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Is the British National Party an actual political party? If so, it does not seem reasonable to me that they are banned, unless they ban all political parties.
by saint_fiasco 9y ago
Is the British National Party an actual political party? If so, it does not seem reasonable to me that they are banned, unless they ban all political parties.
Favoring some political parties over others should not be allowed.
- anon1385 9y agoThe BNP is not a proscribed organisation.
- zhte415 9y agoThey occassionally win local election seats and have been invited to take part in televised debates including on the BBC.
- djhworld 9y agoThe BNP formed from the National Front, an extreme far right organisation. They have one elected politician, in local government, I think it's fair to say they're an extreme minority voice in British Politics these days. The leaders of the party have criminal convictions and their rallies are known for violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party#Association_with_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party#Associa...
- DanBC 9y agoI think the very small list is reassuring. They're not banning all extreme right wing parties. UKIP isn't on the list, for example.
- frou_dh 9y agoWhat rating out of 10 does "extreme" denote in terms of right-itude? "far" seems to start at about 3/10.
- DanBC 9y agoLike I say, they haven't banned UKIP (which is seen as a strongly right wing group), but they have banned the BNP. If the bans started at 3/10 then UKIP would definitely be banned. BNP members went on to form paramilitary organisations that are linked to the murder of immigrants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_18 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_18 > Combat 18 is an openly neo-Nazi group that is devoted to violence and is hostile to electoral politics, and for this reason Sargent [the founder of Combat 18] split decisively from the BNP in 1993.