathering in Keighley, West Yorkshire, to vote BNP to ensure "the British people really realise the evil of what these people have done to our country". The 47-year-old BNP chairman and fellow party activist Mark Collett face a series of charges arising out of speeches filmed by BBC journalist Jason Gwynne, who posed as a BNP supporter in Bradford, for...

The British National Party leader Nick Griffin told a crowd that white society had turned into a multiracial hell-hole as Asian Muslims aimed to conquer the country, a court heard today. Mr Griffin, 45, and his fellow party activist Mark Collett, 24, face a series of charges arising out of speeches featured in an undercover BBC documentary on the party.Leeds Crown Court heard that both men addressed a crowd at the Reservoir Tavern in Keighley, West Yorkshire, on January 19 2004. Rodney Jameson QC, prosecuting, told the jury that Mr Griffin concentrated on allegations of paedophile drug rapes by Asian...

Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, has been released on bail after his arrest in connection with an investigation into inciting racial hatred. It follows a television documentary exposing the extent of alleged racism in the organisation. Nick Griffin Earlier it was revealed that the party's founding chairman John Tyndall had been held on Sunday. The 70-year-old from Brighton was arrested on suspicion of the same offence following a speech he made in Burnley in March, a BNP spokesman said. Parts of the speech were covertly filmed and shown in a BBC programme. West Yorkshire Police said...

The leader of the British National Party has been released on police bail after being arrested following the screening of a BBC documentary. A party spokesman said that Nick Griffin, 45, had been held on Tuesday morning on suspicion of incitement to racial hatred. Mr Griffin said he believed his arrest was "politically motivated". Three men have been charged with racially aggravated harassment as part of the police inquiry into the BNP. The party's founding chairman, John Tyndall, was also arrested on Sunday. Twelfth arrest The police investigations started after the BBC's July screening of the Secret Agent documentary featuring...

BRITISH MEN and women sacrificed their lives in the 1939-45 war to protect our freedom. It was a time when the nation rallied together to resist Nazi tyranny and repel the German invasion of Britain. People gave their all in the belief that their efforts would preserve something very special for future generations - the British way of life. Sixty years on, we are now told that this British way of life is not something special, but something that we should forget about. We are not allowed to celebrate British culture. We are told to feel ashamed of our history....