The official BNP website have reported the death of Senator Kennedy by labelling him “America’s Greatest Traitor” and a morale degenerate. The article is also insensitively tagged on their site under ‘The Dead Kennedys’.
President Obama has laid tribute to the Senator describing him as “the greatest United States senator of our time” and Time magazine once named him as one of America’s “Ten Best Senators”, saying that he had “amassed a titanic record of legislation affecting the lives of virtually every man, woman and child in the country”. But while much of the political world is in mourning, the BNP can only lay down scathing remarks.
Nick Griffin recently admitted that the BNP have credibility issues. Attacking a popular American politician within a day of dying following a prolonged battle against a brain tumour sums up why. Nothing British may not have agreed with all of the Senator’s work and recognises the controversies surrounding his personal life but also has the maturity to show respect to the life of a great politician. But maturity and respect are not what we expect from a party that is founded on a politics of hate and neo-fascism.
