Dear will
Die please it very simple then the British public would'nt have to put up with clever little sh its like you that have ruined this country.
Thank You

Oh for goodness sake - what part of constitutional monarchy do people not understand?

The Queen cannot, *cannot* differentiate between legitimate political parties except on objective traits (ie. electoral success). If you want the BNP banned, etc, your beef is with the government, not with the Palace.

(Oh, and I don't, for one moment, think you don't know that - you'd just rather blame the monarchy than a Labour government that presided over the rise of the BNP as a credible force.)

Jack Straw has said that he was influenced in his political thinking by Joseph Stalin. You know, the mass murder of (it is estimated) some 20 millions. Or 60 millions if we include all those who died in his Gulags.

In short an individual and a political ideology that make Hitler and his Nazis look like amateurs when it comes to killing and enslaving people.

Yet I have never heard any voices raised in this Journal (or elsewhere come to that) about the fact that this individual and others who are supporters of various bloody-handed Leftists right down to and including Cuba's Castro, populated the last government and no doubt frequented Buckingham Palace as if they owned it.

These 'anti Fascists' who want to ban people don't seem to realise just how fascist they themselves are.

'Ah would some Pow'r the giftie gie us..'
(Or something like that...)

Oh do behave. They're a legitimate political party and Brenda is the last person in the country who gives a monkeys.

But - to those above - does anyone really want the BNP lingering in our politics, like a bad smell that points to something rotting?

The legitimacy we give it through these things only gives it - well - legitimacy. I know we talk about how important it is to have free and fair elections, to give everyone a say, that we should all lock up First Past The Post and throw away the key into the river of political progress - though perhaps the best argument for FPTP is, after all, that it doesn't let the atavism of the BNP in - but isn't there a better way? What would happen if, lo and behold, we barred the BNP from our politics? The garden parties of His Mad Hatterness might not do the trick, but what if - scary and maybe radical as it sounds - we blocked them from Europe, or from Westminster, or from local councils? What if every vote for the BNP was a wasted vote: what if supporting Nick Griffin didn't mean having your say, but having no voice in the ballot at all? That gives us three things: a disincentive to vote for them; no BNP in elected politics; and the only votes discarded are those of the mad hatters who never really should have had a say anyway? And cui bono? Britain.

Malc, I have to ask who gets to decide which parties should have their votes dismissed. Obviously I think it should be me, but there may be a few (misguided) individuals out there who disagree.
The point of a functioning democracy is that the views of the electorate get expressed, and sadly there are people out there who agree with MR Griffin's points of view. The real question is how we can change those that viewpoint to a slightly more tolerant one.
Or else we just throw all BNP voters out of the country... Hang on, I've heard a similar idea somewhere before...
And I agree with writeoff - chill. It's not like Nick and Betty sitting down to a nice cuppa's actually going to change anything.

Really does sound like a storm in a teacup. Why would the Palace take a stand to block an MEP attending a tea party? We would then start asking questions as to why they are meddling in politics. If there is a voting mechanism that puts Griffin in Europe then Bucks Fizz have to respect that.

I'm no fan of the nasty nazis, far from it, but rules is rules, they can't be changed at our whim. I just hope other guests turn their back, and Lillibet is kept from shaking hands, as a matter of taste.

Dear Will

It may not make either of us feel any better.But it would benefit the people of Britain once people like yourself are eradicated?

we or should i say you are all forgetting 1 fundaMENTAL point,the bnp's members called our queen a TRAITOR,nobody in that Klan apologised so to me they CONdone whats been said,they incite violence,they are a cancer in our country.so readers it seems certain people in our society are silent,polite racists this is why i say we are living in a INSTITIONILIZED SOCIETY.IF IT WASN'T FOR ANTI NAZI GROUPS WHO SEEN SENSE WE WOULD HAVE MORE griffinites lying and manipulating the very citizens who fought and died so bravely to keep out HITLER.i wonder why certain readers use excuse their a legitimate party when in actual FACT,they abused our CONstitution to get into mainstream politics by DEFAULT.FACT

im pretty sure that the Queen and Buckingham Palace are not allowed to get involved with the politics of the UK she isnt allowed to say anything and he is a Politcaly Elected MEP unlike David Cameron who was brought in by another party and not the voters so we got another Prime Minister that was not ellected in by the voters how about you speak about that this aint news its just another arm of the P.C powers that be to yet try and fail agains in there trials to harm the BNP i also like how when you question the so called UAF they blocked you they think like you NewStatesman that they are the only ones that are allowed the voice its people like you and the UAF who are the real facisct

What a completely inane ramble.

James Macintyre - 0 Votes
British National Party - ~1M votes

Who has the right to attend James?

I agree that with those who pointed out the Queen has to remain politically neutral, and if this means paying the same respects to the BNP as to less objectionable parties then so be it.

Which value is more important? A constitutional monarchy that does not interfere in its subjects' right to self-government, or stopping a man with small-minded views from attending a tea party.

I also believe that if we really want to defeat the BNP then the more exposure they get the better. It'll stop them from claiming they are discriminated against and it'll force them to talk about their views in open debate where they will quickly be shot down instead of through press releases and word of mouth where no-one can argue back.

GET OVER IT YOU PATHETIC LITTLE TERMITES,I HOPE YOU ALL IMPLODE ON YOUR CRASS IDEALISM OF A HAPPY LITTLE WORLD.''IT DOESNT EXIST IDIOTS IT DOESNT EXIST''
T.W.A.T.S

Dear Mr Hitler... if that is indeed your real name...

I think you'll find if you read the comments... if indeed you can read; that most liberals are in agreement that you cannot discriminate against a democratically elected political, no matter how much you might despise them.