Arthur Kemp
Arthur Kemp, the South Africa white supremacist ideologue and BNP foreign affairs spokesman, has said that the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s court case against the BNP’s racist admission policy is a “huge own goal” and will help the party to “destroy one of the biggest arguments against it”, namely that it will no longer be labelled as racist.
This is yet another indication of the BNP’s intention not to fight the EHRC to the “bitter end” as it fears it will run out of resources. The BNP believes, as Kemp said yesterday, the court case is designed to “use up party resources needed to fight the general election”.
Some are now arguing whether the EHRC have shot themselves in the foot over their handling of the BNP. Apart from squandering large amounts of taxpayers money and generating huge amounts of favourable publicity to the BNP, what have these proceedings achieved?
We already knew the BNP are a racist organisation and rule changes weren’t going to change that. (Why did the EHRC wait till after the Europen election? Why haven’t they enforced the rules on other bodies that enforce ethnic restrictions?)
The BNP, on the other hand, have gained a lot from this process. They now look like victims of a politically motivated attack and have turned a court case, designed to obliterate them, into a victory by announcing they can no longer be called racist as an organisation.
We believe this whole affair is a classic example of how not to defeat the BNP. You can not legislate organisations like the BNP out of existence. You can, however, seriously address the concerns of ordinary voters on issues like immigration, Islamism, job displacement and national identity.
“EHRC move against BNP is states biggest own goal BNP Wandsworth told” - BNP
Tags: Arthur Kemp, EHRC
