Nick Griffin MEP and the BNP have been told that they must change their party’s rules to accept non-whites by February 14th. The BNP had previously been ordered to change their constitution by January 28th 2010, but the party had failed to do so, citing bad weather.
Griffin has urged party members to back the changes, saying it must “adapt or die”.
Despite it taking the Equality and Human Rights Commission so long to bring action against the BNP to accept non-white members, this still remains a victory for racial equality in Britain. Let’s hope that if there are any other organisations that exclude people on the grounds of religion or race they are forced to do the same.
This could have provided Nick Griffin a perfect opportunity to prove to the electorate that his party was no longer an officially racist organisation. But the BNP’s new constitution, which still states that it is “implacably opposed to the promotion” of racial integration (and so therefore racial segregation), will remind the public that the BNP’s party hierarchy are still racial hygienists that have swapped old school racism for ethnopluralism.
Maurice Cousins
Tags: BNP, EHRC, Nick Griffin
